BY: BHAKTA BALARAM
Sep 11, 2010 — USA (SUN) — Dear Rama Das Brahmachari prabhu, regarding your problem with the statement about Madhu Pandit prabhu’s Akshaya Patra vision:
‘No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger’. What is the problem with that statement? If all the children of India are fed with Krishna prasadam, do you think it will not ‘bring about the lasting change that India needs’?
You definitely seem to think prasadam will not bring that change and hence it shows lack of faith in Krishna prasadam on your part. Any sane devotee can only see positive from the Akshaya Patra program. When Srila Prabhupada requested that no one with in 10 mile radius of his temple should go hungry, did he mean they should stop attending their government education?
Srila Prabhupada’s idea was to distribute prasadam profusely to everyone, whether they are studying in Government schools, or whether they are capable of Vedic education, or whether they acknowledge that it is prasadam or not. Ultimately they will get the benefit. Prasadam will gradually cleanse their hearts and they will naturally come to ISKCON for Vedic education.
Being in a secular country like India, every organization has to be very careful in making ‘religious’ statements which may hinder the underlying aim it wants to achieve. What the Akshaya Patra team is doing is a carefully planned propaganda of distributing Krishna prasadam to 1.3 MILLION children EVERY DAY.
What else do you need? All the Akshaya Patra vehicles carry a big picture of Srila Prabhupada. The children will get purified by seeing him daily and naturally their affection towards Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON will increase. It seems you somehow can’t see beyond your veil of enviousness.
And regarding your “Madhu Pandit’s This and Madhu Pandit’s That“, it is your camp who say like that. None from the ISKCON Bangalore GBC or any devotees associated with Bangalore group say like that. For all of them, Srila Prabhupada is the center and every thing is transcendentally handled by Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada is their life and soul. It is a credit to Madhu Pandit prabhu to instill this kind of feeling towards Srila Prabhupada among all the devotees. You cannot bear the success of his leadership and you start framing your own concoctions, which don’t really exist.
It is your joke that Madhu Pandit prabhu does not glorify Srila Prabhupada. Go ask any devotee in the Bangalore camp. You are in your own phantasmagoria about your concoctions and mis-understandings about that. Or would you believe only if he gives a public affidavit that he is now glorifying Srila Prabhupada?
You say:
“All supporters of this program are writing Madhu Pandit’s program is wonderful, as if this will change my mind, but what does Madhu Pandit say? Is this his program, or Srila Prabhupada’s? If he thinks it is Srila Prabhupada’s, then he must keep on making this clear until no one says Madhu Pandit’s this or Madhu Pandit’s that!”
Why does he have to say any thing to you? It is not his problem. It is your problem. YOU are thinking it is his program. Not him. If people are thinking it is Madhu Pandit’s this and that, it is still a credit to Madhu Pandit prabhu in achieving success in so many things that Srila Prabhupada wanted. Ultimately this will bring back the glory to Srila Prabhupada which we all want, isn’t it? Also, I am sure you are aware of the constant attacks Madhu Pandit Prabhu and his team face in Bangalore.
The GBC guru camp tries to curb down every move of theirs (be it in youth preaching, or employing local MLAs against them, or mud slinging in public, or poisoning innocent devotees against Ritvik philosophy, or hindering Akshaya Patra’s growth by wrong propaganda in government, or court cases, or even physically trying to take over the temple.. I do not wish to mention even more heinous acts they are committing against the Bangalore devotees.
It is definitely a great credit to Madhu Pandit Prabhu to stand bravely amidst this battle and fight and spread the cause and fame of Srila Prabhupada. Just imagine that the whole world of ISKCON is against the Bangalore temple trying to curb them down and still they are able to achieve and succeed and grow tremendously. Don’t you see the divine hand and protection of Srila Prabhupada?
Srila Prabhupada often said, measure a thing by its success. You take any aspect of devotional service given by Srila Prabhupada and Bangalore temple comes on top of it. If you want to see with eyes of envy, you can only find the so-called negative side.
Best regards,
Hare Krishna.
Bhakta Balaram
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