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We have to be very organized It had been almost nine months since controversy had split ISKCON's ranks. Siddha Svarupa Goswami now lived in Hawaii with his own break-away group of devotees that included some from Australia and New Zealand. He preached to them, and to newcomers, that it was best not to live in the temple. He did not advocate that one follow the rules and regulations strictly, nor did he conduct any organised preaching activity -- only casual chanting of Hare Krsna. And he continued to take exception to "heavy" book distribution tactics. Prabhupada tolerated Siddha Svarupa's activities and his splinter group, even though it was often his own ISKCON they were criticising. He wanted to encourage anyone who was chanting Hare Krsna or desiring to be his follower. If they chanted Hare Krsna, he said, they would gradually be purified. On his trip to Hawaii five months before, Srila Prabhupada had graphically encountered this divergent philosophy. In a morning class, a young long-haired boy had asked Srila Prabhupada: "Why do some people insist that spiritual life has to be something organised, like organised religion? Isn't the absolute spiritual nature different from that, different from following rules and running an organisation? Do you have to be so organised?" "Yes!" Prabhupada had answered loud and strong. "We have to be very organised! Very strict! We cannot deviate an inch!" Prabhupada could see through the controversy, and his answer was clear. "We have a mission to cultivate all over the world," he said. "We have to print and distribute books and open centres and train devotees, and we cannot do that unless we are very organised and efficient. If we are to conduct a mission to save the fallen souls, which is the desire of Lord Caitanya and the previous acaryas, then we have to organise the sankirtana movement very nicely. And we have to be strict devotees." A number of devotees of similar philosophical bent to the young boys and girls in Hawaii now lived outside the temple in Melbourne. They conducted their Krsna consciousness separately to the daily temple program, but had come to the temple to see Srila Prabhupada. Only the previous day after Srimad-Bhagavatam class, a young devotee who lived outside asked Srila Prabhupada: "If Krsna is everywhere, why do we stress the importance of living a very strict life in the temple?" Prabhupada explained that we didn't have the eyes to see Krsna everywhere. Therefore, we must give attention to the temple. "When you have got the eyes to see Krsna everywhere," he said gravely, "then you may not require temple worship. But why do you try to imitate that? You have no eyes to see that." - From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu

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