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March 30, 1999, by Urdhvaga Das Reply to Jahnu's article
"Krishna Kant - Master Of Evasion"
Jahnu das writes:
"It is foolish beyond measure to impose the condition on Srila Prabhupada that he has
to state 48 times that he wanted his disciples to become gurus. Where did Krishna Kant get
that idea? Isn't it enough that Srila Prabhupada, as shown below consistently and
explicitly expressed his desire for his disciples to succeed him as guru"
Dear Jahnu das, if anything is foolish beyond measure, then it is people like yourself,
who are averse to Srila Prabhupada's continued position as diksa / siksa guru. Please do
not think that Srila Prabhupada is dead. Certainly those reason ill who think so. The
problem with you people is that you rather like to follow self-appointed bogus gurus then
to take shelter unto Srila Prabhupada.
That is your problem. I believe that the recent departure of your initiating guru Harikesa
who, like a ordinary conditioned soul, is enjoying household life, has clouded somewhat
your spiritual understanding. If the blind follows the blind, then both will fall into the
ditch. So please do not become averse to Srila Prabhupada and take shelter at his lotus
feet.
Of course Srila Prabhupada wanted his disciples to succeed him as guru. Definitely he
wanted it, but, but, but, and here lies the big problem, he wanted qualified disciples, he
wanted qualified gurus, not some show-bottle gurus, imitator gurus, self-appointed gurus,
zonal-acarya gurus, woman-hater gurus, woman-lover gurus, homo-gurus, harassing gurus,
ex-communicating gurus, children-abusing gurus, murder-gurus, poison gurus, guru-killer
gurus, disco gurus, cow-seller gurus, marijuana gurus, LSD gurus, gopi gurus, reformed
gurus, no-mangala-arotik gurus, no-japa gurus, bunglow-sannyasi gurus, retreat gurus,
Monika-varnasrama gurus, 3-regulative principles gurus, demon-crazy gurus,
movie-mall-menaka gurus, 2/3 hand voted-in gurus, current-link gurus, etc, etc, etc.
Srila Prabhupada said: "First become qualified". We have nothing against any
Iskcon gurus, but they first should aquire some qualification and not imitate.
Of course, a father likes to see his son to follow him. Of course a high-court judge likes
to see his son to succeed him, but first the son has to qualify himself, otherwise he can
not take the position of the father. If he tries without qualification to imitate the
father, that means impostor, bogus.
We should not be fooled by all those 2/3 hand voted in, self-appointed bogus Isk con
gurus, who like conditioned souls, are falling down after some time, and who are preaching
bogus philosophy such as the "current link philosophy", in support of
"voted in successor acaryas", with a "less then liberated guru thesis"
and a "minimum qualification theory", for adapting their "homosexual
pedophile guru lineage" of conditioned souls into the pure guru-parampara, excluding
Srila Prabhupada as a non physical link.
We should not deceive ourselves into thinking that conditioned souls are infallible gurus.
We rather should take shelter with Srila Prabhupada, who is the perfect guru for all. He
will never disappoint us. Srila Prabhupada is still available for anyone who is sincere in
his heart, but if Prabhupad is substituted for ordinary souls posing as gurus, then one
certaily will be deceived.
Your's in the service of Srila Prabhupada
Urdhvaga Das |