Vyasa puja homenage to Srila Prabhupada

08-21-2003, 08:27 AM

Vyasa puja homenage to Srila Prabhupada from Saltillo Mandir Temple

Dear Srila Prabhupada:
Please accept our dandavats pranam eternally. One issue witch to lot
of people, especially in the west, have be difficulty with: the
notion of submitting ones to spiritual master, to Guru. One of the
outsider Christian scholar said. "Let aside the significance of the
guru in the Vaisnava-hindu tradition. Our western culture witch tends
to be extremely individualistic and rationalistic and thus a little
uncomfortable with notions of a absolute spiritual figures… just
have admit that notion of guru is a very Asian concept, and I would
say Indian concept in its particular Vaisnava form." (HK p. 74.) As
a scholar devotee wrote:
" LET US EXAMINE EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT IN
CONTEXT. THE TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE WAS SRILA PRABHUPADA'S MINISTRY
TO WESTERN YOUTHFUL 'HIPPIES', WHO WERE GENERALLY REBELLIOUS AGAINST
THEIR PARENTS AND PARENT CULTURE INCLUDING THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN
RELIGION, AND WERE DABBLING IN PSYCHO-ACTIVE DRUGS, FREE SEX, AND
OTHER REVOLUTIONARY (or amoral antivaisnava) TYPES OF BEHAVIOR.
REJECTING 'ORGANIZED RELIGION', MANY HIPPIES NEVER-THE-LESS
CONSIDERED THEMSELVES TO BE VERY 'SPIRITUAL' AND HAD A GREAT
INTEREST IN WESTERN ESOTERICISM AND VARIOUS FORMS OF NATIVE
AMERICAN, AFRICAN AND EASTERN MYSTICISM. OFTEN THESE
SPIRITUALITIES WERE WHAT VAISHNAVISM CONSIDERS 'MAYAVADI' OR
IMPERSONAL. THEY USED FLOWERY GOD-TALK, BUT THIS WAS A COVER FOR
THEIR ACTUALLY ATHEISTIC TEACHINGS. AS A CLASS, THESE YOUNG" (
Vediculturegroup:Subject: LEVI, NOTOVITCH, GHULAM, ETC. FRAUDULENT
AND CORRUPTED SCRIPTURES Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:23:46 –0700).
>From the beginning, One of your disciples spread the criticism
rejecting Your title, Prabhupada, because It should be reserved for
Your Gurumaharaja. He also checked would relativize Your absolute
position, omitting the honorifics His Divine Grace and funder–acarya.
Similar Increasing challenges to Your absolute authority in the
behavior of certain leaders of Los Angeles Temple, in the guise of
protecting His privacy for His Translating, the leaders denied
devotees direct access to Your. In San Francisco Festival of the
chariots, there was not seat for Your on any of the carts. Thus,
Your saw in a number of places moves to minimize Your position. (AHK
p. 294-295.) En march of 1972, without consulting Prabhupada, eight
of the twelve GBC members held a meeting in New Yorkd to centralize
ISKCON's management. And Your suspended "ALL GBC orders" in such
time. And literally prevent to everybody: "What will happen when I am
not here, shall everething be spoiled by GBC?" (Idem p. 298.) Also,
in 1970, four of Your new renunciants had begun praching a strange
gospel. They announced that by leaving America, Prabhupada had
rejected his disciples for failing to recognize that Prabhupada was
actually Krishna himself. Your reveled the underlaying implication:
making to Your God, the seat of the Guru was now vacated to make room
for one of Your Gaudiya matha godbrothers. (Idem p. 295-296.)
So, in the time out of Your Vapu form and nityalila pravista, Your
sacred Vaisnava-sanga was traumatized, as migh be expected,
inaugurating an extendent struggle to resolve the issue. The
spiritual vacuum thus created had be cause of more havoc in Your
sacred wings ISKCON. Specificly, by the immature error of zonal-
acarya system and the falldowns of Your first disciples that Your had
recommended with opportunity of to be Disksa Gurus. So, many strange
concoctions arise and polluted the mind of many of your followers,
agains to the firsts bhakti principle. Take shelter in lotus feets of
one bone fine spiritual Master.
But, the point is very clear for us: A) You are the only one ISKCON
Funder acarya. B) The Governing Commission Body is the Ultimate
managing authority over all member of ISKCON (S. d. Goswami 1983,
VI;328-29.) But in the same way Your command is C): "Foolish men of
materialistic temperament do not take advantage for successive
authorized, The Vedic knowledge is authorized and is adquiered no by
experiment but by authentic statements of the Vedic literatures
explained by bone fine authorities. Simply by becoming an academic
scholar one cannot understand the Vedic statements; one has to
approach the real authority who has received the Vedic knowledge by
disciple succession… (SB. Pr. 2.2.27.)
The system for reciving Vedic knowgledge is called avaroha-pantha or
the process of receiving transcendental knowledge (S. B.2.1.20)
" My Guru mahraja is the tenth from Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I am eleven
you are (my disciples) the twelfth" (may 18, 1974. Lecture in
LA) "One who is now the disciple is the next spiritual master" (S. B.
2.9.43)
Any one following the order of Lord Caitanya under the guidance of
His bone fine representative can become a spiritual master and I wish
that in my absence all my disciples become the bone fine spiritual
master to spread Krishna consciousness throughout the whole world.
(November 2 1967, to Madhusudana)
I want that all of my spiritual sons and daughters will inherit this
title of Bhaktivedanta, so that the family transcendental diploma
will continue throught the generations. Those posseding the tilte of
Bhaktivedanta will be allowed to initiate disciples. May be in 1975
all of my disciples will be allowed to initiate and increase the
number of generations. That is my program. " ) December 3, 1968 to
Hamsaduta)
You can accept disciples without any limitations. That is the law of
disciple sucession. I want to see my disciples become bone fine
spitiritual master and spread Krsna consiusness very widely, that
make me and Krisna very happy. (December 2, 1975)
"The spiritual master succession is not very difficult. This respect
to my spiritual Master. I am nothing. I am a peon. Similarly this
parampara sistem is like this. I request you (my disciples) all
become spiritual master. (Vyasa puja 1969)

"Ghots are always very bad elements, always creating a fearful
situation for others. Similarly, the ghostlike nondevotees who have
no respect for the pure devotees, nor for the Visnu Deity in the
temples, create a fearful situations for the devotees, at all times.
The Lord never accepts any offering by such impure ghost. There is a
common saying that one should first love the dog of the beloved
before one show any loving sentiments for the beloved. The stage of
pure devotion is attained by sincerely serving a pure devotees of
Lord. The firsts conditions of devotional service to the Lord is
therefore to be servant of a pure devotee, and this conditions is
fulfilled by "reception of the dust of the lotus feet of a pure
devotee who has also another pure devotee". That is the way of pure
disciple succession, or devotional Parampara." (. 2.3.23.)
In this way Srila Prabhupada, allow us levanter the flag of ISKCON
and to go out on the battle field to fight against the illusion, to
distribute your books, to preach in all the levels, to always be
faithful to Your orders and to defend, until the last encouragement,
Your sacred mission of ISKCON. Let us to die with loyalty inside Your
lines with the Holy names on the tongue and exhaling: Alive ISKCON!
Alive the faithful followers of Prabhupada!!!
Your servants of your servants
ISKCON Saltillo, Radha Govinda Mandir.