Today is the Disappearance Day of Our Most Beloved Srila Prabhupada

ISKCON's Back to Godhead Magazine published the following in 1978 regarding the disappearance of our most beloved Srila Prabhupada:

Around the turn of the century, the great spiritual master Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura made this prediction:

"Soon there will appear a personality who will preach the holy name of Hari [Lord Krishna] all over the world."

As we have witnessed during the twelve years when he was personally present and leading ISKCON, that personality was His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Throughout his life, Srila Prabhupada prepared himself for his great mission, and from his arrival in America on September 18, 1965, to his passing on November 14, 1977 -- through some seventy books and thousands of letters, interviews, and lectures-he gave the world the holy names of Krsna and the Vedic science of self-realization. Bhaktivinoda Thakura also wrote a short stanza about the influence that a Vaisnava (a pure devotee of the Lord) carries in this world even after his passing:

He reasons ill who tells that Vaisnavas die When thou art living still in sound! The Vaisnavas die to live, and living try To spread the holy name around!

So, while it is natural for us to be sorrowful that Srila Prabhupada has passed away, we can know for sure that he will never pass away, for he is "living still in sound." As he himself said, "I will never die. I will live forever in my books." In the days and years to come, may everyone come to remember Srila Prabhupada in the same way that he remembered his spiritual master: "He lives forever by his divine instructions, and the follower lives with him."

Click here to see a wonderful heart melting video about the disappearance of our most beloved Srila Prabhupada.

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Why the Material Energy?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Your Divine Grace and Srimati Gurumataji,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Hare Krishna. Srila Prabhupada writes in his Srimad Bhagavatam 3.9.1 purport "The Lord has employed His wonderful material energy in manifesting many, many wonderful distractions in the material world, and the conditioned souls, illusioned by the same energy, are thus unable to know the supreme cause." Kindly explain if the Lord wants all the conditions souls come back to home, back to Godhead, why has He employed His material energy to distract the living entities so that they will not able to know Him?

Your insignificant servant
Sadbhuja Das

Answer: To Facilitate Free Will

My Dear Sadbhuja,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Krishna does not want robots in the spiritual world. He only wants those
who desire to love Him. Therefore, Krishna gives the jiva what he wants.
If he wants to remember Krishna, Krishna gives him remembrance. And if he wants to forget Krishna, Krishna gives him for forgetfulness.

sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo
mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca

"I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness." (Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 15, Text 15)

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Krishna Wants Everyone's Real Love

Sankarshan Das Adhikari is one of the spiritual masters of the worldwide Hare Krishna Movement. He has dedicated the last 50 years of his life for bringing a spiritual revolution to planet earth by spreading the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna all over the world. He is based in Austin, Texas and when there is no pandemic regularly travels all over the world teaching his audiences how to attain Krishna consciousness, the highest stage of spiritual awakening. He is available for media interviews and to speak to groups and organizations either in person or via the internet.