Rtvik-Representative of the Acarya System – Definitive Analysis

Audio-Visual Presentation at rtvik.org

Rtvik-Representative of the Acarya System – Definitive Analysis
AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION – By Ameyatma Das

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I have made a very extensive online audio-visual presentation on the Rtvik-Representative of the Acarya System [Rtvik-RAS]. I began work on this presentation in June of 2008 – this is nearly 14 years in the making. It is graphics intensive and you will need a computer/laptop or device capable of running computer games to watch it. Speakers or headphones required. For now, it will only run on Google’s Chrome browser (or the latest microsoft Edge – which is based on the Chrome browser).

This is not just ‘another’ rtvik argument – the presentation is comprised of 30 hours of video within a virtual 3D scene presenting the evidences in a very complete and all-encompassing view. No matter who you are, what side of this issue you stand, you will find something new that will change you mind and point of view.

Since it is an Audio-Visual presentation, I have given a description of what this presentation will deal with in the Introduction. Rather then duplicating that in writing here, the best way for you to find out what this is really about is to at least watch the Introduction

Go to www.rtvik.org press the [ENTER PRESENTATION] button… It may take a second or two for the preliminary graphics to load, then press on the green [START PRESENTATION At Beginning] – again it will take several more seconds for the main 3D scene to load then you will enter the 3D virtual scene and virtual temple

So far I have sent this link to 30 GBC members and just a handful of others, just sent today, so no responses yet. It will take days to view the entire presentation, could take weeks for those who can only watch a little at a time, But, I know everyone will find something new and worth watching.

I want that the link be broadcast far and wide so that every follower and well-wisher of SP can watch this BUT, the nature of the technology I am using requires that the videos be post on the same server as the main website. I cannot host the videos on youtube, google drive or other storage and streaming services. The site is currently hosted on a shared hosting account and can only support a few people at a time trying to view it. I am seeking donations to cover the cost of semi-dedicated servers to host this on BEFORE the link gets broadcast widely, or it will crash the site. Please, at least watch the intro and if you feel this is a worthy project, consider donating to help make this available to one and all. A link is on the home page for Paypal donations.  Thank you….

{An important aspect, for me personally, in producing this – is that – in prayer I approached Srila Prabhupad and offered him my services. I offered to Him my services to produce for him a presentation on this topic. I prayed with all the sincerity I have that I was fully prepared to present whatever HE wanted. In those prayers I told him I no longer cared one way or the other which side of this issue I will present, my only prayer and desire was to simply offer my Guru Maharaj the use of my services and begged and begged him for his guidance to that the views presented will be HIS views. So that this will be HIS presentation – and not the views of a very insignificant ameyatma das.

Those prayers were front and center over the many years that it took to produce this. This presentation is the final result of those prayers and my service to Srila Prabhupad. It has been produced as a loving offering to Srila Prabhupad, and I am offering it to his followers also in that same mood of loving devotion. I pray that you will also receive it in the same mood.}

Your servant Ameyatma Das

How I joined The Hare Krishna Movement
By Ameyatma das

Back in 1968 I had given my life to Jesus and to preach God’s word. But, very quickly I realized I didn’t know who God was. I read the Bible from end to end, and found no real direct information about God, the Person. What does He look like? What does He do? What is His kingdom really like to live there. I found nothing in the Bible. I then read the Torah, then the Koran, but they were of the same origin, and none of them gave any real information of Who God ‘really’ was.

Eventually I found Buddhism and was attracted to the deep introspection of Eastern thought, meditation and chanting of Sanskrit mantras. But, shortly I realized that again there was no direct or detailed knowledge as to who God, the Person, really is.

In 1969 at the college library I found a small Bhagavad Gita. Not Prabhupad’s, but it was just the verses translated into English. it changed my life. I had been searching for what God Looked like, and what His kingdom is like, and I found the most profound Teachings of God in the Bhagavad Gita.

But, there were no pictures in that book. And, again, no descriptions of what He looked like, and what His kingdom was really like. So my search to find out Who God really was, what He looks like, What He does, what His kingdom is like, continued.

