Srila Prabhupada: “If you get some money, print books.” Therefore I am stressing on this point: “Where is book? Where is book? Where is book?” So kindly help me. This is my request. Print as many books in as many languages and distribute throughout the whole world. Then Krsna consciousness movement will AUTOMATICALLY INCREASE.
Istanbul/Turkey, August 19, 2009 at 10:49 pm: I am so upset with these devotees! I have direct and personal experience that I want all to know. Sivarama swami became GBC for Turkey like 3 years ago. Then sent his right hand man Gaurasakti to speak to me, Nararatna das, I have been here trying my best to serve Prabhupada for 13 years. Local devotees worked hard to translate books specially “Science of Self Realization” on the promise that they would print. Then in the end, they refused stating that not enough money would not return from the sale of this book in Turkey so better not to print!!
Since when did Prabhupada state this “only print if we get money back”, rubbish!
Then after I refused to surrender to Sivarama swami’s total control, they told me I am out of Iskcon and not a devotee! They opened there own place here, spent thousands of dollars on an expensive flat in a rich area, expensive furniture then closed down after 8 months and went back to Hungary!!
Where is the person who holds these actions accountable! Prabhupada made even himself accountable and wrote down every Rupee he spent! Who is accounting for how these devotees are spending Srila Prabhuıpada’s laxmi, how they use Prabhupada’s disciples, how they use Prabhupada’s blood!!
While they spend thousands printing their own books in the best quality (Venu Gita etc) and after 32 years still NOT ONE brick to build Prabhupada’s dream in Mayapur has been laid. Who is holding these people accountable!! I was here in Turkey when the GBC and Iskcon’s justice ministry hanged “Airavata das” all over the internet for allegedly misusing 5,000 dollars!! (Which he didn’t by the way, I was with him here, I know but no one cares what we say!
I fully agree with the above by Caitanya dasa (http://krishna.org/correcting-iskcons-faulty-guru-system/), force these devotees to work in one area, no need to travel everywhere to compete for disciples, fame and laxmi, save that laxmi and allow us to print books and build temples in every town and village to propagate Srila Prabhupada and Radha Krsna worship Maharisi = famous, satya sayed baba = famous, so many societies have kept their founder at the front and that is how people hear about, but us? Bombay = Radhanath swami, Hungary = Sivarama swami, Mayapur = Jayapataka swami etc etc. You are calling yourselves disciples of Srila Prabhupada but I state you have failed to glorify him to the highest degree!! You have failed to keep Iskcon Srila Prabhupada conscious.
A child could ask “why did Srila Prabhupada insist on putting his Murti form in every temple to be worshiped twice in the morning by Samsara prayers and guru puja even while he was physically present? Why? Because he of course knew what unqualified conditioned souls would do once the master leaves. They would put 11 Vyasasanas next to his and ask cheated souls to allow themselves to be cheated by the cheating souls. But you have been very successful in putting Prabhupada into a part of the forgotten past, into history!
There is a nice song by Bob Marly that goes “you can cheat some people some time but you can not cheat all the people all the time, so now you see the light, stand up for your right!”
Dear devotees, it is absolutely your right to have Srila Prabhupada as your eternal spiritual master if you so wish to follow him. His requirements are simple and clear to everyone, follow 4 regs, chant 16 rounds everyday and try to serve as much as you can.
“There was one doubt that was plaguing me. I had always been taught when I was first joining that the parampara is like a link, a chain. If you don’t have the perfect link, if you are not initiated – You really can not go back to the spiritual world. I presented this question to Prabhupada. I followed Srila Prabhupada from Rupa Gosvami’s Samadhi back into the courtyard, and just before Srila Prabhupada took the steps, in the courtyard, I said, ‘We are distributing so many books but if people who read them are not initiated then they can not go back to home, to the spiritual world.’ And Prabhupada turned and LOOKED AT ME RIGHT IN THE EYES AND HE SAID “JUST BY READING MY BOOKS THEY ARE INITIATED”.
This and the next generation of devotees will not stand to be cheated!! Again I beg you all, all gurus, all devotees to please put Srila Prabhupada back at the front of every devotee’s mind, every devotee’s thought, every devotee’s quote, every devotee’s word then Prabhupada can use us all to perform his wonderful activities, we all just have to surrender to him and his movement’s movement and Srila Prabhupada will make this planet Vaikuntha All glouries to His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta swami Prabhupada, founder and Acarya for Iskcon forever!
Speak Your Mind