According to the GBC in a “Statement” on February 28, 2011 Re: the case of Umapati Dasa, “ISKCON will not recognize initiations given by Umapati Dasa after February 2010. Devotees initiated prior to this date are accepted as duly initiated… members of ISKCON.” So if an Iskcon guru is in a position of being completely removed from the post of guru, the GBC now considers that the initiations that he gave while in good standing are empowered by the GBC to make one a “duly initiated members of ISKCON.” If this is not a form of Rtvik then I don’t know what is?
During Srila Prabhupada’s manifest lila a “member of Iskcon” was someone who...
