Dear Prabhus, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Partially motivated by <http://prabhupadavision.com/
January 29, 2012:
Dear Prabhus, Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I’ve heard yet another objection to this website. It actually amazes me that some of my godbrothers are so unbelievably self-motivated that they could think this way: “Tamal Krsna Gosvami came up with the word “rtvik” on his own, and Srila Prabhupada, for some unknown reason, went along with it.” How any of my godbrothers could think in this naive, offensive way is beyond me!
Srila Prabhupada would never, in a million years, simply “go along” with terminology which would deeply affect the future of ISKCON! First and second initiation were the most important part of the ingenious management system that Srila Prabhupada implemented within ISKCON. It gave the local temple presidents the power that they needed in order to manage effectively. The way that it worked was as follows: “If the temple president said you got initiated, then you got initiated, otherwise not!” It was as simple as that. No if’s, and’s, or but’s!
The actual explanation for TKG’s initial use of the term is very simple: “Srila Prabhupada had been using the term “rtvik” in unrecorded, unreported conversations prior to the time that TKG mentioned it in the May 28, 1977 conversation.” This is the obvious explanation for anyone who is not self-motivated. (Someone who has the “I wanna be a guru like Srila Prabhupada” disease.)
[Krsna consciousness] is simple for the simple, but it is very hard for the crooked. (Initiation lecture, Boston, December 26, 1969)
Your servant, Pratyatosa Dasa
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