Srimad Bhagavatam 6.7.14
tesam kupatha-destrnam
patatam tamasi hy adhah
ye sraddadhyur vacas te vai
majjanty asma-plava iva
TRANSLATION
"Leaders who have fallen into ignorance and who mislead people by directing them to the path of destruction [as described in the previous verse] are, in effect, boarding a stone boat, and so too are those who blindly follow them. A stone boat would be unable to float and would sink in the water with its passengers. Similarly, those who mislead people go to hell, and their followers go with them." (emphasis added)
The consequences described here can hardly be likened to those benefits and benedictions which are the result of authorized devotional service. Free will was involved when devotees chose to serve the Zonal Acaryas. Those devotees—or, at least, some of them--may have been persuaded in part by ruthless "snapping" techniques. The alternatives to not falling in line may have appeared dire. Nevertheless, everyone made a choice. It should be noted here that not everyone made the easy or convenient one. In early 1979, a group of senior disciples confronted the Zonal Acaryas in Vrndavana. One of them was targeted as the scapegoat for that defiance in the GBC Resolutions of that year.
History has clearly shown, at least to anyone outside the GBC's Orwellian sphere of delusion, that the Zonal Acaryas co-opted Srila Prabhupada's original Hare Krishna movement. The collective loss of devotional enthusiasm (as a result of their scandals) produced results quite different from those that have been reported in the corporation's official publications. Prabhupada warned us in advance about all of this:
"However, don't create any awkward situation that may be criticized. Caesar's wife must be above criticism. Up to now, as I have got respectable situation. I wish that all my disciples will have similar respectable position in society. That will keep my name good; like father, like son."
(Letter to Caitya-guru, 7/11/76)
Ganesha: Srila Prabhupada, if the knowledge was handed down by the saintly kings, evam parampara-praptam, how is it that the knowledge was lost?
Srila Prabhupada: When it was not handed down, simply understood by speculation, or if it is not handed down as it is. They might have made some changes, or they did not hand it down. Suppose I handed it down to you, but if you do not do that, then it is lost. Now the Krishna consciousness movement is going on in my presence. Now after my departure, if you do not do this, then it is lost. If you go on as you are doing now, then it will go on. But if you stop. . .
(Room Conversation in Perth, May 9, 1975 (emphases added)
Why do we find these dire warnings to those who would pretend to be spiritual masters—and, yes, also to their followers? It is repeatedly said that such people go to hell. This is because pretending to be able to deliver others is ati-papam, a very great sin.
"One cannot deny the order of a spiritual master. Therefore, one has to select a spiritual master whose order, carrying, you'll not commit a mistake. You see? Now, suppose if you accept a wrong person as spiritual master, and if you, if he, guides you wrongly, then your whole life is spoiled. So one has to accept a spiritual master whose guidance will make his life perfect. That is the relation between spiritual master and disciple. It is not a formality. It is a great responsibility both for the disciple and for the spiritual master.
(Bhagavad-Gita Lecture, 2.7-11 in New York, Mar. 2, 1966 (emphasis added)
Reporter: I wondered how many people you think might have been taken in by fake gurus.
Srila Prabhupada: Practically everyone. There is no question of counting: Everyone.
Reporter: This would mean thousands of people, wouldn't it?
Srila Prabhupada: Millions. Millions have been cheated, because they want to be cheated. God is omniscient. He can understand your desires. He is within your heart, and if you want to be cheated, God sends you a cheater."
(Science of Self Realization, Chapter Two "Choosing a Spiritual Master--Saints and Swindlers" (emphases added)
In the age of Kali, virtually everyone who has only meager interest in spirituality will be cheated. Such people easily accept the claims of the so-called guru, the church, or the governing body, and thus they believe that they will be delivered by some person or dogma provided by these agencies. At that point, they give up any further search for the truly empowered person sent by Lord Krishna. Therefore, avoiding all bogus arrangements and continuing to look is far better than surrendering one's discrimination to a flawed person or dogma. A result of the sin of the pretender guru is that his follower's meager desire to know the Truth becomes extinguished immediately upon that fool accepting the pretender. This is one reason why Srila Prabhupada says that such a chela's "whole life is spoiled." Another reason is that, once he (or she) realizes that he has been misled, that devotee will be much more hesitant to accept a correct devotee if and/or when the real guru comes along later: "Once burnt, twice shy."
