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Attack on ISKCON
<< 4 Why there are faults in ISKCON? >>
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| So now we have established what is ISKCON. ISKCON is Prabhupāda, it is Prabhupāda's creation, it is Prabhupāda's desire, and it is the Movement which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu envisioned to save the entire world. So what about the mistakes ISKCON is making? That means the individuals within ISKCON.
| | Well, the British sometimes say, "England, with all thy faults, I love thee." This is a mentality of the loyal Britishmen. ISKCON has mistakes, we're not denying that. Why? Because so many different types of people come to this movement. There's devotees coming who are just finishing up their Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is their last birth. There're devotees who're, you know, this will be their second-to-the-last birth. There're devotees who're coming for the first time. And there's even materialists who take temporary shelter of this movement. And in some cases there's even demons posing as devotees. Prabhupāda said that in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, that demoniac people take shelter of this movement, pose themselves as devotees, and create so much chaos. But even the demons can become purified in
Kali-yuga (chuckles).
| | So it means there's no surprise that there're problems in ISKCON because we have all different types of devotees. We've materialistic devotees, we have kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs, we have madhyama-adhikārīs, and we also have uttama-adhikārīs. So you have to expect that there's going to be problems. But that doesn't mean we should leave, because Prabhupāda said one time also, "Better to rectify than remove." He was talking about one temple president who wasn't acting properly. So the GBC wanted to throw him out. But Prabhupāda said, "Better than throw him away is to correct him."Kali-yuga (chuckles).
| | So in the same way, better than leave ISKCON is to stay in ISKCON and help ISKCON correct its mistakes. But nowadays, devotees so easily... because of frustration, they just want to abandon Prabhupāda's ship. ISKCON is like in an infant stage, and an infant goes to many childhood diseases and childhood illnesses and problems. But you don't throw your baby away because he has the measles or the mumps. You correct the baby and make him healthy.
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