Who's in ISKCON?

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> At 22:13 -0800 1/16/99, COM: Goloka Candra (das) JPS (Malaysia) wrote:

> >Mahanidhi dasa (by his own admission) took ISKCON's dirty linen to VNN on

> >a smear campaign, bypassing all lines of authority - COM administrators,

> >gurus and GBC - and you (and some others who think like you) are

> >glorifying his actions.

>

> It appears that you are still confusing GHQ and ISKCON. It wasn't

> ISKCON's dirty laundry. It was the GHQs dirty laundry.

> If you're still suffering from problems differentiating the two entities,

> the fact that both the Executive Officers of the North American GBC *and*

> the Executive Committee of the GBC have distanced themselves from GHQ

> should make that separation perfectly clear.

> Ys,

> Madhusudani dasi

 

Pardon me, you are such a contradiction.

On one side, you are like saying that the GHQ have nothing to do with ISKCON

(never mind the fact that the GHQ includes sannyasis, temple president/s and

other devotees of good standing).

 

Then you start quoting the GBC. If this was not an ISKCON matter (like you

say), how did the North American GBC or the EC get involved in "the GHQ's

dirty laundry" (like you say)? What business did they have to pass any kind

of pronouncement on this issue if "it wasn't ISKCON's dirty laundry" (like

you say)?

 

Let's face it, we can't pretend that our actions doesn't affect the

organisation we belong to. This is the point: that Ardhabuddi dasa and

associates ought to have known that their actions in annonymously sending

selected texts from a COM private conference to VNN would smear ISKCON's

image. Yet they chose to go ahead, bypassing existing lines of authority.

Meaning: Either no faith in the internal authority system in ISKCON or

intending flagrant disrespect to the authority system.

 

On the other hand, the GHQ, for all their faults, were only engaged in

preparing (or conspiring as you would like to say) their paper for

submission to the GBC for action. Now you can understand who's really in

ISKCON.

 

Your servant,

Goloka Candra dasa