Myth Making - on a Roll
BY: NRSIMHANANDA DAS
Feb 23, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (SUN) — HH Bhakti Caru Swami has now extended the status of 'pure devotee performing a lila by descending to help Srila Prabhupada' upon the late HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami. I have copied and pasted-in below his latest glorification in the hopes that some of you can find the reference where Srila Prabhupada states that some of his disciples were pure devotees - nitya siddhas - sent from the spiritual sky (second paragraph below) by the Lord.
Of course, if he did say it (not hearsay, please, books/tapes is authority), who would be the authority to say who was and who wasn't? And wouldn't that same authority have to be a nitya-siddha in order to give such authorized pronouncements?
Srila Prabhupada did not say that Jayananda, probably the most universally appreciated devotee, came to help him from a position in the spiritual world. If he didn't give him that status, how can anybody else be saying such things about Srila Prabhupada's disciples? Who will be the next named in this continued trend of HH Bhakti Caru Swami's elevating honorariums?
I was not happy with the speculations in the Abhay Charan series - visions attributed to Srila Prabhupada that were entirely imagined. Is Bhakti Caru Swami writing another script that blind followers and disciples are accepting as factual? I really think that he has gone over the edge to the kind of speculation that I thought we were advised not to make in spiritual life.
I sent Bhakti Caru Swami a copy of my last article on this subject, but apparently it has not been taken into account.
YS, Nrsimhananda das
HH Bhakti Caru Swami:
"Srila Prabhupada came with a very special mission, to fulfill the prediction
of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that the Krishna consciousness movement would
spread all over the world in every town and village. So in this way we can
see that Krishna actually sent Srila Prabhupada to accomplish that mission.
And in order to assist Srila Prabhupada Sri Krishna also sent many devotees.
And undoubtedly HH Bhakti Tirtha Maharaj is one of them. To assist Srila
Prabhupada Krishna planted different devotees in different parts of the
world, in different communities, in different societies and when Srila
Prabhupada went to America they came forward to assist Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada himself admitted that quite a few times that many of his
disciples are not just ordinary living entities, sadhaka bhaktas, they are
his eternal associates. Just as he came from the spiritual sky these
devotees also came from the spiritual sky."
