Dear Guru Maharaja, PAMHO AGTSP
In continuation from here:
http://hps.monkeywarrior.com/node/7152
HpS - Do you mean he (BSST) didn't take Sannyaya from GKDB? Is there some doubt that GKDB didn't give him Mantra initiation as a Hari-nam disciple or Gayatri mantra?
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In Nitai das's own words: "The main reason for my departure from ISKCON was that I came to believe
(and I still believe) that Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatı
never
received proper initiation into the Caitanya Vaisnavasampradaya(community)."
In the same text he writes like this "diksa (initiation)".
About sannyasa initiation he says, by citing , Bhaktiprasada Puri Goswami, one of 'previous' disciples of BSST :" ... was groundless (since Bhaktisiddhanta had given it to himself)".
Source link : http://www.bhajankutir.net/archives/nitai-zine-1.pdf
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I am not advocating that whatever is said in the source link is truth. I came to Nitai das (Neal Delmonico) and started a little investigation because I saw the name in the book you gave. And, as I said earlier, it arouse interest in me because I was aware of Srila Prabhupada's words about Nitai.
Hope all this is not disturbing. That is not my motive.
Your servant Namacarya Das
HpS - AGTSP paoho. When I tried to send this letter it got lost, the internet crashed! Is it the hand of God!? (He smiles mildly but with some depth).
Your investigations are not disturbing to us. They are wonderful.
We are trying to follow the example given to us of Lord Caitanya with Sarva bhauma Bh. Acharya and Prakasananda Sarasvati et al, and your investigations help so much.
One question is if Prof. Delmonico has change his opinions? In general we would feel that his objections as described do not relate to the reality of Parampara. Hari-nama Diksa from GKDB may have been informal, but did it communicate the essence?
We investigate Srila Prabhupada. He is the current link in the Parampara. If we are satisfied that his extreme insistence on speaking and acting in the Paramapara is something that he requires from disciples and the Guru he accepted, then the series of links goes back quickely to Krsna. That is the test, no? Do we actually have a direct experience of Krsna!?
http://www.vedabase.com/en/bg/18/75
Does our compound telescope give us a better view of the same God that we see with our naked eyes.
