"With two separate ISKCON entities having been specifically targeted by Edwin Meese‘s white house for extermination, intervention was not an option, it was a necessity. Meetings were held, notes were taken, records were filed. Records that could now provide ISKCON with massive sources of income were the paper work properly filed. “There you go ISKCON.” I’ve given you one. A multi million dollar lawsuit AGAINST the US government that you could win. Will you file it? Let’s see???? NO!!!! “Why is that?” We might then ask and have and the response is always less than clear. From our side, we see and know “why not?”. It is because this whole ball of wax that ISKCON has become is still stuck together with the glue of things that kswa started into motion.
From the Australian lofts, to the Chowpatty temple, from new age to interfaith, from all the “bhakti” sanyassis he gave, all the first and second initiations he gave, all this Radhanath inherited when he went for the keys to the palace. keys the FBI agreed to place in his hands only after he initiated Janet Reno’s niece, Amy Hobson, as his disciple. that’s the subject of a later volume, so for focus here, Radhanath’s arrival in India was unplanned, unscripted, Desai financed, and for the purpose of avoiding incarceration for his direct involvement in arranging for the killing of Sulocan."
Janmastami dasa
Response to Ravindra Svarupa
Note: Republished from SUN
Ravindra Svarupa has kindly weighed in as a character witness to testify to his knowledge of Radhanath's character, based on his co-operation with the government against New Vrindaban. He has offered us these assertions:
I wish to offer a few remarks in regard to some emails concerning H.H. Radhanatha Swami, Tirtha Prabhu and others.
As some of you may recall, in 1987 the North American GBC decided that, for the protection of Srila Prabhupada’s movement, it should cooperate with the government in its case against Kirtanananda Swami and others. On three occasions, I myself testified in court as a prosecution witness. And I spent some time in consultation with the lead federal prosecutor, Michael Stein.
The team of prosecution lawyers and FBI agents made their cases not only against Kirtanananda but against many of his lieutenants and foot-soldiers. Some of them, to protect themselves, eventually testified against Kirtanananda.
The government had no antagonisms toward Krishna consciousness, toward ISKCON, and toward the many misled New Vrindavan devotees. Michael Stein told me that in his view, Kirtanananda had taken a genuine religion of sincere people and perverted it into a criminal enterprise.
“Radhanatha is a saintly person - not like Bhaktipada,” Michael said, “yet he supports Bhaktipada. Why is that?” I answered, “I don’t know. He had some difficulty getting a hold of Maharaja, who of course spent much time in India. But finally Radhanatha Swami came in, voluntarily, for a meeting (or maybe an interrogation).”
Some time later, Michael Stein told me that he had concluded - from his talk with Maharaja and whatever else he’d gathered from the government’s investigation - that Radhanatha Swami was not implicated in any of the criminal activities in New Vrindavan.
And then Ravindra prabhu offers us his infallible conclusions (if he has offered these opinions in his capacity as Jagat Guru, we must assume they are "infallible" conclusions).
Of federal prosecutor Stein, Ravindra prabhu has told us:
"I accepted his judgment, and, in spite of these recent belated allegations, I still do. I think the federal prosecution had better judgment and more disinterested intentions than anyone now calling its decisions into question."
"The government is not going to reopen its case. I am certain that any investigation of our own will serve only to cause distress, agitation, doubts, and so on, without getting us one millimeter closer to a firmer resolution. Since it takes only a little common sense to recognize this fact, I conclude that the real intention of those calling for such an investigation is, in fact, to bring about distress, agitation, and misgivings."
"Tirtha asked me: “Now what should I do?” He said the government had been pressuring to talk, but he had never opened his mouth: he didn’t want to side against devotees, and he did not want to become a snitch. Now, however, he was wondering what to do."
Ravindra advised Tirtha, "answer all the government’s questions truthfully".
Kirtanananda’s first conviction having been overturned on appeal, “the Swami” underwent a second trial, in which Tirtha’s testimony was crucial. After Tirtha’s time in the witness stand, the defense clearly wanted to avoid at all costs sending the decision to the jury.
In jail, Tirtha told me: “I belong in here.” In my experience, Tirtha Prabhu, in jail, shows much evidence of sincerely cultivating the Holy Name. I have had much more association with H. H. Radhanatha Swami. In my experience, he clearly exhibits the symptoms of one advanced in sincerely cultivating the Holy Name.
I am seriously concerned, on the other hand, about Janmashtami Prabhu and Giri-Nayaka Prabhu. From the evidence of these emails, it seems that they have wandered from the path into the quicksand swamp of fault-finding. If so, I pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna to send one of their agents to help these two devotees before they fall further and further into mortal danger.
Ravindra Svarupa das
With the proper amount of respect due an individual following Srila Prabhupada's instructions as well as Ravindra prabhu has, we thank him for his stated concern for "our mortality". We agree with his conclusion that this mortal world is not a fit place for such a gentleman. Having known Ravindra prabhu for as long as I have (did X’mas sankirtan from Philly temple parking lot from 1980-1986), we have known him to "wear any number of hats": resident spiritual authority, guru reformer, frequent contributor, and even assisting Satsvarupa Goswami adhikari prabhu in his efforts as spiritual mentor for an entire region of this planet. Such an awesome undertaking must be seen for exactly what it is. We hope these discussions somehow or other push things in that direction.
To comment on certain of his inclusions:
"As some of you may recall, in 1987 the North American GBC decided that, for the protection of Srila Prabhupada’s movement, it should cooperate with the government in its case against Kirtanananda Swami and others."
We hereby formerly request a copy of the minutes from that meeting, complete with its stated conclusions that, "since the time of Lord Chaitanya, the philosophy of Bhagavad gita no longer applies. We accept the Chaitanya philosophy, that since the time of Lord Chaitanya, we can no longer kill demoniac individuals, the use of lethal force that was so apparent in the Kurukshetra aftermath is no longer acceptable Vaishnava behavior".
This is only hearsay at this point, because Jaya Advaita and Gopal Krishna would not speak to me directly as I was not "a Prabhupada disciple". I have known Jaya Advaita since our first life membership in NYC in 1972, taken from Toshan Krishna prabhu. It was for exactly that reason that, in the late 1990s, we sued Ravindra prabhu in DC Federal Court, as well as Radhanath prabhu, representing New Vrindaban Community and my $10,000 'apartment for life (building 1, apartment 7)'. They were represented in court by Radha Cornia (Mrs. Jeff' the hitman' Cornia, Yudhisthira from San Diego and the Sulochana killing infamy). We arbitrated a settlement that had Radha carrying our message to the then GBC, Ravindra prabhu, so that the matter would not have to go to future litigation, as they requested in the West Virginia courts. We reluctantly agreed, but in the spirit of devotee co-operation, we trusted the settlement signed by Tapah Punj and Radha Cornia. Six months later, Radha Cornia returned some of the documents that she requested, that we acquired, that we had notarized, that we had copied, and that we had sent to her. Immediately following that, we were denied entrance to any New Vrindaban property, even for festivals, such that West Virginia troopers were present for Gaura Purnima celebration to incarcerate me if I were to show.
"the team of prosecution lawyers and FBI agents made their cases not only against Kirtanananda but against many of his lieutenants and foot-soldiers. Some of them, to protect themselves, eventually testified against Kirtanananda."
Is this then the ISKCON admission and approval for Radhanath in his admission that he turned "snitch" on Kirtanananda?
"The government had no antagonisms toward Krishna consciousness, toward ISKCON, and toward the many mislead New Vrindavan devotees. Michael Stein told me that in his view."
As void of scriptural references as Ravindra prabhu's thesis is, we find his recent history of "his government's" dealings with its religious fanatic elements to be even more lacking. Philadelphia based federal informant Josh Kunkel (it's not a felony to out an undercover who has already been ousted) was a long time regular at the Philly temple since the days of drugs and prostitution at the South Street Food for Life programs. The drug use was even into the temple proper, with five to seven "devotees", at any one time from the Allen’s Lane temple using cocaine supplied by Josh.
