Transformations

Interview October 2008 with Kailsa Candra dsa

Devotee: Let's talk about modern deviations in the Krishna Kailsa Candra prabhu: Right now there are three deviant groups,

and within each group, there are subsets or schisms. Some are very obvious schisms; some are somewhat covert. The first deviation was the first transformation, which took place in its culmination. It was already . . . it already had momentum while Prabhupda was still present. But its culmination, when this first transformation took place in full, was in the spring of 1978. That's what we call, in the Vaishnava Foundation, we call the first deviation or the first transformation. We call it the fabricated, so-called ISKCON, and we put quotation marks around the acronym ISKCON. This deviation had many components to it, but the primary component, by far, was the false allegation that Prabhupda had appointed eleven gurus. He never did appoint eleven gurus at any time. The so-called basis--in the beginning, until it was exposed--was the May 28th, 1977 room conversation, a very cryptic conversation, in Vrindavan India, between two leading secretaries, both of whom had the order of sannyasa. . . and Prabhupda, in which it was supposedly substantiated that Prabhupda set the foundation or . . . or the legitimacy, the fact of the so-called appointment. But there is no such thing in that. When you read . . . it was called the appointment tape in the beginning, and that name is still recognized by some of the older devotees to be the name for that tape, but there is no appointment in it. Its simply talking about general principles of what . . . what constitutes guru, where rla Prabhupda says, . . . But by my order, meaning that for anyone to become guru in the Krishna
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Consciousness movement, that person has . . . has to have received the order from Prabhupda to be guru:

. . . But by my order.

Devotee: How does one receive that order? Kailsa Candra prabhu: Well, while he was here, it could have been

