Siksa as most important guru

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On 28 Jun 1999, Srila Dasa wrote:

 

> On 27 Jun 1999, Janesvara Dasa wrote:

 

> > Hogwash. You associate by reading Srila Prabhupada's books.

 

> I can surmise from such strong-winded "red-neck" genre of rhetoric

("hogwash")

> that our respective opinions are irreconcilable. So be it. I do not expect

to

> convince you by my paltry words. Fortunately, there are others who may be

> witnessing our exchange and can benefit from such "locking of horns."

 

 

Hogwash, again! And some bulldung added to it. In your veiled scholarship you

are indirectly telling everyone to leave ISKCON because you feel there is no

"high-class" advanced Vaisnava association available there. There IS - Srila

Prabhupada!

 

While I have my objections to the leadership of ISKCON from primarily a social

aspect, I have never told anyone to leave Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON to seek a

"better" situation in some other institution. I remain loyal to Srila

Prabhupada despite many discouraging attempts to promote better management of

his movement. This is HIS camp and the books are perfect association.

 

 

 

> While your quotes convincingly impress upon us the importance of

Prabhupada's

> books and reading them,

 

 

The quotes go much farther than that, Prabhu. You have put on blinders of

"jnanism". Totem-pole superiority complexes based upon proximity or perceived

favoritism from "big-gun gurus" is the foundation for dogmatic institutional

religions. Many "senior" godbrothers of ours fell victim to the same

consciousness; "I am a personal servant of Srila Prabhupada, I go on walks

with him, I talk to him personally, therefore I MUST be advanced and others

are only aspiring for such "heights of achievement". They left their heart of

hearts back in the bowels of the brahmacari asrama from whence they humbly

began and they succumbed to the deadliest of all desires - having followers.