Narayan Maharaja?

[Guest guest]

>The various Gaudiya Math branches can't possibly unite themselves

>under the guidance of one single acarya (here Narayana Maharaja being

>propagated as such) since the departure of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati

>Thakura.

 

Is Narayan Maharaja actually a disciple and real follower of Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta?

Or has he taken initiation from, and is currently following, some Vrindavan

babajis?

I'd appreciate a clarification from reliable sources. Thanks.

 

your servant,

Kunti dd

[Guest guest]

> Is Narayan Maharaja actually a disciple and real follower of Srila

> Bhaktisiddhanta?

> Or has he taken initiation from, and is currently following, some

> Vrindavan babajis?

> I'd appreciate a clarification from reliable sources. Thanks.

 

Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu answers these questions in his widely acclaimed

paper, "Taking Srila Prabhupada Straight". Here is the extract:

 

____

 

This is my doubt: That my god-brothers and -sisters who are following

Narayana Maharaja are doing so blindly, and they have been beguiled into

accepting a pretender.

 

Narayana Maharaja as deviating from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

Prabhupada.

 

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada radically reformed the

Gaudiya Tradition, transforming it into a global preaching mission for the

modern world. His work was not much appreciated by many, prominent among

them the babajis of Vraja, who felt that he was deviating by his emphasis on

vigorous preaching rather than the esoteric cultivation of raga-marga. His

disciples were constantly assailed by the charge that their Guru Maharaja

was a deviant who could not offer them the "real thing." As you know, a

number of them succumbed, most prominently the unauthorized

"successor-acarya" Ananta Vasudeva dasa (later reinitiated in the babaji

community as Puri Goswami).

 

A number of our own God-brothers also fell prey to the same attack, even

while Prabhupada was present. And the attack continues to this day. My doubt

here is whether Narayana Maharaja has become an instrument of this attack

against the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.

 

What he is now preaching and delivering clearly comes from outside the line

of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. He did not get this from Bhakti

Prajnan Kesava Maharaja, his diksa guru. Narayana Maharaja has acknowledged

that there was no practice of raga marga in that matha, no "rasa-katha" but

rather discourse about Prahlada Maharaja, Dhruva Maharaja, and so on.

 

Narayana Maharaja was apparently not satisfied with this, for, as he once

confessed, he left his spiritual master's temple without permission, and he

went to Govardhana. In great distress, crying, Bhakti Prajnan Kesava

Maharaja came and brought him back.

 

But later, after the departure of his Guru Maharaja, Narayana Maharaja

returned to the babajis of Goverdhana, and from among them he accepted a

rasika guru, supposedly the one who "pushed the switch" which made the

"current of bhava flow."

 

It troubles me greatly that after his guru's departure Narayana Maharaja did

something his guru had forcibly prohibited in his presence.

 

This babaji, then, is Narayana Maharaja's siksa guru—a personage, as you

yourself argue, who often can be more prominent than the diksa guru.

Whatever it is that Narayana Maharaja is giving comes from this babaji. This

is his lineage.

 

It is clearly not the lineage from Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. I

don't know anything about this babaji, but given the judgment about

Radha-Kunda babaji by our recent acaryas, we have the obligation to be

doubtful. Don't we have to ask a few questions about this babaji, and

whoever else in that community Narayana Maharaja may have learned from? What

did Narayana Maharaja actually get? Is it the real thing?

 

__

 

To get the full thing and more, please visit

 

http://www.chakra.org/narayanmhrj/