Text 8] Expansions of Advaita Acarya 5
In the beginning, during the presence of Om Visnupada Paramahanisa Parivrajaka-
carya Astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada, all
the disciples worked in agreement; but just after his disappearance, they disagreed.
One party strictly followed the instructions of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura,
but another group created their own concoction about executing his desires.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, at the time of his departure, requested all his
disciples to form a governing body and conduct missionary activities cooperatively.
He did not instruct a particular man to become the next dcdrya. But just after his
passing away, his leading secretaries made plans, without authority, to occupy the
post of dcdrya, and they split in two factions over who the next dcdrya would be.
Consequently, both factions were asdra, or useless, because they had no authority,
having disobeyed the order of the spiritual master. Despite the spiritual master’s
order to form a governing body and execute the missionary activities of the Gaudiya
Matha, the two unauthorized factions began litigation that is still going on after
forty years with no decision.

Therefore, we do not belong to any faction. But because the two parties, busy
dividing the material assets of the Gaudiya Matha institution, stopped the preaching
work, we took up the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and Bhaktivinoda
Thakura to preach the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world, under the
protection of all the predecessor dcdryas, and we find that our humble attempt has
been successful. We followed the principles especially explained by Srila Visvanatha
Cakravarti Thakura in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gitd verse vyavasdyatmikd
buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana. According to this instruction of Visvanatha Cakravarti
Thakura, it is the duty of a disciple to follow strictly the orders of his spiritual mas-
ter. The secret of success in advancement in spiritual life is the firm faith of the
disciple in the orders of his spiritual master. The Vedas confirm this:

yasya deve pard bhaktir
yathd deve tathd gurau

tasyaite kathitd hy arthah
prakasante mahatmanah

“To one who has staunch faith in the words of the spiritual master and the words
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead the secret of success in Vedic knowledge is
revealed.” The Krsna consciousness movement is being propagated according to this
principle, and therefore our preaching work is going on successfully, in spite of the
many impediments offered by antagonistic demons, because we are getting positive
help from our previous dcdryas. One must judge every action by its result. The mem-
bers of the self-appointed dcdrya’s party who occupied the property of the Gaudiya
Matha are satisfied, but they could make no progress in preaching. Therefore by the
result of their actions one should know that they are asdra, or useless, whereas the
success of the ISKCON party, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness,
which strictly follows guru and Gauranga, is increasing daily all over the world.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura wanted to print as many books as possible
