Response to Jayadvaita Maharaj's recommended article

September 9, 2005

> > What do you care? You are not even IN ISKCON. Last time we discussed the

> > jiva issue you were busy telling me how fanatic and clueless ISKCON

> > devotees are, and now you are all of a sudden very worried about ISKCON

> > policy??? Get real..

>

> jahnu this is simply not fair talk like that to Gaura keshava acbsp. It is

> not a welcoming type of e-mail. Mayapura 2005 was about welcoming

> Prabhupada disciples back to Iskcon and encouraging them. Thus I feel that

> such comments are not at all proper to encourage disaffected senior

> devotees who after all gave so many long and faithful years in iskcons

> service.

>

> "flame mail" like yours and your better halfs should be a bit more

> sensitive.

>

> TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

You mean "politically correct" so no one is upset, but it's okay that Gaura

Kesava runs down Srila Prabhupada's institute whenever he feels like it on

public and private conferences that you perhaps aren't privy to? I think

with all due respect Maharaja, you don't actually have any idea of how

offensive this person is and has been, but it seems we have to forget all

that just because he's a disciple of Srila Prabhupada?? Somehow that doesn't

compute. A few years, perhaps 5 or so, is the difference between his

"dedicated service" and my husband's. A devotee is to be respected firstly

for his service, his attitude, and his devotion, not who he is initiated by.

This seems a bit of an elitist mindset, that simply because one is a

Prabhupada disciple, they are due respect. Maybe so, but only if they are

loyal to Srila Prabhupada and his institution. My husband isn't a Prabhupada

disciple, but that's not the only difference between him and Gaura Kesava:

the real difference is that my husband has never run down ISKCON, never sat

and criticized it for being a failure, incorrectly or unjudiciously labelled

its members fanatics who don't know the philosophy, nor sat outside of

ISKCON and listed its faults without doing any active service to try and

improve ISKCON. Maybe you'd better check Gaura Kesava's history before

blindly defending him. You want sensitivity? Show me some sensitivity in

Gaura Kesava's emails. I haven't seen any yet.

Your servant

Braja Sevaki dd

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