Today, let me speak to you from my heart about my realization of Srila Prabhupada, especially what I have learned over the last eight years serving him outside the formal boundaries of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. I hope you will accept my appreciation of Srila Prabhupada, even though it may speak of a different vision of His Divine Grace from what you are familiar with. After all, each and every atom of this world may be examined from many, many angles of vision - what to speak of a person whose every atomic particle of existence is cent percent dedicated to the service of the Supreme Lord. As Krishna himself is like a bright jewel who shows himself to his devotee as he himself sees fit, so his pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada, is a multifaceted personality who shows himself to his followers in many wonderful and diverse ways at the same time. Let us not limit Prabhupada to our own vision of His Divine Grace.
Guru tattva is a vast subject, an elusive tattva.
We are humbled in our attempt to say anything about Prabhupada at all, and to do so certainly requires his grace. Hetor ahetos ca', with cause or without cause, sometimes in love differences arise. This is the nature of loving affairs. Let us consider, on this occasion where there is considerable talk of unity, that the differences between Vaishnavas arise out of love and everything that is spoken is not the whole truth. Srila Prabhupada said many things about his godbrothers, and they have often been quoted out of context to establish a policy that falls short of unifying all Gaudiya Vaishnavas, which he so desired.