Back To Prabhupada, Issue 19, Spring 2008, Quotes, Notes & News
In BTP 12 (“Official IRM v GBC academic debate”) we wrote about the publishing of an historic debate between the GBC and the IRM, organised by Prof. Dr. Rahul Peter Das of the Institute for Indology and South Asian Studies at the Martin-Luther-Universitat (University) of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and published as an academic book entitled: The Rival Positions in the IRM-GBC Controversy within ISKCON. The person authorised by the GBC to officially present their position in this debate was His Grace Krishna Kirti Das. We had already reported that this GBC spokesman for its guru system in this debate had lost faith in his own GBC guru, HH Hridayananda Das Goswami, claiming he was effectively “useless” and “deviant”, due to not even understanding Srila Prabhupada’s most basic of teachings regarding what constitutes “illicit sex”. Now we can report that the same GBC spokesman does not even have faith in the GBC either, claiming that ISKCON is on a “self-destructive course of accommodation with Western culture and values”*. So even the very person the GBC chose to defend its guru system against the IRM thinks not only that his own GBC guru is a deviant, but also that the whole GBC is massively deviating!
Yet the GBC expect others to have faith in his defence of their guru system against the IRM!
* (A Brief Exploration of the History of ISKCON’s Social and Ideological Conflicts, Krishna Kirti Das, February 13th, 2008).
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