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Open Letter to ISKCON GBC and Members
BY: DEVAPRASTHA DAS
Dear Members of the GBC and ISKCON, we have seen that another diksa guru has fallen, one of many. We are told that the GBC is the ultimate authority, yet many times you fall publicly. What are we members to think? It's lila?
Three of you dismissed me as an aparadhi after I told you I found my guru masturbating with pornography.
Open Letter to ISKCON GBC and Members
BY: DEVAPRASTHA DAS
Dear Members of the GBC and ISKCON, we have seen that another diksa guru has fallen, one of many. We are told that the GBC is the ultimate authority, yet many times you fall publicly. What are we members to think? It's lila?
Three of you dismissed me as an aparadhi after I told you I found my guru masturbating with pornography.
What will you do when evidence is presented? How will you take care of devotees whose gurus fall?
Are we to continue to see GBC as ultimate? Are we to continue surrendering? Prabhavisnu has 1,500 disciples, how are they feeling now? Harikesa had far more than that, and my guru has half as much as him, maybe 3,000.
Please know that I have taken one item of pornographic magazine, and will request you to check if his fingerprints match on it. This will be a legal case -- me against the so-called guru. I have one godsister who says she feels uncomfortable in his presence, like he undresses her with his eyes.
I agree with Rupanuga Prabhu, let's take shelter of Srila Prabhupada and forget these other people. When will you allow us to do so without us becoming labeled aparadhis? And I want to suggest you stop these guru seminars on how to be a good guru. It doesn't make sense, Anuttama is one instructor of those classes and he is grihasta. How silly is this?
I am not upset, I'm relieved, I now know what the truth is and how to worship, and who.
Are we to continue to see GBC as ultimate? Are we to continue surrendering? Prabhavisnu has 1,500 disciples, how are they feeling now? Harikesa had far more than that, and my guru has half as much as him, maybe 3,000.
Please know that I have taken one item of pornographic magazine, and will request you to check if his fingerprints match on it. This will be a legal case -- me against the so-called guru. I have one godsister who says she feels uncomfortable in his presence, like he undresses her with his eyes.
I agree with Rupanuga Prabhu, let's take shelter of Srila Prabhupada and forget these other people. When will you allow us to do so without us becoming labeled aparadhis? And I want to suggest you stop these guru seminars on how to be a good guru. It doesn't make sense, Anuttama is one instructor of those classes and he is grihasta. How silly is this?
I am not upset, I'm relieved, I now know what the truth is and how to worship, and who.
Devaprastha
This is from an article that is more than a year old:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/01-12/editorials8178.htm
It obviously had no effect on last years Mayapur GBC meetings, so it probably won't have any effect on this years either.
The longer the GBC puts off the inevitable (ISKCON's switching back to Srila Prabhupada's ingenious ritvik system of initiations), the more they are going to have to suffer.
But, amazingly enough, they don't seem to realize that. I mean, we're talking about individuals who are supposed to be following a strict sadhana and have become very spiritually learned by studying their spiritual master's books. So, they either feel very strongly, without a doubt, that they are following the orders of Srila Prabhupada to the letter or are simply, in a very blatant way, defying his eternal position as Iskcon's Founder-Acharya. If this is the case, then, it could be an indication that a possible trace of false ego derived from a subtle attachment to their status-quo is lying within the core of their hearts as a result of guru-aparadha, which, in turn provokes the now common fall downs. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hare Krsna!
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