Saturday, April 18, 2026

False Gurus Created by Yogamaya? 04 18 26


PADA: Guru Tattva like we never heard of before? Sorry, we have all heard of the Gaudiya Matha's false gurus, and Narayan Maharaja then saying Sridhar and the other founders of their 1937 bi-sexual deviant acharya program are also acharyas. 

I did not listen to the whole thing but did catch Mukunda mentioning 1986. OK that is when Narayan Maharaja was helping Satsvarupa write the "Guru Reform Notebook," where they were going to vote in more illicit sex with men, women and children deviants as acharyas, and keep the current ones in office. And they reinstated sex with taxi drivers in the dham as Vishnupada. Nothing "new" here, it is what false acharya programs have done in many examples. 

And simultanesously, the Satsvarupa "reformers" excommunicated Sulochana, to demonize us and make us targets. Sulochana was killed and I would have been without help from the FEDS. Then Mukunda mentions 1997, which is when we were writing about all the child abuse going on in Tamal's empire. Around the time Narayan Maharaja was in Texas boosting Tamal and saying we are bogus and poison ritviks. Around the time we were getting lined up for the $400M child abuse case.

There is nothing new here at all. It is the same recycled illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's program Narayan Maharaj supported the whole time. And look at the misconceptions of these folks, deviating acharyas were created by Yogamaya, God's internal energy. And the internal energy is personified as Radharani, Krishna's consort. And she is making false gurus? 

Say it ain't so folks! This is why the previous article from these folks said, we made a false acharya and it was like sticking our hands in stools. And now the smell is everywhere. OK smelly stools and Yogamaya are not in the same category, which unfortunately us mleccha-heads have to point out to these folks.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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Shyam Das Babaji (Narayan Maharaja)

Deviation is Yogamaya (Radharani's domain)?  

𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟒 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 (𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦) 𝐨𝐟 𝐌ā𝐲ā𝐝𝐞𝐯ī 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥-𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐕𝐚ṁ𝐜𝐚𝐧ā-𝐦𝐚𝐲ī 𝐋ī𝐥ā.”

[𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄] - 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊-𝐔𝐏 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐘𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐀: 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐀?

PADA: The followers of Sridhar Maharaja and Narayan Maharaja are now trying to say that promoting a false acharya after 1937 was "Yogamaya" or the desire of Krishna and / or the internal potency of Krishna (personified by Radharani). Nope. Krishna and His Yogamaya does not desire that people worship lusty dog predators, homosexuals, bi-sexuals and people who reject their guru and call Srila Saraswati a deviation. Nor is it the Yogamaya desire of Krishna that Sridhar and Narayan support the GBC's homosexual and pedophile messiah's club. 

Yogamaya is said to be controlled and operated by the personality of Srimati Radharani and is not subject to material contamination. The fact that these people assume Yogamaya creates contamination, indeed homosexual acharyas, means they have no idea that Yogamaya and Mahamaya are different energies.

An event that is not very well known, but can help us to better understand the reasons for the split of the Gaudiya Matha and also the many dangers we faced in the past and will face in the future

During the 1980s and 1990s, there was a sequence of scandals in our movement, with devotees in high positions falling down in troublesome circumstances. This was of course an eye-opener that made us understand that it is not so easy for someone to become a pure devotee with just a few years of practice, as well as a warning about the consequences of electing unqualified people for positions of leadership in spiritual organizations.

PADA: Correct. And who helped elect these unqualified people to the post of guru? We all know, Sridhar and Narayan have been among the biggest cheer leaders of making these false ISKCON GBC acharyas, and they were helping them write bogus position papers, giving them rasika classes and etc.

What many may not know was that half a century earlier devotees in the Gaudiya Matha suffered from a similar event, whose repercussions were even more serious. This is an event that is not very well known, but it can help us not only to better understand the reasons for the split of the Gaudiya Matha but also to better understand many dangers we faced in the past and that can appear again in the future. 

This is also an essential topic for understanding the challenges followers of Srila Prabhupada face when interacting with devotees from the different Gaudiya Mathas. Often things are not so black and white as they may seem at first as followers of different Gaudiya Mathas may be affected by different philosophies to different degrees.

