How Will They be able to Counter the Poison?

The fact is that all these so-called ISKCON leaders, both the Gopi Bhava Club adherents and the GBC conservatives (who are up in arms) are actually the cause of the present perverted behaviour, popularly known as the Gopi Bhava Club. Both camps have disobeyed Srila Prabhupada, the Sampradaya Acharya, by allowing Srila Prabhupada to be neglected and eclipsed by the unauthorised assumption of the guru-acharyas immediately after Srila Prabhupada's disappearance in 1977. Instead of acting as rittvik acharyas and keeping Srila Prabhupada in the centre of the world-wide Vaishnava community, as Srila Prabhupada instructed in his July 9th, 1977 letter naming 11 rittvik acharyas, the GBC allowed the so-called guru-acharyas to take the position which only Srila Prabhupada, as the Sampradaya Acharya, should occupy. Now the question is what can be done? The answer is simply bring back Srila Prabhupada as our only saviour and worship him sincerely as the Sampradaya Acharya. Simultaneously, dismiss all so-called guru-acharyas, especially gopi bhava, rasika bhava, rasa tattva gurus and re-evaluate and reconsider them to act as rittviks of the Acharya, provided they are qualified. But this will be difficult, if not impossible, to implement, because both the rasa tattva, gopi bhava group and the concerned GBC conservatives are both guilty of guru aparadha--the former by usurping Prabhupada's position of Sampradaya Acharya and establishing themselves as guru-acharyas and the latter for allowing this to happen in the first place and for allowing it to continue to happen in spite of so much protest and evidence to the contrary, including the fall of six of the eleven gurus.

What will happen now?

For fear of being excluded from the Guru Club, the conservative GBC party will try for some compromise, and the Gopi Bhavas will prevail. The Gaudiya Math will have succeeded in driving Srila Prabhupada out of ISKCON as an ordinary guru who could give only the basic thing and left the higher thing to be taught by them (Gaudiya Math, rasika bhava gurus). Thus the mission established by Srila Prabhupada will be effectively drained of all potency for future preaching as envisioned by Srila Prabhupada, thanks to the handle that lent itself to the axe to chop down the tree of Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON. In this case, the handle is Tamal Krishna Goswami and others of like mind.

The best course of action at this time would be to expel Tamal Krishna Goswami, Giriraja, Bhurijana Prabhu and Narayana Maharaja (gang of four) and revert back to Acharya worship of Srila Prabhupada, thus setting the whole mission back on track and opening the door to all of Srila Prabhupada's disciples to return back to ISKCON under one perfect leader, Srila Prabhupada. This would re-unite ISKCON in the only way possible, namely with Srila Prabhupada in the centre as the Sampradaya Acharya and all others, including the so-called guru-acharyas, as Srila Prabhupada's servants, as it was when Srila Prabhupada was with us physically and as he meant it to be after his departure, as per his letter of July 9th, 1977 ("Act as rittvik of the Acharya").

The Gopi Bhavas and the GBC conservatives are like two thieves who conspire to rob a bank but run into unexpected opposition, resulting in one of them killing a bank officer. The one thief is shocked that the other thief has gone overboard, and he becomes panic-stricken, because he was not prepared to commit murder, but only wanted to steal the money from the bank. At the same time, he is unable to extricate himself from sharing the guilt with his partner in crime. Unwillingly he must go along with his partner who has committed the murder.

In a similar way, one party illegally usurped the position of guru-acharyas, while the other party, the GBC, participated passively, allowing it to happen. Now one party, specifically the Gopi Bhava club, is committing murder of Srila Prabhupada by declaring Srila Prabhupada as a guru of minor importance--"He gave only the basic thing." The higher thing we can get by installing Narayana Maharaja and co-operating with the Gaudiya Math. The conservative party, the GBC, is shocked, but what can they do? They are also implicated in the original crime of guru aparadha,having disobeyed the order of the Acharya, Srila Prabhupada. Therefore they will not be able to counteract or stop the poisoning effects of the Gopi Bhava club in ISKCON. Nor will they be able to counteract Narayana Maharaja's sinister influence spreading through the rank and file of ISKCON devotees. Only wholesale, unconditional surrender unto the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada can save the situation, but that they will not do. The GBCs will reluctantly go along with the murderous Gopi Bhava Club and allow Srila Prabhupada to be disgraced and his mission to be destroyed, all in the hopes of keeping their position and sharing in the prospects of future positions as guru-acharyas, like their Gopi Bhava god-brothers.

He was not a servant of Krishna

We should note that Narayana Maharaja uses the same arguments and statements made by Srila Sridhara Swami, when he became the subject of controversy some years ago--"He was my shiksha guru, but he was also my friend. They should not think that I should treat Srila Prabhupada as they are treating to their master." By this statement, Narayana Maharaja minimises Srila Prabhupada's position as the Sampradaya Acharya. He suggests, "Prabhupada was my friend." In other words, Narayana Maharaja and Srila Prabhupada are on an equal footing, and he may be seen by some foolish western disciples as a great shakti-avesha avatara and Sampradaya Acharya, but "We Gaudiya Math, rasika bhava gurus know that Swamiji was simply another guru in a crowd of gurus and he could not give but the basic thing, and left the higher thing to be given by us."

Narayana Maharaja goes on to belittle Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, saying it was not His business to preach, but such lowly activities are performed by Maha-Vishnu. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's only business was rasaniryasa.

Then he goes on to belittle all Vaishnavas who adore Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as the yuga-avatar and His preaching of the Holy Name. He belittles Srila Prabhupada again as a foolish simpleton who also preached the Holy Name and Bhagavad-gita. Then he says, "So I want to say that your Prabhupada has given those things, only these things, and not beyond these things, then he was only the servant of Maha-Vishnu."

The Wise Ones

Then Narayana Maharaja proceeds to tell us of those who are wise and accepted initiation from a Vaishnava rasika bhava bhakta of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who like Ramananda Raya, Swarupa Damodara, Rupa Goswami, Raghunatha Goswami and their generation up to Vishvanath Chakravarti, Bhaktivinoda and Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada and "my Gurudeva" (omitting Srila Prabhupada), "Those who have given their heart to them and have realised anything, very little, they can realise these things."

So according to Narayana Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada does not even rate as one of the disciples in the disciplic succession. Narayana Maharaja's guru--whose name no one has ever heard, because not only he, but every single one of the so-called Gaudiya Math gurus after Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada never did anything of note--is given recognition, but Srila Prabhupada, who is known world-wide, has been dismissed as being a mere servant of Maha-Vishnu, an ignorant guru who wasted his time giving the basic thing, the Holy Name,Bhagavad-gita, etc. The wise ones will understand about rasatattva from the Vaishnavarasika guru, such as Narayana Maharaja.

Then he goes on to flatter Tamal Krishna Goswami and Giriraja as the ones (right and left hands) who were running the whole movement while Prabhupada was here, completely disregarding the thousands of sincere boys and girls world-wide who risked their lives and gave their time, blood, energy and intelligence to push on the Krishna consciousness movement for Srila Prabhupada.