The Final Order
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[edit] Introduction - The Final Order
The Final Order is paper describing Srila Prabhupada's instructions for initiation within ISKCON.
This paper caused a lot of stir within ISKCON as it brought a lot of hidden truths into public. A key extract from the paper is below:
On July 9th 1977, four months before his physical departure, Srila Prabhupada set up a system of initiations employing the use of ritviks, or representatives of the acarya. Srila Prabhupada instructed that this 'officiating acarya' system was to be instituted immediately, and run from that time onwards, or 'henceforward' - (please see Appendices). This management directive, which was sent to all Governing Body Commissioners and Temple Presidents of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, instructed that from that time on new disciples would be given spiritual names and have their beads and gayatri mantras from the 11 named representatives. The representatives were to act on Srila Prabhupada's behalf, new initiates all becoming disciples of Srila Prabhupada.. Srila Prabhupada thus handed over to the representatives total power of attorney over who could receive initiation, he made it clear that from that time onwards he was no longer to be consulted.
Immediately after Srila Prabhupada's physical departure, on November 14th 1977, the GBC suspended this system. By Gaura Purnima 1978, the 11 representatives had assumed the roles of zonal acarya diksa gurus, initiating disciples on their own behalf. Their mandate for doing so was an alleged order from Srila Prabhupada that they alone were to succeed him as initiating acaryas. Some years later this zonal acarya system was itself challenged and replaced, not by the restoration of the original system, but by the addition of dozens more gurus, along with an elaborate system of checks and balances to deal with those that deviated. The rationale for this change being that the order to become guru was not, as we had first been told, only applicable to the 11, but was a general instruction for anyone who strictly followed, and received a two-thirds majority vote from the GBC body.
[edit] ISKCON Revival Movement
[edit] IRM Mission Statement
Since the physical departure of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada from our material vision on November 14th 1977, the International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, or Hare Krishna movement), the great movement which he single-handedly founded in 1966, and which is the only hope for humanity, has undergone a massive deterioration in its spiritual purity. This has been due to various deviations from the instructions and standards given by Srila Prabhupada, the chief of which being his displacement as the sole diksa (initiating) Guru for ISKCON. The ISKCON Revival Movement (IRM) seeks to restore ISKCON to its former glory, purity and philosophical chastity through the reinstitution of all the instructions and standards that Srila Prabhupada gave, beginning with his role as the sole authority and diksa Guru for ISKCON.
[edit] IRM Formation
ISKON Revival Movement was formed by a group of devotees from all over the world mainly from ISKCON Kolkatta, ISKCON Bangalore and ISKCON Singapore to put ISKCON back on track, in line with the directives of the Founder Acarya, Srila Prabhupada.
The IRM intends not to create a new movement but to re-establish the original ISKCON that Srila Prabhupada had left us. IRM intends to dissolve itself once its goals are met.
