Srila Bhakti Kanan Giri Maharaja sent the below email to Uddharan dasa on the 21st March 2019
Dear Sriman Uddharan dasa,
Please accept my humble dandavat pranamas.
Today is very auspicious for we are just on the cusp of celebrating Sriman Mahaprabhu’s appearance.
I think I haven’t heard from you since asking you to post my email to Hrday Krishna dasa and assumed you might be facing some ill health or that your work had become so consuming it prevented you from posting the email. I assumed the same regarding your unusually late posting of our Sri Gaura Purnima celebrations.
Now I am very pleased to see you have posted that news and am responding to one point I want to make with regard to this painting you chose to use:
It is very similar to the one used by the BBT on the cover of Cc Madhya 5, which must have been authorized either directly or indirectly (via his delegation of that decision to others) by Srila Prabhupada. Therefore, I cannot rightfully criticize its use. However, it is not my preference, for it reminds me too much of the sort of posing used by sahajiyas. There is a black and white movie Srila Prabhupada criticized to the extreme for this very reason.… Read More...