SRILA PRABHUPADA AND WATCHTOWER PART 2

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HARE KRISHNA !

 

SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA KI JAYA !

 

DEAR VAISHNAVAS, PAMHO.

 

JUST AS SRILA PRABHUPADA DID NOT CLAIM INFALLIBILTIY, THE POPE CANNOT

AND DOES NOT CLAIM INFALLIBILITY ON THOSE THINGS OUTSIDE THE DOGMA OF

CHURCH DOCTRINE AND MORALS. HE CAN AND MUST BE THE GUARDIAN OF THE

TRADITIONAL DOCTRINES AND MORALS OF ALL THE UNITED SAMPRADAYAS

(ANCIENT APOSTOLIC RITES) IN THE CATHOLIC COMMUNION. HOWEVER HE

CANNOT DICTATE TO THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE, OR TO THE FAITHFUL

INDIVIDUALS ON MATTERS OUTSIDE HIS JOB-DESCRIPTION. HIS PAPAL

INFALLIBILITY IS ONLY DEFINED AND DECLARED BY THE CHURCH RELATIVE TO

HIS SACREDOTAL AND DOCTRINAL TEACHING LEADERSHIP OF THE CHURCH, AND

HIS ROLE AS GUARDIAN OF ITS DOCTRINAL AND MORAL (ASCETIC,

PIETISTIC)TRADITIONS.

 

THIS MEANS THAT THE MUNDANE TRUTHS OF SCIENCE AND

MANY OTHER THINGS ARE OUTSIDE OF HIS REALM OF 'INFALLIBLE' AUTHORITY,

AND AS HUMAN SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING CHANGES, THE LAY CHURCH WILL

CHANGE WITH IT ON LAW AND MEDICAL ETHICS ETC.

 

SOME CLAIM A GREATER INFALLIBILITY FOR SRILA PRABHUPADA

 

SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS NOT GIVEN ACCURATE INFORMATION ABOUT JESUS,

CATHOLICISM, JUDAISM, SAME-SEX ATTRACTED PEOPLE, EUNUCHS OR THIRD-

SEX / GENDER VARIENT PERSONS, WOMEN AND OTHER IMPORTANT SUBJECTS BY

SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES. ADDITIONALLY, HIS KNOWLEDGE-BASE ABOUT LIFE AS

A GENTLEMAN OF HIS TIME AND PLACE WAS DIFFERENT THAN HIS KNOWLEDGE OF

THE TIMELESS SHASTRAS AND TRANSCENDENTAL TEACHINGS OF HIS OWN

APOSTOLIC LINEAGE FROM SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU. HE WAS A TRUE

REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS TRADITION IN BOTH 'DOCTRINE AND MORALS', BUT AS

WITH OTHER ACHARYAS, HIS FANATICAL DISCIPLES HAVE TRIED TO EXTEND HIS

SACREDOTAL INFALLIBILITY TO COVER EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF LIFE AND

KNOWLEDGE, PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE. THUS THEY HAVE IMPLICATED HIM IN

THE HORRIFIC ABUSE OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND OTHER DEVOTEES, AND THE

OTHER TERRIBLE CRIMES OF HIS DISOBEDIANT DISCIPLES.

 

IF A DISCIPLE BREAKS HIS/ HER VOWED

CONTRACT WITH THE MASTER BY DISOBEDIENCE, THEN THE MASTER IS NO

LONGER BOUND BY THEIR MUTUAL VOWS TO SAVE THAT BETRAYING DISCIPLE.

SRILA PRABHUPADA'S ERRANT DISCIPLES HAVE DONE HIM A VERY GREAT

DISHONOR AND DISSERVICE. TO COVER THEIR SINS, THEY ARE TRYING TO

CLAIM HIS INFALLIBLE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR SINS, AND TO THUS PLACE

SOME OF THE GUILT FOR THESE SINS ON HIM. THUS THEY THINK THAT HE WILL

HAVE TO GIVE THEM HIS PROTECTION / INTERCESSION. THEY ARE IN THIS WAY

TRYING TO SPIRTUALLY BLACK-MAIL THEIR GURU. HE MAY GIVE HIS MERCIFUL

INTERCESSION ON THEIR SOULS' BEHALF, BUT HE IS NOT OBLIGED TO.

 

IN THE SAME WAY THEY ARE, IN ABSTEMTIA, PRESSING HIM INTO

THE SERVICE OF THEIR OWN HATREDS AND PREJUDICES. BUT, TRUTH WILL OUT

SOMEDAY. GODHEAD DOES NOT LIKE TO SEE HIS PURE DEVOTEES ABUSED BY

THOSE THEY HAVE GIVEN THEIR CAUSELESS MERCY TO.

 

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SRILA PRABHUPADA'S AUTHORITY TO TEACH THE DOCTRINE-AND-MORALS GAUDIYA

VAISHNAVA SIDDANTHA DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHETHER HE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT

HOMOSEX, CATHOLICISM, WHERE THE MOON WAS OR ANYTHING ELSE OF THIS

NATURE. HE WAS A "PURE DEVOTEE" OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER, AND AN

AUTHENTIC SPOKESMAN FOR HIS TRADITION ON THE ISSUES, WHICH WERE

ESSENTIAL TO TRANSMITTING CORE GAUDIYA DOCTRINES AND MORALS.

 

SRILA PRABHUPADA KI JAYA !

 

ASPIRING TO SERVE HIS SERVANTS,

 

BHAKTI ANANDA GOSWAMI