Sep 06, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — The Uttama Adhikari Pure Devotee of the Lord never makes a mistake, although small-minded skeptics may try to find and compile a list of innumerable faults. The Pure Devotee Acarya is accepted as the External Representative of Supersoul (Paramatma), and as such, He is guided directly by Paramatma, who knows Everything.
The fact that Paramatma is all cognizant does not give all cognizance to any jiva, even if He be Pure Devotee. In other words, the Pure Devotee only perceives at any given moment what He is given by Paramatma to perceive, and this experience can sometimes be quite disconcerting to those who do not realize that the Pure Devotee is not limited as we are to taxing our brains and plan-making.
The Pure Devotee has no fixed point of existence, as He moves at the exact velocity that Krishna’s Will, Intent and Words do dictate. For that reason, a Pure Devotee only knows what Paramatma wants Him to know, s even if He is looking at a slaughterhouse, He may not see it, if Krishna directs His attention elsewhere (my husband had some such experience in New Delhi in the presence of Srila Prabhupada, who was crying out for one of His disciples, and apparently did not notice that He was in a slaughterhouse, as He was seeking what may have happened to His beloved disciple.
This state of mind is known as Samadhi, and no mundaner can even begin to grasp what it might be like to be guided not at all by one’s own thoughts, feelings and desires, but only by Krishna, who is making him “dance like a puppet on a string”.
Your eternal servants,
Naara Narayan dasa Vishwakarma and Roupa Manjari devi dasi
pamho prabhus agtACBSP
yes, this is a very accurate analysis of the real Vaishnava acharya, i’m glad to hear this description of SRILA PRABHUPADA!
thavara jangama dekhe na dekhe tara murti sarvatra haya nija ista deva sphurti, “The maha-bhagavata, the advanced devotee, certainly sees everything mobile and immobile, but he does not exactly see their forms. Rather, everywhere he immediately sees manifest the form of the Supreme Lord.” C.C. Madhya-lila 8.274
Ordinary people take the acharya for one of us by finding fault in HIM especially in kali-yuga. However, SRILA PRABHUPADA gave all evidences in his books.
“In Vrindavana, you will find, they are always reading Srimad-Bhagavatam. That is their life and soul. So now we have got already six volumes, and further…How many? Eight volumes are coming? So you will have enough stock. So you should read. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh. That is the main business. That is pure devotional service. Because we cannot devote twenty-four hours in hearing and chanting; therefore we have extended our activities, program activities, in so many ways. Otherwise, Srimad-Bhagavatam is so nice, if you practice anywhere, any condition, simply by reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, you will be happy. So adopt this practice and make your spiritual life perfect more and more.” (Geneva, June 3, 1974)
jai SRILA PRABHUPADA ki jai
ys seva das
haribol