The devotees of ISKCON-Bangalore under the guidance of Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa have taken up the struggle to fight this disobedience of Srila Prabhupada’s directions.
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PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 09, 2010 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada set out on a 35 day long trans-Atlantic voyage to the United States in the year 1965, at the age of seventy.
He carried with him Rs.40 and a trunk filled with his English translations of The Srimad Bhagavatam. For four decades following the instruction of his spiritual Master he travelled to different places spreading the message of Bhagavad-Gita and other Vedic literatures all over the world.
During his journey he confronted with many challenges and difficulties, but he moved ahead to serve the order of his spiritual Master with firm determination and vigor.
Srila Prabhupada reached the eternal abode of Lord Krishna in the year 1977.
As a great futurist he was aware of the complications that might arise after him and hence laid out his succession plans before his departure from this world. He had already formed a Governing Body Commission to manage the affairs of the society. Next he had to decide on who will be the spiritual successor to take up the seat of the Acharya (acharya-peeta)- an ultimate possession of spiritual and material authority.
During that time most of his leading disciples were westerners and Srila Prabhupada was aware of the fact that they were young and inexperienced in age and spirituality. He could feel that even his senior most disciples were tremendously materially ambitious. In such situations, Srila Prabhupada decided not to appoint any successor Acharya.
Instead he appointed eleven Officiating Acharyas or Ritviks, who would initiate on his behalf and the new initiates would be Srila Prabhupada’s disciples. Four months before he left for the heavenly abode he issued a written directive to the whole institution explaining this system of initiation.
But unfortunately these eleven members who were all westerners conspired and declared themselves, without authorization from Srila Prabhupada, to be the next Acharyas. Devotees who tried to question them were ill treated and harassed.
ISKCON went through several crises in the next few years after 1977, and had to face some major embarrassments because of these self-proclaimed Acharyas.
The devotees of ISKCON-Bangalore under the guidance of Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa have taken up the struggle to fight this disobedience of Srila Prabhupada’s directions.
In 1998 the devotees of ISKCON-Bangalore challenged the wrong Acharya system and formally declared to the Governing Body Commission that they shall only follow Srila Prabhupada’s directions on the Acharya system and implement what he intended for the ISKCON society.
Since then Madhu Pandit Dasa with his team has dedicated themselves to fulfill the seven purpose of ISKCON as enunciated by Srila Prabhupada.
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