The Genius of Srila Prabhupada

Chant Hare Krishna, perform what is yours and do not pretend to be who you are not.

Srila Prabhupāda never manufactured anything by his own. He always declared – that He gives only what is said in Scriptures, As it Is.
Those who try to represent Srila Prabhupada as a great inventor – they just do not know nothing.

For example, Prabhupada came to the west and gave to his followers highest braminical standart possible to follow. How it is that? To shudras? To outcasts?
But in Manu Samhita it is stated clearly:

yathā yathā hi sadvṛttamātiṣṭhatyanasūyakaḥ |
tathā tathaimaṃ cāmuṃ ca lokaṃ prāpnotyaninditaḥ || 10.128 ||

“As the Śūdra, free from envy, maintains the right course of conduct, so does he, free from blame, gain this world and the next.”

 

More than that. He was criticized, that he makes from them Brahmanas. But again:

svargārthamubhayārthaṃ vā viprānārādhayet tu saḥ |
jātabrāhmaṇaśabdasya sā hyasya kṛtakṛtyatā || 10.122 ||

“He (Sudra) shall serve Brāhmaṇas (braminical culture) either for the sake of heaven, or for the sake of both; when, he has attained the title of the ‘Brāhmaṇa,’ this implies the accomplishment of all his purposes.”

 

Therefore we must serve pure vaisnava Srila Prabhupada without concoctions – with exemplary acara (with right course of conduct), and without false pretense, knowing well who we are – then we will be able to fulfill his mission to revive braminical culture, to restore varnasrama. The main reason and core source of all problems in ISKCON, that devotees forget who they are, and they think themselves becoming higher than laws of material nature – and as a result, sannyasis have women secretaries, millionaires, private houses; grihasthas divorces, remarry wives of others, do not beget children; brahmacaries freely mix with ladies, do their own business; and others just live out of any asrama and varna, just like animals…
It’s ok. It’s just shows who we really are:

na śūdre pātakaṃ kiṃ cinna ca saṃskāramarhati |
nāsyādhikāro dharme’sti na dharmāt pratiṣedhanam || 10.126 ||

“For the Śūdra there is no sin; nor is he worthy of any sacraments; he is not entitled to any sacred rites; but there is no prohibition against sacred rites.”

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):

“The whole of this verse is purely reiterative.
Whatever is not directly forbidden for the Śūdra by actual name,—e.g., such acts as injuring living things, stealing, lying, and so forth, which form the subject-matter of general prohibitions (without reference to any particular castes),—by doing these the Śūdra does not incur sin. Guilt does accrue to him in the case of acts that are expressly prohibited for him,—such acts, for instance, as injuring, stealing and so forth.
‘He is not worthy of sacraments’—such as Initiation and the like; all which have been prescribed for the ‘three twice-born castes.’
Similarly, ‘he is not entitled to the sacred rites’;—that is, such acts as bathing, fasting and worshipping of deities are not enjoined as his compulsory duties; and hence the omission of these does not involve sin.
‘There is no prohibition against sacred rites’—Even with regard to bathing, fasting and such acts, which are not among his compulsory duties, and the omission whereof does not involve sin,—there is no absolute prohibition; i.e., the performance of such acts is not actually forbidden to him. So that if he does perforin them, it is conducive to his welfare; this on the analogy of the principle that ‘avoidance is conducive to great results.’
Similarly his not eating garlic and such things should also be understood to be conducive to welfare; as the law ‘avoidance is conducive to great results’ is meant to be of universal application.
This is what is meant by the words that ‘there is no prohibition against sacred rites’.”

Therefore:

varaṃ svadharmo viguṇo na pārakyaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ |
paradharmeṇa jīvan hi sadyaḥ patati jātitaḥ || Manu 10.97 ||

“Better one’s own duty imperfectly performed, and not the duty of another performed perfectly; he who subsists by the function of another, instantly falls off from his position.”

 

Bhagavad Gita 3.35:

śreyān sva-dharmo viguṇaḥ para-dharmāt sv-anuṣṭhitāt
sva-dharme nidhanaṁ śreyaḥ para-dharmo bhayāvahaḥ

“It is far better to discharge one’s prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another’s duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one’s own duty is better than engaging in another’s duties, for to follow another’s path is dangerous.”