DEVIATIONS OF THE GURU REFORM NOTEBOOK

DEVIATIONS OF THE GURU REFORM NOTEBOOK

Satsvarupa’sfeet-washing

Satsvarupa: “I have come to realise my participation in a grave error. I have allowed myself to be worshiped and regarded on the level of maha-bhagavata paramahamsa, far above my “non-guru” God brothers. As a result, I have slighted and offended my Godbrothers -and Srila Prabhupada- in various ways. And I have mistrained my disciples in these matters.” (Guru Reform Notebook)

DEVIATIONS OF THE GURU REFORM NOTEBOOK
By: Prabhupadanugas

Satsvarupa’s “Guru Reform Book” is actually more dangerous than his obvious miss characterization of a pure devotee, because of its philosophical deviation, perverted ideology and bogus siddhanta.

While we have to give credit to Satsvarupa’s personal reform, his GURU REFORM NOTEBOOK is a total contradiction of Vaishnava philosophy, because it advocates that “BAD GURUS” and/or “FALLEN ACARYAS” (such as in Iskcon) can be reformed. It thus creates a bogus guru system with a perverted ideology and bogus siddhanta.

But Srila Prabhupada states quite the opposite:

Reporter: But the bad gurus
Srila Prabhupada: And what is a “bad” guru?
Reporter: A bad guru just wants some money or some fame.
Srila Prabhupada: Well, if he is bad, how can he become a guru? [Laughter.] How can iron become gold? Actually, a guru cannot be bad, for if someone is bad, he cannot be a guru. You cannot say “bad guru.” That is a contradiction. What you have to do is simply try to understand what a genuine guru is. […] A guru cannot be bad. There is no question of a bad guru […] Guru means “genuine guru.” (Srila Prabhupada interview with The Times, London, The Science of Self-Realization)

From Srila Prabhupada’s books we understand that ‘guru’ is synonymous with ‘pure devotee’ i.e. Guru never falls. Nobody in ISKCON during Srila Prabhupadas time even dreamt of a philosophy that accommodated the idea of a “guru falling down” or fallen gurus who have reformed?

“Which previous gurus or acharyas in the disciplic succession had to be ‘reformed’? Which previous acharyas were fallen or ‘voted in’ at all? Which previous acharyas were voted in with a known homosexual,” and so on and so forth?

This it self shows how badly Satsvarupa has not understood the siddhanta, otherwise he would not have advised a “guru reform” if he knew that gurus do not need reform? For that matter, sincere neophytes also do not need to be “reformed” from illicit sex, drugs and crimes like NM’s acharyas need to be rectified from? Which previous acharyas needed reform for deviations? Why does Satsvarupa think that acharyas are less advanced than the neophytes? Only a dull person in the mode of ignorance will accept that someone was a fake mahabhagavat guru, admitted his pretense, but still went on continuing being guru.

The fact that such lack of knowledge still remains today is evidenced by the necessity of a “Guru Reform Notebookwhich, in and of itself, wrongly suggests that a guru is ignorant. However a true guru, uttama-adhikari is fixed and as stated by Srila Prabhupada: “One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari.”

So this is the first problem with Satsvarupa and his GURU REFORM NOTEBOOK, he helped the GBC’s promote the idea that their acharyas need “reform” and he thus helped the GBC’s contrive a whole convoluted system of — guru reform, guru suspension, guru monitoring, guru voting, guru rectification, guru removal, and even — gurus sometimes being demons and etc. None of this was mentioned by Srila Prabhupada.

This offensive attack on the guru-parampara is a continued pattern in Iskcon. The notion that “Krishna’s pure guru successors are subject to contamination” (and fall-downs) has expanded in the “living guru” project. For example, a “living guru” based in eastern India, lectured in January 1990, that sometimes, for a few minutes, Krishna’s great successor gurus, such as Lord Brahma, become bewildered by maha-maya (mundane illusion).

In the following conversation Srila Prabhupada clarified that the acarya has to be a pure devotee and that the idea that he falls down to mode of passion is a concocted one:

Akshayananda: “I was recently told by one devotee that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee.
Prabhupada: What?
Akshayananda: That the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee.
Prabhupada: Who is that rascal?
Akshayananda: Well, he said it. Who said it?
Prabhupada: Who said? Who is that rascal? The acarya does not require to be a pure devotee?
Akshayananda: He said it. Nitai said it. He said it in this context. He said that Lord Brahma is the acarya in the Brahma-sampradaya, but yet he is sometimes afflicted by passion. So therefore he is saying that it appears that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee. So it does not seem right.
Prabhupada: So who is that rascal? I want to know who has said.
Akshayananda: Nitai. Nitai dasa.
Harikesa: Nitai said that?
Prabhupada: Who is Nitai dasa?
Harikesa: Our Nitai.
Akshayananda: Nitai.
Prabhupada: Oh, our Nitai? Oh.
Akshayananda: He said he couldn’t understand it, but he thought, he said that he thought…
Prabhupada: He manufactured his idea. Therefore he’s a rascal. Therefore he’s a rascal. Nitai has become an authority?
Akshayananda: No, actually he said that he thought…
Prabhupada: He thought something rascaldom, and he is expressing that. Therefore he is more rascal. These things are going on. As soon as he reads some books, he becomes an acarya, whatever rascal he may be.” (Morning Walk — December 10, 1975, Vrindavana)

Satsvarupa’s GURU REFORM NOTEBOOK alleges that:

– great liberated gurus and even the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself may also be great offenders (pages 24-25), while he stretches even further the attempts to “explain away” the many discrepancies manifested in the GBC’s “living guru” project.

