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Forty-six years before the beginning of Kali-yuga, Vishnuchittha, one of the twelve great Alwar Vaishnava saints of the Sri Sampradaya predicted: "There will come a race which will tread the Earth with raised hands and vertical tilaka on their foreheads, who will chant the names of Hari; this will destroy the influence of Kali."
(Divyaprabhanda 1:10).
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"So there was a whole big splash of political ideology going around ISKCON (74/75). There was a book about a conspiracy from The John Birch Society that made a big hit. And Prabhupada had confirmed that yes, it's a fact, there are conspiracies and the whole material society is being manipulated by a handful of vested interest groups, demons, raksasas, who take birth on this planet just to control and manipulate." (Ramesvara Interview - page 58)
"I joined ISKCON in 1971. I know this movement.. I noticed the erosion of ISKCON about a year after the departure of Srila Prabhupada. The leaders of ISKCON are deemed as criminals by many. Srila Prabhupada once made a statement in the early seventies; many of you are here in the garbs of a devotee, but you are here to destroy - demons from the lower planetary system have taken birth on this planet just to destroy this movement. We were all bewildered by this statement of Srila Prabhupada - We wondered who were these people? Well, now we know." (Jivadhara Dasa ACBSP. New York USA - BTP Issue 42)
In a letter to Brahmananda, September 9th, 1969 Srila Prabhupada wrote:
"Our point should be that we shall take all steps for self-protection, depending on the results on Krsna. We should NOT idly sit down simply depending on Krsna. Arjuna had to fight in the battlefield, but at the same time he heard Bhagavat Gita. Our Motto shall be like that! Neither we shall fight alone, without Krsna consciousness, nor we shall give up all possible facillities".
- courtesy Padmagarbha Prabhu
Prabhupāda: So this instruction of Ṛṣabhadeva is very, very important. Try to understand. Our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is a protest to the modern way of civilization.
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Forty-six years before the beginning of Kali-yuga, Vishnuchittha, one of the twelve great Alwar Vaishnava saints of the Sri Sampradaya predicted: "There will come a race which will tread the Earth with raised hands and vertical tilaka on their foreheads, who will chant the names of Hari; this will destroy the influence of Kali."
(Divyaprabhanda 1:10).
"Tirtha Maharaj tried poisoning his guru,
Bhakti-siddhanta, a couple of times, but Bhaktisiddhanta
made it to Lalita Prasad who saved him.
Finally, he was poisoned and locked in his room so he
could not go for help. It was the kind of poison
known as a "Russian heart attack." He was taken from
Calcutta to Mayapur for cremation and burial to
avoid an autopsy. A couple of unsuccessful attempts
were made on Lalita Prasad's life also. In this way, the
Gaudiya Math fell prey to money, power, and politics,
just as ISKCON did in turn. Obviously, most
organized religion and institutionalization are not
good.
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