| 'Guru wars' erupt in ISKCON |
Winter 2003/4
In a classic case of dishonour amongst thieves,
the unauthorised 80 'voted-in' Gurus have now started fighting amongst
themselves. This war has been sparked by the so-called 'culture war'
which has broken out in ISKCON, and which is threatening to tear it in
half. The war is basically about how far the unauthorised gurus are
prepared to go in order to share the ISKCON 'pie' they have stolen from
Srila Prabhupada. Should they endorse women Gurus? Should they embrace
homosexuals? Should they use innovative approaches in preaching to
attract more disciples for themselves?
The fight has now boiled over into the open with Gurus taking pot-shots
at each other. Please see what Bhakti Vikash Swami, one of the 80 bogus
voted-in ISKCON Gurus, has to say about Bhakti Tirtha Swami, another one
of the false 80 'voted-in' ISKCON Gurus:
| "My point is why is he
making statements without giving evidence, eg homosexuals are
considered auspicious in Vedic culture? With motherships from
Atlantis, the world controlled by a Skull and Bones Society,
etc., etc., BTS has a history of talking and publishing imaginative nonsense that disqualifies him from being an acarya. He should talk according to guru sadhu and sastra or take a mothership and fly off to another dimension. This nonsense must stop. It is simply cheating." (Bhakti Vikash Swami, 19/8/2003, PAMHO Text 7147009) |
| "Such a charismatic
leader can at any time walk out of ISKCON along with his
mesmerized flunkeys" (Bhakti Vikash Swami, 23/8/2003, PAMHO Text 7160564) |
Indeed, Bhakti Tirtha Swami has himself taken offence at such heavy criticism:
| "I will no longer
participate in these discussions. Beyond a doubt HH Bhakti
Vikasa Maharaj is bias toward me. I don't know how you see
vaisnava aparadhas to be Guru Sadhu and Sastra
or reguesting devotees to disregard the GBC as bona-fide.[...]
The leaders in Croatia are writing a letter to the EC and to HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami with complaints about his visit to Croatia, his calling me a demon, his demanding to them not to let me initiate there for he was arranging for me to be rejected as a Guru. His influence on his disciples where they spent hours talking to various disciples of mine that I was not bona-fide and that to those who were aspiring for me that they should reject me as their guru for he was going to try to petition to have me rejected as a guru. His letters that I am a crazy man are with the executive committee." (Bhakti Tirtha Swami, 1/9/2003, PAMHO Text 7194737) |
As we explained previously, this phony war is to
be expected when there is no honour amongst the thieves who had
previously joined together to usurp Srila Prabhupada's position and
carve up his Society for themselves, with their bogus Guru programme.
With the Kali-yuga tendency of the need to quarrel overwhelming
them, these bogus Gurus and their supporters will always need something
to fight about. Unless ISKCON returns to ONLY having Srila Prabhupada in
the centre and these pretender Gurus are banished, unity will NEVER be
possible, as there is no centre to unite around, only 80 competing power
centres, and the 'Guru wars' will continue.
The fight has become so heavy, that Bhakti Vikash Swami ends with the
following statement:
| "Thus ISKCON, which is
meant to kick out cheating religion from the world, itself
degrades into a cheap cult, an apasampradaya, a laughing
stock, and a disgrace to Srila Prabhupada and the parampara."
(Bhakti Vikash Swami, 23/8/2003, PAMHO Text 7160564) |
We couldn't agree more. Again we prove our case using the words of the Guru Hoaxers themselves!