Hare Krsna-
These two files are excellent source material for anybody who has any inclination at all, for visiting, buying their books or associating with members of the Gaudiya matha in India or elsewhere in the world.
If one considers himself a follower, well wisher, or disciple of A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada then these quotes directly from Srila Prabhupada himself should be a definite guide for us to be very careful of their “association”.
Canakya Pandit once gave the example in his book that if you introduce only one very very small drop of wine in a large vat of milk, then the entire thing becomes poisonous or useless, such is the power of one single “drop”. Not only is the “milk’ spoiled, but the vat itself becomes contaminated as well.
Please consider these things carefully-these two files are highly valuable information for any sincere seeker of the truth.
Hare Krsna
damaghosa das
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Truth About Godbrothers
Truth About Tirtha Sridhara Maharaj
Jan 8 1977 Bombay conversations
Snake is very envious. ..There are similarly men also. Unnecessarily they are envious, offensive, unnecessary. They cannot tolerate others’ opulence. Just like our Godbrothers. They are envious. What I have done to them? I am doing my business, trying to serve my Guru Mahārāja. But they are envious because I am so opulent. I have got so much fame, so many influence, so much influence all over the world. Everyone is praising me about… That is ignorance. And this is regrettable because they are posing themselves as Vaiṣṇava. Ordinary man can do that, but they are dressing like Vaiṣṇava, and they are so envious. That Tīrtha Mahārāja, unnecessarily he was envious, whole life fighting, fighting..
Sept 30 1975 letter- As soon as politics come, everything is spoiled. In the Gaudiya Math the politics is still going on. My Guru Maharaja left in 1936, and now it is 1976, so after 40 years the litigation is still going on. Do not come to this.
Dec 4 1976 letter–Damodara Maharaja is a dangerous man. Remain very cautious with him. He is always causing difficulty.Regarding the two men who have come to us from Gaudiya Math, for the time being we should try not to give shelter to such persons unless they are tested.
July 26 1976 london–
Prabhupāda: No, I never stressed on temple. I was engaged in publishing the Back to Godhead. Whatever I could do, I did it because I took it very seriously that he is very sorry that these things were not done. He said that “There will be fire in this Gaudiya Math.” Āgun jvālbe, he said. Amari taci loka kichui boi kakrayebo (?): “If I can, I shall sell these marbles of this temple and convert them into books.” That was his ambition. He started a very nice press and this Tirtha Maharaja sold it.
Jayatīrtha: Sold it?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bhagavān: The press.
Prabhupāda: He’s not representing Guru…. “Better let’s have money for fight in the court.”
jan 13 1977–conversations
Prabhupāda: These are weapons. That was the only endeavor, how legally he could occupy the bricks and stones of Gauḍīya Math. That’s all. He had no other ambition. How to push on Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, how to push on Guru Mahārāja’s… He had no such. It was simply show. But real purpose was how to occupy, how to take the whole property. Business.
Rāmeśvara: And none of the other Godbrothers had strong preaching spirits.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They also, when they saw that “This man is legally taking everything. Gauḍīya sannyāsīs, we cannot go home. We must have some shelter.” No spirit of pushing on.
Rāmeśvara: Even by your example they have not learned anything.
Prabhupāda: No, my… Of course, I did not attempt in the beginning. I started my activities when I was seventy years old. So they thought, “This man is gṛhastha. He is embarassed with family life. What he’ll do?”(laughs) That was their impression. But I never neglected. Guru Mahārāja told me. I was simply thinking, “How to do it? How to do it?” I thought, “Let me become a rich businessman. The money will be required.” That was my thought. But Guru Mahārāja was asking me, “You give up this. I’ll give you money.” That I could not understand. I was planning. My plan was not wrong. But I was thinking “The money required, so let me earn some money. Then I shall begin.” And Guru Mahārāja said, “You give up this money-earning endeavor. You come completely. I’ll give you money.” I can understand now. But my desire was there. Therefore he guided me. So I was… In 1936 or ’35 in Bombay, after installation of Deity, so—I was gṛhastha—I helped them to collect some money. All my Godbrothers applauded and recommended to Guru Mahārāja that “Abhay Babu is so influential. Why he lives outside the temple? He can become the temple commander and manage this Bombay temple. Why he is living outside?” Mean “Guru Mahārāja may ask him.” So I was… From this Allahabad I was going to Bombay. I had one small office there. So after hearing, he said, “It is better that he is living little away from your Matha. And when time will rise, he’ll do everything. He hasn’t got to be advised.” I could not understand why he said like that. That means he was so kind that he expected that I shall do something. That was my asset, his blessing. And I was thinking that “His, this mission must be done very nicely.” Although I was not capable to do anything, I was thinking like that. So desire was there and maybe blessing was there. Yes. There was no question of qualification.
Rāmeśvara: But still, after ten years the Gauḍīya Math still has not learned.
Prabhupāda: Hm? They cannot. They… Those who are intelligent, they are making something, Śrīdhara Mahārāja and others. But this man was envious, this Tīrtha Mahārāja, because… He advertised that he is the only favorite student of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. (laughs) But spiritually he was empty. Materially he was capable, how to manage things. But spiritually he was zero. That Prabhupāda also knew and everyone knows. He had no spiritual understanding.
june 17 1977 Vrndavana
Prabhupāda: I could not understand. “What is this, that I have to go outside India? That is not…” And Guru Mahārāja foretold. He told my Godbrothers, Śrīdhara Mahārāja and others, that “He’ll do the needful when time comes. Nobody requires to help him.” He told in 1935.
…Prabhupāda: I thought all this. I went to USA not to come back. I left here hopeless. I did not want to come back. I went with determination that “If I do this job, I will survive.” So Kṛṣṇa helped me. I never desired to come back.
april 22 1977 bombay
Prabhupāda: Śrīdhara Mahārāja is little…
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He read it?
Prabhupāda: I think so.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Did he make any comment?
Prabhupāda: He cannot make any comment. These are facts. Two parties there were. One party, to use guru as their instrument for self-aggrandizement, and another party left guru. So both of them are offenders. This Kunja Babu, this Tīrtha Mahārāja’s party, he wanted to enjoy senses through guru. And the Bagh Bazaar party, they left.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Vāsudeva.
Prabhupāda: So both of them are severe offenders.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about Śrīdhara Mahārāja?
Prabhupāda: Śrīdhara Mahārāja belonged to the Bagh Bazaar party. And I was living aloof. My Guru Mahārāja approved. He said, “It is better that he is aloof from them.”
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He could understand that his disciples were not…
Prabhupāda: No, he was very sorry. At the last stage he was disgusted.
April 30 1977
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And he was lecturing on Caitanya-caritāmṛta. I think you mentioned that one of your Godbrothers once said to you, “You really believe that there is such a place, Kṛṣṇaloka, Vaikuṇṭhaloka?” He was himself…
Prabhupāda: Bon Mahārāja did not believe. No… Nobody ever thought of it.
Jan 19 1976
Prabhupāda: That was the policy of Mādhava Mahārāja and Śrīdhara Mahārāja, that “Although Bhaktivedanta Swami is propagating throughout, he is subordinate to us, under our instruction.” So all these three…
jan 22 1976 mayapur
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But you have done the impossible.
Sudāmā: Therefore they think that we are hypnotized.
Prabhupāda: Even Śrīdhara Mahārāja says that “This pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma, we simply thought that it is an ideal, but you have practically done this.” He admits that.