ASTROLOGY AND POISONING of Srila Prabhupada

THE TRUE HOROSCOPE OF SRILA PRABHUPADA

USA (VNN) - by Dharmapada Dasa (01/13/98 - Story 1496)

I read a Chakra article that Shrila Prabhupada's horoscope does not indicate death by poisoning, such that the case is solved- that is a tidy solution. Personally, I’m not getting involved in that one right now because it isn’t my purpose. I don’t want anyone to think that I’m manipulating charts with an ulterior purpose in mind. I’ll assume, no doubt, the writer's intention was good; but the chart itself was wrong, and that's the issue which I would like to address at the moment because it is an issue worth considering in and of itself; a contention exists about which chart is actually the true horoscope of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Prabhupada.

The chart on the Chakra website has been championed by a respected astrologer in ISKCON who received training in India. The ascendent of that chart is Capricorn. The ascendent of the other chart is Sagittarius. That the Sagittarius one is actually the chart of Shrila Prabhupada was first brought to my attention by Nalini Kantha dasa, another well-known ISKCON astrologer. (By the way my name is Dharmapada Dasa: dean@uninet.com.br)

Some background will be necessary to sort things out. First, it seems that at some point Shrila Prabhupada identified with Capricorn chart. This seems to mean that Shrila Prabhupada was given his calculated chart and told he was Capricorn ascendent and that he basically accepted that. What else can anybody really infer? We have never heard of any discussion between Shrila Prabhupada and Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta, a great astrologer, about our Prabhupada’s horoscope. We know nothing of any possibility that Bhaktisiddhanta examined Srila Prabhupada's chart; no help there.

If someone brought the contention to his attention, and was able to present the case for the Sagittarius chart, His Divine Grace might have changed his mind. It’s not as if Shrila Prabhupada affirmed for all time that his ascendent was Capricorn and that that was his divine instruction.

The reason for the contention is very simple; if Shrila Prabhupada’s reported birth time was off by as little as 5 minutes or so, then the ascendent would change from Capricorn to Sagittarius. They are not entirely different charts which have nothing to do with each other, although they are entirely different. I’m saying that the planetary positions and everything are the same, the only difference being that if we go back just five minutes; a few, small, quick minutes, the ascendent changes and the whole chart gets plotted differently. The ascendent would be either 29 degrees Sagittarius or one of the first few degrees of Capricorn, the cut-off point being 30 degrees. The two charts only one degree away from each other, determined by mere minutes.

And who was it that reported the time? Probably Shrila Prabhupada’s parents. Were they so efficient that they documented events down to the minute and second? Did the clocks in India keep good time? Remember: a few minutes and the chart changes. It is not improbable that Shrila Prabhupada’s birth time contains some rounding error: it is likely, meaning the true ascendent is probably up for grabs until otherwise determined.

When I’m faced with a rising sign on the first or last degree of a sign is, first of all I ask the native of the chart what the source of the birth time is. Then I probe by asking about indications which could only be true in one chart or the other. For example, let’s say that one chart supports the existence of younger brothers, while the other does not. It is more accurate to start with the chart, interrogate, go backwards and adjust the birth time rather than to take a borderline birth time for granted. The term for this is chart rectification. All practiced astrologers understand this problem.

We have to find out which facts from Prabhupada’s life correspond to one chart and not the other. Often a phenomenon might seem justifiable from both charts, as is the situation in this case. I could argue for the existence of children and pharmaceutical business from both charts. But there are two blatant things about Shrila Prabhupada’s life which can only be explained by the Sagittarius chart: His authorship and the 1970's success of his movement.

First of all, when we examine any affair, there are two basic elements of a chart which we must consider. On one hand, we look at the house which stands for the thing in question, its occupants, any aspects which it might receive and the position of its lord. On the other hand, we examine the karaka or natural significator. I will give a few examples of karakas to show the reason what I mean. The moon is the karaka of one’s mother, the sun is the karaka of one’s father, also of the king, Mars is the karaka of brothers and Venus is the karaka of one’s love life. So just as any issue has a house which represents it, there is a corresponding planetary indicator which naturally represents it, too. With this in mind, let’s examine the authorship issue from Shrila Prabhupada’s charts two supposed charts.

The karaka in the Capricorn chart is Mercury. The Vedic astrological literature unequivocally indicates Mercury as the indicator of writing, authorship and books. In this chart, Mercury occupies its sign of exaltation, Virgo, in a benefic and pious house, the ninth. It forms raj yoga there with Venus, raj yoga being a tremendous combination for power and influence. So at first glance, the Capricorn chart supports the type of religious authorship that Shrila Prabhupada enjoyed.

But the lord (Jupiter) of the house of authorship (the third) occupies the eighth house. The eighth is the most evil house in any horoscope. The affairs represented by any planet or lord who falls there are said to disintegrate and the strength of such a planet is described by adjectives such as “ feeble.” In spite of the strength of the karaka Mercury, and the fact that Mercury aspects or throws its influence on the house of authors, the absolute weakness of the lord of the house does not support the idea of a world-famous author who wrote and organized the distribution of many millions of books.

The nature of any religious writings indicated by Jupiter in the evil 8th house afflicted by the Rahu - Ketu axis would not be of the nature of the pure Krishna bhakti of which Shrila Prabhupada wrote. The Rahu-Ketu combination together with Jupiter goes by the name of Guru-Chandala yoga, indicative of dharmas of lesser understanding. When this combination is prominent in a horoscope, the traditional texts indicate that the person takes up Islam or Christianity, religions of the meat-eaters. I have seen this combination indicate comprehension troubles in the charts of many regular devotees, without carrying the added affliction of occurring in the evil 8th, as in the case of the Capricorn chart. In other words, the evil can be corrected if the combination receives other benefic influences, such as good association or aspects. But this combination doesn’t cut the mustard because Jupiter is himself afflicted by being there and is the lord of bad houses. So this afflicted third-lord Jupiter with the Rahu-Ketu axis, in an evil house is not indicative of Shrila Prabhupada’s pure writings. The degenerate influence of Rahu and Ketu over Jupiter have gone off the deep end by being in the 8th house.

On the other hand, the Sagittarius chart has four resounding indications which suggest great literary success, with no blemishes. They are:

1. Again, the natural indicator Mercury occupies his sign of exaltation- that wouldn’t change over a few minutes! Mercury occupies the house of occupation and career, which is certainly a natural place for it to be in Prabhupada’s chart, for obvious reasons.

2. Rahu occupies the house of authorship. Rahu gives very good results from that house, no question about it.

3. Jupiter and the Sun aspect the house of authors from the ninth house, a very pious and benefic house, wherefrom they form a great raj yoga. This greatly strengthens the house.

4. Finally, the lord of the house of authors occupies his sign of exaltation; I am referring to Saturn in the eleventh. Not only is Libra the best sign for this planet, but the eleventh is the best house!

Now these are the kind of indications which would (and did) make an author a multimillion-dollar seller. These combinations are not seen often.

The other issue has to do with the fact that the heyday of the Hare Krishna movement took place during the major planetary period of Ketu. The idea is that during the period of a planet, the indications promised by it in the chart become activated. The Ketu period started in May of 1971. Previous to that, the major period corresponded to Mercury, the minor period belonging to Saturn from August of ‘68 until May of ‘71.

In the Capricorn chart, does Ketu in the evil 8th house with the Rahu- Ketu axis indicate any great spirituality? We have already responded to that question, the answer is no. Does Ketu in the 8th even suggest any type of strong success? Especially next to such a weak Jupiter, the answer according to general astrological principles is also no. In the Sagittarius chart, however, any natural evil of the Rahu - Ketu axis would be overshadowed by dint of the fact that Ketu sits in the pious house of religion, by the fact that Ketu is with a strong Jupiter, who is the karaka of religion and spiritual understanding (Jupiter is Brihaspati ), and by being with the lord of the house of religion, the satvic Sun.

Ketu would not only reflect the piety of this 9th house situation of the Sagittarius chart, but also reflect and intensify the force and power of that combination, and give success in his period. It is the nature of both Rahu and Ketu to reflect the results of the planet in whose sign they are placed. They are largely chameleons in this way. They soak up and intensify the indications around them. In predictive astrology also, Rahu and Ketu act like their associated planets and reflect the qualities of the house they are in. It is only natural in the Sagittarius chart for Ketu to reflect and intensify the great success and piety of the raj yoga (Jupiter, Sun combination) of which he is a part. Ketu’s inherent materialism is not reinforced as in the Capricorn chart, with Ketu in an evil house next to an afflicted and weak Jupiter.

Ketu's intensifying nature accounts for the results which were not given in the major Jupiter period by itself, which took place in the 1920s, when Shrila Prabhupada didn’t have such success. So, Ketu was able to synthesize and intensify the combined effects of Jupiter and the Sun in a synergistic way. This is typical of the nature of Rahu and Ketu; we are used to seeing planets manifest their results through Rahu and Ketu. In the Capricorn chart, however, everything requires a bit of stretching. A much more tenable and natural interpretation results from the Sagittarius chart.

In this way I hope that the answer to the question about which chart is the real chart of Shrila Prabhupada has become revealed. As far as the controversy between the two different charts is concerned, one group has overlooked a few things. But just because some astrologer makes a mistake, has an opinion which is off-kilter, or has a prediction that has gone wrong, is not cause to pass judgement over him or reject him. B.V. Raman is India’s most well-known astrologer of this century; his achievements are fantastic. It was he who carried the message of Hindu astrology to the West in the English language, who wrote a whole set of books on practically every facet of Vedic astrology and who carried his astrological journal to national heights. Even so, he has made a few mistakes, and holds an opinion or two for which history may not be kind to him, and he has detractors. Every astrologer has a prediction go wrong or a skeleton in his closet. Let’s not hastily judge any astrologer who favors the Capricorn chart. Your Servant, Dharmapada das

AUTHOR'S COMMENT: The Sagittarius chart thus can be seen as the better match for Srila Prabhupada's astrological position. Other astrologers, including Asutosh Oja, who plotted Srila Prabhupada's chart in 1977, have clearly observed that Srila Prabhupada's chart indicated trouble or insubordination from juniors and supports a case of poisoning. However, astrology cannot prove or disprove that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned.

It proves that Srila Prabhupada had been poisoned; points in comparing Napoleon's and Srila Prabhupada's cases are:

*Napoleon's walks became fewer and shorter, then ceased, as did his carriage rides. So it was also with Srila Prabhupada's walks and car rides.

*Napoleon's swelling in the extremities came and went with the timing of the individual poisonings. Srila Prabhupada's swelling also came and went often.

*Antommarchi, Napoleon's doctor, noted lung damage, suspected tuberculosis -so also, Dr. Gopal suspected tuberculosis with Srila Prabhupada.

*Both Napoleon's and Prabhupada's subacute symptoms lasted up to a week.

*On Dec. 3, 1816, Bertrand noted Napoleon's skin had become yellow, suggesting that his liver was affected. Bhavananda noted the same and suggested the same with Srila Prabhupada on May 25, 1977.

*On Dec. 14, 1816, Napoleon's severe illness caused muscular spasms and a brief fainting. The same occurred with Srila Prabhupada on Sept. 8, 1977.

*The entire Napoleon poisoning description is remarkably similar to the case of Srila Prabhupada: one sees innumerable parallels and similarilities.

A total of seven different hair specimens were collected from various owners and countries, all authenticated as that of Napoleon between 1805 and 1821. The report on the hair from the day after Napoleon's death on May 5, 1821, was given above, with its reading of 10.38 ppm arsenic. A hair specimen collected from the head of Napoleon in 1805 revealed 10.53 ppm of arsenic. It is stated by Forshufvud, "This high arsenic content - about 20 times more than the normal value - suggests that the poisoning of Napoleon had already begun in 1805." Another hair specimen from Napoleon was subjected to 120 neutron activation analyses and revealed 40 separate occasions of arsenic poisoning between the summer of 1820 and April 1821. The values of arsenic content swayed from 2.8 ppm to a high of 51.2 ppm.

A hair specimen was given by Napoleon to someone as a keepsake on March 16, 1818, while he was in exile at St. Helena. Sectional analyses revealed arsenic levels from 6.7 ppm to 26 ppm over a three month period. Another hair sample from 1816-1817 was analyzed to have between 1.75 ppm to 4.94 ppm or arsenic, a time when Napoleon's health was not as drastically bad as it became in the coming years up to 1821.

Napoleon was poisoned in the classical 19th century manner, with a gradual, inconspicuous arsenic poisoning to deteriorate the health, ending with a final, lethal dose of mercuric cyanide. Thus no one would be surprised by a gradual decline in health which naturally ends with death. Suspicion of foul play in a sudden death was avoided with the appearance of a lost battle with a long-term disease, even if it was undiagnosed. For example, over the last 100 years or so, numerous medical doctors and historians have attributed Napoleon's illness and death to over 30 different causes from gonorrhea to syphilis and from scurvy to hepatitis to cancer. The cause of Napoleon's death by murder was never seriously entertained until previously unavailable diaries containing accounts of symptoms and subsequent hair analyses proved it.

CHAPTER 35:

BLANCHE TAYLOR MOORE

This reporter explained to the local UPS driver one day about the investigation into Srila Prabhupada's poisoning by arsenic, and was told about a woman named Blanche Taylor Moore. She had been sentenced to death in 1990 for the capital murder of her boyfriend by acute arsenic poisoning. She was also charged with, but never tried for, the murder of her first husband in 1973, and for the attempted murder of her second husband in 1989. She is also suspected in the deaths of her father, mother-in-law, and possibly several others. All of the victims are thought to have been fed food laced with an arsenic formula ant poison found in a convenience store.

As coincidence would have it, the attorney representing Blanche Moore in her trial had later handled a speeding ticket for this reporter. Blanche had lived but twenty miles away in Burlington, NC, but was now on Death Row in a Raleigh prison. She continues to deny everything and is still appealing her conviction.

A book about her life story was written by Jim Schutze, called The Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore. In this chapter will be excerpted a few passages from the Schutze book to detail the symptoms of arsenic poisoning and also to illustrate how arsenic poisoning is still a method of committing murder even in the modern world. Actually, 45 known murders have been attributed to arsenic poisoning in the last 50 years in North Carolina alone. These passages also demonstrate how difficult it is to detect arsenic poisoning and how easy it can be to get away with it.

Blanche was pretty, well-liked, charming, and a church-going Christian and grandmother. She had raised two daughters diligently and successfully. She had no criminal record. She apparently loved all three men in her life. She worked hard and no one could believe that these evil deeds were her actions. The prosecution succeeded in obtaining her conviction because of overwhelming circumstantial evidence and because of her own adamant lies which contradicted numerous witnesses' testimony. Otherwise, no one had actually seen her poison anyone, although the 2 % arsenic ant killer was found in her home. It was a sweet syrup that was readily mixable in almost any food.

After 21 years of marriage, Blanche is believed to have poisoned her husband James Taylor over several months until he unsuspectingly received a massive anf final, lethal dose.

"...the arsenic boiled off the inner lining of his stomach and bowels. He sat up straight in bed, and a jet of vomit shot out of his mouth and splattered against the far wall. His bowels exploded in a volley of thin rice-water stools. He fell back flat on the bed, fully awake, eyes wide open, convulsing and totally unable to control himself.

But even as the toxin destroyed his muscles and nervous system, it already was sprinting even deeper into the physical and chemical structure that was his life. Moments after the vomiting began, his abdomen bulged and then drooped, horribly distending as the external tissues of the walled organs and the blood vessels turned to mush and all of his fluids began to leach into the open areas of his body cavity.

He was conscious and in his own mind for at least the first hour of his death process. He cried out, moaned, and screamed in agony. There were waves and explosions of pain as the basic synaptic chemistry of his nervous system began to pull apart. His body was flung about the bed and against the wall both by the pain and by the chaotic electrical storms taking place in his nerves and muscles. Then finally, as the oxygen-bearing cells in the blood began to collapse, he began to suffocate from within. His face turned a deep purple. His body went flacid as the muscle cells ceased to be able to convert sugar into energy. In the last hour of brain suffocation, the arsenic allowed him to escape into a universe of hallucinations. The ferocious grimace on his dead face told his sister Dot that his body had experienced wild pain to the very last instant.

'It must have been a heart attack,' Dot whispered.

But James' death had nothing to do with a heart attack. Rather, he'd been eaten alive, minutely and gradually, cell by cell, by arsenic. The secret of arsenic is that it loves life, races to life, embraces it, combines with it quickly and consumes it hungrily, converting it chemically, molecule by molecule, from life into death.

He had been extremely sick with flulike symptoms of sore throat and diarrhea for two weeks. He had seen the doctor several times..."

Schutze discusses the difficulty in which arsenic poisoning is recognized. "Those same symptoms could just as easily steer a doctor toward acute alcohol poisoning, Guillain-Barre syndrome, diabetes mellitus, vitamin deficiency, lupus, blood disease, diphtheria, multiple sclerosis, or any of a host of other common diseases, including tick bite. In fact, it is the ability of arsenic to duplicate the symptoms of other diseases that makes it so difficult to detect... common as arsenic may be and common as are incidents of arsenic poisoning, it remains one of the least accurately diagnosed of all afflictions. For some reason, the possibility of arsenic poisoning simply is not a thought that leaps easily to the minds of physicians."

Schutze explains that the individual symptoms of arsenic poisoning resemble those of many other diseases, but "all of these things together can mean almost nothing but... arsenic poisoning." In hospitals, each separate symptom is analyzed by a specialist, and the correct diagnosis for arsenic cases is rarely achieved until several visits. The difficulty is that arsenic "attacks life in so many ways and at such a fundamental biochemical level that each of its effects on the body perfectly mimics the effect of some other disease or problem."

Schutze lists some other North Carolina arsenic poisoning cases:

1.) Nannie Doss of Lexington, a grandmother who died in 1965 doing life in prison, had killed her husband of three months with massive doses of arsenic.

2.) Rebecca Case Detter of Kernersville was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her husband with arsenic-laced, household Terro ant killer.

3.) Sally M. Holloman of Smithfield was sentenced to life imprisonment for the arsenic murder of her husband. She had slowly poisoned him right up to the last few doses while he was in his hospital bed. Eleven years after his death she was found out and convicted.

4.) Susan Broadaway of Greensboro was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder of her husband. She had mixed arsenic in his coffee.

