The Uttama-adhikari as taught in Purport to NOI 5

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Dear Maharaja,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances.

 

 

I have read your coment with delight, having no so often oportunity

to hear from our most senior devotees speaking on this topic, in

public forums.

 

There have been some essential dissagriment here.

 

You wrote:

 

>

> I agree with Janesvara point here. We do a disservice to Srila Prabhupada,

> ourselves, and our disciples, if we present ourselves, or allow our

> disciples and well wishers to present us as "uttama-adhikaris" or

> "maha-bhagavatas".

 

According to different devotees none else but an infallible

uttama-adhikari is to be accepted as a bona fide guru in the

line of our disciplic succession. The base for this are Srila

Prabhupada's statements. Now, the question is, in the light of

such rather a stressful and demanding situation, how a disciple

can go on in his conviction that his guru is a bona fide one

at al, if his guru is not seen as an uttama-adhikari?

 

Or, to be more direct. The dilemma that is hitting the heads of

many is -- May a Vaisnava of a lesser staus than an uttama-adhikari

also be accepted as a bona fide guru, able to connect disciples to

the Guru-parampara and Krsna?

 

 

> We should have learned by now that if we don't present the actual facts of

> the situation, (for the benefit of everyone), for the supposed advantage

> of "furthering the preaching", we simple create chaos.

>

 

 

ys

Mahanidhi das.