The Acarya is the spiritual master of the entire world and must be considered an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa's mercy. PART 3

by Jaya Radhe Byard

"Unless one becomes under the control of ācārya, he has no perfect knowledge."
Bhagavad-gita 2.11 (with Spanish translator) -- Mexico, February 11, 1975
http://bhagavad-gitaasitis.com/?g=157064

"The word ācārya means "teacher."The special function of such a teacher is to make people Kṛṣṇa conscious. A bona fide teacher following in the footsteps of Advaita Ācārya has no other business than to spread the principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world. The real qualification of an ācārya is that he presents himself as a servant of the Supreme. Such a bona fide ācārya can never support the demoniac activities of atheistic men who present themselves as God. It is the main business of an ācārya to defy such imposters posing as God before the innocent public."-Srila Prabhupada purportAdi 6.28
http://caitanya-caritamrta.com/?g=86290

"Whenever an ācārya comes, following the superior orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His representative, he establishes the principles of religion, as enunciated in Bhagavad-gītā. 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 ācārya’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 ācārya disappears, rogues and nondevotees take advantage and immediately begin to introduce unauthorized principles in the name of so-called svāmīs, yogīs, philanthropists, welfare workers and so on. Actually, human life is meant for executing the orders of the Supreme Lord, and this is stated in Bhagavad-gītā (9.34): “Engage your mind always in thinking of Me and become My devotee. Offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.”

The main business of human society is to think of the Supreme Personality of Godhead at all times, to become His devotees, to worship the Supreme Lord and to bow down before Him. The ācārya, the authorized representative of the Supreme Lord, establishes these principles, but when he disappears, things once again become disordered. The perfect disciples of the ācārya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master. At the present moment practically the entire world is afraid of rogues and nondevotees; therefore this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is started to save the world from irreligious principles. "-Srila Prabhupada SB 4.28.48
http://srimad-bhagavatam.com/?g=40374

"Ācārya means one who is speaking exactly the same instruction as Kṛṣṇa has given. That is ācārya. Not ācārya, everyone becomes ācārya. "In my opinion it is like..." Who are you? If you have got any opinion, then you write your own book. Why do you touch Bhagavad-gītā? Because Bhagavad-gītā is very well-known book all over the world, these rascals take advantage of Bhagavad-gītā and interpret it in their own way. That is not ācārya. Ācārya means, as Kṛṣṇa says, that "Millions of years ago I spoke this Bhagavad-gītā..." Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam, vivasvān [Bg. 4.1]. "I spoke to the sun-god millions and millions of years ago."

"One who is speaking exactly like Arjuna, he's ācārya. Not that one is speaking nonsense according to his own opinion. What is he? What is his value? We are all defective. We cannot give our opinion. That is the disagreement with our preaching and others." We are preaching that nobody can give opinion on the Bhagavad-gītā if he does not come in the disciplic succession as it is spoken by Kṛṣṇa. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam [Bg. 4.2]. Otherwise it is naṣṭaḥ. Sa kāleneha yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa. It is lost. So kāma, this kāma, lusty. "I am very learned scholar. I can give my opinion on the Bhagavad-gītā. I can translate it in a different way. I can screw out some meaning by jugglery of words, grammatical jugglery."Bhagavad-gita Lectures
◦ Bg 4: Lectures
▪ Bhagavad-gita 4.19 -- Bombay, April 8, 1974
http://bhagavad-gitaasitis.com/?g=157330

"The Vedic injunction is that no one can have full knowledge without being under the guidance of an ācārya. Ācāryavān puruṣo veda: one who has accepted an ācārya knows what is what."

"When a bona fide student approaches a bona fide spiritual master, he submissively prays to the spiritual master, "My dear lord, kindly accept me as your student and train me in such a way that I will be able to give up all other kinds of processes for self-realization and simply engage in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional service."

"Those who are actually pure devotees are celebrated as mahātmās, or great sages, personalities perfect in knowledge. They always think of the Supreme Lord and His lotus feet, and thus they become automatically liberated. Devotees who are always situated in that position become electrified by the inconceivable potencies of the Lord, and thus they themselves become the source of liberation for their followers and devotees. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person is fully electrified spiritually, and therefore anyone who touches or takes shelter of such a pure devotee becomes similarly electrified with spiritual potencies."