Ravindra prabhu was more interested in having as many of his pictures for sale in the devotee gift shop as what Satsvarupa had, kind of like the littering that goes on in the U.S., posing as an electoral process. He may have missed it, but his Temple Commander, Stita-dhi Muni can confirm that when Ravindra and Sesha knew that Sulochana was killed, and how involved Radhanath was AT A TIME WHEN KIRTANANANDA WAS INCAPACITATED, Ravindra was part of the cover-up that allowed Radhanath back into ISKCON.
It still protects the criminal elements, just like the rapists, primarily Radhanath disciples that gang raped a 14-year-old girl and settled with her (for peanuts!!!) in 2004, during the recent trials over child abuse. The case had been closed on child abuse by the Janet Reno justice department and their embedded agent, Amy Hobson (Janet Reno's niece), who had slept her way up the chain of command to become "spokesperson for the Palace of Gold", no longer Prabhupada's Palace, by 1998.
"He had some difficulty getting a hold of Maharaja, who of course spent much time in India. But finally Radhanatha Swami came in, voluntarily, for a meeting (or maybe an interrogation)."
The grand jury hearing was "by subpoena only", so it was not, in fact, "voluntary", as Ravindra prabhu has perhaps unconsciously misreported here. If he is, in fact, reporting about the varieties of other meetings that Radhanath has had with government officials, since Ravindra prabhu has "brought it all out into the public domain", as it were, we would hope that Radhanath prabhu, the only true authority on what he did and why he did it, would care to join this very important spiritual discussion. At what point did his fanatical support of Kirtanananda reach the point that he had to make other spiritual arrangements, and, for GOD's sake, "WHY DIDN"T THEY TELL THE REST OF US?" I've been wondering this for years now. How can "their ineptitude" be made out to be "my bad"? Can imaginations stretch that far?
"Some time later, Michael Stein told me that he had concluded-from his talk with Maharaja and whatever else he’d gathered from the government’s investigation-that Radhanatha Swami was not implicated in any of the criminal activities in New Vrindavan."
Which is obviously why he is stuck in a "no future" position like "the Wheeling office". And it would seem to indicate to some that some sort of a deal had been reached between Radhanath and the federal prosecutors, which now, under the Freedom of Information act, should be de-classified. We request Radhanath, who has been brought into this more by his own surrogates than by others' allegations, to clear the air on this matter lest everyone's impending demise that "Srila" Ravindra prabhu has warned us of, overtakes him with errands that need cleared out. Not a nice place for guru, or disciple!
Then "Srila" Ravindra prabhu enlightens us, much as he must enlighten those that have chosen to put their spiritual lives into his hands, that he has reached the following conclusions:
"I accepted his judgment, and, in spite of these recent belated allegations, I still do. I think the federal prosecution had better judgment and more disinterested intentions than anyone now calling its decisions into question."
Are we to assume that this is another "infallible" enlightenment?
"The government is not going to reopen its case. I am certain that any investigation of our own will serve only to cause distress, agitation, doubts, and so on, without getting us one millimeter closer to a firmer resolution. Since it takes only a little common sense to recognize this fact, I conclude that the real intention of those calling for such an investigation is, in fact, to bring about distress, agitation, and misgivings."
This "certainty" of Srila Ravindra prabhu's may be 'the life and soul of his disciples', but it in no way convinces us of the obscurity that has covered these events for years, that it was, in fact, "a good thing". Ravindra Svarupa seems to think that it is, and that everyone else should also accept that the obscure understanding of events of "the higher ups" activities are limited to those few that may have profited from the sales of Srila Prabhupada's temple properties, BARRED BY HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT FROM EVER BEING SOLD, that were sold.
We demand full financial disclosure statements from all these events, as well as the current net financial worth, total assets, FULL DISCLOSURE, from all "in good standing" sannyasis and gurus. It is the only proper way to understand who is and who isn't "a pounds, shillings, pence man" that Bali Maharaj has ordered us that we must reject. The sale of the Potomac property was in the millions. What came of that money? "Not a farthing for sense gratification"?
Tirtha asked me: “Now what should I do?” He said the government had been pressuring to talk, but he had never opened his mouth: he didn’t want to side against devotees, and he did not want to become a snitch. Now, however, he was wondering what to do....advised tirtha," answer all the government’s questions truthfully".
To the degree that Tirtha successfully followed bonafide spiritual instruction; there can be some hope for success.
Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita Antya 2.171:
visvasa kariya suna caitanya-carita
tarka na kariha, tarke habe viparita
SYNONYMS
visvasa kariya -- with faith and confidence; suna -- just hear; caitanya-carita -- the pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu; tarka na kariha -- do not uselessly argue; tarke -- by argument; habe viparita -- will get the opposite result.
TRANSLATION
Please hear the pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with faith and confidence. Do not argue, for arguments will produce a contrary result.
To hope against hope that more of the same type of behavior that got you in there to begin with, the thuggery and the threatening brutality (which is also included and underlined in Ravindra Svarupa's admonition of 'mortal danger'), is the 'solution' and not 'the problem', is to admit that 'there still is a problem'. We wish these individuals all the best, however divergent from our understanding of Srila Prabhupada's instructions they have "strayed".
We wonder if that "murky swamp of faultfinding" we are accused of being lost in, is not the same one "Srila" Radhanath prabhu has led us into, and left us to drown in, in the aftermath of his unilateral plea bargain with the federal authorities. The authorities who, in spite of Ravindra prabhu's firm faith in their judgment, their integrity, and their vision for the direction of Srila Prabhupada's mission, we might just interject, "just wait one bloody minute. We don't accept these package deals from a leadership that is in bed with everything from the FBI, the justice department, young boys, young girls, massage therapists, and what not." Not with our portion of Srila Prabhupada's legacy, you don't, mate!"
But who would hear us? Maybe Srila Prabhupada (who can't "go back to Godhead" until all of his disciples do) can settle this matter, once and for all, as the arrogant have often accused those still claiming to "take initiation from AC Bhaktivedanta Swami". Ravindra prabhu has often challenged, "when you write to Srila Prabhupada, you let me know what he says", well, let this be a small portion of that package, with much more where this came from, life after life, until a little more humility and honesty returns to these devotee forums.
"Kirtanananda’s first conviction having been overturned on appeal, “the Swami” underwent a second trial, in which Tirtha’s testimony was crucial.
After Tirtha’s time in the witness stand, the defense clearly wanted to avoid at all costs sending the decision to the jury."
The only reason that the second trial differed so much from the first was that Tirtha had changed his version of the truth, based on his new-found understanding of Kirtanananda's deviations, to implicate a whole new cast. That's the reason a convicted criminal's testimony is practically worthless. What wouldn't they say for a bag of Doritos?
"In jail, Tirtha told me: “I belong in here.”
Is this an attempt to cite Tirtha as "an authority" on his own fate? Based on what shastric evidence, and please spare us that "hate the sin, but not the sinner" psycho-babble that often poses itself as "KRISHNA conscious philosophy". Our Bhagavad gita, pre-GBC approved changes instituted in 1983, says that a murderer should be hanged and that is in "his best interests", not that he hangs out with his homies and they say KRISHNA to get special dietary privileges. Did that philosophy change? I must have missed the memo. Also, I haven't gotten my BTG's since ISKCON threw me out of New Vrindaban. Am I still entitled to them?
"In my experience, Tirtha Prabhu, in jail, shows much evidence of sincerely cultivating the Holy Name. I have had much more association with H.H. Radhanatha Swami. In my experience, he clearly exhibits the symptoms of one advanced in sincerely cultivating the Holy Name."
