Having read the "personal perspectives" of the admitted "personal servant of Radhanath in both the US and in India", we are again motivated to write for the purpose of clarification on some of the issues Garuda's laudations of Radhanath raise.

While telling us that Radhanath is not his diksa guru, Garuda prabhu Fails to inform us exactly who that fortunate individual is. His acceptance of Radhanath as "siksa guru", while significantly less committal from the disciple's side of the relationship, goes to the very issue: "who is a bonafide spiritual master in this age?"

Many of the second generation are gun-shy from experiences that were matched in recent memory only by the likes of Kamsa's persecutions during KRSNA-lila or those of the Muslim occupiers during Caitanya-lila. They have chosen to walk a path of "careful consideration" rather than "overt fanatacism" (known as the ki-jaya bliss boy syndrome to most kulis). And this discrimination is to be wholeheartedly encouraged.

Careful selection of mentors is the crux of the issue here. We unfortunates who had not yet taken diksa from Srila Prabhupada prior to His Temporal Passing were misled, throughout ISKCON, from the very next set of initiations (which were held at New Vrindaban Community, Christmas 1977), as to how succession should proceed after Srila Prabhupada's passing.

A careful consideration of the document known as "the July Ninth Letter" is required to be able to correctly account for any individual's claim to "succession" from AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, as some of His less thoughtful disciples now claim that they do. Nowhere in Srila Prabhupada's final instructions on the matter of succession in His Absence is anyone other than Srila Prabhupada Himself mentioned as the Guru of any future disciples that were brought into KRSNA consciousness (if, in fact, they were "brought into KRSNA consciousness"). Many have been shown the honey bottle, but the "nectar" often has financial or political underpinnings. Some of Radhanath's "underpinnings" are shown here in these personal recantations.

Some other recent postings by New Vrindaban's spiritual "Uncle Tom", also glorifying Radhanath's exploits, may be having the opposite kind of effect. Like Joe Biden's recent politically incorrect gaffe about Barak Obama, "he's clean! AND he's articulate!", Srila Jiva Goswami dasa may have gotten a little too much exposure lately, after his recent posting by New Vrindaban operatives was recalled from the Internet for possibly posing Radhanath in "less than glowing" terms.

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