5.) Velma Barfield, or "Death Row Granny," died by lethal injection in North Carolina in 1984, the first woman executed in the USA in 22 years. An arsenic poisoner, she was invariably described as pleasant, kindly, and friendly, or so she appeared. Under the influence of prescription drugs such as Valium, Mrs. Barfield admitted to using ant poison in the deaths of her husband, her own mother, and three others. She had fed her husband oyster stew laced with arsenic, and he died a horrible tormented death of excruciating pain within hours. She sympathetically stood by and watched.

6.) Robert F. Coulthard married into a prominent High Point furniture family, but soon began an affair and took out a $351,000 life insurance policy on his wife. He spiced a fast-food hamburger with arsenic and his wife, mother of two children, died soon thereafter. She had been transferred to Duke University Medical Center, one of the best in the world, but none of the physicians were able to correctly diagnose her condition until it was too late. Coulthard fed his wife her final dose in her hospital bed.

In the coming descriptions of Blanche's victims and their symptoms, note the similarities to Srila Prabhupada's illness. Keep in mind that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned with low-level doses while Blanche's victims received much more acute poisonings. Thus the following symptoms are often much more dramatic than seen with Srila Prabhupada.

Blanche Taylor Moore had already developed a friendship with Raymond Reid before she killed James Taylor. She developed an intimate relationship with Raymond through a dozen years or more. Blanche filed a multi-million dollar sexual harassment suit against her long-time employers, Kroger Food Stores, and Raymond, assistant manager at the Kroger's in Burlington, was caught in the middle.

Apparently Blanche then decided to eliminate Raymond and began to feed him arsenic in her good home cooking. Raymond went to the local hospital several times but the doctors sent him home each time, thinking it was some stomach flu. When Raymond again checked in to the hospital, more tests and specialists came and went. Raymond had nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, extreme weakness, swelling, anemia and blood irregularities, heart irregularities, and failing kidneys. Then his kidneys stopped producing urine and he began coughing up large quantities of mucus. His intestinal tract was not working and he had a weak and raspy voice. He required a painful circumcision due to persistent inflammation and infection of the genital. This last manifestation resembles the incident of Srila Prabhupada's surgery in London, a case of hyperkeratosis complicated by infection.

Raymond Reid was transferred to Baptist Memorial Hospital where it was discovered that his urine was blocked by inflammation in the urethra. He grew worse, thick-tongued and restless. Blanche visited the hospital often during Raymond's ups and downs, bringing food for him whenever he could manage to eat something. Finally Raymond received one last fatal dose of arsenic in his favorite foods that Blanche made so well: banana pudding and peanut butter milk shakes. Of course, arsenic in milk delays the attack of illness a few hours or more, so suspicion of the food was never aroused. Raymond changed his will at the last moment to give one third of his assets to his beloved Blanche who faithfully came to care for him every day at the hospital. He died horribly, with gargantuan swelling and open skin lesions everywhere. He leaked like a sieve, his body bursting from swelling and retained fluids.

Blanche was able to convince the doctors that Raymond had died from Guillain-Barre syndrome. She netted handsomely from the division of his estate. A urine test for heavy metal contamination detected 6 1/2 times normal arsenic, but the test report was unnoticed and buried in his file until years later. These levels of arsenic can only be produced by ingestion through the mouth. Environmental contamination through the lungs and skin could not produce anywhere near these levels, as was established with expert witness testimony at the trial. Keep this in mind when we arrive at the results of Srila Prabhupada's hair analysis in Chapter 33.

Blanche had already become involved with a divorced preacher, who "fell in love" with her. After some time he pressed her for marriage and she began to poison him as well with tainted food. Preacher Dwight Moore went to doctors and the hospital repeatedly; no one could figure out his problem. He had nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe nasal congestion. They married and the poisoning continued.

Finally Dwight was transferred to the UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. It took six days, a battery of tests and several experts to determine that arsenic was at the root of symptoms that included paralysis and a potentially lethal staph infection. It was discovered at the last moment, with Dwight on the verge of death, that someone was administering arsenic to him at the hospital; tests revealed his body had 20 times the lethal amount of arsenic. Amounts of arsenic sufficient to kill many men were somehow withstood by Dwight Moore and he was put under guard and intensive care. Semi-crippled, he barely survived, but not without serious neuropathy.

Law enforcement became involved, Blanche failed a lie detector test, and a lengthy investigation ensued while Blanche remained in jail for a year. The prosecution had great difficulty in preparing their case because of the great span in time involved between the deaths of Blanche's first husband and her boyfriend, and the attempted murder of her second husband. Many exhumations were ordered, including that of Blanche's father and her mother-in-law. Everyone had clearly died from arsenic poisoning or had highly abnormal amounts of arsenic in their bodies. Neutron activation analysis was done on hair from Dwight Moore and the exhumed bodies.

While in jail, Blanche received a letter from a local diabetic alcoholic who claimed to have committed the murders. The drunk had died only a few days earlier. Extensive handwriting tests were done and it was proven with 80% certainty that Blanche had written the letter. The final convincing feature was that the envelope exactly matched those Blanche had used while in jail. The jury deliberated and found her guilty. Judge Freeman looked at the defendant and said:

"Blanche Kiser Taylor Moore, you will be put to death as provided by law. May God have mercy on your soul!"

The story of Blanche Taylor Moore was hot news constantly for a year. A TV special movie was made as well. Blanche Taylor Moore's story is reviewed here for the purpose of better understanding acute and sub-acute arsenic poisoning from real case histories, showing the grotesque results of arsenic poisoning and how difficult it is to detect it and prosecute it as a crime. Another interesting point in the instance of Isla Taylor, Blanche's mother-in-law, is given by Schutze:

"Isla Taylor was found to have had elevated arsenic levels at the time of her death. She was old enough and weakened enough by other ailments that Dr. Butts was uncertain it could ever be proved the arsenic had killed her. A large dose was found undigested in her stomach, suggesting she had been given arsenic moments before she died."

Hair analysis showed James Taylor having 42 times normal arsenic at the time of death. Raymond Reid showed 70 parts per million of arsenic at his death. Dwight Moore, who rewrote the texts on how much a man can withstand in arsenic poisoning, had 50 parts per million in his first poisoning episode, and 100 ppm in his second, near-fatal episode. A lethal dose may be indicated by as little as 5 ppm of arsenic in the hair. Compare this to the 3 ppm found in Srila Prabhupada's hair. (see Chapter 33 )

While Blanche Taylor Moore's victims were acutely and sub-acutely poisoned and their symptoms were thus very dramatic, nevertheless their study helps to understand Srila Prabhupada's chronic poisoning symptoms and the amounts of arsenic required to cause deteriorating illness compared with amounts required to cause a quick death. The similarities of symptoms between Blanche Moore's victims and Srila Prabhupada is very outstanding.

CHAPTER 36:

OTHER ARSENIC CASE STUDIES

A large number of suicidal, homicidal, or accidental arsenical poisonings by ingestion have been described in various medical texts.

* In 1955 in Japan over 12,000 infants were fed powdered milk contaminated with arsenic. There were 130 deaths. The infants ingested 1.3 to 3.6 mg of arsenic daily but did not show symptoms of illness for two to three weeks. The subacute poisoning symptoms were fever, abdominal swelling, enlarged liver, coughing, runny nose, conjunctivitis, vomiting, diarrhea and melanosis. As the surviving children grew up, there were increased rates of mental retardation, epilepsy, and brain damage.

* In 1901 Reynolds reported on a case of over 500 patients who had been drinking arsenic contaminated beer, noting a variety of symptoms manifestations of arsenical poisoning. The first symptoms were digestive, especially vomiting and diarrhea. In a few weeks other symptoms appeared: conjunctivitis, runny nose (rhinitis), laryngitis, bronchitis and skin eruptions. Gradually effects were noticed in the nervous and muscular systems. Mental confusion, heart irregularities and scaly skin lesions followed thereafter. This incident is regarded as sub-acute poisoning.

* In 1956 Mizuta reported on 220 patients poisoned by arsenic contaminated soy sauce in Japan. This amounted to about 3 mg of arsenic being ingested daily for 2-3 weeks, with results similar to but more acute than in the 1901 Reynolds case. Symptoms were: 85% had facial edema and anorexia, 20% had peripheral neuropathy, less than 10% had skin problems. Liver swelling and symptoms of the upper respiratory tract were predominant in most cases. Hair analyses were performed and found to contain from 3.8 to 13.0 ppm near the root. This was a very serious poisoning with dramatic onset of poisoning symptoms. We can understand that if Srila Prabhupada had 3 ppm in His hair compared to 3.8 to 13.0 ppm in these Japanese patients, then His symptoms would be somewhat less dramatic but still very seriously toxicological in nature, especially if the poisoning lasted from 9 to 18 months.

* In the early 1960's reports came from Antofagasta, Chile of many cases of chronic arsenic poisoning from a contaminated water supply with 0.8 ppm of arsenic. Children were most seriously effected, and symptoms were primarily: broncho-pulmonary disease history, abnormal skin pigmentation, thickening of skin (hyperkeratosis), chronic coryza (mucus), loss of nerve and muscle function of the extremities, and abdominal pain. Also typical was chronic cough, diarrhea, and ischemia of the tongue, a condition of reduced blood flow resulting in loss of taste.

* In 1969 a report appeared about a large number of chronic arsenic poisoning cases due to wells contaminated with geologic deposits in 37 villages of southwest Taiwan. Drinking the water for up to 45 years had resulted in skin diseases and cancers plus Blackfoot's disease, where the extremities atrophy and gangrene due to nerve and muscle deterioration.

* In 1973 Feinglass reported on 13 persons exposed for 75 days to well water contaminated with arsenical insecticides. The prominent feature was gastrointestinal symptoms related to the timing of water ingestion.

* In 1952 a study was made of use of arsenic in a old folk's cure for treating asthma called Fowler's solution. About 8.8 mg arsenic was ingested daily for 28 months. Symptoms appeared in 13 months as skin freckling and darkening, gastrointestinal troubles, and facial edema. Neurological symptoms appeared after two years. Another study of 362 persons also taking Fowler's solution for many years revealed that skin symptoms appeared only in those who had taken the larger doses.

* In 1940 Butzengeiger reported on 180 French vineyard workers who had been chronically poisoned by arsenic from insecticides and herbicides used in and near their work. Symptoms were similar to the cases in Taiwan, manifesting vascular disorders, hyperpigmentation and keratosis. Thickening of the soles and palms, gangrene in the fingers and extremities, and heart irregularities were common. Hair testing found only 0.4 ppm of arsenic, however. This normal hair reading shows that past exposure will result in future health consequences, even though the blood which feeds the hair becomes quickly cleared of arsenic when arsenic exposure ceases.

AUTHOR'S COMMENT: Similarly, Srila Prabhupada may have had His major exposure to arsenic earlier in 1977 with hair readings far above the elevated reading of His October hair. Very little additional arsenic may have been required later in 1977 to maintain a Srila Prabhupada's declining health after initial heavy doses of poison early in 1977. Once poisoned with adequate amounts of arsenic, Srila Prabhupada's body would have naturally worsened in health due to the latent effects as the year wore on. END

* A 55-year-old Asian female was hospitalized for diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and weakness of unknown etiology. The patient had diabetes and had been in her usual state of health until 5 weeks earlier when, after eating noodle paste, she and her husband developed persistent nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Both were admitted with dehydration and hypokalemia and treated for one week. On discharge the patient's weakness necessitated the use of a cane for walking. Approximately 3 weeks later, the patient's husband complained of weakness, then vomited and had a syncopal episode. He was resuscitated with intravenous (IV) fluids and admitted to the hospital. The following day he suddenly became hypotensive, had a cardiopulmonary arrest, and died. Four days later, the patient again developed nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and weakness. She also noted numbness in her hands and feet, described as "pins and needles." She distinguished this from the numbness in her toes previously ascribed to diabetic neuropathy. The patient had also been bedridden for the past 10 days due to weakness and inability to walk. There were no further neurologic complaints. Her past medical history revealed no history of alcohol abuse. Review of systems was pertinent for a 20-lb weight loss over the past month and diffuse tissue swelling.

Physical examination revealed a weak Asian female lying in bed. Vital signs were: blood pressure, 120/75 mm Hg; pulse, 90 beats/min; respirations, 20 beats/min; and temperature, 100.4ºF (38ºC). HEENT examination demonstrated periorbital edema and bilateral carotid bruits. Lungs were clear to auscultation, and the cardiac examination revealed normal rate with a 2/6 systolic ejection murmur radiating to the aortic region. Abdominal examination revealed mild distention with bowel sounds present, with no tenderness or organomegaly. Pulses were 1+ in all the extremities. Neurological exam revealed disorientation to person, place, and time; cranial nerves II-XII intact; motor examination with muscle strength 4 to 5/5 except for quadriceps and iliopsoas strength of 3/5 bilaterally; deep tendon reflexes 1+ biceps with absent brachioradiatis, knee and ankle reflexes. Plantar reflexes were normal. Sensory examination revealed absent position sense and decreased vibration and pin prick in the lower extremities, and decreased vibration, position sense, and pin prick in the upper extremities.

During the next 3 days the patient's muscle strength diminished in a caudal-to-rostral pattern, and she was transferred to the ICU with a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Review of the records from the first hospitalization revealed a prolonged QT interval on routine ECG and a finding of mild hypotension requiring 6 days of intravenous crystalloid infusions, an unusual requirement for the presumed diagnosis of gastroenteritis. In the ICU, laboratory examination revealed a hemoglobin (Hb) of 8.1 g/dL with a mean corpuscular volume (MCV) of 93.3 µ³, and a white blood count (WBC) of 2400 cells/mm³. Other laboratory tests were within normal limits, including serum iron, cortisol, vitamin B₁₂, folate, and thyroid function tests. Westergren sedimentation rate was normal at 19mm/h. Her ECG demonstrated a normal sinus rhythm, QRS axis of +60 degrees, and a QT of 0.61 seconds. Lumbar puncture measured a normal opening pressure of 135 mm H₂O and the CSF contained 5 WBC/mm³, ORBC/mm³, protein 0.042 g/L, and a glucose 98 mg/dl. Radiopaque material was noted on a plain abdominal radiograph. The toxicologic consultant ordered a stat spot urine for arsenic, which measured 16.422 µg/L. The patient underwent chelation therapy until the urinary arsenic was sufficiently reduced. During recovery the patient experienced extreme pain with even light touch to the extremities. After 10 months the patient had recovered from her peripheral neuropathy enough so she could feed herself.

The purpose of reviewing these various case histories from the medical literatures is to provide a general overview of the effects of sub-acute and chronic arsenic poisoning in various peoples and places and in various circumstances. Thus we can better appreciate how much damage a hair reading of 3 ppm of arsenic meant in destructive consequence to Srila Prabhupada's body.

CHAPTER 37:

REVERSE SPEECH THEORY

What may eventually become recognized as one of the greatest discoveries of the modern age, reverse speech is a phenomenon that was discovered by an Australian insurance broker, John David Oates. Oates has researched reverse speech for many years and has founded the David Oates Reverse Speech Association with chapters all over the world. His website at "reverse speech" is very helpful in educating the newcomer, and it includes many illustrative examples, such as some on the President Clinton- Monica Lewinsky controversy. Clinton's denial of involvement with Lewinsky is reversed to say, "She's a fun girl to kiss."

Most people are familiar with the hidden messages embedded in "backward masking" on rock and roll records, begun by the Beatles in the 1960's. Innocuous, satanic, or meaningless messages and words were "reverse-buried" in the forward music and could only be discovered by manually turning the turntable backwards. A furor arose in the 1980's over the phenomenon, and legislation was even passed in some locales restricting such reverse messages, lest the youth be secretly brainwashed with satanic messages. Upon closer examination, it was found that many of the angry and "heavy metal" lyrics contained shockingly clear satanic phrases in reverse, phrases that had not been intentionally designed or embedded, but just were.

Oates discovered that recordings of music, speeches, arguments, conversation, even infant babies' pre-speech sounds, were filled with intelligible and hidden messages simultaneous to the forward sound recording. He found that all human verbal communication contains not only overt and conscious messages but also covert and unconscious messages as well. The "reverse speech" confirmed the forward speech, and often contained more truthful and unabashed messages. Oates accumulated an immense repertoire of studies on the various forms and structures of speech reversals, and how they related to the subconscious mind. He developed a detailed theory of the verbal human communication process called The Theory of Reverse Speech and Speech Complementarity.

Oates' theory states that human speech contains two separate and complementary modes which are interdependent. The conscious, forward mode is produced by conscious cognitive processes. The unconscious, reverse mode, spoken simultaneously with the forward mode, is produced by subconscious cognitive processes. Integrally, the two modes constitute a communication of the total psyche of a person, conscious and unconscious. While a person may say one thing formally in forward speech, examination in reverse often reveals his true message, feelings, or purpose.

The frequency of reverse messages increases dramatically when the speaker is emotionally aroused, occurring up to every 2 or 3 seconds. Emotions are a function of the right side of the brain, while forward speech is generated from the left hemisphere. Thus the two sides of the brain work together to produce and choose forward speech words that simultaneously form intelligible words in reverse speech. The wonders of the brain! Thus we see often that an emotional speaker may pause, stutter, and fumble over his choice of wording as he speaks. The brain becomes very busy blending the conscious and subconscious messages into one communication. Our unconscious thoughts and feelings are thus expressed in reverse speech.

The implications of reverse speech are enormous. There will be very few secrets anymore. Truth will become prevalent as deceit and dishonesty can be exposed easily. Politicians and cheating spouses, beware! David Oates has discovered the ultimate lie detector, or rather, truth detector. May truthfulness once again prevail. Suspects in crimes may now be interviewed and the "truth of their words" can be ascertained by reverse speech analysis. Speech reversal has already become a popular tool with law enforcement agencies to ferret out leads and information useful in solving crimes. Speech reversals were employed in the Jean Bennet Ramsey murder case, for example. Reverse speech has not been accepted as legal evidence in court as yet, however. The science is in its early stages of research and acceptance.

Reverse speech is a universal language as much as is forward speech. We all speak and hear both at the same time. Reverse speech contains:

1. similar or different information than the corresponding forward speech,

2. and its own peculiar language involving a variety in the syntax, tense, and intended audience.

Reverse speech is extremely direct in its language and content; it is not diplomatic, polite, or obscure. It gets right to the point and is often profane and unabashed, communicating the unconscious psyche explicitly and completely truthfully. Reverse speech is always truthful, and when it contradicts the forward speech, the conclusion is that the speaker is knowingly lying. Reverse speech is interesting in that it contains information about what is really on a person's mind, either consciously or unconsciously. Often it provides additional information not spoken in forward.