"In my opinion" is the final definitive statement from a person with pretensions of "infallible behavior". In Ravindra Svarupa prabhu's opinion, Tirtha is "sincerely cultivating The Holy Name" and Radhanath is "advanced in sincerely cultivating The Holy Name". And if that assessment is incorrect, many others will be led away from the path of true KRISHNA consciousness by a pretender who waffles more than John Kerry.
Ravindra Svarupa prabhu's endorsement of the character of Tirtha and Radhanath may not be accepted by all, but he has certainly made it abundantly clear that "they stand or fall together", and that must be quite a disconcerting thought for Radhanath at times. We await further participation from those with valid information that may be in the best interests of all true spiritual seekers.
Liberated Yogi Collective.
There were four primary categories that everyone in the movement fell into in the turmoil of the ISKCON meltdown. these four groups were; 1. THE UNINFORMED 2. THE LOYALISTS 3. THE MOVERS 4. THE UNINFORMERS
the rank and file devotees of the movement worldwide had little or no association with their own spiritual master. many even feel they were somehow "cheated", in this regard. this is not the case. the loyal potwashers and cooks, the pujaris and the book distributors who were so fully engaged that they didn't know what was going on are not at fault.
the parents who dutifully sent their children off to Swami maharaj's gurukulas, be they dallas, vrndaban, new vrndaban, or mayapur or one of the local ones were not wrong.
Lord Ramachandra reminds us that it is not a sin to have a criminal act done to you. it is, however, a sin to have done the act. there is an absurd notion going about that the abused children have somehow committed heinous acts and they are simply reaping the karmic reaction for some past horrendous sinful behavior. this preposterous hallucination allows the under achievers, ISKCON"s version of nerds, to fulfill their desire to be smug with those they have no right to be smug with.
the universal dilemma arose. the battle between good and evil was joined. when The Lord incarnates, He does so to exhibit His Fighting Propensity. He is worshiped in awe and reverence in Vaikuntha. He has no such needs in this atmosphere. still, He is eternally the Object of our worship. He is the self sufficient philosopher from time, immemorial. thus, these are the Pastimes of The Lord and all serious devotionally inclined individuals would know such. fools and rascals deride My Human descent, KRSNA has warned us in His Gita. a quasi-elite band of merchants, under the auspices of some non-exist and uniform ISKCON policy have manipulated the movement for their purposes for far too long now.
all these verbose pontificators have managed to propagate are their own propensities to propagate. this class of "devotees" have appeared to un-inform people on the subject matters deemed too highly sensitive or too offensive. so offensive that it can only be talked about behind closed doors by the elite, it has been decided for the devotees that certain subject matters are taboo. that those "in good standing" can not be reported as miscreants or the whistleblower is the one who is committing the offense by reporting the nefarious acts of these rascals.
some of the more notorious of the mis-informers of ISKCON's recent past include kuladri, annutama, amy hobson, gupta, nityo dita swami, laxmimoni, dhira govinda, tamohara and the entire florida based "child protective office/children of krsna" scam. kuladri, as the then general manager of NV had to carry the cross of telling the national public radio audience that NV wanted any of those having complaints against the community to please come forward.
this court ordered edict was not the result of some backlash of guilt that kuladri and company felt. it was not the outpouring of positive energy aimed at rebuilding the community. it was a requirement of the federal court in order to investigate these matters.
judge friend in wheeling asked kuladrt, "how big can this thing get?","it started out with 92 in dallas, now there are 34 more in LA and more than that here in west virginia. are you sure this is the end of this?". ISKCON's lawyers assured the judge that it was and that they had seen the very last of the complainers.
that list had since grown to over 620, with all but 6 of those individuals signing a release and freeing ISKCON and many of it's parts and parcels from any culpability for their acts.
are the yamaduttas satisfied? and what of those six? or the hundreds of others still in the closet about what they were forced to endure in the name of spiritual training? what about the return of "jagat guru" bhavananda? or the continuing abuse in mayapur, even to this day? or about the loss of all the records of the abuse, by tamohara, and the CPO in 2006?
kuladri is a convicted felon who draws over $ 70,000 per year to defend NV in court. he and muni inherit six real estate holding companies created at the turn of the millennium in an attempt to conceal the assets of new vrndaban, less they fall into the hands of the younger, more qualified 2nd generation. charged with abuse by one of his own daughters, this father of 5 has been indiscreet with any number of women at NV's expense.
anuttama das, public relations director for ISKCON, has never met a crisis that he saw coming. ever the optimist, this spin doctor tries to keep the indian community of the belief that the management are "Prabhupada's men", which many of them will admit, although a standard they may aspire to, is one that few, if any have achieved.
the fact that there are so many factions of ISKCON, many of whom are openly hostile to one another, they hold to be a good thing rather than an incrimination.
amy hobson is an initiated disciple of radhanath. she is the niece of the former attorney general of the US and she was used by the US justice department to sleep her way to the top of the NV food chain in 1992 when her aunt took over ed meese's ongoing campaign against the KRSNA compound.
the republican ouster from national politics put the anti-cult operation in the hands of janet reno and her niece was used as an operative to infiltrate the WV compound.
amy slyly approached through adwaita's NY anti-ISKCON manhattan avenue project. her attempts to sleep with nityo dita swami were unsuccessful but she did manage to bed down and control his number 2 man, a NY street urchin called rabbi. rabbi's weekly trips to NV and back were amy's way in and out, undetected.everyone knew they were intimate so it only follows that they would be together.
plus, in the post 1986 aftermath there were as many FBI agents as serious bhaktas and many were undetected. amy was one of those by the time the child abuse case surfaced. as abusees started gathering info, amy made sure they were denied access to assembly areas and they were kept from the investigating authorities. amy made it known at a sunday feast, that no one was to cooperate with the state police investigation and that anyone who did would have to leave NV. at that point, the investigation was focused on saci pita and the two years of rapes on toddlers and infants left in their care by the weekend skamkirtan mothers.
radhanath hooked up his disciple, saci, with the proper channels for the maximum bang for your buck. 3 months in minimum security for more than 600 rapes was allegedly further proof of "KRSNA's Protection of his devotee". this type of newspeak mentality has crept through the woodpile, now to even include some of the top knotheads of the pile.
amy had left rabbi for firmer grounds at NV. she had tried a couple of status climbing moves before her conquest of david waterman(garga rsi das), the Palace manager. the Palace treasury became amy's once she outed rsi's latest concubine as the queen of his bed. rsi had gone so far as to sell the art work off the Palace walls for the sake of the bimbos he was having his ways with. puskar's six foot rupa and sanatan goswami was sold for under $ 1,000. complaints about the sale have since brought the work back to the walls of the Palace.
amy elevated herself to the position of spokesperson for the community and exiled anyone trying to assist in the bringing to justice the perpetrators of the evils of the gurukula. when the troopers who were conducting the investigation came to work one day, they were told that the investigation was over, the case was closed. they were stopped by the FBI on the orders of the attorney general herself.
amy had "aunt janet's" personal beeper number and they spoke several times per week. amy left new vrndaban in jan 2001 with the arrival of the republicans in washington, DC, taking with her 26 prime acres of real estate that had been transferred into her name for minimal cash consideration. amy later sold this land for a profit to deer hunters, now a NV sanctioned event. few knew that the ISKCOWPLOP donation bin supports the new NV policy of exterminating those residents of The Holy Dham in those deer bodies. this mistress of misinformation never admitted her link to DC, not even to rsi. david fedorsky(gupta das. www.gupta.com) orchestrated the settlement of the gang rape of a 14 year old girl by four radhanath disciples at NV in 2005. the settlement had this girl move to the front of the line, receiving her settlement payment check before anyone else so that she would not testify against her attackers, thereby putting a halt to the criminal proceedings.
the community then tried to forcibly expel the young girl and her mother and even used the threats of violence against these defenseless women.
