Plain Vanilla About RtVik is a collection of short articles by senior devotees that explain in the most simple and easy way, why the RtVik concept of initiation is such an embarrassing charade. It is included here for those who are genuinely interested in understanding why nobody who is well educated in what Srila Prabhupada taught accepts this destructive alternative to what Lord Krishna himself gave in Bhagavad Gita 4.1-2.