Reverse speech can be either "external dialogue" or "internal dialogue," spoken to others or to oneself. Sometimes, "link reversals" will appear where two or more speakers each contribute a piece to a single message in reverse. The subconscious minds are communicating while we are absorbed in the conscious arena. A wealth of secrets lie dormant within, accumulated from past communications in the subconscious.

Acoustic analysis of speech has identified features such as frequency, amplitude, harmonic structure, resonance, co-articulation effects, accents, cadence and more. As a result, a forward spoken word, phrase, or sentence will most often produce totally different speech reversals from one time to the next and one person to the next. Reverse speech is not coincidence or a simple mechanical phenomenon. Obviously, sometimes words spoken forward will coincidentally sound like something intelligible in reverse. But reverse speech is far beyond coincidence, being a veritable language of communication that has been verified and studied by dozens of researchers over the last decade.

Reverse speech will often discuss emotions or events not contained in the content of forward speech. The subconscious mind assists in producing forward speech by constructing meaningful, grammatically correct phrases and statements in reverse that are recognized by others' subconscious minds. In other words, during communication, we have the conscious discussion and also on another level, the subconscious discussion. The conscious secrets of one are communicated to others subconsciously through reverse speech.

The subconscious, however, "thinks" in pictures and thus communicates with metaphors, many of which are common to the language of reverse speech. Examples are pa for father, muck for mess up, hurt, etc, and so on. As much as forward speech languages comprise a wide range of disciplines and branches of science due to its vastness of complexity and diversity, so also reverse speech is only understood in the beginning stages of its own complexity and diversity. In studying speech reversals, one must master the art and become proficient after some training in the field. There are increasing numbers of professionals and amateurs alike who are becoming expert in this exciting and revolutionary field.

Doubt of the validity of reverse speech is natural, but after one actually researches the subject, usually the criticism melts and is transformed into awe, curiosity, and amazement. The astounding truth of reverse speech will make a believer of any honest person and change their lives forever. Hopefully the development of research into the reverse speech phenomenon will also change the world for the better.

CHAPTER 38:

REVERSE SPEECH ANALYSIS

Reverse speech analysis is becoming increasingly popular with law enforcement agencies who use cutting edge technology to assist in their investigations and gathering of evidence to use in the prosecution of criminals. Obviously it would be of great interest, and possibly of great application, to research the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada with reverse speech analysis. Those who were close to Srila Prabhupada and who were His caretakers or leading, dedicated servants might reveal much critical information if the tape recordings of 1977 were subjected to such study. Suspects and those who may have conversed with the poisoners, whoever they may be, could be holding critical information about Srila Prabhupada's poisoning in their subconscious minds. Also, if interviews could be obtained in the present day of those who were there in 1977 or those who are poisoning suspects, reverse speech could open the door to solving the investigation's dilemma of crossing a span of 22 years to discover what really happened.

Dhaneshwar Prabhu joined the Krishna Consciousness movement and was initiated as a disciple of Srila Prabhupada in the early 1970's. He has been actively involved in Hare Krishna temples since then, devoting his life to the mission of his spiritual father, acting as temple officer, BBT production manager, and publisher of the Hare Krishna Directory in 1992. He was the Vancouver temple president 1993-4. As a side interest, he has always been handy with sound recording procedures and equipment, and has a background in that area from his college education. In 1995-1996 he became interested in the reverse speech phenomenon and studied under David Oates, conducting his own research and experimentation. In late 1997 Dhaneshwar heard about the "poison whispers" and obtained the "poison tape" to study in reverse. He was quickly shocked and depressed. The confirmation of poisoning was clearly indicated in the reversals.

Dhaneshwar then spent hundreds of hours studying all the recorded conversations of late October and November 1977, a total of twenty-five tapes. The result was that repeated confirmations turned up in the speech reversals of several persons that Srila Prabhupada was indeed poisoned. He became convinced that the unthinkable crime was a fact, and proceeded to document his studies carefully, compiling hundreds of pages of research on three hundred and fifty (350) speech reversals. Dhaneshwar discovered a very high level of consistency in the indications of foul play and malicious intent throughout the reversals.

Dhaneshwar suffered from conflicting emotions as a consequence of his discovery and the compilation of "poison" reversals into a manuscript ready for press. How should he use it? What would be the most effective use of his work in assisting the investigations? Should he publish his work now or later? How should it be presented to have a constructive effect? He sent his work to Balavanta and Naveen Krishna Prabhus, receiving polite but limited feedback. He showed his work to several devotees for advice, and somehow copies of his work began to circulate "underground" in certain circles of devotees. This reporter has encouraged him to not wait further, but to go ahead and publish his work, and that would be the best course to take in the furtherance of discovering the whole truth of Srila Prabhupada's poisoning. This reporter has studied Dhaneshwar's work and become convinced that the science is bonafide and that his reversals are accurate. The consistency and inter-locking verifications of details were amazing and obviously authentic.

The reversals point to certain individuals as being complicitly involved in the assassination of the pure devotee of the Supreme Lord, Srila Prabhupada, namely Tamal Krishna Goswami, Bhakticharu Swami, Bhavananda, Jayapataka, and the kaviraja Sastriji. Others were unconsciously aware of the poisoning by dint of communicating with those who were involved. The discussions therefore contain reversals acknowledging poisoning in the speech of non-conspirators as well, such as Hansadutta and Lokanath Swami. Other reversals showed Brahmananda and Swarup Damodar to be not involved.

The self-talk, confessions, guilt, conflicting emotions, motivations, and attitudes revealed by Dhaneshwar's extensive study are extremely shocking and almost too much to absorb at once by anyone who has any devotion to Srila Prabhupada. However, Dhaneshwar was never a critic of ISKCON until he discovered these reversals, and his work's authenticity and veracity is thoroughly convincing. Almost every voice on the poison tape contains reversals confirming a poisoning of Srila Prabhupada, using the words muck, pa, arsh, and arsenic.

According to the reversals, the following individuals were studied:

Kaviraja: Fully complicit in the poisoning, but distressed and concerned for Srila Prabhupada. He expressed fear as a motive for maintaining secrecy, and was apparently also bribed and bullied. Reversals only:

"He create a sick pa"
"They've made your dying problem"

The following are forward speech and the reversals found therein.

Bhakticharu Swami: Received financial compensation for his involvement.

"This same medicine will continue till..." = "Not bring the sin in medicine"
"the same medicine, Srila Prabhupada" = "I kill, this brings some benefit"
"Bengali speech" = "That's sure wicked: make me rich"

Lokanath Swami: He subconsciously realized the crime at hand, became angry and protested in his reversals.

1. "And if we travel" = "you arshed with him"

"...two devotees out..." = "Was it overdose?"

Hansadutta subconsciously protested the poisoning also, asking why had they poisoned Srila Prabhupada.

Tamal Krishna Goswami: Revealed conflicting emotions, those of love and indebtedness to Srila Prabhupada, but also of revenge and maliciousness.

"under your care" = "I kill you now"
"and turn off the light. Would you..." = "Fail upon arsenic"
"travelling all over India, Srila Prabhupada" = "You're not gonna shame me along the life"
"we're here chanting" = "masquerade the milk"
"translating or otherwise" = "S'know that I'm the emperor"
"to cook for you" = "We fuck it"
"Sankaracharya line will..." = "Oh, now they arshed a cup"
"Well, if he does not come" = "Muck inside you flow"

Srila Prabhupada: He acknowledges in reverse the poisoning, sees the celestial "starship" waiting for His departure, and subconsciously communicates with Tamal to stop the poisoning.

1. "But he has not also come?" = "Muck my soul, how dare you do?"

2. "to move me from this..." = "You want me money"

"educated?" = "You make me sick"
"let me try to travel" = "The worst was, just you kill"
"That Maricha..." = "We feed on death"

Unknown devotee:

"risk in traveling" = "hail of arsenic"
"how can you call me jolly?" = "Are you mucking pa?"

(Reversals above are copyrighted by Dhaneshwar/ Don Rousse; from his study, Are You Mucking Pa?: A Reverse Speech Investigation of the Death of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1998)

The full impact of these reversals in their complementations with other reversals, their exact contexts, their links, and much more can only be appreciated in the study by Dhaneshwar as a whole. The above is just a tiny sampling of his enormous research, and it is hoped that he will soon publish his very well detailed work.

Controversial it is, but reverse speech analysis may provide or point to all the details of Srila Prabhupada's poisoning, as it already has done with the research of one very concerned and disturbed follower of Srila Prabhupada (Dhaneshwar Prabhu). Further validation of these findings are looked forward to so that the truth may be established where otherwise the secrets of darkness would remain hidden forever. May the truth set us free, and the poisoners in prison!

CHAPTER 39:

BALAVANTA'S INVESTIGATION

Since December 1997 (up to April 1999) nothing has been heard publicly about the supposedly ongoing investigation into the poison issue by Balavanta Prabhu in Alachua, Florida. As far as is known, Balavanta is still conducting his investigation on behalf of the GBC. His assistants include Rupanuga and Naveen Krishna Prabhus. Balavanta has not made any formal disclosures as to the results he has accumulated, and no one knows if or when his report will be presented to the GBC, and if or when it would then be made available to the devotees in general.

Every indication is that Balavanta is dedicated to the discovery and establishment of truth in his investigation. His program does not appear to be a whitewash or biased; neither does he appear to be rushing to conclusions. Surely, Balavanta is trying to do a good service to Srila Prabhupada by volunteering his time on this GBC investigation, but his efforts appear to some as underfunded, unaggressive, perhaps unenthusiastic or uncreative. Many devotees outside ISKCON (there are more out than in) have little faith or hope in the GBC "independent" investigation except for the fact of the specific persons involved.

Balavanta also is in possession, since December 1998, of the results of a neutron activation analysis of the arsenic contents in a sample of Srila Prabhupada's hair which he received from Hari Sauri Prabhu. The hair was from Srila Prabhupada's last hair cutting in November of 1977. The arsenic content is 3.0 ppm of arsenic, at least 5 to 10 times above average and close to the average amounts which have been analyzed in Napoleon's hair from trhe last months of his life in 1821 on the island of St. Helena.

Naveen Krishna, assistant to Balavanta, would not discuss his findings or research with this reporter when he was called for an interview.

In early 1999 it was learned from reliable sources that Balavanta had re-instructed Norman Perle as to exactly which whispers needed analysis, and that he had obtained verification of the POISON IN THE MILK and THE POISON'S GOING DOWN whispers. It was also learned that he had received verification and confirmation of these whispers, and maybe others, from at least two other "top-notch" audio forensic laboratories (not sound studios), one being a world renowned outfit in London. The multiple verifications of the poison whispers from many labs is conclusive proof of the whispers' actual content.

Exactly what Balavanta's strategy for further investigation is, is not known. It is thought that he has not yet interviewed Tamal Krishna Goswami or other possible suspects. Hopefully the results of his investigation will bear substantial fruit and bring full illumination to the questions involved in this most disturbing issue. Hopefully those results will be made available to those who care to know what happened to Srila Prabhupada. Meanwhile, this publication attempts to begin serving that purpose.

CHAPTER 40:

POISONING METHODOLOGY

The nature and progressive history of Srila Prabhupada's 1977 declining health, with its ups and downs, level plateau periods, and sudden worsenings, reveals a scenario of mixed chronic and sub-acute arsenic poisonings. With the confirmation in hand of the highly unusual amounts of arsenic in Srila Prabhupada's last hair cutting, we now begin to examine exactly how the poisoning could have taken place. From the constant anemia, lack of appetite, no taste for food, and muscle weakness we see that a constant background of chronic poisoning was ongoing. Just enough arsenic could have been given to Srila Prabhupada to produce a "starvation program." Gradually Srila Prabhupada lost weight and became progressively weaker, primarily from being unable to eat or digest. As Forshufvud states in his Napoleon book, 1995, pg 505:

"The dosages (chronic arsenic intoxication) may be small enough that none will produce immediate distress though a general sense of discomfort and sickness will be apparent and may baffle diagnosis."

Then, every so often, every week or month, as the situation deemed "best," the poisoners would administer a larger, sub-acute dose of poison to generate increased illness and health decay. The dramatic downturns at Kumbha Mela in January, Gaura Purnima in March, in Hrishikesh in May, in Vrindaban in July and August, in London in September, and so on were probably times of increased poisoning. Travel was thus prevented, avoiding awkward situations with possible new doctors or treatments which might discover the true nature of Srila Prabhupada's ailment. Srila Prabhupada's return to India from London conveniently avoided any chance that further Western medicine or doctors would frustrate or uncover the plan of the poisoners.

Finally, after a program of chronic poisoning had reduced Srila Prabhupada's health to the brink of extinction by November 1977, a final dose could have been administered in keeping with the whisper by Jayapataka Maharaj, "Poisoning for a long time... get ready to go... you're taking it now..." Perhaps this whisper is actually the last conversation with Srila Prabhupada late on November 13, just before He went into coma or internal consciousness, and it ended up on the third to last tape by mis-labeling or the "time-jumbling" that we have already established happened to several other tapes in October and earlier. At least this is what comes to mind as a possibility which further investigation may or may not confirm.

It is also very interesting to note that the very next day after Srila Prabhupada said He thought someone was poisoning Him, the disturbing poison whispers are found in the background. It may have been that whoever was doing the poisoning became alarmed that Srila Prabhupada would discover them and decided on intensified or final poisoning. Srila Prabhupada entered a "coma" about 60 hours later, and departed about twenty hours after that. The chronology of the tape's events is in doubt, however, as described earlier.

Forshufvud states: "Napoleon was not killed with arsenic, but instead he was poisoned to death in two phases, by a method used by professional poisoners of the period. The "classical method" of killing somebody without making it appear to be a criminal act consisted of a cosmetic phase followed by a lethal phase... Napoleon was poisoned slowly and chronically with arsenic in order to break down his health and make it appear that he was deteriorating in a normal and natural way from disease... In their diaries and notes, (eight) eyewitnesses record very carefully more than 30 symptoms (Comment: and we have 45!) that indicate chronic arsenical intoxication. When you take these symptoms and compare them with the arsenical intoxication symptoms described in any modern book on toxicology, you will find that they are identical... The second phase, which I call the lethal phase, was done through toxic medications such as tartar emetic, followed by orgeat and calomel (the combination of which, in the stomach, produces highly lethal mercuric cyanide)."

Whoever master-minded the arsenic poisoning of Srila Prabhupada knew that the resulting symptoms would closely resemble those of kidney disease, and that this was a near-perfect cover. Srila Prabhupada was known to already have some sort of kidney problems from past incidences of swelling in the bodily extremities. Knowledge of the means and techniques of arsenic poisoning are readily available from the stock of modern literatures and medical research. The discovery of Napoleon's murder by poisoning in the 1960's brought much attention to the subject of assassination by poison.

In India one can easily find tantric yogis and kavirajas who are expert in the arts of curses, success-enhancement pujas and mantras, and sinister things like poisoning your enemies. There is the history of the king in India who trained beautiful women with small doses of poison from childhood, building their resistance to the point where their very kiss was lethal. These "kiss of death" women were sent to seduce the king's enemies. More recently, we have seen that some of the current ISKCON "gurus" have been associated with these kinds of tantrics and yogis. (See Appendix 20 ) Harikesh, Jayapataka, Bhavananda, and Tamal Krishna Maharajs have been reported in these associations. Therefore, the "Chandra Swami Connection" presented earlier in this publication becomes very interesting and perhaps all too relevant.

The history of Europe and India is filled with the intrigue of poisonings for thousands of years. In the case of Napoleon, for example, historians now know that he was killed by arsenic and cyanide, and that Empress Josephine, Napoleon's son (the Duke of Reichstadt), and Napoleon's aide Cipriani were probably also poisoned to death by arsenic. Tests on samples of Napoleon's hair from his earlier years show high levels of arsenic at the times of the Battles for Moscow and Waterloo, times when he fell too ill to effectively command his troops, and was thus defeated at these critical junctures of history. (See Appendix 14: Poisoning Throughout History.)

The poisoners of Srila Prabhupada would have had to have been very close to Srila Prabhupada to administer the periodic sub-acute doses of arsenic. Using the proper timing and circumstances for "cover," the poisoners would terminate the brief moments when Srila Prabhupada began to feel better with the onset of yet another attack of the mysterious and persistent "ailment." Thus another worsening of health occurred. A sub-acute dose of arsenic would bring on an increase of pain and illness that appeared to be nothing more than "Srila Prabhupada's body being old and worn-out from constant travelling and preaching." The effects of a sub-acute poisoning of arsenic would bring days and weeks of intensified degeneration of health.

A consistent and gradual deterioration of health would have been achieved by regular small administrations of arsenic, perhaps through the contamination of some personal ingredient used daily by Srila Prabhupada. Such as tooth powder. Or Srila Prabhupada's special vegetable salt. Or Srila Prabhupada's personal supply of rosewater eye wash, cooking spices, compress ingredients, or medicines. No one else would use these items which were specifically reserved only for His Divine Grace. In this way, someone could have come to visit Srila Prabhupada, secretly poison some of these aforementioned items, and then gone away on other activities while innocent caretakers of Srila Prabhupada unknowingly (or knowingly) became assistants in serving poison to Srila Prabhupada.

A tiny sprinkle of colorless, tasteless, and odorless arsenic powder, such as what might fit on the very end of a small key's tip, could produce another serious downturn in health with subacute symptoms, such as the February or May incidents of 1977. Even smaller sprinkles in milk, fruit juice, medicine or food would be unnoticed but would easily produce the slow debilitation and starvation program we find in Srila Prabhupada's health history.

Such a "cosmetic" poisoning of small doses which would result in a feeling of malaise, increased weakness, and a reduction in the body's general strength, could have begun well before Srila Prabhupada's serious illness of February 1977. Therefore the health history in Chapter 20 begins with late 1975 and mid 1976 to show that gradual poisoning could have begun as early as May 1976. The illness in New York and London in July and August 1976 is fully compatible with arsenic poisoning. If Srila Prabhupada's hair in October 1977 contains highly elevated levels of arsenic, as it does in fact, then we begin to look backwards in the health history to the earliest signs of arsenic poisoning. It might have begun soon after the Mayapur 1976 festival when Srila Prabhupada became weak and ill with arsenic poisoning type symptoms in Hawaii and New Vrindaban in May and June of 1976. It is quite possible, but not established. The poisoners knew that arsenic was the best choice of poisons for Srila Prabhupada because it would be confused with His already existing kidney problems. Clever planning and execution, indeed.