the crudballs who raped her were moved by their gurudev radhanath back to india, with the exception of the malaysian passport holding, chandra das. he went to long island and was part of NV takeover attempt at the LI temple. the expansion plans have recently derailed with radhanath resigning as GBC of NV. miniraj radhanath has decided to travel less(not at all to the US if possible) and to donate more time to his indian affairs.
his inner circle of handlers has started a bureau of indian affairs, much like the corrupt US government agency of the same name.
nityo has an arrest record six computer pages long. as the secretary of the cathedral of healing, he was one of the supporters of the k swa world domination plan and rose to the highest ranks as a k swa supporter.
a convert to radhanathism, nityo is a charter member of the heman woman haters club, but he has since renounced that renunciation to serve his trinidad disciples more completely. two years as personal servant to k swa inspired his autobiographical essay series "on tour with bhaktipada", highlighting their jet set adventures.
nityo conducted the first prins rape investigations, found out some of those prins raped and then saw to it that the victims were exiled, in defense of prins who left k swa to become a radhanath disciple. nityo then orchestrated the coverup attempt to defend prins, until the arranged plea bargain had prins pleading guilty to raping three adult women and three teenage girls.
all the assaults on the infants go unpunished, undocumented and unapologized. nityo swami is currently working on nityo's palace of pleasure, a three story fornication facility that has cost more money and taken more time to build than the original Palace.
david wolf(dhira govinda das)provides more misinformation than most as one of ISKCON's psychiatric counselors, alleging to be able to speak for constituents he less than fairly represnts. long time exponent of the wide variety of schemes that ISKCON has proposed to make the child abuse scandal go away.
developer of the "declare a victory" strategy which has each ISKCON front organization(children of KRSNA, etc.) declaring a victory at having captured the moral highground, from which they can preach down to those found to be spiritually inferior by ISKCON's hierarchy.
tamohara will respond usually no more than once or twice before every one trying to contact him with complaints is regarded as some kind of threat to the mothership. "too hostile to work with." end of story.
and now proposing sanyass, with hopefully better results than with his tenure as head man at CPO. the fact that ISKCON lacks either a consistent or comprehensive policy on abusers is highlighted by the cases of flagrant disregard for decisions by the still insolent perpetrators.
tamohara has complained that he has only been on the job for two years and therefore he hasn't had the time to implement any of his policy changes from the last management debacle.
what policy changes? laxmimoni 1 (800) phone service available for friends and relatives, but complaints are forwarded to an over filled voice mail box which wouldn't respond if you did get through
. frequent travels to india cut the efficiency of this world wide known example of " how could one have been that high up in the gurukula for so long and not know what was going wrong?"
individuals purporting to dispense knowledge should do just that. repeating party line, "make you feel good" lies is useless. "pie in the sky" prognostications as fact are both misleading and counter productive. covering up the facts in the guise of "stopping fault finding" or "protecting Srila Prabhupada's movement" is both absurd and offensive.
new vrndaban has pushed forward with a new frontier in the scam resume they have created for so many years. this one is run from the kuladri office in wheeling and is basically a shakedown of the indian expatriate community. these telemarketers are hired to solicit donations as a "temple devotee" and the solicited funds are only marginally directed at the projects they were collected for. the hired telemarketer collects a percentage of the gross but of late there have been problems with the safety of this method. the problem with subcontracting out a scam is that the scam trainee can, and has in many cases, just start using these lists and calling for themselves once they have access to these mailing lists. (for sample lists of bilked indian donors, click here.)these telemarketers can pick their own name or take one from the pre-approved list supplied by the scammers running this fraud of the indian community.
sucker and mail lists for sale are not the standard set by Swami maharaj's mission, or any other bonafide vaishnav organization. do you really want to trust this organization with your personal data and/or your credit card information? in better times than these, with more reputable people at the helm, this policy proved disastrous for many.
the life member community will now all get the same as they got prior to the reorganization, nothing. the monthly milk sweets no longer exist. BTG magazine, when printed, does not even print enough to send to all the life members they promised to. life members information is compromised as a marketable commodity by NV's telemarketing king, kuladri. many devotees have turned their hands up to the sky, asking GOD, "where will it all end?"
12th Mar. 2011
THE SLAYER SWAMI
>>ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA !!!
John SinkowskI
AKA Janmastami das
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chapter 15 -- where is God when you need Him
"We figure this guy, James Prins (also called "dutchy"or "saci") for at least 600 rapes and sodomies on the children that were left in his care at New Vrindaban." ----west virginia state trooper Shaun Ippolito, just before Amy Hobson and her aunt Janet Reno ordered the west virginia state troopers to stop investigating the child abuse scandal that was developing at NV
Now Sri-Galima had a chance to start climbing his way back to some place that was more modern than open sewer plumbing. he found punj in malaysia and they brought in laxmi at a faster rate than they had ever been able to back in the states. they moved another child molester to malaysia to work with them because he, too, now feared for his safety. this was the radhanath / Kirtanananda Swami disciple, James Prins (Sacinandana das, saci pita, saci, siri, dutchy). According to west virginia state trooper Shaun Ippolito, Prins was facing a 600 count indictment when he was granted a very mild plea bargain by the WV grand jury. the police admitted to having reached a "glass ceiling" as far as the investigation was concerned. the feds, it seemed, were quite happy with the 90 day sentence the state of WV offered prins. the rumor at the state trooper barracks was that aunt janet reno didn't want the publicity to get out there to the commune because it would compromise the covert operation that the FBI was conducting at NV. Prins had molested the children left in his care by the parents who were forced to go away from the farm on weekends to collect. "the eagle flies on Friday" and everyone was expected to go out and acquire all the eagles that they possibly could.
Prins was a gangster from philly who was already on the lam at New Vrindaban. He and his wife were reported to be wife swappers and most people that weren't into that kind of stuff pretty much avoided the pair. UNLESS, of course, they had to go out on scamkirtan on the weekends. in that case you would have to deal with them, one way or the other. The prins's, or "the Sacis" as they were commonly called at NV, had decided that they liked to count money, so they had worked their way into some kind of an attachment to the scamkirtan house, first as dispensers of paraphernalia and then later as baby sitters for all the weekend scamkirtan parents. this pretty much gave this demon access to the youth of NV and he used that access to satisfy his carnal desires in every perverted way that he wanted.
The Prins' attachment to New Vrindaban was only as great as the opportunities that such attachment produced. willing to take initiation from anyone who was initiating, this couple still lists itself amongst the most loyal radhanath supporters. this attachment gives this convicted sex criminal the audacity to continue to harass females, even in the temple room at New Vrindaban, thus showing his total lack of remorse, as well as his contempt for anything like justice in the present day New Vrindaban atmosphere. this crew of unsavories and their newly recruited malaysian call girl and her pimp set up a criminal enterprise that had asian police forces and interpol chasing them for years.
"every living entity acts according to his own nature", Swami maharaj would say, and not everyone's nature is as it might first appear. charles manson was a cute little baby when he was born in moundsville, west virginia. he may have been "a troubled youth", but his true nature wasn't to be seen by so many until later. even then, some might not consider him ugly or physically unattractive but the evil dominance of his psyche made him repugnant to persons with good in mind. the rapist-to-be is actually no less vile prior to his capital offense and for those with the eyes to see, the visible signs of an evil heart were manifest all along.
the cookie-cutter molded devotees that many people had come to expect were nowhere to be found. now devotees and their sympathizers were committing the very offense they asked others not to commit. "don't lump us in!" the article had screamed and it had been used as an ISKCON policy statement for a long time. but, here, the devotees were committing the very same mistake they accused others of. no longer were people being judged on the basis of their acts. now that all their acts were karma-free (thanks to the mercy of the eternally suffering Guru) there were practically no limits as to what could be done in the name of "KRISHNA Consciousness".
