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“Simply criticism is not our means,” said Prabhupāda. “Our means is to show by example.”

“It is not that a particular service is especially for a gṛhastha or a sannyāsī,” Prabhupāda continued So there should not be threatening. We are now worldwide organization.”

Prabhupāda was not only defining and settling the immediate quarrels, but he was elevating all the devotees He was not siding with one party or watering down the philosophy to make peace.

But it was not over yet. It was clear, however, who was in control.

such false ideas were circulating, then they should be stopped, but he maintained that his party was not

Prabhupāda made it clear that the proper way of settling the controversies was not by gossiping about them, not by pressing him for a ruling, but by trusting in the G.B.C. by the decisions of the G.B.C. or, if necessary, correct them, and so sincere followers should also not

passed back and forth before Śrīla Prabhupāda, who then delivered his opinion: “The standard should be not Judge by the results, not by the dress. We can see his position.

devotees were looking for Prabhupāda to make an absolute distinction between gṛhastha and sannyāsī, it was not

ISKCON should not be misunderstood as a sectarian religious institution, he informed the chief secretary Kṛṣṇa’s instructions in Bhagavad-gītā, beginning with “We are not the body,” were scientific and thus did not belong to any particular religion.

One leader argued that the temple should not have to carry the burden of maintaining women with children

Channa means covered, not directly. Because He has appeared as a devotee.”

Certainly he did not encourage disobeying the regulative principles, he said, but the real business was “And the sannyāsīs’ preaching should not be checked.

views among the disciples, and they wanted Prabhupāda to make it very clear, so that one party could not

gṛhastha and sannyāsa life, saying that all the devotees should become attached to Kṛṣṇa’s family, not Sannyāsa life meant rejection of the false family, but not the family of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

It is not an artificial show. It is not a material thing.

Śrīla Prabhupāda replied that he was trying his best, but that the task was not mechanical; great concentration He could not write while at the same time being besieged by dozens of threatening, complicated issues

This means that everyone is not on the equal platform. There are different platforms.

And he added, “All of our students will have to become guru, but they are not qualified.”

Otherwise marriage is not required. It is simply burdensome.

A few of them felt that gṛhasthas should not even live in the temples.