No Change

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Great text Vidvan. Well said, and forceful too.

 

Adri's contradiction is just so blatantly obvious: Under the

banner of 'no change' he wants to instigate the biggest change

that has ever occured in the history of Vaisnavism by BREAKING

the law of disciplic succession. It is a big joke. This has got

to be the greatest hypocracy ever. And more surprising than the

daftness of his argument is the fact that many devotees are daft

enough to buy it. Maya is so strong.

 

ys

 

ada

 

> Dear devotees,

>

> PAMHO AGTSP

>

> One of the statements made by the pro-rtviks is that there

> should be "no change" between what was going on during

> Prabhupada's time and now. They call it the No Change in

> ISKCON Paradigm (NCIP).

>

> Let us for argument's sake accept their NCIP.

>

> Now during Prabhupada's time, whenever anyone wanted to make

> any change in ISKCON it had to be only UNDER the GBC and NOT

> AGAINST the GBC.

>

> Prabhupada made it very clear:

>

> "The GBC authority must be accepted under

> all circumstances, not that there will be fighting

> amongst you. This fighting spirit will destroy

> everything." (SPL Bali Mardan, 18 Sept, '72)

>

> Sometimes the pro-rtviks say they are really "totally for

> GBC". But then why do they rebel against Srila Prabhupada's

> instruction to fully co-operate with the GBC?

>

> Even during Srila Prabhupada's physical presence, objections

> to

> GBC resolutions only went through an authorised forum at an

> appropriate time, or not at all. Srila Prabhupada clearly

> wanted

> everyone to co-operate fully with the GBC. The pro-rtviks'

> rebellion against the GBC's unanimous decision against

> ritvikism clearly violates Srila Prabhupada's directive.

>

> Here is another statement in this regard by Srila Prabhupada:

>

> "So far your question, how far should the orders of my

> duly appointed officers like GBC, etc., be obeyed and

> followed, the answer is that they must always be

> followed exactly as he says. Have you not heard me on

> this point? Why these questions are repeated again and

> again? This individual begging must be stopped."

> (SPL to Jayadharma, 13th December, 1972)

>

> This letter is very significant in this regard. Firstly

> Prabhupada says that "they must ALWAYS be followed EXACTLY."

>

> Then he admonishes Jayadharma, "Have you not heard me on this

> point? Why these questions are repeated again and again?" This

> shows that this was something Prabhupada expected to be of

> common knowledge to an ISKCON member.

>

> Thirdly Prabhupada declares, "This individual begging must be

> stopped."

>

> Thus Srila Prabhupada often made it very clear that he was

> very displeased with devotees who did not co-operate with the

> GBC. There is no question of disobeying the GBC what to

> speaking of fighting with the GBC at court!!!

>

> So this is how it was during Prabhupada's time. According to

> the

> NCIP-proponents, there can be ***NO CHANGE from what was

> happening during Prabhupada's time to what should happen after

> Prabhupada's samadhi***. So why are they CHANGING their mode

> of action of being UNDER the GBC in all circumstances? They

> should NOT CHANGE the system established by Prabhupada that

> the GBC should be obeyed in ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. Besides, "THE

> SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED" (as the pro-rtviks

> often quote from Prabhupada's Will).

>

> No one ever went to court to fight against the GBC (no one

> would have dared to do so) during Prabhupada's time. So on

> what authority are they disobeying Prabhupada's statement that

> the system of management should not change?

>

> If they really hate the GBC and ISKCON since they believe it

> has deviated from Prabhupada's instructions, then they should

> follow in Prabhupada's footsteps and create a new society from

> a scratch and not be parasites of ISKCON, and that too

> fighting against it. But why do the No-Change-vadis change

> such a principal directive of Prabhupada to work UNDER the GBC

> in all circumstances?

>

> ys

> vgd