"Prabhupada was afraid that his God-brothers would take advantage of his success. Therefore from the very beginning he told us, "Don't be disrespectful to my God-brothers. Don't make offenses by being disrespectful. But keep your distance." We have a saying in English, "Good fences make good neighbors." We should not be disrespectful, especially to senior members of the Gaudiya Math, but we should not associate with them intimately, which means to live with them, to hear from them, to take their instructions. We're not supposed to associate intimately.Someone may doubt that Prabhupada actually said that. But I'll tell you a little story wherein I know Prabhupada said that. One time, during Maypura festival, the sannyasis took us out on a parikrama We went through different places of Lord Caitanya's pastimes, and on the way back the leading sannyasi, Acyutänanda, and other leading sannyäsé,
they took us to the Gauòéya Maöh temple of Çrédhära Swami. Çrédhära Swami was there, and he and different devotees at the Gaudiya Math received us nicely. And then he spoke to all of us. And in his talk he very subtly criticized Srila Prabhupäda. That, "He went to the Western countries, but any of us," he speaking about Gaudiya Math, "they could have also gone to the Western countries and have done so. You should respect all members of Gaudiya Math, not just Srila Prabhupäda."
Sridhar Maharaja is one of the most important sannyäsés in Gauòéya Maöh. He now passed away, but he's a very important member of Gauòéya Maöh. And I have no doubt he went back to Godhead. But there was a little jealousy there. So, when we came back to our temple, Mäyäpura temple, Mäyäpura Candrodäya Mandira Prabhupäda heard that we went there, and he was furious. He was so angry that we visited the Gauòéya Maöh temple. And he called the devotees who were on the parikramä into his room. And he chastised the sannyasis in front of them. "I have told you many times, you must respect my Godbrothers but you're not to associate intimately with them." So anyone who says to me, "Where's this statement coming that Prabhupäda said we should not associate with Gauòéya Maöh?", I reply that it was part of the darçana that Prabhupäda gave."
From Attack on ISKCON- A class delivered by H.H.Indradyumna Swami, Moscow, Russia, November 27th 1998
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