Back To Prabhupada, Issue 69, Vol 2, 2021, Interactive
"Your negativity is superb! But what can be done positively?"
- Robert M. Phillips, Santa Monica, USA
1) In every issue BTP is explaining what can be done positively: that everyone can and should take full, immediate shelter of Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet, without needing to seek anyone else, because he is still just as available as he ever was and ordered that he remain the sole diksa guru of everyone in his movement. Indeed, that is the message of the very title of our magazine. And there is no more positive message than this! This is attested by the many letters of appreciation we have received, explaining how BTP has cleared up their confusion and saved their spiritual lives.
2) However, in order to have this positive impact, we must also expose the current guru hoax which is cheating people in Srila Prabhupada's name, so that people may reject it and accept the genuine spiritual path. This method of simultaneous negative and positive is part of Krsna consciousness:
"Our program is negative and positive simultaneously. We want to negate the materialistic side and make positive the spiritual side, it is not one sided."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 11/11/68)
"To become liberated from material bondage, one must give up the association of worldly people and accept the association of devotees, positive and negative processes are mentioned in this regard."
(SB, 5.12.16, purport)
"that information is given by Krsna, that "Give up this, and take up Me." Negative and positive, both. Sarva-dharman parityajya [Bg. 18.66]: "Give up this nonsense desires." Then? What to do? Now, mam ekam saranam vraja: "Come to Me, under Me." This is required."
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, 4/8/75)
"For a person who is going back to home, back to Godhead, he should be niskincana. Niskincana means no more any material necessity. Niskincana. Niskincanasya bhagavad-bhajanomukhasya. One side, this is nirvana, finished; and the other side positive. Negative side, no more material, and positive side, Krsna."
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, 13/6/76)
Thus, we have to negate the bogus gurus and others who are leading us away from Srila Prabhupada and his true teachings, and instead accept Srila Prabhupada and his correct teachings, which alone can lead us to Krsna.
3) So, what you have labelled "negativity" is actually not negative, because it results in extreme positivity and is an authorised spiritual process. Actual negativity would be neglecting to expose the guru hoax and other deviations, and allowing them to go on unchecked for people to be continuously cheated by them and remain in ignorance. That is actually the definition of "violence":
"unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is nonviolence."
(Bg., 13.8-12, purport)
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