Do not make me come again!

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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

 

One of the most powerful arguments against ritvik theory as offered by Srila

Prabhupada himself:

 

 

Lecture on SB 6.3.18 - Gorakhpur, February 11, 1971

 

My Guru Maharaja used to say like that, that "Finish this business in this

life. Don't delay for the next life." He was telling also that "Don't give

me trouble again to come here to deliver you." That is the responsibility of

spiritual master. Spiritual master responsibility is to take the disciple to

Krsna, until he is able to do, to help him, to help him, to help him. That

is the verdict of the sastras. Just like Bilvamangala Thakura. His spiritual

master delivered him, taking the shape of a prostitute. So these stories are

there.

 

 

Letter to: Jayapataka - Los Angeles 11 July, 1969

 

You have asked if it is true that the Spiritual Master remains in the

material universe until all of His disciples are transferred to the

Spiritual Sky. The answer is yes, this is the rule. Therefore, every student

should be very much careful not to commit any offense which will be

detrimental to this promotion to the Spiritual Kingdom, and thereby the

Spiritual Master has to incarnate again to deliver him.

 

 

 

Bhagavad-gita 7.4 -- Nairobi, October 31, 1975

 

Prabhupada: Who is fallen is called yoga-bhrasta. So yoga-bhrasta means he

has fallen from the instruction of the spiritual master. But a spiritual

master sometimes is so kind that he delivers him in the next birth also. But

it is not our duty to bring the spiritual master to save me again in the

next life. It is not very good disciple.

 

 

Bhagavad-gita 6.46-47 - Los Angeles, February 21, 1969

Also Path of Perfection 8: Failure and Success in Yoga

 

Devotee: Prabhupada, I heard it said that the spiritual master will always

come back until his devotees, his disciples, have achieved God realization.

Can you explain that?

 

Prabhupada: Yes. But don't try to take advantage of it. (laughter) Don't try

to give trouble to your spiritual master like that. Finish your business in

this life. That is especially meant for those who are slack. His devotee,

his disciple should be serious in serving spiritual master. If he is

intelligent he should know that "Why should I act in such a way that my

spiritual master has to take the trouble to reclaim me again? Let my

business be finished in this life."

 

That should be the right way of thinking. Not that, "Oh I am sure my

spiritual master will come, let me do all nonsense." No. So if you have got

any, I mean to say, affection for the spiritual master, then you should

finish your business in this life so that he may not come again to reclaim

you. Is that all right? Don't take advantage of this business. Rather, be

serious to finish your business. That is a fact.

 

There is an instance of Bilvamangala Thakura. Bilvamangala Thakura was in

his previous life, elevated to almost prema-bhakti, highest platform of

devotional service. But there is always chance of falldown. So somehow or

other he fell down. And next life he was born in a very rich family as it is

stated in the Bhagavad-gita: sucinam srimatam gehe [bg. 6.41]. So he was

born in a rich brahmana family, but he became, naturally as rich boys become

attached to woman-hunter. So it is said that his spiritual master instructed

him through his prostitute. At the right moment, his spiritual master said

through that prostitute, "Oh, you are so much attached with this flesh and

bone. If you had been attached so much with Krsna, how good you could have

achieved." Immediately he took to that position.

 

So that responsibility is for the spiritual master. But we should not take

advantage of that. That is not very good. We should try: yasya prasadad

bhagavat-prasadau **. We should not try to put our spiritual master in a

position that he has to reclaim me from prostitute's house. But he has to do

it. Because he accepts his disciple, he has got the responsibility like

that. Yes?

 

 

It looks like Srila Prabhupada himself was not aware of the facility of

giving diksas and delivering disciples straight from the spiritual world,

otherwise why did he say he would have to take the trouble of reincarnating

again for their rescue?

 

 

Your servant,

Madana-mohana das