I am just a dancing dog in the hands of a woman. So I have to accept what you say, everything except for two things. One is that Srila Prabhupada became a pure devotee at some point. I believe he was and is eternally liberated. The other was the thing about his godbrothers not thinking of anybody else as a guru so when Srila Prabhupada became one they weren't used to it? But that doesn't matter. They're used to it now.
Thanks for your lengthy explanations. I still plan on reading Bhaktivinode Thakur's book which your guru highly recommends but in keeping with my loyalties I won't read the purports by your guru. Maybe if somehow or other I see him someday and come to understand his glories the way you do things might change. But I have to say when I saw his followers I was very surprised how good they all looked. I forgot if he was there or not but I saw him at a Ratha Yatra one time or else maybe just his followers and they were all dressed in a first class way, and were all chanting in a circle. Maybe that is why I didn't see him. But I asked someone what is going on over there and they said,"Oh, they are followers of Narayana Maharaja." and being the loyal ISKCON follower that I am I thought,"Damn, he took away all those nice devotees!" but that could also be a compliment, that if he is such a pure devotee to attract all those followers then I might just be the fool who doesn't recognise him. But I purposely don't hear from the godbrothers like I said. So all I see is the body, which we are not supposed to see if one is a pure devotee. So I don't get it. I don't see what devotees see in him, but I have never heard from him. I don't listen to his classes, I don't hear his bhajans, I don't hear his morning walks, but I do have one question that has yet to be answered.
What is the story with him having his form as a manjari painted by Syamarani dd? I went to her website about a year ago and read how he told her to look inside her heart and see his form as a gopi and paint it, if I remember correctly. How was she empowered to do it? Can she paint everybody's form? Did he empower her for one painting of him alone? Can she only paint his form because they both are such elevated souls? This is a serious question and I don't seem to get any replies to it. I heard that his form as a gopi is plastered at the entrances to all of his temples and maybe somebody else's?
I'm not trying to be tricky I really just want to know. Can't anybody help me? The last disciple of his denied this altogether. Have I really heard wrong?
I don't mean to offend anyone in the Gaudiya Math by saying I will not hear from them. That is just my loyalty to Srila Prabhupada and nothing personal against anyone. And I read Our Gurus: One In Siddhanta really briefly about a week ago when I got a hold of a copy, since it was just a conversation between Srila Prabhupada and some other devotees.
That's more than I should have said perhaps, I don't mean to offend any devotees.