Now that we know Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, we should immediately understand that the method of poisoning was carefully planned and executed in a most secret, clever, and sinister manner. The poisoners would want to carry out their nefarious plan without arousing any suspicion on the part of other devotees or physicians. Arsenical poisoning, especially in a chronic and gradual application, becomes extremely difficult to recognize.

Who would suspect that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned? Devotees, hearing of poisoning rumors, find it almost impossible to even entertain. Only now, 22 years later, are we able to assemble bits and pieces of evidence together to demonstrate that this was a certainty. It must be Lord Krishna's arrangement that the truth can be revealed even after so long. We cannot remember what happened yesterday, what to speak of in 1977, and yet there has been an almost miraculous assemblage of pieces of evidence which cannot be denied or swept under the rug except by those dishonest persons whose interests may be threatened by emergence of the truth of this tragedy. Also, some will be reluctant, maybe vehemently so, to accept that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned because the concept disrupts their personal attachments, conceptions of ISKCON, psyche, and life's major paradigms.

It is also very suspicious that almost every time a doctor was conscientiously treating Srila Prabhupada with medicines and careful attention, inevitably there appeared some serious or distressing side effects that caused Srila Prabhupada to abandon and reject that doctor and treatment. This recurring coincidence was probably sabotage perpetrated by the poisoners by their giving to Srila Prabhupada more arsenic, diuretic, laxative, etc to cause an adverse reaction which was then attributed to the treatment and medicines. "Oh, just see! This doctor doesn't know what he's doing either! They are all idiots, cheaters, and just want to kill you, Srila Prabhupada! Reject them, and just depend on Krishna and the chanting!"

Of course no medicine or treatment could be anything but ever so slightly effective in improving Srila Prabhupada's condition as long as arsenic was continuously being administered in small doses. The best doctor in the Mathura District, Dr. Gopal, became perplexed that his medicines and treatment were showing no signs of improvement after a week of administration in October 1977. Dr. Gopal began to re-think his diagnosis and he wanted further testing to discover the cause of ill health. Immediately Dr. Gopal was criticized severely by Tamal, and his treatment and future presence was rejected. Dr. Gopal did not get to bring the X-ray machine for examination of the internal organs, nor did he get a blood sample for analysis. Either of these two things could have easily discovered the arsenic poisoning which is now established by the October growth of Srila Prabhupada's hair recently tested as containing highly abnormal amounts of arsenic.

It would serve the interests of the poisoner or poisoners well if an atmosphere of intense distrust and suspicion of doctors and medicines, especially allopathic, were to prevail with Srila Prabhupada and His caretakers. When Satsvarupa Maharaj came to visit in October 1977, he was indoctrinated by Tamal with the understanding that all possible attempts had already been made with doctors and medicines, leaving no choice except to chant and pray to Krishna for a miracle. Without questions, Satsvarupa passively accepted Tamal's opinions and began to chant and pray while Srila Prabhupada lay bedridden, His body filled with highly toxic levels of arsenic.

It was necessary that the poisoners prolong the "assassination" of Srila Prabhupada over an extended time period, lest suspicions be aroused due to the sudden death of a healthy person. The cause of death would need to look natural, entailing a gradual and frustrating decline of health. In spite of "so many doctors and medicines, nothing worked." If any reason for suspicion arose, an autopsy and investigation might reveal the poisoning and poisoners. Deaths in India do not require autopsies by law as is often the case in the West. If Srila Prabhupada had expired in the USA under the suspicion of foul play, certainly tests would have been done by the local coroner and an official autopsy report prepared. Conveniently, Srila Prabhupada wanted to die in Vrindaban where autopsies and coroners are not part of the process of dying. It was also necessary to maintain a state of chronic invalidism in Srila Prabhupada until He made His will and turned bank accounts and management over legally to His disciples. After all, it was the assets of ISKCON that the poisoners were undoubtedly interested in controlling and inheriting from their "father."

Who could the assassins be? They must have been very close to Srila Prabhupada, and well trusted. As history commonly shows, it is likely to have been a trusted confidant or close associate with direct access who engaged in the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada. The poisoners would need to be very clever, good actors, intelligent and manipulative, patient, and with full knowledge of the inner workings of Srila Prabhupada's life, habits and health philosophy. And, most importantly, the assassins would need a motive to eliminate Srila Prabhupada, a chance to gain things that were to them surely worth the risk, trouble and karma of committing such an abominable deed. So who had that motive, and what was it?

APPENDIX 9:

UNVERIFIED INFORMATION

Dear Prabhus,

The below information was gathered over the course of the last two years. Some of the information has already been revealed publicly but much of it hasn't. Unfortunately, most of it can only be considered supportive and not material evidence. As far as possible, I tried to put everything in some sort of chronological order. Some of the entries are from first hand witnesses and others still need to be verified. In most cases the witnesses had no idea we were conducting an investigation nor did we ask their permission to publicly release their statements. Therefore many of the names have been deleted in this version until we can determine which information can be of value and how to preserve the confidence, as well as address the obvious concerns for safety. Any information in this report which has not already been made public should not be made public until we can satisfy the above concerns.

I was about to turn this information over to Balavanta but in light of recent events have become greatly disappointed in his performance and totally outraged by the official GBC statement in regard to the investigation. Also, myself and the other devotees involved on this end have no connection with Puranjana and do not want to be associated with him. The fact that our separate investigations apparently began at the same time is purely coincidental, or more likely, a confirmation from Krishna that this issue needed to be resolved. I'm deeply grateful for the work of VNN and the proposal for IVC. I read VNN daily and (with a couple exceptions) have found it a reliable source for objective and responsible journalism. I also read the IVC site last night and found it extremely thorough and highly professional. I was further impressed at how promptly the package was put together and positioned. In addition, VADA's chronicle outlining the events of the investigation appears to be precise and verified. I now feel there's hope that Srila Prabhupada's mission will not be lost in the impending cataclysm. I thank all of you for your dedication to this service and pray that Krishna will give you the strength to continue. Many devotees will be counting on you.

Your servant, Anonymous das

REPORTED AND UNVERIFIED EVENTS: (Verified items in italics)

1. Prabhupada complains about getting injections, then tells Brahmananda that Tirtha poisoned Srila Bhaktisiddhanta.

2. New York: Prabhupada tells devotee: "Get a gun. Someone's trying to kill me."

3. A group of devotees lock Prabhupada in his room in LA and tell him that they are taking charge. (in 1970?)

4. A devotee finds Srila Prabhupada crying alone in his room and asks him what is wrong. Prabhupada says that they have tried to kick him out three times.

5. TKG tells people that he is losing faith in Srila Prabhupada.

6. TKG asks Jayapataka, "Do you ever find that Srila Prabhupada gets in the way?"

7. Prabhupada tells devotee of TKG, "This man is not a Vaisnava. I've studied him. He is not a Vaisnava."

8. While devotee is waiting to see Srila Prabhupada, he hears TKG arguing with Prabhupada. When TKG comes out of the room he slams the door shut and says: "Damn it! Prabhupada fu--ed up again!"

9. Nara Narayana hears TKG tell Syamasundara that Prabhupada is a senile, old man.

10. Pyramid House Tapes Tamal mentions the time Hamsaduta was praying for Prabhupada's death. (see Pyramid House Tapes)

11. Devotee is told by Hansadutta that he wished Srila Prabhupada would die.

12. Prabhupada tells servant: "They're all waiting for the old man to die so they can be guru."

13. Prabhupada tells Bhagatji that his disciples aren't very advanced and he wouldn't be surprised if they tried to do him great physical harm.

14. Jaya Gauranga states that Prabhupada's hands were swollen as a result of sickness and this symptom appeared as early as 1976. (Correct)

15. Prabhupada tells servant that TKG the cause of all the problems in the movement.

16. Vrndavana: TKG is in charge of all Prabhupada's medicines.

17. Vrndavana: Prabhupada tells servant: "Some of my senior disciples are trying to kill me because they want to be guru." Witness also revealed that Prabhupada didn't want to eat anymore because everything they gave him was making him sick.

18. Vrndavana: Bharadvaja relates in tape of his memories that Prabhupada once looked carefully at medicine given to him and declared, "This is poison!"

19. Vrndavana: Prabhupada orders devotee to clear all medicine from cabinet.

20. Vrndavana: Jaya Gauranga states that TKG would not let anyone bring food to Prabhupada.

21. Tamal, depressed, confides to a devotee that he has ruined Srila Prabhupada's movement.

22. Vrndavana: When the devotees are in Prabhupada's room and the leaders are not present Prabhupada states: "You are all here praying for me to live and they are in the next room praying for me to die."

23. Vrndavana: Devotee goes to Indian astrologer to inquire about Prabhupada's health. Astrologer tells them that Prabhupada will be troubled by His juniors.

24. When two devotees from Latin America offered Srila Prabhupada their youth for His old age, Srila Prabhupada gracefully declined and remarked how devoted His disciples were. Then He remarked, "But there are also some who want to kill me." (Unconfirmed)

25. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: When Hansadutta comes to relieve a devotee from his watch, Prabhupada tells him: "Please do not leave, this man wants to kill me."

26. Nov 9-10, 1977, Vrndavana: Srila Prabhupada states on tape that he is being poisoned. (Vedabase)

27. Nov. 11, 1977, Vrndavana: When TKG tells Prabhupada that he will die if taken on parikrama, Prabhupada responds: "Better to be killed by Ram." (Vedabase)

28. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: Just before Srila Prabhupada's disappearance Sudama was about to leave Vrndavana when Bhavananda tells him: "Don't leave yet. We're about to split up the pie. I'll make sure you get a piece."

29. Nov. 14, 1977, Vrndavana: Srila Prabhupada's will is changed the midnight before his departure—In the paper titled, "Questions On Authenticity", Janajanmadi dasa (Jeffrey Balawajder) states that he visited Srivatsa Goswami of the Radha Ramana Temple in 1984. According to his account, Srivatsa Goswami told him that TKG had Prabhupada's will changed on the midnight prior to Srila Prabhupada's departure.

30. Adri Dharan has stated that he was the one who found the kaviraja Prabhupada described in his dream. This doctor was treating Prabhupada at the time of his departure and his opinion was trusted by all. The doctor told the devotees the exact time, within a day, Prabhupada would leave his body and his prediction was correct.

31. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: Bhavananda eats french fries in a joyful mood at the time of Prabhupada's departure.

32. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: Bhavananda stands at top of stairs and shouts, "Power!" at time of Prabhupada's departure.

33. 1977-78 (?), Bombay: Jaya Gauranga states that TKG went to Bombay and demanded that they let him occupy Prabhupada's quarters and have a vyasasana like Prabhupada's.

34. 1981-1984 (?), New Dwarka: Story circulates about a former Gurukula boy (now grown and living in Mexico) who tells about overhearing plot by GBC men to poison Prabhupada. At the time this story is circulating, some GBC men take a trip to Mexico.

35. Nara Narayana has found that a common form of political assassination in India is poisoning, the results of which cause kidney failure. Brahmananda confirmed that one of the external causes for Srila Prabhupada's departure was kidney failure.

APPENDIX 10:

ARE THERE MISSING TAPES ?

This report was compiled by studying the Bhaktivedanta Archives Vedabase. The number on the left in the first chart below denotes the year and the number on the right denotes the number of days in that year which we have no tape recordings of Srila Prabhupada. The second chart indicates the specific dates in which tapes are missing in 1977 and gives a breakdown of number of days of missing tapes for the year. I asked Ekanatha Prabhu at the Bhaktivedanta Archives if he could verify my findings and after thoroughly checking archive records he confirmed that my calculations were correct and that the Archives does not have any knowledge of tapes in their possession for the specified missing days or of ever having received tapes for the specified missing days.

Missing Tapes 1966-1977

YEAR DAYS MISSING

1966 230

1967 324

1968 225

1969 245

1970 313

1971 256

1972 142

1973 119

1974 95

1975 60

1976 47

1977 151

It's interesting to note that the number of days in which tapes are missing steadily decreases each year from 1970 to 1976. Presumably, the progressive diligence in recording Srila Prabhupada's words would be attributed to devotees maturing and understanding the importance of these recordings for future generations as well as ourselves. When once asked if it was necessary to record a conversation of an apparently unimportant nature between Srila Prabhupada and some guests, Tamal Krishna Goswami stated: "We tape everything Prabhupada says." (5/24/77—Vrn)

One might then wonder why the number of days in which tapes are missing dramatically increases from 47 days in 1976 to 151 days in 1977 (more than triple). This is particularly curious if we take into account that 1977 was a shorter recording year than any other (only ten and a half months) since Srila Prabhupada departed on November 14th. And this aberration appears even more glaring when we consider that in 1977, it became painfully obvious Srila Prabhupada could depart at any time and it was increasingly important to cherish and preserve every word He spoke.

Now let's take a closer look at the missing tapes in 1977.

Dates of

Missing Tapes No. of Days

1/14 1

1/17 thru 1/18 2

2/9 1

2/11 1

2/13 1

2/22 thru 2/23 2

3/3 thru 3/21 19

3/28 1

4/3 thru 4/4 2

4/6 thru 4/9 4

4/12 1

4/14 1

4/21 1

4/26 thru 4/27 2

5/1 1

5/3 thru 5/7 5

5/16 1

5/18 1

5/21 thru5/23 3

5/25 thru 5/26 2

5/30 1

6/3 thru 6/16 14

6/25 1

6/29 1

7/4 1

7/6 thru 7/7 2

7/9 1

7/11 thru 7/13 3

7/16 1

7/18 1

7/20 thru 7/25 6

7/28 thru 7/30 3

8/1 thru 8/7 7

8/9 1

8/12 thru 8/16 5

8/18 thru 10/1 45

10/5 1

10/7 1

10/19 1

10/23 1

11/9 1

11/12 1

Total No. of Days of Missing Tapes......151

The months of January, February, October and November, 1977, are not unusual and the number of days of missing tapes in these months coincide with the monthly averages for 1976. Out of the 105 days of Jan., Feb., Oct. and Nov. (count only 14 days for Nov.) just 15 days are missing. However, the months of March thru August have an extremely high number of days of missing tapes and the month of September has no tapes at all. Out of the 214 days from the period beginning March 1 and ending September 30, 136 days have no tapes. Looking at this period by itself, the ratio of recording days to none-recording days is 1.5 to 1. This is similar to the inefficient recording ratios of 1966 thru 1971, when we had less technical and managerial expertise, limited resources, older technology, and did not fully comprehend the importance of recording Srila Prabhupada's words.

I'd also like to point out that there are some rather large blocks of consecutive days when tapes are not accounted for. Most notably: 19 days in March, 14 days in June, and a staggering 45 days from August 18th thru October 1st. That Srila Prabhupada would have spoken less during severe illness is understandable. That Srila Prabhupada would have said nothing for such long periods of time is inconceivable. Under the circumstances, the logical questions to ask would be:

Why were there no recordings made on these days?

or, if there were recordings made, what happened to them?

APPENDIX 11:

HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

Hair mineral analysis has been used in forensics for decades. Today, hair analysis is gaining widespread recognition as an analytical tool for receiving information about mineral patterns and drug abuse. Hair analysis is a valid analytical technique that provides important answers to puzzling historical questions, including Beethoven's habits. Nearly 170 years ago, an admirer, grieving the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, snipped a lock of the great composer's hair for a keepsake and kept it in a locket. It is this strand of hair that is expected to provide key answers. Did the deaf composer use drugs? Was he suffering from syphilis? Did he die of arsenic poisoning or was his health affected by mineral deficiencies? Today's sophisticated analytical methods can provide these and other answers, and explanations are often unexpectedly simple. For instance, during Beethoven's time, mercurial drugs were used to treat syphilis and arsenic was used to kill rodents. In minute doses, arsenic was deliberately taken to increase virility and physical strength. Other toxins such as lead were ingested by drinking lead-containing water, causing a host of neurological and behavioral problems such as Beethoven's feared moodiness and ill-tempered conduct. The 582 strands of hair recently auctioned off at Sotheby's are expected to provide important information on Beethoven's biochemical makeup and its link to behavior.

Researchers William Walsh and Ronald Ishaacson have been studying the relationship between body chemistry and behavior for decades. They have published an impressive amount of data, including the relations between toxic elements and hyperactivity. They recognized that heavy metal exposure is higher in people prone to violent behavior and that a specific pattern of toxic exposure and mineral deficiencies is seen among death-row inmates. The researchers also noticed what they considered a "genius pattern," characterized by extraordinarily high levels of copper and sodium but low zinc levels in hair. Individuals with this type of hair mineral pattern are often highly intelligent and a bit eccentric, Walsh said. The scientists documented that hair mineral analysis is a valid test of body mineral concentration when used appropriately. "Hair is a diary of what is going on in your body," Ishaacson said. After decades of studying chemicals in hair and associating mineral patterns with behavior, the researchers opened the HRI Pfeiffer Treatment Center seven years ago. It aims at treating biochemical problems, and a strand of hair often reveals the cause of psychiatric ailments that did not respond to other more conventional treatment.

Hair analysis is an ideal complement to serum and urine as a diagnostic tool. Hair is collected without trauma, an important point when it comes to the toxic screening of children or the frail. In many cases when mineral deficiencies have been noted, the individual's inadequate mineral status may not be solely due to a mineral deficient diet, but also be compounded by digestive problems that cause inadequate mineral absorption.

A review of over 1400 articles indicate that hair is the prime tissue to be utilized when analyzing for heavy metal and other trace mineral concentrations. Most notable results have been obtained on heavy metal pollutants such as lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. Scientists in the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and Sweden have all shown that elemental concentrations in hair provide a relatively permanent record of exposure and that there is good correlation between concentrations in human hair and certain organs.

* Dr. Chatt of Dalhousie University reported during the Second Human Hair Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, that concentrations of lead in hair were lowest in rural population groups, higher in urban groups and highest in individuals who live close to lead smelters. (This is the same Dr. Chatt who analyzed this reporter's hair sample)

* Trace Minerals International, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado compared the toxic content of hair in American, German and Mexican children and found that concentrations were highest in Mexican children, lower in American and lowest in German children.

* Harry Shwachman of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston along with Kopito of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that children with cystic fibrosis have as much as five times the normal concentration of sodium in their hair, but only about ten percent of the normal concentrations of tightly-bound calcium.

* Shwachman and Kopito have also found low concentrations of sodium and potassium in the hair of patients with celiac disease ( disorder in the digestion and utilization of fat) and that there is generally three to four times as much sodium and potassium in the hair of healthy individuals.