"Those are, therefore, greatly mistaken who are disposed to look forward to the amelioration of the worldly state--in any worldly sense--from the worldly success of any really spiritual movement. It is these worldly expectants who become the patrons of the mischievous race of the pseudo-teachers of religion, the Putanas, whose congenial function is to stifle the theistic disposition at the very moment of its suspected appearance. But the real theistic disposition can never be stifled by the efforts of those Putanas. The Putanas have power only over the atheist. It is a thankless, but salutary, task which they perform for the benefit of their unwilling victims."
(Organized Religion by His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja Prabhupada (emphases added)
Showbottle
So-called gurus like the Zonal Acaryas may continue most of the practices and standards of their authorized predecessors. They may superficially appear to be quite pukka. Nevertheless, this is little more than sweet rice that masks the poisonous effects of following them.
Srila Prabhupada: . . . So, therefore, the conclusion is guru is necessary, and guru is he who is representative of Krishna. Otherwise, he's bogus.
Pushta-Krishna: What about the so-called gurus that take a little bit here and a little bit there?
Srila Prabhupada: So-called gurus, they are so-called gurus. They are not gurus. That is already explained. If one does not speak what Krishna speaks, he is not guru. If you accept so-called guru, that is your misfortune. What can be done?
Pushta-Krishna: Some of them will say some things that Krishna says, but they'll take from other places, also. What is the position of such persons?
Srila Prabhupada: HE'S MOST DANGEROUS. He's most dangerous. He is opportunist. He's finding out customer, something here . . . According to the customer, he is giving something, as the customers will be pleased. So, he is not guru.
(Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal June 28, 1976, in Vrindavana (emphasis added)
A pretender may have an outward appearance somewhat similar to his authorized predecessor, but he will either be adding or subtracting something from the siddhanta or process, and, in actuality, he will not be on any advanced platform. The bona fide guru has been ordered by his own spiritual master to take up the post, and, at the absolute minimum, he must have reached the level of anartha nivritti (freedom from all unwanted activities). There can be no such thing as a "bad" or "reformed" guru:
"Well, if he is bad, how can he become a guru? How can iron become gold? Actually, a guru cannot be bad, for, if someone is bad, he cannot be a guru."
(The Science of Self Realization, Chapter Two "Choosing a Spiritual Master - Saints and Swindlers")
"One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari. A neophyte Vaishnava or a Vaishnava situated on the intermediate platform can also accept disciples, but such disciples must be on the same platform, and it should be understood that they cannot advance very well toward the ultimate goal of life under his insufficient guidance. Therefore, a disciple should be careful to accept an uttama-adhikari as a spiritual master."
(Nectar of Instruction, Text 5, purport (emphasis added)
The genuine guru must first be ordered by his spiritual master to be guru before he can become guru. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati also makes clear that the stage of anartha nivritti is far beyond simply following the four regulations:
siddhanta-alasa jana anartha to' chade na
jade krsna bhrama kori' krsna-seva kore na
"One who is lazy in properly understanding the Vaishnava philosophical conclusions can never become free from anarthas, the unwanted bad habits and philosophical misconceptions that impede devotional service."
(Prakrta-Rasa Sata-Dusini by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada, 28)
"As one cultivates and acquires knowledge about the goal of bhakti--the various stages of bhava and love of Krsna--problems may arise. The process of becoming free of these problems is known as anartha-nivrtti (the removal of unwanted elements)."
(Introduction to Prakrta-rasa Sata-Dusini, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada)
Brahmananda: He's asking: ‘When did you become the spiritual leader of Krishna consciousness?'
Prabhupada: When my Guru Maharaja ordered me. This is the guru-parampara.
Indian man: Did it . . . ?
Prabhupada: Try to understand. Don't go very speedily. A guru can become guru when he's ordered by his guru, that's all. Otherwise, nobody can become guru.
(Lecture on Bhagavad-gita, 7.2 Nairobi, October 28, 1975 (emphasis added)
The pretender cannot deliver the same product as that which is delivered by the bona fide spiritual master. Even if everything appears exactly the same, the fake guru's offering is pretentious or showbottle. Anyone pretending is dishonest; he is not straightforward or arjavam. Therefore, the bogus guru is not on the brahminical platform, what to speak of being free from all unwanted activities. All of the Zonal Acaryas, without exception, were guilty of many such deceptions.
