Autumn 2005
In an astonishing statement that will bewilder even the most ardent ISKCON Guru supporter, ISKCON Guru H. H. Bhakti Caru Swami (BCS) encourages that faith be reposed in a certain “Harikesh Prabhu”(photo, right). BCS states:
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Readers could be forgiven for doing a double-take here. Is this not the same Harikesa of whom BCS stated only two years ago:
“After Harikesa fell down in 1998, in 1999 I proposed that it’s obvious that we are going in the wrong direction.”
(BCS, Toronto Meeting, July 20th 2003)
- Is this not the same Harikesa who was featured in BTP 2 with his female partner and his million-dollar luxury villa in an exclusive resort in the South of France?
The answer is, “Yes, this is the same Harikesa!” BCS’ illusion about the status of Harikesa is further compounded by the fact that the GBC itself, the very body that elected BCS as a Guru, categorically rejects Harikesa as any sort of spiritual authority, and recommends that Harikesa’s disciples take shelter of Srila Prabhupada, not Harikesa!
Date: 09-Dec-98 On August 12th, 1998 the GBC executive committee issued a statement on the status of Harikesa dasa acting as an initiating spiritual master in ISKCON. […] |
And if even THAT wasn’t enough to show how bewildered BCS has become by usurping Srila Prabhupada’s position, we now see that Harikesa himself contemptuously rejects the idea of the bona fide Guru as being essential in spiritual life; for on his wife’s website, he states:
“An understanding of spirituality as distinct and free from ‘religion’ as we know it today. The freedom of the soul and the soul’s inherent right to have a direct and deep loving relationship with the supreme without a need of dis-empowering itself to any form of intermediate ‘representative’ of God.”
(http://www.earthfuture.se/lectures.php, archived 17 October 2005)
It seems that BCS is unable to tell the difference between taking shelter of the bona fide Guru Srila Prabhupada, and a false Guru like Harikesa.
This is perhaps not surprising since BCS is himself a product of ISKCON’s false Guru system.