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Srila Prabhupada's
Ritvik System
is authorized
SB 4.8.54 P Dhruva Maharaja
Leaves Home for the Forest
The method of worship--chanting the mantra and preparing the forms of the
Lord--is not stereotyped, nor is it exactly the same everywhere. lt is
specifically mentioned in this verse that one should take consideration of the
time, place and available conveniences. Our Krsna consciousness movement is
going on throughout the entire world, and we also install Deities in different
centers. Sometimes our Indian friends, puffed up with concocted notions,
criticize, "This has not been done. That has not been done." But they forget
this instruction of Narada Muni to one of the greatest Vaisnavas, Dhruva
Maharaja. One has to consider the particular time, country and conveniences.
What is convenient in India may not be convenient in the Western countries.
Those who are not actually in the line of acaryas, or who personally have no
knowledge of how to act in the role of acarya, unnecessarily criticize the
activities of the ISKCON movement in countries outside of India. The fact is
that such critics cannot do anything personally to spread Krsna consciousness.
If someone does go and preach, taking all risks and allowing all considerations
for time and place, it might be that there are changes in the manner of worship,
but that is not at all faulty according to sastra. Srimad Viraraghava
Acarya, an acarya in the disciplic succession of the Ramanuja-sampradaya, has
remarked in his commentary that candalas, or conditioned souls who are born in
lower than sudra families, can also be initiated according to circumstances. The
formalities may be slightly changed here and there to make them
Vaisnavas.
Conversations
Interviewer: What is the
procedure of the movement? Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your
other disciples also do
that?
Prabhupada: Well,
initiation or no initiation, first thing is knowledge. (break) ...knowledge.
Initiation is formality. Just like you go to a school for knowledge, and
admission is formality. That is not very important thing.
Whereas Srila Prabhupada
DELIVERS by giving DIKSA knowledge the formality is conducted by the Ritviks
(representatives).
Madhya
22.65 The Process of Devotional
Service
uttama-adhikari--the topmost devotee; sei--he; taraye samsara--can
deliver the whole world.
Note: Karma is taken by
UTTAMA -ADHAKARI. Only he can DELIVER by definition. uttama-adhikari Sei taraye
samsara.
Srila Prabhupada Pranati proves
he delivers:
namas
te sarasvate deve
gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
Our respectful
obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvati
Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanyadeva and
delivering the Western countries, which are filled with
impersonalism and voidism.
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