Autumn 2007
| “Two different devotees told me that
their gurus told them that its O.K. for grhasthas to
fornicate for fun once a month or so and even go on the altar.
Seems very wrong to me, and I try to explain it as such, but
honestly I have had experiences that incline me to think that
there are devotees more advanced than me in this Society who
have different lines to Prabhupada.” (ISKCON GBC guru Hanumatpresaka Swami (pictured right), 2006-07, Sannyasa Report) |
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We continue to report many ways in which ISKCON today continues to deviate from Srila Prabhupada’s orders, in addition to the root deviation of taking his position as the Guru for ISKCON. Here we see one ISKCON guru stating that other ISKCON gurus are telling their disciples to break the regulative principles (in the above case, the regulative principle of “no illicit sex”, which Srila Prabhupada defines thus: “Illicit sex means not producing for children but for enjoyment. That is sinful.”). Though the ISKCON guru reporting this accepts that such activity is “very wrong”, he also excuses it by stating that there may be more advanced devotees who have “different lines to Prabhupada”. So not only are ISKCON gurus encouraging their disciples to break the regulative principles, other gurus are also thinking that such activity could possibly simply be an example of “different lines to Prabhupada”. Though devotees will naturally be shocked by such deviations, as we have repeatedly stated, we should not be surprised any more at any deviation we currently find in ISKCON, when the very movement today is itself founded on the biggest possible deviation, that of removing Srila Prabhupada as the Guru of his own movement!