"We will establish hundreds of temples, and they will all be very opulent. But if we do not follow the instruction of the Spiritual Master, they will just be showbottle. Do you know what showbottle means? It means colored water in a bottle that looks just like medicine, but which, when you take it, does not work.
(Room conversation, NYC, July, 1970)
In 1978, the zonals initially claimed to be appointed by Srila Prabhupada. They buttressed their takeover with a document that contained quotes from a so-called "senior authority," viz., Swami B.R. Sridhara, a godbrother of Prabhupada's. However, in 1980, the southern California Zonal Acarya, Ramesvara dasa, gave Jadurani devi dasi a copy, recorded on May 28, 1977 in Vrindavan, of what later became known as "the appointment tape." He did so, apparently believing that it would quiet her doubts. Upon hearing it, however, she read the riot act to him, because the tape clearly contained no such authorization from His Divine Grace. She realized at that time that the Zonal Acarya takeover was a crime against Srila Prabhupada and his mission. As a result, Ramesvara dasa went so far as to publicly apologize to the devotees in his temple and remove his "vyasasana" from the L.A. temple room. However shortly thereafter, the other zonals sent in a "fire brigade" that effectively restored the nescient regime; Ramesvara acquiesced to it.
Nevertheless, after being beaten at New Vrindavana for preaching this message to devotees there, Jadurani connected with remnants of the original 1979 Zonal Acarya challenge group (aforementioned) and began to produce position papers further exposing the sham. Within a relatively short span of time, Kirtanananda Swami made a pronouncement that it did not matter if Srila Prabhupada had appointed them as mahabhagavats, because the GBC had done so, and the GBC was Prabhupada's authorized representative.
Changing their story (like criminals), the Zonal Acaryas repeatedly deceived the mass of devotees in order to perpetuate the charade. Recently on the Sampradaya Sun, a demand has been made to one of the remaining (former) Zonal Acaryas and so-called mahabhagavats: Provide proof of your claim that Srila Prabhupada directly ordered you to be guru. He did not respond, of course. Dishonest people can never be spiritual masters.
"Nowhere in authentic scriptures is it said that one will ultimately reach the same goal by doing anything or worshiping anyone. Such foolish theories are offered by self-made ‘spiritual masters,' who have no connection with the parampara, the bona fide system of disciplic succession."
(Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 13, purport (emphasis added)
So, the question now becomes, "What were those who followed the Zonal Acaryas actually serving?" They appeared to be serving Srila Prabhupada (as they had previous to his departure), but there was one all-important difference. Previous to the spring of 1978, the directions given by most of the soon-to-be Zonal Acaryas were still (except in very egregious cases) under the authority of Srila Prabhupada. After the Zonal Acarya dispensation, however, they were not. Therefore, service performed after that date was done under a lack of genuine authority in the chain of disciplic succession. The results were no longer conducted to Srila Prabhupada and on up the chain of succession to Lord Caitanya. The service results were kept from reaching the spiritual sky by the bloated false egos of bogus gurus, who were engaged according to material ambition, not spiritual purpose.
Previous to his departure, Srila Prabhupada's movement offered real medicine for recovering from the disease of birth and death. Afterwards, even though the corporate bottle appeared pretty much the same (for awhile), the medicine had been replaced with a Zonal Acarya watered-down concoction. Lord Krishna ceased to be pleased by any service to it, and this has been effectively proven by subsequent results. Although the real Krishna conscious process can never be killed by these sorts of imitations, the pretenders very effectively deceived those with a poor fund of knowledge. In the age of Kali, this can be practically anyone.
Service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is supposed to be performed favorably; for one thing, this means that Lord Krishna likes it. There can be no doubt—again, with a few egregious exceptions--that this was the case during Srila Prabhupada's manifest presence. However, those who served the Zonal Acaryas in rendering his movement impotent and fraudulent can hardly be said to have produced divine and favorable results by their service. The subsequent suffering of all the conditioned souls (who never came in touch with the real process) is immeasurable. How can that kind of "service" be considered anything but a great sin?