In a conversation from 18/06/1976, Srila Prabhupada mentions:

"One of my Gauḍīya Maṭha Godbrothers, big, he became the head of this Bhag Bazaar Gauḍīya Maṭha. So his wife was debauched, and she was bringing new paramour, and the child protested. And the boy, he was ten years or twelve years old, he could understand: "Who is this man?" So he protested and said, "I shall tell all these things to my father." And he was killed"... "His wife was a regular prostitute, and she killed her child, and on this shock, he took poison and died"... "He became shocked, that "This is my family life—the wife is prostitute and son is killed. What is the value of my life?" This was his spiritual realization. Just see. And he was made the chief."

Here he is speaking about his godbrother Ananta Vasudeva, who was elected the acharya of the Gaudiya Math after the disappearance of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. Srila Prabhupada apparently didn't have good a consideration about him, since later in the same conversation he even accuses him of being "homosex and everything".

In his poem entitled "Viraha Astaka" composed in 1958 Srila Prabhupada is even more direct when addressing His spiritual master:

"Your so-called disciple, the jackal named Ananta Vasudeva, disobeyed your final instructions to keep the mission united, and thereby created a scandalous fiasco. The result of this philosophical deviation is evident to this day as imitative sahajiyas are being worshiped as gurus in your temples."

Srila Prabhupada spoke some harsh words to some of his godbrothers in certain circumstances, reacting to some of their actions, but nowhere do we see him directing such direct personal attacks on any of them, especially on a deceased person. Who was Ananta Vasudeva and what terrible thing did he do?

This story is described in a document entitled "The Sons of the Son: The Breakup of the Gaudiya Matha", written by Jalakara Prabhu, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who collected a great volume of citations connected with these incidents. This is a document that can still be found online.

As described by him, Ananta Vasudeva was one of the most prominent disciples of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who used to call him "My Ganesh" because he helped him so much in his writing and in other aspects of his preaching. He also had the opportunity of associating with Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. 

He had an extremely sharp intelligence and was described as being able to remember everything he heard. Often other disciples of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura would ask him to explain lectures of their spiritual master that they could not understand, and Ananta Vasudeva could remember and properly explain to them. 

Because of this gift, he became the chief editor for all the publications of the Gaudiya Math. From these descriptions, we can understand he was not an ordinary soul. His downfall shows thus how even very elevated devotees can fall later if they deviate from the path and start criticizing their spiritual master.

PADA: What it shows is that no one is authorized to imitate the acharya without being a pure devotee himself. Srila Prabhupada says imitating the acharya causes one to eventually become degraded, and we have seen that over and over. Just because a person can cite some shastras does not mean he has already realized and attained perfection. But even after knowing all this, Sridhar and Narayan Maharajas went ahead and endorsed the ISKCON GBC guru's program knowing these people are not qualified. And knowing the result is very odious, creates bad publicity, if not beatings and murders and so on.

The Gaudiya Math started as a revolutionary movement, and the devotees were well respected for maintaining strong sadhana and living austere lives. However, as time passed, money and properties started to accumulate, and devotees started to fight over material facilities. At some point, there was a fight over which rooms each would use, something that Srila Prabhupada also commented on occasion. 

In a famous lecture in Mayapur (06/10/1974), he said:

"My Guru Mahārāja said. Personally he said that "When we were living in a rented house, if we could collect two hundred, three hundred rupees... We were living very nicely at Ultadanga. And since then—Jayavidatta has given us this marble palace, Gauḍīya-Maṭha — there is friction between our men. 'Who will occupy this room? Who will occupy that room? Who will be proprietor of room?' Everyone is planning in different way. So Guru Mahārāja said"... "He was personally instructing me that "If I could sell this marble of this temple, and secure some money, and if I could print some books, that would have been better. That would have been better."

After Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura passed away in 1937, these conflicts came to the open. He had left instructions for the disciples to form a governing body to manage the mission (just like Srila Prabhupada later implemented in our Iskcon society), but this proved difficult to implement, and as a result, most of the leaders in the Gaudiya Math went back to the idea of having a single acharya managing the mission. 

This resulted in devotees dividing into two factions, one smaller, supporting Kunjabihari Vidyabhusana Prabhu (who later became Tirtha Maharaja) and another bigger, supporting Ananta Vasudeva (who later became Bhakti Prasad Puri Maharaja, and eventually Puri Das).

There are a lot of different details connected to these disputes, but the result was that the Gaudiya Math split into two factions, centered around these two leaders. Eventually, Ananta Vasudeva was voted as the acharya of the Gaudiya Math by most of his Godbrothers, leading to a decisive split between the two camps that started fighting over temples and other properties.

