{"id":7007,"date":"2009-03-03T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2009-03-03T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T10:54:05","slug":"was-shrila-prabhupada-a-prophet-read-his-letter-to-gandhi-and-see-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7007","title":{"rendered":"Was Shrila Prabhupada a Prophet? Read His Letter to Gandhi and See for Yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Patita Pavana das Adhikary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once Prabhupada noted, “When Krishna was here, few could understand that he was the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Maybe a few hundred people, that’s all.” Similarly, when Shri Krishna’s pure devotee moves among the people of the earth–almost as one of them–only those rare and exceptional souls are able to recognize him. Even today, most people fail to see the great impact this empowered shuddha-bhakta has had on society, although His Divine Grace single-handedly re-established a true conception of religion worldwide for the first time in history. <\/p>\n

Most people are like tsunami victims who saw that the ocean had receded hundreds of feet, without realizing that tidal wave was coming. Similarly, Shrila Prabhupada appeared as the prophet of the tidal wave of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s worldwide sankirtan, and even today only a handful recognize this fact.<\/p>\n

Yet, there is an instance wherein Lord Krishna’s pure representative humbly openly displayed his mystic vision and prophetic potential before one of the most powerful men on earth. From the letter, we can understand that Shrila Prabhupada offered his seriices as Krishna’s representative even before the great leader Indians revered as the Father of their country. Unfortunately the architect of India’s independence, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was not able to listen to Krishna’s mahatma appearing to him as an old friend. Tragically, for M. K. Gandhi, the handwriting was inscribed upon the wall–written in the plainest of language in a letter he either never saw or chose to ignore. Yet the message was nothing less than a voice of prophecy from Shri Krishna’s very own chosen representative.. In the words that follow are found stunning proof of Shrila Prabhupada’s mystic powers of vision a mere six months before Gandhi succumbed to an assassin’s bullet in Delhi::<\/p>\n

1947: July 12
\n Cawnpore<\/p>\n

Mahatma Gandhijee
\n Bhangi Colony
\n New Delhi.<\/p>\n

Dear Friend Mahatmajee,<\/p>\n

Please accept my respectful Namaskar. I am your unknown friend but I
\n had to write to you at times and again although you never cared to
\n reply them. I sent you my papers “Back to Godhead” but your
\n secretaries told me that you have very little time to read the letters
\n and much less for reading the magazines. I asked for an interview with
\n you but your busy secretaries never cared to reply this.<\/p>\n

Anyway as I am your very old friend although unknown to you I am again
\n writing to you in order to bring you to the rightful position deserved
\n by you. As a sincere friend I must not deviate from my duty towards a
\n friend like your good self..<\/p>\n

I tell you as a sincere friend that you must immediately retire from
\n active politics if you do not desire to die an inglorious death. You
\n have 125 years to live as you have desired to live but you if you die
\n an inglorious death it is no worth. The honour and prestige that you
\n have obtained during the course of you present life time, were not
\n possible to be obtained by any one else within the living memory. But
\n you must know that all these honours and prestiges were false in as
\n much as they were created by the Illusory Energy of Godhead called the
\n maya.<\/p>\n

By this falsity I do not mean to say that your so many friends were
\n false to you nor you were false to them. By this falsity I mean
\n illusion or in other words the false friendship and honours obtained
\n thereby were but creation of maya and therefore they are always
\n temporary or false as you may call it. But none of you neither your
\n friends nor yourself knew this truth.<\/p>\n

Now by the Grace of God that illusion is going to be cleared and thus
\n your faithful friends like Acarya Kripalini and others are accusing
\n you for your inability at the present moment to give them any
\n practical programme of work as you happened to give them during your
\n glorious days of non-co-operation movement. So you are also in a
\n plight to find out a proper solution for the present political tangle
\n created by your opponents.<\/p>\n

