Comments on: Rotting for Want of It http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/2008/11/20/rotting-for-want-of-it/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:40:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: eric http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/2008/11/20/rotting-for-want-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6958 eric Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:27:46 +0000 http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/?p=2566#comment-6958 Again, I'm glad that you both are doing well in that area. Different places throughout ISKCON are obviously going to be different. But ISKCON, as an organization... I just don't see it heading in the right direction. Maybe I'm wrong. Actually, I really do hope I'm wrong. I don't expect my comment to apply to all of ISKCON. Hell, I hope it *doesn't* apply to all of ISKCON. Again, I’m glad that you both are doing well in that area. Different places throughout ISKCON are obviously going to be different. But ISKCON, as an organization… I just don’t see it heading in the right direction. Maybe I’m wrong. Actually, I really do hope I’m wrong.

I don’t expect my comment to apply to all of ISKCON. Hell, I hope it *doesn’t* apply to all of ISKCON.

]]> By: Vidyapati das http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/2008/11/20/rotting-for-want-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6954 Vidyapati das Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:05:06 +0000 http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/?p=2566#comment-6954 I have to agree with urukrama. I personally DO find that I am in a community of caring and advanced devotees who are providing adequate spiritual guidance. But I am completely aware that ISKCON is made up of community with varying strength, and some communities within the wider ISKCON community may be lacking in that particular area. Another thing I have also seen is that sometimes adequate spiritual guidance IS available, but not taken advantage of by all the devotees in the specific community. The Global ISKCON is kaleidoscope of sorts. I don't think you can really make a comment like this and expect it to apply to all ISKCON centres in the world; though it may be 100% accurate in some areas, in others it is so far from the truth. I have to agree with urukrama.

I personally DO find that I am in a community of caring and advanced devotees who are providing adequate spiritual guidance. But I am completely aware that ISKCON is made up of community with varying strength, and some communities within the wider ISKCON community may be lacking in that particular area.

Another thing I have also seen is that sometimes adequate spiritual guidance IS available, but not taken advantage of by all the devotees in the specific community.

The Global ISKCON is kaleidoscope of sorts. I don’t think you can really make a comment like this and expect it to apply to all ISKCON centres in the world; though it may be 100% accurate in some areas, in others it is so far from the truth.

]]> By: eric http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/2008/11/20/rotting-for-want-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6900 eric Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:17:37 +0000 http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/?p=2566#comment-6900 Then I'm quite envious. Then I’m quite envious.

]]> By: urukrama http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/2008/11/20/rotting-for-want-of-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6871 urukrama Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:26 +0000 http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/?p=2566#comment-6871 I'm not at all rotting for want of spiritual guidance. I receive plenty of it from all the senior Vaisnavas around me. I’m not at all rotting for want of spiritual guidance. I receive plenty of it from all the senior Vaisnavas around me.

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