"The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is based on this principle. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākur has sung, "My dear Lord, let me be engaged in Your transcendental loving service, as indicated by the previous ācāryas, and let me live in the association of pure devotees. That is my desire, life after life." In other words a devotee does not much care whether or not he is liberated, but he is anxious only for devotional service. Devotional service means that one does not do anything independently of the sanction of the ācāryas. The actions of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are directed by the previous ācāryas…"

"A person who tries to understand Kṛṣṇa with full knowledge and devotion by following in the footsteps of previous ācāryas conversant with the scientific knowledge of the Supreme Lord is praiseworthy. Such a devotee can understand that all conditions of life, favorable and unfavorable, are created by the supreme will of the Lord."

" Such a position can be maintained only by following in the footsteps of the ācāryas. Because a pure devotee follows in the footsteps of the ācāryas, any action he performs to discharge devotional service is to be understood to be on the transcendental platform. Lord Kṛṣṇa therefore instructs us that an ācārya is above criticism. A neophyte devotee should not consider himself to be on the same plane as the ācārya. It should be accepted that the ācāryas are on the same platform as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as such, neither Kṛṣṇa nor His representative ācārya should be subject to any adverse criticism by the neophyte devotees."

-Srila Prabhupada purport KB 2-32 / Prayers by the Personified Vedas
http://prabhupadabooks.com/?g=156140

"So guru is the representative of God. Therefore the sastra says, the authority says, saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair. Guru is as good as God. Here, in this Vyasa-puja day, we are teaching or they are doing, offering respect to guru. That means they are learning how to offer respect to God. It is not personal affair; it is required. Because they are trying to be God conscious, they must learn how to offer respect to God or God's representative. That is required."-Srila Prabhupada
"What Is Guru"
22 Aug 73 , London
http://www.prabhupadavani.org/main/Lectures/060.html

“The spiritual master, or ācārya, is always situated in the spiritual status of life. Birth, death, old age and disease do not affect him. According to the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, therefore, after the disappearance of an ācārya, his body is never burnt to ashes, for it is a spiritual body. The spiritual body is always unaffected by material conditions."-Srila Prabhupada purport SB 10.4.20
http://srimad-bhagavatam.com/?g=76774

The acarya is not bound by tradition

“Every acarya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual movement with the aim of bringing men to Krishna consciousness. Therefore, the method of one acarya may be different from that of another, but the ultimate goal is never neglected.”
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7:37, purport)
“An acarya who comes for the service of the Lord cannot be expected to conform to a stereotype, for he must find the ways and means by which Krishna consciousness may be spread.”
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.31-32, purport)
“Srimad Viraraghava Acarya, an acarya in the disciplic succession of the Ramanuja-sampradaya, has remarked in his commentary that candalas, or conditioned souls who are born in lower than sudra families, can also be initiated according to circumstances. The formalities may be slightly changed here and there to make them Vaishnavas.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 4:8:54, purport)
 “The acarya must devise a means to bring them to devotional service. Therefore, although I am a sannyasi I sometimes take part in getting boys and girls married, although in the history of sannyasa no sannyasi has personally taken part in marrying his disciples.”
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-Lila, 7:37, purport)
“Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and My spiritual master, Isvara Puri, are completely independent. Therefore neither the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead nor that of Isvara Puri is subject to any Vedic rules or regulations.”
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 10.137)

Srila Prabhupada’s practical example
In keeping with his teachings above, we may note that Srila Prabhupada himself actually introduced innovations which have not been practised traditionally. A few examples:
1) He conducted marriage ceremonies
2) He gave brahmana initiation to Western women.
3) He gave initiation in the mail and via tape recording, and via having his disciples whisper mantras 
    on his behalf.
4) He gave initiation without ever meeting many of his disciples.
5) He established a ritvik system of initiations to operate without his physical involvement.

