Dear Gurudeva, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

In addition to bhakta Nicasio's question about Hridayananda das Goswami's Krishna West idea, in this link maharaja explains it. If you already have this information, kindly discard this message.

http://www.acharyadeva.com/about/krishna-west-1/krishna-west/item/127-krishna-west-qa

Your insignificant servant,
Raghava Pandita dasa

HpS - Jaya!  AGTSP  paoho.  Very interesting topics. Little long for us to read everything. I've heard a lot of the points from Maharaja before. He is my older godbrother. I respect him very much. I like his style very much. Some points we approach things very differently. I like to go in as Hanumatpresaka Swami (Professor Huber Hutchin Robinson). He likes to go in as Professor Harold Resnick (?) (Hrdayananda Goswami), but after discussing it he said that it is just two different ways of approach.

Become good at what you do.

During all these controversies of dress etc. when Maharaja visited South America I notced in a purport that Srila Prabhupada said, "Vedic culture, Varna-ashrama-dharma". Is a simple way to look at it.

In general Prabhupada was and I THINK still would be strongly inclined to Sannyasi dressing in the typical manner of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and all his Sannyasa disciples and the way that Srila Prabhupada requiered of all his disciples.

This is the Formality of the Sannyasa life. The Sannyasi is supposed to set a formal example of renunciation, formality. Seems like an oxymoron, but that is the job. A married lady is supposed to have a ring on a certain finger.

If Maharaja is acting like a Paramahamsa, which is O.K., then dressing in informal fashion seems fine. But then our suggestion was that he should not do the formal work of a diksa guru anymore. Let some disciples do it. Diksa guru should set a formal example that his neofyte disciples can see and imitate.

Hmmmf!  Our simple ideas.

Without Hrdayananda Goswami ISKCON would be a lot less interesting.