Śrīla Prabhupāda, it has been 118 years since you mercifully appeared in this world, and 37 years since Kṛṣṇa called you back to Him. At the time of your departure, your disciples clearly understood your mandate and were confident that if we simply adhered to your instructions, amazing things would continue to unfold as they had throughout your manifest presence, and very soon Kṛṣṇa consciousness would overtake the world. Obviously, all has not happened as expected. Although the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has much increased since 1977, no one who was then present and is not amnesic or delusional would deny that much of what is mainstream in ISKCON today would at that time have been considered an unthinkable deviation from your instructions and example. There is no need to elaborate on this herein. I am but one among many (including mundane scholars) who have commented about the ongoing redefinition of what is meant to be your ISKCON. Some devotees call this mission drift, but I see it more as a hijack. Śrīla Prabhupāda, I just need to let you know that I am not aligned with persons who use your name and institution to promote their own agenda, among which some programs bear hardly even a semblance to your mission. I unequivocally accept you as the founder-ācārya of ISKCON and I aspire to associate with those devotees whose resolve is to serve your ISKCON, not some other version. - Bhakti Vikasa Swami
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:25:46 +0000
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