Srila Prabhupada often mentioned that "Dhritarashtra" refers to "one who has usurped or stolen the throne and the kingdom".

Teeny Tiny Dhritarashtras

Hansadutta Prabhuji,

Thanks so much for this letter. My obeisances to you all.

Let me say this in very clear and uncertain terms, this Haripada das of Honduras is a very sincere and real devotee of the Lord and the Lord's disciple. His words are just like Vidura the Pilgrim, the veritable Yama-avatatra, in his conversations with the (spiritually and physically) blind Dhritrashtra.

What greater clue do we need to the answer to Sri Haripada Prabhu's sincere and genuine queries: Srila Prabhupada often mentioned that "Dhritarashtra" refers to "one who has usurped or stolen the throne and the kingdom", as it goes without saying, through wicked schemes and self-interest fit only for a desperate person of the nature of a demon who has erected an artificial wall to protect himself from the very soldiers bent upon killing him and which he has created through his own bad karmas and evil designs.

My Godbrother, the fate of so many little teeny tiny Dhritarashtras is carved in stone on the rock wall of ISKCON history (most unfortunately.) Look here, I personally take no pleasure in the terrible personal tragedies affecting so many mleccha gurus. Whether the term mleccha-guru refers to "a mleccha who has become a great devotee and spiritual master through devotion to his own Guru Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada" or whether it is used in the sense of "a mleccha-fied and false guru" is open to discussion. Nonetheless, ISKCON has hung out dirty laundry a few times too many, and the world is demanding explanations.

It is just like when the British went to India. They convinced the Indians that they were the cat's meow. Then a few generations later, once they had bankrupted a once-great civilization, Indians were forced to UK due to intricate colonal mischief, only to find (surprise, surprise) that they hadn't exactly arrived in Paradise-upon-Thames. So these gurus similarly made so many pretenses to Krishna consciousness, only to hang themselves for cheating in the Name of Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

You know well that Srila Prabhupada advised us like some great Niti Shastri Brihaspati himself, "Be very careful. You are dealing with Krishna. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Spiritual life is like that: straight and narrow, but if a wrong move is taken, there is blood in every direction."

And...

"Krishna consciousness is simple for the simple and difficult for the crooked."

In ISKCON we witnessed a strange phenomenon in the history of spiritual movements. We have seen devotees of the quality of gurus give up being gurus to become their own concepts of gurus. As disciples of a rare mahatma and bona fide representitive of Lord Krishna, Brahmaji, Vyasa, etc, we were already qualified as gurus. So why did gurus give up being gurus to be gurus? You tell me.

"Water is found with digging. So it is with the genuine disciple. His service to his spiritual master is the key to the ocean of nectar."—Devaguru Brihaspati from the Garuda Purana

I have always felt that he who is supposed to be the acharya will rise, sooner or later, since these were the words of our beloved spiritual master many many times over and over. Let anyone come foreward to propogate Krishna consciousness. But serving the divine lotus feet of the Sri Paramhamsa Guru Maharaja is different than comandeering his gaddi. We must pray to Lord Krishna to give us intelligence, by Srila Prabhupada's grace.

I think we agree on these points.

Humbly, your eternal servant in Srila Prabhupada,
Patita Pavana das Adhikary