done in two very obvious ways: It could have been done verbally, and, if it was recorded or there was enough witnesses present, then the order to be guru would be very obvious. Or it could have been done in a written form, in which rla Prabhupda signed the letter, just like he signed thousands of letters. He could have signed a document stating, I recognize such-and-such disciple as a spiritual master. Such order was never given in that way while he was physically manifest. Now that he is no longer physically manifest, the devotee, his devotee, can still receive the order, but it has to be received. It cant be concocted. Neither can it be taken as a general thing. For example, yre dekha, tre kaha 'ka'-upadea: Lord Caitanya orders everyone to be guru. Well, that is not what he is referring to in that appointment tape--appointment tape. That means you become guru by becoming qualified and then receive the order from your spiritual master. In fact, in the Folio, rla Prabhupda, in a room conversation, was once asked--in a somewhat, a little bit of, challenging way--but even the question itself had an intrinsic challenge to it--that, How did you become guru? And Prabhupda was very abrupt about it. But he did say--he didnt like the question, that was clear when you read the transcript--but he did say, that, My guru ordered me. So, this is the standard set, and it makes total sense that this is the standard, that, namely, you cannot become a dk guru and an initiating spiritual master until you receive the order of your spiritual master. Now, Prabhupda no longer being physically manifest, but he is Sampradya crya, a completely pure devotee mahbhgavat,
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aktyvea-avatr, while he was with us. To say that you cannot have contact with His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda after he has departed is complete nonsense. Wheres there any belief in spiritual life if you think like that? Of course, you can. Of course, you should have such contact--the more, the better. And its on the basis of when rla Prabhupda wants to give you that benediction that he is going to contact you. So, the order can be given now to any disciple. And it can also be faked that one has received the order, or you can delude yourself and say, Well, yre dekha, tre kaha 'ka'-upadea: I received the order by this generic order from Lord Caitanya. No, thats not what he was saying. He never gave the order while he was here, and that was in May 28th, the so-called appointment tape. In April of 1977, in Bombay before he came to Vrindavan, one of his leading secretaries, who happened to be one of the two that was present in Vrindavan in May 28th of '77 (asking the questions), he was with them. And then there was a room conversation--we all have access to this--where that leading secretary said, But, for right now, we cannot be guru, because we are not self realized. And Prabhupda says, Yes. So, from that position--April, 1977, where Prabhupda confirms that none of his disciples have reached the stage where they can be guru, when his leading disciple, not leading disciple, his leading secretary at that time--says that, admits honestly (some fresh wind of a little honesty there), he admits that no one was guru, because no one is self realized--Prabhupda confirms it. So, from that position, April, 1977, and all of a sudden, in November, 1977, you have eleven mahbhgavats? On the highest platform of tattva-darina? No! This is nonsense, and it has been proven to be nonsense. So, the first deviation was this idea that Prabhupda, in May of '77, appointed gurus, which he confirmed then by name in the July 9th document, which is simply--anyone who reads the document in an unbiased way can see it is simply an appointment of eleven rittviks. Because
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there had been a long time when there are no dk . . . no initiations, so there was a long waiting list of devotees wanted to be initiated by His Divine Grace, which had been done through the rittvik process for years. But then it was suspended, because Prabhupda was very ill. So, then the July 9th (letter) simply says, Here are the men to do rittvik. Rittvik-crya means on behalf of the actual crya, theyre rittviks. Theyre priests on behalf of the crya to conduct the ceremony. The initiator is His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda. This is actually made clear in the document itself, as if it needed to be. It really didnt need to be: We all knew it at that time, we all knew what rittvik was. Its no big thing. Some sannys, or in some cases some temple president or some, ah, Commissioner, is appointed to be rittvik. And so, he chants the beads on behalf of the spiritual master. It's just a technicality, because the spiritual master has a worldwide international movement. For him to have a . . . All right, I have a, I have a disciple now in New Orleans. I am here in India. I need to fly all the way to New Orleans to give initiation? No, let a rittvik do it. So, the first deviation was this idea that Prabhupda appointed gurus, and then this got embellished in a big way, by that they . . . they had to be mahbhgavats, mat guru si jagat guru, you know where that came from? So, they had to be now, be so-called gurus, who were never as such recognized as gurus. Maybe they were recognized as being powerful leading secretaries, sannyss, and things like that, but thats not spiritual master: tattva-darina. tad viddhi praiptena paripranena sevay upadekyanti te jna jninas tattva-darina Tad viddhi. If you want to learn the process, the viddhi, the things to do in order to unfold the bhakti-lat-bja, which you will