PADA: OK and most of our God brothers ALSO all went along with the illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's club. And many of them later ran off to the spin offs made by the GBC's "advisor" cheer leaders like Sridhar and Narayan. 

But what these deviated God brothers did not realize after 1937 and 1977 is: they have no authority to rubber stamp, select, elect, create, concoct and / or "vote in" Krishna's guru successors. The acharyas are descending from the higher plane, they are not ascending by the votes of mundane committees, and / or our God brothers who are barely getting weaned from eating at Mc Donalds.

This led to the fratricidal legal disputes that drained the funds of the mathas and resulted in a serious volume of offenses being committed on both sides. This politicized environment also seriously affected the preaching and especially the publication of transcendental literature. At this point, even the press opened by 
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was sold to pay for legal expenses.

PADA: And the GBC guru program spent millions on lawsuits, some Jayapataka people told me -- $100,000,000.  

Srila Prabhupada wrote his view on these events on his purport on CC Adi 12.8:

"In the beginning, during the presence of Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Paramahaṁsa Parivrājakācārya Aṣṭottara-śata Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda, all the disciples worked in agreement; but just after his disappearance, they disagreed. One party strictly followed the instructions of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, but another group created their own concoction about executing his desires. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, at the time of his departure, requested all his disciples to form a governing body and conduct missionary activities cooperatively. 

He did not instruct a particular man to become the next ācārya. But just after his passing away, his leading secretaries made plans, without authority, to occupy the post of ācārya, and they split into two factions over who the next ācārya would be"... "Despite the spiritual master’s order to form a governing body and execute the missionary activities of the Gauḍīya Maṭha, the two unauthorized factions began litigation that is still going on after forty years with no decision."

Apart from the legal disputes, there was another factor that caused a lot of confusion: the actions of Ananta Vasudeva, who gradually became critical towards Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's teachings and eventually left the sannyasa asrama, getting married to a society girl and becoming a Babaji in Vrindavana. Jalakara Prabhu quotes the following:

"He insisted that all his disciples cease preaching activity and study the Bhakti Sandarbha. He especially criticized the use of texts like Gaudiya Kantha Hara, which give scriptural quotations for various philosophical positions, but which do not present the arguments. He and Sundarananda Vidyavinoda eventually came to the conclusion that Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati's diksa was invalid, and he advised all his disciples to seek initiation elsewhere. 

"Many of them did, and some became leading Vaisnavas in Vrindavan. Puri Maharaj [Ananta Vasudeva] sealed his infamy in Gaudiya Math circles by getting married and moving himself to Braja."

The events connected with his marriage were also the source of a scandal. It is described in the document by Jalakara Prabhu that he had an affair with the sister-in-law of a rich devotee, who was later discovered because of the interception of a love letter. The scandal went on for several years, as Ananta Vasudeva (now Bhakti Prasad Puri Maharaja) tried to maintain his post. This affair, which later led him to leave the sannyasa asrama and become a grihastha Babaji (and later kill himself after discovering the betrayal of his wife) is confirmed by Srila Prabhupada in the first quote.

PADA: Yes, some post-1937 dissenters intercepted some of these love letters and exposed them. And thus some of them were beaten, had their faces pushed into dog stools, and some were killed for "dissenting." That means everyone knew that making the same fanatical false guru process in ISKCON could be dangerous for us dissenters. And it has been.   

The most serious problem however was not the sexual scandal, but his rejection of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's teachings. This is also quoted by Jalakara Prabhu:

"Now, every action has a gross cause and a subtle cause. One action is that he suffered a fall down from the brahmacari platform. The other is that he openly criticized and ultimately rejected his guru and rejected his initiation and line."

"Ananta Vasudeva and his close friend Sundarananda Vidyavinoda began to formulate criticisms of their guru, Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati. The were unhappy about the lack of siddha-pranali at initiation and felt that neither they nor their guru were linked to that vaishnava line by initiation, that the initiation as practiced by Sri Saraswati Thakur, both diksha and sannyasa, were invalid, eventually coming to the conclusion that only those born in certain families can be initiated, and can initiate. 

They also considered the wearing of saffron and Brahmin threads incorrect for those in the vaishnava line."

"In this way they began an active program of scholarly criticism of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s philosophy, abandoning the literature of their guru and concentrating on the original works of the Six Goswamis. Ananta Vasudeva therefore eventually rejected the initiation given by Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, and urged his disciples to take diksha from what he called accredited acharyas, thereby rejecting his guru. 