* Hambidge has tested children in Denver's Head Start Program and found that both their hair and blood serum contain significantly lower concentrations of zinc than specimens from children of middle-income families. The researcher picked six children with the lowest hair zinc concentrations for further testing and found that taste perception was impaired in five. Zinc supplementation restored taste perception and increased zinc concentrations in both blood and hair.

* Both Hambidge and Walter Mertz of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, have each demonstrated the below-normal hair concentrations of chromium in victims of juvenile onset diabetes.

* Gordus of the University of Michigan reported that the hair of students with high academic marks contained substantially more copper and less iodine, lead and cadmium than the hair of students with low marks.

* Robert Pihl and colleagues of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, report that based on hair mineral results, they can distinguish with 98% accuracy normal children and those with learning disabilities.

* Brain and hair tissues of Alzheimer patients were found to contain substantially-elevated aluminum content. Researchers at National Institute of Health (Bethseda, Maryland) and at Elizabeth Hospitals in Washington, D.C. noticed an improvement in symptoms after hair aluminum decreased.

Elemental concentrations in organs are not identical, but certain elements are more densely concentrated in specific organs. Hair mineral analysis evaluates tissue storage and is many times the best choice when chronic exposures and deficiencies are suspected. "HMA is an excellent, simple, and accurate test to establish mineral and trace element concentrations. Since the structure of hair remains unchanged, the minerals and trace elements are fixed, whether a sample is tested now or in a few years time. The levels are not subject to change." (M. Laker)

Nail Mineral Analysis (NMA)

Nail analysis has been used in forensics for the evaluation of severe arsenic poisoning when hair loss prohibited hair mineral analysis. Nail analysis is also used when untreated hair is not available in sufficient quantity. Finger or toenails may be used as a testing material. but nails must be free of varnish or polish. A minimum of 200 mg of nails is needed.

Definition of Normal

In medicine. the definition "normal" has several meanings. It used to distinguish a "normal" or healthy person from the abnormal or unhealthy individual, and in this context, we refer to "normal" iron levels as values that reflect good health, in fact "normal" iron concentrations can be found in the presence of disease. In the absence of disease or disease symptoms, a person is medically and legally considered normal or healthy. However, a person without symptoms of disease does not necessarily enjoy even optimal health. In the laboratory, "normal" is used to describe a set of laboratory results that is based on statistics. For many analytes such as serum iron or aluminum, whole blood lead or urine mercury, reference levels have been established by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). For other analytes less known in conventional medicine, including the important blood chromium or urine nickel, reference values have not been standardized. This applies for most elemental reference ranges in hair, with arsenic being one exception.

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

The analysis of sequential sections of hair provides reliable correlation to the pattern of arsenic exposure. In the hair follicle, arsenic circulating in the blood is deposited in the germinal cell matrix from blood vessels of the papilla. As the germinal matrix differentiates into keratin, the arsenic is trapped and carried up the follicle in the growing hair. The germinal cells are in relatively close equilibrium with the circulating arsenic, and as arsenic concentrations in blood increase or decrease, so does the amount of arsenic deposited in the growing hair vary accordingly.

Hair analysis by neutron activation not only provides precise quantitation of arsenic concentration but also allows segmental analysis to determine when arsenic was ingested and the number of episodes. The analysis requires only a few hairs, which grows at a rate of approximately 0.4 to 0.5 mm per day. Therefore, analysis of 1 centimeter, or about a half inch, segments provides a pattern of monthly exposure. In some cases, the concentration of arsenic along the length of the hair is measured to obtain information about exposure over an extended period of time.

Neutron activation is used either non-destructively or destructively. (The tests performed by Balavanta Prabhu and this author with Dr. Morris and Dr. Chatt respectively employed the non-destructive method.)

Until a few decades ago the only available methods for analyzing arsenic, such as Reinsch's method, Marsh's test, and Grutzeit's test, were qualitative rather quantitative in nature. Because of this limitation, results of studies based on these methods must be evaluated with caution.

Arsenic originally present in the sample at very low concentrations must often be preconcentrated before it can be measured. If the sample is a solution, the arsenic can be coprecipitated on metallic hydroxides or precipitated with organic reagents. It can also be isolated from its original matrix by liquid-liquid extraction or by volatilization as a trihalide or as arsine.

Until recently, total arsenic was usually determined colorimetrically, by either the molybdenum blue method or the silver diethyldithiocarbamate method. Arsenic is now usually determined by atomic absorption, with the sample solution introduced into a flame as an aerosol or deposited as a droplet inside a tube or on a metallic strip, which is then strongly heated. Greater sensitivity has been achieved with atomic absorption, however, by converting the arsenic to arsine and introducing this gas into a heated tube. Equal sensitivity can be achieved by introducing the arsine into an arc in helium and measuring the resulting spectral emission. Low detection limits for arsenic can also be reached by neutron-activation analysis (often without chemical treatment). Electrochemical methods, such as differential pulse polarography, can achieve comparable sensitivity in the presence of natural pollutants (e.g., sludge).

Neutron-activation analysis has the advantages of being nondestructive (in the many cases in which postirradiation radiochemical separations are not necessary) and of being immune from any danger of contamination during post-irradiation handling. Its absolute sensitivity is 0.1 ng for a thermal-neutron flux of 10¹² neutrons/cm²-s. In tissue and mineral samples, however, this sensitivity can seldom be reached. The activity induced is the 599-keV photopeak of arsenic-76. A relatively great amount of sodium-24 activity is induced in the sodium present in such samples, and, although the decay of sodium-24 (half-life, 14.96 h) is faster than that of arsenic-76 (half-life, 26.5 h), the sodium-24 activity must be allowed to decay for several days before the arsenic-76 activity can be counted. This delay does not seriously interfere with the determination of arsenic at concentrations above a few parts per million, and the elimination of all chemical treatment of the sample compensates for the inconvenience. If greater sensitivity is needed or if radiochemical interferences appear (e.g., bromine or antimony activities), chemical-group separations can still be performed to isolate the arsenic-76 activity.

Electrochemical Methods

In the electrochemical methods that have been proposed for determining traces of arsenic, the arsenic is usually first isolated by volatilization or extraction, then converted to the trivalent form and determined polarographically. The most sensitive such technique is differential pulse polarography, which has a detection limit of about 0.3 ng of arsenic per milliliter and can be used in the presence of natural pollutants, such as unfiltered sludge.

Gas Chromatography

Total arsenic can be determined by gas chromatography if the arsenic is first collected and converted to triphenylarsine. The collection-conversion procedure is somewhat long, but the absolute limit of detection is quite low (20 pg) when an atomic-emission detector is used.

Other Methods

There are other valid methods of determining traces of arsenic, such as coulombmetry, X-ray fluorescence, atomic optical fluorescence, and ordinary and isotope-dilution mass spectrometry. (Arsenic)

AUTHENTICATION OF HAIR SPECIMENS

Hair absorbs minerals and compounds externally and thus external contaminants can and do change the chemical composition of hair. Someone using shampoo and hair cremes, or bathing in contaminated water, can conceivably alter the natural amounts of compounds in the hair that are deposited there internally from the blood. However, toxins contacting the hair would also be absorbed through the skin, and any serious amounts of toxins would thus create a health hazard and reaction immediately. For the most part, whenever hair analysis is undertaken, it is only common sense to check on the life style and any possible contaminants that may have been encountered. In the case of Srila Prabhupada, bath water, massage oils, chalk powders, etc cannot explain the elevated level of arsenic in His hair.

A method of ascertaining whether hair was externally tainted by toxins is the use neutron activation analysis on separate, consecutive segments of hair. This was done with the tests on Napoleon's hair, revealing great variances over time in the amounts of arsenic content. External contamination would produce a uniform, consistent level of toxins throughout the length of the hair. This is an important proof of internal poisoning, but hair specimens of sufficient length are required. Srila Prabhupada's hair specimen from Hari Sauri was about half an inch long only, about a month's growth, and sectional readings are not possible.

In lieu of the discovery of irregular depositions of toxins from the blood in hair of sufficient length, several short hair specimens that were cut at different times could also reveal varying amounts of toxins and thus establish a more solid proof of ingested and intermittent arsenic poisonings. We have Srila Prabhupada's hair from October 1977 as the first reading of arsenic levels. If now we could obtain hair from February, or May, or September, etc, then further testing would reveal differing levels of arsenic. Therefore it is urgent that further hair specimens of Srila Prabhupada be located so that verification and further discovery may occur.

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CHAPTER 43:

WHO ARE THE SUSPECTS?

            This publication makes no accusations as to who poisoned Srila Prabhupada. Until we have solid proof, we risk committing serious Vaishnava aparadha (offense) in such accusations. Therefore we must proceed cautiously on this front. We know Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, but we do not know exactly by whom. Any suspicion that has been cast upon any individual in this book is due to the evidence. This author has tried hard not to cast any undue aspersions upon any individual, including Tamal Krishna Goswami. As in any murder investigation, sometimes innocent parties are suspected, at least until the guilty are identified and convicted by the evidence in a court of law. It is a big jump from establishing the crime, which this book does, to a legal conviction. Let's not forget this as we proceed with further investigation. Let us not jump to conclusions or accusations.

            Nevertheless, there are primary suspects as a result of the evidence accumulated to date.. Further evidence may exonerate or further implicate these suspects, or bring new suspects into the investigation. Those presently under suspicion as possibly involved in poisoning Srila Prabhupada are:

Tamal Krishna Goswami, Jayapataka Swami, Bhakticharu Swami, and to a lesser degree others who were present in Srila Prabhupada's room during those last months, such as Bhavananda, Hansadutta, Satadhanya, etc.

This author is not accusing any of these individuals of any crime. The evidence in this book, however, casts substantial suspicion on them. The whispers indicate at least 3 poisoners; Tamal and Jayapataka are quite clearly heard in some of the whispers. Jayapataka uses the poison word in "Poisoning for a long time," to which Srila Prabhupada answers, "To me?" Tamal and Bhakticharu were in charge of food and medicines. A review of all evidence relating to suspects is not given here, but is throughout this book.

            It is hoped that the suspects in the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada will cooperate with further investigation as proposed by this author. Specifically:

1.       Agree to take lie detector and sodium pentathol tests.

2.       Agree to be deposed for questioning as required.

3.       Agree to provide documents and diaries as requested.

4.       Agree to reverse speech analyses, tests on hair and teeth relics (Tamal)

5.       Fully cooperate with the investigation.

This affair is not a pleasant one, but it cannot be avoided. With cool heads, let us proceed towards resolution of this matter as soon and as fairly as possible. Not to do so, in the opinion of some, would make us complicit in the crime by tacit approval. Knowledge of a crime, which this book and its evidence has established, requires appropriate action and not a turning away out of apathy, fear of intimidation, or due to vested interests.

Let us pray that the poisoners will be found out, indicted and tried in courts of law. If the suspects are neither cleared or convicted by the evidence, they should "honorably" resign their posts for the sake of the Mission.

CHAPTER 44:

DATELINE OF POISONING HIGHLIGHTS

1976

5.4:       SP in Hawaii, TKG visits, illness; weakness, heart palpitations

6.23:     SP in New Vrindaban; weakness, heart palpitations, indigestion, cold

7.9:       SP arrives New York as TKG's guest for Rathayatra

7.20:     SP very ill; edema, weak, pain.Becomes very ill on plane to London

8.2:       By now, SP recovered enough to eat and walk a little at France farm

8.27      SP back in Bombay, still weak with poor digestion

1977

1.13            SP becomes very ill at Kumbha Mela; weak, edema, cold, mucus

1.19:     SP arrives Bhubaneshwar; weak, indigestion

1.26:     SP collapses in Puri due to sudden leg weakness

2.10:     SP collapses in Navadwip due to sudden leg weakness

2.14:     SP in Mayapur; TKG arrives with other GBC's

2.26:     SP becomes extremely ill; fever, pain, vomiting, weakness

3.10:     SP in Mayapur, worsening of illness, very sick, not eating

3.13:     Hari Sauri leaves SP's service; Bhavananda, Upendra replace him

3.22:     SP arrives in Bombay for pandal program; cannot walk without help

3.31:     SP moves into His new rooms at Juhu temple

5.8:       SP goes to Hrishikesh for health recovery

5.16:     SP becomes so ill that He wants to return to Vrindaban to die

5.17:     SP arrives in Vrindaban, prepares His will, arranges to depart

5.28:     SP instructs GBC about rtvik acharyas to initiate on His behalf

6.5:       After GBC's leave, another downturn in SP's condition

7.8-9:    SP chooses 11 rtvik acharyas, signs & sends "Final Order" letter

7.12:     SP calls for Bonamali kaviraja to tend to His health treatment

7.25:     Abhiram arrives as SP's nurse and assistant (until 10.16)

7.27:     SP's health takes another turn for the worse

8.25:     SP becomes very ill with another downturn, just before travelling

8.27:     SP departs for London and the West, bedridden, very weak

9.8:       SP has health crisis; goes to hospital for one day; minor operation

9.13:     SP's health declines so He decides to return to Bombay

10.2:     SP returns to Vrindaban thinking His end is near

10.16:   Dr. Ghosh and Dr. Gopal treat SP for kidney infection, etc

10.22:   Dr. Gopal rejected; SP has dream of Ramanuja's makharadhvaja

10.26:   SP takes Chandra Swami's friend's makharadhvaja twice, quits

10.28:   D.P.Sastri arrives and begins SP's final treatment program

11.9:     SP says He heard someone saying someone has poisoned Him

11.10:   SP says again that someone has poisoned Him, nothing is done

11.11:   The whispers: "Is poison in the milk?" and "Poison's going down"

11.13:   SP enters internal consciousness (coma) around midnight

11.14:   SP departs from this mortal realm at 7:25 PM; chaos ensues

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CHAPTER 41:

POSSIBLE MOTIVES OF THE ASSASSINS

It does not take a rocket scientist to guess as to what motive someone may have had in poisoning Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada stood between them and something they very much wanted, namely the absolute position, absolute power, tremendous assets, and prestige of taking Srila Prabhupada's place as leader and virtual owner of ISKCON. Also there is the possibility of a secondary motive of revenge or anger, wanting to repay Srila Prabhupada for perceived injustices or mistreatment. Suffice it to say at this juncture that there was certainly ample motive for a number of persons to try to eliminate Srila Prabhupada from the scene of ISKCON in 1977. Further, we must note that some of those who actually did gain position, power, money, prestige and so on are still in those positions today. It only makes sense that they be taken as primary suspects in an investigation as to who poisoned Srila Prabhupada.

See also Appendix 15: Colorful History of Tamal Krishna Goswami.

Questions to ask regarding possible motives in any plan to eliminate Srila Prabhupada through poisoning are:

1. Who made constant criticism of doctors and medicines, discouraging Srila Prabhupada from obtaining qualified medical attention even on Srila Prabhupada's terms of no injections, no operations, etc.?

2. Who had cause for revenge against Srila Prabhupada? Who did Srila Prabhupada disgrace in front of the entire ISKCON society? Who did Srila Prabhupada shame, dishonor, embarrass, and chastise severely?

3. Who displayed serious and strong ambitions for power and prestige in the years leading up to Srila Prabhupada's departure? Who among the ISKCON senior leaders is known for his relentless and personally motivated ambition?

4. Who stood to gain from Srila Prabhupada's departure? Who became absolute acharyas, worshipped as good as God by hundreds and thousands of disciples who became like personal servants to the emperor? Who would be provided for in royal style for the rest of their life?

5. After Srila Prabhupada's disappearance and the immediate emergence of eleven absolute zonal acharyas, who among them claimed to be the sole inheritor of Srila Prabhupada's position? Who claimed that they had become the via medium to approach the disciplic succession, even for the rest of Srila Prabhupada's disciples?

6. Who became the kingpins of the new guru system which gave so much money and power to so few?

Rochan Prabhu wrote in a letter to IVC members in March 1998:

"When we logically consider the zonal acharya system, which quickly manifested after Srila Prabhupada's departure, we can conclude that those inhabiting the topmost rungs on the institutional ladder had grandiose expectations..." With Srila Prabhupada gone, the eleven chosen rtviks quickly pounced on the authority "to approve and appoint diksha gurus, assign them(selves) exclusive geographical areas, change Srila Prabhupada's books, make decisions on siddhanta, i.e., spiritual qualifications for diksha gurus that empower instant uttama adhikary or kripa siddha status, etc."

If Srila Prabhupada was poisoned by one or more of his disciples, we can easily understand their motive. To inherit Srila Prabhupada's movement as one of His few "intimate" disciples, becoming the new gurus in His Divine Grace's place, would be the envy of anyone desiring great wealth, many devoted followers, prestige or power. It is now obvious to most devotees how most of the original eleven new gurus in 1978 were overwhelmingly tainted by these material desires. Some of them remain in power as GBC, zonal acharyas and supposed spiritual leaders of ISKCON, several of which are now implicated in the poison whispers.

Our Divine Guide and Master was poisoned in front of our eyes, and He decided to leave our association. The pure devotee of the Supreme Lord, the ambassador from the spiritual world, was cruelly and horribly tormented with arsenic, a most painful and despicable poison. Srila Prabhupada was frustrated in His mission and we were frustrated in His consequent departure.

Is there any greater crime?

CHAPTER 42:

PARADE OF DOCTORS, TREATMENTS, AND MIS-DIAGNOSES

As soon as Srila Prabhupada began having serious health problems in early 1977, there followed a parade of doctors, kavirajas and treatments over the next ten months. This parade is documented in the 1977 biographical section of this publication. One is easily confused by reading of the repeated start, stop, start again series of medical programs and medicines. It is only natural to wonder about the unusual nature of Srila Prabhupada's medical care in that year. There is no clear conclusion as to what Srila Prabhupada's illness was. There is even less logic or sense as to why treatments were abandoned one after another, as well as doctors switched one after another. To better analyze the history, let us make an abbreviated list of the doctors, treatments, and medicines and see what can thus be ascertained or deduced. The list below is only partial; many other doctors and medicines are omitted.

