ALREADY SUCCESSFUL
Guest: Are you planning to choose a successor?
Srila Prabhupada: It is already successful.
Guest: But there must be somebody you know, needed to handle the thing.
Srila Prabhupada: Yes. That we are creating. We are creating these devotees who will handle.
Hanuman: One thing he’s saying, this gentlemen, and I would like to know, is your successor named or your successor will…
Srila Prabhupada: My success is always there.
(SP Room conversation, 12/2/75 Mexico)
Reporter: Are you training a successor?
Srila Prabhupada: Yes, my Guru Maharaja is there.
(SP Press conference, 16/7/75, San Francisco)
“I am the Spiritual Master of this institution, and all the members of the Society, they’re supposed to be my disciples. They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are initiated by me spiritually.” (Radio interview, March 12, 1968, San Francisco)
BOOKS WILL DO EVERYTHING
“After 80 years, no one can be expected to live long. My life is almost ended. So you have to carry on, and these books will do everything.” (SP Room conversation, 18/2/76)
Reporter: Who will succeed you when you die?
Srila Prabhupada: I will never die!
Devotees: Jaya! Haribol!
Srila Prabhupada: I will live forever from my books and you will utilise.
(Interview, Berkley, 17/7/75)
NO SUCCESSOR REQUIRED
Interviewer: What happens when that inevitable time comes a successor is needed?
Ramesvara: He is asking about the future, who will guide the Movement in the future.
Srila Prabhupada: They will guide, I am training them.
Interviewer: Will there be one spiritual leader though?
Srila Prabhupada: No. I am training GBC, 18 all over the world.
(SP Interview, 10/6/76, Los Angeles)
“This is the function of the GBC, to see that one may not be taken away by maya. The GBC should all be the instructor gurus. I am the initiator guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am teaching and doing what I am doing. This is not a title, but you must actually come to this platform. This is what I want.”
(Letter to Madhudvisa, 4/8/1975)
jay prabhupadanugas, pamho agtacbsp, sri balarama rasa yatra ki jay, vasanti pancami ki jay!
once nararatna prabhu acbsp disciple ask to srila prabhupada what is going to happen to the devotees after his physical disappearance regarding the diksa vidhana and srila prabhupada answer, they are already initiate just by reading my books.
and then he say that we have to stress more in the sound vibration of the maha mantra hare krsna instead of guru and krsna so acbsp is still working on mamaivamso jiva loke jiva bhutah sanatanah by projecting our eternal relationship with sri krsna in his classes he say that everything is krsna i’m also krsna so steal me completely this is our prayer, to ask maya to steal me by getting fame position wealth is first class fall down
jay prabhus, agtys thank you for your sadhu sanga,
dandavats, daso smi,
seva das anudas, haribol
Haribol Seva Das,
Your posting above the 2nd paragraph is a bit confusing.
Could you kindly explain that further.
Hare Krsna.
pamho agtsp,
i don’t say that we are mayavadi by approching sri krsna directly.
the guru must be there because sri krsna himself take the guru when he come as avatar.
actually is selfish to not become a guru that’s come from mayavada philosophy but lord caitanya never been there in the previous yugas so he done a spiritual revolution as the most merciful avatara.
of course we don’t have to take over about his mercy but all the time try to give our best to serve guru sadhu and sastra none can become free on his own just by chanting and reading there are special cases but i never think i’m that special case
agtys your servant
seva das