Glories of Prabhupada

Prabhupada Smaranam

Prabhupada is sitting regally, like a resting lion; he shows signs of old age and weakness, but he is still traveling somewhere, making his endless grand preaching tour around the world, again and again. I read a nice indirect reference about Srila Prabhupada in the book, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, by a European devotee-scholar. He was describing the great success of the Gaudiya Math during the lifetime of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta. Then he briefly mentioned that after Bhaktisiddhanta’s passing away his mission fell to ruin, and the preaching stopped due to schisms among his disciples. He author says that it is not until thirty years later in the 1960s that a ‘watershed’ was created, and Bhaktisiddhanta’s mission was reviewed on the grand scale, becoming a world religion with thousands of followers. The author said it was beyond the scope of his study of the life of Bhaktisiddhanta to describe how this watershed took place. But it was so enlivening to read, even the indirect reference to the work of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, as the one who rescued the phoenix from the ashes of the Gaudiya Math and turned it into a grand powerful success.
During the lifetime of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati there only a few harbingers, predictions and prophesies that our Prabhupada would be the one to pick up the fallen banner of the Gaudiya Movement and spread it all over the world, but history bears it out undeniably. While most of his Godbrothers fell into dispute and few did powerful preaching, it was only our Prabhupada who went alone to America and created the Hare Krishna explosion. The picture shows him near the end of his work, with the movement set in place that would continue, despite troubles, to endure and expand after his disappearance. All glories to Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada, the best disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, and all glories to his faithful followers.

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