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receive from the guru at the time of initiation. Thats a plan, the bja is a plan that needs to be unfolded in a very, ah, deliberate, perfect way. Then, if you, tad viddhi, if you want to know that viddhi, what viddhis to do--in order to make that plan successfully unfold, so that your creeper goes back to the spiritual sky-- tad viddhi praiptena: First of all, be very submissive. Paripranena. Ask some good spiritual questions. Sevay: Have the seva attitude. Perform service. When the guru says, I would like this to be done, then not only do the service, but do it in a such a perfect way that he is impressed, not just merely pleased. Tad viddhi praiptena paripranena sevay upadekyanti, they, plural. They will, upadekyanti, they will give you dk, te, to you. Jana, they will give you knowledge. Brahma-jna, tattva- jna, upadekyanti te jna jninas, of those who have the jna. In other words, not, ah, A-B-C-D devotees, but devotees who are very absorbed in deep knowledge. Guru means heavy in knowledge. Jninas, those who have that knowledge. Tattva-darina, those who have seen the truth. Darina means seen the truth. Darina. So, anartha? Someone who has anarthas would be tattva-darina? Of course not. Impossible! Completely against the whole teaching. No disciple of rla Prabhupda received that order while he was physically manifest. Its very clear (that) it was not given to any individual disciple. Rittvik was given. Thats not . . . thats rittvikcrya. Thats not dk guru. And then, arbitrarily, comes, ah, the so-called appointment tape, May '77, then, ah, within March of '78 so, less than a yearnow, all of a sudden, theres eleven gurus? Never as such recognized by the Sampradaya crya, His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda. What is the basis of theyre being guru? Oh: Rittvik-crya. No, thats not the basis of being guru--although that was said by the socalled higher authority when the question was asked. Whats the basis? Oh, they were rittviks, appointed as rittvik-crya.
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Oh, rittvik-crya, then it becomes as good as crya. No, it does not! crya is a neutral term; it can mean many things. You can be crya in weapons. That does not make you a guru to be able give the dk, upadekyanti te jna jninas. You are not a tattva-dar at that level, youre just expert at weapons. So, youre an crya at weapons. This . . . this is all rascaldom, this is deviation. You asked the question, What were the deviations? and Im now delineating the deviations. The first deviation was this first transformation of the status of guru. That, in March '78, due to some very bad advice received in Navadvpa. The seeds needed the soil. So, the soil was there to fertilize their material ambitions, and the poison is personal ambition. And that was what they were loaded with. So then, eleven gurus with no solid basis. And then, all of a sudden, all mahbhgavats? And, all of a sudden, eleven zones, that the world was divided into eleven zones? That these eleven mahbhgavats then function in? And, if you say, Everybody agrees now that the zonal crya (system) was wrong. Everybody agrees. No one disagrees. Fine. Thats a deviation! Its a big deviation! Its a colossal, institutional anartha. So, if everybody agrees, then what youre saying is--if youre honest, which you aren'tbut, if youre honest, if you say everybody agrees that the eleven zones were all colossal impositions, hoisting a colossal hoax, popes of the zone. So, then if you agree that it was a deviation, then you must also agree that there was no gurus, because guru cannot indulge in such colossal anartha. He cannot indulge in any anartha! As soon as you say that guru can have anartha, as soon as you say that, then anybody, everybody, every Joe Shmo, can be a guru. Everybody could go into Caitanya-caritmta and say yre dekha, tre kaha 'ka'-upadea. Bhakta Tom comes into the temple. Second day in, and he happens to spot that verse. So, Im being ordered by Lord Caitanya to be a guru. Rascal-dumb! Anybody can see this is not right. So, the first deviation was the fabricated, so-called
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ISKCON. Now, when we say ISKCON, Im not referring to rla Prabhupdas pure movement. Thats an acronym. We all know what that acronym means. But I'm putting quotation marks on each side of that acronym. Im saying its a different thing. The fabricated, so-called ISKCON is not the same as ISKCON. The fabricated, so-called ISKCON covers ISKCON. Its a covering potency: varatmik-akti. First of all, youre in the spiritual sky. You misuse your free will prakeptmik-akti: You get pulled out. varatmik akti: you get covered over. This varatmik akti is everywhere in the material world, as it has to be. So, the real ISKCON got covered over. This was the first deviation, with such things like, Oh, just put on the uniform, and then you will become the soldier. That can work on the relative plane, but that is not the absolute process. The absolute process is diametrically one hundred eighty degrees the opposite. The spiritual process is that, when you receive the order from your spiritual master to be guru, when youre qualified, that youre free from anartha, completely, and youre full of knowledge: jn navair gya: sa vai pus paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokaje ahaituky apratihat yaytm suprasdati When that jna and vairgya is there. Because: tac chraddadhn munayo jna-vairgya-yuktay Youre linked with it, jna, knowledge. Atma-jna, tattva-jna, so many important tattva-jna. jna-vairgya. And because of the strength of the knowledge--and remember, when were saying here jna, were talking jna-vairgya, as confirmed in the Sixth
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Chapter of Bhagavad-gita. jna-vijna. Its the person who is jna-vijna, who sees with equal vision the stone and the piece of gold and a clot of dirt. jna-vijna is in that Sanskrit. So, tac chraddadhn munayo, the person who has firm faith, the muni. Muni means hes a very good thinker. Ah, tac chraddadhn munayo jna-vairgya-yuktay: Hes linked up. Yukta. He is linked up with jna-vijna. This is the spiritual master. Not that such a spiritual master would be so foolish as to accept the slogan--the Bengali slogan mad guru si jagat guru--would be so foolish as to accept the slogan, Just put on the uniform, and you will become the soldier.