Examples of great persons who considered themselves great offenders:
1. Lord Balarama, after killing Romaharshana Suta.
2. Parasurama, after killing the kshatriyas.
3. Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, who refused to take mango, saying, ‘No, I am an offender.’
4. Srila Prabhupada, who begged forgiveness in his last days for offending his Godbrothers.
5. Narottama dasa and Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who lament in their songs not exactly for having committed offenses, but for wasting their lives in material life.”

And how do we know that the great, liberated eternal preceptor gurus never become materially conditioned? Because the Vedic literature and Prabhupada’s personal example confirm it.

How do we know that the “living gurus” are conditioned souls unqualified to hold the post of eternal preceptor gurus? Because, as seen above, they exhibit conditioned defects. They incorrectly misinterpret the Vedic scriptures by their imperfect senses. Some of them even boast that Krishna’s pure parampara gurus, such as the “living guru” project’s members, “make mistakes all the time.”

Then they amalgamate those conditioned defects into larger illusions which they forward as position papers, (GBC philosophical reports) and such illusions are supposed to be “the absolute truth.” This means that they are then exhibiting the cheating propensity. Finally, as described above, they shamelessly and unauthorizedly promote all their material defects as the qualifications of the great acharyas and Mahajanas.

Very dangerously, the “living gurus” portray the completely Krishna conscious eternal preceptor gurus as faulty, materially affected, mixed devotees. So again, Srila Prabhupada observes the great danger of this deviant philosophy: mixing the contaminated with the pure in Cc. Adi-Lila 7.72: “thus they clear their path to hell.”

Srila Prabhupada clarifies the reasons for the false criticisms towards real acharyas: “Influenced by an envious temperament and dissatisfied because of an attitude of sense gratification, mundaners criticize a real acharya. In fact, however, a bona fide acharya is nondifferent from the Personality of Godhead, and therefore to envy such an acharya is to envy the Personality of Godhead Himself. This will produce an effect subversive to transcendental realization…” (Cc. Adi 1.46)

And he remarks in Sri Isopanisad, Mantra twelve, of the potential consequences of misleading innocent people by falsely posing as an eternal guru, “By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities. In this way they pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. Such violators of religious principles have no respect for the authoritative acharyas, the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession. To mislead the people in general, they themselves become so-called acharyas, but they do not even follow the principles of the acharyas.

“These rogues are the most dangerous elements in human society. Because there is no religious government, they escape punishment by the law of the state. They cannot however, escape the law of the Supreme, who has clearly stated in Bhagavad-gita (16. 19-20) that envious demons in the garb of religious propagandists shall be thrown into the darkest regions of hell. Sri Isopanisad confirms that these pseudo-religionists are headed toward the most obnoxious place in the universe after the completion of their spiritual master business, which they conduct simply for sense gratification.”

ISKCONS “living guru” tactic of devaluing the great liberated devotees has continued in an expanding pattern throughout the years. For instance, the GBC’s “living guru” author Satsvarupa, who wrote the “Guru Reform Notebooksays on page 15, “On studying Dhruva Maharaja’s case, I do not see at first how it applies to me and my GBC guru Godbrothers. We didn’t pursue an obvious material desire as did Dhruva…” In short, the living guru author tries to paint the GBC’s guru project, with all of it’s odious degradations, sectarian violence, and so on, as somehow higher than a factual pure devotee.

But Srila Prabhupada writes: “Dhruva Maharaja was a maha-bhagavata, or a first class pure devotee…” (SB 4.12.8) “It is our duty to remember always that in comparison to Dhruva Maharaja, we are very insignificant. We cannot do anything like what Dhruva Maharaja did for self realization, because we are absolutely incompetent to execute such service.” (SB 4.8.73)

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Comments

  1. Mahesh Raja says:

    Note: these bogus rubber-stamped gurus introduced by Satsvarupa das and company are predicted by Srila Prabhupada:
    UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN THE ACARYA DISAPPEARS, ROGUES AND NONDEVOTEES TAKE ADVANTAGE AND IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO INTRODUCE UNAUTHORIZED PRINCIPLES IN THE NAME OF SO-CALLED SVAMIS, YOGIS, PHILANTHROPISTS, WELFARE WORKERS AND SO ON.

