Bhakti Caru's Planned Conference Minimizes the
Pure Devotee
BY: CHAKRESHWARA GOSWAMI
Jul 15, 2010 — INDIA (SUN) — Back in the day of Srila Prabhupada's manifest lila, what do you think His Divine Grace would have done if an ISKCON "leader" created a conference poster with a woman, breasts half exposed and lying on her back sniffing incense, and a tiny wee picture of Srila Prabhupada one quarter the size of a postage stamp at the bottom? Are we to presume that His Divine Grace sits there beside a lotus flower and a creek because he left India as a penniless sannyasi to teach flower-sniffing and take peaceful strolls through the woods? This poster is offensive, the entire conference is wrong-minded, and Bhakti Caru Swami should be ashamed of this sort of minimization off Srila Prabhupada.
How can a Vaishnava sannyasi do this to his preceptor? Never has such an offense ever been committed before. The guru-drohi who creates such an aparadha should enter into severe tapasya as atonement. This is an unparalleled disgrace to the greatest representative of yuga dharma India has ever produced.
I do not know if he has ever actually tried it or not, but Bhakti Caru should stick to going out on sankirtan and selling Bhagavad Gita As It Is instead sponsoring Hindu-ized New Age conferences that wholesale nescience. We encourage Drutakarma to resign from this hodge-podge conference, which includes tantric yogis side by side with grinning New Agey "devotees".
Such Orovillian conferences make no one into Vaishnavas, but rather give the message that ISKCON is a society of limp-wristed impersonalists. It is a slap in the face of every devotee who ever stood on the concrete streets with a weighty book bag on his shoulder.
If Srila Prabhupada saw this disgusting poster, a bomb would go off that would be felt all over the world. It is a symptom of the shame that has befallen ISKCON under unqualified, politically-oriented leadership. Corporate ISKCON has sunk to a new low.