and some of the rationales were used to, that were imported to support that transformation.

Devotee: So, we were talking about the first transformation, hmmm,

Kailsa Candra prabhu: As I said, theres three major deviations.

And transformation . . . were talking about change. We are not talking about making something a little better but not changing. Were talking about big change, and change means that the authority is lost. Its a different line when its changed, its a different line. Its not the same line. Similarly, we are seeing that now, so many . . . very difficult to comprehend ideas that would never have had any credence whatsoever while Prabhupda was here. So many different ways and processes. So many different . . . conceptions about who is what and what is who. These would never have been tolerated while His Divine Grace was here, any of them. But this is the down-line, when the movement gets dumbed down; you get just one deviation after another. You make one mistake. In order to cover, you make two more. In order to cover those two, you make four more, and it goes on and on and on-devolution. The first transformation took place. The seeds of the first transformation were already starting to become actuated while
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Prabhupda was still here, but it . . . but it became a complete, colossal hoax in March, 2000 excuse me, March, 1978. That was the first transformation. That was the first big deviation, namely, the fabricated, so-called ISKCON. Then, the next major deviation was that this deviation had inequities in it. It had, hmmm, wrong teachings. It had exploitation. Eligibility, adhikr: These men were not eligible to be worshipped as mahbhgavats. They weren't even eligible to be respected as gurus on the most fundamental of planes. But they were taking opulent worship, as if they were mahbhgavats: nikujayno ratikelisiddhyai. So, as if they had actuated their siddha-deha. So, this is naturally going to produce all kinds of negative repercussions. Envy will be one of them, faithlessness will be another, challenge will be another. But, since higher authority was consulted in order to provide a good amount of the soil necessary for these eleven weeds to sprout, then the authority was again consulted, that, Theyre are not doing it right. And so, now we had, in 1980, at the beginning of what I call the Neo-Gaudya Mutt, which is the second deviation. Neo-Gaudya Mutt. I use the term neo, because it is not Gaudya Mutt in the true sense of the term, but its very much like the Gaudya Mutt. If one says, Well, Prabhupda was a member of the Gaudya Mutt, for a while he was. But, if one says that Prabhupdas preaching mission was non-different from the Gaudya Mutt, we must protest and say, Even in the 1950s, when he formed his . . . his ashram in Jhansi, India, he called it League of Devotees. He didnt call it Gaudya Mutt, and it wasnt recognized by Gaudya Mutt even then. And when he came to America, he didnt call his society Gaudya Mutt. And we could quote letter after letter after letter--and some room conversations, also--in relation to Prabhupdas view of the Gaudya Mutt, which is not very laudatory. Now, the Neo-Gaudya Mutt means that Prabhupdas disciples who were initiated by him go and adopt Gaudya Mutt philosophy,
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Gaudya Matt process, and most importantly, worse, Gaudya Mutt vision of Prabhupda. Gaudya Mutt vision of how to spread the movement, all of these Gaudya Mutt ways, which Prabhupda was not in harmony with, which Prabhupda--as the Sampradya crya, as the aktyvea-avatr, who was empowered with the bhakti-akti--did not say, was, had any value. In fact, in the letter of 1974, April, to one of his Governing Body Commissioners, he said, very clearly, that, Theyre, they are very competent to harm our natural progress in Krishna Consciousness. And, in 1970, he referred to them as, obliquely, as the great sinister movement. So, we could just go on and on with that, but the fact of the matter is that Prabhupda did not represent the Gaudya Mutt. He wanted very little to do with it, and he had very little interaction with it. rla Prabhupda was directly skd-dhr: When he spoke, it was Paramtm, it was Krishna speaking. Whatever he said was to be done, is what Krishna wanted. And he said differently from Gaudya Mutt ways. So, when Prabhupdas initiated disciples (who had some influence and some power in the movement) then went back to the higher authority to complain about the eleven so-called mahbhgavats-who were actually all pretenders and sahajiys, full-blown sahajiys--then, when they went back, then, theyd become converted to the Gaudya Mutt way, which was an entirely different way of viewing His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda, viewing how to spread Krishna Consciousness, the process, and the siddhnta also had differences. So, thats why I use this term Neo-Gaudya Mutt, because its new. It constitutes disciples who were initiated by Prabhupda, for all practical purposes, gave up their connection with rla Prabhupda to adopt connection with Gaudya Mutt ways. And, in some cases, even took re-initiation from a Gaudya Mutt crya or took sannysa from a Gaudya Mutt crya or things of this nature. This was the second transformation, but it wasnt the transformation of the fabricated, so-called ISKCON, which had already undergone
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the first transformation. There . . . there was a schism. ISKCON, ISKCON, schism with the Neo-Gaudya Mutt in 1982.

