26TH AUGUST 2000
As we have seen from the above story, whenever the IRM presents something in the media, it is with the positive aim of informing the whole world that Srila Prabhupada LIVES and that he is still to be glorified and worshipped today. Please contrast this with the GBC Gurus use of the media. As we will see from the following shocking press release that was published throughout India on the FRONT PAGE of a national newspaper, Jayapataka Swami boasts how he has managed to get the Asian Age - a national Indian newspaper - to print an article he wrote, in which it is stated that Srila Prabhupada is "dead".
From: Jayapataka.Swami@pamho.net [mailto:Jayapataka.Swami@pamho.net] Home Base: Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Navadwip Dham, Nadia, WB, INDIA The following article was published on the Front Page of Today's Asian Age Newspaper. I copied this off of internet where it is also still there today. |
Front Page ---- Asian Age news. The Mayapur general manager has ridiculed the revival movement president's doctrine of "Ritvikism" calling it "a strange and concocted idea". In a signed statement issued to all Krishna bhaktas around the world, Mayapur general manager Dham Nitai Prasad Dasa has accused revival movement president Adridharana Dasa of "behaving in a deviant manner" and unleashing an onslaught of false, offensive, and derogatory publicity". |
Please note that though Jayapataka Swami claims that the Asian Age 'edited' the press release he wrote, here they are quoting directly from the press release in question. And Jayapataka Swami does not object to what has been written, rather he boasts to everyone how the 'main gist' is there - with the main gist being that Srila Prabhupada has been 'dead for the last 23 years' - so that we must instead approach impostor Gurus such as himself.
|
Srila Prabhupada -living still, in sound |
Please compare the 2 media 'stories' above. They could not be more different in terms of their glorification and appreciation of Srila Prabhupada's contribution to the world.
One states that he continues to live. The other states that he has been 'dead for the last 23 years'.