Kersi Mehta EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ARTICLE FOR HARE KRISHNA MOVEMENT:-
"DIKSHASTAKA" - 8 GEM OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING DIKSHA IN ISKCON****AFTER READING CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING 8 INSTRUCTIONS, ONE MUST TAKE THE INITIATION:-
1)"Self-made guru cannot be guru. He must be authorized by the bona fide guru. Then he's guru. This is the fact...Similarly; bona fide guru means he must be authorized by the superior guru."
(Srila Prabhupada - Lecture on Nectar of Devotion, October 31, 1972)
2)"The inspiration came because there was a questioning on my part, so Krishna spoke. Actually Prabhupada never appointed any gurus. He appointed eleven ritviks. He never appointed them gurus. Myself and the other GBC have done the greatest disservice to this movement the last three years because we interpreted the appointment of ritviks as the appointment of gurus." (Tamala Krishna Goswami - Pyramid House Confession, Topanga Canyon, December 3rd 1980)
3)"FACT: ISKCON gurus in good standing have fallen.
FACT: The ISKCON GBC has supported even fallen gurus and tried to paper over their falldowns.
FACT: ISKCON gurus have opposed, oppressed and driven out many sincere godbrothers and godsisters.
FACT: ISKCON gurus have usurped and misused money, and diverted other ISKCON resources for their own personal prestige and sense gratification.
FACT: ISKCON gurus have had illicit sexual intercourse with both women and men, and possibly children as well.
FACT: Some ISKCON gurus still in good standing have had such serious personal difficulties that the GBC has been obliged to suspend them from initiating.
FACT: Other ISKCON gurus have snapped back into line only after “narrow misses.”
FACT: ISKCON gurus recently led a movement advocating a premature and inappropriate emphasis on rasika-bhakti.
FACT: Some ISKCON devotees have felt obliged to accept a new guru twice or even three times over.
In contrast, Srila Prabhupada was staunch, unfailing, always perfect in his discretion and determination. He was indisputably an exalted and empowered acarya, a pure and intimate personal associate of Krsna.
Is it any wonder, then, that some devotees feel that only Srila Prabhupada can give them shelter and that no one else deserves the same surrender and trust?
And when it comes to the subject of gurus, who trusts the spiritual guidance of the GBC? First the GBC gave us the “eleven pure devotees appointed by Srila Prabhupada,” each deserving the fealty of his godbrothers and destined to be your guru if you joined the Hare Krsna movement in his zone.
Then the GBC told us the gurus were never appointed. Or, rather, members gave us at least two different stories, some GBC men declaring emphatically that Srila Prabhupada never appointed anything more than ritviks, others sure, to this day, of having been appointed “regular gurus.” The GBC itself then appointed new gurus–or did it? The word “appointed” is never used. But there are “candidates for initiating guru,” votes are taken, and those who make it through the procedures become “ISKCON-approved” or “ISKCON-authorized” gurus.
To boost your confidence: On one hand the GBC encourages you to be initiated by a bona fide, authorized ISKCON guru and worship him like God.
On the other, it has an elaborate system of laws to invoke from time to time when your ISKCON-authorized guru falls down.
One might perhaps be forgiven for thinking that for all the laws and resolutions the role of guru is still a perplexity even for the GBC." (Where the Ritvik People are Right - H.H. Jayadvaita Swami)
4)"Actually, unless a person has been properly initiated by someone acting strictly as the rittvik representative of the SAMPRADAYA ACHARYA, Srila Prabhupada, his so-called initiation is more or less a kind of KIDNAPPING THE DISCIPLE AWAY FROM THE SHELTER OF THE LOTUS FEET OF SRILA PRABHUPADA, THE SAMPRADAYA ACHARYA, AND KRISHNA.
Such kidnapper gurus and their unfortunate disciples fall down from the devotional path in due course of time, just as a tree that receives no water loses its leaves (disciples), dries up and dies. We have seen this phenomenon repeat itself again and again in a long list of so-called gurus, myself included. However, such dead gurus and disciples can be brought back to life simply by situating themselves properly in the rittvik initiating arrangement made by Prabhupada. The current re-initiation syndrome practiced in ISKCON is trying to correct one mistake by making another mistake." (Hamsadutta - letter dated - 8th October 1993)
5) AFTER OUR GURUDEV SRILA PRABHUPADA'S SAMADHI, THE FIRST 11 RITVIKS APPOINTED BY SRILA PRABHUPADA WENT TO SRILA PRABHUPADA'S DEVIANT GOD BROTHER H.H.SRIDHAR MAHARAJ OF GAUDIYA MATH FOR TAKING THE AUTHORIZATION FOR BECOMING THE DIKSHA GURUS......SINCE SRILA PRABHUPADA NEITHER APPOINTED THEM AS DIKSHA GURUS NOR AUTHORIZED THEM TO BECOME DIKSHA GURUS AFTER HIS SAMADHI......THIS IS THE TRUTH.
6) “Tomorrow I will announce some ritvik acharyas who will initiate disciples on my behalf when I leave the planet.” (Srila Prabhupada - 5/7/1977, Vrindavan)
Satsvarupa: "Then our next question concerns initiations in the future, particularly at that time when you are no longer with us. We want to know how first and second initiations will be conducted."
Srila Prabhupada: "Yes. I shall recommend some of you. After this is settled up. I shall recommend some of you to act as officiating acharya."
Tamala Krishna: "Is that called ritvik-acharya?"
Srila Prabhupada: "Ritvik. Yes." (28/5/1977, Vrindavan.)
(**As per the Vedic Science, Ritvik is an exalted priest, who initiates disciples on behalf of the main Guru/Acharya & can also perform any ritual on behalf of the main Guru/Acharya. This is possible even when the main Guru/Acharya is not physically present on Earth Planet)
7) SRILA PRABHUPADA'S DECLARATION OF WILL:- “The executive directors who have herein been designated are appointed for life. In the event of DEATH or failure to act for any reason of any of the said directors, a SUCCESSOR DIRECTOR or DIRECTORS may be appointed by the remaining directors, provided the new director is **MY INITIATED DISCIPLE** following strictly all the rules and regulations of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness as detailed in my books, and provided that there are never less than three (3) or more than five (5) executive directors acting at one time.”
8. JULY 9th 1977 - THE FINAL ORDER - The Institutional Directive for performing the 1st & 2nd Initiation. "The newly initiated devotees are disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada" - The Initiation through Vedic Ritvik System.
THUS, ONE MUST COMPULSORILY TAKE THE 1st & 2nd INITIATION FROM - HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C.BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA, FOR THE SPIRITUAL ELEVATION. If one takes 1st & 2nd Initiation from any so-called living guru appointed by the deviant GBC Body of Iskcon, he or she will be spiritually finished. Please take this lesson very seriously. Om Tat Sat.
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