Thus he justified on the basis of his understanding of the early writings of the followers of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Sundarananda Vidyavinode wrote an essay on the subject entitled “The Characteristics of the Guru According to Vaishnava Theology."

"Ananta Vasudeva and Sundarananda Vidyavinoda defected from his lineage and wrote books criticizing a number of Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati’s policies several years after he left the world"… "all opposition to Bhaktisiddhanta also includes the fact that he did not receive siddha pranali from Bhaktivinoda or Gaura Kishora. Some critics go so far as to question whether he was initiated at all.”

"Ananta Vasudeva / Bhakti Prasad Puri Maharaja then went to Vrindavan, married one of his disciples - although it is not clear if that was to the sister-in-law of Sri Jagatbandhu dasa - and lived out his life in a reclusive manner, calling himself Puri dasa, writing a number of books. His criticism and rejection of Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati has caused him to be viewed with repugnance by the Maths to this day. His supporters and defenders were left disillusioned."

"Many of his former disciples became renounced residents of Radha Kund. Puri dasa (Ananta Vasudeva) had promulgated a style of kirtan known as ‘Sri Krishna Chaitanya Gaura Gunadhama’, and that kirtan can be heard there to this day, although it is interesting to note that Puri dasa eventually believed that congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra was unauthorized."

This succession of scandals led to the collapse of the camp led by him, although many of the Sannyasis continued preaching by opening their own mathas. The smaller faction, left by Tirtha Maharaja (previously Kunjabihari Vidyabhusana Prabhu) was able to continue as a unified mission, although plagued by politics. When Srila Prabhupada came to the United States he wrote to Tirtha Maharaja offering to cooperate with him, but after receiving a discouraging letter he proceeded to create his own organization in the form of our Iskcon society, counting just with the help of his first disciples.

Ananta Vasudeva spent his remaining days living in Vrindavana, writing books with his interpretations of the writings of the Goswamis under the name "Puri Dasa". These books were not accepted by most of his Godbrothers, since they openly disagreed with the teachings of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. However, they became popular amongst other babajis and some scholars and devotees associated with them.

Nowadays these books are seeing a resurgence, as devotees from Iskcon and different Gaudiya Mathas come to study them, assuming them to be authorized translations and commentaries of the works of the Goswamis, something they aren't. One important thing to keep in mind about translations is that translations, and especially commentaries of Sanskrit works, including works of our previous acaryas are strongly susceptible to interpretation. 

No translation is "clean" of interpretations, since it is practically impossible to keep the meaning of the text in a literal translation. When we read a " translation" of a Sanskrit work, we are thus actually reading an interpretation that conveys the beliefs of the author. A follower of Prabhupada will translate according to his conclusions, a Mayavadi will translate emphasizing the impersonal aspect, while a Babaji will translate according to their philosophy. 

One should thus consider carefully not just the qualification, but the philosophical understanding of the author. In general, only Vaishnavas who have a very clear philosophical understanding can write bonafide translations and commentaries of anything. Members of different apasampradayas, as well as Mayavadis and ordinary scholars, will always distort the texts.

Once, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada received an offer to exchange a collection of Srila Prabhupada's books for a set of the works of Ananta Vasudeva. Not knowing the whole story, he thought it was a good idea and accepted the exchange. When Srila Prabhupada knew about it he was very displeased and ordered him to immediately return the set books and get his books back. He didn't want anything to have with them.

It's also interesting to note that these same points raised by Ananta Vasudeva about Siddha-Pranali and other points continue to echo today amongst devotees who go to Vrindavana and get in contact with this literature or who come in contact with it indirectly. As a result, a huge number of otherwise innocent Iskcon and Gaudiya Matha devotees come in concept with these concepts, and due to an immature philosophical understanding accept them, without knowing they come from a line that is offensive to their own spiritual masters.

The fact is that there are lines in Vrindavana that are much older than the Gaudiya Math and had thus time to establish their ideas through numerous books. Many of these books are well written from a scholarly viewpoint, but their conclusions are incorrect, as exposed by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, and Srila Prabhupada, as well as Srila Jagannatha Das Babaji and Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji. 

The reason these five acaryas had to come and do their preaching was precisely to put the sankirtana movement back into its tracks after centuries of deviations introduced by caste goswamis and babajis.

