Initiation (?!) first step - admitting mistakes

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Sthita Prabhu wrote:

 

>Yes, it seems odd. In the mode of passion one's viewpoint tends to swing from

>one extreme to another. Even in ordinary affairs, sometimes you see a couple

>in love only to break up and then totally detest each other. Sometimes it is

>simply a reaction to feeling betrayed and hurt.

 

In this case I see that it wasn't reaction of feeling betrayed

and hurt, but rather a reaction of fear that the members of

ISKCON will lose some blind faith in higher authorities.

Admiting mistakes is vary rare thing to behold, especially

among those, who are basing their power of authority on the

image of "unalloyed, infalliable, all-knowledgeble person".

 

>Still, it might also seem a little odd endorsing someone's past lectures when

>they have made such a dramatic break in their disciplic relationship with

>Srila Prabhupada.

 

Pardon me? I'm not endorsing past lectures, I think it's

personal business of anyone to decide, if he can find some

benefit or not in them. The point is that if we find such

lectures as full of deviating phylosophy, then we have to admit

in total blindness over years, and first of all there should

be some clear and free of sentiments explanation from mouths

of our beloved higher authorities and GBC. They should exlain

who is that only now they've found theological mistakes, and

have to admit in their spiritual incompetence, at least till

some extend.

 

>Whatever a certain particular devotee's shortcomings may have proven to be, it

>seems they did a heck of a lot of service according to their utmost capacity.

>Our relationship with Krsna doesn't always fit some neat Hollywood script.

 

That's it.