gHari Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 <h1>Hare Krishna comes of age: the movement has matured into a mainstream religion after years of tumult and scandal—but escaping the past never is easy</h1> "Coming back, he found ISKCON a vastly changed place. "When the movement had great wealth, it attracted a number of people who did not have fully spiritual motivations," he contends. "Now that the movement is poor--surviving, but poor. Those who have remained have remained because they truly believe; they truly practice; and they truly care." The nine page article starts here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2722_134/ai_n14814238 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlesh Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 What about the Futur? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gHari Posted July 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 The future ..... we all go back. Back to Godhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amlesh Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 The future ..... we all go back. Back to Godhead. Terrific:cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchandra Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 "When the movement had great wealth, it attracted a number of people who did not have fully spiritual motivations," he contends. "Now that the movement is poor--surviving, but poor. Those who have remained have remained because they truly believe; they truly practice; and they truly care." The nine page article starts here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2722_134/ai_n14814238 ISKCON never had great wealth in that sense how the karmis understand and process it. In fact people only could enjoy that "wealth" when secretly putting some laxmi into an attaché case and leave for good. "Great wealth" rather sounds like what Bill Gates did, gathering billions and not having to worry about anything when losing 1 billion due some inattentiveness. This article sounds like an accusation that the founder build up a movement based upon material riches and all those who joined were attracted by this worldly glamour and not really spiritually motivated. Now, since this error of the founder was rectified and worldly wealth taken away from the spiritual movement, only then sincere people could join and fully absorb into the spiritual mysticism of bhakti-yoga. Could be that the author is somewhat related with the present ISKCON management. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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