Then there is the Sri Guru. Diksha gurus. Diksha Guru's job is to connect you with Bhagavan, Paramatma--with your own guru and allow you to become purified, then next step is the ragamarga bhakti. So in our society we have both. Before only one side was there, now in ISKCON, both sides are there. Gaudiya Vaishnavas they're not diksha gurus. If you follow their path, you take diksha from them, you'll never become purified. Because they don't know diksha tattva. They don't know. The original Gaudiya Vaishnava siddhanta is siksha guru sampradaya. They were never diksha guru. So they are simply....They should only accept people who are in the liberated level. That means you should not accept anybody who is like a regular karmi type people. General people. Those who are Karma adhikaris or below karma adhikaris. They are not supposed to accept them. But because they do not know siddhanta, they accepted. Because you have to follow the NEXT Acharya. After Bhaktisiddhanta, next Acharya is Prabhupada. By looking at the way He preached and established Krishna Consciousness all over the world, one should KNOW Bhagavan Krishna is acting through Him, operating through Him. The mercy is with Him. So they should have followed His path, but instead they all created their own groups and instead of following Prabhupada, they tried to take Prabhupada's.. the way He was operating they thought okay maybe if we do like this we can also...you know. So what they did they tried to steal...instead of following Srila Prabhupada's footsteps they tried to copy and steal people from there.
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Vanarasena SriramgovindaTom Tamoharadasa Garden Just now · Part 10- Worship of Sri Guru ISKCON - Lord Nityananda’s Movement The Krsna Consciousness movement started by Srila Prabhupada is actually Lord Nityananda’s movement to deliver the jivas. Lord Nityananda Prabhu, the original Sri Guru is the original Srila Prabhupada and one of Lord Nityananda Prabhu’s activities is to deliver the fallen conditioned souls. The conclusion should be that one who carries out the order of Lord Nityananda and perform the activities of delivering the jivas should be rightfully glorified as Srila Prabhupada. One has to understand that Srila Prabhupada is a title, not a name, which goes with the activities of Sri Guru who is performing the task of delivering jivas on behalf of Lord Nityananda, the source of all jivas. Therefore, it will be most befitting to glorify Yuga Dharma Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami as ‘Srila Prabhupada’ and anyone who objects or fails to address His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami as ‘Srila Prabhupada’ is living in self-denial and is not connected to Sri Guru Paramatma in his heart. For this reason, we try to focus on Srila Prabhupada and to make the devotees realize the true nature of Srila Prabhupada as nitya-siddha, nitya-parikara of Sriman Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu. We feel, unless one realizes this tattva about Srila Prabhupada, and tries to sincerely follow the instructions provided by him to advance in spiritual life, the jivas who enter into Krsna Consciousness (ISKCON) and the ones who are existing, would miss entry into the spiritual plane for the lack of knowledge of Sri Guru tattva. Also, those who have left the shelter of Srila Prabhupada after coming in contact with his divine writings and teachings would be committing a grave offense by leaving the movement because this is Lord Nityananda’s movement. Whatever is applicable to Sri Nityananda Prabhu is applicable to Sri Guru His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. As His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami pointed out in his lecture: “If somebody does not glorify Nitai, does not do the bhajana of Nitai, janiya suniya, deliberately, deliberately he kills himself, he kills himself, kills himself, yes. Jeba na bhajilo janiya suniya sei atma-ghati hoilo. So wonderfully merciful is Nitaicand, more merciful than Mahaprabhu. If some ill-fated, ill-fated, hata-bhagya, doesn’t do the bhajana of Nitaicand, doesn’t beg the mercy of Nitaicand, he deliberately kills himself, atma-ghati hoilo. He commits self-suicide.” Similarly, whoever does not worship and remember Yuga Dharma Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada and does not remain faithful to Srila Prabhupada the mercy manifestation of Lord Nityananda, is knowingly committing suicide. In Sri Caitanya-bhagavata, in the following verses Sriman Mahaprabhu warns the neophytes to not to commit offense against His dearmost devotees. mui, mora bhakta, ara grantha-bhagavate yara bheda acche tara nasa bhalamate “Myself, My devotees, and the scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam one who sees any difference between these three will find that all his intelligence has been destroyed.” (Cb. Madhya, 21.18) Lord Caitanya said, “If he blasphemes My devotee, even a person who worships Me and chants My holy names will find many obstacles placed before him.” (Cb. Antya, 6.95) “But anyone who loves My devotee will attain Me. This I say. It is true without any doubt.”(Cb. Antya, 6.96) In the Varaha Purana it is said: siddhir bhavati va neti samsayo ‘cyuta-sevinam nihsamsayas tu tad-bhakta- paricarya-ratatmanam “They who serve the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead may or may not attain perfection. There is some doubt. But they who devotedly serve the Supreme Lord’s devotees will certainly attain perfection. Of that there is no doubt.” Another one of the purposes of publishing this book is to focus on the glories of Sri Guru Yuga Dharma Acarya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON and to strengthen the very foundation of his great society that has been manifested to save humanity from the clutches of maya. Unless the foundation is strengthened, there will be no rewarding outcome by discussing the mood and pastimes of the other manifestation and embankment of Sri Guru, His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja who preached dynamically to continue the work left by Srila Prabhupada. Transcendental River of Krsna Prema Here, when we mention the word embankment it doesn’t mean we are referring to an ordinary river embankments but embankments from Sriman Mahaprabhu’s ‘amrtera tarangini’ (flow of nectar) from the river of Krsna-prema. Additionally, when we are discussing about a river of Krsna-prema and its embankments, then with one embankment being Srila Prabhupada, the question arises about the other embankment. How the flow of the river of Krsna-prema, that has originated from the divine lotus feet of Sriman Mahaprabhu, can flow nicely without another embankment? Is it possible? No, it is not possible at all. It is absolutely essential that the other embankment be there. So this book is revealing the facts about this other embankment, His Divine Grace Srila Gour Govinda Swami Srila Gurudeva, a rare personality who appeared in a small mud-hut, in a small village of Jagannatha-pura in Orissa, India. His Appearance was made in a family of Vaisnavas. His Vaisnava family was devoted to the worship of Sri Sri Radha-Gopal Jiu. He started singing the songs of Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura and reading Vedic scriptures from his very childhood and hearing the Vedic scriptures from his very appearance. Srila Gurudeva, in his childhood days, was very different from the other children. Instead of playing with other children he was only interested in going to the temple of Sri Sri Radha Gopal Jiu and was devoted to studying the sastras. Srila Gurudeva was so much devoted to studying the sastras that he had memorized the complete Srimad-Bhagavatam, Srimad Bhagavad-gita, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and other Vedic literature from his boyhood and would read that to the villagers regularly. Sri Srimad Dinashyam Prabhu, Sri Vaishnava Thakur