Siksa as most important guru

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> > On 28 Jun 1999, Srila Dasa wrote:

> > Don't try to create a false doctrine when we are obliged to promote our

> > own

> guru's camp, regardless of its faults.

>

> Was Prabhupada a "promoter of his guru's camp" when so much deviation and

> infighting was going on? Did Prabhupada restrict himself to the

> institutional boundaries of the Gaudiya Math?

>

 

This is nice example that you are bring here. Exactly, Srila

Prabhupada did not restrict himself to the institutional

boundaries of the GM. What he did? He left and did his

thing. He never attempted to reorganize and reform the

GM and their leaders. He left them at piece to manage

their Maths as they were able to.

 

 

>

> If ISKCON is diseased spiritually -- as you say "due to corrupt leaders"

> and "another branch of the tree can be started" -- then where will the new

> spiritual leadership come from? You think confused neophytes can do that?

 

Well, just follow the mentioned example of Prabhupada. Then

simply do as said -- start an another branch. Why you have

to worry where "the new spiritual leadership will be coming

from"? Nothing to do with the "confused neophytes" of the

old branch anymore.

 

As Narayana Maharaja confirmed, all sincere devotees have

already left ISCKON. He certainly did not mean on those who

left to join a pub, but Gaudiya Math, and his camp. So you

got already *everything* -- the long-established spiritual

institution, the perfect and pure leadership, the Guruparampara,

and all the sincere devotees. And the old good world is still

there, unconquered and full of mayavada and atheism. So what

else is there to be in need for?

 

Wether ISCKON will survive the crises or not, God knows.

But personally, I am convinced that neither rtvik-camp

nor Narayana Maharaja's camp will be the ones to save and

develop ISCKON. I can see only more and more frictions

and splitting coming out of it. More fight over who will

be in charge of the institution. Poor institution.

 

 

 

mnd