To the point, check out the referencelink.

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Great job, nicely backed up with proper quotes, to the point, no hard

feelings, sharp and lucid.

Thanks. This is the kind of material that is needed.

 

I think a lot of the ritvikconfusion comes with a mixture of dissapointment

with ISKCON-representatives and a lack of clear philosophical explanations,

like this one.

If a devotee is "burned" (once burned, twice shy) there is a tendency to

jump somewhere with ventilation for your hard feelings ( In this case the

ritvik-camp.)

I don´t think the lot of these devotees are hardcore deviants. Many times

when frustrations hit your devoteelife you are faced with a "wall" amongst

those who were supposed to be your family and your friends and you are

forced to go somewhere else to share your bread. So please try and

understand that socalled "deviants" are not always so, because they very

much choose to, but because they are pushed out socially.

 

If ISKCON would be some small percentage more friendly, polite, warm,

understanding, tolerant and self-ironic, ( kinda human), you name it, we

could go a L O N G way, without these schisms.

 

And with input like this from Vidvan Gauranga prabhu - only the sky is the

limit.

 

Your servant Trayimaya dasa

 

PS: I put varnasram conference as co-reciever since we just had a similar

traffic(jam) there.