"Let's all go out at the fag end of our life and spread the Holy Names of HARI over this demoniac planet. "
BY: ISVARA DAS (ACBSP)
Sep 16, 2010 — AUSTRALIA (SUN) — I am not a supporter of Ritviks, Narayan Maharaja, this group or that group. I’m like many of my godbrothers, the silent majority who just want to serve Srila Prabhupada as a simple devotee. But when I see you, Ajamila das, make statements like:
“HOW THE RITVIK CONCOCTION WAS BORN Let’s go back to the history as to how the ritvik concoction was born out of lust and envy.”
I have to say something.
All these different groups were formed and broke away from ISKCON because of the harsh way you and many devotees like you, Ajamila das, treated other devotees who did not agree in the mid-1980’s with your philosophical views on the 11 appointed gurus. Your views were so extreme, to say the least.
I was with a group of devotees living in Worcester, England who were ostracised by ISKCON UK because we would not follow the authorities at Bhaktivedanta Manor and accept Bhagavan das as a pure devotee.
I can remember our meeting, Ajamila das, and little talk we had on one of the balconies of the long building at Sri Mayapur Dhama. After a short discussion on the position of Bhagavan das, you looked me straight in the eye and you said to me, because I would not accept Bhagavan das as a pure devotee, that I was a demon. A few months later Bhagavan das had fallen.
First let’s try and see the log in our own eye before we see the splinter in others eyes. As Srila Prabhupada disciples we must now at the fag end of our life become lower than the straw in the street, more tolerant than a tree. Please take a look at the YouTube clip of Aindra Prabhu, Sankirtan Revolution. There is great merit in what he is saying. Let’s leave the Zonal politics behind us, it’s just one of maya’s tricks. Let’s all go out at the fag end of our life and spread the Holy Names of HARI over this demoniac planet. Nothing else has any value.
Your servant,
Isvara das (ACBSP)
The philosophy of Krishna consciousness is the only one that has no dogmas, but a human society that do not permit personal opinion can not be considered nor a society neither human. Just a business where people are furled like cattle.
In terms of “ISKCON†dogma, who protest against it is considered a dissident. If someone denounces some of these “Lilas†he is immediately denounced as: “A demonâ€. Any rebellion against this arrangement is said to be a kind of defiance (guror-avajna) against the Founder-Acharya, Srila Prabhupada—in the form of a direct defiance against his so-called successor, the “GBC.â€
Letter to Giriraj, Aug. 12, 1971 from London:
“GBC does not mean to control a center. GBC means to see that the activities of a center go on nicely. I do not know why Tamal is exercising his ‘absolute’ authority. That is not the business of GBC. The President, Treasurer and Secretary are responsible for managing the center. GBC is to see that things are going nicely but not to exert absolute authority. That is not in the power of GBC. Tamal should not do like that. The GBC men cannot impose anything on the men of a center without consulting all of the GBC members first. A GBC member cannot go beyond the jurisdiction of his power. . . . it is a fact that the local President is not under the control of the GBC.â€
ISKCON and the BBT were created in the context of legal bodies recognized as such by the State. So, Srila Prabhupada never intended for the GBC to be a corporate entity. That is clear. The GBC was formed with its constitution and limitations spelled out in a document called Direction of Management. It was set up as an –unincorporated– trust, governed by the DOM The GBC was set up as no more than an advisory board to the Temple Presidents. And this was demonstrated in the DOM itself, in the fact that the Presidents had a checks and balances counterweight spelled out in the DOM. The DOM cannot historically be either belittled or considered irrelevant; it was integral to the very essence and existence of the Governing Body Commission. ISKCON never had any central corporate entity and it was never meant to have one. This is why, in part, the Long Island rittviks and their Bangalore counterparts were able to win recent lawsuits against “GBC†(GBC) antagonists. The GBC was never mentioned in the ISKCON or BBT Articles of Incorporation or in its By-Laws. And in the DOM –which, as aforementioned, was meant to govern the GBC and spell out the limitations of its power– it clearly says, “His Divine Grace has final approval in all matters.†This means that Srila Prabhupada’s authority was explicitly superior to any GBC advisor and to the whole commission itself.
It is self-evident that the GBC were not some kind of Goliath Group owners of ISKCON and BBT, and that none of its members could be on the Board for a very long duration. The originally appointed GBC commissioners from 1970 are on the “GBC†in 2010. All of these men are full-blown sahajiyas. Each of these supposed Mahabhavagatas perverted into a terrible caricature of siddha-purusa. They are all pseudo gurus and in this monstrosity of their anarthas are supposed to be absolute and praiseworthy. So, instead of somewhat of them keeping their original initiated names, almost all of them adopted as a fashion other names, usually ending in “pada.†This was a deliberate and ultimately laughable imitation of Prabhu-pada. Rather than go over their auto-named “pada†and how ridiculous each of those titles are, it is the more efficacious way to understand how each of them became a caricature of guru, as they attempted to carve out an absolute identity as De Facto Popes within their zones. So, the fragmented movement now had to contend with; “ISKCON guru vrinda†(The Vanity Fair Despot, the Scholar, the Teflon Pundit, the Sun King, the Libertine, the Pusher, the Machiavellian Manipulator, the Fanatic Flag-Waiver, the Psychotropic Sahajiya, Das Fuhrer Comet, the Post-Modern Magician, the Inflexible, the Joker and other Clowns.) They are great cheaters and everyone who followed them and actually believed that they are God-realized lovers of Truth constituted the cheated. So the “ISKCON†movement devolved into the newest Transnational Corporation of Cheated and Cheaters.
Srila Prabhupada in any moment calls the G.B.C. as the ultimate managerial authority but, THEY ASUME THAT SRILA PRABHUPADA APPOINTED THE G.B.C. TO BE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY. In other words, that Prabhupada assigned the position of successor authority (Acharya) to a group, to the GBC. This is the major deviation from how a Vaishnava parampara continues. A group is never a collective Acharya; neither can it decide who is guru or Acharya. Is supposed that the “GBC†could not decide how the sampradaya continue. This hubris is immeasurable and this audacity of the “GBC†translated into the self-apotheosis of its Zonals “Acharyasâ€. What Prabhupada had said was; “Ritvik initiators, that’s all,†and, much more importantly, is that he had not given the order to become guru to any of his disciples formally during the time he was still manifest, became relegated to ancient history and ultimately considered irrelevant. The “GBC†had supposedly received the full functions of Srila Prabhupada’s will, purity and transcendental authority.