ISKCON Direction of Management (1970)
SUPPRESSED FOR 40 YEARS: THE “DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT” (1970) BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA, FOUNDER-ACARYA OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, BY WHICH ALL ISKCON TEMPLES ARE INDEPENDENT AND DE-CENTRALIZED, AND THE GBC IS NOMINATED BY AND ELECTED FROM THE TEMPLE PRESIDENTS EVERY THREE YEARS. ITS TIME HAS COME. HTTP://WWW.ISKCON-DOM.COM
August 15, 2010
“THE WEALTHY INDIAN DONORS HAVE BEEN CHEATED BY THE UNELECTED LEADERS OF ISKCON BY NOT KNOWING ABOUT SRILA PRABHUPADA’S DOM”
by Roupamanjari Devi Dasi Zakheim on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 11:17am
Dear Fellow Servants of Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
If you want to know where ISKCON went astray, read the contents of this website. It is a real eye-opener created by Srila Prabhupada: HTTP://WWW.ISKCON-DOM.COM/
The reason for the members of each temple to induce their TP to adopt the DOM and subsequently vote for an elected GBC is that they, the temple members, would be the beneficiary of benefits from the DOM, that no one in ISKCON could possibly imagine due to having the GBC holding the DOM secretly in an iron fist.
If, for some reason, the members of the temple cannot create a majority in favor of the DOM (which would be out of pure misunderstanding of the benefit to them that the DOM provides) then the wealthy donors to the temple can easily be convinced that there is no reason for them to submit to “Taxation without Representation”. They are giving money like anything and apparently feel confident that their salvation will be assured simply on the basis of their donations. If these selfsame donors realize that they can build business activities around the temples, employing members of the temples, and sharing profits with the temples, their one-way giving would turn into a cooperative participation, in which both the wealthy donors and the temple members would enjoy a much larger level of comfort and stability.
We have found that the children of Indian donors who were initiated by such GBC/gurus as Tamal, have begun to rebel against their parents blind loyalty to disturbing personalities such as Tamal, that they as young children with innocent eyes, could not help but see as bogus and disgusting. These children, now grown to “twenty-somethings”, brimming with intelligence and genuine devotion for Srila Prabhupada, are rapidly undermining ISKCON’s solitary economic base, namely the donations of the Indian community. The minute that the Indian community realizes that their “Taxation” will produce prodigious “Representation”, they will do so much more than donate. They will use their uncanny business expertise to actually advance the actual Krishna Consciousness Movement of Srila Prabhupada.
Electing GBC for 3 year terms by Temple Presidents can only be accomplished on the authority of the DOM. If we simply give up our misgivings and fears and join together to vote for the DOM, and then vote for an elected GBC, and under the support of the Indian and other large donors to ISKCON, these donations will be immediately directed to the temples supporting the DOM, leaving the non-elected 40-year tyrants still in power, erroniously referred to as “GBC”, with no money at all.
The hoax began in 1977, when 28 men were able to completely befool and befuddle 10,000 devotees of ISKCON. These men have not increased substantially in number, so now that there are hundreds of thousands of devotees, a handful of GBC/gurus is still able to control them, just as a lion tamer controls a dozen lions in a cage. When the lions lose their fear, the lion tamer doesn’t stand a chance. So it is not a big deal to remove the existing bogus GBC. They are just a few men who have convinced us as that they actually control ISKCON, whereas without the temples, temple president, temple congregations, and Indian donors, they would be in charge of nothing at all.
So it is time to say that “the king has no clothes”, and let this handful of men be consigned to the “dustbin of history”, while the elected GBC go about protecting the interests of their completely independent local temples, particularly in the matter of protecting women and children in such a way as they can live in unalloyed spiritual atmosphere. These woman and children will have nothing to fear and feel no lack. All their needs will be generated by their well-employed husbands participating in ISKCON-partnered businesses, and the extensive business activities of the now marginalized and silent Indian community.
