krsna Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 <TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">The Prayer of a Devotee </TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2>Written by WVA correspondent in Vrindavan </TD></TR><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Tuesday, 24 April 2007 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2> Words from Gopal Gosh, one of Srila Prabhupada’s dear friends from his early days in Vrindavan. Gopal Gosh has been working all these years in the Vrindavan Research Institute with the Holy Scriptures of the Six Goswamis. I am suffering in these days. I hope the time has come that I can reach Mahaprabhu. I am suffering so much because I made so many Vaishnava aparadha. When Prabhupada first came from the West I discriminated against the western born Vaishnavas. I thought they were not real Vaishnavas. Prabhupada invited me to the West. He told me that I should not worry and that I could help him a lot because I speak good English. He invited me to Radha Damodar temple and he gave me some prasadam, but I just took the tulasi leaf and gave the other prasadam to a beggar in the street. Now I am suffering the consequences of Vaishnava aparadha. Also I was so much absorbed in my work that I did not go and listen to all the lectures of Prabhupada. I missed all these wonderful opportunities. Later I met so many western devotees and they were so nice that I could understand that I committed a great mistake. When Mulaprakriti d.d. came to make an interview I was so happy that I could say something about Srila Prabhupada. Now I am lying here in the bed and I cannot even see the new Imlitala Temple. What is the use of my life now? I knew this place from the very beginning when Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaja came. At that time there were 2 sadhus living and the doors were all closed. And some gundas were keeping their loot in one of the rooms of Imlitala, but then Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaja changed everything. I still remember his dancing, jumping so high in the sky. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 How wonderful to hear a vaisnava speak of his softening change of heart. Let us all take this example seriously and search out areas in our own lives that need to be dealt with as this Vaisnava has done. What a great example he has set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 It would be nice to see a similar spirit of appreciation and humility expressed by the Western born Vaishnavas who over the years often smeared and depreciated traditional Gaudiya Vaishnavas living in the various holy dhamas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 It would be nice to see a similar spirit of appreciation and humility expressed by the Western born Vaishnavas who over the years often smeared and depreciated traditional Gaudiya Vaishnavas living in the various holy dhamas. Yes for those that have made such offenses that would be worthwhile. But even more wonderful for us personally is to search out our own fields of resentment and envy and offensive behavior, deal with it and transcend it. Simply hoping for it from others misses the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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