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Attack on ISKCON
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| So that's one attack on ISKCON. I have no problem if the Gauḍīya Maṭh people want to go and preach in some part of the world, and make members, and initiate them, I don't mind. There's very exalted souls in Gauḍīya Maṭh. But I don't like this if someone of them flies above ISKCON waiting for some devotee to drop. And then they drop down and pick up the meal and take it away (chuckles). So don't quote me that I'm offensive to Gauḍīya Maṭh and offensive to their members, I'm not. But I'm an ISKCON man. And Prabhupāda told us, "Don't associate. Keep your distance." So at best I said, good fences make good neighbors.
| | So my instruction to my disciples is, don't go to Gauḍīya Maṭh. Don't even give it any question, don't be curious about what it is. "The curiosity killed the cat." So if you want to know about Gauḍīya Maṭh, I'm telling you about Gauḍīya Maṭh, there's many things I could say but... Don't be enamored, it is something else, it's very nice but it's not for us.
| | That includes Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja's group. Many of you don't know who Nārāyaṇa Mahārāja is or even not know what the Gauḍīya Maṭh is. But I want to get to you before they do. (laughter) Because they know there's many serious problems in ISKCON, and some of them are taking advantage. So let us conclude by offering our full daṇḍavats to the members of Gauḍīya Maṭh... I personally know a number of the senior gurus in Gauḍīya Maṭh, and they are very exalted souls. By millions of lives more advanced than me. But let us not be naive about the motivations of some of their members.
| | Just like in our own ISKCON we can't be naive about the motivations of some of the members of ISKCON. Even with ISKCON members, Prabhupāda has informed us, that we should make friendship with devotees on our own level, we should take instructions from those on higher level, we should be merciful to those who are on a lower level.
| | And considering those on a lower level, sometimes Prabhupāda said we should not associate with them because their association is dangerous. We should just offer them respects in our mind. Vaiṣṇava means one who believes Kṛṣṇa is God, but he may be attached to money and sex. So you respect him in your mind, but you don't take his or her intimate association because you may be also influenced by desire for money and women.
| | So that's one attack on ISKCON. When you attack someone, you hurt them. So I speak like that, Gauḍīya Maṭh's attack on ISKCON, in the sense it's taking valuable ISKCON members, it's confusing ISKCON members. Some of their members areattacking us. We are not going to Navadvīpa and to Māyāpura, and canvassing for followers amongst their groups. We are not attacking, we are defending. So I have to speak strongly.
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