crya deviation was resolved, ah, in the . . .when they kind of reformed it, there was reformation in the . . . in the mid-Eighties, I think?

Devotee: So, the . . . wouldnt you agree that the . . . that the zonal

Kailsa Candra prabhu: It was a dishonest resolution on a

pragmatic, materially pragmatic, utilitarian plane that has nothing to do with spiritual truths. It was technically resolved in that they eliminated the zones and dropped the pretension, the profile of being mahbhgavats, but the deviations were so egregious, the anarthas, the institutional anarthas, the personal anarthas, were so severe that the . . . the real necessity was not met. The real necessity was to return to square one: Where did it, all these deviations, start off from? What is the honest position now? Let us get back to the honest position. There will be a lot of pain involved in that, but its going to be more painful than if we keep going on with the dishonesty. This was . . . none of this was confronted on a deep level. Second echelon and third echelon men saw an opportunity to themselves become gurus at this more benign level with a little bit less pretension to it. So, they jumped at the opportunity and made a compromise, that, Yes, we still recognize that this whole time youve been guru. This is not right. Of course, there was one minor expansion previous to this, where the eleven expanded to fourteen, but that didnt resolve anything. That was due to political pressure. So, the mid-Eighties confrontation with the zonal cryas simply dumbed down the deviation and disguised it a little better.

Devotee: Do you think there is any validity to the rittvik position?

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Kailsa Candra prabhu: The rittvik position took place on a very,

