Missionaries or Mercenaries?
BY: SAMPRASNA DASA
Jul 10, 2016 — USA (SUN) —
How on earth did H.H. Bhakti Vikasa Swami, the author of Women: Masters or Mothers?, manage to get his book, which is primarily composed of Srila Prabhupada’s quotes, banned in a society established by Srila Prabhupada himself!
News Flash: The drifted mission has lost its integrity and no longer favors missionaries. Instead it thrives on mercenaries.
H.H. Radhanath Swami’s latest book, The Journey Within, took help from the “Without” by employing mercenaries who pre-ordered the book in large volumes to qualify as New York Times Best Seller. The irony is that the book that is supposed to kindle sincere spiritual quest amongst its readers itself took shelter of insincere and questionable tactics.
This, of course, doesn’t bother the GBC, who made it clear in Resolution #313 – ‘Harmonizing our Preaching Effort’ – that they favor public opinion more than anything else. So it is a no-brainer for the GBC to ban Women: Masters or Mothers?, authored by a genuine missionary, because it quotes archaic ideas of a quaint old gentleman of Victorian era, who coincidentally happens to be the founder of the society they (GBC) claim to oversee as ultimate managerial authority.
The GBC would rather allow and promote on ISKCON properties the quasi-spiritual The Journey Within, that was actually propped up to become a New York Times Best Seller by mercenaries!
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