| In Their
Own Words SUMMARY |
The dozens of conclusions presented in this issue represent the sum of the basic conclusions which the ISKCON Revival Movement (IRM) has been trying to put forward for many years via its numerous papers and this BTP magazine. We can see that ISKCON�s leadership has been influenced and pressured so much by the IRM�s preaching, that unwittingly due to our pushing them to be "Prabhupada-friendly", they have ended up adopting our conclusions in toto! In our first Special summary issue we had already demonstrated using Srila Prabhupada�s direct statements that he is ISKCON�s diksa (initiating) Guru, and that ISKCON today is deviating from his orders. Now we have done it using the words of ISKCON�s leaders themselves. Take your pick! What more proof is needed? Either way, the IRM�s position has been substantiated from every angle, beyond a shadow of a doubt. ISKCON�s leadership now accept the following 6 conclusions:
| 1)
Srila
Prabhupada is ISKCON�s
diksa
Guru
(initiating spiritual master).
2) ISKCON is only supposed to have ritviks (officiating priests) and siksa (instructing) gurus, but no diksa gurus, other than Srila Prabhupada. 3) ISKCON�s current guru system, and hence its gurus, are unauthorised. 4) ISKCON�s objections to the IRM�s position have no merit. 5) ISKCON and its leadership is deviating, and in a mess. 6) The IRM is acting sincerely to try and implement Srila Prabhupada�s orders. |
Followers and supporters of ISKCON have to agree with their own leadership even if they do not agree with the IRM! In practise, of course, ISKCON does not obey Srila Prabhupada�s orders as presented by the IRM, even though we may have exposed them agreeing with us, but rather continues to deviate, and the results are plain for all to see, as they themselves admit. They may admit that effectively Srila Prabhupada is the diksa Guru and that they should be no more than glorified ritviks with no potency and power, yet they still refuse to ACT on this understanding, but rather continue to usurp Srila Prabhupada�s position and mislead people off the correct path of properly serving Srila Prabhupada. Thus, the 80-odd ISKCON "gurus" continue to take disciples, service, privileges and benefits, which by their own words should belong to Srila Prabhupada alone. However, having exposed ISKCON�s leadership agreeing with us is, of course, a start. This hypocrisy of saying one thing but doing another is only to be expected, since the Vedic scriptures state that we live in the age of hypocrisy, Kali-yuga, and hypocrisy is the characteristic of this age:
"This is the age,
Kali. It is called Kali. Hypocrisy, simply hypocrisy. Kali means full of
hypocrisy."
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, November 26th, 1966)
Thus, the debate is now long over. Only the cheating and hypocrisy remains. ISKCON�s opposition to the IRM can be defeated simply by quoting their own leaders.