very subtle plane in summer of 1988, where the seed for the rittvik position was planted in the Will of one of Prabhupdas godbrothers, who happened to be that so-called higher authority. It sprouted in 1990, when four initiated disciples of rla Prabhupda, all brahminically initiated, got together in a southern state and determined that the way that Prabhupda actually wanted was that the Governing Body Commissioner, Commission, was to appoint rittvik-cryas--to recognize and appoint rittvik-cryas after His Divine Grace left physical manifest existence. And then these appointed rittvik-cryas, then--only given authority if the G.B.C recognized as such--were then to conduct initiation on behalf of rla Prabhupda, that all new people would actually be initiated by His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda. This is an anti-Vedic, anti-Vaishnava process. This is a concocted process based on a sahajiyism known as Kart-bhaj, one of the thirteen sahajiy sects. But, of course, this is Neo-Kart-bhaj, because, this is within a context of the post-modern situation. Whereas the classical sahajiys were the time of Bhaktivinode hkura, are those thirteen sahajiys, which kart-bhaj was one of them. It was specifically listed there as sahajiy, ah, sect, by Bhaktivinode hkura, and it is, as such, anti-Vedic, anti-Vaishnava. The process is you develop, a person who is uninitiated develops, enough genuine spiritual sincerity, enough genuine seriousness in spiritual life, develops some important prerequisite preliminary knowledge, and has to be lucky enough to be able to search out a guru. And, when coming in contact with the spiritual master or guru, to recognize the guru. And, then, to do enough service in the submissive attitude, as we said before with good inquiries and with seva attitude, to be able to get the benediction that the guru would give dk. This is the Vedic process. Were in a Judeo-Christian civilization in the West, in both Europe, Australia, and also in America, Canada. All of these countries are predominantly Judeo-Christian, although that percentage of ratio is
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decreasing, but its still predominant. But at that time when rittvik surfaced in 1990, the Christian way was very prominent in the West. So, this is a type of so-called Christianity, where Jesus Christ is apparently the real spiritual master of the Christians, and that these priests are simply, are conduits, but you dont receive anything from them except some good advice, etc. You dont surrender to them, but thats not the Vedic process. Thats not the Vaishnava process. So its, its, it fits very well with the Western culture, which is, ah, reached such levels of deviation that theyve slaughter houses and, and that, alcohol and various other intoxications are legal and can be purchased and imbibed legally, and all these other incredible sinful activities are legal. This rittvik process has to be completely dismissed, because rla Prabhupda never substantiated it. It is through manipulation of a few code words that a whole new process has come into being, thats completely anti-Vedic, anti-Vaishnava and does not follow the tradition of the guru-parampar. Its because the people who are buying into rittvik--and also the devotees who promulgated and started rittvik and got it rolling--ah, its due to their insincerity in spiritual life that this is grown. And the nature of rittvik is that, since its a concoction, since it was never established by His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda--never specified how to do it, because he never would specify it, because its bogus--that its, its prone to be highly centrifugal. Meaning that it will keep spinning out of control and into various new deviations, new, ah, permutations of the rittvik misconception, and thats exactly what we have. The original rittvik conception has been completely abandoned. Nobody, nobody believes in it any more. It never got off the ground. It was the start of it, but it never actually could take off to become something. Why? Because, very simply, the Governing Body Commission never accepted it. And the Governing, the Governing Body Commission had to accept it for it to function. Because the key element was that rittviks could not simply become
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rittviks because they say are rittviks and conduct initiations, socalled, on behalf of a spiritual master who is no longer physically manifest. But the original, ah, theory that was promulgated was that Prabhupda established this so-called rittvik, but he established it on the basis that the Governing Body Commission had to decide who was qualified to be a rittvik-crya. But they didnt accept it. So, therefore, it never even went to any level. But, since that time, theres been various permutations and combinations of rittvik. And, right now, theres a minimum of five different rittvik philosophies, rittvik groups. And they are not very friendly with one another, because theyve a different process, each of them have a different process, even their conception of how long it is supposed to last is entirely different amongst some of the groups. And thats the nature of rittvik: A concoction will breed more concoctions. It will get more and more dumbed down. It will get more and more deviant, because theres no basis to go back to, to establish what is the siddhnta of it. What is, and more importantly, what is the actual process, how is it to be carried out. Its not historical fact. Rittvik is not historical fact. It was never established by His Divine Grace rla Prabhupda. Rittvik-vda is same as the Myvda in the sense that its a concoction based upon a wrong understanding, pramda, not listening properly, not hearing properly, therefore being illusioned. Therefore, making the mistake of buying into it and, therefore, kaitava, cheating, spreading a process thats a cheating process.

Devotee: You dont think theres any value? Somebody . . . Kailsa Candra prabhu: As I described before, somebody whos

picking, ah, ah, molded bread out of garbage can, can go to any place like any temple and learn the A-B-C-Ds and become a little clean and get freed from some of this extremely degraded activities. So, theres some A-B-C-D benefit, but once we get to G-H-I--guru,
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honesty and institution or guru, honesty and initiation--then its going to go off. Its going to be a deviated octave. Its . . . it will be an ascending octave for some time, but then it will reach a stage where faithlessness will enter. And when faithlessness enters, it will become a descending octave. And the person will think that he is still in the ascending octave, when its a descending octave. The principle is that you stay on a complete straight course towards the spiritual sky--if you stay loyal to your spiritual master, loyal to the process, loyal to the seva, loyal to the siddhnta. But, if you go on a deviated ascending octave, youre going towards a different destination thats not actually what he wants, its not what the guru-parampar wants, its not whats, what the Supreme Personality of Godhead has actually sanctioned. And, therefore, it goes up for a ways, then it reaches a point where faithlessness enters, and it becomes a descending octave with the same deviated incline. And you dont recognize any of it, because you didnt stay on the actual octave. You deviated off to another destination. You thought, Ah, this destination is the real destination. But it is not. All these rittvik groups can help you if youre very fallen. They can help you with A-B-C-D, but you need to go far beyond A-B-C-D. You need to go through the whole alphabet and become a pure devotee of the Lord. And in order to do that, rittvik cant help you.

