Thread 4: A prayer.

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"Bhadra Balaram (das) JPS (Mayapur - IN)" wrote:

 

> >

> > For non Vaishnava communities benchmark is results. For Vaishnava

> > communities the benchmark is efforts.

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> ...and attitude.

 

This may be true on some very elevated platform, but it is one of the more

abused and misused facets of the philosophy.

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> > He had

> > > to request the help of HH Prahladananda Swami in

>

> What is wrong with taking help? Yuddhisthira Maharaja depended upon

> Bhima and Arjuna. Did that make him an unqualified leader?

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> |||GBC get criticised for not working together and for working together.

> If we would all sincerely seek each other other's help, we could do much..

>

> "How you work cooperatively'|

 

 

Dear Maharaj,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet and please forgive my

offenses.

 

Of course, there is nothing wrong with cooperating with your godbrothers in

devotional service. On the contrary, it is highly recommended.

 

The question is not there at all. The problem was that he was not able to

bring forth the proper arguments to correct the situation.

 

Ajamila Prabhu would not have needed to ask HH Prahladanada Swami for help

because he is fixed up in Krsna conscious knowledge and knows thoroughly

Srila Prabhupada's instructions.

 

Nor did Madhvacarya das adhikari Prabhu. He is doing that service alone now

and pretty well, even though it is very difficult as he has to correct the

previous bad management and clean the previous mess, as I mentioned before

in these conferences.

 

Hrdaya Caitanya Prabhu was also very helpful in dealing with these

independent grhasthas, even though he is such a humble and shy devotee.

Please carefully note that he is also neither a guru, nor a GBC members.

 

So why these devotees are more qualified than our 'top managerial authority

in Iskcon'?

 

Why?... Because they do know Srila Prabhupada's instructions thoroughly and

are able to apply them properly in their own life, and quote the relevant

instructions when needed; just as HH PS did when he came to New-mayapura.

 

If a guru or GBC member is not able to correct things on behalf and

according to Srila Prabhupada's instructions, in my humble opinion he is not

qualified as a guru or GBC

 

To conclude I will ask you a few more questions if you do not mind?

 

When HH. PGS came to New-Mayapura to become Temple President there in 94, he

failed to protect me there as I was the main teacher in our Iskcon school

set by Madhvacarya Prabhu, 20 years ago and maintained by the local

grhasthas. So the school had to close and I had to go and teach outside.

 

Did he follow Srila prabhupada's instructions at that time?

 

Finally, what he did, in our Deity worship that had also been nicely

maintained according to Srila Prabhupada's high standard and personal

instructions, by the local grhastha community, was to lower down the

standard.

 

Now our Sri Sri Radha Krsna Deities there have only a cup of milk and a

piece of cake for Their Lorship's 6 PM. offering, and a cup of milk and some

cookies for Their 8 PM. offering. And even these pastry are cooked by a

non-initiated bhaktine.

 

Are this the qualifications of a GBC member according to Srila Prabhupada's

instructions on this issue? Please answer me honestly, according to your

humble opinion and present instance?

 

When I offered to do puja for the Deities there, during the Julyana Yatra

festival, I was so shocked when I was refused the Kitchen entry at 10 to 12

o'clock, in order to prepare Krsna's plate for His midday offering. The main

cook there disrespected me very badly and said that He will prepare the

plate when the preparations will be ready. He asked me to come back 20

minutes later. I then said:

" But Krsna will not have enough time to eat then before the arati

ceremony."

He answered back:

" no problem, mataji, you can do the arati half an hour later. Krsna is not

taking rest anyway today as we will leave the curtain open for the guesses

in the afternoon, so you can do the main lunch arati at quarter to one

today, no problem."

 

And when I presented the argument that so many guesses and Indians will be

waiting at 12.30 for tha arati to start, not understanding what is

happening, he answered me:

"you will not see them, mataji, as you will be in the back room."

 

Is that the training the Guru, the GBC or TP is supposed to give to their

Deity cook?

 

Why are we putting devotees with ksatrya tendency in the kitchen and book

distributor-nice devotees in the highest managerial position?

 

Don't you see that these devotees are not placed properly according to their

varna and asram qualifications?

 

Don't you see, Maharaj, that these devotees are not following Srila

Prabhupada's basic instructions like the one in which he asked that we

maintain nicely what he has settled with so much difficulty, and that the

GBC members keep the high standards he had set? Are these devotees morally,

spiritually and materially qualified?

 

Why are they, then, not successful in their attempt to spread

Krsna-consciousness in France?

 

Why is there no more book distribution or harinam parties, or so few and so

rarely?

 

Could you humbly answer these questions?

 

For your personal information, these activities were most successful in

France during Srila Prabhupada's presence in 76 and 77.

 

Why the GBC did not maintain these standards, or at least encourage their

qualified grhasthas godbrothers and senior diciples to maintain them?

 

It is not to late yet to rectify things in a most humble and open-minded way

are the GBCs ready to do that?

 

Looking forward to receiving a genuine letter, from your holiness, answering

all my questions thoroughly, I humbly bow down in the dust of your lotus

feet.

 

Your servant in Srila Prabhupada's mission, Krsna-kirtana dasi.

 

PS: And if you want to ask now why I am not serving there instead of talking

so much as jiva Goswami would say, please read all my former letters in this

3 conferences and rest assured that if the GBC would secure a room, prasad

and $300 a month to raise my daughter properly in New-Mayapura, I would be

ready to settle there, participate to the morning program steadily, and

resume teaching to 5 to 10 years old kids there, plus doing puja when needed

and preaching to guesses on sunday.

 

Unfortunately GBCs have money for their personal project but not to maintain

qualified grhasthas decently in Iskcon. I am very sad at the state of our

present Iskcon leadership.

 

Your servant, Krsna-kirtana dasi.