Did Srila Sridhara Maharaja Re-initiate Srila Prabhupadas Disciples?
Srila Sridhara Maharaja has sometimes been portrayed as eager to collect Srila Prabhupada’s disciples, as several of his godbrothers were. The following section includes excerpts from various darsanas of Srila Sridhara Maharaja. These excerpts reveal that Srila Sridhara Maharaja’s mood was in fact just the opposite. Srila Sridhara Maharaja expressed many times, however, that he could not ignore those having a faith crisis-he felt it his duty to give them strength, nurture them, and in some cases, when devotees did not have proper connection with a guru in good spiritual standing, connect them to the source of their newfound faith-a natural spiritual progression. Many Came to Take Initiation Srila Sridhara Maharaja related on August 19, 1980 that Srila Prabhupada had implicit faith in him because he knew that Srila Sridhara Maharaja would not re-initiate his disciples: Swami Maharaja had earlier approached me to train up some boys, but first he sent them to another Maharaja, disciples l