Sahajiya
When Srila Prabhupada was present, devotees were frequently warned about associating with deviants who posed as Vedic or Vaishnava authorities, whether impersonalists or sahajiyas:
"In the parampara system, the instructions taken from the bona fide spiritual master must also be based on revealed Vedic scriptures. One who is in the line of disciplic succession cannot manufacture his own way of behavior. There are many so-called followers of the Vaisnava cult in the line of Caitanya Mahaprabhu who do not scrupulously follow the conclusions of the sastras, and therefore they are considered to be apa-sampradaya, which means ‘outside of the sampradaya.' Some of these groups are known as aula, baula, kartabhaja, neda, daravesa, sani, sahajiya, sakhibheki, smarta, jata-gosani, ativadi, cudadhari and gauranga-nagari. In order to follow strictly the disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, one should not associate with these apa-sampradaya communities."
(Purport to Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi, 7.48)
Among other things, GBC men had been deputed to protect the philosophical purity of the movement from deviants. However, after Srila Prabhupada's departure, they became the very danger they were supposed to prevent. The GBC was the instrument that set the Zonal Acarya dispensation into motion and the "guru by vote" mechanism on its way. There is an idea, often attributed to Srila Prabhupada, that the movement could not be stopped from without but only from within. Phalena-pariciyate: This was conclusively shown to be the case in due course of time.
"If every time someone feels something, they call for changing everything. Then all that I have done will very quickly be lost." Letter to Hansadutta from Sydney, April 2, 1972
"And I am surprised that none of the GBC members detected the defects in the procedure. It was detected only when it came to me. What will happen when I am not here, SHALL EVERYTHING BE SPOILED BY GBC?"
(Letter to Hansadutta, April 11, 1972 (emphasis added)
Although the worst manifestations of the imitation ended when the Zonal Acaryas were forced to a lower profile, the deviation they introduced has never been entirely removed from the movement—and it must be entirely removed. Primarily, it is not removed because the zonals (those still recognized in corporate ISKCON) retain privileged positions and still keep all of their fraudulently obtained disciples.
The closest of the twelve sahajiya groups to corporate ISKCON is jati goswami. In jati goswami society, one is considered to be authorized because he is a member of a familial group; philosophical purity and realization are secondary considerations, if they are considerations at all. In corporate ISKCON, the group does not have a hereditary or seminal commonality (yet), but the current arrangement is ecclesiastical. According to the mystique propagated by the institution, whatever the GBC men decide is accepted as the will of Srila Prabhupada. They can change their minds and do a complete about-face, just as they did in regard to the level of worship offered to the so-called zonal gurus. This kind of whimsy is regarded as being on the same level of Prabhupada himself, i.e., it is as if he had decided upon the change.
In genuine Krishna consciousness, the standard of authority is the statement of guru, sadhu, and sastra, which is the product of self-realized souls or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The idea that a group of conditioned souls can somehow become a time, place, and circumstance substitute is what makes the corporate ISKCON "standard" nothing more than a sahajiya banner. Nowhere in our shastras is it said that a corporate board of directors can be an authority that selects or does not veto who is guru. They may have been given some managing authority by Srila Prabhupada, but this does not extend to empowering someone to be guru.
It should be noted that jati goswamis are not fools; they don't wear some big "sahajiya" sign around their necks. These heavy-duty Indians could easily defeat a corporate ISKCON chela in debate. A sahajiya is indicated by his philosophical deviations from the Gaudiya Vaishnava parampara, because he makes the whole process unauthorized, easier (sahaj).
A genuine guru does not give a fig for what groups like the GBC think; he has already been chosen and empowered by Krishna and his own guru. He is not bound by organizations of this world like the commission. The GBC men may have been enjoined by Srila Prabhupada to be the police and discipline those who taught wrongly or behaved in deviant manners. However, when they legislate who is guru, they each take a share of the reactions, because the followers are misled. If the GBC men were actually cautious devotees who wanted to avoid such reactions, they would not do these things. Their practice is sahajiya because it is an ecclesiastical method for choosing guru:
"It is imperative that a serious person accept a bona fide spiritual master in terms of the sastric injunctions. Sri Jiva Goswami advises that one not accept a spiritual master in terms of hereditary or customary social and ECCLESIASTICAL CONVENTIONS. One should simply try to find a genuinely qualified spiritual master for actual advancement in spiritual understanding."
(Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi 1.35, purport (emphases added)
"Mundane votes have no jurisdiction to elect a Vaisnava acarya. A Vaisnava acarya is self-effulgent"
(Purport to Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya, 1.220)
This is the reason why there is no genuine guru among the many who have been selected or not vetoed (waiting in queue) by the GBC since Srila Prabhupada's departure. Disregarding the injunction of Srila Jiva Goswami and thinking that the GBC can select gurus is a clear indication that one "is lazy in properly understanding the Vaishnava philosophical conclusions." According to the quote attributed to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati earlier, such a person is certainly under the influence of anartha. Accepting anything unauthorized, whether inadvertently or consciously, is anartha. Such people who do this can never be guru, and their disciples are being misled.
All Spiritual Progress Bollixed Up
The only real qualification of the post-samadhi GBC is their ability to climb the ladder of the institution. Such people are skilled at determining how the winds of power are blowing and then allying themselves with the most powerful political bloc. Through foresight and fortune, they hope to eventually become the most influential and powerful individual in the group. This is, incidentally, not exactly the mentality of someone who aspires to be a pure devotee; it is more like that of turtles in a turtle tank.
Unfortunately, this is the context and mentality that has given rise to the Zonal Acarya phenomena. Those eleven men were the most powerful bloc in the then twenty-three man GBC. They united and projected an illusory reality that is still permeating the atmosphere today.
The history is that Kirtanananda Swami had started initiating, while posing as an uttama adhikari (a devotee on the highest level), just a few days after Srila Prabhupada's departure. His zone deviated from the parampara a number of months before the others followed his bad example. He had the biggest temple with the most inmates. He indirectly dared the other GBCs to discipline him; as he expected, the ten others fell in line.
The official rhetoric regarding this is all meant to obfuscate reality. Is this an arrangement we would expect of surrendered souls ready to give up everything for guru and Krishna? Hardly. The institutional history, through omission and embellishment, nevertheless manages to paint a much more divine and authorized picture, a false one.
The real reason that the GBC began selecting gurus is as deceptive as the Zonal Acarya's claim of being appointed by Srila Prabhupada. As with all of the pivotal machinations of this body since the departure of Srila Prabhupada, one will inevitably find that power has the prominent position: Just follow the power.
After Srila Prabhupada's departure, a question was on everyone's mind: "What will happen to the new people?" It was commonly accepted, with the possible exception of Kirtanananda's inmates, that no one among Srila Prabhupada's disciples was a self-effulgent acarya. Certainly, His Divine Grace recognized nobody as being even near this exalted level of purity and realization. The leaders knew, however, that it was only a matter of time before some of the uninitiated people would start leaving the institution to find a guru, unless one (or more) became available within it.
Kirtanananda certainly did not have any hesitation to offer himself up as a mahabhagavat candidate. He was playing a game of no-limit high stakes poker in order to pick up as many chips as possible. Not only was he going for the uninitiated in his own temples, he was going for his godbrothers and every other uninitiated person as well. This was a mentality the other GBCs knew all too well--"transcendental" competition. The longer they delayed making a decision on him, the more he would establish himself as superior. Waiting to determine conclusively what Srila Prabhupada had said about succession—which would have been a solution in the mode of goodness--quickly lost its appeal.
The GBC also knew that, if they confronted and disciplined Kirtanananda, the path was fraught with difficulty and explosive repercussions. This path required spiritual courage and the willingness to wait until one of Srila Prabhupada's disciples became qualified or self-realized. The longer the movement failed to push forward someone like this, the more of the new people would go over to one of Srila Prabhupada's godbrothers. The GBC also could have allowed any of Srila Prabhupada's disciples to act as guru and then disciplined those who deviated. This was certainly within the paradigm that His Divine Grace had prescribed for the commission. However, that decision could have allowed some godbrothers to ostensibly get a leg up on the group; apparently, the GBC attitude was not amenable to sharing this kind of power. The easiest way to connect all the dots--and least offend the most powerful and audacious leaders--was to create the Zonal Acarya dispensation. As a result, eleven unqualified men began to imitate Prabhupada and conduct initiations.
