It is ironical, in the first place, to say that Prabhupada is absent. The event, namely the disappearance of Srila Prabhupada in 1977, bewildered quite a number of people.This is due to the fact that Srila Prabhupada is a spiritual, transcendental personality. His disappearance and appearance is the same.
Many, many times Srila Prabhupada, while delivering lectures, in private conversations and in his books, has stressed the importance of association of the vani (words or instruction) of the spiritual master, not the vapuh (body). A spiritual master is to be heard, not to be seen.
The reign of Srila Prabhupada will continue through his books for 10,000 years as he himself prophetized.
"Everyone is sleeping in the darkness of Kali-yuga (Iron Age of Quarrel), but when there is a great acarya, by his calling only, everyone takes to the study of the Vedas to acquire actual knowledge."
----------Chapter 20, "Description of Autumn", Krsna book
Srila Prabhupada is undoubtedly such a powerful acarya who freely distributed the Holy Name all around the world.
We celebrated the 110th Disappearance Day of Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of the Hare Krishna Movement, today on the 26th of October 2006.
The special thing about the festival was that the neem twigs and a flower used personally by Srila Prabhupada were available for darshan. We also read some of the pastimes of Srila Prabhupada from the book, "Prabhupada Nectar". Everyone felt fortunate to hear of the special activities of our beloved spiritual master.
Jaya Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!!
