Siksa as most important guru

[Guest guest]

On 28 Jun 1999, Srila Dasa wrote:

 

> Srila's Prabhupada's books fall under the category of *SASTRA*. We still

> REQUIRE *GURU* (spiritual master) and *SADHU*.

 

 

Srila Prabhupada (guru and sadhu) is IN his books in the form of his purports.

One single source package for all fallen souls without any qualification

needed except literacy. Or they can hear it read to them. This is clearly the

whole meaning of Srila Prabhupada's mission in writing his books. He never

said once he leaves we have to go to anyone else to understand them. That is

the "philosophy" of people who want to control and dole out tickets to the

spiritual world through religious institutions and big gun gurus and priests.

The same thing happened in Lord Jesus' time and many other times throughout

history. Its hogwash.

 

 

*Sadhu* includes all varieties

> of devotee association (subordinates, equals and seniors), but it especially

> means "high-class, advanced association" -- inasmuch as *guru* similarly

> refers to all varieties of *guru*, but particularly to the 1st-class

(uttama)

> Vaisnava. Your advocacy of minimizing the GURU is already well-known and

> documented on this conference. Now I wish to suggest your understanding is

> equally defective in terms of *SADHU*.

 

 

Thems are fightin' words, fella. Show me in sastra how Srila Prabhupada's

books cannot be our sadhu. You may have given up on our guru maharaja but

don't try to convince anyone else to follow your wayward path.

 

 

 

> There must always be an appropriate balance between GURU, SASTRA AND SADHU.

> This is Gaudiya-VAISNAVA PHILOSOPHY. Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming

> MAYAVADA with an undue emphasis simply on reading books (viz, "studying

> Vedanta").

 

 

Srila Prabhupada's books are not "Vedanta"; they are of pure devotional

service and anyone reading them will reach the perfection of love of God.

 

 

 

> > You will never understand them unless you READ them.

>

> "We read the Bible day and night. You see black while I see white."

> - William Blake

 

 

 

The Bible does not have Srila Prabhupada's purports.

 

 

Jd