Nov 02, 2017 — MEXICO (SUN) — And with their Krishna West, try to suppress the Founder-Ācārya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda.
Sunday 22, October, 2017 (a day before the commemoration of Śrīla Prabhupāda's disappearance day). For several days I have being trying to find out the schedule for the commemoration of Śrīla Prabhupāda's disappearance day, I checked the official ISKCON CDMX Mexico FB, nothing. I called the temple, no one knows anything. I called a Godbrother and he tells me the temple "authorities" are planning to do nothing for this occasion for His Divine Grace! I am very much surprised and disgusted at this. He tells me, "You better come to the temple and let's talk to Maharsi, the temple president".
Today —Sunday 22, October, 2017— 1:30 p.m. I still called to the temple, nobody knows anything there.
As surprising and incredible as it may sound, there were not any announcements from ISKCON Mexico to commemorate Śrīla Prabhupāda's disappearance day on their Facebook page, nor at the temple. No poster, no sign, NOTHING! There are announcements for Govardhana Puja and for Hridayananda's Vyasa-Puja, both at the temple and on FB, but nothing about Śrīla Prabhupāda!
This is the link: Facebook.com/iskconmexicodmx. (It got corrected Sunday night after a group of devotees talked to the temple president, there are the dates of posting)
The argument/excuse is that "Śrīla Prabhupāda disciples should organize it". However, this is a flat deceiving lie. For one, we don't have access to the official ISKCON Mexico FB webpage to make the announcement. And two, for the 50th year of ISKCON incorporation, Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples made arrangements for the celebration. In particular, Angirasa dāsa (one of the Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples) bought the bhoga and brought it to the temple to start cooking, when he got there he was told, "Prabhu, we have to go to another city, maybe next week". He never was told in advance of this decision —as a matter of fact no one was informed, and of course, no interest on part of the so-called temple authorities to do it.
For the 50 years of ISKCON, late Vrajavasi prabhu was invited by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples to offer to Śrīla Prabhupāda a very nice and professional translation of Dialectic Spiritualism he organized, and that was what we did as celebration. So this time it was going to happen again, an attempt to try to suppress the Founder-Ācārya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Who is in charge? A Hridayananda disciple, an advocate of Krishna West. A very gross omission.
So, a group of leading devotees of the community had to talk to the temple president in order that on the next day, Śrīla Prabhupāda's Disappearance Day celebration would take place. There were three Śrīla Prabhupāda disciples, and a couple of devotees, disciples of other gurus who understand and accept Śrīla Prabhupāda as siksa guru for the entire ISKCON and for themselves —by the way, a solution for disciples of deviant gurus.
When confronted, the temple president tried to convince us that that was a mistake and suppression done by a new bhaktin in charge of the FB webpage. However, nobody believed him for what he had already said before, and the fact that there was not a single posting about the event in the temple.
We had to explain to him that Śrīla Prabhupāda is the Founder-Ācārya of ISKCON, his ISKCON! And his celebrations should be observed for the next ten thousand years, whether there be direct disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda or not.
Śrī Krishna Himself says in Bhagavad-gita (13.8) that His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, should be worshiped and served: ācārya-upāsanam, worshiping the ācārya, that is knowledge. The opposite is nescience.
For a very good reason, Śrīla Prabhupāda wrote that letter (actually more than one) that he is the Founder-Ācārya of ISKCON and stressed his position, so what is happening now in Mexico will not happen.
"This is to inform you that I, the undersigned, am the Founder-Ācārya of ISKCON and the world leader for all of its branches. I have appointed 12 direct representatives to manage different sectors of the world, and they are known as Governing Board Commissioners."
Thereof all managers of the temples in general are meant to execute Śrīla Prabhupāda's Will and keep him in the center. However, in this part of the world we are facing the schism created by Hridayananda, and this is an outcome of his preaching.
