BY: GEORGE A. SMITH
Jul 12, 2011 — CALIFORNIA, USA (SUN) —
dyutam chalayatam asmi
“I am also the gambling of the cheats…”
Bhagavad-gita 10.36
No truth exists outside of its context, stands alone and outside of any relationship, unsupported by its foundation, or is causeless, not in the material world at least, and as we all know, both here and everywhere Lord Krsna is the Cause of all Causes.
We often forget how in the beginning, there were only 11 rtviks, none of whom wished or desired to be, anyone of them. They wanted something else, they wanted something more, what was behind the word, the next word after that.
“Rtvik acarya.”
In fact, they cared so little about the words in front of the word they really wanted, that word “acarya”, that they did not even bother to learn how to spell it. Instead they spelled it “rittik”, and as soon as they could they simply dropped it, threw it in the garbage for someone, some twenty or so years after, to dig up, dust off and spell correctly (not noticing what they did? Tsk. Tsk.) And then they revealed themselves and what they wanted to the world, exactly as they were. It did not even take 24 hours.
“Hare Krsna, Bhakta George…..
The story is told by a departed Vaisnava named Sudama. He was at one point attempting to follow sannyasa dharma, but gave it up….I don’t know if that was prior to Srila Prabhupada’s departure or not. He said that the day before Srila Prabhupada left this world, he was preparing to leave Vrndavana and return to the west. He was approached by a godbrother, who inquired, (words to the effect) “what? why are you leaving? Tomorrow we are going to divide up the world. Aren’t you going to stick around and get your share of the pie?” To which Sudama replied, “I would rather leave this organization, go back to the material world, and indulge in my nonsense, than commit the sins which you are about to commit”. (“you” was plural, meaning the godbrothers who were interested in being guru) That’s all I can recall.”
(Mahalaxsmi dd)
“Of course the real reason Srila Prabhupada didn’t want those leaders to touch his body was because they had poisoned him, that is why Srila Prabhupada asked Srila Narayana Maharaja to give him Samadhi. I heard this from Srila Narayana Maharaja himself.”
(BV Damodara Maharaja, 13 April 2010)
Even if I stood on tip toe with my arms overstretched till the earth covered over me and the ants devoured my flesh leaving nothing left of me but a wind whistling through my bones…even by the dint of such great austerities I would never understand this. He loved you so much. How could you murder him?
Because he did not give you the one thing he could not give, the one thing that you did not even really want (which is why he could not give) – spiritual qualification? You did not want to serve Krsna, you wanted to kill Krsna and to be Him, but Krsna you could not kill so you looked around and found him, the only one who stood in the way of your ambition. So weak, so frail. How you must have hated him. And he, as he looked into your heart and understood your mind, even then did he not instruct you?
“For me, either live or die, I don’t mind. But if you are trying for my life, try it very seriously. That is my formula. No negligence.”
(Room Conversation, October 3, 1977, Vrndavana, India
But you were negligent. Srila Prabhupada lives and it is you, the one they say who murdered him, it is you who are dead, and all the rest will soon enough follow in Krsna’s good time.
But as Mark Anthony says in Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar: “The evil that men do lives after them.” So that is what we have now, a movement gone to Hell in a hand basket and the only ones trumpeting that Srila Prabhupada lives are at odds with one another over what to the uninitiated, the average Joe on the street appears to be minor doctrinal differences… whether Srila Prabhupada’s mercy can or cannot reach down so low as to pick a man up and lift him, whether it meaes with your approval or no, whether it agrees with your interpretation of absolute law.
In Rocana dasa’s time, the Rtvik phenomenon is a product of the Zonal Acarya scam, it grew out of it, was a reaction to it. I agree with that pretty much completely, except as far as who it was that was reacting to the Zonals that gave rise to it. Rocana seems to feel that the ones doing the reacting were the regular Joes like Yasodanandana, etc., but I don’t think so. Someone was indeed reacting to the Zonals, but it wasn’t those Johnny come latelys who took over twenty years to get the idea for Rtvik into their heads that had been already waiting for them. It was Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and there was nothing causeless or unintentional about it, it was completely deliberate.
sanjaya uvaca
naham veda vyavasitam
pitror vah kula-nandana
gandharya va maha-baho
musito ‘smi mahatmabhih
“Sanjaya said: My dear descendant of the Kuru dynasty, I have no information of the determination of your two uncles and Gandhari. O King, I have been cheated by those great souls.
PURPORT
That great souls cheat others may be astonishing to know, but it is a fact that great souls cheat others for a great cause. It is said that Lord Krsna also advised Yudhisthira to tell a lie before Dronacarya, and it was also for a great cause. The Lord wanted it, and therefore it was a great cause. Satisfaction of the Lord is the criterion of one who is bona fide, and the highest perfection of life is to satisfy the Lord by one’s occupational duty. That is the verdict of Gita and Bhagavatam.* Dhrtarastra and Vidura, followed by Gandhari, did not disclose their determination to Sanjaya, although he was constantly with Dhrtarastra as his personal assistant. Sanjaya never thought that Dhrtarastra could perform any act without consulting him. But Dhrtarastra’s going away from home was so confidential that it could not be disclosed even to Sanjaya. Sanatana Gosvami also cheated the keeper of the prison house while going away to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and similarly Raghunatha dasa Gosvami also cheated his priest and left home for good to satisfy the Lord. To satisfy the Lord, anything is good, for it is in relation with the Absolute Truth. We also had the same opportunity to cheat the family members and leave home to engage in the service of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Such cheating was necessary for a great cause, and there is no loss for any party in such transcendental fraud.”
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
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