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Attack on ISKCON
<< 5 Gauḍiya Math and ISKCON – two different families >>
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| So because ISKCON is in this, I wouldn't say weak, it's just a growing stage, we see that other "spiritual" organizations are taking advantage of that to gain members for their organizations.
| | Like Gauḍīya Maṭh. Yesterday there was several questions about Gauḍīya Maṭh. I've nothing against the Gauḍīya Maṭh. And I don't want to make any offenses to many of the exalted members of the Gauḍīya Maṭh. But we're not Gauḍīya Maṭh, we're ISKCON. It's like two different families. We've been born in this family, and they've been born in that family. But both families are meant for going back to Godhead. But even logically from a material point of view, if you're born from a particular father, you can't change your father for another father, because he's your father!
| | You can't decide, "I don't want you to be my father, I want that man to be my father." You can do that, but it's very artificial. You have a certain blood, a certain DNA, a certain RNA which make you part of a particular family. And due to some whim you just can't change that and go towards next door and say, "Oh, now you're my father." It doesn't work like that.
| | So, we are members of ISKCON, we've been created by Śrīla Prabhupāda's mercy. We are born of Śrīla Prabhupāda's mercy, and we should remain loyal to his family. Besides that, Śrīla Prabhupāda himself left that organization because they were just too busy fighting. As Śivarāma Mahārāja said last night during his talk, "It was only Śrīla Prabhupāda who cared enough about us, to come to the West, undergo so many austerities and difficulties to establish Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that we're here today." It is only because of Prabhupāda and his ISKCON that these people, you know, have any access to the Western countries at all now.
| | And we see that most of the people, their members they are making, are devotees who are disillusioned and disaffected with ISKCON. They don't have the power to go out, and write books, translate books into English, or Russian, or German, or Spanish, distribute it, amount of books, and do festivals, and make devotees like that. They have to prey on disaffected, disillusioned ISKCON devotees. And from the very beginning Śrīla Prabhupāda knew this tendency. Because he grew up in the Gauḍīya Maṭh himself, he knew their members better than you and me. So although he respected his Godbrothers, he was always afraid they would take advantage of his success.
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