1) stage is a man wants to be a protagonist of religion,
2) is that the man neglects religiosity and tries to improve his economicdevelopment,
3) is to be a protagonist of sense enjoyment; and when a man isfrustrated in all the above mentioned stages he comes to
4) which is impersonalism, and thinks himself one with the Supreme. This last attack isvery serious and fatal. Kirtanananda has very recently developed the 4th stagemalady on account of his negligence and disobedience to his spiritual master.
Sometimes a foolish patient when he is out of feverish attack by grace ofthe physician, thinks that he is cured and does not take precaution againstrelapse. Kirtanananda’s position is like that. Because he helped the Society instarting the Montreal center I thought he is now able to start other branchesand when he asked me to give him sannyasa I agreed to taking the opportunityof his presence in Vrndavana. Simply by his sannyasa dress he thought himselfcured of all material diseases and all mistakes but under the influence of maya,he deliberately disobeyed me by not going to London and consequently hisdisease has relapsed. Now in New York he has begun to dictate nonsense in my name—such as giving up robes, flags, etc. Instead of opening new centers hehas begun to deliver his nonsense sermons amongst his Godbrothers which areall against our principles. For the present he should simply chant Hare Krsnaand cease to deliver lectures because he has not understood the wholephilosophy very nicely.
(SPL to Pradyumna, 17th October, 1967)