Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Causeless service and materially orientated works

The disappearance day of Srila Garakishore Babaji Maharaj used to to be held at Kuliya in Navadip every year without fail.There were some people at the time like Harilal Goswami and Anant Poddar who used to feign great respect for Srila Prabhupad as a Maha Bhaghavat but heart of hearts they were only avaricious of the money and prestige that was automatically generated by the pure preaching of devotional service of Srila Prabhupad.The opportunity came for them to show their true colours when they started causing strife and discension in the yearly samadhi festival of Bajbaji Maharaj at Kuliya .Their opposition clearly showed they did not want our(Gaudiya Math) presence in that festive event at all because of the huge crowds that attended that function and the income they could generate.The main aim of Hari Katha to their opinion was to fleece the gullible public of their wealth and thus be able to accumulate wealth and give vent to their nefarious propensities.They had no inkling that our Gaudiya Math's main objective was that to proclaim the Absolute Truth at all cost without any other motives and, was to be conducted in the most non-envious way and sincerity in complete obedience to the predecessor Acaryas. This was so due to the fact that their intelligence were dulled by lusty desires.
After that these same Babajis being completely inflated by their self importance and growing wealth even tried to reverse some of Babaji Maharaja's teachings so much so that Srila Prabhupad became so unhappy and displeased with their actions that he vowed never to go to that function conducted by these offensive Babajis saying that these people think that the transcendental samadhi of Srila Babaji Maharaj is like an ordinary materialistic spot and this is a great offence against Sri Guru.
Surprisingly after Prabhupad said that ,Ganga Devi to give prominence to the words of the pure devotees soon changed course and later that samadhi spot became covered over by the river Ganga at Kulia.
Srila Prabhupad later brought the samadhi of Babaji Maharaj to the Radhakund (Chaitanya Math)at Mayapur which was reestablished alongside with a simple temple. The other side of the story was that those Babajis who accumulated great wealth all lost their ill gotten gains and became beggars like Anant Poddar who became submerged in great material distress.

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