28TH MARCH 2001

1.       GBC Paralysis Documented In Resolutions

2.      Badri Misrepresents Ritvik  

We reported in our last newsletter (please see newsletter no.44:  "GBC Meetings End In Fiasco"), on how the GBC meetings this year achievednothing. Though one GBC has tried to spin his way out of this expose (please see next story), the truth is now there for everyone to read for themselvesin the 2001 GBC resolutions which have just been published. When we analysed last year's GBC resolutions (please see newsletter no.18: "GBC ResolutionsContinue to Produce Laughter"), we were able to highlight how ludicrous they were. This year the GBC have not let us down, but rather have surpassedthemselves. For whilst last year the GBC passed a bunch of joke resolutions, this year they really had  *NOTHING*  to pass, since the meetings did notresolve anything of substance except that they should simply continue on with the same mess. However, to cover up this inaction they have managed topad out the rulings with meaningless and inconsequential resolutions, as we will now demonstrate. All GBC resolutions will be quoted in speech marks, thus " ".

 *’Annual Another One Bites the Dust’ Resolution *

 Only this year there are at least 2!

The letter from Rohini Suta states: 

Rohini Suta also claims:

We see that after being unable to follow a most simple and fundamental principle of the 'guru-parampara', that a Guru does not commit incest and marry his own disciple, his response is to write books and continue to instruct his disciples "according to the teachings of Srila Prabhupada and our guru-parampara"! And for this the GBC gives him a pat on the back and encourages him to remain as a Guru, instruct his disciples and "wish him well in his ongoing services to Srila Prabhupada."! Is it any wonder that no one has any faith left in the GBC, and are defecting to the Gaudiya Matha in their droves, where at least they seem to have the basic moral sense that one is not fit to continue as a Guru if they commit incest by marrying their own disciples? So even such basic morality the GBC are lacking:

"In New York there is a yogi. I do not wish to name his... But in the paper it was published that he was having sex with his disciple. Is it not? [...] Yes, everyone knows. What is this? (laughing) Even from moral point of view, a disciple is just like daughter. And this man was having sex life with his disciple. And he's a yogi. Just see. Even he has no moral sense, apart from spiritual knowledge. According to human social constitution, one should not have sex life with daughter, with mother and sister. And what is this? If one has sex life with daughter, then where is the moral life?"
(Srila Prabhupada Room Conversation, May 31st, 1974) 

Also Suhotra Swami is, it is hoped, throwing in the towel on his adventure as a 'Guru': 

As we said - is there any wonder why faith in the GBC is at rock bottom, and ISKCON is being decimated by mass defections to the Gaudiya Matha? 

*’Let's Restate the Obvious’ Resolution* 

You mean the world sankirtana movement is meant to encompass the world? Well I never! 

 And so on for another couple of pages. While they were at it, maybe the GBC could also have told us what constitutes 'Intoxication'. I am sure that would have filled up at least another of couple of pages as well!

 *’Never Do Today What You Can Put Off Till Tomorrow’ Resolution*

A famous GBC technique to camouflage inaction is to ask for 'research, reports and reviews' sometime in the distant future when everyone will have forgotten. 

We see that the GBC are already putting this one off for at least 2 years!

*’We Forgot To Do It Last Year - Let's See If We Can Forget Again’ Resolution* 

  *’Another Resolution That Can Be Ignored’* 

 We sincerely look forward to a burst of this congregational preaching activity over the coming year! 

*’More Excuses To Talk Rather Than Act’ Resolution* 

Most of these are all things which ISKCON should be DOING - and yet we are still at the drawing-board stage, as the GBC spend more time 'planning, analysing, proposing and refining', which will then be followed by grand sounding initiatives that will be left unimplemented, just like virtually every other initiative that has been proposed by the GBC for the last 23 years. 

*’Let's Create Yet Another Official Post’ Resolution * 

The history of ISKCON is littered with grand sounding ministries, committees and posts, which the GBC seem to believe will miraculously manifest just by the GBC announcing them in Mayapur! 

*’We Lost The Case - Let's Remind Ourselves To Do Something’ Resolution* 

 Please note how the GBC admit the defeat they received at the hands of the IRM, whereby they state that the Judge "injuncted the GBC Body from taking any further steps against Adridharan dasa till disposal of the application."
Which is another way of saying that their useless 'show cause notice' was stopped in its tracks until the whole validity of the Ritvik issue is decided. It is also interesting to note that the only thing which is preventing the 'disposal of the application' is the GBC, who in their usual spaced-out mode have yet to reply to our official affadavit in response.
They issued the show cause in September 2000, and 6 months later still nothing has happened.

