Are the devotees the chips in a poker game?

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> > This is just the latest in a series of incidents that is

> > confirming for many, that the merger of the various Gaudiya

> > Matha branches and ISKCON, possibly with Narayana Maharaja as

> > the acarya, is not far away.

 

>

> > The scenario that some have

> > proposed is that ISKCON gurus continue to give diksa, with

> > Narayana Maharaja installed as a prominent siksa Guru.

>

> Name even one single ISKCON leader or regular devotee who holds

> NM as 'a prominent siksa Guru' over Srila Prabhupada. Again you

> are ranting foolishly.

>

> > This

> > would allow the ISKCON gurus to keep their status and money,

> > rather than losing them altogether, as is happening now, once

> > persons seek shelter from Narayna Maharaja, and other Gaudiya

> > vaisnavas.

 

 

 

The various Gaudiya Math branches can't possibly unite themselves

under the guidance of one single acarya (here Narayana Maharaja being

propagated as such) since the departure of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati

Thakura. What to speak of Gaudiya Math, now ISCKON is being

envisioned as a soon "merging" partner of such imagined "corporation"

with the various branches of GM, with the single acarya on the top.

Really far out news.

 

The particular fictitious "deal" that allows to ISCKON gurus to

still keep some "shares" in the form of diksa-status and money

(perhaps it's a kind of payement for their not making troubles to

Narayana Maharaja's establishment as the ultimate authority

of the "Corporation") is quite amusing and entertaining, and

perhaps even indicative as well. Namely, there where the entire

Gaudiya Math actually broke down was exactly over the controlling

the money and the assets. Who's gonna to control which part. So

watch out for this, if something like of a kind (a fusion of

GM branches and ISCKON) occurs, by some miracle. Watch out the

fight over who will be controlling and deciding over the *material

assets*. Watch out how one single acarya of such "spiritual

Mega Institution" is going to be elected and accepted by

all Gurus and Acaryas from the side of all various fractions,

groups, and institutions. Just comming...

 

 

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Though much more could be said, I am trying to be short at the

moment. Just one thing that I would like to point on specifically.

 

 

 

ISCKON is obviously in the crises, and the opportunity for

different parties to try to grab for a piece of the "cake" is

apparently there. Though all are claiming the right over the entire

ISCKON, objectively some would be satisfied with the piece of it,

as bigger as possible. Rtviks go for theirs, "NMs" go for theirs...

and the "ISCKONiaties" (loyal to their Gurus&GBC) hold the right of

theirs. So it would be quite silly to expect the unified front

where all would agree to go under one flag, the one of NM. Braking

down ISCKON into different fragments, just like what happened to GM,

would be the objective outcome. I guess that's what both rtviks' and

NM's parties would go for (they are doing it already now, snatching

from the ISCKON with any slightest opportunity).

 

BUT. What I have primarily on my mind is -- nobody cares for

devotees really! They are just like an another kind of a material

asset, besides money and buildings. The devotees in general,

the members of ISCKON, are like the chips laying on a poker table.

And the game is going on. It is just crazy, but that's what's

happaning. On one side the rtviks are making the court case by which

all the devotees would become announced as the initiated disciples

of Srila Prabhupada, and their present gurus as rtvik priests.

On the other side, the activists of Narayana Maharaja (like our

well informed "reporter" here, Chandra Das) are busy in announcing

the "unification deals" in which the "chips" would be pushed over to

the NM's side of the table, thus becoming NM's actual disciples

(while remaining just in name the disciples of their present Gurus,

for the sake of not having these "Gurus" cry too much after the lost

of their "chips").

 

But who cares what individual devotees might want and think

about what could be the best option for their respective spiritual

lives.

 

 

"The Fight For Power and Control". So let's see who get's what

on "the end".

(It's like in a free life cinema. Maybe Chandra Das could write

something about it in his "Cinema Journal" already now.)

 

 

 

 

- mnd