Srila Prabhupada's Disappearance Day

Today is the most heart breaking day that Srila Prabhupada physically disappeared from this mortal world some 45 years ago on 14 November 1977. According to the Vedic calendar this was the 19th day of the most holy month of Damodar, which also known as Kartik. This year in Vrindavan (where we are staying right now) the 19th day of Kartik falls on 29 October. So today's Thought for the Day is my offering of love to my most beloved spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, who has so mercifully saved me from this hellish material existence.

My dearmost Srila Prabhupada,

Please accept my humble obeisances in the most sacred dust of your lotus feet. You have so beautifully written to your spiritual master as follows in the dedication section of your Srimad Bhagavatam:

"To Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja
My Spiritual Master On the 26th Annual Ceremony of His Disappearance Day
He lives forever by his divine instructions and the follower lives with him."

In this way you have taught us how we can always be connected with you at every minute. You live forever with us in the form of your divine instructions. Therefore if we truly desire your association we must tightly embrace your instructions within our hearts as our very life and soul. In this way we will remain eternally in your divine presence.

Regarding separation from the spiritual master you have written very profoundly in a letter to your disciple Jadurani Devi Dasi, "The ecstasy of separation of Spiritual Master is even greater ecstasy than meeting with Him."

This means that the more we can feel tortured and anguished by your separation from us the more tightly we will be connected with you in sublime spiritual bliss. So please bless us, Srila Prabhupada, that we now can feel totally desperately devastated that you have physically disappeared from this mortal world.

In this connection you have also written as follows to your disciple Krishna Das:

"To feel separation from the Spiritual Master or Krishna is very good position. That means one who is in pure love with Krishnan separation, that is Krishna Consciousness. And in the absolute platform, there is no difference of separation and meeting. The separation is also meeting and His Representative, Spiritual Master, he thinks always of Them. And this thinking process is Krishna consciousness. If we can think always of Krishna even i, rather in separation one relishes the loving relationship more tasty. So don't be disappointed that you are separated from me, I am also always thinking of you how you are making progress there."

So now we know what is our duty. We must always remember you and never forget you. This will be the perfection of our existence. And upon leaving our present material bodies at the time of death we will be reunited with you in pure spiritual bliss in that most sublime and unlimitedly ecstatic spiritual world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Srila Prabhupada Dictating Srimad Bhagavatam Puports Before Leaving His Body in Vrindavan

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My Dearmost Srila Prabhupada, Jagad-Guru, Spiritual Master of the Whole World

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Srila Prabhupada in Atlanta in 1975

(I was there standing close to Srila Prabhupada. This is the time when privately in his room he gave me 2nd initiation putting my Brahmana thread on my body.)


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Srila Prabhupada Arrives in San Francisco 27 June 1971

(I was there ecstatically walking along with him. It was the first time I had ever seen him.)

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Srila Prabhupada Blesses Us with Bliss

at a Ratha Yatra Festival


Srila Prabhupada

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Do Animals Reincarnate?

What about animals souls and spirits? Do they reincarnate? I take it they too are part of the world of reincarnation.

R Petra

Answer: Yes and We Were Animals

Yes, your understand is correct. We were also animals in our previous births. Now in this human form we have the opportunity to get ourselves out of this vicious cycle of births and deaths by fully surrendering ourselves to Krishna(God).

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The Most Urgent World Deliverance Mission

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ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari has taken this order very seriously and is thus accepting disciples all over the world and has dedicated himself fully to the mission of making the entire world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. He requests your help in this most urgent world deliverance mission to save the suffering humanity from gliding down to the animal kingdom in their next births.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari email: sd@worldleader.com



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