28 IF

by Kailasa Candra dasa

Third of a Four-Part Series

All emphases added for your edification and realization

In this, the third of our series, we must reiterate that twenty-eight examples of conditionality (“if”) are going to be brought out after the whole four-part series unfolds. Srila Prabhupada made few (if any) guarantees, because nothing could be guaranteed. Free will is what it is. If free will was misused by the leadership echelons of his organization, particularly after he left manifest existence, then all such guarantees (never made) would have been rendered phony—as such, he did not make very many.
The one guarantee he made is well known: He repeated that Lord Caitanya’s movement, in a bona fide way, will spread to every town and village of the world. He specifically stated that this may or may not be carried out by his ISKCON movement. If it deviated, then somebody else would take the credit. That’s certainly the way things have been trending.
So, you will find two influences elucidated in Part Three: Emphasis of the conditionality implicit in Srila Prabhupada’s statements (concerning his movement in general and the GBC in particular), along with the nature of his statements to and about the GBC. As you probably already know, everything is presented here by way of chronological order.

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28 IF

by Kailasa Candra dasa

Second of a Four-Part Series

All emphases added for your edification and realization

In the second of our four-part series, we must reiterate that twenty-eight examples of conditionality (“if”) are going to be brought out as the series unfolds. Srila Prabhupada made few (if any) guarantees, because nothing could be guaranteed. Free will is what it is. If free will was misused by the leadership echelons of his organization, particularly after he left manifest existence, then all such guarantees (never made) would have been rendered phony. As such, he did not make any, because he could not make any.

The one guarantee he made is well known: Lord Caitanya’s movement, in a bona fide way, will spread to every town and village of the world. He specifically stated that this may or may not be carried out by his ISKCON movement. If it deviated, then somebody else would take the credit.

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As It Is and As You Like Him

by Kailasa Candra dasa

“Regarding your question about my birth, I was born September 1, 1896, Tuesday, at about 4:00 in the afternoon. My rasi is Mithuna.”
Letter to Jaya Krishna Thakur, Dec. 6, 1975

A initiative of this nature is meant to help you understand the science of sidereal astrology and to apply it in your devotional life, but it must be fraught with difficulties. This effort has been made especially so due to a rather vitriolic controversy recently splashed all over the Sampradaya Sun concerning the astrological chart of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the most recent shaktyavesh-avatar of the Madhva-Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya.

It is my duty to simplify everything for you–as far as that is possible–despite the fact that astronomical and astrological calculations and combinations are intrinsically and inherently complex. You can very easily get lost in the minutiae of these interrelated sciences. Indeed, that is just what has been taking place on the pages of the above-mentioned online newspaper in recent times.

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by Kailasa Candra dasa

First of a Four-Part Series

“I say straight that Kirtanananda is wrong and you are right when you say that the movement will come to nothing if I am not satisfied with your actions.”
• 1 of 28 – Letter to Damodara, 10-13-67

“Once before you wanted to do something centralizing with your GBC meeting, and if I did not interfere, the whole thing would have been killed.”
• 2 of 28 – Letter to Karandhar 12-22-72

“I am training some of my experienced disciples how to manage after my departure. So, if instead of taking the training, if in my lifetime you people say, ‘I am the Lord of all I survey,’ that is dangerous conspiracy.”
• 3 of 28 – Letter to Karandhar 10-8-74

All emphases added for your enlightenment and edification

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Author:  Sarva Sankalpa prabhu

Every soul or jiva has a specific relationship with Krishna, who is Bhagavan, the Blessed Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes, however, this relationship is relinquished in the Highest Heaven, indeed, in the direct company of Lord Krishna. Milton hints the same thing in his Paradise Lost, an epic about war in higher universal regions. Heaven, in its very highest and transcendental realm, is named Goloka, and it is full of eternal rasa surcharged in a perfect society. That is, all the denizens of this Heaven, who spend countless eternities serving Lord Chaitanya, Lord Balarama, and Lord Krishna, together interact and produce a perfume, a masala, a symphony, and a brocade. One denizen by himself is neither perfume nor brocade; all must assemble, which they desire to do more than a deer panteth for water in the desert. Some of us are cooks there, others arrange soirees, and all of us know the chemistry that permeates in that beloved region.

Are the denizens of Goloka automatons, programmed to act sweetly, alluringly, but cold and soulless? If not, if they are totally free to fly the spiritual sky, why is Goloka not cloven like liberal democracies? Why is it not a place of free radicals, congregations of unrelated individuals? Do the Guardians (originally posited by the sage Socrates, the Light of Greece) comb Goloka and exile all but the most compliant? Do they then force them violently into the material phenomenon? It behooves us to know!

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By Kailasa Candra dasa

Revised, October 2009

All emphases have been added for your edification and realization.

“The initiating and instructing spiritual masters are equal and identical manifestations of Krsna, although they have different dealings.”

Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi 1.34, purport

“Therefore, there is no difference between siksa-guru and diksa-guru . . .”  Room conversation in Bhubanesva on Jan. 31, 1977

“According to sastric injunctions, there is no difference between siksa-guru and diksa-guru, and generally the siksa-guru later on becomes the diksa-guru.”

Srimad-bhagavatam, 4.12.32, purport

tad vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet
samit-panih srotriyam brahma-nistham

Mundaka Upanisad, 1.2.12

The siksa-guru is on the same platform of realization as the diksa-guru,  therefore they are equal and identical manifestations of the Lord.  As stated above, the diksa-guru and the siksa-guru, in the true senses of the terms, are both fixed in brahman realization (brahma-nistham); they are both tattva-darshi, having seen the Truth (tattva-vidah, S.B., 1.2.11).  An advanced devotee may see the Truth as brahman as he is making progress toward higher realizations, viz., Paramatma and Bhagavan darshan.

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By Sarva Sankalpa prabhu

We recently happened upon a snippet from R. Dass, and we should like to pass the gist of it onto you. What is “ISKCON” teaching these days? What wisdom is treasured by those who have been touched by an Avatar like Srila Prabhupada? Let us find out:

jarayaty asu ya kosam
nigirnam analo yatha

“Bhakti, devotional service, dissolves the subtle body of the living entity without separate effort, just as fire in the stomach digests all that we eat.”

Srimad-bhagavatam, 3.25.33

This is nectar, because the subtle body gives us far more trouble than the gross body. Here’s more:

“The body of such a liberated yogi, along with the senses, is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it functions until its destined activities are finished. The liberated devotee, being awake to his constitutional position and thus situated in samadhi, the highest perfectional stage of yoga, does not accept the by-products of the material body as his own. Thus he considers his bodily activities to be like the activities of a body in a dream.” Srimad-bhagavatam, 3.28.38

A couple of glaring implications or insinuations dwell in the manner in which these verses are wrongfully conflated to our great disadvantage. We can be enticed into corruption by our own misguided intentions, and, as a result, enter into spiritual retrogression. In order to avoid this crime against ourselves, we are obliged to first deconstruct it.

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“Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Visnu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.”

Srimad-bhagavatam, 7.5.31 (emphasis added)

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kiba vipra, kiba nyasi, sudra kene naya
yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei ‘guru’ haya

“Whether one is a brahmana, a sannyasi or a shudra-regardless of what he is-he can become a spiritual master if he knows the science of Krsna.”
Madhya 8.128

This verse from the Chaitanya-caritamrita is one of the most important verses in the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya; no one would question this assertion. However, just as importantly, its misinterpretation or even neglect is conversely one of the most powerful aspects of deviation from the philosophy and process of the Absolute Truth, from the philosophy and process of Krishna Consciousness.

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