{"id":526,"date":"2006-07-23T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T10:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2006-08-03T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T21:38:32","slug":"my-dear-satyaraja-prabhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Treating Vaisnavas with Care&#8211;in Appreciation of Satyaraja Prabhu&#8217;s Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gm_carp_06.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>My dear Satyaraja Prabhu,<\/p>\n<p>Your letters were well-considered and well-articulated, and I much appreciated them. Certainly, we must seriously consider the words of sadhu, sastra, and guru in all our deliberations. We are meant to represent Srila Prabhupada, who himself represented his guru-parampara, our disciplic line from Srila Rupa Gosvami. Especially when we deal with Vaisnavas\u2014and as you have noted, there are Vaisnavas on all sides\u2014we must be very careful. There are scriptural injunctions that govern the behavior of Vaisnavas in relation to each other, and we must follow them; otherwise, we risk further deterioration in the spiritual atmosphere of ISKCON and the spiritual lives of the devotees.<\/p>\n<p>What we do today will be judged tomorrow, seen in the light of the principles and precedents of the previous acaryas, not only by devotees inside and outside of ISKCON, but by our parampara, by Srila Prabhupada himself. One of his last instructions to us was \u201cDo not fight among yourselves. I have given direction in my books.\u201d I am sure that if we sincerely pray to Srila Prabhupada for guidance, with hearts and minds open to his divine will, free from preconceived conclusions, he will help us.<\/p>\n<p>Your eternal servant,<br \/>\nGiriraj Swami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gm_carpsw_06.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Giriraj Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Your letters were well-considered and well-articulated, and I much appreciated them. Certainly, we must seriously consider the words of sadhu, sastra, and guru in all our deliberations. We are meant to represent Srila Prabhupada, who himself represented his guru-parampara, our disciplic line from Srila Rupa Gosvami.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion","category-ongoing-debates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}