BY: MAHANANDA DASA (ACBSP)
Nov 07, 2010 — FLORIDA, USA (SUN) — It is said that, “When the pure devotee comes, he brings order to chaos. When he leaves, chaos returns.” We can already see so many factions within the ranks of Srila Prabhupada’s movement. He is not physically here to easily defeat such nonsense notions, so they flourish, having a vast supply of less intelligent followers to join their fledgling denominations. We only have to look at the example of Christianity to see how bad things can get.
Today there are around 38,000 rival factions “representing” the teachings of Lord Jesus. That’s approximately 20 new sects per year since the passing of this pure devotee. Will we follow this trend? I hope not, for the sake of suffering humanity. Srila Prabhupada once said that this Krsna Consciousness is man’s last chance in the world to become God Conscious.
As far as this idea of the transcendental potency of sabda-brahma being lost because it is passing through the tape recorder is concerned, we have forgotten one important thing: all of Krsna Consciousness is nullified if this is true. Everything began with Srila Prabhupada writing all of his transcendental books by speaking into a Dictaphone!! Next we listened to these recordings through yet another machine and transcribed all the nectar onto the typewriter. Those days were the best!
Whoever is making this claim about there being no transcendental potency by hearing from the realized soul through a machine must have forgotten about these Dictaphones.
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