Gurudev from Daniel Clark on Vimeo.
Bhakta Christopher, Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:17 AM: There is an old expression about being afraid of one’s own shadow. While it may be worrisome to see shadow organizations running “our world”, I propose there are far more frightening shadows (and their sources, which should concern us far more).
Similarities with the ongoing satanic New World Order operations and Maya-ISKCON’s continuance makes me suspect they are related and/or one and the same. In the Kali Yuga age, what can one expect? Surely, the days of devotional nectar and roses were scheduled to end, before they even began.
The books are the greatest irony. So many were printed. So many original, unchanged Prabhupada versions STILL do exist. As long as that is so, Maya-ISKCON will always be revealed as simply: IS-A-CON… It is not that Prabhupada’s teaching no longer exists, but rather that too few continue to possess the energy and devotion to maintain their relationship to the true Spiritual Master.
Rather than keeping unwavering faith in Prabhupada, they stray here and there, but always with regret and sadness. Rather than establishing new enclaves, steeped in Prabhupada’s teachings, they either wallow in their complaints of the faux organization and/or establish new faux organizations, usually also specializing in complaining… It is easier to complain than take action.
What to do? Simple: Follow the 4 regs, save the books, work for/on varnasrama, plant heirloom crops, protect a cow or two, etc., etc… ALL easier written than done, especially as individuals.
Where to start? Also simple: Organize and work together in order to accomplish those things Prabhupada taught, preached, and wanted us to finish — such as establishing varnasrama.
Therein lies the essence of the problem…
Without cooperation between supposed true devotees, all possibilities vanish into the chaos and strife of arguing children. The great malaise of the NWO/Kali Yuga/brainwashed era is the recycling disease of false ego and selfishness, leading to ostracism, increasing alienation, and hopelessness. The aging generations of “devotees” suffer from the same. They are not exempt.
Paramhansa from Daniel Clark on Vimeo.
Every king wants his castle. Every indian (native American) wants to play chief. Every soldier wants to play general. Everyone knows more, is more, and so, deserves more… All legends in their own minds… But who is qualified?
Thus, the criticisms of Maya-ISKCON continue unabated, without any real tangible solutions in sight.
Prabhupada’s positive spiritual energy, that rare source, was the transcendental fabric that kept all ‘the children’ in order (or at least most of them). Now these ‘children’ are old, cranky, tired, rapidly aging ‘adults’ — whose hobby is complaining about an organization that they actually (knowingly or unknowingly) helped, assisting in the very corruption of their own lives. Thus, bitterness.
The fatherly Guru is physically not present to cajole and scold, but occasionally the ‘children’ practice their other hobby of chanting and reading spiritual literature. Before any real devotees become offended, we must ask, are these persons, these generations in question, still really devotees? Were they ever really devotees? For that matter, what constitutes a real devotee? Have we forgotten? Did we ever really know?
I believe these “devotees” are, for the most part, simply old children; spiritual seekers who just refused to grow up. Why do I think that? Well, for one thing, true spiritual life makes (is supposed to) one stronger, more capable — not less. True seekers, on a path of surrender to the Lord, become experts in self-sufficiency, frugality, and all related virtues leading to true material independence and detachment. Yet, in too many cases, among these bitter, used up, “milked”, former ISKCON servants, we see the opposite. For most, the minimum daily practice never reached a point of unwavering steadfastness.
In addition, the landscape is strewn with the wreckage of endless, inane political debate… On and on go the rounds of accusations, condemnations, judgments, and the defensive maneuvers they demand. After a certain point, it matters not whether all the indicted are guilty or not (and I am sure they are all quite guilty); the energy and time has already been repeatedly spent, over and over. Like a broken record, the skips in the horrid music plays, until all we hear are the scratches… But what of recovering the movement, spiritual progress, and our own lives?
When we decide and commit to the life we truly want and need, instead of serving the inner materialist monster; when we tend to our own garden, so we have something to bring to the table… when we keep the door open to all the possibilities that await us, if we can put away our childish toys — then the days of the KCON will end. We will realize (or remember) the simple truth(s). It is our own shadow which puts the future of the movement in darkness.
In essence, it seems the answer and cure begins at home, with our Selves, starting with our own practice and progress.
Unfortunately, the cure is often more painful than the disease.
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