Page 4 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

INTRODUCTION

Since the disappearance of Srila Prabhupada there have
been attempts, some crude and others more nuanced, to
undermine the authority of his words. This is a symptom
of Kali yuga, the age of hypocrisy and quarrel. People in
this age misrepresent the truth and argue that they have
not. A recent example of a crude attempt to undermine
the words of Srila Prabhupada is an article by Brahma das
on the VNN news. The following is an answer to Brahma
das and all others who are fool enough to think they are
qualified to undermine the words of Srila Prabhupada
with their empirical flights of speculation.

Everyday we, the disciples, both siksa and diksa, of His
Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
honor him by singing the prayers to the spiritual master
wherein we say, guru mukha padma vakya/cittete kariya
aikya: “My only wish is to have my consciousness purified
by the words emanating from the lips of my spiritual
master.” There has never been an assumption that some
of the words are purifying and some are not or some
are transcendental and some are mundane, some can be

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