	DOCTOR, Date, Place	DIAGNOSIS: (IF ANY)	TREATMENT PROGRAM	OUTCOME OF TREATMENT
1	Dr. G. Ghosh 1/12/77 Allahabad	?	?
2	Dr. G. Ghosh End of Feb. Mayapur	?	Diuretic	Medicines caused blood in urine
3	Bimal Tanka Tirtha 3/7/77 Mayapur	?	Allopathic & Ayurvedic: gold, musk, pearls	Stopped several days later - no noticeable results
4	Dr. Oja 3/26/77 Bombay	High blood pressure (200/100)	Rest. No strain.
5	New doctor 4/5/77 Bombay	?		Prabhupada rejected this doctor
6	Dr. Sharma 4/18/77 Bombay	?	Injections & pills	Prabhupada refused the treatment
7	Dr. Ghosh of Kodaikanal 6/4-5/77 Vrind.	Internal organs have collapsed	Dialysis and other treatments	Doctor left; Prabhupada refused treatment
8	Bhagatji's old baba: 6/24/77 Vrindaban	?	Medicine made from forty-five trees' bark	Prabhupada felt better, wanted more medicine
9	Bonamali 6/12/77 Vrindaban	?	Milk Cow dung over body *Medicines etc	Treatment lasted three weeks; no substantial results
10	Chief doctor of Ayur. Hospital 8/15/77 Vrind.	?	Came from Delhi & then left	Rejected by Tamal for using a stethoscope
11	FatherNaveen Krishna Prabhu Vrindaban	Kidney failure	Recommended kidney dialysis at hospital	Prabhupada refused to go to hospital
12	Bhagatji's vaidya 8/15/77 Vrindaban	Dropsy, high pulse rate	Less strain; No salt	Left for London in a week
13	Bonamali 8/25 Vrind	Acid indigestion	Medicine: lavan bhaskar	Went to London within 2 days
14	Dr. McIrving 9/8/77 London	Kidney damage, malnutrition	Circumcision	Left hospital same day
15	Dr. Kanodia 9/8/77 London	None	Followup checkup	No follow through
16	Dr. McIrving 9/9/77 London	Followup checkup	Plenty of liquid Protein & food, *Antibiotics	Back to India; avoided further allopathic treatmt.
17	Ram Gopal Vaidya 9/24/77 Bombay	Liver & kidney problems	Medicines Special diet	Prabhupada rejected; program too problematic
18	Bonamali 10/3-4/77 Vrindaban	No illness; just weakness	Special diet Medicines *No wet baths	Medicine caused cough; fees raised; rejected Bonamali
19	Dr. Kapoor's Raj Vaidya 10/10 Vrind	Vit B complex deficiency, urine test ordered	Breathing exer-cises; massage; supplements	No results after ten days
20	Dr. Ghosh /Kodaikanal 10/12 Vrind	?	?	Doctor uninvited Rejected due to past experience
21	Bhagatji 10/13/77 Vrindaban	Urinalysis showed kidney infection	Prescription pills for infection	Prabhupada refused pills
22	Bonamali 10/15-16/77 Vrindaban	Gonorrhea-type disorder	?	No results
23	Dr. G. Ghosh 10/16/77 Vrindaban	?	More air, Hor-licks urinalysis, posture changes	Treatment continued
24	Dr. G. Ghosh & Dr. Gopal 10/17 Vrind	Serious chronic kidney infection, renal damage	Vitamins,Lassix, other medicines, liquids,nutrition	Treatment continued
25	Dr. G. Ghosh 10/20Vrind	Same	Continue same program	Ghosh left: Dr. Gopal in charge
26	Dr. Gopal 10/20Vrind	Same	Eating, drinking more often.	Treatment continued
27	Dr. Gopal 10/22/77 Vrindaban	Speculated on a lung infection or tuberculosis	Suggested lung x-rays, anti-tuberculin drugs	Treatment deemed failure; Dr. Gopal rejected
28	Ramanuja kaviraja :Vrind. 10/22-23/77	Malfunctioning of the kidneys and weak digestion	Recommended makharadhvaja	Rejected due to mistrust of his medicine
29	Self treatment 10/25-26 Vrind		Chandra Swami Makharadhvaja	Medicine rejected; negative effects
30	D. P. Sastri 10/28/77 Vrind	Kidney disease	Medicines for curing kidneys	Treatment continued
31	D. P. Sastri 11/7/77 Vrindaban	Kidneys malfunctioning - urinalysis	New medicine added to make new blood	Sastriji returns: treatment continued
32	D. P. Sastri consults Sri Ramduttji in Delhi 11/10/77	Disease curable, greatest necessity was to increase the strength.	Milk emphasis: Medicine to control cough & passing stool.	D. P. Sastri stayed with Prabhupada through 11/14/77

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CHAPTER 45:

CONCLUSIONS & SUMMARY

WHY EXPOSE THE CONSPIRACY?

This reporter is beset by heavy anxiety and is troubled over the responsibility undertaken for the collection of the evidence in the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada. Should it be openly distributed and what effects will this information will have on the ISKCON body that was so dear to Srila Prabhupada? Why expose the poison conspiracy? After all, some say, so much time has passed and what is done cannot be undone. Perhaps, as some have suggested, this matter is best forgotten.

In answer, we need only look to what happened to the teachings of Jesus Christ, a sad phenomenon being pieced together only recently by modern historians. In essence, the teachings of Christ have been lost, changed, perverted, and adapted for use by those with less than pure motives. It is now even doubtful whether Christ died on the cross or that he said or did many of the things attributed to him. One shocking book on the subject is Bloodline of the Holy Grail. There is still faith in Christ and some potency in Christianity, but the full spiritual power of his teachings have been corrupted and is missing.

But without digressing to a discussion on modern Christianity compared with Christ's original teachings, suffice it to say that we stand at a critical crossroads in the history of the world in regards to the future of Lord Chaitanya's movement. We do not want what happened to Christ's teachings to happen to Srila Prabhupada's mission. The number and magnitude of setbacks to Srila Prabhupada's mission and His ISKCON in the last 22 years have been such that if the present course is continued, there will be little left in another 10 years.

It behooves those dedicated to the Mission to come forward at this time and strive earnestly for the restoration of purity and potency to Srila Prabhupada's Mission. At the risk of some unavoidable and initially acrimonious debate over the poison issue, we must strive to establish the truth of how Srila Prabhupada was poisoned and seek full accountabilities thereof. Only then can we hope to restore His Mission when those who usurped it by such a horrible crime are removed from the Mission. Their continued presence as supposed leaders of the Mission, and the effects of their "spells" of philosophical twists and deviations on Srila Prabhupada's teachings must be cleansed. In short, the poisoners of Srila Prabhupada have also poisoned ISKCON and the Mission. All the problems in ISKCON will be solved by removing the poisoners and their poisonous effects, and then centering the Mission on Srila Prabhupada. ISKCON can be thus restored.

Srila Prabhupada was poisoned because those who wanted His assets thought they needed Him out of their way. The assassins of the pure devotee must be apprehended, removed, and chastised according to the laws of God and the state. Assuming that some of the "original eleven" and their allies are responsible for the poisoning, which is definitely indicated by the evidence, then it follows that ISKCON has been seriously adulterated by their takeover of Srila Prabhupada's assets. The systems and policies instituted since 1977 need to be reviewed in light of the poisoning of the acharya. The misguided course that the assassins have set His Mission on must be corrected and secured by those who have proven themselves dedicated to Srila Prabhupada and above self-aggrandizement. How long will it take us to finally realize that those who want to be gurus have corrupted this movement with their less than spiritual ambitions? As long as those who had anything to do with the poisoning, and perhaps those who cooperated with the poisoners afterwards, remain as leaders of and "gurus" in Srila Prabhupada's Mission, there will persist a loss of faith by the common members in the leadership. and a lack of purity in the leadership as well. It is time to clean house and do repairs !

SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE

            To begin, let us review a quote from a Mr. Schippers during some of President Clinton's legal and moral difficulties:

"Please do not be cajoled into considering each event in isolation and then treating it separately. That is a tactic employed by defense lawyers in every conspiracy trial...(in history) Events and words that may seem innocent or even expulpatory in a vacuum may well take on a sinister or even criminal connotation when observed in the context of the whole plot."

We can expect the entrenched ISKCON leadership to try and dissect the case for poisoning Srila Prabhupada into little bits and pieces, and then discredit each one individually. They will say the whispers can't really be heard, the symptoms are of kidney disease and colds, Srila Prabhupada did not mean such and such when He said this and that, the hair analysis is misleading or faulty, reverse speech is voodoo hocus-pocus, this is just the work of those "rtviks," etc, etc, etc. But we need to look at the whole picture. When we add all the evidence together, things begin to confirm each other and it becomes obvious as a conspiracy. Srila Prabhupada used to say, "Where there is smoke, there is fire," and there is both here. Nevertheless, the further facts and evidence that are required to completely resolve the issue will be found out, rest assured. The investigation has reached a point of no return. Poisoners beware: we will find you!

Let us review the evidence presented in this report.

MOTIVE: Before Srila Prabhupada's departure, the eagerness of some to become initiating spiritual masters was so great that Hansadutta and Kirtanananda did not even wait until Srila Prabhupada's departure. They began long beforehand, but were curtailed by Srila Prabhupada. That the motive for becoming absolute initiating gurus existed in many of the senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada cannot be contested. It was a fact. For Srila Prabhupada to have remained with us another five, ten, or more years, would have severely tested the patience of these guru-aspirants, evidenced by how quickly they began to initiate their own disciples after Srila Prabhupada's departure.

Furthermore, the assets of Srila Prabhupada's movement were up for grabs: private deluxe quarters, money, followers, power, worship. In other words, profit, distinction, adoration. There most certainly WAS great motive for removing Srila Prabhupada from the scene so that His position and assets could be assumed. Fathers, brothers, children, and spouses have often been killed throughout history for the position of king or even just a little money, what to speak of attaining the most absolutely glorious seat of God's representative, replete with all the accompanying amenities.

WITNESSES: There is serious and substantial evidence that at least one witness may be available to confirm the poisoning. A renewed search for that witness may be fruitful. There are rumors of other witnesses as well. The best witness would be for one of those involved in the poisoning to confess and implicate the others. As the pressure mounts and the investigation pushes forward, someone will crack and spill the beans.

WHISPERS: The opinions produced in the amateur sound studios of Harikesh, Bir Krishna, and Rabindra Swarup pale in comparison to the professional analyses done in top-notch audio forensic laboratories around the world. There is no doubt that the poison word is repeatedly whispered in the background on the third to last tape. Given the context of conversations on the tape, the poison whispers become especially more suspicious. Further, the exact wording of the whispers, such as, "poisoning for a long time," leaves little doubt in the unbiased mind as to what was happening. Nevertheless, whispers are whispers, and a case cannot be built around them alone. But alone they are not, as there is plenty of other supporting evidence.

Does it not seem coincidental that the day after Srila Prabhupada states that He has been poisoned, is the day we find the poison whispers in the background? The day after! November 9 and 10: Srila Prabhupada says, "Someone has poisoned me." November 11: "The poison's going down!" and "The poison's in the milk," etc. Coincidence? The chances in a year are microscopic that the two incidents would follow each other as they have.

MEDICAL SYMPTOMS: The challenge is put forward to all toxicologists and pathologists: study the health biography in this publication and tell us that the physical symptoms exhibited by Srila Prabhupada are anything other than those of chronic arsenic poisoning ! Thank you to Tamal for providing so much of the information necessary for this reconstruction of Srila Prabhupada's health history. However, most information came from careful review of the taped recordings that survived and are found in the Conversations Books.

SRILA PRABHUPADA SAID: For a good perspective on the value of Srila Prabhupada's statements that He was being poisoned, refer to Appendix 18. Even the GBC apologists admit confusion and perplexity at how to explain away Srila Prabhupada's words, "Someone has poisoned me." But they will not take the words of the pure devotee seriously.

REVERSE SPEECH: This is a controversial area of evidence, but the case of Srila Prabhupada's poisoning is not made or broken by speech reversals. However, they are shocking in their consistency and revelations, they are further confirmation of the fact, and the method deserves further research. Many law enforcement agencies are also using reverse speech analysis; why shouldn't we?

HAIR ANALYSES: Further neutron activation analyses of Srila Prabhupada's 1976-77 hair samples would provide the confirmations we need to reconstruct the precise history of Srila Prabhupada's poisoning. The more evidence the better. However, even with only ONE test, that done on Hari Sauri's October 1977 hair, we find that by conservative estimation, Srila Prabhupada had 10 times the average level of arsenic. This alone constitutes definite confirmation of His being poisoned. Further, this author's hair sample was analyzed to have 4 times the average amounts of arsenic.

SUM TOTAL OF EVIDENCE: We have sufficient evidence to assuredly and unequivocally state: Srila Prabhupada was poisoned. The mass of corroborating evidence herein establishes this fact as a certainty. The mass of evidence at this point is too compelling to ignore or dismiss. Now we must move to conclude the investigation, remove the poisoners, and rebuild our beloved Spiritual Master's Mission.

CONCLUSIONS

Was Srila Prabhupada killed? Definitely not. The pure devotee is fully under the protection of the Supreme Lord and whatever takes place in the lives of such fully surrendered souls is a divine arrangement, not the result of material factors or conditions. As Srila Prabhupada said on April 16, 1977, to Tamal: "It is not possible to kill him (Christ). Such a great personality, representative of God, he is not killed. That is not possible."

Was Srila Prabhupada poisoned? Definitely, yes. He knew He was being poisoned, maybe long before He finally said so on November 9-10, 1977. Srila Prabhupada's references to Ravana and Rama (November 11, 1977), and the statement, "Better kill me here," (October 22, 1977) also indicate He knew He was being poisoned. Yet, Srila Prabhupada seemed to accept it in the mood of complete dependence on Lord Krishna. He incredibly made hardly any complaint about His physical condition and ill health, what to speak of any protest of being poisoned. Srila Prabhupada was fully empowered with all the mystic yoga perfections; He was capable of physically defeating any opposition, by the grace of the Lord. Srila Prabhupada departed because it was a private decision between Himself and His worshippable Lord.

When Srila Prabhupada was no longer wanted, being poisoned by those He gave His mercy to, He decided to depart, a decision confirmed in a September 25, 1976 letter to Bhaktijan Prabhu in New York, who was concerned about Srila Prabhupada's health:

"I'll not leave the planet until you order."

Being poisoned could easily be taken as an order to leave or not being wanted. Srila Prabhupada several times expressed in His final months that His staying depended on His disciples desire and love. We failed to demonstrate it; we failed in convincing His Divine Grace to stay with us. Or rather, the poisoners decided that for the rest of us. Nevertheless, we failed to protect our Spiritual Master. Now knowing what happened, can we still remain silent, passively accepting this greatest of injustices?

Who poisoned Srila Prabhupada? To uncover the reality of this issue is a daunting task, as twenty-two years already has passed to hide the evidence. It constitutes a challenge of tremendous proportions, and whatever the outcome, the issue is one of great importance to the spiritual health and future of Srila Prabhupada's divine Mission and the upliftment of humanity. Our greatest obstacle to achieving justice and a restoring of the Mission is not the poisoners' cleverness or determination to remain anonymous- it would be the apathy and inaction of Srila Prabhupada's followers.

WHAT TO DO NOW?

There is the very small chance that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned from outside ISKCON, although, given the evidence on hand already, that just doesn't make sense. The assassins are almost certainly still inside ISKCON in positions of power and leadership. The consequences of the discovery of Srila Prabhupada's poisoning must now be dealt with. The example may be given of Kirtanananda Swami and New Vrindaban. It was not until Kirtanananda's final departure to jail that the once-largest devotee community in ISKCON was able to rectify itself and move forward with renewed purity (relatively speaking). Similarly, we must of necessity completely purge the saboteurs from ISKCON before the Mission can be properly restored to purity and reset on the proper course that Srila Prabhupada charted out.

Since 1977 there has been a disease in Srila Prabhupada's body, namely ISKCON, evidenced by the pain, confusion, turmoil, cheating, and deviations experienced in the past 22 years. The cure for the disease in the Mission is offered with the following steps:

1.       Completion of the poison investigation, leading to a full resolution including legal proof of the crime, apprehension of the murderers and their accomplices, their removal and legal convictions.

2.       Select a new GBC body from scratch, elected by the devotees, who would then have renewed faith in ISKCON leadership.

3.       Select a group of qualified brahmanas, elected by the devotees, to oversee an open, ongoing philosophical convention to sort out the current divisive issues at hand, such as the guru issue, etc. Until the next empowered representative of the Lord comes who can unite the various factions with singular leadership, let us try to cooperatively and democratically establish an ISKCON Constitution based on the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. We have already seen that tyranny and the heavy-handed rule of the GBC-guru elite will not work. Now let us try another path, one of open discussion leading to consensus and cooperation. Let us assume the grass roots members of this movement are basically sincere and will accept philosophical siddhanta when it is openly and honestly discussed and ascertained rather than forced down their throats. After all, everything is in Srila Prabhupada's books. If we avail ourselves of His books, all issues can be settled by the above mentioned method.

4.       Move forward again with cooperation, honesty, and openness in following Srila Prabhupada's teachings, without any more tyranny, and push on the Mission of delivering the fallen souls of this planet.

This can be accomplished if enough of the followers of Srila Prabhupada are sufficiently interested to become involved in a final and full reform effort. The partial so-called reforms of 1982, 1986, 1992, 1996, etc have not addressed the real problem: the poisoners and their poisoning of the Mission. Let us not forsake Srila Prabhupada and His desire that Lord Chaitanya's Mission be realized. We may be battered, bruised, disgusted, alienated, confused, and disheartened by the cloud of darkness over Srila Prabhupada's Mission. But at least let us not end our lives without having tried to restore Srila Prabhupada to ISKCON. We can try, and Krishna will decide the results.

CONTINUATION OF POISON INVESTIGATION

The investigation into the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada has just only begun; it must be continued until the whole truth has been uncovered. The present situation is that there are two underfunded, oppressed, and under-manned investigations working separately, but both facing an ISKCON leadership entrenched in denial. Probably the only way this situation can be altered is by a massive groundswell of protest and demand for action from the worldwide Vaishnava community. Pressure on the present leaders and "gurus" may precipitate some progress. Typically, a leader is able to remain in his position only so long as he inspires faith and confidence in his constituents. Thus leaders will respond to the devotees who, if in sufficient numbers, demand action.

Obviously, a very serious expansion of the investigation is required. Pressure on the ISKCON leadership can bring about the formation and funding of an expanded and empowered investigative team (EXIT) chosen from the existing investigations with additional, neutral parties inside and outside of the official ISKCON structure. If the GBC will not do so, then the followers of Srila Prabhupada must organize such an effort themselves.

