{"id":8532,"date":"2010-06-07T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2010-06-07T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:16:03","slug":"love-and-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"Love and Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Pancaratna dasa<\/strong>
\n(Chairman IRGB)<\/p>\n

Dear Members of the Indian Regional Governing Body (IRGB) <\/p>\n

The following is my submission for your consideration. Please take the time to read and meditate.<\/p>\n

Love and Trust.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada put a lot of emphasis Love and Trust.
\nWe heard He said our movement will be built on Love and Trust.<\/p>\n

Love: that\u2019s for Lord Krishna and \u201cPrabhupada\u201d.
\nTrust: that\u2019s between us, the conditioned souls.<\/p>\n

If we are to be united then we have to trust each other. I trust you, you trust me and because of that trust we can cooperate and work together.<\/p>\n

The material world is working under the spell of madness. What I think is wrong may be quite acceptable to someone else. We all have our own variety of insanity, we all live under the witches spell, mixed up with our material desires, our own variety of Maya.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada, sees it all as madness. He sees madness in the murderer, the cow killer, the drug addict, the doctor, the lawyer, the businessman and the housewife, it\u2019s all Maya. He sees it all going on, to him it\u2019s all different forms of madness, illusion.<\/p>\n

Therefor he formed ISKCON, to address the ills of society. He gave his seven purposes. Understanding our conditioned nature, that we suffer the four defects, he wants to give unity and a place to shelter all devotees, \u201ca house in which the whole world can live\u201d. <\/p>\n

But we change things, because of weakness of heart, unwittingly, unconsciously, in all sincerity we try, but we change things, on all levels. Conditioned souls do this, no one is to blame, but devotees trust has been broken. The children trusted us, the ladies trusted us, the disciples trusted us and the Guru\u2019s trusted us. Many have had their trust broken. I was told by a retired GBC member, \u201cIf you have not survived your horror story in ISKCON, you have not yet matured\u201d. I refuse to believe that.<\/p>\n

Life is built on trust, it is all about relationships. Married couples trust each other they stay together. Friends trust each other, they remain friends. Business partners trust each other they remain in business. But as soon as that trust is broken, that faith is broken, the relationship is finished.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada wanted that we trust each other and work together for the good of each other and to develop Love of God. He was not concerned about organization as much as he was about the individuals, the relationships. But we talk more about the institution and corporatization and have made our zonal and international bodies elite. We have put ourselves above the others.<\/p>\n

As soon as there is even the idea of an elite body that answers only unto itself, then the question of accountability is gone. If there is no accountability amongst conditioned souls, living their own varieties madness and who suffer the four defects, then the basis of relationship breaks down and devotees loose trust and many times leave. No matter how hard you try convincing everyone that the body is sincere, concerned about protecting Srila Prabhupada\u2019s mission, which it may be, if it is even perceived to be elite, unaccountable, there will be no trust. And we all know it is natural for us to look for people that agree with us, but now this has become our criterion for selection into our elite bodies. This alone has created a serious lack of trust.<\/p>\n

But if we create a system where we are accountable, if the elite body becomes the voice of the general body, then you have a recipe for trust. When devotees have trust they can give their life unconditionally, if they don\u2019t then we cannot expect too much from them. Accountability means disclosure of assets, chanting 16 rounds and following the Temple program, but it means much more. Accountability means to give voice to the general body, recognizing others rights to decide. Let the devotees have a say, in some shape or form, in who is a member of the elite bodies.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada is not a conditioned soul and therefor he is able to move in certain ways which we cannot. Accepting our limitations as conditioned souls we must create a system of trust and unity. We need to research what Srila Prabhupada wanted, make sure we are doing the things that he did, emphasising the things that he felt important then we will be successful. At times we have gone away from Srila Prabhupada\u2019s ideals and have suffered and in many cases we have done according to HDG and we have progressed.<\/p>\n

Therefor the GBC body and we as Regional bodies must sit down and check ourselves, we have to give a voice and instill faith in the body of general devotees, a faith that is not there today. Srila Prabhupada created the GBC and the GBC has created Regional Governing Bodies but if we wish to unite ISKCON then we must be accountable and not just unto ourselves. Then Srila Prabhupada\u2019s mission can accomplish what he wanted. <\/p>\n

I pray to all members of Elite Bodies to consider these points deeply, please consider the rights of all devotees and followers of Srila Prabhuapda.<\/p>\n

Pancaratna dasa.
\nChairman IRGB
\nPresident ISKCON Jaipur branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Pancaratna dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada wanted that we trust each other and work together for the good of each other and to develop Love of God. He was not concerned about organization as much as he was about the individuals, the relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","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=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}