This can be entirely traced to the fact that false gurus have taken over the movement posing as successors and spiritual leaders, although not qualified in the least. Religious propagandists in the garb of devotees, fakes and unqualified students rushed in to imitate their master, women-hater, homosexuals and paedophiles posing as spiritual leaders. In order to properly understand where the movement went wrong, we therefore have to distinguish between the Founder and some of his over-ambitious disciples and secretaries who did not follow his orders and teachings. The false Iskcon gurus who succeeded Prabhupada theoretically accepted the premise that to find God, the false ego must be defeated. And yet with few exceptions they had huge materialistic egos themselves.
Religious scholars say that a crisis occurs when the spiritual leader of a religious movement dies.
The success or failure of the movement depends upon how pure the new successor-disciples spread the teachings of the founder, or if they deviate from it. Because of that, the Hare Krishna movement degenerated into a number of competing cult members that have known murder, the abuse of women and child molestation, drug dealing, and swindles that would impress a Mafia don. Iskcon leaders have heavily deviated after Prabhupada's death. They grabbed for power, money and disciples. They were the inner club, heirs apparent to the assets of Prabhupadas movement.