In the early days of ISKCON, and I speak of when Srila Prabhupada left the planet , difficult times were to come , even in the Sastra its recorded,  when the Acarya leaves problems will occur.

The fact that ISKCON remains and is flourishing,  despite all the accusations one might want to throw upon the early GBC is a testament to their services to Prabhupada.

The movement could have very easily fractured , so many young men and women with hot heads and strong ideas , “someone’s” had to initially keep things together,  and although it was by far from perfect,  still the movement survived and improved and still to this day continues to thrive .

Those strong minded early GBC men who imposed themselves both in management and Guruship , were wrong and not wrong , Krishna sometimes works in strange ways , but today’s results of a thriving ISKCON cannot be ignored .

Many offences were committed by many , even against Prabhupada and his God brothers and of course ISKCON devotees,  but the Vaiṣṇavas have generosity at heart and can easily forgive , the Vaiṣṇavas never hold grudges.

You’ll know something by its results,  and early days were tough days , and learning circles were everywhere,  but things get settled up and ISKCON marches on .

So fools step in where angels dare to tread , but in Kali yuga, some strong steps are needed, and , in a war footing , sometimes the private can be promoted to  be a General .

And we can consider those early devotees , although materially ambitious, that after all that said and done were acting with ISKCON, ISKCON is Prabhupada, and somehow or another, those early GBC kept the society together . There were  bad times and many got the brunt end of the what externally appeared as foolishness a lot of the  time , but books went out , temples increased and devotees were made , and things gradually crystallised , the Guru reform movement came about ,more work still needed but it gets  better because its Prabhupada’s movement , so some glory goes to those early leaders for sure .

One can consider….

Why did Prabhupada want to form ISKCON .
What are its purposes and how are they bring enacted .

So many many ways .

Providing communities , provinding support on social levels , providing insight and education on all levels , providing think tanks and scholars on all levels , spreading the sankirtana movement on all levels , allowing access to the historic Gaudia Vaisnava culures , providing insights along with other theological scientists  that are teaching objective scientific knowledge along with training and putting a stop to scientific materialism and the  speculations of a Darwinian world, establishing the conclusions of the sampradaya acaryas which culminates in the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu of inconceivably oneness and difference, and pointing out the limitations of impersonal philosophy , ISKCON establishes in societal terms the need of pure governance and compliance based on the right type of person doing the right occupation in the right way that is based on the knowledge of mind matter and consciousness and its progression in social and spiritual mobility .
Thank goodness for ISKCON
But ISKCON is always on a journey itself, and always gaining more and more insights into doing things better , ISKCON are the devotees within it and those who are outside of it who support it in many ways .
ISKCON is the personal service of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a service that he understood. Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja wanted because his father, Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, wanted it.
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