You should therefore take a note of warning from your insignificant
\n friend like me, that unless you retire timely from politics and engage
\n yourself cent per cent in the preaching work of Bhagavad-gita, which
\n is the real function of the Mahatmas, you shall have to meet with such
\n inglorious deaths as Mussolini, Hitlers, Tojo, Churchill or Lloyd
\n Georges met with.<\/p>\n

You can very easily understand as to how some of your political
\n enemies in the garb of friends (both Indian and English) have
\n deliberately cheated you and have broken your heart by doing the same
\n mischief for which you have struggled so hard for so many years. You
\n wanted chiefly Hindu-Moslem unity in India and they have tactfully
\n managed to undo your work, by creation of the Pakistan and India
\n separately. You wanted freedom for India but they have given permanent
\n dependence of India.<\/p>\n

You wanted to do something for the upliftment of the position of the
\n bhangis but they are still rotting as bhangis even though you are
\n living in the bhangi colony. They are all therefore illusions and when
\n these things will be presented to you as they are, you must consider
\n them as God-sent. God has favored you by dissipating the illusion you
\n were hovering in, and by the same illusion you were, nursing those
\n ideas as Truth.<\/p>\n

You must know that you are in the relative world which is called by
\n the sages as Dvaita i.e. dual- and nothing is absolute here. Your
\n Ahimsa is always followed by Himsa as the light is followed by
\n darkness or the father is followed by the son. Nothing is absolute
\n truth in this dual world. You did not know this neither you ever cared
\n to know this from the right sources and therefore all your attempts to
\n create unity were followed by disunity and Ahimsa. Ahimsa was followed
\n by Himsa.<\/p>\n

But it is better late than never. You must know now something about
\n the Absolute Truth. The Truth with which you have been experimenting
\n so long is relative. The relative truths are creations of the daivi
\n maya qualified by the three modes of Nature. They are all
\n insurmountable as is explained in the Bhagavad-gita (7.14). The
\n Absolute Truth is the Absolute Godhead.<\/p>\n

In the Katha Upanisad it is ordered that one must approach the
\n bona fide Guru who is not only well versed in all the scriptures of the
\n world but is also the realised soul in Brahman the Absolute–in order
\n to learn the science of Absolute Truth. So also it is instructed in
\n the Bhagavad-gita as follows:–<\/p>\n

tad viddhi pranipatena
\n pariprasnena sevaya
\n upadeksyanti tad jnanam
\n jnaninas tattvadarsinah
\n (4.34)<\/p>\n

But I know that you never underwent such transcendental training
\n except some severe penances which you invented for your purpose as you
\n have invented so many things in the course of experimenting with the
\n relative truths. You might have easily avoided them if you had
\n approached the Guru as abovementioned. But your sincere efforts to
\n attain some Godly qualities by austerities etc surely have raised you
\n to some higher position which you can better utilize for the purpose
\n of the Absolute Truth. If you, however, remain satisfied with such
\n temporary position only and do not try to know the Absolute Truth,
\n then surely you are to fall down from the artificially exalted
\n position under the laws of Nature.<\/p>\n

But if you really want to approach the Absolute Truth and want to do
\n some real good to the people in general all over the world, which
\n shall include your ideas of unity, peace and non-violence, then you
\n must give up the rotten politics immediately and rise up for the
\n preaching work of the philosophy and religion of “Bhagavad-gita”
\n without offering unnecessary and dogmatic interpretations on them. I
\n had occasionally discussed this subject in my paper “Back to Godhead”
\n and a leaf from the same is enclosed herewith for your reference.<\/p>\n

I would only request you to retire from politics at least for a month
\n only and let us have discussion on the Bhagavad-gita. I am sure,
\n thereby, that you shall get a new light from the result of such
\n discussions not only for your benefit but for the benefit of the world
\n at large–as I know that you are sincere, honest and moralist.<\/p>\n

Awaiting your early reply with interest..<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,
\n Abhay Charan De.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Patita Pavana das Adhikary<\/strong><\/p>\n

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