To help us understand this philosophical seed of the founder-acharya principle, we will now hear how the acharya-sampradaya culture inspired one famous disciple to appeal to his great guru in relation to their worshipable acharya.
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If Prabhupada can forgive us, we can also forgive each other’s mistakes and meanderings. Lord Chaitanya welcomes everyone and sees past any bodily designations. I respect any devotee who has tried in even the smallest way to serve Prabhupada, Krishna, or another devotee. He or she is special—like the sparrow who drank drops of the ocean to rescue her lost eggs from the sea, or like the chipmunk who was tossing pebbles into the sea to help Lord Ramachandra build his bridge to Lanka. The effort itself is success.
When Prabhupada came to us in his seventieth year, he had already spent a lifetime preparing himself, not only by preaching, but by practicing self-discipline and the many other qualities of an advanced spiritualist. We
joined him handicapped by our so-called hippie freedom and by so many other weaknesses in our characters.
By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi, ISKCON News Staff Writer Reproduced with permission from ISKCON News.…
Niranjana Swami:
The word “Acarya” in Founder-Acarya means that Srila Prabhupada is the ultimate teacher by his own example in ISKCON. Being a perfect teacher by example, therefore, everything he does is instructive because, as followers, we are meant to aspire to strictly follow his example.
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His father wanted to facilitate his son’s devotional desires, but also wanted to ensure that his son was aware of the responsibility that this entailed. Abhay assured him that he would be able to do this. Subsequently, as a child, he began the practice of worshipping the deity, arca-vigraha. One of the most notable events in Abhay’s childhood was an incident that foreshadowed his future actions. (Part 2 to follow)