Just Ask Acaryadeva
BY: BHAKTA JOSE
Dec 02, EL MUNDO VERDADERO (SUN) —
My Dear Shrila Acaryadeva,
Que paso, Acharyadeva? Oh, I just don't know how to begin. I am just an illiterado new bhakta, pero everyone is dumb next to you as you know, so what can I ask someone with mucho grande, bi-i-i-g brain como tu? Mmmm? But I hear that your website has uno "Ask Acaryadeva" feature, so—Si!—I ask my questions now. For you, O Acaryadeva, are El Virtual Cyber Question and Answer Man. You are el espirituel "Ask Jeeves.Com", "El Transcendental Wikipedia of Self-glorification".
Si! Acharyadeva! Usted esta mi Electronic Search Engine and I'll Ask if I Want To! (You would ask too, if it happened to you!)
Tambien, O Computer Guru Supremo con corazon y, please fulfill my desires and satisfy these following queries, por favor. Gracias.
1. You once told a disciple that, "an idle mind is the devil's workshop. But that disciple told me you were referring to how you see yourself and had really stated, "An idol's mind is the devil's work-out." Which one is correct?
2. On your website it says that the GBC has recognized your "profound devotion and erudition". Hey, who writes this drivel? What about the majority of Godbrothers who recognize not your profound devotion and erudition, but your "profuse deviation and egomania"?
3. Your website says that you are on the cutting edge of the movement. Ouch. How does it feel to sit on the cutting edge? I mean, isn't your Vyasa Asan comfortable enough?
4. Your website says, "Shrila Prabhupada asked you and ten other prominent disciples to accept disciples on his behalf." As you are the Acharya of "Ask Acharyadeva", you know that "ask" implies a question. So how did Shrila Prabhupada phrase this question His Divine Grace "asked"? Did he also ask you to take this name 'Acharyadeva'? What does the name Acharyadeva mean to you? Does it imply some responsibility to follow the tradition of the genuine Acharyadeva? And what became of those other "ten prominent disciples"? Do you care to share? Hmmmm?
5. Your other website, Howardjresnick.com says that you are a "much sought after speaker at…divinity schools". Do you think that is because there are few speakers at divinity schools who have the chutzpah to call themselves "His Divine Grace, PhD"? If your speaking is so divine, why are the members of ISKCON, the Society upon which you've taken your credentials, tired of listening to you? You lived in Los Angeles -- when was the last time you gave a morning class at the temple there which consists of perhaps the largest community of devotees?
6. Do the heads of the divinity schools where you speak read the Sampradaya Sun? Do you hope that no one e-mails those several dozen articles about you to your mentors at Harvard, or the heads of the departments at the GTU Berkeley or other universities listed on the other website given in question #5?
7. It must be a great honor to have your very own Wikipedia listing wherein you promote yourself as an ISKCON leader, guru, sannyasi, GBC, etc. Did the article in the Sampradaya Sun motivate you to change the word "death" (referring to our spiritual master) to "leaving this world"? Also, where does one who misappropriates the emblems of an acharya and claims for himself that worship which is deserved by a genuine paramhamsa go after his death? Do you care to answer this question now, or in a few short years, Acaryadeva?
8. Srila Prabhupada's stated purpose was to preach wherever he went and therefore as the acharya, His Divine Grace attracted tens of thousands of disciples. How many devotees of Krishna has your preaching in these universities created? How many of Srila Prabhupada's disciples have been chased away by your "preaching", O Acharyadeva?
9. You have been known as the guru in ISKCON who blesses homosexual relationships. Do you know what exactly you are blessing in the name of love? Has anyone ever told you that this body is composed of stool and urine and that those who worship this body for squeezing so-called pleasure out of it are worshippers of stool and urine? For that matter, do you know that decorating your body with false titles like Guru, PhD and Acharyadeva (since you are unqualified) is tantamount to decorating a dead body composed of stool and urine? Do you consider that you might still need some education in certain areas, Acharyadeva? And now for the big question, O Acharyadeva.
10. How much money do you have in the bank?
11. OK, I apologize to all the Prabhupada disciplos who married your bonita disciplas and who now tell their husbands, "Cabron! You no more read Sampradaya Sun!" Sorry, Prabhus. But I have one question for Shrila Acaryadeva about feeling. You are the Hriday, which means corozon, I think. Si. I wish to know, por favor, how you would feel if you found one of your books with my name on the cover. "Written by His Divine Grace Bhakta Jose". How would you feel about this? You like maybe? Maybe not. Maybe your new wonderful novel you've been scribbling for thirty years now. Or if you come back home and all your muchachos and bonitas were putting roses on my feet because I told them that I am the only way to God for them now, would that bother you, maybe just a little bit? Or maybe you are so tolerant as a tree.
12. O, I know you spent so much time making all of south of the border Krishna conscious. Of course I was just a pokito bambino drinking la leche de mi madre, so I could not appreciate tu efforts. But, Senor Acaryadeva, since you learned Espanol much better than los otros gringos, I have sola una mas por usted: OK, I ask now: Do you know the meaning of the words, "Viva La Revolucion"? Hmm?
Adios, Acaryadeva