Prabhupada: “Yes, I am the spiritual master of this institution"

Prabhupada: “Yes, I am the spiritual master of this institution, and all the members of the society, they’re supposed to be my disciples .
They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are initiated by me spiritually. So therefore the spiritual master is called guru. That is Sanskrit language.” ( Srila Prabhupada’s KGO Radio Interview, 1968 )
Srila Prabhupada: “This is the function of the GBC, to see that one may not be taken away by maya.
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The GBC should all be the instructor gurus. I am the initiator guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am teaching and doing what I am doing . This is not a title, but you must actually come to this platform. This is what I want.” (to Madhudvisa 4 Aug, 1975) 
Srila Prabhupada: Don’t be allured by cheap disciples. Go on steadfastly to render service first. If you immediately become guru, then the service activities will be stopped; and as there are so many cheap gurus and cheap disciples, without any substantial knowledge, and manufacturing new sampradayas, and with service activities stopped, and all spiritual progress choked up. (SPL (VI 1987) 68.8.17)
Srila Prabhupada: We haven’t got to manufacture. To manufacture ideas is troublesome. Why should we take the trouble? And as soon as you want to manufacture something to my…., that is DANGEROUS. …That you are singing every day, “what our guru has said, that is our life and soul.” …As soon as this POISON will come -suppress guru and I become Brahman- everything FINISHED. Spiritual life is finished. Gaudiya Matha finished, …VIOLATED the orders of Guru Maharaja.
…And as soon as you manufacture, fall down. This manufacturing idea is very, very dangerous in spiritual life. …Our mission is to serve bhakta visesa and live with devotees. NOT THAT YOU TAKE THE PLACE OF GURU. THAT IS NONSENSE, VERY DANGEROUS. Then everything will be spoiled. As soon as you become AMBITIOUS to TAKE THE PLACE of GURU-gurusuh nara matih. That is MATERIAL DISEASE.
Srila Prabhupada: “I am practically seeing that as soon as they, our students, begin to learn a little Sanskrit, they immediately feel they have become more than their guru. Then the policy is to kill their guru and become guru themselves“. “As soon as he learns that Guru Maharaj is dead, now I am so advanced I can kill guru and become guru. Then he is finished.” (Srila Prabhupada 1976).
“If you concoct, ‘I am more intelligent than my Guru,’ ‘I can make additions and alterations,’ then you are finished.” — Srila Prabhupada lecture July 12, 1975 Philadelphia Pa.
As soon as this poison will come – “Suppress guru and I become Brahman” – everything finished. Spiritual life is finished. Gaudiya Matha finished, that…, violated the orders of Guru Maharaja.” [April 20, 1977, Bombay]
“In this verse, the royal road to hell is described. The demoniac want to make a show of religion and advancement in spiritual science, although they do not follow the principles. They are always arrogant or proud in possessing some type of education or so much wealth. They desire to be worshiped by others, and demand respectability, although they do not command respect. Over trifles they become very angry and speak harshly, not gently. They do not know what should be done and what should not be done. They do everything whimsically, according to their own desire, and they do not recognize any authority. These demoniac qualities are taken on by them from the beginning of their bodies in the wombs of their mothers, and as they grow they manifest all these inauspicious qualities.”[Bg 16.4 : PURPORT]
“Leaders who have fallen into ignorance and who mislead people by directing them to the path of destruction [as described in the previous verse] are, in effect, boarding a stone boat, and so too are those who blindly follow them. A stone boat would be unable to float and would sink in the water with its passengers. Similarly, those who mislead people go to hell, and their followers go with them.”[SB 6.7.14]
“There are many jealous people in the dress of Vaishnavas in this Krishna Consciousness movement, and they should be completely neglected. A false acarya may try to override a vaishnava by a high-court decision, (2/3 hand vote) but Bhaktivinoda Thakura says that he is nothing but a disciple of Kali-yuga.”
“Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, Kali-cela. He indicates that there are other Vaishnavas, pseudo-Vaishnavas, with tilaka on their nose and kunti beads around their neck. Such a pseudo-Vaishnava associates with money and women and is jealous of successful Vaishnavas. Although passing for a Vaishnava, his only business is earning money in the dress of a Vaishnava”. (CC.Madhy., Ch.1, Text 218 / 220, purport)