I finally realized what I needed was a Guru, someone who already knows God in full, a truly Self-Realized master. I must find such a guru and surrender my life to him, and he can teach me who God is.
For some time, I searched and prayed for my guru. But, I found no one living in this world who was really and truly Self-Realized. I then became convinced that my guru was no longer living in this world, so I thought I can only find him in the library, in a book that he had written.

One evening I prayed intensely for God to send me my guru in the form of a book. And I prayed that in this book my guru will tell me everything I want to know about God.
This was now the summer of 1970. The next day I went to the West Covina branch of the Los Angeles County Library system – and there – waiting for me were 3 books.

The Krsna Book,
the Teachings of Lord Caitanya and
the Nectar of Devotion.

Those 3 books had been donated just the day before by, what the Librarian described as a man with a shaved head, pony-tail and flowing white robes.
She asked me if I knew who that was, and I said, “Yes”. That was an angel sent by God.

I told her I had been praying to God to send me these books, and so he had sent one of his angels to bring them for me. The librarian’s knees buckled and she caught herself by grabbing onto the counter. She almost fainted. After that, she said nothing more, but, her hands were trembling as she completed checking the books out for me.

The reason I told her that is because at the time, that is what I thought because of the way she described the person who donated the books. At that time I had never seen a devotee or knew how they dressed. I had prayed intensely to God, the Father, to please send me a book written by my guru who would tell me all about Who God really is. And, the next day these 3 books were there. And the librarian told me the person who brought them wore flowing white robes. So, that had to have been an angel who brought those books.

It wasn’t until early in 1982, nearly 12 years after this took place, that I first told this story to anyone. And, the first person I told this to happened to be Jayatirtha, my local GBC in Detroit at the time. He had been the Temple President in LA in 1973 when I joined the temple there and one day he asked me how I came to join ISKCON, so I told him. This was just months before Jayatirtha left ISKCON. He told me that was he who donated these books to that library. (He truly did act as God’s angel because he brought me SP’s books – he gave me my guru and my guru gave me Krsna.)

Jayatirtha told me that the very first box of the Krsna Books had just arrived from the printers just the day before. The next day he had to come to West Covina as he was servicing a shop that sold the Spritual Sky incense. That store was near the library. For a year the temple had the hard book printing of the Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and earlier that year the hardbound Nectar of Devotion arrived from the printers. And now they had the hardbound Krishna Book. Devotees hadn’t yet distributed many of the hardbound books, and so he thought why not donate the very first Krsna Book to be distributed, along with the other 2 hardbound books, to the West Covina library, since he would be driving right by it that day. He told me that this was the very first Krsna Book to be distributed – and I got it just 2 days after it arrived from the printers.

Even though I immediately accepted SP as my guru in the summer of 1970, I even woke up the next day a vegetarian, which even I didn’t know why, (I had touched the Krsna Book). I didn’t know anything about any temples. 3 years later, in 1973, I joined the Los Angeles temple. Srila Prabhupad gave me initiation later that same year.

In 1974 I began training to paint for Prabhupad’s books for the BBT, but in the fall of 1974 Bharadraj had returned from India to start what became known as the F. A. T. E. multi-media museum project. I joined with him and that became my main service while Srila Prabhupad was with us in this world.

I began as an artists, but, suggested the museums add sound/lighting and effects, and so my service turned to designing the electronic control system for the museums. Then I started producing the Audio-Visual presentations.

In 1985 the GBC elected me as ISKCON’s Minister of Audio-Visual Productions.

As I began producing this presentation – in my prayers I offered Srila Prabhupad the use of my services, and offered to produce for Him whatever he wanted me and directed me to produce. In my prayers I told him that I no longer cared which side of this issue I would present, as my only prayer was that He guide me in such a way that this presentation will be what HE wants, not what ameyatma das wants.

This presentation is the summum-bonum end-results of those prayers.

http://www.rtvik.org/
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