Many contemporaneous Vaishnavas now get in contact with such books, but the demise of Ananta Vasudeva, who after all his actions ended up killing himself after discovering that his wife was not only betraying him but had killed their child, serves as an important eye-opener in this connection.

𝙀𝙉𝘿 𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙀:

Dandavat pranam dear devotees!

Although we are not followers of Svāmī Mahārāja, we acknowledge that he is respected and accepted by many. Therefore, we have presented his opinion regarding Ananta Vāsudeva for consideration.

We have shared this external article solely to highlight this particular point and to bring attention to the truth. While we do not agree with everything expressed there, we recognize that, in this instance regarding Ananta Vāsudeva, Svāmī Mahārāja has made a valid point.

At the same time, we do not endorse all of the article’s statements. For example, we do not accept the claim that the Gauḍīya Maṭha “broke up.” As is well understood, Gauḍīya Maṭha is an eternal reality—non-different from Vṛndāvana—and was manifested in this world by the endless mercy of Śrīla Prabhupāda Sarasvatī Ṭhākura.

Please find out a clarification on the matter of the "break-up" of Gauḍīya Maṭha in this Q&A (question n5):

𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝟓:

Material nature always holds complete power in this material world. What His Divine Grace said about the breakup of the Gauḍīya Maṭha — has not the same thing happened to ISKCON? If not worse…

𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑 𝟓:

What Svāmī Mahārāja said about the breakup of the Gauḍīya Maṭha, mostly when he was already hostile towards his godbrothers, is not so important, because he was not actively participating in the life of the Maṭha, nor actively serving the mission of his Gurudeva. His information was that of an outsider (as a gṛhastha busy with his pharmaceutical business).

PADA: Srila Prabhupada did not know that their making a bi-sexual deviant as the acharya was wrong, because he was an Grihastha and an outsider? Srila Prabhupada said his bogus God brothers called him a "paccha Grihastha" (Rotten householder). 

Why are his complaints not important or not valid? Sorry, his complaint is 100% valid, making deviants into acharyas is not authorized. And the people who cheer lead false guru programs like Sridhar and Narayan are also not authorized.  
What happened in the Gauḍīya Maṭh after the disappearance of Śrīla Prabhupāda was arranged by Yoga-māyā. ​

PADA: Yogamaya is the internal shakti of Krishna, sometimes said to be managed by Srimati Radharani. And this shakti has nothing to do with material contamination, or the homosexual and pedophile gurus created by these contaminated and degraded beings.

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda left so many powerful qualified Gurus that they could not all stay together in one place like lion. They had to open different branches in order to serve the mission of their Guru to the maximum most level of their capacity and according to the sevā entrusted to them — it was a must.

PADA: Srila Prabhupada says, among my God brothers NO ONE is qualified to be acharya. 

What happens in societies managed by bonded souls is entirely the responsibility of Mahā-māyā and completely a separate issue.

PADA: OK sorry, when the Gaudiya Matha folks endorse homosexuals and deviants as acharyas, that is Maha maya and not Yogamaya. An acharya is a servant of Radharani direct, and is therefore not a deviant, pervert, predator, pedophile, criminal etc.

It is true that some renowned disciples of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda fell down due to offence — but this too is under the jurisdiction of Mahā-māyā, and it is a great warning for all of us that even very elevated personalities (even a jivan mukta) can commit mistakes and can fall down.

PADA: Some of them fell down and the rest of them did not fix the problem, make a Governing committee, and re-establish the mission. 

But if we accept Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣaka Śrīdhara Deva Gosvāmī Mahārāja, Śrīla Bhakti Dayita Mādhava Gosvāmī Mahārāja, Śrīla Bhakti Hṛdaya Vana Deva Gosvāmī Mahārāja, Śrīla Bhakti Vilāsa Tīrtha Gosvāmī Mahārāja (Kunjada), Śrīla Bhakti Pramoda Pūrī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, etc., as pure devotees or Prabhupāda-pārṣadas, then yāhāṅ Kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra — where there is Kṛṣṇa, there Māyā has no right to remain. So how could Mahā-māyā ever influence all those great personalities?

PADA: Mahamaya has had control of these people because they first made a false acharya and then when he fell, they declared themselves to be acharyas. And Srila Prabhupada said they never implemented a Governing Body, and instead they made many artificial gurus. 

