Siksa guru as personal spiritual guide

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> On 25 Jun 1999, Sthita-dhi-muni Dasa wrote:

> > Yes, they are not on the same level. Certain followers of one of the

> > parties seem determined to indulge in a severe case of a holier than

> > thou superiority complex.

>

> I didn't mean to get into an endless tit-for-tat.

>

> Nothing is more convincing than real KC experience. I am sure you can

> recall Payonidhi Prabhu, who was singing a very negative tune but only a

> few months back. Just see the transformative power that a genuine sadhu

> wields!

>

> Just for yourselves, honeybees!

>

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> EDITORIAL

> June 14, 1999 VNN4097

> In Glorification Of H.H. Narayana Maharaja

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Narayan Maharaja visited Victoria, Australia earlier this year and stayed

next door to our farm. While he was there two ex-godbrothers of mine who had

taken reinitiation from him visited me on separate occasions and their

statements to me cause me alarm.

 

I asked the first to visit what his new name was and he replied that he told

NM that he liked his existing name. NM then had asked him who gave him this

name. He told him that he received his name from Bhavananda to which NM said

"oh, this is not good. Anyway I will take this name and purify it and give

it back to you."

 

Can a name of Krsna become impure?

 

The second who came to visit gave me a personal invitation from NM to come

and see him. I refused the invitation. He them said that if I came I would

be allowed a personal darsan. I again refused. He then asked me why I did

not want to hear from NM to which I replied that his philosophy differed

from Srila Prabhupada's. He questioned how and I replied "about the origin

of the soul coming from the spiritual world." He then said "this philosophy

of the soul coming from the spiritual world is sinful, this is

apasiddhantic. Prabhupada only preached like that to allow for our western

christian mindset."

 

This statement about the christian mindset does not make sense as christians

would feel more comfortable with the origin in the material world rather

than falling from the spiritual world concept.

 

Was Srila Prabhupada teaching apasiddhanta?

 

I reject the fruit as unpalatable, I reject the tree.

 

Your servant, Gokula das.