Syama Krsna Dasa

Prabhupāda had old british-indian conceptions of gender, so that's that. But he got thousands to leave drugs for good, introduced a philosophy that (in its purest form) can actually hold up to scrutiny, and spent his whole life doing whatever he could to allievate global suffering.

Those comments exist, and I do not justify them. But one has to look at the effort. If you were born then, you would also have such conceptions. A guru, in nara-lila, also takes on the position of a human. He spent his whole life trying his best to be sincere, and he really was sincere. That is what matters. The 0.0001% of colonial-minded conceptions do not matter. Moreover, Prabhupāda is a special case because he belongs to the Sarasvata Parivara (or sarasvata-gaudiya splinter-sect, which has now for the most part been taken over by bickering idiots, criminals, usurpers, etc since 1977; and had historically also deviated very much), but he preached so much that it is impossible to ignore and not respect even for the people who were blanket-labelled apasampradayic by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and whose (original) gaudiya paramparas are now eclipsted & fading away in the face of the now-corrupt ISKCON, Gaudiya Matha, etc.

(P.S. I am neither an ISKCONite nor a Rtvik-ist. But you cannot disregard the efforts and successes and character of a man because of a few comments. By that logic, we are all demons because we are not beyond human nature either.)

Hare Krsna.

​@rgrd108ISKCON has deviated from Srila Prabhupada's orders...