Srila Prabhupada's Disappearance Day

This is the day in 1977 when His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada departed from this world. It is a day of mourning our separation from his physical presence and also of celebrating how he remains always within our hearts in the form of his transcendental instructions. If he were physically present, he could certainly wonderfully resolve the conflicts which sometimes spring up amongst us, his followers, since his departure. But somehow or other it was Krishna's plan that he should be taken away from us at that time so that we would be forced to grow up spiritually and master the art of ourselves resolving the conflicts. After all, if the parent always carries the child, how will the child learn to walk? So now the best way for us, his followers, to observe his disappearance from this world is to carefully serve his desire that we cooperate together very nicely as a world wide family of his disciples and grand-disciples. In this way by humble obedience to him he will always be fully manifested in our hearts and we will never separated from him, not even for a moment.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: What Happens After Initiation?

Dear Gurudeva,

Kindly help...

What happens after initiation? Will I get to learn all the four Vedas or only references to them along with the other scriptures? I would like to purify my life too, but need a little time to fix my surroundings. Please guide me.

Your student,

Dinesh

Answer: Eternal Blissful Existence

After initiation one enters into his eternal blissful existence as a servant of Krishna. We engage our disciples in studying the books given to us by our founder-acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, especially Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam. If these two books are understood properly, one becomes automatically perfect in understanding all of the Vedic wisdom.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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