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Attack on ISKCON
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| What he was before does not condone with what he is doing now. We can't be sentimental. We are only gurus if we repeat the message of the founder-ācārya, Śrīla Prabhupāda, and we follow his example. If we deviate from that, we cannot call ourselves gurus, we do not have the right to ask people to follow us. Prabhupāda is perfect. What he says is perfect. The example he sets is perfect. And if we say something different or do something else, then our actions and our words fall under imperfection and mistakes, no matter how charismatic we are.
| | So I would wish he would come back, but I can't tolerate the things that in order for him to go, he also is criticizing ISKCON. Although many of the things that he said and many things he is criticizing, he was part of that movement which developed those things (chuckles). And if anyone was in the position to correct those things, he was in that position. Many people sympathize with him now because they agree with what's going wrong in ISKCON. But that's not to say that what he is saying to correct, it is necessary right. (chuckles) Any fool can see the things that are wrong in ISKCON, but it doesn't mean that what he offers is necessary the right solution. I agree, there's many social issues that have to be attended to in ISKCON, serious ones. Children, how we treat women, how we treat widows, how we deal with money, how some gurus and sannyāsīs in ISKCON are caring themselves. But who was in a best position to deal with it?
| | Because of what he had done, his unparalleled success in ISKCON, and because of his brilliant ideas, and so forth, the GBC said, "All right, you be the chairman of the GBC for five years." Before, only one year you were allowed to be GBC Executive Head. How to do a lot in one year? So out of respect for him, okay, five years. And he was very nicely dealing with all these issues. Especially, he was helping gurukulas and different social departments in ISKCON. So, if anybody had a position to change that, it was himself. So I don't think it's fair that he's criticizing ISKCON so much, because he had the position to correct ISKCON. I do think that it's just a way of an excuse for his mistake and leaving the shelter of ISKCON.
| | So why he came to that mentality? I cannot say. I wouldn't say it's black magic and special powder or medicines, and whatever. Maybe it is because he was a sannyāsī, and he got too close to a woman. Maybe it is something as simple as that. This lady was allowed to come in and to do her hocus-pocus. "It is the ethereal... This coming down trough the line of this... And then a little massage!" And then even Brahmā's mind gets bewildered.
| | We cannot hear māyāvāda philosophy. Prabhupāda said, even a mahā-bhāgavata devotee can fall down if he hears māyāvāda philosophy. What to speak of a sannyāsī? If he hears such philosophy or some esoteric, impersonal or whatever, philosophy, it can begin to work on the mind, and then you have faith in that person, you listen to that person, everything that person does is okay. And then, "Whoo! Hah!" Then you get confused.
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