The revolutions of Russia, France, America, Mexico, Cuba, etc., did not ask permission of the oppressive regimes that they overthrew. They were carried on the shoulders of the will of the people, and in this case, the will of the people is being expressed by sincere devotees of the Lord, obedient to their Spiritual Master, Srila Prabhupada.
So there is nothing to fear. “Those who do good are never overcome by evil.”
Your eternal servant,
Roupamanjari devi dasi
David Nollmeyer:
The document of incorporation, will, and dom should all be made legal in the administration of temples, preaching centers, following Srila Prabhupada. No individual can own or control these resources and claim transparency to Srila Prabhupada’s mission.
I will likely inherit some small property. Keep half for family maintenance and unconditionally donate the other property under these documents legally.
Radhe! Radhe!
Bhakta David
Aug 4 2010 at 2:11pm
David Nollmeyer:
If Srila Prabhupada created directives which are orders and wanted legally incorporated, who has the adhikari to disobey? Human rescources are the compliment to process and structure. The general will of the structure is the content equivalent to it’s rules and corporate person. The natural persons also have a collective wil that cannot go against the incorporation. Here we have an incorporation that should based on original books and the DOM.
Aug 4 2010 at 12:57am
Rathangapani Dasa Buchert:
Keeping all the Temples indepentent of each other I know was the original idea. Each community of devotees then could run their own affairs, without an unneeded central power. The GBC were ment only to advise and ensure that vedic standards were mantained at the Temples. Nothing more. The community of Vaishnavas choose their own local president. Laxmi could then be used for local programs. There is no need for a central bank account funding an oversized GBC bureacracy. With Sannyasis living the high life.
Aug 5 2010 at 6:11am
Shaul Shalagram Porat:
I remember vividly holding the DOM document in my hands around 1976.The Ritvic document I saw a year later around the time of Prabhupad’s forced departure. I was lucky to read also Prabhupad’s wish to have all temples self sufficient and self managed in a democratic way. We were helpless about the take over, so was Prabhupad.The DOM, and the other instructions of Prabhupad were known to us, gave us great hope in developing the New Mayapur farm community. Few days after Prabhupad left, my dear friend Pritu Putra Maharaja (I am sure your good husband new him well) met me in the South of France.The town of Aix- En- Provence. He just came from Vrindavan, to tell me that the dream is over. He told me who poisoned Prabhupad, and who only wished to kill him, but did not participate in the act. They all went to the carpenter he said, and they are building their big chairs…..so said Pritu Prabhu.He was FINISHED.GONE MAD, and soon left with Malati for a different life style. Within 3.5 years, new mayapur turned to a concentration camp. I am telling all this as a call for Height Tec Democracy. A democracy of devotees that it would be virtually impossible to corrupt. In order to accomplish this wonder of wonders we need LAXMI.I am ready to be the first one to give my credit card number and ,let say 1% of my monthly income to the one who will establish such a TRUST.Radhe Radhe
Aug 5 2010 at 7:00am
Dharma Pravartaka Acharya:
Dear Roupamanjari Mataji. Dandavata Pranams. Hare Krsna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Thank you for having the courage to take the lead on this important debate about how to honor Srila Prabhupada’s vision for the world.
It is, indeed, by having deep fidelity to guru-vani, the instructions of the guru, that we can have the guidance and inspiration necessary to serve him and to, in turn, serve Krsna. This is the clearest of all Vedic injunctions.
That being the case, any document, writing, words or instructions emanating directly from the mind of Srila Prabhupada automatically takes precedence over and above the pronouncements of any individual or group claiming to represent him.
For the last forty years, the GBC has taken every unethical step to ensure their own power via the supposedly legal route. But for the sincere followers of Prabhupada, his instructions have more validity and authoritative weight than any and all GBC resolutions combined can ever have.
Srila Prabhupada IS ISKCON (though obviously today’s ISKCON is NOT Srila Prabhupada). And Prabhupada’s will is destined to become manifest again through the sincerity and hard work of his faithful devotees.
With your permission, I would like to share with our friends a paper I wrote in 1998 called “Saving Prabhupada’s Legacy.”
