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> Yes, he is an ISKCON sannyasi in very good standing who recently mentioned

> this to my (ISKCON) siksa guru.

 

I would hold out judgement until I knew the whole conversation, and

respectfully, I absolutely disagree with him on this one limited sentence.

It is a rather dangerous thing to quote selectively, and I'm not speaking

specifically of your good self, but recently a quote was posted on another

site in reference to something TKG said. He did say it, and that's not an

issue, but out of context and without understanding, these things can become

very dangerous, especially in the hands of those who are exteme fault

finders of ISKCON, you know? It seems to feed the machine of those too ready

to damn ISKCON for its efforts to date.

 

> For sure there is some, but our society is still dominated by seniors who

> are more interested in power than in our devotees' well being.

 

I think personally that those people exist, but I'm not convinced any more

that they "dominate" the society. I think it was Dhyanakund (I'm sure she

wouldn't mind me quoting her who said she has a 'fantasy' where everyone

in ISKCON ignored those people, and they finally went away I thought that

was a rather appropriate day-dream, to be truthful, and actually [in my

opinion] I believe they are going away. A Prabhupada disciple (also in very

good standing) once said to me "Just hold your breath until they all go back

to Godhead, then you can have ISKCON the way you want it." It was said in

humour, but with a grain of truth. And in fact it's something a lot of

second and third generation devotees have said to me as well - there's no

getting rid of some people, we just have to pray to out-live them!

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Ys

Braja Sevaki dd

 

> Y.s. Hariballabha dd