    SB 4.28.48 P Puranjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
    Whenever an acarya comes, following the superior orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His representative, he establishes the principles of religion, as enunciated in Bhagavad-gita. Religion means abiding by the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Religious principles begin from the time one surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is the acarya’s duty to spread a bona fide religious system and induce everyone to bow down before the Supreme Lord. One executes the religious principles by rendering devotional service, specifically the nine items like hearing, chanting and remembering. UNFORTUNATELY, WHEN THE ACARYA DISAPPEARS, ROGUES AND NONDEVOTEES TAKE ADVANTAGE AND IMMEDIATELY BEGIN TO INTRODUCE UNAUTHORIZED PRINCIPLES IN THE NAME OF SO-CALLED SVAMIS, YOGIS, PHILANTHROPISTS, WELFARE WORKERS AND SO ON.

  2. Sudarsana Das Vanacari says:

    Hmm! I think there is a word for that! All those “coincidence theorists” out there!

  3. abhaya carana seva das says:

    pamho
    agtACBSP,

    when the cat is not around the mouse is dancing,of course it’s a dirty dance therefore will not last too long as already happened to the other dirty dancers i mean they departed the teeth of the big cat didn’t save their lives because they thought the cat was not around but he is always around even when sometime don’t look like that due to imperfect senses therefore they think SRILA PRABHUPADA is dead by spreading their dirty dance everywhere but everyone will get their same destination of their fake leaders connected to the hell,

    actually they took over the fake reflection of iskcon by robbing SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA materially and spiritually,we still remember when SRILA PRABHUPADA were physically present on this planet there was not misunderstanding i mean everything were clear regarding the GURU TATTVA and the proof were there too the devotees were always happy because of the purity of SRILA PRABHUPADA they robbed SRILA PRABHUPADA by taking over the fake reflection of iskcon and they will keep to rob SP until the varnasrama dharma get established,

    we can feel the difference and the separation nowadays regarding the real GURU TATTVA and that is with SRILA PRABHUPADA only and not with all these dirty dancers who are giving birth to many other dirty dancers,we can still getting that pure ecstasy by SRILA PRABHUPADA in vapu and vani seva just by associating with HIS pure image and reflection of the truth by watching and hearing SP tapes and videos because the real initiation is by the SABDA BRAHMA of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA,

    f-iskcon will get distroy through their steady papam sins to SRILA PRABHUPADA this is another meaning of yada yada he dharmasya glanir then SRI KRSNA come to make us to not forget to save ourselves by don’t get trapped through the nasty guru hoaxers as shameless donkey in usurping SRILA PRABHUPADA house where the whole world can live in and not out, as we can see by meditating on the spiritual life journey of SRILA PRABHUPADA that just few devotees as HG jayananda prabhu as HG yamuna d.d HG visnujana swami as HG haridas (george harrison got full mercy of SRILA PRABHUPADA but many others make themselves to be worship on the altar as a incarnation of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA like jaya pataka swami he used to claim that he was a eternal associate of SSGG and now he became a associate of the mental health team,

    agtSP
    ys haribol

  4. “I am always a bit dubious about organizations and since the Swami died it does seem to be chaotic, with all kinds of guys thinking they’re the gurus. To me, it’s not important to be a guru, it’s more important just to be, to learn humility.”

    (George Harrison interview, The Sunday Tribune, October 18, 1987)

  5. Sudarsana Das Vanacari says:

    Certainly the potency and access of Srila Prabhupad being the sole Acharya is not diminished after his departure from this material world. George’s main point however is quite correct with regards the ”bogus guru mania” and the importance of humility. George was light years ahead of all these wannabee, ”bogus guru” monkeys and flunkies a fact that Srila Prabhupada appreciated and alluded to. Just like Ramananda Raya who was a householder, very wealthy and famous (and because of this perhaps misunderstood by those who ”outwardly appear more renounced”) displayed great wisdom and detachment from the mundane material world. George certainly left a strong impression (samskara) in the hearts of many and fanned the spark of spiritual awakening. A very special soul indeed.

  6. abhaya carana seva das says:

    pamho
    agtACBSP,

    i still listen HG sriman haridas george harrison music as the goddess of fortune i can feel the GURU SAKTI there of HDG ACBSP i mean SRILA PRABHUPADA give that guru sakti to george harrison because THEY were already connected by the service to SRI KRSNA since their previous lives,this was the secret of THEIR pukka spiritual relationship,

    SRILA PRABHUPADA had similary secret relationship with HG jayananda prabhu HG yamuna devi dasi they had a different gayatri mantra shorter then the normal one and asura like tamala immediately complain with SRILA PRABHUPADA about that but SP told him to leave it because it was not his spiritual business,

    of course we still remember all the good service that sriman haridas as george harrison did with his noble heart of a vaisnava to SRILA PRABHUPADA therefore THEIR service is still keeping going somewhere else up there in the paravyoma spiritual sky, all glories to THEIR services and to our services

    agtSP
    ys haribol

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