A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
Offering to Srila Prabhupada 2011. New Dwaraka.
YOUR DIVINE GRACE
Prabhupada: “Grace means he’ll willingly give you mercy.”
Dear Srila Prabhupada, I do not exaggerate when I say that you are personally Lord Caitanya’s Audarya (magnanimity) manifestation. Magnanimous means generous, kind, noble, forgiving, humane, liberal, valiant, and magnificent. Your Divine Grace possesses all those qualities transcendentally. If we further make the derivatives from magnificent, then Your Divine Grace are dignified, excellent, glorious, mighty, beautiful, illustrious and grand. Still further defining grand, it means: higher in rank, status or dignity than others having the same title; majestic, stately, dignified, elevated, sublime, grave, preeminent, extraordinary, commanding, overwhelming, foremost and awe-inspiring.
But Your Divine Grace particularly won us over by your great humility.
Dear Srila Prabhupada, it is said in the Scriptures that one most search and approach a bona fide spiritual master, but in our case Your Divine Grace came to us; in this way making the unfortunate greatly fortunate. It is all due to your boundless mercy.
tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet
samit-panih srotriyam brahma-nistham
In this way we can understand that Your Divine Grace is Lord Nityananda´s mercy incarnation. So, by your kind recommendation we are getting Caiyanya-Nityananda’s rays of benediction.
Concentrated Mercy
I do not know of anybody else as merciful as your humble self, Your Divine grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Certainly you are the concentrated mercy of the Divine couple Sri Sri Radha-Krishna, and that of Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, the saviors of the most fallen. Without Their combined mercy there is no way out of this entanglement called the material world; no doubt you are the personification of that sweet mercy.
Your Divine Grace has said about the Lord in the Krsna Book: “Of all His glories the most important is His causeless mercy upon the conditioned souls in reclaiming them from the clutches of maya”. There is not grater opulence of Their Lordships than Their gracious mercy to the fallen souls, and you, Srila Prabhupada, are the personification of that concentrated mercy.
Literally you came from Vrindavana to serve Radha-Govinda, who else as merciful and humble as yourself?
His Divine Grace, in spite of being the direct manifestation of Radha-Krsna’s and Gaura-Nitai’s mercy, very humbly came to canvass and to reclaim the fallen conditioned souls back to Godhead. Many may claim to be very advanced, but there is no comparison with Srila Prabhupada’s mercy and compassion toward the entire universe by brining Krishna consciousness to everyone. While some considered themselves paka brahmanas, pure brahmanas, who cannot contaminate themselves with low born people, he mercifully underwent severe penances like living in such a place as the Bowery in New York.
Srila Prabhpada
The Lord does not forget the fallen souls who have forgotten Him, and Your Divine Grace descended to save them all. You represent your Lord Caitanya, maha-vadanyaya, the most merciful, therefore deserving the title Srila Prabhupada.
So simple, why they shouldn’t know and accept it? What is the reason they invent so many excuses?
Is this a title conferred only by loving and sentimental disciples? or Your Divine Grace did some wonderful and extraordinary acts fulfilling the desire of Lord Caitanya and those of the great Acaryas like Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who predicted a great personality would spread the Holy Name all over the world; like Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada, who wanted this, that the Holy Name be spread, and to whom you give all credit? This is the challenge today to detractors who cannot call you simply Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura comments in his Anubhasya on Caitanya-caritamrta (Antya-lila 7.11), “Without being empowered by the direct potency of Lord Krishna to fulfill His desire and without being specifically favored by the Lord, no human being can become the spiritual master of the whole world… Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name of the Lord, he cleanses the hearts of the most fallen people; therefore he extinguishes the blazing fire of the material world. Not only that, he broadcasts the shining brightness of Krishna’s effulgence throughout the world. Such an acarya, or spiritual master, should be considered nondifferent from Krishna—that is, he should be considered the incarnation of Lord Krishna’s potency. Such a personality is krishnalingita-vigraha—that is, he is always embraced by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. Such a person is above the considerations of the varnasrama institution. He is the guru, or spiritual master, for the entire world, a devotee on the topmost platform, the maha-bhagavata stage, and a paramahamsa-thakura, a spiritual form only fit to be addressed as paramahamsa or thakura.”
Prabhupada means the representative of the Lord, therefore you are Prabhupada. Prabhupada means the Master unto whose lotus feet other masters seat, therefore you are Prabhupada.
Sampradaya Acarya
The Sampradaya-acarya is the representative of the disciplic succession or Sampradaya due to some special service he rendered and guidance to the devotees.
Srila Baladeva Vidya-bhusana first listed 21 Sampradaya–acaryas from Lord Krishna to Lord Caitanya, in his Prameya Ratnavali. Srila Prabhupada in his Bhagavad-gita as it is listed the Sampradaya-acaryas from Lord Krishna to our days, following the list left by his spiritual master Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada.
His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada fulfilling the sweet desire of Lord Caitanya and that of all the acaryas in the Brahma-gaudiya-sampradaya of spreading the Holy Names all over the world to save all the conditioned souls, is without a doubt the most recent Sampradaya-acarya, after his own spiritual master Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada. The title Sampradaya-acarya fits him perfectly.
1973
In December 1973, right here in Los Angeles temple, we witnessed your moving offering to your spiritual master then you said:
“…So there are two phases, prakata and aprakata, appearance and disappearance. So we have nothing to lament on account of disappearance because Krsna and Krsna's devotee... Not only devotees, even the nondevotees, nobody disappears…” -and you farther said- “So spiritually, appearance and disappearance, there is no difference. Just like in material point of view, if a person takes birth... Suppose you get a son born, you become very happy. The same son, when passes away, you become very unhappy. This is material. And spiritually, there is no such difference, appearance or disappearance. So although this is the disappearance day of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvati Thäkura, so there is nothing to be lamented. Although we feel separation, that feeling is there, but spiritually, there is no difference between appearance and disappearance.”
Yet, today we are feeling very acute separation from you Srila Prabhupada.
Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Your concentrated mercy is showering on everyone, including me.
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