Writing Offensive Materials
BY: ISVARA DASA
Jan 18, 2011 — INDIA (SUN) — Dear Rocana Prabhu, Dandavats. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I hope you should cease writing and permitting others to write offensive materials against the godbrothers of Srila Prabhupada. It's quite disgusting, and you are not realizing that. I don't know how you have come to a conclusion that Srila Prabhupada gave you a right to write all these garbage against his godbrothers. I am a member of ISKCON and one of its senior preachers, so this is not coming from someone who had taken shelter of other movement.
Srila Prabhupada might have said something unpleasant about his Godbrothers, but the same time, we are well aware of Srila Prabhupada glorifying the same Godbrothers. It's difficult for us, mixed devotees, to understand the minds of great personalities. Our attempt to trying to understand the minds of great personalities have always being the reason for chaos in our spiritual lives.
Srila Vrindavan Dasa Thakura wrote at length about when people attempt to understand the apparent quarrel that often exists between Advaita Acarya and Nityananda Prabhu. The Thakura wrote that only people with hellish mentality would try to venture into such apparent quarrels that exist between Nityananda Prabhu and Advaita Acarya. Similarly Srila Prabhupada's godbrothers were not ordinary personalities; if Srila Prabhupada had said unpalatable things about them, what qualification do we, as neophyte sadhakas, have to keep on repeating such statements? What benefit would it have to our spiritual lives?
I hope you will really stop. It's quite embarrassing.
Your servant,
Isvara dasa