Srila Prabhupada: “I wish that each and every branch shall keep their separate identity and cooperate keeping the acharya in the center. On this principle we can open any number of branches all over the world. The Rama Krishna mission works on this principle and thus as an organization they have done wonderfully.” (letter 11th Feb. 1967)
“GBC does not mean to control a center. GBC means to see that the activities of a center go on nicely. I do not know why Tamala is exercising his absolute authority. That is not the business of GBC. The president, treasurer and secretary are responsible for managing the center. GBC is to see that things are going nicely but not to exert absolute authority. That is not in the power of GBC. Tamala should not do like that. (Letter to: Giriraja — London 12 August, 1971)

The GBC men cannot impose anything on the men of a center without consulting all of the GBC members first. A GBC member cannot go beyond the jurisdiction of his power. We are in the experimental stage but in the next meeting of the GBC members they should form a constitution how the GBC members manage the whole affair. But it is a fact that the local president is not under the control of the GBC. Yes, for improvement of situations such as this I must be informed of everything.” (Letter to: Giriraja — London 12 August, 1971)
Srila Prabhupada: He [Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Maharaja] never recommended anyone to be acharya of the Gaudiya Math…. If Guru Maharaja could have seen someone who was qualified at that time to be acharya, he would have mentioned. Because on the night before he passed away he talked of so many things, but never mentioned an acharya. Therefore we may not commit the same mistake in our ISKCON camp. (Srila Prabhupada, letter to Rupanuga das, April 28, 1974)
“So Sridhara Maharaja and his two associate gentlemen unauthorizedly selected one acarya and later it proved a failure. THE RESULT IS NOW EVERYONE IS CLAIMING TO BE ACARYA EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY BE KANISTHA ADHIKARI WITH NO ABILITY TO PREACH. IN SOME OF THE CAMPS THE ACARYA IS BEING CHANGED THREE TIMES A YEAR. THEREFORE WE MAY NOT COMMIT THE SAME MISTAKE IN OUR ISKCON CAMP. ACTUALLY AMONGST MY GODBROTHERS NO ONE IS QUALIFIED TO BECOME ACARYA.” (SPL 74-04-28 Rupanuga)

The acarya is not under the sastra.

Excerpt from Bhakti Vikasa's 3 volume "Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava"
"He said, 'Bhaktivinoda Thakura is Kamala Manjari, a personal associate of Radharani. He ordered me to establish daiva-varnasrama. I must obey his order. The acarya is not under the sastra. The acarya can make sastra. Bhaktivinoda Thakura, the acarya, has inspired me in various ways.
 By his mercy and that of Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja and the previous acaryas we are going on, not caring for the precise technicalities of smartas.”

The Ramakrishna mission principle

Śrīla Prabhupāda’s letter to Kīrtanānanda, February 11, 1967:

I wish that each and every Branch shall keep their independent identity and cooperate keeping the Ācārya in the centre. On this principle we can open any number of Branches all over the world. The Ramakrishna mission works on this principle and thus as organization they have done wonderfully.

The Ramakrishna mission achieves “this principle” that Śrīla Prabhupāda wants to be followed in ISKCON through a ṛtvik system.

Why this Gaudiya Matha failed?

Why this Gaudiya Matha failed? Because they tried to become
more than guru. He, before passing away, he gave all direction and
never said that "This man should be the next acarya." But ... the
failure. They never thought, "Why Guru Maharaja gave us instruction so
many things, why he did not say that this man should be acarya?" They
wanted to create artificially somebody ... with common sense that if
Guru Maharaja wanted to appoint somebody as acarya, why did he not
say? He said so many things, and this point he missed? The real point?
And they insist upon it. They declared some unfit person to become
acarya. Then another ....

