The Fake GBC: BUTCHERS of ISKCON - Part 3

By: 

Mahesh Raja (UK)

Lectures, August 5, 1976, Paris

Prabhupada: Yes, that arrangement will be done; you go on with your business. We are singing this song daily. Why do you forget? Cakhu-dan dilo jei **janme janme prabhu sei**. ONE WHO HAS OPENED THE EYES, **HE’LL REMAIN MY MASTER LIFE AFTER LIFE**.

Note: Srila Prabhupada is WITH US TO GUIDE US through difficult journey of transmigration cycle to attaining Back to Godhead IF we follow him. Bilvamangala Thakura’s spiritual master came through a prostitute to deliver him; so Srila Prabhupada is also SO POWERFUL to help us:

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.15.24 - Description of the Kingdom of God

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GO BACK TO GODHEAD IN ONE LIFE, but in the human form one should at least understand the goal of life and begin Krishna consciousness.

Nectar of Instruction 5

“One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari. A neophyte Vaishnava or a Vaishnava situated on the intermediate platform can also accept disciples, but such disciples must be on the same platform, and it should be understood that they cannot advance very well toward the ultimate goal of life under his insufficient guidance. Therefore a disciple should be careful to accept an uttama-adhikari as a spiritual master.”

Some devotees are taking this above quote to mean that Kanistha can give Diksha. This is NOT what Srila Prabhupada says. There is NO mention of Diksha by kanistha. What it exactly says is about accepting DISCIPLES. Then suggests very strongly two points:

1) ”...they cannot advance very well toward the ultimate goal of life under his insufficient guidance. Therefore a disciple should be careful to accept an uttama-adhikari as a spiritual master.”

2) “One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari.

The question is can a Kanistha give DIKSHA from this quote? The answer is NO!

So how can we establish that Kanistha does NOT give diksha?

Kanistha is a QUALIFIED Brahmana. But even such a QUALIFIED Brahmana is in MATERIAL CONTAMINATION. And because he has MATERIAL CONTAMINATION he does NOT have Transcendental Knowledge. What you do NOT have you can NOT give. And it is Transcendental Knowledge that frees one from ALL MATERIAL CONTAMINATION.
Definition of Diksha:

Madhya 15.108 - The Lord Accepts Prasada at the House of Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya

Srila Jiva Gosvami explains diksha in his Bhakti-sandarbha (283):
 

divyam jnanam yato dadyat

kuryat papasya sanksayam

tasmad dikseti sa prokta

desikais tattva-kovidaih
 

“Diksha is the process by which one can awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity. A person expert in the study of the revealed scriptures knows this process as diksha.”
 

Madhya 4.111 Sri Madhavendra Puri’s Devotional Service

Diksha actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination.

So here we see from above definition of Diksha quotes:

1) Transcendental Knowledge awakened, initiated

2) Becomes freed from all material contamination; vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity

Now ask a simple question HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is NOT freed from MATERIAL CONTAMINATION GIVE DIKSHA -BY WHICH- ONE BECOMES FREED FROM **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?

Just take a look at how contradictory and stupid this looks:

Q1) HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is HIMSELF material contaminated free another person from **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?
 

Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.25 - King Yayati Achieves Liberation

The word vidhuta, meaning “cleansed,” is very significant. Everyone in this material world is contaminated (karanam guna-sango ‘sya). Because we are in a material condition, we are contaminated either by sattva-guna, by rajo-guna or by tamo-guna. Even if one becomes a qualified brahmana in the mode of goodness (sattva-guna), he is still materially contaminated. One must come to the platform of suddha-sattva, transcending the sattva-guna. Then one is vidhuta-trilinga, cleansed of the contamination caused by the three modes of material nature.

Q2) If a Brahmana (Kanistha) had Transcendental Knowledge then why is contaminated by goodness (sattva-guna)?

Diksha is the process by which one can awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity. Diksha actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination.

Q3) So HOW can a Kanistha (Brahmana) who HIMSELF is material contaminated does NOT have Transcendental Knowledge give another person Transcendental Knowledge to free him?

Common-sense: What you do NOT have you CAN NOT give to others.
 

Conversations, February 14, 1977, Mayapur

Prabhupada: Vaishnava is not so easy. The varnashrama-dharma should be established to become a Vaishnava. It is not so easy to become Vaishnava.

Hari-sauri: No, it’s not a cheap thing.

Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore this should be made. Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava, is not so easy. If Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava is so easy, why so many fall down, fall down? It is not easy. The sannyasa is for the highest qualified brahmana. And simply by dressing like a Vaishnava, that is… fall down.

Hari-sauri: So the varnashrama system is like for the kanisthas, Kanistha-adhikari.

Prabhupada: Kanistha?

Hari-sauri: When one is only on the platform of neophyte.

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Kanistha-adhikari, yes.

Hari-sauri: Varnashrama system is beneficial.

Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari means he must be a brahmana. That is kanistha-adhikari. The spiritual life, kanistha-adhikari, means he must be a qualified brahmana. That is kanistha. What is esteemed as very high position in the material world, brahmana, that is kanistha-adhikari.
 

arcayam eva haraye

pujam yah sraddhayehate

na tad-bhaktesu canyesu

sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah
 

The brahmana means from the material stage gradually he is elevated to the spiritual stage. And below the brahmana there is no question of Vaishnava.

Hari-sauri: No question of?

Prabhupada: Vaishnavism.

Conversations, February 6, 1976, Mayapur

Dayananda: But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?

Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari. They are not devotees, but they are called bhaktabhasa. There are some signs of bhakti. Actually they are not bhakta. Bhaktabhasa. Abhasa. Abhasa means a simple, a little light.

Hridayananda: So devotee really means one who has love for Krishna.

Prabhupada: Yes, unalloyed, without any condition. Anyabhilasita-sunyam, zero, all other, that “I am this, I am that, I am jnani, I am yogi, I am karmi, I am minister, I am king”--all these are thinking like that, they’re all nonsense. “I am servant of Krishna”--that is greatness. Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa. That is self-realization, atma-tattvam.