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Attack on ISKCON
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| So first of all, let's identify what is ISKCON, and then who or what is attacking ISKCON. First of all, ISKCON means International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, which is how Śrīla Prabhupāda, is what Śrīla Prabhupāda called his movement to spread the teachings of Lord Caitanya - not only in Western countries but around the world. As we all know, Prabhupāda came to the Western world on the instructions of his spiritual master, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, based on the desires of Śrīla Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja and, specifically, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, and of course the desire of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to see a world-wide organization of devotees chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.
| | Prabhupāda had tried to preach in India, but it was not fruitful. He couldn't even get one family to donate one son whom he could train as a preacher in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. And he found that his Godbrothers were not cooperating to fulfill the desire of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
| | Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura's prophecy that there'll be fire in the Maṭh... He actually literally said these words to Śrīla Prabhupāda when they were walking together at Rādhā-kuṇḍa one day. "There will be fire in the Maṭh." Actually, that fire fully manifested after the departure of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. And thus, Prabhupāda's Godbrothers, most of them, were not cooperating to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but rather they were fighting over who is the next ācārya, who had which place in the temple, who should be honored, etc.
| | So Prabhupāda gave up any hope at that time that the Gauḍīya Maṭh could work together to preach around the world, so he left and took the essence of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura's teachings and desire, and he went to the Western countries, and he started his own movement.
| | Because he is ācārya, what's more, he's śaktyaveśa-avatāra. He's śaktyaveśa-avatāra, specifically empowered to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And because he is ācārya, he had the power to do such a thing. And so, soon after arriving in America he formed the organization called ISKCON. He didn't call it International Society for God Consciousness, he called it International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness because he wanted us to become pure lovers of Kṛṣṇa, who is God.
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