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Hare Krishna news tabloid the Sampradaya Sun has recently come out with a series of exposes on the shocking life of ISKCON guru Hridayananda das Goswami aka Dr. Howard J. Resnick (links below). According to the Sun’s reporters, the swami is wearing ordinary “karmi clothes” sometimes, and is not even wearing the sacred string around his shoulder or his wooden neck beads at times as well!
As inconsequential as this may sound to a normal person, to the Hare Krishnas at the Sampradaya Sun it is nothing less than a sign of the apocalypse. Unless you wear traditional Hindu Indian attire all of the time — you are clearly spiritually devolved, and even more clearly — you shouldn’t be accepted as any kind of authority on Hare Krishna. That makes perfect sense. After all “the clothes make the man,” and everyone should “judge a book by it’s cover.” These are spiritual principles advocated by the founder-acharya of ISKCON, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In the following talk from July 1975, His Divine Grace reiterates his Divine Principles on the importance of external appearances. Read the rest of this entry
