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Srila Prabhupada is the Guru

• Subject: Srila Prabhupada is the Guru
• From: Wolfgang B
• Date: Fri Feb 02 15:33:12 1996
• Message-Id: id733

Dear Wolfgang



Hello, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila

Prabhupada.



There is a devotee from England trying to send you some email. His name is

Madhusoodana. He got some error and asked me to give you his email addredd it is:



I also feel the same about Srila Prabhupada being my spiritual master and taking

Srila Prabhupada's books as the standard. We can't accept anyone who preaches

something different.



I took initiation from one of Srila Prabhupada's disciples here in Australia in

1989. He did the initiation and we had a nice fire sacrifice and that was that.

Initiation is not really the ceremony, it is the surrender. You can have a very

nice ceremony but not surrender and there is actually no initiation.



Prabhuada often said that "Disciple means discipline" so we have to accept the

discipline of Srila Prabhupada, following the four regulative principles, chanting

at least 16 rounds, rising early in the morning, reading Prabhupada's books, etc.

Otherwise there is no initiation.



I don't know much about what goes on in the rittvic world re initiation at the

moment. But it is not a cheep thing. You have to be prepared to surrender to Srila

Prabhupada. As Prabhupada is no longer physically present it is very easy to

cheat. We have to be very honest and not cheat -- that is the main thing.



I don't really want to work from within ISKCON now. I have done that for some

years, but they are not interested in changing, they are attached to their

program.



I've not heard of "Lifemember Conrad", but he is doing the right thing, to

distribute Srila Prabhupada's books is the main thing.



As for the Christians, they are not very bonafide. The scriptures of the meat-

eaters are not very logical. So although Jesus is a great Vaisnava, it is now not

at all easy to get the real message from him. Still it may be an opportunity for

preaching.



Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!



Your servant



Madhudvisa dasa



>

>Dear Madhudvisa dasa,

>

>please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

>

>Thank you for your answer. You're right, there is truely not much to

>be gained from going into the old problems. Somewhere I've read,

>that a devotee should be like a bee, taking the nectar from the

>flowers, no matter if they have thorns or not. Someone shouldn't be

>like a fly, which is only attracted by dirt.



>

>My spiritual master is Srila Prabhupada, because everything I hear,

>I'm going to compare with that what Prabhupada has written in his

>books. If I discover any difference, there is no question for me what

>to believe. Actually I'm working to raise my standard to be able

>to preach. To do this is very important here, because many people are

>*very* frustrated about their meaningless live.

>

>Please tell me, how did you get your name? Is there any "ritvik" out

>there who initiates disciples of Srila Prabhupada?

>Here in Austria and Germany lives a bookdistributer who's called

>"Lifemember Konrad". Like you he'd also distributes books for many

>years and says that Prabhupada is his spiritual master. One can see

>that he is a very special soul. For each year of his life he cants one

>round more. Now he's more then 30 years old. Just now he's in india I

>think. Perhaps you know him? If you become a lifemember, maybe you can

>stay for some days in the temples of ISKCON and working from "within"

>ISKCON - not very long, but better than nothing.

>

>St. Franciss of Assisi is very popular in Austria and there are some

>monasteries. But the priests aren't very consistent. Though it is

>said, that St. Franciss was mostly vegetarian, his disciples now are

>eating meat and drinking wine etc. I've discovered only two catholic

>orders, where the priests are only allowed to eat fish (Trappisten and

>

>Zisterzienser). Although the standard is not very high, there are

>only few priests, and most of them very old.

>

>Hare Krishna!

>

>Wolfgang

>

>

>

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