{"id":5424,"date":"2020-02-04T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2020-02-04T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:50:50","slug":"srila-prabhupadas-holy-body-should-have-been-handled-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srila-prabhupadas-holy-body-should-have-been-handled-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Srila Prabhupada\u2019s holy body should have been handled differently&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/srila-prabhupada-sitting-on-grass-and-chanting-japa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/srila-prabhupada-sitting-on-grass-and-chanting-japa-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/srila-prabhupada-sitting-on-grass-and-chanting-japa-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/srila-prabhupada-sitting-on-grass-and-chanting-japa-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/srila-prabhupada-sitting-on-grass-and-chanting-japa-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/srila-prabhupada-sitting-on-grass-and-chanting-japa.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear devotee,<br \/>\nthanks for the sensitivity to write to me privately, thus giving me the possibility to open my mind more. However in the past some private letters of mine were sent to everyone so I have decided to do not give different answers, private or public. Everything has to be public.<br \/>\nIf I have something to say that I don\u2019t want to be public, I\u2019ll simply keep it for myself and not say anything to anyone.<br \/>\nAnd as a consequence, in my answer I\u2019ll not mention your name.<\/p>\n<p>In a prevous article I wrote &#8220;I think Srila Prabhupada\u2019s holy body should have been handled differently&#8221;, refers to the fact that there is a video where the devotees up on the pitch handed over Srila Prabhupada\u2019s body to the devotee down the pitch without having tied the body to a solid asana and pole. Without this, Srila Prabhupada spiritual body fell here and there like a mannequin. That was a horrible sight for me, it broke my heart, and for this reason I never again watched those videos, nor I think anybody should watch them.<br \/>\nJust like we tie any Deity when we invite Them to a public Darsana, like in Ratha Yatra, Srila Prabhupada transcendental body should have been tied, lowered and then untied.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the Samadhi ceremony, I wasn\u2019t there so I don\u2019t know how it was performed, nor at that age I would have been able to help doing it any better.<\/p>\n<p>About the \u201clast rights\u201d, I am not sure to understand what you are refering to. If you are refering to Srila Prabhupada\u2019s \u201clast will\u201d, I\u2019ll not discuss my thoughts.<br \/>\nIf anyone asks me to comment about important subject matters, who have an impact on our movement daily life, I can discuss any of them from the purely philosophical point of view. I have a scarce interest over the implications that these topics have in our society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<br \/>\n4 feb 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bookstore: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isvara.org\">www.isvara.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear devotee, thanks for the sensitivity to write to me privately, thus giving me the possibility to open my mind more. However in the past some private letters of mine were sent to everyone so I &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/srila-prabhupadas-holy-body-should-have-been-handled-differently\/\" aria-label=\"&#8220;Srila Prabhupada\u2019s holy body should have been handled differently&#8221;\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 03:09:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}