 *’Reward Donors By Creating Another Meaningless Post’ Resolution* 

 ISKCON Chowpatty gives money to the GBC, large enough to get an official mention in the GBC resolutions. ISKCON Chowpatty is then chosen to set up an official GBC office. 

*’Let's Invent Yet Another System That Srila Prabhupada Never Sanctioned’ Resolution* 

Srila Prabhupada set up the GBC to be the topmost brahmins in the ISKCON Society, who would guide the Society based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings. Now we are told we actually need a proper group of brahmins to advise the GBC. Further, that they are required since the GBC need help from those who are 'knowledgeable in scripture'. Pardon me for stating the obvious, but isn't that what the whole Society thought the GBC was supposed to be? In which case, why not just make the Brahminical council the GBC! Srila Prabhupada never created a separate body of Brahmins to advise the GBC; the GBC were SUPPOSED to be these brahmins:

 "The GBC must be vigilant by following the regulative principles and teach by ideal character the presidents of the centers, and the presidents by their ideal character must teach the others then automatically all members of the whole institution will be ideal to the human society. Then we can dictate to administrators or sometimes take hold of the administration. In the absence of competent leaders we may take the post. But we must be very careful in the flow of the political movement we may not forget our ideal life. For example, Parasaram was a Brahmin but when he found the ksatriyas were mismanaging he killed them twenty one times and some of them fled to European countries. This is the history. So far we are concerned we shall keep ourselves in ideal brahminical position and if need be if no ksatriya or Vaisya is here we can take up their work as emergency. Our business is to create ideal ksatriyas and vaisyas but beyond that our real business is to keep ourselves as ideal Brahmins. If we are not ideal we cannot create others as ideal. [...] So our business is to keep fit as brahmanas and to train others to be ideal ksatriyas and vaisyas for advancing the whole society."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter To Rupanuga, 28/4/74)

Srila Prabhupada speaks of how actually the whole Society is supposed to composed of ideal brahmanas, with the GBC taking the LEAD in this by teaching the Society to become such brahmins. He never spoke of another class of brahmins who were supposed to teach the GBC. 

*’Opportunity For More Contemplation Of The Collective Navel’ Resolution* 

 So after 23 years the GBC have realised that the annual GBC meetings were supposed to develop preaching strategies! So now we are to have a 'preaching vision council'. Obviously this is where we have been going wrong all these years. I am sure that now we have these 'preaching vision councils' we can look forward to a huge explosion in preaching to flow forth! 

*’More Attempts To Court the Gaudiya Matha’ Resolution* 

 We have already noted how the GBC have borrowed many of their bogus 'living guru' philosophies wholesale from the Gaudiya Matha; how they took certificates from all the Gaudiya Mathas as official evidence in the Ritvik court case initiated by the IRM; how leading GBC members openly glorify the deviant sahajiya teachings of Tripurari Swami, who has written a new Bhagavad-Gita since he feels Srila Prabhupada's edition requires "modernizing"; who had stated that the greatest problem with ISKCON is its 'over-emphasis on Srila Prabhupada'; whose newsletters are officially published on the ISKCON COM conferencing system. Now we see they wish to cosy up to Narasimha Swami, who left ISKCON to join Sridhara Maharaja's camp.
  The above represents a large chunk of the resolutions passed. As is clear, the GBC really did not resolve anything. Indeed the only substantive resolutions they passed were those reporting on the latest Gurus to have strayed from the path. It seems that after 23 years the GBC are not even capable of passing the usual ridiculous resolutions. Now they just seem to resolve to do nothing at all.

 Following our accurate report in the last newsletter (number 44: "GBCMeetings End in Fiasco") of how the GBC resolutions ended up achieving nothing, the faithful GBC apologist Badrinarayan has been forced by our damning expose to try and issue a weak rebuttal. He attempts to spin-doctor that the meetings actually presented a 'positive alternative' to the calls for GBC reform. Well, we have just analysed most of them, and devotees can make their own minds up as to how 'positive' they were. But in order to assess Badri's 'report' of the meetings, one does not need to go any further than read the blatant misrepresentation he gives of the 'ritvik idea' with which he tries unsuccessfully to compare the attempts at GBC restructuring which were proposed at the meetings.

