Become Guru and Deliver the World

In Los Angeles, California, USA on 17 December 1973 His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta ordered his disciples, "Become perfect in the understanding of this science and become guru and deliver the whole world." Of course his disciples consider themselves to be nothing. They know that they have no potency for turning world history in completely the opposite direction from its current destruction course. So they do not think it it possible that they can become gurus and deliver the world. But at the same time they know that Lord Sri Krishna is all-powerful and that His energy acting through the guru parampara system, the chain of disciplic succession, can accomplish anything wonderful even though it may be inconceivable. Therefore they have dutifully accepted this order that their spiritual master Srila Prabhupada has given them to fully dedicate their lives for becoming gurus and delivering the whole world from its suffering condition. So many solutions are being put forward by various thinkers, organizations, and governments to solve the multitudinous problems which are besieging the planet earth and its inhabitants. But because these solutions are all based on the false premise of "I am this body," they are all doomed to failure. The only solution is a spiritual revolution which is conducted under the Lord's divine potency and sublime teachings as presented personally by Him in the Srimad Bhagavad-gita. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was founded for this purpose in 1966 in New York by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. If you are not already a member, kindly join us today and dedicate your life fully for this global respiritualization mission.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada Ordered His Disciples to Deliver the World from All Suffering

Srila Prabhupada Ordered His Disciples to Deliver the World

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Sukadeva and Suta Goswamis in Our Line of Disciplic Succession?

In the Srimad Bhagavatam, it is said that Vyasadeva's son and disciple was Sukadeva Goswami, and during his narration of the Srimad Bhagavatam to Maharaj Parikshit, Suta Goswami received that knowledge. But the names of Sukadeva Goswami and Suta Goswami are not there in the list of our disciplic succession. In that list we see that after Srila Vyasadeva comes Madhavacharya. Why are Sukadeva Goswami and Suta Goswami not mentioned in our list of disciplic succession?

Riddhiman

Answer: ISKCON is On a Parallel Branch

Sukadeva Goswami presented the knowledge of the Srimad Bhagavatam received in disciplic succession from Srila Vyasadeva. And Suta Goswami presented the same that he received in disciplic succession from Sukadeva Goswami. And those who heard it from Suta Goswami and purely passed it on to others carried that disciplic succession on ever further. We do not have information on hand to sufficiently to trace out all these lines of succession. But there is one line of succession on which have very detailed information. That is the disciplic succession coming from Srila Madhvacharya, who is also in disciplic succession from Srila Vyasadeva. His line of succession is known as the Brahma-Madhva-sampradaya. After Krishna Himself in His most merciful incarnation of Lord Caitanya appeared in this disciplic line, the branch coming from Lord Caitanya became known as the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya.

Just as on a tree there are many, many branches and sub branches, similarly in the Krishna disciplic succession tree
there are many branches and sub branches. This particular branch in which Krishna personally appeared only 500 years ago, the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya, is currently the most prominent branch on the Krishna tree. And the A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada branch of the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya sampradaya, known as ISKCON, is the most spiritually empowered branch of this disciplic succession for inundating the entire world in a tidal wave of Krishna bhakti.

That Sukadeva and Suta Goswamis are not mentioned in our disciplic line does not mean that they are not bona fide spiritual masters. It is simply means that the lines of succession coming from them are lost in history or have become non-existent over the course of time.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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