ISKCON Revival Movement
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness Revival Movement (or ISKCON Revival Movement, IRM) is a Gaudiya Vaishnavite body of devotees formed in 2000 as a pressure group to reform ISKCON with the goal to re-establish the original Hare Krishna movement.[1]
 ISKCON Temple Bangalore, India | |
| Abbreviation | IRM |
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| Predecessor | International Society for Krishna Consciousness |
| Formation | 2000 |
| Type | religious movement |
| Purpose | restoring the original Hare Krishna movement |
| Headquarters | Bushey, United Kingdom |
Area served | worldwide |
| Affiliations | Gaudiya Vaishnavism |
| Website | iskconirm |
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IRM's Krishnaite teachings and practices towards Krishna as the Svayam Bhagavan are similar to ISKCON except for the view on guru–shishya tradition. The founder-acharya of ISKCON, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's will in his dying philosophical treatise called The Final Order (July 9, 1977) for 11 senior spiritual managers of Society, as per IRM, to act as "ritviks" (Sanskrit: ऋत्विक्: "officiating priests"), not as diksha-guru, and initiate new followers under his inspiration. In this way, the guru of new devotees will be solely Prabhupada, not any successor.[2][3] However, these leaders, after he disappeared, ignored the directive, divided the world into 11 zones, become the guru and had begun to initiate disciples themselves[4][2] In accordance with IRM, ISKCON guru system is unauthorized innovation.[2]
The IRM has grown with members (both current and former ISKCON members) and temples on every continent.[2] So, the largest ISKCON Temple Bangalore, India, remained under IRM's control.[2] The movement publishes a magazine, Back to Prabhupada, and webnews.[2]
Footnotes
- Jones & Ryan 2007, pp. 199–200.
- Jones & Ryan 2007, p. 200.
- Krishakant 2001.
- Rochford 2007, p. 14.
Sources
- Secondary sources
- Jones, Constance A.; Ryan, James D. (2007). "International Society for Krishna Consciousness Revival Movement (IRM)". Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Encyclopedia of World Religions. J. Gordon Melton, Series Editor. New York: Facts On File. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0-8160-5458-9. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07.
- Rochford, E. Burke (2007). Hare Krishna Transformed. The New and Alternative Religions Series. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 0814775799.
- Primary sources
- Krishakant, Desai (2001) [1996]. The Final Order. Foreword by Dr. Kim Knott. Bangalore: ISKCON.