What can you expect when in a response to a Mr. S.V. Sharma published in The Sampradaya Sun, dated Feb. 04, 2011, Hridayananda says:
"I am more knowledgeable than you… Just today, the Sun published the following quote from our Srila Prabhupada, the dead acarya you proudly referred to in your post…"
Dead acarya? So much for his being knowledgeable, this is his mentality. Then, what can you expect from his most fanatical followers? When you are on the material bodily concept of life you will think that way, "the acarya is dead and gone".
Hridayananda is not qualified to be a spiritual master. He doesn't represent Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada warns about this —pay attention:
"So by the grace of the saintly person, he became a tiger. And when he became a tiger, he was staring on the saintly person like, oh. So the saintly person asked him, 'You want to eat me?' 'Yes.' 'Oh, then you may again become a mouse. (laughter) If by my grace, by my favor, you have become tiger, so I will again condemn you to become a mouse.' So you American people, you have become tiger now, Nixon tiger. But if you don't behave obligely, if you don't feel obliged, if the tiger feels obliged that 'By the grace of the saintly person, I have come to the stage of becoming a tiger, I must be very much obliged to him...' But instead of becoming obliged, if you want to eat [the saintly person], then again become a mouse. If the saintly person has got the power to make you from mouse to tiger, then he can convert you again from tiger to mouse. You must always remember this."
(SB 1.15.20, class. LA, November 30, 1973)
To think that the acarya is dead and gone, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thakur calls it ill reasoning, bad thinking:
He reasons ill who tells
that Vaishnavas die
When thou are living
still in sound.
The Vaishnavas die to live
and living try to
Spread a holy life around!
And Śrīla Prabhupāda also expressed the same idea that he would live by his books.
Press conference, July 16, 1975. San Francisco:
Reporter (2): What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die?
Prabhupada: I will never die.
Devotees: Jaya! Hari bol! (laughter)
Prabhupada: I shall live for my books, and you will utilize.
Hridayananda contradicts Srila Prabhupada on this and on many other issues. He is not qualified to be a spiritual master.
And the GBC is making him GBC for Brazil? Something is very wrong here.
In his Krishna West preaching he is talking that he is going to fill the US temples with American devotees. Why then he is going to Brazil?
Hridayananda is well known for being an avowed racist since ever. He hates other people. He calls the South American devotees sudramericans. Brazil is in South America, why he should go there? He is not a learned pandita sama darsinah (Bg. 5.18). "The devotee is supposed to be, furthermore, equal to everyone, panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18], never discriminating…" (Letter, April 30, 1973)
Why does the GBC always send the rejected to Latin America? Do they also consider it the back yard? Why don't they send devotees in good standing, like Danavir dāsa Gosvami, or Vaisesika Prabhu, or similar devotees? These devotees are enthusiastic and they preach Srila Prabhupada straight. Brazilian people also deserve a good opportunity of being Krishna conscious under the shelter of Srila Prabhupada.
"Mahat-sevah dvaram ahur vimukteh [SB 5.5.2]. In another place it is said, mahat-seva, rendering service to the pure devotee, mahat. Mahat means who is great soul. Who is great soul? Great soul means who is twenty-four hours engaged in the service of the Lord." (SB 1.2.16. LA August 19, 1972)
"How you can purify your existence? That instruction is that mahat-sevah dvaram ahur vimukteh [SB 5.5.2]. If you associate and serve mahat—mahat means the great, great personality—mahat-sevah dvaram, then your door for purification will be open." (SB 5.5.3. Boston, April 28, 1969).
"In this verse, yogesvara-upasana means to render service to a pure devotee. Thus Narottama dasa Ṭhākura says, chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara payeche keba: without serving a pure devotee, one cannot advance in spiritual life." (SB 4.22.22. purport)
In conclusion, it has been a gross attempt to suppress His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON.
Hridayananda's philosophy is meant to divide the devotees and to create a schism.
Caitanya-caritamrta Adi 12.9:
"When disciples do not stick to the principle of accepting the order of their spiritual master, immediately there are two opinions. Any opinion different from the opinion of the spiritual master is useless. One cannot infiltrate materially concocted ideas into spiritual advancement. That is deviation. There is no scope for adjusting spiritual advancement to material ideas."
