We are not following Ritvik System. We are following Prabhupadacharya System

The ISKCON temples that follow the system of unauthorized self-proclaimed gurus are finding it difficult to manage the institution when such gurus try to have control over the management affairs. When one tries to short-circuit the process given by Srila Prabhupada, invariably the system will eject him. That is what is happening now.

If there is a problem in the institution, immediately the GBC will meet together and conclude that the guru puja is the root problem and pass a resolution to stop the guru pujas being performed in the temple.

Suppose a devotee serving in the temple wants a change of service and the temple president rejects his demand. If this devotee is an important disciple of his guru, the guru will call the president and compel him to change the service of the devotee. Or the disciple will go out and make a propaganda that the temple president does not respect their guru. Then there is whole politics. All of the devotees gang up against the temple president.

So, GBC passes a resolution that gurus have no authority to instruct their disciples regarding their service. They end up passing this kind of resolutions to eject the gurus. Thus the gurus are unwillingly following the ritvik system. They have no authority. They are forced to do it.

Either the institution system should be there or guru system should be there. When Prabhupada was there, both were one.

Srila Prabhupada has blessed us and we are very fortunate that we have a wonderful, open, freely followed Prabhupadacharya system.

In fact we shouldn’t even call this a ritvik system. We have to call it the Prabhupada-acharya system. We are from the Acharya sampradaya just like Madhvacharya and Ramanujacharya sampradayas. We are following Prabhupadacharya system.