they . . . the, hmmm, development of the rittvik process. Could you expand on that?

Devotee: You said earlier it was all due to lack of sincerity. The . . .

Kailsa Candra prabhu: Sincerity is a word that comes from Latin.

In the Latin times they had coins, but they also did a lot more barter than we do today. Barter is not so popular due to so much of money that we have in the West. Some barter goes on, but most people dont live by barter. But, at that time, in Roman times, ah, goods were bartered. If you wanted a winter's worth of wheat in order to
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eat, perhaps you had a very nice statue. And you could barter your statue for the bushels of grains and the person who wanted that nice statue would make the deal. So, these statues were commodities that were traded at that time. Now, if a statue gets a chip in it--right now we see that the statues of the Roman times virtually all of them have chipsbut, when they were first made, ah, a statue was considered extremely valuable during the Roman times if it had no chips. But, if it had chips in it, then its value was greatly diminished, to the point that you could hardly even barter for anything. So, because to keep a statue free from chips was the goal in order to have this valuable commodity, if it developed chip, a cheating processing of putting a type of covering into the chip--that looked like it was part of the stone sculpture, when it was a, it was actually a filling of the chips--this is called ceres, what was put in was called a ceres, c-e-r-e-s. You put it in, and then you polished it up, and then tried to pawn off that, ah, statue, as if it never had any chips. So sin, s-i-n, as a prefix in Latin meant without; it still means without. So, the word sincere is sinceres, comes from that, meaning without any ceres in the statues. That, when youre bartering with a real thing, theres no chips in it thatd been covered by seres. That then you bartered it off and get all this wealth from it. And then the person, the statue, then he wants to move it. And then somebody else comes and said, Thats a chip! That, and then, Ive been cheated! But whats so sin . . . if you are sincere then, you didnt . . . whatever you were giving was not with a flaw in it. So, if youre sincere in seeking out a spiritual master, that means you dont have the flaws within you of ulterior motivation, personal ambition, all kinds of, ah, contaminated misconceptions of about what is the path of the spiritual life, you are free from all these chips in you. And you are not covered with a rationalization and with buffers, with delusions, ceres, you are not, you dont have, your sin-ceres, youre without those things.
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some of rla, rla Prabhupdas original Bhagavad-gita, reads it, was interested, want to . . . wanted to go forward, eh, with Krishna consciousness. He was on his own, and he wasnt really in touch with any of the groups. And you met this person, ah, he asked you for your advice. What would you--in such chaotic, hmmm, world, Krishna conscious world that we are in now--what advice would you give that person?

Devotee: So, supposing today you met someone who came across

Kailsa Candra prabhu: Id give him truth. Id give him the

historical facts. I would answer his questions and also tell him that we have an organization. So, there is a place where he can plug in, if he likes, and he can get his answers. He can get seva opportunities, and he can stay free from these three deviations.

Devotee: So, how is your organization, hmmm, better than the other
. . . other organizations we see around?