Srila Prabhupada the only achraya of Iskcon

Prabhupada, Mayapur, March 9, 1974: “Suppose we are in a group, this, our International Society. If everyone becomes ruler or acarya, then how it can be managed? No. There must be some head. That is the principle in our practical life.”
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.7
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mayapur, March 9, 1974

Gaura Hari prabhu discusses real vs bogus gurus

Gaura Hari prabhu: It is a well known fact to the intelligent devotees that since the departure of Srila Prabhupada our Krishna Consciousness as a whole has been plunged into age of spiritual darkness (losing sight of devotional potency), confusion, with most of the Gurus who have taken charge leaving and falling down from their position, not being able to maintain nurturing their disciples. In my personal realization of having struggled for thirty five years being involved with Bhakti Yoga having tried listened to various teachings and following various gurus all claiming to have the right way, In essence the grave problem has been caused by Sadhu Ninda, offense to the top most vaishnava. There are 10 offenses to the holy name and most of us can more or less avoid most of these offenses accept what has been the most catastrophic blind spot of all modern day vaishnavism. It is sadhu ninda and there is a reason that it has been the most difficult to avoid this offense and many of us have fallen in this dark well without any clear awareness of how we have become a party to such a severe offense that disrupts and uproots whatever little devotion we have in our hearts.

It is a no brainer that we should not be offensive to the top most vaishnava. How is it that now many thousands and in the future, if this problem is not clearly identified, millions of future vaishnavas will continue their vaishnava apparada without awareness that they have done anything wrong at all. In my own experiences in vaishnavism I have come by the grace of Guru and Gauranga identified the root Anarta, that causes this severe offense to the Holy Name keeping prema bhakti from arising in the heart when one chants this wonderful exalted Hare Krishna Maha mantra. The two following first and third offense to the holy name will be discussed prayerful that the Lord and expert chanter of the Holy Name will enlighten our discussion giving us all crystal clear understanding of how to over come this most serious of offenses, Sadhu ninda.

 First Offense: To blaspheme devotees is the first offense

 To blaspheme a devotee of the Lord is the first offense

against the holy name, and it completely disrupts one's spiritual life

Third Offense: To disobey the spiritual master who reveals the truth

            about the holy name. Hari nam cintanami

If we have clearly identified who a pure top most devotee an intelligent person serious about developing devotion would not blaspheme  him or her. But on the other hand if one is not clear that such a vaishnava is top most sadhu then this could happen due to ignorance. In Srila Prabhupada’s law books there was a situation in the 4th canto of Bhagavatam where Dhaksa although a great demigod and worshiper of visnu in the mode of goodness did not realize that Lord Shiva his familial Son in law was a pure vaishnava Acarya direct representitive of the pure bhakti potency or servitor Godhead. Daksha thought that his activities were unclean therefore he criticized him not knowing the true nature of his confidential activities in this world. Its similar to how the Pharisees committed sadhu ninda against Jesus misjudging Jesus as a heretic as Lord Shiva was considered by Dhaksa. For this offense neither the Pharisees or the demigods who sided with daksha had devotional in their heart awaken until they became submissive to Gods true spiritual representitive and the words and teachings that they naturally speak to purify all who hear them submissively with great honor and respect.

Fortunately by the will of Krishna we have identified another top most pure devotee Acarya in this world as pure in heart as Jesus and empowered as well. AC bhaktividanta Swami Prabhupada. Generally both the false followers and the real followers of Srila Prabhupada acknowledge that he is a pure devotee. The false followers of Srila Prabhupada acknowledge this by their words but not by their actions and deeds.This is called the hypocritical level of devotional service. Eventually by accepting submissively the association of the more advanced vaishnava, who the neophyte often thinks is on a lessor platform than himself and his motivated Guru on the higher platform, he will become a real follower.   In practically everyone, unless they are a top most vaishnava will have some degree of fault in their service to Krishna due to some attachments in this world. The real followers acknowledge Srila Prabhupada by their words and their deeds. Like Jesus said, “My real followers do what I say”. The false followers don’t. A false follower may follow all the prescribed duties given by Srila Prabhupada yet not execute a direct important instruction which puts them into the category of false follower. This is heart of the issue and where this serious sadhu ninda offense is doing serious harm to the progressive march of modern day vaishnavism.

