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Krishna Consciousness is a non-sectarian combination of Indian relations. One follower called it "a study of Dharma, the Eternal Religion." The essential part of the study is chanting, through which, "it becomes revealed to you what the spiritual world...
...problem of world organization and unity. In fact I think the most important one as well as the most neglected and most needed. There is almost a conspiracy of silence on this phase of the problem--not deliberate, but certainly testifying to the immense strength of the sectarian evil you so ably discuss. Yours is almost a voice in the wilderness...
...Sectarianism is blindly propagandic. A sect has been defined as a group with closed minds who propagate what it already "knows" is the truth. Sectarians who mistake gullibility for faith are prisoners within the shell of their own sectarian tradition--no matter how fine or how foul the shell...
Brain washing, begun as early as possible and continued throughout life, is the sectarian process. Prospective clerics are brain-washed for years...
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact...