The Fake GBC: BUTCHERS of ISKCON - Part 3

By: 

Mahesh Raja (UK)

Lectures, August 5, 1976, Paris

Prabhupada: Yes, that arrangement will be done; you go on with your business. We are singing this song daily. Why do you forget? Cakhu-dan dilo jei **janme janme prabhu sei**. ONE WHO HAS OPENED THE EYES, **HE’LL REMAIN MY MASTER LIFE AFTER LIFE**.

Note: Srila Prabhupada is WITH US TO GUIDE US through difficult journey of transmigration cycle to attaining Back to Godhead IF we follow him. Bilvamangala Thakura’s spiritual master came through a prostitute to deliver him; so Srila Prabhupada is also SO POWERFUL to help us:

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.15.24 - Description of the Kingdom of God

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GO BACK TO GODHEAD IN ONE LIFE, but in the human form one should at least understand the goal of life and begin Krishna consciousness.

Nectar of Instruction 5

“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.”

Some devotees are taking this above quote to mean that Kanistha can give Diksha. This is NOT what Srila Prabhupada says. There is NO mention of Diksha by kanistha. What it exactly says is about accepting DISCIPLES. Then suggests very strongly two points:

1) ”...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.”

2) “One should not become a spiritual master unless he has attained the platform of uttama-adhikari.

The question is can a Kanistha give DIKSHA from this quote? The answer is NO!

So how can we establish that Kanistha does NOT give diksha?

Kanistha is a QUALIFIED Brahmana. But even such a QUALIFIED Brahmana is in MATERIAL CONTAMINATION. And because he has MATERIAL CONTAMINATION he does NOT have Transcendental Knowledge. What you do NOT have you can NOT give. And it is Transcendental Knowledge that frees one from ALL MATERIAL CONTAMINATION.
Definition of Diksha:

Madhya 15.108 - The Lord Accepts Prasada at the House of Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya

Srila Jiva Gosvami explains diksha in his Bhakti-sandarbha (283):
 

divyam jnanam yato dadyat

kuryat papasya sanksayam

tasmad dikseti sa prokta

desikais tattva-kovidaih
 

“Diksha is the process by which one can awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity. A person expert in the study of the revealed scriptures knows this process as diksha.”
 

Madhya 4.111 Sri Madhavendra Puri’s Devotional Service

Diksha actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination.

So here we see from above definition of Diksha quotes:

1) Transcendental Knowledge awakened, initiated

2) Becomes freed from all material contamination; vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity

Now ask a simple question HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is NOT freed from MATERIAL CONTAMINATION GIVE DIKSHA -BY WHICH- ONE BECOMES FREED FROM **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?

Just take a look at how contradictory and stupid this looks:

Q1) HOW can a Brahmana (Kanistha) who is HIMSELF material contaminated free another person from **ALL** MATERIAL CONTAMINATION?
 

Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.25 - King Yayati Achieves Liberation

The word vidhuta, meaning “cleansed,” is very significant. Everyone in this material world is contaminated (karanam guna-sango ‘sya). Because we are in a material condition, we are contaminated either by sattva-guna, by rajo-guna or by tamo-guna. Even if one becomes a qualified brahmana in the mode of goodness (sattva-guna), he is still materially contaminated. One must come to the platform of suddha-sattva, transcending the sattva-guna. Then one is vidhuta-trilinga, cleansed of the contamination caused by the three modes of material nature.

Q2) If a Brahmana (Kanistha) had Transcendental Knowledge then why is contaminated by goodness (sattva-guna)?

Diksha is the process by which one can awaken his transcendental knowledge and vanquish all reactions caused by sinful activity. Diksha actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination.

Q3) So HOW can a Kanistha (Brahmana) who HIMSELF is material contaminated does NOT have Transcendental Knowledge give another person Transcendental Knowledge to free him?

Common-sense: What you do NOT have you CAN NOT give to others.
 

Conversations, February 14, 1977, Mayapur

Prabhupada: Vaishnava is not so easy. The varnashrama-dharma should be established to become a Vaishnava. It is not so easy to become Vaishnava.

Hari-sauri: No, it’s not a cheap thing.

Prabhupada: Yes. Therefore this should be made. Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava, is not so easy. If Vaishnava, to become Vaishnava is so easy, why so many fall down, fall down? It is not easy. The sannyasa is for the highest qualified brahmana. And simply by dressing like a Vaishnava, that is… fall down.

Hari-sauri: So the varnashrama system is like for the kanisthas, Kanistha-adhikari.

Prabhupada: Kanistha?

Hari-sauri: When one is only on the platform of neophyte.

Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. Kanistha-adhikari, yes.

Hari-sauri: Varnashrama system is beneficial.

Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari means he must be a brahmana. That is kanistha-adhikari. The spiritual life, kanistha-adhikari, means he must be a qualified brahmana. That is kanistha. What is esteemed as very high position in the material world, brahmana, that is kanistha-adhikari.
 

arcayam eva haraye

pujam yah sraddhayehate

na tad-bhaktesu canyesu

sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah
 

The brahmana means from the material stage gradually he is elevated to the spiritual stage. And below the brahmana there is no question of Vaishnava.

Hari-sauri: No question of?

Prabhupada: Vaishnavism.

Conversations, February 6, 1976, Mayapur

Dayananda: But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?

Prabhupada: Kanistha-adhikari. They are not devotees, but they are called bhaktabhasa. There are some signs of bhakti. Actually they are not bhakta. Bhaktabhasa. Abhasa. Abhasa means a simple, a little light.

Hridayananda: So devotee really means one who has love for Krishna.

Prabhupada: Yes, unalloyed, without any condition. Anyabhilasita-sunyam, zero, all other, that “I am this, I am that, I am jnani, I am yogi, I am karmi, I am minister, I am king”--all these are thinking like that, they’re all nonsense. “I am servant of Krishna”--that is greatness. Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa. That is self-realization, atma-tattvam.

The Fake GBC: BUTCHERS of ISKCON - Part 2

By: 

Mahesh Raja, UK

Bhagavad-gita 4.19 - Transcendental Knowledge

Because the person in Krishna consciousness is devoid of all kinds of sense-gratificatory propensities, it is to be understood that he has burned up the reactions of his work by perfect knowledge of his constitutional position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Nectar of Instruction 5

A madhyama-adhikari has received SPIRITUAL INITIATION from the spiritual master and has been FULLY ENGAGED BY HIM IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL LOVING SERVICE OF THE LORD.
 

Antya 4.192 - Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord at Jagannatha Puri

DIKSA-KALE bhakta kare atma-samarpana

sei-kale krsna tare kare atma-sama

“AT THE TIME OF INITIATION, when a devotee fully surrenders unto the service of the Lord, Krishna accepts him to be as good as Himself.

Antya 4.193 - Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord at Jagannatha Puri

“When the devotee’s body is thus transformed into spiritual existence, the devotee, in that transcendental body, renders service to the lotus feet of the Lord.
 

Antya 4.194 - Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord at Jagannatha Puri

”The living entity who is subjected to birth and death, when he gives up all material activities dedicating his life to Me for executing My order, and thus acts according to My direction, at that time he reaches the platform OF IMMORTALITY, AND BECOMES FIT TO ENJOY THE SPIRITUAL BLISS OF EXCHANGE OF LOVING MELLOWS WITH ME.”
 

Antya 4.194 - Sanatana Gosvami Visits the Lord at Jagannatha Puri

This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.29.34). At the time of initiation, a devotee gives up all his material conceptions. THEREFORE, BEING IN TOUCH WITH THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD, HE IS SITUATED ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL PLATFORM. THUS HAVING ATTAINED KNOWLEDGE AND THE SPIRITUAL PLATFORM, HE ALWAYS ENGAGES IN THE SERVICE OF THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF KRISHNA. When one is freed from material connections in this way, his body immediately becomes spiritual, and Krishna accepts His service. However, Krishna does not accept anything from a person with a material conception of life.
 

Note: ONLY a Mahabhagavata CAN TRANSFER Krishna in another's heart: DIKSHA

your constitutional position ETERNAL SERVITIOR (SVARUPA) IS REVEALED when YOU SEE Krishna. When it is dark you can NOT see who YOU are but when SUN comes out YOU can SEE who YOU are.
 

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.2.18 -

Prayers by the Demigods for Lord Krishna in the Womb

As indicated here by the word manastah, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was TRANSFERRED from the core of Vasudeva’s mind or heart to the core of the heart of Devaki. We should note carefully that the Lord was transferred to Devaki not by the ordinary way for a human being, BUT BY DIKSHA, INITIATION. THUS THE IMPORTANCE OF INITIATION IS MENTIONED HERE. UNLESS ONE IS INITIATED BY THE RIGHT PERSON, WHO ALWAYS CARRIES WITHIN HIS HEART THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD, ONE CANNOT ACQUIRE THE POWER TO CARRY THE SUPREME GODHEAD WITHIN THE CORE OF ONE’S OWN HEART.

SB 4.29.79 - Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi

SELF-REALIZATION, UNDERSTANDING ONESELF AS BRAHMAN, OR SPIRIT SOUL, IS VERY DIFFICULT IN THE MATERIAL CONDITION. However, if we accept the devotional service of the Lord, the Lord will gradually reveal Himself. In this way the progressive devotee will gradually realize his spiritual position. We cannot see anything in the darkness of night, not even our own selves, but when there is sunshine we can see not only the sun but everything within the world as well.
 

Lectures, April 27, 1974, Hyderabad

So actually, this is the problem of living entities. That knowledge can be acquired in the human form of life and it can be solved, not that simply we get the knowledge, but it can be solved. So therefore, real business of human life, to understand oneself, that is called self-realization, brahma-bhuta, and find out the remedy and act accordingly. That is the mission of human life. Not like to dance like cats and dogs with a nice dress. That is not human life. This is the subject matter of Bhagavad-gita, our whole Vedic instruction. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah. This is God consciousness, Krishna consciousness, or self-realization. SELF-REALIZATION MEANS EITHER YOU SEE YOURSELF OR SEE THE SUPREME LORD, EITHER WAY. BUT WITHOUT SEEING THE SUPREME LORD, YOU CANNOT SEE YOURSELF. Just like without seeing the sun in the darkness… Just like it is now night. There is no sun. So I cannot see also. In darkness I cannot see also myself. But when there is sun in the morning, I can see the sun and I can see myself also. This is the theory. So if we want to understand ourselves rightly, that “I am spirit soul,” aham brahmasmi, then we must take to Krishna consciousness.
 

Letter: Vilasavigraha, January 22, 1969

IN REGARD TO YOUR NEXT QUESTION, SELF REALIZATION MEANS GOD REALIZATION, AND GOD REALIZATION MEANS SELF REALIZATION. JUST LIKE TO SEE THE SUN MEANS TO SEE ONESELF, AND TO SEE ONESELF MEANS TO SEE THE SUN. SELF REALIZATION DEPENDS COMPLETELY UPON GOD REALIZATION, OR ELSE IT IS NOT COMPLETE. ONE MUST KNOW HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH TO FULLY KNOW HIS POSITION.
 

Note: Srila Prabhupada gives Divya-jnana (DIKSHA). Divya means TRANSCENDENTAL and Jnana means KNOWLEDGE. Hrde means heart and prokasito means revealed just as in prakasa – manifested Krishna becomes manifest in the heart of the Pure Devotee.
 

Lectures, July 11, 1976, New York

Prabhupada: Divya-jnana hrde prokasito. What is that divya-jnana? Divya-jnana is that we are all SERVANT OF KRISHNA, and our only business is to serve Krishna. Divya-jnana. This is divya-jnana. It is not difficult at all. Simply we have… We have become servant of so many things -- servant of society, servant of community, servant of country, servant of wife, servant of children, servant of dog and so many. “Now let me become servant of Krishna.” THIS IS DIVYA-JNANA. DIKSA MEANS FROM THIS DIVYA-JNANA. That is di. And ksa means ksapayati, expands.
 

When at the stage of Madhyama Adhikari one is RECIPIENT of THAT Diksha in the HEART from SRILA PRABHUPADA he becomes a SERVANT OF KRISHNA. He relishes a particular mellow (Rasa) of his relationship with Krishna. This point HE SEES KRISHNA and HIS RELATIONSHIP (svarupa) is established. So it is not so CHEAP to be Diksha guru.
 