It is understood that Balavanta Prabhu's team is working under the extreme hardship of no funding and the subtle intimidation of finding results in keeping with ISKCON's official policy of absolute denial that poisoning took place. Balavanta seems to have his hands tied by de facto non-cooperation from the GBC, while the GBC simultaneously wants him to provide confirmation of their denials. Again, only grass roots pressure can change that. The GBC and all ISKCON members and supporters must require that any member, guru, or GBC consents to being interviewed and questioned, Tamal, Jayapataka and Bhakticharu Swamis especially. Actually, those three should be placed under "house arrest" at once by the GBC until their full and separate depositions are taken. The non-cooperation of these individuals should meet the full power of the GBC's disciplinary measures.

Once an expanded and empowered investigative team (EXIT) is formed, the following are some of the things to do:

1.       Interview Tamal Krishna Goswami, Bhavananda, Satadhanya, Bhakticharu Swami, Hansadutta, Jayapataka Swami and many others, including lie detector tests, sodium pentathol interviews, and reverse speech analysis.

2.       Obtain and test further samples of Srila Prabhupada's hair and teeth, such as those in Tamal's possession.

3.       Procure complete translations of Hindi and Bengali portions on the 1977 tape recordings.

4.       Contact the government authorities in India, where the crime was committed, for assistance and participation in the investigation. The Indian law enforcement agencies may take up the case as well.

5.       Conduct further audio forensic analysis as may be necessary to confirm known and presently unknown whispers, and to test for tape editing.

6.       Conduct reverse speech analysis to provide leads.

7.       Maintain an internet website for the discussion of the issues, the evidence, the consequences, the healing.

8.       Mount a renewed effort to locate rumored witnesses.

9.       Establish a public relations office to deal with the publicity, and an 800 number hotline for leads and general participation.

10.   Requisition of vital documents and evidence, such as Tamal's original diary and the original 1977 tape recorders.

11.   If a legal resolution cannot be achieved due to lack of sufficient evidence for obtaining murder convictions, the GBC must decide whether those suspected should be allowed to remain in their positions, considering the unity and health of Srila Prabhupada's mission. It may come to the point where some suspects, perhaps, will need to be sent off to remote parts of the world to preach alone, as their continued presence would be too controversial and disturbing. There's the Amazon, the Congo, Greenland, China etc. That would be the "honorable" thing for them to do voluntarily.

SUMMARY

We want the truth! We want the directors of ISKCON to be responsible to the many thousands of devotees whose spiritual lives hang in the balance over this issue. Will ISKCON be the institution which Srila Prabhupada created and put into motion, or will it become a Kaliyuga production, a impotent pseudo-spiritual sideshow? This question must be answered, for can an institution which gives safe harbor to those who have killed the Founder-Acharya have any effective future?

It must be noted that not one GBC member or ISKCON "guru" has contacted the IVC, any of its members, or this author to offer help, sympathy or even to ask questions. Even the noted liberal and free thinking Bhaktitirtha Swami declined any involvement in this issue, begging a busy schedule as an excuse. To be optimistic, though, let us assume that when this compilation is put in their hands, they will awaken to the gravity and substance of the poisoning evidence, and meet up to their responsibility as ISKCON leaders. Hopefully there will be at least a few devotees who hold positions in ISKCON who will demand a full scale and truly impartial investigation.

If our ISKCON leaders, even after this compilation is made available to them, do not aggressively act to set up an impartial and full-fledged investigation, we will conclude that their sincerity and honesty has been compromised by political or personal considerations. Then we must demand their resignation and find out new and honest leadership to steer Srila Prabhupada's movement to success through the choppy waters of Kaliyuga. The evidence contained herewith should be more than sufficient to cause each and every sincere follower of Srila Prabhupada to rise up and act for the welfare of ISKCON. We must now bring an atmosphere of honest review and investigation into the poison issue and other significant and related topics, one of which is the initiation and guru question. No longer can we afford to allow the Mission of Srila Prabhupada to be run by those who would reject and expel any who do not conform to their self-interested policies.

Surely, Lord Krishna will make arrangements for the preservation and rectification of Srila Prabhupada's Mission, and it is just a matter of time before this situation is set right. The poison issue, the initiation/guru issue, the changing the books issue, the guru's money issue and much more of the causes for disturbance in ISKCON will be resolved soon. We must not become depressed and cynical or resort to the same inappropriate behavior we have abhorred in others. We must have faith that Lord Chaitanya's predictions will come to pass and that Srila Prabhupada's incarnation was divinely arranged and that His hard work and austerity will not be futile.

Meanwhile, we all must become prepared to participate meaningfully in a new and cleansed ISKCON of the near future. We have learned so much since Srila Prabhupada's departure about the what-not-to-do's and the pitfalls to avoid in preserving and perpetuating His spiritual movement. Exactly how we can contribute to the preservation and rectification of ISKCON will be revealed by the prayer and sincere soul-searching of each individual. Let us prepare ourselves by becoming fixed in Krishna consciousness and soundly situated in simple living with sufficient arrangement for basic economics. Our extra time in life can then be used to cooperatively push on Srila Prabhupada's mission to save this planet and its six billion human inhabitants from the progressive hellish degradations of the Age of Kali.

ENDNOTE

The investigation into the poison issue began as a team effort of IVC members and supporters ever since its inception in late 1997. Rochan Prabhu maintained much relevant information on a web site (although it has become somewhat outdated) and acted as a clearinghouse and coordinator. Mahabuddhi and Isha Prabhus organized the first audio forensic analyses on the whispers. Dhaneshwar Prabhu worked on the aborted CD project and reverse speech research, the work for which was invaluable to this publication. Mrigendra and Gupta Prabhus gave practical and legal advice, both being long-practicing attorneys.

Many were interviewed or consulted by Dhaneshwar Prabhu or this reporter, such as Pradyumna, Arundhati, Bhagwat, Udayananda, Hansadutta, Niscinta, Rupanuga, Yasodanandana, Garuda, Badarayan, Paramrupa, Ekanath, Ranjit, Isha, Bir Krishna Maharaj, Adi Keshava, Pusta Krishna, the editor of Hinduism Today, various forensic experts and many, many more. A few others also gave support and assistance in various ways. The IVC has become functionally inoperative, and since early 1998 this reporter has worked quietly and basically alone on research and compilation of this book.

Since November, 1997, this reporter's conscience has pushed relentlessly for the completion of this publication. It is with singular and great determination that this author will continue this investigation in league with those sincere and concerned devotees that require the truth rather than standard political maneuverings and predictable denials, obscurements, and obfuscations. In the attempt to obtain balanced information, an interview was sought with Tamal Krishna Goswami, but it was declined by deferring to Balavanta's investigation.

Unfortunately, there has been no financial support to date, and any contributions received would be much appreciated and are tax deductible. The only reason we ask for a donation for this publication is to fund future investigative costs. We do not intend to profit from this book, and, any funds received will be used for continued investigative efforts.

This reporter hereby makes an official appeal for assistance on this poison investigation. Any donations, big or small, to our tax exempt corporation will be most appreciated and wisely spent on forensics, publications and the many other expenses of the investigation. Also, any leads or information regarding witnesses, Srila Prabhupada's health, or possible poisoning suspects, as well as anything one may think useful, would be much appreciated. Please send contributions (tax deductible receipts provided on request) or information to:

Restore the Mission, PO Box 208, Mayodan, NC 27027

(rivervillage@mindspring.com.)

Toll Free 1.800.252.0115

(phone use limited to substantial purposes only, please)

You may also find information on the poison issue at harekrishna.com.

You may also contact Balavanta Prabhu at:

William Ogle, PO Box 4118, Ormond Beach, Fl 32175

(whogle@worldnet.att.net)

To order a copy of Balavanta's Independent GBC Investigation report, which is expected to be completed by mid-1999, please inquire from your nearest GBC, ISKCON center, or Balavanta directly. It is assumed that the report will be available upon request. But do not be surprised if it is not.

We encourage you to share this documentary publication with others who are concerned for the future of Srila Prabhupada's mission, and we especially encourage you to make your opinions known to the GBC members; ISKCON sannyasis, life members, and supporters; Vaishnava news websites VNN and CHAKRA; government officials as may be appropriate; and your friends.

PRAYER AND LAMENTATION

Why was I not there to protect Srila Prabhupada? What can I do now, 22 years later, learning of the most horrible manner in which my beloved father and spiritual teacher was slowly, tortuously murdered by an excruciatingly painful poison? If only I had known then! But knowing it now, will I become passive and weak in my protest and in taking action for justice and truth? Srila Prabhupada! Please guide me in how to deal with this terrible revelation! Please enable me to maintain my sanity and proper Vaishnava behavior in spite of the anger that arises from discovery of this most vile crime! Please forgive me for waiting so long before standing up in protest to defend my savior and eternal benefactor! Could I have taken Your place, or maybe prevented Your departure, had I only known? Forgive me, Srila Prabhupada, for not being there to protect you. But I promise, I will not be silent any longer.

APOLOGY TO THE DEVOTEES

Forgive me if I have done any wrong or made any unfair offense. I apologize if this information or my proposals have offended or upset anyone. My true purpose is to stand up for what I believe to be right, and I am open to being corrected and chastised by anyone. I have tried not to be prejudicial in this presentation of evidence, and I ask for pardon if that has not been accomplished. It is a difficult and emotional issue. My hope is found in the common sayings: Nothing ventured, nothing gained; and failure is the pillar of success. We must all continue trying to set right what has happened to Lord Chaitanya's and Srila Prabhupada's Mission, and that can best be done by taking shelter of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Srila Prabhupada.

Your servant, and praying to be in Srila Prabhupada's service,
Welcome April 3, 2012 13:52

APPENDIX 1:

PERLE APPOINTMENT TAPE ANALYSIS

National Audio Video Forensic Laboratory

Norman I. Perle, B.C.F.E., F.A.C.F.E.

8357 Shirley Avenue - Northridge, Ca., 91324-4146

Voice - 818/989-0990 - Fax - 818-993-8550

E-mail: perle@ix.netcom.com or 71601.771@compuserve.com

Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/perle

Board Certified Forensic Examiner: American Board Of Recorded Evidence, - Fellow, American College Of Forensic Examiners.

***Computerized Noise Removal/ Sound Enhancement: Video/Audio

Authentication: Video Enhancements; Voice ID and Comparison. State Of The Art, Full Service Recorded Evidence Forensic Laboratory.

September 22, 1997: Attention Harvey Mechanic Esq.

TAPE ANALYSIS REPORT

On August 26, 1977 I received a standard analog tape recording from your office for examination. On the label of the cassette I affixed a tamperproof Security Seal Number 16959 for identification.

My assignment was to review and analyze the recording in order to determine if the content appears to be authentic, in that the words spoken are in context and appear to be all the words spoken at the moment of time the recorded event occurred. Additionally, there should be no signs of inappropriate stopping and re-starting of the recorder as well as the other classifications of signs suggestive of falsification.

The analysis procedure included computer waveform analysis, spectrographic chart analysis, FFT spectrum frequency analysis and a critical aural review of the audio.

EXPLANATION OF ATTACHED SUPPORTIVE EXHIBITS:

The attached exhibits are the results of Waveform and Spectrogram Analysis. The upper window is a Waveform of the acquired audio. This pattern represents audio relative to time and amplitude (volume). The large lower window is a Spectrogram.

The Spectrogram represents audio relative to: 1) Time--as shown on the bottom scale, horizontal axis. 2) Amplitude--as shown as the varying shades of pattern, vertical axis. 3) Frequency-as shown in the horizontal axis.

Each exhibit is annotated with an explanation as to the area of audio acquisition, and that is located in the "Title Bar" on top of the Waveform. A more detailed explanation of the spectrogram patterns is located in the "Title Bar" above each window.

EXPLANATION OF EXHIBITS AND CONCLUSIONS:

EXHIBIT no.1 It is a display of how the sound starts on this recording.

Absent is the Recorder Start Signature. Examples of what a Start Signature looks like can be seen on EXHIBIT no. 3, no. 4, and no. 5. This is consistent with a recording made from an EDITED master recording.

EXHIBIT no. 2 Is a display of the audio located approximately 10 seconds into the recording. The deficiencies revealed are audible, and are consistent with EDITING procedures wherein WORDS are ELIMINATED or REARRANGED to CHANGE the context of what is said.

EXHIBIT no. 3 is a display of the audio located approximately eleven minutes, thirty four seconds into the recording. The deficiencies are audible and are significantly similar to what one would expect to hear and see should the Master recording be an edited version.

EXHIBIT no. 4 is a display of the audio located approximately eleven minutes thirty seven seconds into the recording. This segment is located just after the area shown in exhibit number three. This deficiency is audible and is significantly similar to what one would expect to hear and see should the Master recording be an EDITED version.

EXHIBIT no. 5 is a display of the audio located approximately twenty two minutes, thirty three seconds into the recording. This is the end of the segment(s). One can hear, as well as see on the chart, representation strikingly similar to STOP/RE-STARTS(s) signatures. There is a remnant of audio after these patterns.

EXHIBIT no. 6 is a display of the audio located at the end of sound on this recording. Similar to the beginning (Exhibit #1) there is an absence of the anticipated stop signature.

SUMMARY

In conclusion, this recording exhibits strong signs suggestive of FALSIFICATION. I do not believe that these deficiencies might possibly the product of some mechanical process or problem within the recording or duplication process, and I believe that they exist at what is considered to be a higher degree than that of a coincidence.

I strongly recommend that an independent Forensic Analysis be conducted on the Master recording in order to determine the authenticity and originality of the evidence. This analysis requires what is represented as the original recording and the original tape recorder upon which this recording was represented to be made. The forensic instrumental tests include computer analysis, FFT spectral analysis, spectrogram chart analysis, and microscopic photography of the magnetic field on the original recording. Additionally, the recordings will be compared for dissimilarities as a critical listening procedure is performed.

These tests are directed to discover (1) if the recording has been edited in any manner so as to effect the context of the words, (i.e. erasures, inappropriate starting and re-stating of the recorder), (2) If in fact the audio material is an original source recording and not a re-recorded version. The testing would determine the cause of any deficiency within the audio track and is focused on establishing an opinion as to the integrity and authenticity of the evidence.

If you have any questions, please call me. Norman I. Perle
Welcome April 3, 2012 14:30

APPENDIX 9:

UNVERIFIED INFORMATION

Dear Prabhus,

The below information was gathered over the course of the last two years. Some of the information has already been revealed publicly but much of it hasn't. Unfortunately, most of it can only be considered supportive and not material evidence. As far as possible, I tried to put everything in some sort of chronological order. Some of the entries are from first hand witnesses and others still need to be verified. In most cases the witnesses had no idea we were conducting an investigation nor did we ask their permission to publicly release their statements. Therefore many of the names have been deleted in this version until we can determine which information can be of value and how to preserve the confidence, as well as address the obvious concerns for safety. Any information in this report which has not already been made public should not be made public until we can satisfy the above concerns.

I was about to turn this information over to Balavanta but in light of recent events have become greatly disappointed in his performance and totally outraged by the official GBC statement in regard to the investigation. Also, myself and the other devotees involved on this end have no connection with Puranjana and do not want to be associated with him. The fact that our separate investigations apparently began at the same time is purely coincidental, or more likely, a confirmation from Krishna that this issue needed to be resolved. I'm deeply grateful for the work of VNN and the proposal for IVC. I read VNN daily and (with a couple exceptions) have found it a reliable source for objective and responsible journalism. I also read the IVC site last night and found it extremely thorough and highly professional. I was further impressed at how promptly the package was put together and positioned. In addition, VADA's chronicle outlining the events of the investigation appears to be precise and verified. I now feel there's hope that Srila Prabhupada's mission will not be lost in the impending cataclysm. I thank all of you for your dedication to this service and pray that Krishna will give you the strength to continue. Many devotees will be counting on you.

Your servant, Anonymous das

REPORTED AND UNVERIFIED EVENTS: (Verified items in italics)

1. Prabhupada complains about getting injections, then tells Brahmananda that Tirtha poisoned Srila Bhaktisiddhanta.

2. New York: Prabhupada tells devotee: "Get a gun. Someone's trying to kill me."

3. A group of devotees lock Prabhupada in his room in LA and tell him that they are taking charge. (in 1970?)

4. A devotee finds Srila Prabhupada crying alone in his room and asks him what is wrong. Prabhupada says that they have tried to kick him out three times.

5. TKG tells people that he is losing faith in Srila Prabhupada.

6. TKG asks Jayapataka, "Do you ever find that Srila Prabhupada gets in the way?"

7. Prabhupada tells devotee of TKG, "This man is not a Vaisnava. I've studied him. He is not a Vaisnava."

8. While devotee is waiting to see Srila Prabhupada, he hears TKG arguing with Prabhupada. When TKG comes out of the room he slams the door shut and says: "Damn it! Prabhupada fu--ed up again!"

9. Nara Narayana hears TKG tell Syamasundara that Prabhupada is a senile, old man.

10. Pyramid House Tapes Tamal mentions the time Hamsaduta was praying for Prabhupada's death. (see Pyramid House Tapes)

11. Devotee is told by Hansadutta that he wished Srila Prabhupada would die.

12. Prabhupada tells servant: "They're all waiting for the old man to die so they can be guru."

13. Prabhupada tells Bhagatji that his disciples aren't very advanced and he wouldn't be surprised if they tried to do him great physical harm.

14. Jaya Gauranga states that Prabhupada's hands were swollen as a result of sickness and this symptom appeared as early as 1976. (Correct)

15. Prabhupada tells servant that TKG the cause of all the problems in the movement.

16. Vrndavana: TKG is in charge of all Prabhupada's medicines.

17. Vrndavana: Prabhupada tells servant: "Some of my senior disciples are trying to kill me because they want to be guru." Witness also revealed that Prabhupada didn't want to eat anymore because everything they gave him was making him sick.

18. Vrndavana: Bharadvaja relates in tape of his memories that Prabhupada once looked carefully at medicine given to him and declared, "This is poison!"

19. Vrndavana: Prabhupada orders devotee to clear all medicine from cabinet.

20. Vrndavana: Jaya Gauranga states that TKG would not let anyone bring food to Prabhupada.

21. Tamal, depressed, confides to a devotee that he has ruined Srila Prabhupada's movement.

22. Vrndavana: When the devotees are in Prabhupada's room and the leaders are not present Prabhupada states: "You are all here praying for me to live and they are in the next room praying for me to die."

23. Vrndavana: Devotee goes to Indian astrologer to inquire about Prabhupada's health. Astrologer tells them that Prabhupada will be troubled by His juniors.

