Can Srila Prabhupada not directly inspire and spiritually nurture a devotee today?
But unfortunately, as soon as such a faithful candidate enters the doors of an ISKCON Temple today, he is told that it is offence to think that Srila Prabhupada is directly inspiring and nurturing him spiritually everyday. In a few months he is told to look for a bona fide guru of his choice among the eighty odd self -made gurus to get initiated – as if he is already not initiated from the day he begins to hear and follow Your Divine Grace faithfully. (And as if in Prabhupada’s house there could be bona fide and non-bona fide gurus!!). Then he is asked to chant Srila Prabhupada pranam mantra only as the second one in the sequence, the first one being the pranam mantra of his new guru in ISKCON. Thus begins the first step of unconsciously cutting the naturally developed spiritual umbilical cord of transcendental diksha between the devotee and Srila Prabhupada. Then he is asked to worship everyday his guru first. (Now the practice is reformed to doing the same privately as it creates con