Now we will describe how this offense has taken shape in a deceitful difficult recognize insidious form and has developed into a huge demonic monster. It is ruining modern day vaishnavasm plunging the masses of devotees into the dense forest of darkness on the whole. If a shiksha or diksha disciple is deeply desirous of becoming a important personality, wealthy, influential, worshiped, remembered forever, and equal to an Acarya like AC Bhaktvidanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktisidanta saraswati etc, this result can be very easily given by a Acarya like Srila Prabhupada. but if it is gained it will be undeserved, temporary, and illusionary. Srila Prabhupada gained this influential affluent position, which is permanent  even after his departure by the mature development and cultivation of his devotional creeper and not desiring anything else but serving his guru and Gauranga out of love and affection.

If our heart is not so pure and on the contrary very polluted with envy, jealous pride, competition in regards the appearance of a great personality like Srila Prabhupada, then all we have to do is to blaspheme the Acarya and chant the holy Name vigorously and the result of Nama aparada of sadhu ninda one very easily gets the undeserved temporary illusionary version of glory as a So called diksha Guru or Acarya. Such crafty hearted shiksha or diksha disciples know that they cannot directly blaspheme a personality like Srila Prabhupada so there is a way to criticize and disobey the Acarya in such a sneaky way that no one will know that it is being done, just like the snake in the garden deceived eve by inducing here through tricky word jugglery and mental speculation to break God’s direct order to them not to eat from the tree of good and evil. The snake convinced them that if they would follow his order to break Gods order and eat of it they would be like Gods( worshipable Acaryas) ( but this would only be an illusion and for breaking Gods real order they were thrown out of paradise as we have been ourselves due to our modern day predicament.

God(Krishna) gave such direct instruction through the mouth of Srila Prabhupada and it was so important that he put in writing and signed the mandate. Qualitatively the order and the Acarya is equal in spiritual potency. By serving the body of the Acarya one is purified, by serving the order one is also purified equally even if his body is not present. On the other hand by criticizing his ritvik instruction and destroying others faith in the real order of Krishna through Srila Prabhupada, one has caused a serious mad elephant offense, sadhu ninda.

When the Acarya is ready depart he gives his direct instructions and in this case was how to carry on the business of initiations in his movement. So in essence the leaders both inside and outside of Srila Prabhupada’s movement all were hungry and thirsty to have such opulence’s equal to Srila Prabhupada and pure and simple committed the nama apparada of sadhu ninda to get it by disobeying and criticizing the direct order of Srila Prabhupada. By combination of speculating, lying, cheating, hiding, intimidation, bribes, diplomacy, politics such leaders inside and outside his movement committed the most serious of the 10 offenses related to Sadhu Ninda. They criticized Srila Prabhupada and disobeyed his direct instruction by disobeying this direct ritvik instruction to making disciples on his behalf and then they made his sacred holy order meant to save and give transcendental shelter to the world a laughable household joke. Now this illusion has been propagated and deeply embedded into our vaishnava society that those who declare that they are disciples of Srila Prabhupada based on his direct instruction to be so designated are scorned and thrown outside of vaishnava society just like the early Christians were looked upon as the sum of the earth by mainstream faithless materialist society.

So in essence, plain and simple this is the heart of how sadhu ninda has been accepted as the proper way of worshiping in Vaishnava societies. Right now the leaders and their desirous supporters are all perpetuating this Offense to the real Acarya so that they can live out their temporary dream to be an Acarya like Srila Prabhupada and Bhaktisidanta Saraswati thakur. Srila Prabhupada is well known for saying in purports in the 12 chapter of adil lila that his God brothers without authority disobeyed their Guru indirect instruction not to appoint a Acarya prematurely. By such disobedience many adopted the title of Acarya in their Gurus institution but lack real spiritual empowerment to expand Lord Caitanya’s bhakti cult in any significant way. The 11 ISKCON leaders were also desirous of having the same influence affluent position as Srila Prabhupada so they did the same thing by hook or crook, speculating to cause everyone in Srila Prabhupada’s movement starting with themselves to disobey and blaspheme Srila Prabhupada by criticizing his ritvik instruction; or to be a witnessing party to it by tolerating its execution in his movement. They had to prove their allegiance by throwing flowers at the feet of such undesirable undeserving false Gurus and Acaryas. Outside of ISKCON there is another vaishnava society, Gaudiya Samiti which came close to Srila Prabhupada’s society  and began to also blaspheme his order calling it quote “ poison”   and gave many tricky false arguments, to get Srila Prabhupada’s disciples to betray, overrule  his life giving ritvik instruction  exactly  like the snake in the garden of Eden tricked Eve to deviate from God’s order getting her and Adam cut off from God’s transcendental favor. The result Narayana Maharaja also became not only diksha Guru but like the many in the Gadiya Matha they like the prestige  to be known as Acarya equal or even better than Srila Prabhupada.