24. When two devotees from Latin America offered Srila Prabhupada their youth for His old age, Srila Prabhupada gracefully declined and remarked how devoted His disciples were. Then He remarked, "But there are also some who want to kill me." (Unconfirmed)

25. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: When Hansadutta comes to relieve a devotee from his watch, Prabhupada tells him: "Please do not leave, this man wants to kill me."

26. Nov 9-10, 1977, Vrndavana: Srila Prabhupada states on tape that he is being poisoned. (Vedabase)

27. Nov. 11, 1977, Vrndavana: When TKG tells Prabhupada that he will die if taken on parikrama, Prabhupada responds: "Better to be killed by Ram." (Vedabase)

28. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: Just before Srila Prabhupada's disappearance Sudama was about to leave Vrndavana when Bhavananda tells him: "Don't leave yet. We're about to split up the pie. I'll make sure you get a piece."

29. Nov. 14, 1977, Vrndavana: Srila Prabhupada's will is changed the midnight before his departure—In the paper titled, "Questions On Authenticity", Janajanmadi dasa (Jeffrey Balawajder) states that he visited Srivatsa Goswami of the Radha Ramana Temple in 1984. According to his account, Srivatsa Goswami told him that TKG had Prabhupada's will changed on the midnight prior to Srila Prabhupada's departure.

30. Adri Dharan has stated that he was the one who found the kaviraja Prabhupada described in his dream. This doctor was treating Prabhupada at the time of his departure and his opinion was trusted by all. The doctor told the devotees the exact time, within a day, Prabhupada would leave his body and his prediction was correct.

31. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: Bhavananda eats french fries in a joyful mood at the time of Prabhupada's departure.

32. Nov. 1977, Vrndavana: Bhavananda stands at top of stairs and shouts, "Power!" at time of Prabhupada's departure.

33. 1977-78 (?), Bombay: Jaya Gauranga states that TKG went to Bombay and demanded that they let him occupy Prabhupada's quarters and have a vyasasana like Prabhupada's.

34. 1981-1984 (?), New Dwarka: Story circulates about a former Gurukula boy (now grown and living in Mexico) who tells about overhearing plot by GBC men to poison Prabhupada. At the time this story is circulating, some GBC men take a trip to Mexico.

35. Nara Narayana has found that a common form of political assassination in India is poisoning, the results of which cause kidney failure. Brahmananda confirmed that one of the external causes for Srila Prabhupada's departure was kidney failure.

APPENDIX 10:

ARE THERE MISSING TAPES ?

This report was compiled by studying the Bhaktivedanta Archives Vedabase. The number on the left in the first chart below denotes the year and the number on the right denotes the number of days in that year which we have no tape recordings of Srila Prabhupada. The second chart indicates the specific dates in which tapes are missing in 1977 and gives a breakdown of number of days of missing tapes for the year. I asked Ekanatha Prabhu at the Bhaktivedanta Archives if he could verify my findings and after thoroughly checking archive records he confirmed that my calculations were correct and that the Archives does not have any knowledge of tapes in their possession for the specified missing days or of ever having received tapes for the specified missing days.

Missing Tapes    1966-1977

YEAR                           DAYS MISSING

1966                             230

1967                             324

1968                             225

1969                             245

1970                             313

1971                             256

1972                             142

1973                             119

1974                             95

1975                             60

1976                             47

1977                             151

It's interesting to note that the number of days in which tapes are missing steadily decreases each year from 1970 to 1976. Presumably, the progressive diligence in recording Srila Prabhupada's words would be attributed to devotees maturing and understanding the importance of these recordings for future generations as well as ourselves. When once asked if it was necessary to record a conversation of an apparently unimportant nature between Srila Prabhupada and some guests, Tamal Krishna Goswami stated: "We tape everything Prabhupada says." (5/24/77—Vrn)

One might then wonder why the number of days in which tapes are missing dramatically increases from 47 days in 1976 to 151 days in 1977 (more than triple). This is particularly curious if we take into account that 1977 was a shorter recording year than any other (only ten and a half months) since Srila Prabhupada departed on November 14th. And this aberration appears even more glaring when we consider that in 1977, it became painfully obvious Srila Prabhupada could depart at any time and it was increasingly important to cherish and preserve every word He spoke.

Now let's take a closer look at the missing tapes in 1977.

Dates of

Missing Tapes                 No. of Days

1/14                                   1

1/17 thru 1/18                    2

2/9                                    1

2/11                                   1

2/13                                   1

2/22 thru 2/23                    2

3/3 thru 3/21                     19

3/28                                   1

4/3 thru 4/4                       2

4/6 thru 4/9                       4

4/12                                   1

4/14                                   1

4/21                                   1

4/26 thru 4/27                    2

5/1                                    1

5/3 thru 5/7                       5

5/16                                   1

5/18                                   1

5/21 thru5/23                     3

5/25 thru 5/26                    2

5/30                                   1

6/3 thru 6/16                     14

6/25                                   1

6/29                                   1

7/4                                    1

7/6 thru 7/7                       2

7/9                                    1

7/11 thru 7/13                    3

7/16                                   1

7/18                                   1

7/20 thru 7/25                    6

7/28 thru 7/30                    3

8/1 thru 8/7                      7

8/9                                    1

8/12 thru 8/16                    5

8/18 thru 10/1                    45

10/5                                   1

10/7                                   1

10/19                                 1

10/23                                 1

11/9                                   1

11/12                                 1

            Total No. of Days of Missing Tapes......151

The months of January, February, October and November, 1977, are not unusual and the number of days of missing tapes in these months coincide with the monthly averages for 1976. Out of the 105 days of Jan., Feb., Oct. and Nov. (count only 14 days for Nov.) just 15 days are missing. However, the months of March thru August have an extremely high number of days of missing tapes and the month of September has no tapes at all. Out of the 214 days from the period beginning March 1 and ending September 30, 136 days have no tapes. Looking at this period by itself, the ratio of recording days to none-recording days is 1.5 to 1. This is similar to the inefficient recording ratios of 1966 thru 1971, when we had less technical and managerial expertise, limited resources, older technology, and did not fully comprehend the importance of recording Srila Prabhupada's words.

I'd also like to point out that there are some rather large blocks of consecutive days when tapes are not accounted for. Most notably: 19 days in March, 14 days in June, and a staggering 45 days from August 18th thru October 1st. That Srila Prabhupada would have spoken less during severe illness is understandable. That Srila Prabhupada would have said nothing for such long periods of time is inconceivable. Under the circumstances, the logical questions to ask would be:

Why were there no recordings made on these days?

or, if there were recordings made, what happened to them?



APPENDIX 11:

HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

Hair mineral analysis has been used in forensics for decades. Today, hair analysis is gaining widespread recognition as an analytical tool for receiving information about mineral patterns and drug abuse. Hair analysis is a valid analytical technique that provides important answers to puzzling historical questions, including Beethoven's habits. Nearly 170 years ago, an admirer, grieving the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, snipped a lock of the great composer's hair for a keepsake and kept it in a locket. It is this strand of hair that is expected to provide key answers. Did the deaf composer use drugs? Was he suffering from syphilis? Did he die of arsenic poisoning or was his health affected by mineral deficiencies? Today's sophisticated analytical methods can provide these and other answers, and explanations are often unexpectedly simple. For instance, during Beethoven's time, mercurial drugs were used to treat syphilis and arsenic was used to kill rodents. In minute doses, arsenic was deliberately taken to increase virility and physical strength. Other toxins such as lead were ingested by drinking lead-containing water, causing a host of neurological and behavioral problems such as Beethoven's feared moodiness and ill-tempered conduct. The 582 strands of hair recently auctioned off at Sotheby's are expected to provide important information on Beethoven's biochemical makeup and its link to behavior.

Researchers William Walsh and Ronald Ishaacson have been studying the relationship between body chemistry and behavior for decades. They have published an impressive amount of data, including the relations between toxic elements and hyperactivity. They recognized that heavy metal exposure is higher in people prone to violent behavior and that a specific pattern of toxic exposure and mineral deficiencies is seen among death-row inmates. The researchers also noticed what they considered a "genius pattern," characterized by extraordinarily high levels of copper and sodium but low zinc levels in hair. Individuals with this type of hair mineral pattern are often highly intelligent and a bit eccentric, Walsh said. The scientists documented that hair mineral analysis is a valid test of body mineral concentration when used appropriately. "Hair is a diary of what is going on in your body," Ishaacson said. After decades of studying chemicals in hair and associating mineral patterns with behavior, the researchers opened the HRI Pfeiffer Treatment Center seven years ago. It aims at treating biochemical problems, and a strand of hair often reveals the cause of psychiatric ailments that did not respond to other more conventional treatment.

Hair analysis is an ideal complement to serum and urine as a diagnostic tool. Hair is collected without trauma, an important point when it comes to the toxic screening of children or the frail. In many cases when mineral deficiencies have been noted, the individual's inadequate mineral status may not be solely due to a mineral deficient diet, but also be compounded by digestive problems that cause inadequate mineral absorption.

A review of over 1400 articles indicate that hair is the prime tissue to be utilized when analyzing for heavy metal and other trace mineral concentrations. Most notable results have been obtained on heavy metal pollutants such as lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. Scientists in the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and Sweden have all shown that elemental concentrations in hair provide a relatively permanent record of exposure and that there is good correlation between concentrations in human hair and certain organs.

* Dr. Chatt of Dalhousie University reported during the Second Human Hair Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, that concentrations of lead in hair were lowest in rural population groups, higher in urban groups and highest in individuals who live close to lead smelters. (This is the same Dr. Chatt who analyzed this reporter's hair sample)

* Trace Minerals International, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado compared the toxic content of hair in American, German and Mexican children and found that concentrations were highest in Mexican children, lower in American and lowest in German children.

* Harry Shwachman of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston along with Kopito of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that children with cystic fibrosis have as much as five times the normal concentration of sodium in their hair, but only about ten percent of the normal concentrations of tightly-bound calcium.

* Shwachman and Kopito have also found low concentrations of sodium and potassium in the hair of patients with celiac disease ( disorder in the digestion and utilization of fat) and that there is generally three to four times as much sodium and potassium in the hair of healthy individuals.

* Hambidge has tested children in Denver's Head Start Program and found that both their hair and blood serum contain significantly lower concentrations of zinc than specimens from children of middle-income families. The researcher picked six children with the lowest hair zinc concentrations for further testing and found that taste perception was impaired in five. Zinc supplementation restored taste perception and increased zinc concentrations in both blood and hair.

* Both Hambidge and Walter Mertz of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, have each demonstrated the below-normal hair concentrations of chromium in victims of juvenile onset diabetes.

* Gordus of the University of Michigan reported that the hair of students with high academic marks contained substantially more copper and less iodine, lead and cadmium than the hair of students with low marks.

* Robert Pihl and colleagues of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, report that based on hair mineral results, they can distinguish with 98% accuracy normal children and those with learning disabilities.

* Brain and hair tissues of Alzheimer patients were found to contain substantially-elevated aluminum content. Researchers at National Institute of Health (Bethseda, Maryland) and at Elizabeth Hospitals in Washington, D.C. noticed an improvement in symptoms after hair aluminum decreased.

Elemental concentrations in organs are not identical, but certain elements are more densely concentrated in specific organs. Hair mineral analysis evaluates tissue storage and is many times the best choice when chronic exposures and deficiencies are suspected. "HMA is an excellent, simple, and accurate test to establish mineral and trace element concentrations. Since the structure of hair remains unchanged, the minerals and trace elements are fixed, whether a sample is tested now or in a few years time. The levels are not subject to change." (M. Laker)

Nail Mineral Analysis (NMA)

Nail analysis has been used in forensics for the evaluation of severe arsenic poisoning when hair loss prohibited hair mineral analysis. Nail analysis is also used when untreated hair is not available in sufficient quantity. Finger or toenails may be used as a testing material. but nails must be free of varnish or polish. A minimum of 200 mg of nails is needed.

Definition of Normal

In medicine. the definition "normal" has several meanings. It used to distinguish a "normal" or healthy person from the abnormal or unhealthy individual, and in this context, we refer to "normal" iron levels as values that reflect good health, in fact "normal" iron concentrations can be found in the presence of disease. In the absence of disease or disease symptoms, a person is medically and legally considered normal or healthy. However, a person without symptoms of disease does not necessarily enjoy even optimal health. In the laboratory, "normal" is used to describe a set of laboratory results that is based on statistics. For many analytes such as serum iron or aluminum, whole blood lead or urine mercury, reference levels have been established by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). For other analytes less known in conventional medicine, including the important blood chromium or urine nickel, reference values have not been standardized. This applies for most elemental reference ranges in hair, with arsenic being one exception.

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

            The analysis of sequential sections of hair provides reliable correlation to the pattern of arsenic exposure. In the hair follicle, arsenic circulating in the blood is deposited in the germinal cell matrix from blood vessels of the papilla. As the germinal matrix differentiates into keratin, the arsenic is trapped and carried up the follicle in the growing hair. The germinal cells are in relatively close equilibrium with the circulating arsenic, and as arsenic concentrations in blood increase or decrease, so does the amount of arsenic deposited in the growing hair vary accordingly.

            Hair analysis by neutron activation not only provides precise quantitation of arsenic concentration but also allows segmental analysis to determine when arsenic was ingested and the number of episodes. The analysis requires only a few hairs, which grows at a rate of approximately 0.4 to 0.5 mm per day. Therefore, analysis of 1 centimeter, or about a half inch, segments provides a pattern of monthly exposure. In some cases, the concentration of arsenic along the length of the hair is measured to obtain information about exposure over an extended period of time.

            Neutron activation is used either non-destructively or destructively. (The tests performed by Balavanta Prabhu and this author with Dr. Morris and Dr. Chatt respectively employed the non-destructive method.)

            Until a few decades ago the only available methods for analyzing arsenic, such as Reinsch's method, Marsh's test, and Grutzeit's test, were qualitative rather quantitative in nature. Because of this limitation, results of studies based on these methods must be evaluated with caution.

Arsenic originally present in the sample at very low concentrations must often be preconcentrated before it can be measured. If the sample is a solution, the arsenic can be coprecipitated on metallic hydroxides or precipitated with organic reagents. It can also be isolated from its original matrix by liquid-liquid extraction or by volatilization as a trihalide or as arsine.

Until recently, total arsenic was usually determined colorimetrically, by either the molybdenum blue method or the silver diethyldithiocarbamate method. Arsenic is now usually determined by atomic absorption, with the sample solution introduced into a flame as an aerosol or deposited as a droplet inside a tube or on a metallic strip, which is then strongly heated. Greater sensitivity has been achieved with atomic absorption, however, by converting the arsenic to arsine and introducing this gas into a heated tube. Equal sensitivity can be achieved by introducing the arsine into an arc in helium and measuring the resulting spectral emission. Low detection limits for arsenic can also be reached by neutron-activation analysis (often without chemical treatment). Electrochemical methods, such as differential pulse polarography, can achieve comparable sensitivity in the presence of natural pollutants (e.g., sludge).

Neutron-activation analysis has the advantages of being nondestructive (in the many cases in which postirradiation radiochemical separations are not necessary) and of being immune from any danger of contamination during post-irradiation handling. Its absolute sensitivity is 0.1 ng for a thermal-neutron flux of 10¹² neutrons/cm²-s. In tissue and mineral samples, however, this sensitivity can seldom be reached. The activity induced is the 599-keV photopeak of arsenic-76. A relatively great amount of sodium-24 activity is induced in the sodium present in such samples, and, although the decay of sodium-24 (half-life, 14.96 h) is faster than that of arsenic-76 (half-life, 26.5 h), the sodium-24 activity must be allowed to decay for several days before the arsenic-76 activity can be counted. This delay does not seriously interfere with the determination of arsenic at concentrations above a few parts per million, and the elimination of all chemical treatment of the sample compensates for the inconvenience. If greater sensitivity is needed or if radiochemical interferences appear (e.g., bromine or antimony activities), chemical-group separations can still be performed to isolate the arsenic-76 activity.

Electrochemical Methods

In the electrochemical methods that have been proposed for determining traces of arsenic, the arsenic is usually first isolated by volatilization or extraction, then converted to the trivalent form and determined polarographically. The most sensitive such technique is differential pulse polarography, which has a detection limit of about 0.3 ng of arsenic per milliliter and can be used in the presence of natural pollutants, such as unfiltered sludge.

Gas Chromatography

Total arsenic can be determined by gas chromatography if the arsenic is first collected and converted to triphenylarsine. The collection-conversion procedure is somewhat long, but the absolute limit of detection is quite low (20 pg) when an atomic-emission detector is used.

Other Methods

There are other valid methods of determining traces of arsenic, such as coulombmetry, X-ray fluorescence, atomic optical fluorescence, and ordinary and isotope-dilution mass spectrometry. (Arsenic)

AUTHENTICATION OF HAIR SPECIMENS

Hair absorbs minerals and compounds externally and thus external contaminants can and do change the chemical composition of hair. Someone using shampoo and hair cremes, or bathing in contaminated water, can conceivably alter the natural amounts of compounds in the hair that are deposited there internally from the blood. However, toxins contacting the hair would also be absorbed through the skin, and any serious amounts of toxins would thus create a health hazard and reaction immediately. For the most part, whenever hair analysis is undertaken, it is only common sense to check on the life style and any possible contaminants that may have been encountered. In the case of Srila Prabhupada, bath water, massage oils, chalk powders, etc cannot explain the elevated level of arsenic in His hair.

A method of ascertaining whether hair was externally tainted by toxins is the use neutron activation analysis on separate, consecutive segments of hair. This was done with the tests on Napoleon's hair, revealing great variances over time in the amounts of arsenic content. External contamination would produce a uniform, consistent level of toxins throughout the length of the hair. This is an important proof of internal poisoning, but hair specimens of sufficient length are required. Srila Prabhupada's hair specimen from Hari Sauri was about half an inch long only, about a month's growth, and sectional readings are not possible.

In lieu of the discovery of irregular depositions of toxins from the blood in hair of sufficient length, several short hair specimens that were cut at different times could also reveal varying amounts of toxins and thus establish a more solid proof of ingested and intermittent arsenic poisonings. We have Srila Prabhupada's hair from October 1977 as the first reading of arsenic levels. If now we could obtain hair from February, or May, or September, etc, then further testing would reveal differing levels of arsenic. Therefore it is urgent that further hair specimens of Srila Prabhupada be located so that verification and further discovery may occur.

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