Madhya 8.83 - Talks Between Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramananda Raya

The purport in presenting this verse necessitates explaining the comparative positions of the transcendental mellows known as SANTA, DASYA, SAKHYA, VATSALYA AND MADHURYA. All these rasas, or mellows, are situated on the TRANSCENDENTAL PLATFORM. Pure devotees take shelter of one of them and thus progress in spiritual life. ACTUALLY ONE CAN TAKE SHELTER OF SUCH SPIRITUAL MELLOWS ONLY WHEN ONE IS COMPLETELY UNCONTAMINATED BY MATERIAL ATTACHMENT. WHEN ONE IS COMPLETELY FREE FROM MATERIAL ATTACHMENT, THE FEELINGS OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL MELLOWS ARE AWAKENED IN THE HEART OF THE DEVOTEE. THAT IS SVARUPA-SIDDHI, THE PERFECTION OF ONE’S ETERNAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SUPREME LORD. Svarupa-siddhi, the eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord, may be situated in one of the transcendental mellows.
 

Note: ONE spiritual master who CAN transfer Krishna in your heart is Maha-Bhagavata. Kanistha is incapable and Madhyama is the RECIPIENT of Diksha. Madhyama is MIDDLE stage so he does NOT give Diksha he is the RECIPIENT of Diksha.
 

Krishna Book 80 - The Meeting of Lord Krishna with Sudama Brahmana

Our next spiritual master is he who initiates us into transcendental knowledge, and he is to be worshiped as much as I am. The spiritual master may be more than one. The spiritual master who instructs the disciples about spiritual matters is called shiksha-guru, and the spiritual master who initiates the disciple is called diksha-guru. Both of them are My representatives. THERE MAY BE MANY SPIRITUAL MASTERS WHO INSTRUCT, BUT THE INITIATOR SPIRITUAL MASTER IS ONE.

The Fake GBC: BUTCHERS of ISKCON - Part 1

By: 

Mahesh Raja, UK

This article is in response to  http://harekrsna.com/sun/news/03-13/news4734.htm

These unelected butchers “GBC’s” as per Srila Prabhupada’s unrevoked “Direction of Management” (1970) have chosen to mislead the devotees - yet again by imposing an invention of “Diksha” guru that is NOT in the shastra. Their DEVIOUS ploy HAS ALWAYS BEEN how to GET RID OF SRILA PRABHUPADA THE BONAFIDE DIKSHA GURU AND REPLACE THEMSELVES AS DIKSHA GURU. Herein, we will examine in detail what the shastra says and compare the BOGUS reasonings of the fake GBC.

So here is what they give as evidence to somehow or other try to justify their claim to be Diksha Guru:

"This Krishna consciousness movement directly receives instructions from the Supreme Personality of Godhead via persons who are strictly following His instructions. Although a follower may not be a liberated person, if he follows the supreme, liberated Personality of Godhead, his actions are naturally liberated from the contamination of the material nature. Lord Chaitanya therefore says: 'By My order you may become a spiritual master.' One can immediately become a spiritual master by having full faith in the transcendental words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and by following His instructions." Purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 4.18.5 

And…

"A person who is liberated acharya and guru cannot commit any mistake, but there are persons who are less qualified or not liberated, but still can act as guru and acharya by strictly following the disciplic succession." Letter to Janardana, 26 April, 1968
And…

"We may not be cent percent perfect, but as far as possible, if we follow the instruction as it is, that much perfect. In this way one will get perfection. So one has to follow. The same example, try to understand, that a perfect, expert technologist or technician or mechanic is working, and somebody is working under his instruction. So this somebody, because he is strictly working under the instruction of the expert, he's also expert. He may not be cent percent expert, but his work is expert. Is that clear? Because he is working under the expert. Do you follow? So if you follow pure devotee, then you are also pure devotee. It may not be one is cent per cent pure. Because we are trying to raise our self from the conditional life. But if we strictly follow the pure devotee, then we are also pure devotee. So far we do, that is pure. So pure devotee does not mean one has to become immediately cent percent pure. But if he sticks to the principle that "We'll follow a pure devotee," then his actions are... He is as good as a pure devotee. It is not I am explaining in my own way. It is the explanation of Bhagavata. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]." 

Lecture, Los Angeles, November 25, 1968

Note: Now, the way they BLUFF others is they take them as IGNORANT FOOLS about WHAT DIKSHA ACTUALLY IS. We want the readers to SHOW what Diksha is THIS way they will be able to see CLEARLY that CONDITIONED SOULS can NOT give Diksha.

