Loyalty to ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada

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> There is a conf mentioned called

>

> Prabhupada Siddhanta Study Group (with Conclusions)

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> The very title of the conf appears to be apa-siddhantic as there is no

> such thing as "Prabhupada Siddhanta." Siddhanta is one, and the main

> qualification of Srila Prabhupada and of every other devotee serving as

> guru is to present that siddhanta as received through parampara. If we

> think that Srila Prabhupada has his own siddhanta, then we misrepresent

> him.

 

Dear Maharaja.

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

I'm writing to you as organizer of conference Prabhupada Siddhanta Study

Group.

 

We already changed the name once. Original proposed name was "Prabhupada

Research Group". Then we were noted, that Srila Prabhupada didn't want, that

we use word research, as it implies, that truth is unknown, and needs to be

researched. As per personal advice of Hari Sauri Prabhu, we changed the name

to "Prabhupada Siddhanta Study Group", which was his personal proposal.

 

I am more that ready to change the name immediately to anything else, just

to avoid any discomfort from the side of devotees. I wish, that any devotee,

who feels obliged to study Srila Prabhupada's words and present them to

others, would feel most at home in this conference. If the name of

conference is impediment to that in any way, I will change it in a second.

 

We thought about many names. After pointing out that the use of word

"research" is improper, we had some discussion about the name. The point of

"Prabhupada Siddhanta" implying, that Srila Prabhupada had his own,

independent siddhanta, also came out. But in the end there was just few

suggestions, and there was no unanimous agreement on the name. Always

something was missing, it was hard to express purpose clearly in few words

of title. Therefore I just cut through and decided to use "Prabhupada

Siddhanta Study Group". I was considering, that we cannot go wrong with this

name, because it was personally suggested by Hari Sauri Prabhu.

 

But personally, I still feel that "Prabhupada Research Group" better

describes the intended purpose of conference. The point was, that I wanted

to make it clear, that conference is ment for studying Srila Prabhupadas

words. No other sampradaya branch, just the one coming through Srila

Prabhupada. Therefore I used "Prabhupada". Then I wanted to use word

"research", to imply that modern ISKCON may be loosing contact with original

message, because of westernization and other influences, and that message

needs to be researched, before properly propagated. And "group" implies,

that it is a group, so that nobody would feel too threatened by possible

"fossil", "frozen in 70s", "fanatical" and "conservative" opinions expressed

in the conference.

 

Now, I'm willing to change the name in any possible way (length of

conference title is limited). But I'm a bit out of ideas. Please, any idea

is welcome. If you can just say the name, that you would be pleased with, I

will change immediately to that.

 

thank you

 

your servant Giri-nayaka das BVS