"that guy is not going to last!". it was an expression of the individuals who considered themselves sure enough of their success in KRISHNA consciousness that they would comment on the other devotees chance for success. the fact that they had arrived at these Hare KRISHNA halfway houses prior to someone else made them spiritually superior to those who might come after them, or so they thought. more often than not, these individuals would go out of their way to see that the others came to some difficulty that would drive them away. to drive another person from the ashram to satisfy ones own over blown false ego can be passed off as some type of ethnic cleansing of the temple, but such behaviour can never be sanctioned by the Caitanya Mahaprabhu cult. the false ego cannot tolerate humility when it is challenged. anyone can put on their game face and tolerate a full day fast. anyone can do it. some have even refined it to such an art as to have woven it into their belief structure that they are spiritually advancing by their austerities. nothing could be further from the truth.
Fasting is a technique to teach one bodily detachment. It's also a way to look buff for the up-coming bathing suit season. it can be away a high school boy makes his weight class for a wrestling match and it can be a way to torture someone into submitting to an otherwise unacceptable set of circumstances. one of the charges levelled against the Hare KRISHNA movement by the anti-cult people is that they use starvation as a mind control technique. before we dismiss such charges out of hand, perhaps an unbiased assessment would produce much less skewed findings.
when fasting is done, for spiritual penance, willingly, by one seeking to please God, one set of results can be expected. those results would vary if someone were forced to fast. the fasting of the children of the movement was, rarely, if ever, done on a voluntary basis. fasting to prove ones austere nature to others rarely produces the desired results. profit, adoration, or distinction are not good reasons for fasting, yet, nonetheless, many times individuals undergo the austerities for just those reasons. one of ISKCON's "in good standing" gurus, after a successful weight management regime, asked pleadingly, "i eat hardly anything. i've lost weight. why don't they surrender to me?". THAT, maharaj, is EXACTLY why they don't surrender unto you!
It's said that birds of a feather gather together. while this theory seems to be seriously challenged by Caitanya Mahaprabhu's open door policy, there is much truth in the old wisdom. when NV reached it's population plateau of 750 there were several communities within the larger community. besides the american hippies there was a spanish speaking community, one of the germanic languages and even a french-canadian faction. just as people often gather around a common language, they similarly often gather around common goals. if this had once been true at NV, it was no longer still that way. the concept that the fringees can live close by and do their non-regulative pujas and still benefit from the effects of prasadam on their fledgling devotional creeper was enough to send some people over the edge.
there are many in this ISKCON of today who can still not grasp the concept that prasadam distribution, with love, is what brought all the devotees and the concomitant good fortune that goes with their assosciation. they insist on doing some bizarre cost analysis that they will alledge proves beyond any shadow of a doubt, to THEM, that feeding people from outside the temple is not profitable. these individuals and their erroneous calculations do their bonafide Guru an injustice that they have not enough pious credits built up to pay for.
in san francisco in the early seventies, jayananda never let a drop of dahl go to waste. the old mortuary that became the valencia st, temple was located in the heart of san francisco's mission district. even day old dahl that was bubbling was relished in full when distributed with love by a bonafide devotee. many now claiming to represent ISKCON have no concept that prasadam distribution may be something as simple as water purification device that could save a family from dying of thirst. the example made by some of the american billionaires of late should serve as an example to their supposedly more enlightened indian counterparts. "whatever action a great man takes, the common men will follow in his footsteps". it behooves all of us if the role model for the entire society has goals that include more than the financial acquisition of obscene amounts of wealth.
milk is a very healthy food stuff, still milk touched by the lips of a serpent has poisonous effects. similarly, while mahaprasadam has some beneficial effect on those receiving it, the value to the distributor must be dependent on the motivation. two children receiving a maha sweet may each get some benefit from taking the prasadam. there is a difference if the distributor is a pujari then if the server is an abusive gurukula teacher trying to cover their tracks. we can scarcely expect that such an abusive villain would be benedicted by The Supreme Lord for abusing defenseless waifs under The Lord's direct care.
some feel that once having been in the gurukula, that bonds were formed that would not change. this theory flies in the face of reality. the pandavas and the kurus were in the gurukula together. dhrona and draupad were in the gurukula together. bishma and karna had the same guru, but bishma barred karna from the same battlefield until after he was carried from it, that deep were the differences.
another fairly common misunderstanding of gurukula is that it entails some mob of uniformly sized and dressed crumb snatchers of an exact age group. kind of like an american kindergarten with dhotis. while this has been our western experience, we can understand that no real age requirements exist at a real gurukula. KRISHNA was not sent to his guru until after the killing of kamsa. spiritual maturity may be a requisite for success but chronological age is not a requirement for submission to one's spiritual mentor. with the adverse popularity created by the sulocan murder and the raid on the New Vrindaban compound by the justice department and the FBI, the once lucrative SKP train had derailed.
Dennis Gorrick (Dharmatma) had cut a deal with the federal prosecutors. in exchange for his incriminating testimony, he would receive a lighter sentence. two years, rather than the multi-count, 10 year per count indictment the justice department had prepared for anyone who did not surrender to the might of the united states death machine. the real target was Kirtanananda Swami and the machine wanted him bad enough to grant amnesty to everyone on the farm in exchange for their testimonies against Kirtanananda Swami.
Gorrick offered his soul to the machine the same as he had once offered it to the devotee community. "write whatever you want about that faggot S.O.B. and i'll swear to it. i don't care what happens out there anymore. Kuladri pulled the cash flow out of my office and put it under him and if that's the way it's going to be, i'm leaving. i'm taking two of my wives to texas to run the multimillion dollar jewelry business that NV SKP created." for his cooperation, dhar was sentenced to two years and he was livid, expecting little or no jail time. he expressed his outrage in court and the judge reminded the once mighty NV SKP leader that he wasn't in la-la land anymore. two more years, now totalling four, and it was to be served, starting immediately. this same treatment by the machine of Kirtanananda Swami just a few months later would be a direct violation of his constitutionally granted civil rights, but even Kirtanananda Swami did not appeal any further because he knew well that he deserved worse.
the documents that established the parameters of good citizenry standards had been shredded by those very agencies that were there to enforce them. the justice department had become an injustice department, dispensing religious bigotry and intolerance at levels not seen on this continent since it's last revolution. kuladri still feared Kirtanananda Swami and he was not as submissive to the machine as dhar had been. it seemed that criminal conspiracies were a lot like dominoes, as long as they were standing up, that was alright, but once one falls, the rest couldn't be far behind.
using bits and pieces from each individuals interviews, the authorities would post a computer model of what could have happened, much the same as the modern day weathermen of meteor-logical and not political fame. then the re-interview those appearing to be involved for the more detailed information on the points they question. by this second time around, one had best be prepared to legally defend against the onslaught of the machine. New Vrindaban refused to assist anyone with their legal defense, with the exception of Kirtanananda Swami. Kirtanananda Swami hired the most expensive lawyer in the country, assuming as always that the more you pay, the better quality you receive. when his defense team failed him, he paid $ 2.5 million dollars for the Dershowitz Law Firm, assuming again that throwing money at a problem would make it go away. it didn't.
like rats on a sinking ship, the once and former brothers and sisters had become more concerned with their own territorial imperatives than with the welfare of the community. the trail of tears was, thus, complete. the triangle of destruction for the northeast quadrant of the former states of the old US of A had been completed with the devastation at NV.
rupanuga had taken buffalo's once mighty, 220 devotee, lasalle st temple down to a dozen with his falldown. bali mardan had devastated new york's world famous 100 brahmacharis with his tumble with the dragon lady. now the devastation of all the psuedo-sanyassis at New Vrindaban had completed the triangle. the power of the pyramid. all Kirtanananda Swami's little mini-me sanyassis had gotten their wish. "become a sanyassi, like me" was their goal and they had gotten their wish.
unable to advance beyond the level of understanding arraigned by their sanyass guru, the Kirtanananda Swami sanyassis, not only unauthorized but even prohibited by Swami Prabhupada maharaj's instructions, post may 1977, have two options, step down or fall down and their feeble attempts to get up and convince us they have recovered their eternally infallible condition, in light of all that we already know, again calls in to question pure intelligences, collectively. fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. let us bring no more shame and disgrace to Srila Prabhupada's movement with bogus charlatans posing to be more than they are.
