Siddha-pranali

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Hare Krishna dear Prabhus.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

I've heard in a lecture by a very senior devotee in our movement that siddha

pranali is an ancient and bonofide Vaisnava initiation, but here (see the

quotes below) Srila Prabhupada says it is manufactured by "rascals." Was it

really manufactured or just practiced in an improper way?

 

 

 

 

 

Prabhupada: Then everything will be finished. Preaching will be finished. In

this sahajiya party, then preaching will be finished. Siddha-pranali.

Tamala Krsna: What does that mean, Srila Prabhupada, siddha-pranali?

Prabhupada: Siddha-pranali is nonsense. They have manufactured a

siddha-pranali.

Ramesvara: [break] ...the initiation that you are given your siddhas, your

eternal position.

Tamala Krsna: There are some very strange notes. You should see those notes.

Ramesvara: Yes, I've read them all already.

Tamala Krsna: You did?

Prabhupada: They have learned it from these Radha-kunda babajis.

Tamala Krsna: From Radha-kunda babajis?

Prabhupada: Babajis, yes. After all, they're fool, rascals, so whatever they

say.

Ramesvara: The dangerous thing is that they are using your book for

authority.

Prabhupada: That's all right. Authority, where? What is that? That I've

already explained. Why these rascals do not take the lessons of Caitanya

Mahaprabhu that we are all rascals, fools? No. That they will not take.

They'll take the Radharani's bhava. What Caitanya Mahaprabhu is teaching by

His practical life, that we have to take.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- June 7, 1976, Los Angeles

 

 

 

 

 

In this connection, we should be careful about the so-called siddha-pranali.

The siddha-pranali process is followed by a class of men who are not very

authorized and who have manufactured their own way of devotional service.

They imagine that they have become associates of the Lord simply by thinking

of themselves like that. This external behavior is not at all according to

the regulative principles. The so-called siddha-pranali process is followed

by the prakrta-sahajiya, a pseudosect of so-called Vaisnavas. In the opinion

of Rupa Gosvami, such activities are simply disturbances to the standard way

of devotional service.

Sri Rupa Gosvami says that learned acaryas recommend that we follow the

regulative principles even after the development of spontaneous love for

Krsna.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Eligibility for Spontaneous Devotional Service