PADA: Actually we are taking ISKCON back one brick at a time, one person at a time, one building at a time, it is happening. Small wonder the GBC's favorite topic is "the ritviks" because they know our idea is catching on. And when we convince even one person, like we did recently when a temple devotee talked to me for about 2 hours and he was totally shocked, he will gradually influence his other devotee friends and family and he will convert more and more people over time, ok a few at a time here and there.
Right now the GBC itself seems to be dwindling and bogging down with side tracked topics like, "Should we vote in a bunch of women gurus," with a big fight over that issue between Bhakti Vikas swami's GHQ camp and Ajamila's "feminist movement" and so on.
And meanwhile Radhanatha is under attack from various other GBC for being a mayavada and so on. Even some of the prominent women in ISKCON are attacking all sorts of the GBC's big leaders right now warning about all of this as deviation and so on.
So this means they are weakening as we continue to grow. In general, I do not think there will be one major swoop where we win in an instant, it is a gradual war of attrition. As we grow, and they diminish, we are taking over gradually.
That is called "grass roots take over" and that is really what I favor for the following reason: At the same time its good we are not taking over in an instant, we do not have sufficient manpower to manage even small programs hardly at present.
Even if the bogus GBC theoretically handed us over the keys today, we could not take over much of anything right now without enough people. So its better we develop gradually as grass roots and take over in manageable chunks, smaller bits we can chew one piece at a time.
If we try to take over a big project and then the deity situation etc. falls apart and so on, this will be another major mess and we will be blamed badly for that. So I am happy with the way its going now, we are gaining a few people here and there, so we are building a force that can take over gradually.
And even if we cannot take over in the end, then our force will become independent and dominant as we "out preach" them, just as Srila Prabhupada did with the Gaudiya Matha, he simply out did them and he won by default. So we will ALSO win by default if we are doing a better job, more and more people will come to us. And they are coming because our idea makes more sense. That is already happening, hence: grass roots is another form of revolution, but its slow motion, which is what works better.
For example, we have the only temple in one South Pacific area, the guru there told his people not to come to us, but since we have the only program there, the ISKCON folks come anyway, and they are adopting our ideas. So this gradual grass roots is the best way to do things, if we get too much too soon, we will not be able to manage and it will make us look foolish. We should focus on making our own small but efficient independent process and build brick by brick, that is the best process for us at the moment. Too much too soon will not work, Krishna is already arranging grass roots and that is the best thing anyway. At least, that is my idea. At the same time I am always ready to use our program to forward a better idea, if someone has one good one and can show us how that works in practice, we will promote it. Otherwise our idea is working already, because its producing practical result. ys pd
Right now the GBC itself seems to be dwindling and bogging down with side tracked topics like, "Should we vote in a bunch of women gurus," with a big fight over that issue between Bhakti Vikas swami's GHQ camp and Ajamila's "feminist movement" and so on.
And meanwhile Radhanatha is under attack from various other GBC for being a mayavada and so on. Even some of the prominent women in ISKCON are attacking all sorts of the GBC's big leaders right now warning about all of this as deviation and so on.
So this means they are weakening as we continue to grow. In general, I do not think there will be one major swoop where we win in an instant, it is a gradual war of attrition. As we grow, and they diminish, we are taking over gradually.
That is called "grass roots take over" and that is really what I favor for the following reason: At the same time its good we are not taking over in an instant, we do not have sufficient manpower to manage even small programs hardly at present.
Even if the bogus GBC theoretically handed us over the keys today, we could not take over much of anything right now without enough people. So its better we develop gradually as grass roots and take over in manageable chunks, smaller bits we can chew one piece at a time.
If we try to take over a big project and then the deity situation etc. falls apart and so on, this will be another major mess and we will be blamed badly for that. So I am happy with the way its going now, we are gaining a few people here and there, so we are building a force that can take over gradually.
And even if we cannot take over in the end, then our force will become independent and dominant as we "out preach" them, just as Srila Prabhupada did with the Gaudiya Matha, he simply out did them and he won by default. So we will ALSO win by default if we are doing a better job, more and more people will come to us. And they are coming because our idea makes more sense. That is already happening, hence: grass roots is another form of revolution, but its slow motion, which is what works better.
For example, we have the only temple in one South Pacific area, the guru there told his people not to come to us, but since we have the only program there, the ISKCON folks come anyway, and they are adopting our ideas. So this gradual grass roots is the best way to do things, if we get too much too soon, we will not be able to manage and it will make us look foolish. We should focus on making our own small but efficient independent process and build brick by brick, that is the best process for us at the moment. Too much too soon will not work, Krishna is already arranging grass roots and that is the best thing anyway. At least, that is my idea. At the same time I am always ready to use our program to forward a better idea, if someone has one good one and can show us how that works in practice, we will promote it. Otherwise our idea is working already, because its producing practical result. ys pd
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