In summary as a whole vaishnavsm is on the neophyte materialistic platform, waiting for the leaders to get satiated and degraded by their relishing the demigod rasa of undeserved name, fame, wealth and worship of the masses.  iThis is what Raganutha das called donkey urine.  Bhaktivinode thakur in his essay on Sadhu Ninda says that even if one is a austere Brahmin, their symptom of being a advanced madyam devotee is that they sincerely carry out the direct instruction of their guru even if it means that they cannot have the prestige of being a daksha Guru or Acarya. If they fail the test and minimize, deride, condemn the direct order such as the important ritvik instruction, they remain on the materialistic platform.  It is unfortunate because in Narayana Maharaja case Srila Prabhupada told him directly that he wanted the ritvik way of initation on his behalf after his departure but he refused to perform initiations in this way while at the same time claimed that Srila Prabhupada was his shiksha Guru numerous times. In this way according to the conclusion of Bhakti vinode thakur and those who have opened spiritual awareness from confessing publicly glorifying faithful Srila Prabhpada’s important ritvik mandate, he remains a serious offender  on the neophyte platform no matter how many rituals, austerities, claims of being a society of pure devotees or the laks of rounds he may chant to impress general populace of young devotees who have been spiritually  maimed this misfortune.

Those who have the strength and empowerment are doing what they can to educate those who will listen to this kind opinion that is the most logical but is also the most unpopular because as Jesus said 2000 years ago, “ Narrow is the gate( that leads to pure devotional service) few there are that find it, Broad is the way of destruction(the worship of the worthless idols of false motivated daksha Gurus and Acaryas”. Most go that broad way. If they are sincere, intelligent devotees like Srila Prabhupada was amongst his god brothers they will also feel repressed compressed and depressed seeing such degradation giving the illusion of saintliness . The God brothers, Gaudiya Samiti,and most in ISKCON, except Bangalore and other small informal groups forming, follow the broad path of following many of the rules and rituals but did the most evil act of erecting impotent idols in the form of false Acaryas which could not even purify themselves or anyone else They themselves were not the real shelter of the rare pure spiritual potency even though they may believe in error that they are. Jesus said that those who are sincere, taught by God, led by the real Spirit of the Lord convict the world of this one main sin of faithlessness in the real Acarya savior, sent by God to deliver the world. This was Jesus. For us God(Lord Caitanya) has mercifully also appointed Srila Prabhupada as such a authorized deserving transcendental ICON to deliver us. The above mentioned vaishnava societies are in truth murders of the souls and should be feared because they are very quick to cut our faith in the true ritvik order of Srila Prabhupada by inducing us to blaspheming or tolerate criticism derision his sacred Bhakti lata bija imparting instruction to become his direct disciple and not the disciples of impotent false Acaryas who want to relish some temporary heavenly material rasa under the grip of the false ego of thinking themselves great and intelligent vaishnavas. Krishna das Kaviraja states, It is the order of such a transcendental spiritual master which is the active principal(diksha) of spiritual life.” Not the instruction to blaspheme the order given by the False Acaryas, and impotent diksha Gurus who teach in error of illusion that , “ If you follow the ritvik order you will lose your soul” . The ISKCON committee appointed Guru, Sankarshan das,adkikari, who admitted that he believes that he can without a doubt deliver his disciples, said this in anger as a great threat directly to one of our members when she would not host him as usual last year. Such a statement by this poor illusioned fallible authority convicted his own soul as being lost and anyone else who believes such wrong conception. Since I know it is my duty to point out this dangerous misconception for his benefit and others who may fall in such dark dense illusion.