Kuladri told the FBI his version of the facts, but unlike dhar, he was not willing to lie to incriminate anyone at NV. he feared reprisals from radhanath, who kuladri knew was as equally ruthless as he was. as the federal RICO 1 against New Vrindaban had been dismissed, some of the devotees became heady with what they saw as "KRISHNA's MERCY". as neophytes, the only things they perceive as "KRISHNA's Mercy", are free sweets, good times and conversation, and a general era of "good feelings". all this was about to change and some of the insiders understood this. like martha stewart, ken lay and jeff skillings, these people were selling others stock in a product at the same time they were fixing a golden parachute, multi-million dollar escape package for themselves. the same corporate corruption that wracked so many corporations would now wrack the political shadow ISKCON.
With Kirtanananda Swami's guilty plea came the lifting of the restrictions on the sale of any of the land at NV.
Like kids left alone in the candy store, the guru being gone, whoever he may have been, they were free to sell the land, The Holy Dham, back to the karmis in many cases, in total defiance of Srila Prabhupada's last will and testament in which all sale of the temple properties to buy themselves groceries is both condemned and prohibited. these illegal sales to some of the "senior devotees" in the movement are not only illegal but they can't be very good for anyone's spiritual resume. "what have you done for the last twenty five years?"? "oh. i just disobeyed about every instruction that my guru left for me and i would probably break more of them if i only took some time to find out what those instructions were." OUCH! not a conversation we'd like to have.
once upon a time, when vyasadev came to hastinapura to take his mother with him to his ashram, he was questioned by dhrtarastra. "why not leave her here? in her old age, she can have the comforts of the city." vyas answered politely as he deemed proper when speaking with the king. "no, let her go pass away peacefully in the country." this foreshadowed the unrest that vyas saw for hastinapura. for those with the vision, let their eyes see the undeniable similarities.
Devamrita Swami saw the need to relocate the mobile fund raising team to somewhere outside of the reach of the machine. as they would come to find out later with the arrest of punj in malaysia, the machine does not recognize any area where it does not possess Supreme dominion.
Devamrita Swami knew of harikesh's difficulties moving money in europe, especially the so-called eastern europe of the cold war. he had devised ways around those problems, not the least of which was swiss bank accounts that he and one sadhu sang used to swindle funds from one zone to another.
as to how it is that Devamrita Swami could come to the level of head of the GBC, the chairman of ISKCON, it would have to be related to his having pulled a fast one on Kirtanananda Swami, which even included stealing a narasimha sila from the altar at NV. since The Deities movement's are all transcendental and therefore eternally glorious, this story of this Sila is herein offered for the pleasure of the devotees.
once, when prana was going from NY to india he offered to go to the gandaki and bring back salagram silas for any temple that wanted to start salagram worship. this was the era of expansion of ISKCON and many temples felt that salagram worship was just the next step in the process, just like learning to ring bells with one hand and to wave incense in the other hand without making a mistake. he had solicited requests and with that list he acquired "fossils", as they are generally referred to in documents, if it gets to that point. for prana, it didn't. several of the larger ones were stopped at customs but seven did make it back to the states. on his tour of the US temples with his slide show, he dropped of the silas to the temples as promised and when he got to boston he left one with the pujari there, an individual that satsvarupa had given the name damodara.
the pujari took the Deity and began daily worship in the pujari room. when he was caught doing this unauthorized puja by Nirunjana, the GBC for new england ordered him to cease the worship immediately, less he commits some offense. better, Nirunjana thought, to stuff the Deity in an undersized cardboard box and lock Him in the safe for four years until NV came to boston for a christmas marathon. this presented an opportunity for both sides. boston could make more space for cash in their safe and NV could add another feather to their cap as the most populated altar in the west, in or out of ISKCON. in this way, this Deity sat at NV until one sadhu sang came through with Devamrita Swami.
Devamrita Swami was already planning to move from NV at this time but he didn't want to become the next monkey on a stick. still, to show his utter contempt for Kirtanananda Swami, sadhu sang stole the sila from the altar and moved it to the st louis operation and since then, reports have this Deity moving to malaysia, but the ISKCONNERs are not as free with information about their activities as even the federal 501 (c)3 law requires.
chapter 12; when devotional service costs
KRSNA $ 50,000 per year
just as the FBI was setting up both sulocan and new vrndaban, so
also was radhanath setting up both k swa and ISKCON. it only seemed
fitting that KRSNA would reward all of radhanath's "pure devotional
service" of whacking sulocan with full exoneration of any of the
wrong doings, or so it seemed to radhanath. it was "KRSNA's protection"
that radhanath was able to buy his non-involvement through a chicago
FBI office that had an open door policy for certain select individuals.
slavin, sr. was one of those individuals.
homeland security has been created to clear up some of the over-
lapping duties of the various domestic surveillance operations in the US.
new vrndaban had been the victim of many of these overlapping police
actions but the FBI was now in the position to realize the goal of their
many years of covert actions against the new vrndaban commune. the
changing of the guard on new vrndaban did not occur until the janet reno
justice department came into being. with the clinton administration
came "aunt janet", as she would come to be known to the west virginia
state troopers, and her niece, amy hobson. amy infiltrated new vrndaban
just like the US military infiltrated iraq. she slept her way all the way
up to being the spokesperson for the new vrndaban community at the very
time that the child abuse allegations were being investigated by a new
vrndaban justice department internal investigation.
new vrndaban was expert at conducting bogus investigations aimed at
proving whatever k swa wanted proven at the time. the decision was made
and then there would be an investigation aimed at proving pre-approved
k swa decisions. the child abuse and rape investigations were conducted
by new vrndaban's current secretary, carlos ordinez(nityo dita das,
nityo dita swami, nityo). the same old, same old that had been the case
since the taru killing and coverup was the best new vrndaban was going
to offer. if anyone didn't like it, they could just "go away!" and they
were now doing that in record numbers. not since the aftermath of the
palace opening of 1979 had the new vrndaban population changed so
radically. this time it was an exodus and not an influx.
just as the on-going government investigations continue to overlap,
just as the overlapping wiretaps produce static and feedback on
telephone conversations, and just as bogus sanyass gurus produce
bogus sanyass disciples, so, also, the presence of soooo many "jagat-
gurus", capable of delivering whole universes, all in one place at
the same time must be significant and obvious to all
"what did the two opposing hostile forces do, having come to the
Holy Place?" amazing how the same question needs to be asked over and
over again at regulated time intervals. and more amazing yet even is that
the answer is still that eternal truth. so many of the observers of the
caitanya mahaprabhu phenomenon will quote scripture to support the
forgiveness of offenses, but they blindly refuse to read the verses that
delineate the proper punishment for the true aparadhis. kamsa preached
"you are not your body" philosophy after killing so many of devaki's
children. the current kamsa-like mini-me's preach the same "filth as
philosophy" in the form of "it's their karma" and "they had it coming"
philosophies supposed to justify the total inaction on the part of all
of the so-called men in the ISKCON society to the aggregious offenses
against these least defended of KRSNA's devotees.
once upon a time, in 1986 in vrndaban, ISKCON's "greatest minds
of the time", came together to decide if killing was acceptable, in
defense of the spiritual master. just like the sages at naimisrayana
forest, all they got was a little bit of black smoke. or, maybe it
was blue smoke. blue smoke and mirrors. after the sulocan hit, the GBC,
in their finite wisdom, wanted a uniform policy and approach to the
event and the circumstances surrounding it. ravindra, prthu, and
jayadwaita were pushing for total co-operation with any and all police
investigations. this was a far cry from the ISKCON that they joined
which had made a policy of shuttling devotees from temple to temple,
or, as in the case of acyutananda, from country to country, in order
to avoid prosecution. after these meetings, the ISKCON philosophy
had morphed into something that would have had arjuna going to the
forest, afterall.
the conclusion, that the Gita was "dated material" that no longer
applied since the time of Lord Caitanya, was and still is held by
many in the power seats of the remnants of the ISKCON of Srila
Prabhupada's guruship. these Sri Gita aparadhas are the single
largest cause of difficulties in the movement today. the claim
that since "in this age they are all jagais and madhais", therefore,
"the appropriate action at this time is inaction", is herein rejected
as heretical to the true teachings of Sri Gita. it, nonetheless,
represents the pseudo-spirituality that currently masquerades as
FRSNA conscious philosophy on both sides of the ritvik debate.
