Dear Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Is this the definite understanding?
Not being sarcastic, I am not a learned person so just asking.
I have a problem with the words legacy and successor as they refer to people who have passed away, died, according to the Oxford dictionary definition. I don't think Christians would ever use those words in relation to Jesus Christ.
So the question is the GBC the chosen successor of Srila Prabhupada?
"It is customary in India for an ācārya to leave his institution to his chosen successor as a legacy in his will. The action Śrīla Prabhupāda took in 1970—establishing the GBC— allowed him in 1977 to set this down as the first provision of his “Declaration of Will”: “The Governing Body Commission (GBC) will be the ultimate managing authority of the entire International Society for Krishna Consciousness.” By thus establishing the GBC and leaving it as his chosen successor at the head of ISKCON, Śrīla Prabhupāda insured that the order of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura would continue to work efficaciously in the world and bear fruit."
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Dear Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Is this the definite understanding?
Not being sarcastic, I am not a learned person so just asking.
I have a problem with the words legacy and successor as they refer to people who have passed away, died, according to the Oxford dictionary definition. I don't think Christians would ever use those words in relation to Jesus Christ.
So the question is the GBC the chosen successor of Srila Prabhupada?
"It is customary in India for an ācārya to leave his institution to his chosen successor as a legacy in his will. The action Śrīla Prabhupāda took in 1970—establishing the GBC— allowed him in 1977 to set this down as the first provision of his “Declaration of Will”: “The Governing Body Commission (GBC) will be the ultimate managing authority of the entire International Society for Krishna Consciousness.” By thus establishing the GBC and leaving it as his chosen successor at the head of ISKCON, Śrīla Prabhupāda insured that the order of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura would continue to work efficaciously in the world and bear fruit."
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