Vaiyasiki Das Writes About ISKCON

Vaiyasiki Das: 

A few comments on how Prabhupada's ISKCON is developing.

1. Is ISKCON meant to present a philosophy only, or are we meant to present an alternative way of life as well?

Prabhupada directed us to show the example of a spiritual lifestyle based on the teachings and philosophy of Lord Caitanya. [namaste sarasvati deve gaura vani pracarine...]

This Gaura Vani is meant to be spread and replace the present worldwide nirvisesa sunyavadi lifestyle, in order to deliver Western people pascatya desa tarine from a hellish destination. Prabhupada taught that Example is much more convincing than Precept. So when we only present precepts then we only give a theoretical presentation instead of a practical example.

When Prabhupada said that varnasrama, 50% of his work, was unfinished, he intended that we must finish it. Otherwise, ISKCON remains a theoretical movement lacking examples to establish it as a practical and viable alternative way of life.

He instructed us to implement daivi varnasrama - rural communities for ISKCON members, based on krishi go-raksha principles. He wanted us to implement this catur varnyam maya srstam type of lifestyle for the benefit of the general public, as well as for the members of ISKCON. He gave us so many instructions on this matter.

By not implementing these instructions, we became guilty of guror avajna, and ISKCON will continue to suffer negative results until we finally implement his directives.

2. Is our goal to find a way to fit comfortably into the current flow of the modern world? Or are we meant to change the world’s cultural, social, and economical structures?

Consider the following point: If ISKCON leadership would have glorified and preached a grhastha lifestyle and encouraged couples to have many children, instead of glorifying and instituting a brahmacarya/sannyasa model, ISKCON would now have 4 or 5 times as many devotees! Moreover, many women and gurukulis would not have left ISKCON for other sangas.

If we had implemented Prabhupada's daivi varnasrama system in the ‘70s, we would today be in the vanguard showing the example of self-sufficiency, organic gardening, healthy living, and cow protection throughout the world.

We should be offering organic cruelty-free milk, fruit, and veggies to our Deities, instead of being fully dependent on ugra-karma factories supplying these things because we have not developed the resources to offer our Deities the best for Their eating pleasure.

By not following the instructions of the Founder Acharya, ISKCON loses instead of benefits.

Every problem in spiritual life is a direct result of not following the instructions of guru - guror avajna.

3. Are we so eager to gain a seat at the table of established institutions that we are no longer willing to take a challenging position that is contrary to the established narrative?

[PADA: ISKCON is at the forefront of attacking other religions. The leaders are constantly saying we don't want to be like the bogus Christian ritviks, because the Christians worship a pure devotee and they would never worship the GBC's illicit sex messiahs. As soon as the GBC finds out Bangalore is going to STOP the GBC's worship of pedophiles and deviants as messiahs program, the GBC spends $20,000,000 suing them to try to stop the worship of the pure devotee. Anyone who does not want to worship pedophiles like Lokanath is banned, exiled, vilified, sued, removed, or maybe shot in the head. Who wants to join such a dangerous and violent bogus guru cult?] 

When we joined ISKCON it was the movement to go back to Godhead in this life.
It was not the movement to become an established religion alongside other faiths.
It was not the movement to become an established institution in the material world.

[PADA: There is no "other faith" that worships illicit sex with men, women and children guru programs, this is only done in GBC ISKCON.]

Rather, it was the movement to show the world that material life is NOT the answer to the world’s problems.

[PADA: And that is why the GBC leaders seem to mostly live in fancy dwellings while many rank and file devotees are banned and some then live in crappy apartments, and some are homeless etc. It looks like the leaders are mainly interested in having their material needs taken care of.]

Yes, it was the movement to rock the boat and explain that without a spiritual dimension, without devotional service, there is no solution to the problems of life.
We challenged - anyone can experience God consciousness by establishing a relationship with God via chanting His holy names.

[PADA: And then Bhakti Vikas swami says we need more kirtan. Wait, you guys kicked out thousands and thousands and thousands of people -- who were doing the kirtan. And then molested many of the kids, who were supposed to take over the kirtan -- burning them out before they even got started.]

We challenged - come live with us and your life will become sublime.
If we had stayed on track we would now have hundreds of successful krishi go-raksha communities worldwide. But when Prabhupada left, we sold most of our rural land, or lost it via repossession, because we fell asleep at the wheel.

[PADA: The leaders did not fall asleep at the wheel, they de-emphasized farms so they could make fancy dwellings for themselves. And they took money meant to care for the kids to support their opulent lifestyles, and then kids reported being starved, beaten and deprived of basic needs -- like soap and food. Their money was being siphoned away, this was totally planned and calculated and viciously enforced.]

ISKCON lost land that today is 100 times more costly to acquire.

It was a great failure on our part, and the longer we delay in implementing this other 50% of Prabhupada’s mission, the more irrelevant ISKCON will become because other groups are now doing what we should have been doing decades ago!

So the example is always more convincing than the precept.

A simple search for 'eco villages' on YouTube will reveal how many people, in so many countries, are going off grid and living self-sufficient lifestyles today.

ISKCON should have been leaders in this field. Instead we are laggards.
Others are implementing what Prabhupada wanted us to implement but they are doing so without devotional service to Radha and Krishna. 

[PADA: First of all, ISKCON is not going to attract the new age people by promoting the worship of illicit sex with men, women and children as a guru parampara. And now they are using their infamous stalling technique to keep Lokanath in the post of guru, never mind it is widely known he is a sexual predator. 

People are not attracted to a religion that worships sexual predators as its messiahs, and says worship of Jesus is the bogus ritviks idea -- because the bogus Christians are not worshiping illicit sex with men, women, children and cats as their messiahs. We cannot attack the people who worship pure devotees, claiming they need to start to worship sex with cats in a samadhi? 

There are eco farms all over the planet, and at those eco farms they more or less accept that Jesus is a pure devotee, while sex with cats in a samadhi is not considered as worship of a pure devotee. Unless we update our system of worship to also worship the pure devotee, ISKCON will fail. And is failing. The big temples, farms etc. will manifest once the proper worship is reset. 

ys pd]