Samadhis or no Samadhi?

[Paramananda das]

Samadhis or no Samadhi?


dear devotees
Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Since Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupadas left this material world ,so many persons wants to be put in samadhi so others can worship their dead bodies.
Srila Gaura Kisora das Babji himself had no such desire and ordered his body to be dragged all over Navadvipa ( so it would get purified in the holy dham,this was his humility)
Of course all vaisnavas are happy to see the many samadhis of our acaryas, they are not ordinary.But should a regular devotee that chants 16 rounds and follow 4 regs be placed in samadhi? Surely those who love in that departed soul may want to keep a grave, but calling it a samadhi without having chanted 2 or 3 lahks daily is a lack of vaisnava humility, and pure vaisnavas have no such desires for Samadhi.Srila Prabhupada knew his disciples wanted a samadhi for his body, and it is certainly proper Srila Prabhupadas spiritualized body be put in samadhi. I remember one devotee that is placed in Samadhi but he refused to go on bookdistribution marathons ,and he actually used to distribute Srila Prabhupadas books in his early days of KC for a little while, later he became a sannyasi.Yes we can not define a pure devotee by such terms alone, but samadhi is really for uttama bhaktas and since Gaura Kisora das Babaji did not think himself qualified even Hari das Thakura stated :"I am like an insect and if I die what is the lose to this world" The disciples of such a devotee surely has a right to place their Guru in Samadhi, but I suggest of ISKCON properties.The kanistha adhikari worships the Guru with to much pride and external prompt but fail to follow the instructions properly given by our acaryas, such as Srila Prabhupada.A person that has not been chanting 64 rounds in his/hers whole life is not fit even for consideration of Samadhi.And even then this is just a minimum qualification.
We should not lower the standard of being placed in Samadhi.The desire for fame is so great in a conditioned soul:Srila Raghunath das Goswami has written pratistha dhrsta svapaccha
this desire for fame makes one an untouchable .Lord Caitanya placed Haridas Thakura in Samadhi , these other samadhis cluster around the real acaryas and are a disturbance.
This may be seen as insensitive by some but it is the truth .A sincere and grave prayer to Lord Caitanya will confirm this to a sincere devotee.How can there be samadhi to anyone not constantly absorbed in chanting the Mahamantra fully free from faults of the desire for fame and female association and envy and desire for material comfort, with no material wealth and fully absorbed in the nitya lilas of Radha krsna and Lord Caitanya.Samadhis are not for kanistha or Madhyama adhikaris, but at this stage of Kali yuga such vaisnava humility is properly fully lost?See also Srimad Bhagavatam 7.9.8 and purport by Srila Prabhupada this is the mood of a pure vaisnava
See also http://www.vnn.org/editorials/ET0111/ET27-6991.html
Just because one saw and heard from Srila Prabhupada does not make one qualified for a samadhi ,that is not the resting place of the immortal soul
Om tat sat
your servant
Payonidhi das