A hoax by definition has no substance, built as it is on a foundation of lies and fabrication. In the scriptures, Srila Prabhupada explains that the bona fide guru is:
a) self-effulgent;
b) authorised by his predecessor spiritual master;
c) situated on the highest platform of God-realisation;
d) not elected;
e) not subject to approval or restriction by a management committee.
The GBC (Governing Body Commission), however, has created an artifical guru system to replace Srila Prabhupada, and invented different types of guru not mentioned in scripture. We highlight two of these bizarre guru varieties below.
ISKCON’s GBC Contradicts ISKCON Founder-Acarya!
‘US Government approved guru’:
“That HH Radhanatha Swami is appointed as an assistant GBC and initiating guru, provided the United States Government does not indict him in its case now pending against Kirtanananda Swami.”
(GBC Resolutions 1994)
His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON Founder-Acarya:
“Self made guru cannot be guru. He must be authorised by the bona fide guru. Then he’s guru. This is the fact…Similarly, bona fide guru means he must be authorised by the superior guru.”
(Srila Prabhupada Nectar of Devotion Lecture, October 31st, 1972)
‘Back yard zonal guru’:
“That is, as of Oct. 28, 2001, Dhanurdhara Maharaja may initiate disciples who are not on the list of currently aspiring disciples, although Dhanurdhara Maharaja may not perform initiation ceremonies outside his specified geographical area until Oct. 28, 2004.”
(ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection)
“I have already received a number of letters objecting to the decision by the GBC Executive Committee to allow a slight modification in the Dhanurdhara Swami judgment handed down by the tribunal of the ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection (ICOCP). This modification allowed for the initiations permitted by the decision to take place in a back yard in up-state New York.”
(Ravindra Svarupa Das, GBC Chairman and voted-in guru, May 2000)
“In India there are many so-called gurus, and they are limited to a certain district or a province. They do not even travel about India, yet they declare themselves to be jagad-guru, the guru of the whole world. Such cheating gurus should not be accepted.”
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 24.330, purport)
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