{"id":60101,"date":"2023-02-01T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/171932345816"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:11:53","slug":"iskcon-has-to-be-a-very-friendly-movement-kadamba-kanana-swami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=60101","title":{"rendered":"ISKCON has to be a very friendly movement!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ISKCON has to be a very friendly movement.
\nKadamba Kanana Swami: A very accommodating movement that is ready to give everyone a chance; ready to not find fault in others. To not find fault in others is hard. We may catch someone lying and say, \u201cHe is a liar! Shame! This person needs to be rejected!\u201d Well, have we ever lied? Never, ever? That is a lie! So yes, even if we catch someone lying, it does not mean that that person has some weakness. It does not mean that we can say, \u201cThis person is a write-off! I do not want to deal with such people!\u201d Because then, we cannot deal with ourselves either. We are all fallen. We are all simply here by the mercy of great devotees and by the mercy of Lord Krsna.
\nBut then, \u201cHow do you correct someone?\u201d
\nChanakya Pandit has mentioned that you cannot correct anyone unless you are in a senior position to that person. And even when you are in a senior position to that person, you cannot correct them unless you have a heartfelt friendship with them. If you are not senior and do not have a heartfelt relationship, then you do not correct them. Instead, you go to someone who has that relationship and say, \u201cWell, these things are going on. I do not know what to do, but if you think something should be done\u2026 I just want you to know.\u201d That is all!
\nIt is not that we go around, \u201cThat is not really right, Prabhuji. That is not our standard\u2026 That is very offensive!\u201d Through this, we just create a movement that nobody wants to be a part of it for a long time. If it is fine to tell everyone off then we cannot live in such a movement for a long time.
\nWe need a movement which is based on deep friendship and deep appreciation. We do not need a boarding school. If we create a movement which is like a boarding school where everyone is looking at everyone else like, \u201cPrabhuji, are you doing this correctly? That should go over there!\u201d Then, in one\u2019s mind, one may start to think, \u201cI want to break loose. I want to run free. I want to go.\u201d
\nWe become split personalities in such an environment. We have a fa\u00e7ade and the fa\u00e7ade is all external rules, regulations and standards. And behind the closed curtains, the real self comes out. No, we do not want that. We want a very mature movement. A movement with deep friendships amongst everyone. And then, we help each other and we realize, \u201cToday I help you and tomorrow you help me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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ISKCON has to be a very friendly movement.
\nKadamba Kanana Swami: A very accommodating movement that is ready to give everyone a chance; ready to not find fault in others. To not find fault in others is hard. We may catch someone lying and say, “He is a liar! Shame! This person needs to be rejected!” Well, have we ever lied? Never, ever? That is a lie! So yes, even if we catch someone lying, it does not mean that that person has some weakness. It does not mean that we can say, “This person is a write-off! I do not want to deal with such people!” Because then, we cannot deal with ourselves either. We are all fallen. We are all simply here by the mercy of great devotees and by the mercy of Lord Krsna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-60101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105876,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60101\/revisions\/105876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}