"in this age, they are all jagais and madhais; you would have
to kill them all..." jayadwaita whined in his deeply resonant nasal
tones, as the air rifle cracked it's retort from the roof of the
vrndaban gurukula. was kesidaman taking potshots at jayadwaita?
as it turned out, it was only a brahmachari taking shots at the
vultures that had begun nesting in the unfinished samadhi. the
treasury having been looted by bhagavan, then bhavananda, the samadhi
fund was the investment capital for surabhi's precious metals and
precious jewels businesses and the rest paid a 2,000 rupees per
month lassi bill at the snack shop next to KRSNA-Balarama mandir.
work had stopped over a year ago and the little cash that did make
it to the samadhi site was quickly spent for purposes other than
construction. hotel bills, restaurant bills, full time live-in
maids, and full laundry services were all paid before anyone even
thought about completing the samadhi that was nearly 10 years past the
point of separation between the master and the disciples.
the bi-lingual Gita classes put even the staunchest student
to sleep even if he was standing up. the purpose of bi-lingual classes
was so that those with some knowledge of hindi could show off and
try to impress others with their vast comprehension of the language.
rarely was anyone impressed other than the speaker. the entrance
to the gurukula was marked with the warning signs of the disaster in
the making. muslims are known for their refusal to accept any money
from any illicit source. they fear the effects that "haram" money
can have. ISKCON took it's chances and the testimonial to this
funding source is an engraved marble slab, thanking gurukripa for
his kind donation of $ 2.5 million US dollars. the current, belated
ISKCON lamentations that none of the devotees have bona-fide
business accumen are the sad result of a policy of fast-easy money
that still pervades certain aspects of this movement. the results we
see in these lawsuits which are satisfactory to neither side.
the questions facing the assembled enclave of devotees are
always answered before the devotees assemble. who, then, is it really
who makes these monumental decisions on behalf of an entire "Society"?
in political terms, such a group would be called "a steering committee".
in ISKCON, these direction-givers are more often called the GBC, or, in
the words of bush, jr.,"the deciders". what may be offered as a meeting
to decide an issue or to discuss topics rarely amounts to anything more
than a "formal handing down" to the peasants in ISKCON, from the
reigning powers that were, presumably in much the same way as we are led
to believe they receive these same directions directly from KRSNA,
HimSelf.
this devastating "no right to a rebuttal" attitude found in the
first generation of "successor guru frauds" was creeping into the
emerging 2nd line of pretenders. one of the early Radha Damodara bus
devotees, dravinaksa das said,"this is absurd. these same people who
are talking for all these days wouldn't have done anything if Srila
Prabhupada was still with us and he was threatened. all they ever do
is talk. if someone had threatened Srila Prabhupada, they would have
died! that's how it was. there is no need for all this absurd debate.
maybe jayadwaita wouldn't kill someone for attacking his spiritual
master but there are plenty of others of us who would have."
still, this was not an open debate, it was a "mission statement"
for a post-sulocan ISKCON. opinions weren't being solicited, they were
being dispensed. at this point you either stood with k swa or you stood
against him. his ever dwindling cadre of credible senior supporters was
limited to the modern day bhismas who took their inspiration, their
sanyass and often their food and lodging from k swa.
the distance the passage of time may have put between certain
individuals and their pasts does not mean that some very poor
spiritual life style choices weren't made. they were. in most cases,
those making those exceptionally poor spiritual choices have now come
to a point of claiming papal infallibility and the poor innocents in
the spiritual marketplace are being sold glowbugs and told they are
"as brilliant as the sun". in most cases, they are not even brilliant
enough to not get caught.
several of these devotees have started proclaiming themselves as
"pure devotees", incapable of making human miscalculations. a careful
recent history lesson would prove them to be serious liars and as such,
much less likely to receive the large cash contributions of bygone days.
from the moment he ordered the sulocan hit until the present moment,
radhanath has spent more time in india than he did in the US to avoid the
possibility of prosecution. when he ordered the murder, he was denounced
by ISKCON as "a pedophiles puppet" and an international thug. now,
returned to ISKCON's good standing, the same activities have been
upgraded to "a world-wide preaching tour" and not "international
flight to avoid prosecution". one wonders if it cost more to fix the
FBI debacle or the ISKCON snafu.
after the FBI raid at new vrndaban, north american skamkirtan
was on hold. the indian community became the only source of income for
many of the temples and that was seriously affected by the negative
publicity after the dial om for murder article appeared. always the
innovators, new vrndaban just took skamkirtan to the next level.
in k swa's phamphlet easy journet to other zones, he described
how one should see skamkirtan. his skamkirtan primer explained that
if it was to suddenly become too hot in one area, you should simply
relocate to a new area of operations. in this case, the area that had
become "arrest hot" was all of north america and while that posed a
challenge for the weekenders, it was nothing that k swa was not willing
to throw human labor at. the person responsible for printing the
k swa SKP primer was none other than the illustrious, once GBC
chairman, devamrta swami. this wonderous thesis on thievery was put
into practice all through out asia at the request of a k swa disciple,
choi wang hung(chandra das, chinese chandra).
chandra had recruited a malaysian thug and his prostitute consort
to k swa's cause. k swa gave them the initiated names ramananda das
and chitra dasi. ramananda immediately started a land takeover attempt.
the k swa/ISKCON showdown came to a head in the penang airport when
two groups in saffron robes started a riot. at the time, ISKCON had
come to confront k swa and to ask him what his intentions in malaysia
were. chandra made it quite clear that k swa's intents were openly
hostile and far less than honorable. new vrndaban emptied the bench
on the asian pick. k swa still uses a number of variations for fund
raising.
one country after the next opened their doors, their hearts
and their wallets to the shaved headed(no sikha) buddhist monks, only
to find out six months later that the entire operation was a country
by country scam run from k swa's penang headquarters. all proceeds
made there way back to NV, tax evaded, by way of radhanath, dev
swa, bill crockett(bhaktisiddhanta das, bhaktisiddhanta swami),
chandrashekar swami, holy nane swami, eternal love swami and an
entire host of malaysian towel boys, too numerous for even k swa
to remember. it was one of these towel boys that k swa was caught
working out in the back of the winnebago with. in the recent past,
this boy is still apt to admit freely his physical contacts with
k swa and only the forgiving or the seriously underinformed ignore it.
this kind of behavior had been going on for a number of years now
and while dev swa was just getting brought up to speed, radhanath and
kuladri had known from the earliest days with bhava, long before
chris walker(chaitanya mangala das, chaits) went public. radhanath
plotted his ascent to power on the strenght of the deep pockets of the
former k swa disciples, who had, one by one, been won over to
radhanath's position by none other than himself.
dev swa, unlike radhanath who never got into the robes, was
k swa's number one poster boy for any and all of k swa's indulgences.
dev swa wore blindfolds and earplugs so as not to be distracted
from his own silent meditation. he was the head cheerleader for the
women'sanyass, in spite of Srila Prabhupada's instructions to the
contrary. he was of the belief that k swa was the only bona-fide
guru on the planet, or so he stated for several years, knowing
that k swa had molested several young men and even two females in
his recent past. protecting ones own financial interests came
to be the primary concern for the gang of international gangsters
that had come to be the league of devotees of penang.
