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| EDITORIAL November 24, 1998 VNN2548 See Related VNN Stories GHQ Plots Similar To Plots Against Rtviks BY KESAVA DASI EDITORIAL, Nov 24 (VNN) — Dear Assembled Vaishnavas/Vaishnavis, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! In reading over the texts of the GHQ conference, we see repeatedly how the members conspire to label the Women's Ministry as Mayavadi, etc. just to gather support to oppose them. I found this very shocking. What became apparent is that this is exactly what is being done to those who are advocating going back to Srila Prabhupada's order for officiating acharyas in post-samadhi ISKCON (better known as the Rtviks.) Could it be that some of these same devotees are the same conspirators who want mega-power in ISKCON and will go to such lengths to preserve it, at the cost of poisoning the minds of the innocent devotees? Labeling us Rtvikvadis makes us so easily dismissed, doesn't it? Before I had read the Final Order, I was swayed for years not to listen to rtviks, being told they are Mayavadis, etc. What is amazing, is that when I decided to think for myself on the issue and study it, it became very apparent that we were being told these things in order for those in power to maintain that same power. How foolish do they think we are that we will just blindly follow these leaders eternally like puppy dogs, no matter what they do, and not even check out if what they are saying is true? It is not offensive to think for yourself. In fact, you just might be surprised at what you find out is happening right under your nose this whole time. Anyone with even a basic knowledge in logic can see that Krishnakant Desai has defeated these bogus gurus and they cannot even touch him logically or spiritually. He is a vani master. That is because he is not concocting anything. Then there is the ludicrous cry that Krishnakant wants to be or is the rtvik guru. Hogwash. The same arguments were used against the women by GHQ, that these women just want to take over the GBC positions. Anyone who has thoroughly read KKD's texts can see that he only wants ISKCON to follow Srila Prabhupada's order on initiations. It is ridiculous to say that he wants to be the guru when what he is saying is Srila Prabhupada is the current diksa guru for ISKCON. Even the IRG offices are getting organized in a decentralized fashion, as ISKCON should have done, per Srila Prabhupada's order. Does that sound like someone on a power trip? I think not. He has defeated corporate ISKCON and more and more devotees are learning the truth from him at an alarming rate, so they will say anything to get rid of his very real threat to their power. How childish! Big men with big egos, name calling on the playground. Please grow up. Many of us are tired of watching you at your childish play. The rtviks I know are absolutely not Mayavadis. Not even close. The common thread amongst all of the rtviks I see is that they only want to do what Srila Prabhupada wanted us to do. They have learned that the original eleven gurus had no right to become gurus after Srila Prabhupada departed as he never ordered them and they obviously were not ready. How is this Mayavadi? Everything else is the same. Why stick that label on us? Is it just so the puppy dog followers will be afraid to study the matter for themselves and therefore stay in the dark? What has this movement come to? Why are these leaders so afraid of this? Do they not realize how big of an offense this is to Srila Prabhupada to call something he ordered a concoction? Is that what the Gaudiya Matha told them? If so, why are they still listening to them after Srila Prabhupada's repeated warnings not to go there for advice? Are they a good example to follow on the guru appointment issue? It appears not. As for Drutakarma das and his repeated rantings, I thought he was a more intelligent man than that. This call to have everyone board their own ship is going to alienate him from many of his friends. I know several of his friends are rtviks now so that boat he is going to be standing in will not be as he expects it to be, rather it may be quite empty. If the people on that boat have attitudes at all like his, I would rather swim and take my chances with the sharks, thank you. He can have that awful boat. As if he has a monopoly on ISKCON! As I have stated previously, the bliss and brother/sisterhood at the rtvik meetings are like nothing I have ever experienced in 16 years in ISKCON. The spiritual love amongst the group is beyond compare. Most all of the devotees who have attended these meetings share these same feelings. It is very real. Srila Prabhupada's presence can be intensely felt. I had never experienced anything like this in the last 15 years, since previously I was forced to offer obeisances and bhoga to another conditioned soul and stopped really thinking of Srila Prabhupada as my eternal master. My spiritual life had all but dried up. There was no taste. I don't know how I didn't leave altogether, but by Lord Krishna's mercy my life is once again on the right path. I feel like Srila Prabhupada was there all the time but I was worried that if I worshipped him too much it was an offense to my "guru" and it would be considered "jumping over." I think most of the new disciples were told that we HAD to go through one of the present gurus to get to Srila Prabhupada and there was no other way. No wonder so many have left this movement. It is a big disgrace and offense to Srila Prabhupada to steer devotees away from him! What a poorly-acted drama this has all become. What happened to all the humble devotees I thought I would meet when I joined ISKCON? Have most of them left in disgust? Once I started offering bhoga and saying pranams to Srila Prabhupada, I felt renewed spiritual joy, just like I had when I first started reading Srila Prabhupada's books. And it just increases daily. Everything makes sense now. Srila Prabhupada is my guru and nothing anyone does will take him away from me now, unless Srila Prabhupada himself kicks me away. I have learned the hard way and I will never go back. I will hold on tightly to the association of the rtvik devotees as my life and soul for they have guided me back to Srila Prabhupada who was waiting with open arms for his daughter to remember and serve him. I will not be fooled again so easily. I refuse to let ISKCON ruin my life by sending me to hell with a fallen or non-pure guru. I am sure I have traversed that path for many lifetimes and now I only want Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet as my shelter, for I can see nothing else in this world that can save me. As for the GHQ members, the world now knows your inner hatred against the matajis of this movement and simultaneously sees how you plan and plot against devotees by labeling them. How does it feel? Anyone of you in any kind of leadership position really should immediately resign now that your true natures have been revealed. A real gentleman would. Servant of Srila Prabhupada's sincere followers, Kesava dasi See Related VNN Stories This story URL: http://vnn.org/editorials/ET9811/ET24-2548.html NEWS DESK | EDITORIALS | TOP |
