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From Prabhupada Nectar by HH Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami<\/strong><\/p>\n Hawaii <\/p>\n When Srila Prabhupada visited Hawaii, he had to deal with controversial persons who claimed to be his followers and yet who denounced the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Prabhupada wanted to encourage everyone to go on chanting Hare Krsna, yet at the same time he wanted to clearly establish that his sincere follower works within ISKCON. The questions and answers after his lectures in Hawaii often dealt with these matters. – From the Nectar by HH Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n\u201cWhat is ISKCON?\u201d asked a long-haired beach boy wearing a japa bead bag.
\n\u201cISKCON?\u201d Srila Prabhupada replied. \u201cIt is a simple thing. You do not know?\u201d Then he described what each lettering the acronym ISKCON stood for. \u201cWe have a worldwide society, so we say international.\u201d
\n\u201cWell, are you ISKCON?\u201d the boy asked. This was a loaded question. The devotees had been preaching that Srila Prabhupada was ISKCON, because one cannot refuse service to ISKCON and yet claim to serve Srila Prabhupada. But the anti-ISKCON party had argued that Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON were different. Prabhupada was pure and transcendental; ISKCON was corrupt, a mere organisation.
\nSrila Prabhupada started to laugh. \u201cI am not ISKCON,\u201d he said. \u201cI am a member of ISKCON.\u201d Then he looked at his disciple who was the G.B.C. secretary for Hawaii. Prabhupada pointed at him and said, \u201cAh he is a member of ISKCON.\u201d Then he pointed to the ISKCON Hawaii temple president. \u201cAnd he is a member of ISKCON. We are all members of ISKCON, the International Society for Krsna Consciousness.\u201d Almost everyone present cried out, \u201cJaya!\u201d Then Prabhupada looked back, smiling. There was no further challenge to his perfect humble reply. <\/p>\n Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: When Srila Prabhupada visited Hawaii, he had to deal with controversial persons who claimed to be his followers and yet who denounced the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Prabhupada wanted to encourage everyone to go on chanting Hare Krsna, yet at the same time he wanted to clearly establish that his sincere follower works within ISKCON. The questions and answers after his lectures in Hawaii often dealt with these matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35433,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/35433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}