Within the heart of a Vaisnava..

Within the heart of a Vaisnava...

"Dust in the feet. Not even an atom of the flesh, not that. Not the flesh of the feet, but vibhinamsa, the dust of the feet. Please consider me to be so. My highest ambition is there. That is the direction we got from our Masters. Try to think in this way if you want to approach and make real progress towards the absolute.

You must couch your endeavour in such a way. Then you will be able to hit the point. But imitation always should be avoided. Without sincerity everything is bogus. Sincerity must be there... be simple, unassuming, be sincere. Then everything is there. Bogus to imitate that I am a sadhu. Don't try to imitate, copy. Try to be so and don't try to copy the external movements of a sadhu.

The inherent, the inner thing try to reach and try to acquire the innermost thing. Try to enter into the heart of a Vaisnava and not his figure nor dress. It is difficult of course to enter into the heart of a Vaisnava. There is temple of the Lord. And try to connect with and get a drop of nectar within the heart of a Vaisnava. A drop of that rasa is of high quality and divinity... raso vai sah.

After all we want pure rasa, ananda. That is our quest. And we are told that is in the service of the rasa himself. Rasa is a person, akhila rasamrita murti. Everyone is in quest for rasa. The status of rasa is the highest. So if we are person, we have got subjective existence. Rasa has got his supersubjective existence. He is a person. He is akhila rasamrta murti. He is Kṛṣṇa. Rasa is Kṛṣṇa."

~ Srila Sridhar Maharaj

30/08/81

One complaining Mataji said; "Hare Krishna Prabhuji. Even seen this letter? Srila Prabhupada's Letter to: Rupanuga -- Tirupati 28 April, 1974 "You are right about Sridhara Maharaja's genuineness. But in my opinion he is the best of the lot. He is my old friend, at least he executes the regulative principles of devotional service. I do not wish to discuss about activities of my Godbrothers but it is a fact they have no life for preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of a temple, they engage disciples to get foodstuff by transcendental devices and eat and sleep. They have no idea or brain how to broadcast the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. My Guru Maharaja used to lament many times for this reason and he thought if one man at least had understood the principle of preaching then his mission would achieve success. In the latter days of my Guru Maharaja he was very disgusted. Actually, he left this world earlier, otherwise he would have continued to live for more years. Still he requested his disciples to form a strong Governing body for preaching the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He never recommended anyone to be acarya of the Gaudiya Math. But Sridhara Maharaja is responsible for disobeying this order of Guru Maharaja, and he and others who are already dead unnecessarily thought that there must be one acarya. If Guru Maharaja could have seen someone who was qualified at that time to be acarya he would have mentioned. Because on the night before he passed away he talked of so many things, but never mentioned an acarya. His idea was acarya was not to be nominated amongst the governing body. He said openly you make a GBC and conduct the mission. So his idea was amongst the members of GBC who would come out successful and self effulgent acarya would be automatically selected. So Sridhara Maharaja and his two associate gentlemen unauthorizedly selected one acarya and later it proved a failure. The result is now everyone is claiming to be acarya even though they may be kanistha adhikari with no ability to preach. In some of the camps the acarya is being changed three times a year. Therefore we may not commit the same mistake in our ISKCON camp. Actually amongst my Godbrothers no one is qualified to become acarya. So it is better not to mix with my Godbrothers very intimately because instead of inspiring our students and disciples they may sometimes pollute them. This attempt was made previously by them, especially Madhava Maharaja and Tirtha Maharaja and Bon Maharaja but somehow or other I saved the situation. This is going on. We shall be very careful about them and not mix with them. This is my instruction to you all. They cannot help us in our movement, but they are very competent to harm our natural progress. So we must be very careful about them."

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Tamohara dasa ADMIN. August 14, 2015 4:14

One complaining Mataji said; "Hare Krishna Prabhuji. Even seen this letter? Srila Prabhupada's Letter to: Rupanuga -- Tirupati 28 April, 1974 "You are right about Sridhara Maharaja's genuineness. But in my opinion he is the best of the lot. He is my old friend, at least he executes the regulative principles of devotional service. I do not wish to discuss about activities of my Godbrothers but it is a fact they have no life for preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of a temple, they engage disciples to get foodstuff by transcendental devices and eat and sleep. They have no idea or brain how to broadcast the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. My Guru Maharaja used to lament many times for this reason and he thought if one man at least had understood the principle of preaching then his mission would achieve success. In the latter days of my Guru Maharaja he was very disgusted. Actually, he left this world earlier, otherwise he would have continued to live for more years. Still he requested his disciples to form a strong Governing body for preaching the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He never recommended anyone to be acarya of the Gaudiya Math. But Sridhara Maharaja is responsible for disobeying this order of Guru Maharaja, and he and others who are already dead unnecessarily thought that there must be one acarya. If Guru Maharaja could have seen someone who was qualified at that time to be acarya he would have mentioned. Because on the night before he passed away he talked of so many things, but never mentioned an acarya. His idea was acarya was not to be nominated amongst the governing body. He said openly you make a GBC and conduct the mission. So his idea was amongst the members of GBC who would come out successful and self effulgent acarya would be automatically selected. So Sridhara Maharaja and his two associate gentlemen unauthorizedly selected one acarya and later it proved a failure. The result is now everyone is claiming to be acarya even though they may be kanistha adhikari with no ability to preach. In some of the camps the acarya is being changed three times a year. Therefore we may not commit the same mistake in our ISKCON camp. Actually amongst my Godbrothers no one is qualified to become acarya. So it is better not to mix with my Godbrothers very intimately because instead of inspiring our students and disciples they may sometimes pollute them. This attempt was made previously by them, especially Madhava Maharaja and Tirtha Maharaja and Bon Maharaja but somehow or other I saved the situation. This is going on. We shall be very careful about them and not mix with them. This is my instruction to you all. They cannot help us in our movement, but they are very competent to harm our natural progress. So we must be very careful about them."
Tamohara dasa ADMIN. August 14, 2015 12:50
Hiowana Nivens letter of January 9 1969 I suspect that you have interest in taking instruction from some siksa guru but in this connection because you are my disciple and I think a sincere soul it is my duty to refer you to someone who is competent to act as siksa guru. This Bon Maharaja perhaps you do not know has been rejected by Guru Maharaja. So I cannot recommend him as siksa guru. I think that he has no actual spiritual asset. For spiritual advancement of life we must go to one who is actually practicing spiritual life; not to some head of a mundane institution not to one who has offended his Spiritual Master in so many ways. I do not wish to go into all details here but I must inform you that this Bon Maharaja may be considered as a black snake and at the time of His Disappearance my Guru Maharaja did not even wish to have him in His presence due to the character of this Bon Maharaja. So if you are actually serious to take instructions from a siksa guru I can refer you to one who is most highly competent of all my god-brothers. This is B.R. Sridhara Maharaja whom I consider to be even my siksa guru so what to speak of the benefit that you can have from his association. He is living in Navadvipa and if you like I can give you letter of introduction as well as I will send him letter to allow you to stay there with him. So if you and Acyutananda are not lost to the poison of Bon Maharaja and are still serious about advancement of your spiritual life I will advise you to go to Sridhara Maharaja. Or else I do not know what will save you. So my advice to you both is that you immediately leave the unhealthy and envious association of Bon Maharaja and either proceed to Germany as I have instructed you or at least go to someone who will be competent to act as siksha guru. This is Sridhara Maharaja.

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