“In March 1978, when the GBC went to see Sridhara Maharaja to consult on the future of the gurus and ISKCON initiations, the GBC was told that being appointed as the ritvik representative of the guru does not automatically make one an initiating guru later on.” Jayapataka then blatantly and boldly lied to inform Sridhara Maharaja, as recorded on tape, referring to the 28 May 1977 conversations between the GBC and Srila Prabhupada: “Prabhupada has given explicit wishes.”This convinced Sridhara Maharaja that Srila Prabhupada had actually appointed 11 acharyas, and then, having been misled about this, gave her extensive advice to the "new acharyas" of ISKCON on that basis. This was a blatant act of deception by Jayapataka (and all the other silent GBCs). “There were no explicit desires or instructions from Srila Prabhupada that anyone should become a successor guru, nor that the ritviks would become complete gurus after Srila Prabbupada’s departure. Some GBCs may have misunderstood it delusionally or incorrectly, but there were no explicit instructions in that regard.“This was a nefarious exploitation of Sridhara Maharaja by ISKCON leaders, who used his advice based on a lie from Jayapataka to further justify their system of zonal acharyas.” (The hidden glories of Srila Prabhupada, 1.457)·
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