Connecting with Srila Prabhupada

As we are now winding up our super enlivening sojourn in this most sacred place in the entire universe, we took advantage of being here to visit the most spiritually surcharged place from where Srila Prabhupada launched his preaching mission, his rooms at the Radha Damodar temple. He once stated, "Here from these rooms it all began." He first took up residency in these rooms in July of 1962 and remained here until coming to America in 1965. He wrote the translations and purports to the first canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam here, as well as other writings. He also said that he resides eternally in these rooms. There are two rooms across the veranda from each other. On one side is his living quarters where he slept, chanted, and wrote. And on other said is his kitchen where he cooked and honored prasadam. His presence is very strongly manifested in these rooms. It is the rarest treat to be allowed to enter these rooms and become drowned in the sublime waves of his all-merciful divine presence. So we took the advantage to humbly offer our obeisances at his lotus feet, worship him by singing the Gurvastakam prayers, and beg for his mercy that he bless us with pure bhakti and the empowerment to carry on successfully with his mission of flooding the entire planet with Krishna consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Does Krishna Need a Guru?

Since Krishna is the compiler of all the Vedas He is the guru all of all gurus. So why does He need a guru?

Tushar

Answer: He Does Not Need a Guru, But You Do.

Krishna is of course, as you have mentioned, the guru of all and does not require a guru. But yet to teach us by His example that we require a guru He accepted Sandipani Muni as His guru. So I sincerely hope that, if you have not already done so, you will properly understand Krishna's desire for you and accept a bona fide guru by taking complete shelter at his lotus feet.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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