Correction:
The Whirlwind Wrote:
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> The Whirlwind Wrote:
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> >
This morning I have a challenge for any and
> all
> > persons who may be reading this: please find
> and
> > show us a single recorded instance of
> Prabhupada
> > having said or written either "Krishna has
> > appeared as ISKCON" or "ISKCON is my body" (or
> > even anything like that). I've researched this
> > quite extensively, and I cannot find anything
> like
> > that anywhere. Therefore, I reject that as a
> bona
> > fide "Prabhupada said" quote, and regard it as
> > apocrypha. But, I am open to the idea that I
> > could be mistaken and that such a quote exists,
> > but that I just did not find it. So please: if
> > anybody reading this can find such a quote,
> then
> > please show me. If I were a gambler, then I'd
> bet
> > that you cannot do it.
> >
> > If it's so critical to believe that ISKCON is
> > Prabhupada's body, then why did Prabhupada not
> > write that down?> >
> >
"I have instructed everything in my books."
> > --SPL (VI 1987) Dina Dayala das 25/02/76>
> There is a precedent involving devotees making
> claims for and about Srila Prabhupada, that
> Prabhupada never made for and about himself.
> These claims involve deifying Prabhupada, making
> him into a "godman" (such as calling him the
> "savior of the entire universe", for example). In
> the summer of 1970, four sannyasis at New
> Vrindaban began preaching that Prabhupada was
> himself Krishna (God), in the flesh. But
> Prabhupada put the kibosh on that madness pretty
> quickly, and fired and banned (but later
> reinstated) the four sannyasis who were preaching
> the deviant philosophy. Prabhupada never said or
> wrote that ISKCON is HIS body, so I don't buy that
> one either. I think that some sannyasis made that
> line up, in order to make criticism of ISKCON, as
> an institution, a sinful thing for devotees to do.
> Prabhupada is not a godman, and I do not believe
> that ISKCON is his body.
If it's so critical
> to believe that ISKCON is Prabhupada's body, then
> why did Prabhupada not write that down?>
>
But the cancer had not been checked. Halting in
> Japan en route to India, Prabhupada learned that
> four of his new renunciants had begun preaching a
> strange gospel. At a huge gathering of ISKCON
> faithful at New Vrindaban on Krishna’s birth
> anniversary, 1970, they had announced that by
> leaving America, Prabhupada had rejected his
> disciples for failing to recognise that Prabhupada
> was actually Krishna Himself. This was nothing but
> another aspect of impersonalism. While
> Kirtanananda had previously failed to distinguish
> between the personal and impersonal conceptions of
> Godhead [during his bout with maya three years
> earlier], the new sannyasis had failed to
> distinguish the guru from the Godhead. Vaishnavas
> teach that the guru is the servant of God, but
> never the Godhead Himself. A Vaishnava spiritual
> master will never say that he is God or that God
> is impersonal.>
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