Testimony of a devotee with 5 decades of extensive experience at ISKCON Knowing History can prevent making the same mistakes "The American devotees I met in leadership positions did not have religious formation or the most remote idea of what spiritual life was. Their mentality was adventurous, of merchants. They entered the Movement as one who enters a commercial enterprise. Spirituality did not run, nor ran through its veins. During my morning walk today singing japa, I reminded myself of a hit of endless situations lived that, if I could gather enough energy and patience, would serve to reveal the nature of the individuals who ruled us (which we Europeans idolise), and understand the dramatic effect suffered in the whole institution, that so many repercussions continue having. I don't know if