Prabhupada Revealed the Topmost Bhakti

Some devotees are starting to inquire more about how to be part of the intimate pastimes of Radha and Krishna.  Some say Prabhupada taught only vaidi-bhakti.  They claim they have to go elsewhere to get the higher teachings about the rasas.  But it is not true.  Everything is there in Prabhupada’s books.  Prabhupada is on the highest platform.  He is very advanced in his love for Krishna, and he has a very intimate relationship with Krishna in Vrindavana.  We should never mistake that.  The one important message is to stay faithful to Prabhupada.  By faith in guru, we get Krishna.  Not otherwise. 

We should never think that Prabhupada didn’t teach the topmost understanding.  We should always know that only when he allows us, can we enter the dhama and our eternal relationship with Radha-Krishna.  Radha and Krishna and Their associates are mysterious, transcendental persons beyond this material existence.  They will allow us to come to Them when we are qualified by sincerity and purity.  We cannot simply pick up a book on internal Krishna consciousness and expect to be allowed to enter.  You have to please your guru, the representative of Radha-Krishna.  By his grace, you can make progress.

The real substance is service to Prabhupada.  His service does include the higher topics, but like anything in Krishna consciousness, inquiry into these topics is a gradual process.  We have to be careful not to hear from anyone who tells us Prabhupada was deficient, or incomplete in his teachings.  In fact, it would be better not to know anything than to hear from someone who teaches us that Prabhupada didn’t give us what we need.  Better to continue as he wanted us to, chanting Hare Krishna and praying to Radha and Krishna in the temple.  We can always please Them with our wholehearted efforts.

Prabhupada states that you cannot enter Vrindavana without the mercy of Lord Nityananda.  This is also described by Narottama dasa Thakura in one of his songs.  The mercy of Lord Nityananda comes through Prabhupada.  Also, Narottama sang, you cannot enter Vrindavana as long as you have visaya cariya kabe, attachment for the demands of the senses in the body.  You cannot enter Vrindavana except through the line of the six Gosvamis. 

We benefit from Prabhupada’s various purports where he talks about the Vrindavana mood.  Prabhupada quotes all the previous acaryas right after the most important information about madhurya-rasa.  Nothing is lacking.