Kurma dasa, Australia, Sep 29, USA: After recently speaking with some old members who left in 1987, when the great guru hoax was introduced, I could really understand their fury and outrage regarding recent comments made by Bhakti Caru Swami.
So where does this go from here? The Maharaja has admitted it. Perhaps he did not go into great detail, however he has certainly admitted to the hoax. Will devotees who dared speak out and who have been oppressed by the regime all of these years, be exonerated and given an apology?
How will they deal with the fact that the people who controlled the movement under this heresy still control the movement today?! This is a tricky, one isn’t it? Ambitious people don’t like to give up their powerful and comfortable positions easily. However it is a fact (at least here in Australia) that the same bullyboys are the ones pulling the strings! These are the people that kicked out and oppressed so many members of Srila Prabhupada’s Society, when they installed Bhavananda upon the throne all those years ago. Can a leopard change its spots? Fact is, nothing has changed. They still run the show here, and I suspect this is the case around the world.
Bhakti Caru Maharaja’s comments (pasted below) should be seized upon, by one and all, because he has admitted that we have, in fact, been cheated. There could very well be legal implications here.
Bhakti Caru Swami:
“He advised us to continue the mission under the authority of a collective management structure. Nevertheless, after Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance, we in ISKCON also made a similar mistake. Thinking that Srila Prabhupada had appointed 11 successors we also plunged in to the same syndrome of appointing spiritual heads of the institution, presuming that after Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance they inherited ISKCON.”
[ ] “In 1987,about 10 years after Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance, this mistake was addressed by concerned leading devotees of ISKCON, but was not fully corrected. Just by adding more gurus and allowing them to initiate wherever they could attract disciples, that mistake was only diluted to some extent but was not really corrected.”
[ ] “Recently, the GBC body became painfully aware that through that mistake a parallel line of authority has been created in ISKCON which is causing a considerable amount of damage to the institution and is stifling the growth of the movement. It is very laudable of the GBC body that they have taken this issue very seriously and are working hard to rectify it.”
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