Interpretation is at the heart of the ritvik controversy.

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> > I believe that this was situation that Srila Prabhupada faced before he

> > departed, that there was no one of his disciples or Godbrothers who was

> > without some tinge of personal desire, therefore he didn't select any

> > one person as Acarya, but left us, in essence, an Acarya Board (ie the

> > GBC).

>

> Maybe Prabhupada established the GBC because he simply wanted to follow in

> the footsteps of his Guru Maharaj who had done the same thing.

 

Here is a quote from Trivikram M. that I recently sent to several confs:

 

> Prabhupada once told me that the problem with the Gaudiya Math was that

> they were always trying to create the perfect man but you cannot create

> the perfect man and therefore I have this GBC.