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So what is ISKCON? ISKCON is Śrīla Prabhupāda's personal desire. It is his service to Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura to flood the world with love of God. It is the vehicle which is spreading the teachings of all of our predecessor ācāryas, it is the medium by which all the work of the previous ācāryas is now culminating in a movement to spread love of God.

So exactly how ISKCON was set up, and how it was to function, etc., it was all realized by Śrīla Prabhupāda and set into motion by Śrīla Prabhupāda. And as Śrīla Prabhupāda is perfect, so his ideals of ISKCON, his principles of ISKCON in the way in which he asked us to execute ISKCON, are also perfect. And in the ten or twelve years that Śrīla Prabhupāda was personally with us on this planet, with us Westerners, establishing ISKCON around the world, we could see how under his personal care and guidance it was functioning perfectly.

Although that's not to say that there weren't problems in ISKCON even when Prabhupāda was here. There were many problems, but Prabhupāda was always there to guide us how to solve the problems and correct them. And then, when Prabhupāda knew that he was going to pass away... Well, even before that, in order to make ISKCON function properly, Prabhupāda created the GBC.

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