Kailsa Candra prabhu: Because there is no apa-siddhnta

connected with what we are preaching. The process we give is without any contaminations, even though it is rudimentary. We do not have in our organization anyone who is connected with deviations nor will we ever have anyone nor we do . . . we compromise with the deviations nor do we say that they are good. We do not, ah, put any stock into watering it down. We say, Advance in Krishna consciousness at your own pace, at your own speed. Cleansing of the heart is not an abrupt process. Its a gradual process. At the same time, you cant go to the other shore if you leave the anchor dropped, and it's caught in rocks. We say, At the very minimum, you have to have your anchor freed from being dropped into those rocks. And you must be, at the very minimum, pulling it up to get it back in the boat, so that you can really go somewhere.
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invited to next years G.B.C meeting in Mypur, and . . . and youre asked to give your recommendations to help ISKCON. What can you imagine that you might say to them?

Devotee: Supposing, in a . . . in a parallel, parallel universe, you are

Kailsa Candra prabhu: I would say to them, You all have to

return to the square one. None of you is a genuine guru. You never were! A current still runs through it, and that current is the current of deviation, the current of misconception, the current of pretension, the current of deception. These things . . . these things cannot be present in a genuine Krishna consciousness movement. Youve had these things in your movement from the spring of 1978, (although they were creeping in before that time), but we can just say that was the coup de etat moment. Now youve got to return (to square one) and get all of that out. And it can be done if you understand that Prabhupda said, 'Regular guru, thats all.' Regular guru means under regulation. And he didnt name any gurus. He said, 'But, by my order,' but he never gave the order. Which means that we have to go back to square one and say that those eleven pretender mahbhgavats were all completely bogus, and that was such a colossal hoax and such a colossal deviation that everything went off track. And that current is still present in the movement. Its not been taken away. The current of deviation has been present throughout the movement since 1978. And you can make all the bureaucratic adjustments and compromises you want, but this stark truth is going to remain, these historical facts are going to remain, and theres going to be devotees whove been initiated by His Divine Grace who continue to understand them and are going to continue to let others know about them. And youre not going to get away with it, and youre not going to pull it off! So, therefore, you better return to square one. That would be my advice.
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you have any practical suggestions how . . .

Devotee: Thats a pretty big pill for them to swallow. Hmmm, do Kailsa Candra prabhu: The practical suggestion is that they're not
going to invite me!

how to get back to that square one?

Devotee: (laughs) No, practical suggestions, how the square one is, Kailsa Candra prabhu: Yes: Shock. Its not until devotees

individually get shocked and realize just how corrupt the whole things been and how its getting more and more corrupt, how its becoming more and more dumbed down, watered down, how its becoming more and more deviant and realize that it will get worse and worse and worse and realize that they want no part of it, they want to get back to the real Krishna consciousness movement. And then, one by one, as devotees realize this, then they will get strong individually. Then, theyll start thinking, Maybe I should have some kind of relationship with other devotees who are a little stronger than me and are on this path. And then, there will be a little bit of coalescing, perhaps some alliances. Then, there will be an actual, ah, organization, and then things will go on and on like that. So its, itd be a very gradual process.

consciousness?

Devotee: OK. Can you tell us a bit how you came to Krishna Kailsa Candra prabhu: Yes, I came because I reached the stage

where actually I saw the futility of even breathing. I reached the stage where I could see that, on your own, whatever youre doing does not solve anything. Once you realize the question that must take place: athto brahma jijs. This question is, Why am I suffering? And, most importantly, Why do I have to die? Why
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do I have to undergo all of this? I am being forced to undergo all of this. Why? This question I asked. I reached the stage where I asked this question. When you ask these root questions, you get signals from Paramtm, but you dont know it, but you gets signals from Conscience. When Im speaking of Conscience here, Im using capital C, because the small conscience is different from capital C Conscience. Paramtm will give you tests. My first, ah, dictation was Become vegetarian. And immediately I did. I did not know where it would lead. I did not know who was giving the order. But I knew that thats what I had to do. It was made very clear that I had to pass that test. So, I became a vegetarian. Then, I was tested severely when I went home to visit my relatives, and I was given a very, ah, stern punishment for having not met the standard there, because I got talked out of it, partially. And, therefore, in that punishment that solidified that this is definitely what is wanted to be done, but I still did not know where it was all going to lead.

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