Traditional Scriptural Understandings
BY: TAMOHARA DASA VANAPRASTHA
Oct 25, 2010 — TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA (SUN) — Dear Aprakrita maharajah, Prabhu and old friend, in your frenzy to protect the legacy of Srila Prabhupada, you build a case against HH Gour Govinda Swami, who was very dear to Srila Prabhupada. This is like smiling to the master, then kicking his nephew!
Gour Govinda Thakura never supported any bogus teachings. In fact, the bogus GBC's were very ill-disposed towards him for exposing their cheating, that's a fact. Gour Govinda is a pure sannyasi, never even came within an inch of deviating from his vows or purity of character, except inasmuch as he had to associate with nonsenses in ISKCON in his service to our spiritual master's society. This required purity.
Those who associated with Gour Govinda witnessed his miracles following Prabhupada's footsteps. There is no question of the purity of his birth and activities throughout his too short life with us.
A pure devotee is never to be criticized, as even if he is wrong on some point, Krsna accepts him as right. I lived in close association for some time with Gour Govinda in 1977-1979, and I can say that not once ever did he waste a moment or fail to control his every senses totally in Krsna's service. Never.
Why are you so surprised that the Jagad-guru Srila Prabhupada has extended supreme mercy, and that the pure Vaisnava devotee Gour Govinda Swami is providing traditional scriptural understandings? Srila Prabhupada is a big city jet-set worldwide preacher, while Gour Govinda Swami is of a much simpler rural traditional Vaisnava Orissan culture, and he was presenting sastric tradition. We Western disciples of Srila Prabhupada are simply blessed by Prabhupada's innovative special mercy, otherwise unheard of in the three worlds. Srila Prabhupada is doing something quite unique.
Anyway, the vehemence against this purest Vaisnava and his wonderful disciples, who are also exemplary servants of Srila Prabhupada, is not helpful, and so you may be wise and thoughtful to consider ceasing these unnecessary attacks. Millions of Vaisnava admirers of Gour Govinda Swami in Orissa and around the world disagree 100% with your opinions in this regards.
Your friend, pamho.
