Remembering Srila Prabhupada

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Our centers are only for this purpose --

to chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam Our centers are only for this

purpose -- to chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam

 

During his massage, which he took downstairs on his veranda, Prabhupada glanced

across the fields toward the gosala. "So our Siddha Svarupa and Sudama Vipra

like to stay at the banana plantation?" he asked.

 

I took his enquiry as a prompt to ask some questions of my own. I wanted to

hear Prabhupada's response to some specific points of contention between Siddha

Svarupa's followers and our ISKCON devotees. "Srila Prabhupada, when Siddha

Svarupa first surrendered ..."

 

Prabhupada cut me off. "He never surrendered!" Then he chuckled. Seeing my

surprised look, he explained that they had come and made some offering of men

and assets. Therefore he was trying to engage them in devotional service.

 

I asked whether our devotees should read Siddha Svarupa's books, because ISKCON

devotees have been told that they are not bona fide.

 

Prabhupada laughed and replied good humoredly. "We don't take notice of what

they say. We just take their money!"

 

Although between his disciples there seem to be major differences preventing

cooperative action, Prabhupada smilingly gave his own perspective on the two

camps. "Of course I have affection for them. I don't send them away, and they

are coming to see me. Just like there may be so many animals; some are a little

fiercer than others." He also pointed out that they are coming to us, not us to

them. Prabhupada always refers to ISKCON as "us." He said that there are

differences, just as there are between him and his own Godbrothers, but that we

share a common platform of chanting Hare Krsna and taking prasadam.

 

I mentioned that in New Zealand our men discouraged Siddha Svarupa's people

from visiting the temple. But Prabhupada said, "Why? They can come. Our centers

are only for this purpose -- to chant Hare Krsna and take prasadam. Gradually

they will come to sense."

 

- From the "A Transcendental Diary Vol 1" by HG Hari Sauri dasa

 

 

 

 

 

CHANT HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE AND BE HAPPY

Your humble servant

radhabhava gaur das

 

 

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