"The first thing, I warn Acyutananda, do not try to initiate. You are not in a proper position now to initiate anyone. . . Don't be allured by such Maya. I am training you all to become future spiritual masters, but do not be in a hurry. . . don't be attracted by such cheap disciples immediately. One has to rise gradually by service. . . These services are most important. Don't be allured by cheap disciples. Go on steadfastly to render service first. If you immediately become guru, then the service activities will be stopped; and as there are many cheap gurus and cheap disciples, without any substantial knowledge, and manufacturing new sampradayas, and with service activities stopped, and all spiritual progress stopped up."
(Letter to Acyutananda, 8/21/68)
Who Offended?
Following the departure of Srila Prabhupada, articles of protest have been labeled political by the Governing Body and its loyalists. As is inevitably the case with these institutions, one will find that there are very real political power plays that predated any later attempt to describe them. A perceptive person understands that such accusations by the GBC and their adherents are inherently political in and of themselves. They are meant to separate those who still have some bewildered loyalty to the institution from those that have less; they are meant to polarize.
As described previously, the Zonal Acaryas, in a very heavy-handed manner, declared themselves the successors to Srila Prabhupada. Disciples of His Divine Grace found little wiggle room between bowing down before them or leaving the movement. History has shown that many of those driven out were far from the "offenders" they continue to be portrayed as. Some were unsophisticated scholarly types who simply found something rotten in Mayapura. Indeed, Srila Prabhupada's long-time personal secretary, Pradhyumna dasa, perhaps the most learned of Srila Prabhupada's men, was among such scholarly bhaktas. Many others were just sincere servants.
Those who decided to stay with the Zonal Acaryas found themselves in very uncomfortable positions. For the most part, they had nothing against the godbrothers who left, yet they were obliged to speak ill of them and to keep them from having any influence in corporate ISKCON temples. Albeit reluctantly, such loyalists also became offenders in order to stay on the boat. For the most part, the longer one stayed, the more Vaishnava aparadha he or she invariably became implicated in, and that is not devotional service.
History has further shown that virtually all of these godbrothers (and godsisters) got played for suckers. They were essential in 1978; they were needed in order to provide the numbers necessary to convince new people that the dispensation was bona fide. However, as time passed and the number of new initiates (initiated with what?) grew, the godbrothers became increasingly expendable. The new people, of course, were bound to see their "pada" as the personality of servitor Godhead, a level of dedication the disciples of Srila Prabhupada would rarely even consider. In this way, the zonal's godbrothers were eventually removed and replaced in their positions by more zealous and dedicated newcomers. This resulted in many godbrothers and godsisters expressing bad feelings as they left the temples. Regardless of what one said while departing, such sincere and serious devotees (although not all of them were in that category) undeservedly became derided as "fringies."
This plus thirty years old habit of Vaishnava aparadha against those "living outside the walls" remains one of the cornerstones of the current institution. The original "offenders" from the 1979 Vrndavana meeting are still persona non-grata, despite the fact that many issues they brought forward have now been either accepted as fact or even adopted. Half-hearted blanket "pardons" may sometimes be offered at events like the Srila Prabhupada Centennial, but always implicit in these welcome mats is the condition that one now become uncritical. The unspoken policy is that, as long as one is critical, he must remain an Orwellian un-person.
The fundamental condition has remained that you not say that the Zonal Acaryas offended, and summarily disposed of, practically all of their godbrothers and godsisters. Those party men who wallow in such self-interested ignorance create legislation turning unqualified men into sacred cows. Disciples of those cows are now in senior positions; the whole house of cards would come down if fact and Truth became the official position.
"Ahimsa, nonviolence, means that one should not do anything which will put others into misery or confusion. . . Ahimsa means that people should be trained in such a way that the full utilization of the human body can be achieved. The human body is meant for spiritual realization, so any movement or any commissions which do not further that end commit violence on the human body. That which furthers the future spiritual happiness of the people in general is called nonviolence."
(Purport to Bhagavad-gita 10.4-5)
Official policies opposed to fact or Truth cannot be connected with the Absolute Truth. Something that is against Krishna consciousness is, by definition, illusion. The results have long been in on the Zonal Acaryas; the history has been gone over many times. Only corporate ISKCON does not call a spade a spade. Despite this being common knowledge now, practically everyone still fails to understand the malignant effects of serving these men.
