Why don't we have Varnasrama dharma in ISCKON where are the Ksatriyas???

This system really needs to be in Place for ISCKON and roles really need to be clarified. Right now Vaisyas and sudras still running things and you can tell the position of people buy what they are interested in and how they run and directed a community.

In Varnasrama society all members are equally important. An analogy comparing the social body to the human body is given to explain this. The brahmanas are the head of the body as they possess the intelligence and give directions to the other parts of the body.

The ksatriyas are likened to the arms of the body as their business as administrators and the military is to protect the social body from threats from outside (attacks from enemies) and disruption from within. (Thieves and rogues).

The social body should work as a coordinated unit with different members of the society acting in their respective positions as brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras according to their qualities. The result will be a happy, peaceful and efficient society.

Although all members of the social body are important, as the brahmanas are the intelligent class directing society by giving guidance and advice to the king or government (ksatriyas), it is vital that they be properly qualified.

I think now what is missing are ksatriyas people who follow the Brahmanas and have a no nonsense policy! Srila Prabhupada said this movement is to make first class people and that there is now As there are many Guru in ISKCON who are 1st class but now finding the Ksatriyas is key for growth and a no nonsense system!

YS Ryan Lowseck

Moving Brisbane ISKCON out of the 70's and into the 21'st century

Hare Krishna
Please accept my humble obeisance's all glories to Srila Prabhupada

We are now in the process of renovating Govinda's restaurant in Brisbane city, the theme the most awesome place to hang out for people to interact with Devotees. The inspiration Srila Prabhupada vision and that vision:
Everything first-class. No third-class thing for Krsna. All first-class. The gopis must be first class, the dress must be first-class, the eating foodstuff must be first-class, the sitting place must be first-class, more than first-class. That is called: sri vigraharadhana nitya nana srngara tan mandira marjanadau. Cleansing the temple as clean as glass, always. Everyone remarks this that our temples are very clean. Yes. Temple means must be very clean. The more you cleanse the temple, the more your heart becomes cleansed. This is the process. Prabhupada's Lectures Srimad-Bhagavatam 1973”.

Now in Brisbane Bhakti Yoga is dying [If not dead already], just the shadows remain- the villains- Pride, ego, greed and self preservation. who's to blame all of us!!!

The souls long for love, Beauty, truth, honor, peacefulness the soul longs for all that is Krishna. But when new interested souls come into a run down restaurant, Temple they are scared off. So when the souls who are interested turn tail and run what are we left with, A money making business with cheap labour, We seem not to be interested in attracting customers for Krishna Bhakti, but we only attract customers of money. Since I have come to Bhakti I have seen all aspects of Devotion and all levels and even though money flows through for the past twenty years the Brisbane community of Bhakti Yoga is dying the buildings are falling apart, devotees are becoming dishearten morose and complacent. Everyone sees it and no says anything out of Vaishnav etiquette, politeness and respect. I only say these things out of sadness, I see and I feel sad that the best that the most enlighten humans in this universe has to offer are run down buildings. We have been given the highest knowledge but we have the most lowest facilities. And as expected this Renovation has both approval and disapproval, acceptance and anger with many obstacles.

Srila Prabhupada said we do not need these Facilities to chant Hare Krishna, we can chant Hare Krishna under a tree, These Facilities are to bring the lost Souls back to Krishna
So now finally after many many many years as stated by some very senior Devotees and approved by many the renovation that will change the publics view on this most precious path.

sarva-vaisnavera pa'ye kari namaskara
ithe aparadha kichu nahuka amara

"If I have committed any offense when dealing with so many subtle and exalted things about the great personalities, please, Nityananda Prabhu, absolve me of that offense and restore me to my normal position."
Your most Humble and sad servant
Ryan J Lowseck