I thought you all might deeply appreciate this article by one of my acquaintences: The Political Spectrum Con.
It is a horrifying indictment upon the distortion of our times and our minds when we condemn those who are preaching ideological adherence to the Golden Mean as "fanatical" and "extreme." But that is precisely what the welfare state authoritarians of today are doing when they proclaim all those on the "far political right" to be wild eyed extremists. Actually it is the welfare state authoritarians who are the extremists. It is they who are relentlessly pushing America out toward the left end of the spectrum and the "regimentation" of total government. And in like manner, Rothbard's anarchist libertarians are trying to push America out toward the right end of the spectrum and the "chaos" of no government. It is we, the laissez-faire capitalists, the advocates of a strict constitutional government, who are solidly rooted in the center of reality firmly fixed upon truth and the ideal. Go to storyNot only does it speak to the present political realities throughout the world, BUT in a very real way it can help one to identify what Srila Prabhupada DID in fact do in setting his mission up, with STRICTLY ENUMERATED POWERS delivered to all his various agents.
The GBC, under the aegis of the Gaudiya Math Deviant Sridhara Swami, set the the predatory actions of the ambitious upon the PRIVATE ENTERPRISE OF HIS DIVINE GRACE SRILA PRABHUPADA.
THEY all fell under the allure of the splinter faction of the mission of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, considering that the SHIP OF STATE — ISKCON with its SOLE ACHARAYA SRILA PRABHUPADA — was now FREE TO BE SUBDIVIDED INTO AS MANY MISSIONS AS THERE WERE DISCIPLES, with each now free to utilize the BOOKS OF SRILA PRABHUPADA for securing GURU DAKSINA for themselves AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ACHARYA HIMSELF.
Clearly Srila Prabhuapda wanted a Constitutional TETHER to bind his agents (conditoned souls one and all) TO HIS DIVINE ORDERS & ARRANGEMENTS.
They have sought and achieved ANARCHY in the Spirit of the Self-Proclaimed "Form Breaker" Sridhara Swami since 7:30 PM November 14th, 1977 — the very moment our Dearly Beloved Acharya Srila Prabhuapda elected to depart.
I welcome any feedback.
Praghosa