the crumbling gurukula system in ISKCON had about come to an
abrupt halt with new vrndaban's withdrawal of all their children from
the vrndaban, india gurukula. now with four of new vrndaban's
teachers on the run to india to avoid molestation charges, the
new vrndaban school had closed. the children once reported to be light
years ahead of the karmi schoolkids were now showing themselves to
be, in many cases, functionally illiterate. some day, someone
would have to face the facts, but for now, continuing to propagate
the myth kept the balance of the ISKCON congregation pacified.
while the rest of ISKCON was trying to merge with karmi schools,
k swa sent his charges into the asian skamkirtan pool. in this way,
he solved two problems at once. he ridded himself of the recently
molested ashram full of potential newsleaks and he made each of them
pay for their own groceries and send him any profit over and above
individual food costs. in asia, to find children begging in the street
is not uncommon and k swa, dev swa, radhanath and company knew this
and made it work to their advantage. no longer were they stuck with
teenage mouths to feed. the abuse charges that were becoming harder
and harder to hide were now swept well out of most peoples sight.
these youth were used to collect money that would be used as a legal
defense fund for the very individuals that had abused them earlier.
those in positions of power knew that legal defense would devastate
the once mighty new vrndaban SKP war chest. like something from a
dicken's novel, the very children that had been abused were now
being forced to go to asia to collect the legal defense fund for
the individuals that had abused them. ISKCON now seems to be
following the same k swa playbook with the fraud being passed off
as the lawsuit settlement.
dividing the faith
"confrontational politics puts the opponent up against the wall
and forces him to define himself. he has to make a choice.
radicalization of the individual means that he must commit himself to
the struggle to change the society as well as share the radical view of
what is wrong with the society."
--- mark rudd, columbia university, 1968
in the devastating aftermath of the behavior of their replacement
guru army, ISKCON had produced it's own abu grahib type prison scandal.
ISKCON had had a "Prabhupada's disciples" meeting at NV in the
mid-1980's to discuss "the problems in our movement". the conclusions
and the solutions of this meeting were not released to the general mass
of devotees as anything other than a stilted ISKCON policy statement.
these decisions, being handed down from on high as we are led to believe
they have been, were to be regarded as having the papal seal of
infallibility. the only thing missing was the opportunity for the
peasants to wait in line to be able to kiss the pope's ring. at NV,
even that opportunity was available.
jayadwaita had become the leading spokesperson for the movement's
faction that sought to remove the crown that k swa had put on Srila
Prabhupada's head. he also sought to remove k swa from new vrndaban,
nay, ALL OF ISKCON, by any means necessary. k swa had put a crown on
Srila Prabhupada, first in the Palace, and now he'd erected a 35 foot
high murti in homage to Srila Prabhupada on the back lawn of the Palace.
JAS had approached several groups to destroy the murti before the cement
was even cured. had he discussed the sexual abuse his compatriot
dhanadar was the overseer of, instead of trying to incite the gurukulis
to destroy the murti many of them had just helped to build, perhaps he
would have been more warmly received. he didn't and he wasn't. his
offer to "buy hammers so you and all of your friends can tear that thing
down", was just looked at as some more of the adult lunacy that many of
the second generation of Swami maharaj, Srila Prabhupada's disciples
have come to expect out of most of the first generationists. what a
bunch of loons!
the supposed reason for the destruction of the murti that he had
nothing to do with but envy was "because there is no cover over Srila
Prabhupada and the pigeons can pass stool on his head", which it was
further explained was a serious breech of "Prabhupada said"isms.
jayadwaita spent two years trying to get that icon, that idol,
destroyed and he finally found a cohort in the old grave digger from
the taru rubout, kasyapa. kasyapa was living it fast and loose since
the k swa removal. he had left NV and his sanyass guru when the
homo/hetero thing became an issue, but not before taking the name,
varsana swami, as if the behavior was within his puny power. this
debauche has seduced women for decades and will still take their money
as a sanyassi. this was first introduced by lord indra to impede a horse
sacrifice but now it serves more as an endless source of funding for the
spiritually overconfident. this over confidence, just as it did to k
swa, will "Trickle down" on their spiritual creepers like acid on
cotton.
the bird poop story didn't convince the gurukulis at NV, but they
weren't even on as much drugs as the swamis at NV. these dudes were
hooked up. kasyapa had been on pain pills since loooong before he took
his stick in his hand. all the devotees in the movement were either
considered sudras or they were in the bad back club. "i'd like to help
you with that prabhu, but i have a bad back,", was the mantra they
would chant whenever it appeared that things might get more practical
than theoretical. these were your "hand in a bead bag all day" guys.
so were half the urchins rounded up off the streets of india, but in
india, that was a requirement for getting two meals per day, two dhotis,
and a secure place to sleep at night. in the US, that would start to
get you cash donations after a number of years, and many availed
themselves of the new found, and now very comfortably accepted,
financial success.
like thieves in the night, these two bogus sanyassis made it their
goal to destroy the Prabhupada murti, and destroy it they did.
kasyapa, who started drinking wine on the order of his sanyass guru, k
swa, and now was doing hard liquor and balling anything that rolled up
to his cabin, and roll up they did and still do. to see this rogue
worshiped by ISKCON as "in good standing", is a testament to how far
your intelligence can be lost by Guru aparadha. the cheaters and the
cheated. ISKCONners deserve the "gurus" they are given. if you are
sincere, you will have a sincere guru. as some of you may guess, this
is written by a number of different folks. different ages, different
angles of vision of events, different writing styles, but we get a
broader perspective that way. also, no one person gets rubbed out
anymore. in the words of sulocan prabhu, "it's gone way beyond that
now!".
like an embattled white house press corps, the public relations
department was on full alert. the challenges to their credibility
were generally just sniping at NV's successes from disgruntled former
residents, or at least that was the NV party line. many of the k swa
innovations that were implemented during the ISKCON expusion were
incorporated with it back into ISKCON when NV was readmitted. some of
the more magnificent of these blunders are the worship of these persons
as if they were more significant than the bottom of a devotees shoe.
they are not. not dev swa. not radhanath. not kasyapa, or whatever he
calls himself now. not jaya murari swami. not nityo dita swami. not
malati swami. not all the k swa breeding stock that can't advance beyond
their sanyass guru. and definitely not with top buffoon swami and his
consort and the land swindle the community signed with them.
the silencing of sulocan was supposed to be the final nail in the
coffin of a dissenter. the monkey on a stick that was supposed to
silence all the other monkeys from chattering about what was really
going on. just like the kent state killings had silenced the anti-war
movement of the 70's, so too the monkey on a stick was supposed to put
an end, once and for all, to any insurgency, vocal or otherwise, within
or without of the ISKCON ranks. now, like an ISKCON version of che
guevara, just the opposite of what had been expected was the result of
the assassination. like a rigid member behind a sanyassis front pleats,
many moved to hide things in order to protect the status quo.
"what did you know and when did you know it?" had been howard
baker's repetitive refrain to all the witnesses in the watergate breakin
trial of the early 70's. the demigods charged with conducting an
investigation into the ISKCON collapse, asking the same line of
questioning would equally devastate ISKCON's leadership as the watergate
trials did to the nixon administration. many who now hoist the
american flag to show their loyalty would claim that jesus or Srila
Prabhupada had said not to challenge the powers that be. this is as
perverse a perversion as one might ever expect to see, and nothing could
be further from the truth. the radical, revolutionary movement of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu had brought the kirtan to the kazi's door, not
slaughtered a goat for mangal arti, as the modern day quislings suggest
we do.
the debate raged around the world on the ISKCON gossip network, now
speeded up by technological advances. now, not only those allowed to use
the phone at the temple could compare notes with other devotees. like
so many icons in public parks, the once high and mighty shining leaders
had become tarnished and covered with poop.