Our Mission: Save the Fallen Humanity

Srila Prabhupada is ordering us, "Now push on with full enthusiasm to save the fallen humanity from the most degraded and wretched conditions of material life." Therefore we must absorb our lives in this topmost of all welfare activities to save the fallen humanity from its entanglement in the vicious cycle of birth and death.

In this connection Srila Prabhupada has written in his book Renunciation Through Wisdom:

"The Lord's devotees can save even those whom the Lord Himself rejects. This is their unique character. Therefore the devotees of the Lord arrange various means to save the fallen, reprobate souls from perdition. In fact, they live among these spiritual derelicts to encourage them toward spiritual perfection, using any means at hand-even tricks. His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada wanted to open a students' hostel in London, the logic being that it was necessary to give sugar-coated pills, in the form of a little sense gratification, to those debauched students in order to attract them to join the path of God-realization.

"If they so desire, powerful spiritual masters, or pure devotees of the Lord, can instantly deliver the entire universe and take everyone to the shelter of the Supreme Lord's lotus feet. Srila Vasudeva Datta declared to Lord Caitanya that he was prepared to take on all the sinful reactions of every living entity in the universe and suffer eternally in hell if the Lord was willing to liberate all the living entities at one time. The pure devotees are so magnanimous that they are always concerned about the spiritual well-being of every soul. The only way to receive the Supreme Lord's mercy is to bathe oneself in the dust of the lotus feet of such unalloyed devotees."

Let us all take these words of Srila Prabhupada most seriously.

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Radha and Krishna Don't Want Anyone to Suffer

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Is Guru Eternal?

ls guru eternal? Can one accept a guru and take guidance from a guru who has left this world?

Questions asked in a class in Pretoria, South Africa on 11 June 2017

Answer: Guru Lives Forever By His Divine Instructions

The spiritual master, the guru, is eternal. He lives forever by his divine instructions, and his disciples live with him. Regarding initiation, we can only accept initiation from a guru who is still physically present here in this world. We cannot accept initiation from spiritual masters who have left their bodies and departed from this world. However, once one is initiated if he remains firm in executing his initiation vows, he his eternally connected with his spiritual master even if his spiritual master has departed because his spiritual master becomes fully present within his heart. Lord Sri Krishna orders us to accept a spiritual master if we want to become His devotees. He says that unless we have a spiritual master we are not His devotees. Therefore it is an absolute necessity for each us to take initiation from the bona fide spiritual master and remain eternally obedient to him.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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