"All my disciples will take the legacy. If you want, you can also take it. Sacrifice everything. I, one, may soon pass away. But they are hundreds, and this movement will increase. It is not that I give an order, 'Here is the next leader.' Anyone who follows the previous leadership is the leader.... All of my disciples are leaders, as much as they follow purely. If you want to follow, you can also lead. But you don't want to follow. Leader means one who is a first class disciple. Evam param parapraptam. One who is following is perfect."
(Srila Prabhupada, Back to Godhead magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1-2)
Editor; We humbly beg to differ with Puri Maharajah in one thing, who like Gour Govinda Swami, says traditionally and as according to sastra, there must be living guru. But Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada himself took sannyasa from a picture of his spiritual master Srila Gaurakishore, after his deprture, so it is seen that in emergency situations, then it can be done! The necessity is more than the convention! One can argue that sannyasa is not diksha, and there is some merit in that argument.
However ;
There have been gaps in the disciplic succession, and our acaryas have taken initiations from so called non-living gurus to keep the sampradaya going in times when there was no qualified guru, so there is a longer tradition of accepting extraordinary arrangements in emergency times.
This is our basis of the current diksha ritvik arrangements on site. We accept the preceptors and the traditions necessary for the institutions of Vasinavism, but must also say that Srila Prabhupadas institution is more than these, is without precedence, as so much of what Srila Prabhupada did was without precedence in the history of recent Vaisnavism, and so must be preserved without backwardation or adulteration by other branches of the Chaitanya tree, as Srila Prabhupada said, "It is the will of Krsna."
Gour Govinda was the next acarya, and there is indication that Srila Radha Govinda Swami also, but GGS was disbarred by a demonic GBC, leaving us with the current emergency situation. Rather than allowing so much misfortune, we are taking the risk of allowing ritvik diksha to encourage the up and coming generations. Yes, it is similar to Christianity in that broad sense, but it works, and we shall continue until it is obvious that another pure devotee of great power to lead us all has come. We follow Srila Rupa Goswamis instructions, accept all things favorable and reject all things unfavorable. Hare Krsna. Let Krsnas will be done.
See the next video, where it is indicated "It is his ideas!" He has acted extraordinarily and started something that cannot be stopped by cheating gurus of GBC ilk, thus we accept the standard process of elected temple presidents recommending for diksha, and any brahmana who represents the devotees is eligible to take this service, even the most poor and obscure, so long as they follow Srila Prabhupada and are his disciples. Let them rise to the level of pure followers asap.
9:32Srila Prabhupada's Memories 4-- jagannathaprabhu1.108 megtekintés