The conditioned souls can “ACT AS ACHARYA” which is: OFFICIATING ACHARYA (Ritvik Representative of the Acharya Srila Prabhupada by giving  1^st and 2^nd Initiations  ON BEHALF of Srila Prabhupada THE Diksha guru – other than that the CONDITIONED SOULS can NOT be Diksha guru. Their OWN statement indicates that their “Diksha” gurus are CONDITIONED SOULS who can deviate. And they are to be under GBC which means they are just PRIESTS. They are NOT Diksha Guru as per definition.

GBC STATEMENT MARCH 9, 2013

“Those who accept the service of diksha or shiksha guru within ISKCON are mandated to be strict followers of the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, and, as long as they follow, they are acting on the liberated platform. Thus they may serve, as Srila Prabhupada ordered, as bonafide representatives of the Lord and the Guru Parampara and be a via medium of Their mercy. YET IT SHOULD BE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT IF SUCH DIKSHA OR SIKSHA GURUS DEVIATE FROM STRICTLY FOLLOWING, THEY MAY FALL DOWN FROM THEIR POSITION.

THUS, TO ACT AS A DIKSHA GURU IN ISKCON MEANS TO SERVE UNDER THE GBC and in cooperation with other ISKCON authorities by functioning as a “regular guru” as Srila Prabhupada has directed.”

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Note: The issue is Srila Prabhupada wanted OFFICIATING ACHARYAS and THIS is what a Ritvik REPRESETATIVE OF THE ACHARYA FACTUALLY IS. So ACTING AS ACHARYA on a non-liberated platform is SIMPLY TO PERFORM 1^ST AND 2^ND Initiations ON BEHALF of Srila Prabhupada.

They want to somehow justify: - “but there are persons who are less qualified or not liberated, but still can act as guru and acharya by strictly following the disciplic succession” - this as Diksha guru. This “act as guru and acharya” is NOT the same as being ACHARYA who GIVES DIKSHA.  

But what THEY want is to PRETEND TO GIVE DIKSHA. This way they EXPLOIT others by taking the money and make them THEIR OWN FREE SLAVES (“disciples”).

Now - we will address the QUALIFICATION of the Diksha guru and what EXACTLY takes place when DIKSHA is given by the Maha Bhagavata thus BY KNOWING WHAT DIKSHA FACTUALLY IS - THIS - WILL EXPOSE THE FAKE GBC’s game.
 

Madhya 24.330 - The Sixty-One Explanations of the Atmarama Verse

MAHA-BHAGAVATA-srestho
brahmano vai gurur nrnam
sarvesam eva lokanam
asau pujyo yatha harih

maha-kula-prasuto ‘pi
sarva-yajnesu DIKSITAH
sahasra-sakhadhyayi ca
na guruh syad avaisnavah

((The guru MUST be situated on the topmost platform of devotional service. There are three classes of devotees, and the guru MUST be accepted from the topmost class. The first-class devotee is the spiritual master for all kinds of people. ….When one has attained the topmost position of MAHA-BHAGAVATA; he is to be accepted as a guru and worshiped exactly like Hari, the Personality of Godhead. Only such a person is eligible to occupy the post of a guru.))

Note: the word DIKSITAH refers to DIKSHA. This means ONLY Mahabhagavata is capable to GIVE DIKSHA. FORMALITY is of giving the holy name 1st and 2nd initiation is conducted by RITVIK (OFFICIATING ACHARYA) on BEHALF of Srila Prabhupada THE DIKSHA GURU.

Conversations, October 16, 1976, Chandigarh

Interviewer: What is the procedure of the movement? Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?

Prabhupada: Well, initiation or no initiation, first thing is knowledge. INITIATION IS FORMALITY. JUST LIKE YOU GO TO A SCHOOL FOR KNOWLEDGE AND ADMISSION IS FORMALITY. THAT IS NOT VERY IMPORTANT THING.

Question: Why is DIKSHA so important?

Answer: Diksha PROCESS entails the factor of REVELATION of your RELATIONSHIP (SVARUP also called Constitutional position) with Krishna. Once you have your relationship you have the freedom of IMMORTALITY. This means you do NOT transmigrate to other bodies. OTHERWISE by force of Karma you MUST accept another body. In simple terms – if you KNOW your SVARUPA your Karma is burned-off.

This is NOT easy – it can take MANY births.

Note: it is to be understood that he has BURNED UP THE REACTIONS of his work by perfect knowledge of his CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION AS THE ETERNAL SERVITOR of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.