By:
Mahesh Raja (UK)
Prabhupada: Yes, that arrangement will be done; you go on with your business. We are singing this song daily. Why do you forget? Cakhu-dan dilo jei **janme janme prabhu sei**. ONE WHO HAS OPENED THE EYES, **HE’LL REMAIN MY MASTER LIFE AFTER LIFE**.
Note: Srila Prabhupada
is WITH US TO GUIDE US through difficult journey of transmigration cycle
to attaining Back to Godhead IF we follow him. Bilvamangala Thakura’s
spiritual master came through a prostitute to deliver him; so Srila
Prabhupada is also SO POWERFUL to help us:
Srimad Bhagavatam 3.15.24 - Description of the Kingdom of God
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GO BACK TO GODHEAD
IN ONE LIFE, but in the human form one should at least understand the
goal of life and begin Krishna consciousness.
Nectar of Instruction 5
“One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari.
A neophyte Vaishnava or a Vaishnava situated on the intermediate
platform can also accept disciples, but such disciples must be on the
same platform, and it should be understood that they cannot advance very
well toward the ultimate goal of life under his insufficient guidance. Therefore a disciple should be careful to accept an uttama-adhikari as a spiritual master.”
Some devotees are taking this above quote to mean that Kanistha can give Diksha. This is NOT what Srila Prabhupada says. There is NO mention of Diksha by kanistha. What it exactly says is about accepting DISCIPLES. Then suggests very strongly two points:
1) ”...they cannot advance very well
toward the ultimate goal of life under his insufficient guidance.
Therefore a disciple should be careful to accept an uttama-adhikari as a spiritual master.”
2) “One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari.
The question is can a Kanistha give DIKSHA from this quote? The answer is NO!
So how can we establish that Kanistha does NOT give diksha?
Kanistha is a QUALIFIED
Brahmana. But even such a QUALIFIED Brahmana is in MATERIAL
CONTAMINATION. And because he has MATERIAL CONTAMINATION he does NOT
have Transcendental Knowledge. What you do NOT have you can NOT give.
And it is Transcendental Knowledge that frees one from ALL MATERIAL
CONTAMINATION.
Definition of Diksha:
Definition of Diksha:
Madhya 15.108 - The Lord Accepts Prasada at the House of Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya
Srila Jiva Gosvami explains diksha in his Bhakti-sandarbha (283):
divyam jnanam yato dadyat
kuryat papasya sanksayam
tasmad dikseti sa prokta
desikais tattva-kovidaih
“Diksha is the process by which one can
awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions caused by
sinful activity. A person expert in the study of the revealed
scriptures knows this process as diksha.”
Madhya 4.111 Sri Madhavendra Puri’s Devotional Service
Diksha actually means initiating a
disciple with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from
all material contamination.
So here we see from above definition of Diksha quotes:
1) Transcendental Knowledge awakened, initiated
2) Becomes freed from all material contamination; vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity
Now ask a simple question HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is NOT freed from MATERIAL CONTAMINATION GIVE DIKSHA -BY WHICH- ONE BECOMES FREED FROM **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?
Just take a look at how contradictory and stupid this looks:
Q1) HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is HIMSELF material contaminated free another person from **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?
Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.25 - King Yayati Achieves Liberation
The word vidhuta, meaning “cleansed,” is very significant. Everyone in this material world is contaminated (karanam guna-sango ‘sya). Because we are in a material condition, we are contaminated either by sattva-guna, by rajo-guna or by tamo-guna. Even if one becomes a qualified brahmana in the mode of goodness (sattva-guna), he is still materially contaminated. One must come to the platform of suddha-sattva, transcending the sattva-guna. Then one is vidhuta-trilinga, cleansed of the contamination caused by the three modes of material nature.
Q2) If a Brahmana (Kanistha) had Transcendental Knowledge then why is contaminated by goodness (sattva-guna)?
Diksha is the process by which
one can awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions
caused by sinful activity. Diksha actually means initiating a disciple
with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from all
material contamination.
Q3) So HOW can a Kanistha
(Brahmana) who HIMSELF is material contaminated does NOT have
Transcendental Knowledge give another person Transcendental Knowledge to
free him?
Common-sense: What you do NOT have you CAN NOT give to others.
Conversations, February 14, 1977, Mayapur
Prabhupada: Vaishnava is not so easy. The varnashrama-dharma should be established to become a Vaishnava. It is not so easy to become Vaishnava.
Hari-sauri: No, it’s not a cheap thing.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Therefore this should be made. Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava, is not so
easy. If Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava is so easy, why so many fall
down, fall down? It is not easy. The sannyasa is for the highest
qualified brahmana. And simply by dressing like a Vaishnava, that is…
fall down.
Hari-sauri: So the varnashrama system is like for the kanisthas, Kanistha-adhikari.
Prabhupada: Kanistha?
Hari-sauri: When one is only on the platform of neophyte.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Kanistha-adhikari, yes.
Hari-sauri: Varnashrama system is beneficial.
Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari means he must be a brahmana. That is kanistha-adhikari. The spiritual life, kanistha-adhikari, means he must be a qualified brahmana. That is kanistha. What is esteemed as very high position in the material world, brahmana, that is kanistha-adhikari.
arcayam eva haraye
pujam yah sraddhayehate
na tad-bhaktesu canyesu
sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah
The brahmana means from the material
stage gradually he is elevated to the spiritual stage. And below the
brahmana there is no question of Vaishnava.
Hari-sauri: No question of?
Prabhupada: Vaishnavism.
Conversations, February 6, 1976, Mayapur
Dayananda: But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?
Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari. They are not devotees, but they are called bhaktabhasa. There are some signs of bhakti. Actually they are not bhakta. Bhaktabhasa. Abhasa. Abhasa means a simple, a little light.
Hridayananda: So devotee really means one who has love for Krishna.
Prabhupada: Yes, unalloyed, without any condition. Anyabhilasita-sunyam, zero, all other, that “I am this, I am that, I am jnani, I am yogi, I am karmi,
I am minister, I am king”--all these are thinking like that, they’re
all nonsense. “I am servant of Krishna”--that is greatness. Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa. That is self-realization, atma-tattvam.
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