He states:

     WRONG! The Ritvik idea does NOT have this as its premise, as anyone who has studied our position knows full well. Its premise is simply that we need to follow the orders of Srila Prabhupada, rather than follow some notion of 'tradition' which we have learned from the Gaudiya Matha.

  WRONG AGAIN! It simply states that we can all be genuine gurus if we teach what Srila Prabhupada has taught. But, we have not been authorised to take disciples.

How can a system that has as its basis the fact that there are NO other Diksa Gurus other than Srila Prabhupada, be proposing "a system to provide for guruship"? We propose that we only need one qualified Diksa Guru - Srila Prabhupada - and he states that we are saying the opposite, that we want a whole system of Gurus who are not qualified! Rather, it is HE who proposes this - that the one qualified Diksa Guru, Srila Prabhupada - be replaced by a system of guruship that does not require qualification; it simply requires that the necessary votes of endorsement are received at the annual GBC meetings.

  WRONG FOR THE 4TH TIME!! "Ritvikism" builds from the POSITIVE - the flawless Guru Srila Prabhupada - and builds a system from there, as ordered by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada on July 9th 1977. Badri's system starts from the negative - the idea that Srila Prabhupada is now 'dead' and unable to give diksa - and builds from there a bogus, unauthorized system of guruship based on no spiritual qualification: a material system minus spiritual qualification, if you like.
  It is amazing how Badri blatantly states that the Ritvik position is actually the exact OPPOSITE of what it really is. Badri has been on the previous Ritvik sub-committee, and so he should know what the Ritvik position actually is. So either he is unable to understand English, or pretends to deal with an issue he knows nothing about, or is just an outright liar. We will let you decide which. But he definitely does not have a clue what he is talking about.
  Amazingly he ends with a statement which epitomises the hypocrisy which oozes from our GBC:

This from the representative of a group that does NOTHING but ONLY meets with 'like-minded individuals' and disciples, and very rarely wanders forth into the realms of grass-roots ISKCON.

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No 1. Invitation to Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja
No 2. GBC Lose First Round of Court Case 
No 3. The Story VNN Refused to Publish 
No 4. Poison Theorists Accuse Adri of Complicity 
No 5. Iskcon Continues to Promote Child Abusers 
No 6. Invitation to Malaysia 
No 7. United World Body Formed 
No 8. Does Srila Prabhupada Support Poisoning Theory?
No 9. PADA Attacks IRM Position 
No 10. PADA Continues to Present False Evidence 
No 11. GBC Funded Video says Ritvik Spiritual 
No 12. Child Rapist Selected by Gurus to Defend their Legitimacy 
No 13. GBC Facing Perjury Charge in Calcutta High Court 
No 14. Sahajiyaism Makes a Comeback in Iskcon.
No 15. Govt. Minister Inaugurates Bangalore Rathayatra 
No 16. Iskcon Calcutta Triumphs Following Arson Attack 
No 17. Fighting Lies with Truth Not More Lies
No 18. GBC Resolutions Continue to Provide Laughter
No 19. Indian Leaders Endorse IRM Position That GBC Confused 
No 20. Convicted Child Abuser Officially 'Returns' To Parampara
No 21. GBC Chairman Admits ISKCON 'Disintegrating' 
No 22. Krishna Confirms ISKCON Re-Birth
No 23. Hare Krishna Explosion Begins In New York as IRM Temple Opens 
No 24. IRM Launches Media Campaign to Defend Srila Prabhupada
No 25. GBC Teaches That 'Living Gurus' NOT Required 
No 26. BBT Admits Books Changed To Fit GBC Philosophy 
No 27. Big Breakthrough For Krishna In Singapore 
No 28. Bangalore Tops World Book Distribution
No 29. City of New York to Honour Srila Prabhupada
No 30. Gurukula Lawsuit Special - The Facts
No 31. BBC Glorifies Srila Prabhupada to the World 
No 32. Harinama Revived in World Famous Times Square
No 33. ISKCON Guru on Run From Police - Suicide Case Special
No 34. GBC Declare All Out War
No 35. GBC Fail Again in Second Expulsion Attempt
No 36. Indian Press Glorifies New York IRM
No 37. ISKCON Temple In Bangladesh Joins IRM
No 38. All Ports Alert For Jayapataka To Be Issued
No 39. The GBC's Best Trick Yet
No 40. Biggest Prasadam Distribution Program Ever Begins
No 41. Double Edition - IRM Granted Prime Kumbha Mela Site
No 42. Danavir Invents A New  Philosophy
No 43. IRM Makes World Headlines
No 44. GBC Meetings End in Fiasco