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In it, I call for a thorough reformation of ISKCON that now seems in retrospect (I knew nothing about the DOM at the time I wrote this work) to mirror what many in this discussion are now saying was, in fact, Prabhupada’s actual vision for ISKCON management.
Prabhupada was, indeed, a Shaktyavesha-avatara. He came to the West empowered directly by Bhagavan Sri Krsna in order to create a revolution so far-reaching in its vision, and so power in its application, as to change the very course of world history for the next ten-thousand years. His vision is destined to be victorious! Because Krsna wills it so. Let us be his hands, his mouth and his servants…and we will realize that victory.
Aug 5 2010 at 1:57pm ·
8/9/2010
MY DEAR GODSISTERS,
PLEASE ACCEPT MY HUMBLE OBEISANCES. ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA!
THE GBC, WHO CLAIM SRILA PRABHUPADA DID NOT WANT THE DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT, ARE THE REASON INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE NO PROTECTION TODAY. HAD THE DOM BEEN IN PLACE, WOMEN WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY PROTECTED TODAY AND THE PAST 35 YEARS, BECAUSE THE DOM IS ALL ABOUT HAPPY AND PROTECTED HOUSEHOLDERS AND THEIR CHILDREN.
THE UNELECTED GBC THAT YOU SEE TODAY ARE PRACTICALLY LIKE KAMSA, WHO KILLED THE CHILDREN OF DEVAKI, THEREBY ROBBING THE WORLD OF WHAT THEY COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED, BEING BORN TO THESE TWO SAINTLY ROYAL PERSONAGES. THE PRESENT GBC HAS DONE NOTHING TO RAISE UP YOUNG MEN WHO WOULD GO ON TO PROTECT THEIR WIVES, OTHER THAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE MOLESTED IN THE GURUKULA, WHICH ACTUALLY DESTROYED THEIR CHASTITY AND THEIR LIFE…..JUST LOOK AROUND YOU AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN.
THESE GBC MEN HAVE SO MUCH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS, AND HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO DESTROY SRILA PRABHUPADA’S MOVEMENT, FOR THEIR OWN GREEDY AIMS, BEFORE THE MOVEMENT COULD REALLY TAKE OFF AND SHOW WHAT IT WAS REALLY MEANT TO BE LIKE THAT I IS HARD TO IMAGINE WHAT THEIR NEXT LIVES WILL BE. BUT WHO CARES? IT IS THE CHILDREN WHO WERE DESTROYED, AND OUR GRIEF IS WITH THEM, BECAUSE NOW NICE WOMEN SUCH AS YOURSELVES CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS COULD HAVE PRODUCED TRULY EXEMPLARY MEN WITH BRAHMINICAL INCLINATIONS WHO WOULD PROTECT THEIR WIVES LIKE ANYTHING.
IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHY AND HOW THESE GBC MEN FLOUTED THE DIRECT ORDER OF SRILA PRABHUPADA AND INSTALLED THEMSELVES SOLIDLY AS UNELECTED TYRANTS, GO TO THIS URL:
HTTP://WWW.ISKCON-DOM.COM/ AND YOU WILL SEE THE HORRIFYING SAGA OF WHAT SRILA PRABHUPADA PREPARED FOR US AND TRIED HIS BEST TO PROVIDE FOR US, THAT THE GBC RUTHLESSLY TORE AWAY, SO THAT THEY COULD RULE WITH ABSOLUTE TYRANNY AT YOUR DIRECT EXPENSE AND GLUT THEMSELVES ON YOUR HARD-EARNED DOLLARS AND SERVICE.
PLEASE READ AND SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT, AND THIS PASSAGE FROM SRILA PRABHUPADA FROM THE SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM WILL BE WHAT EVERY WOMAN EXPERIENCES AS HER LIFE — AS IS HER BIRTHRIGHT AND HER PERSONAL GUARANTEE FROM HIS DIVINE GRACE SRILA PRABHUPADA.
YOUR ETERNAL SERVANT,
ROUPAMANJARI DEVI DASI
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