"Another man comes to be guru, then another then another, and another and in some camps the guru is being changed three times a year." "Kill guru and become guru" is how Srila Prabhupada summed them up. Sorry, these folks were aiding and abetting false gurus in 1937 and they just started doing that again by promoting GBC gurus after 1977. ys pd

Thursday, April 16, 2026

ISKCON Child Abuse Investigation / Wet Stools / Varnasrama 04 16 26




ISKCON and CHILD ABUSE

April 16th, 2026

Nationwide Crackdown Gains Momentum: WBCPCR Steps in on ISKCON Child Abuse Allegations Following UPSCPCR Action

In what marks a decisive and escalating phase in the fight for child rights, the communication dated 30.03.2026 issued by the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBSCPCR) has brought renewed momentum to the cause championed by the Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation (JFSPF). The Commission has formally taken cognizance of the complaints (of JFSPF) and initiated proceedings in accordance with law, extending the scope of inquiry into serious allegations of child abuse within institutions linked to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, particularly in West Bengal, including the globally prominent Centre at Mayapur.

Find the Letter from WBCPCR here: 

https://justiceforsrilaprabhupadafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Letter-from-WBSCPCR-to-Garg-and-Garg-Advocates.pdf

The significance of this development lies not merely in the issuance of a formal acknowledgment, but in the concrete steps that have already followed. Acting in compliance with the order of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India dated 25 November 2025, the WBCPCR has moved swiftly to convene a meeting with the district administration, bringing together key stakeholders including the Child Welfare Committee. This coordinated institutional response signals that the matter has crossed the threshold of preliminary concern and is now firmly within the framework of active investigation and administrative action.

The Commission has further issued directions to ensure that a thorough inquiry is conducted and that action is taken strictly in accordance with law. By forwarding the complaint to the District Magistrate, Nadia, the process has been anchored at the district level, ensuring that the allegations are examined on the ground with the seriousness they demand. The matter is presently under active consideration, with further action contingent upon the findings of the inquiry and the compliance reports that follow.

This crucial step in West Bengal comes in direct continuation of the earlier directions issued by the Uttar Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (UPSCPCR), which had already set the process in motion in Uttar Pradesh especially Vrindavan by directing police action on similar allegations. The involvement of multiple State Commissions now unmistakably points to a widening recognition that the issue is systemic in nature, cutting across geographical boundaries and demanding coordinated scrutiny at the highest levels.

For the Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation, this moment represents a powerful validation of sustained legal advocacy and relentless pursuit of accountability. What began as a meticulously documented complaint—backed by survivor testimonies, expert inputs, and substantial evidence—has now compelled statutory authorities across States to act.

The spotlight on West Bengal, and particularly Mayapur, carries profound implications. It ensures that the inquiry is not confined or fragmented, but comprehensive in scope. As the investigation progresses, it is increasingly evident that accountability will not remain abstract. Based on the seriousness of the allegations and the material already on record, legal action is likely to follow against those responsible, including Gurus, Governing body members, Temple presidents, teachers, staff members, and other individuals who may have played a role—whether by commission, omission, or concealment—in acts of abuse or in the suppression of complaints. This marks a crucial shift from institutional opacity to individual accountability.

While the proceedings are ongoing, the direction of progress is clear. The actions initiated by the WBCPCR, read alongside those of the UPSCPCR, demonstrate that persistent and principled efforts are beginning to dismantle long-standing barriers to justice. Each step forward strengthens the possibility that victims will be heard, protected, and ultimately granted the justice they deserve.

The Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation remains steadfast in its commitment to this cause. We will continue to engage with authorities, support victims, and ensure that the process leads not only to accountability but also to lasting systemic reform.

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PADA: A pedophile messiah's program is going to produce -- a multiplied pack of more and more pedophiles. Duh-oh! And then have a program of empowering, protecting and ENABLING them, and giving them sympathy and covering up for them, and so on. We become what we worship. 

And worshiping deviants as God's messiahs -- who are engaged in illicit sex with men, women and children, it going to produce a flood of more illicit sex with men, women and children. We become what we worship! So this is a good development, the mundane child welfare programs and courts are going to look into the ISKCON Vrndavana and Mayapur projects. LONG OVERDUE. Better late than never. 

Unfortunately it is often the media, government, law enforcement and courts that have to help us -- and "the devotees" are often as not -- against us. That means the materialists are often more advanced than many / most of the so-called devotees. Sometimes MUCH more advanced. 

Meanwhile one of my other senior God brothers died in a nursing home evidently with no devotees around, after he spent years chastising me for opposing Tamal's bucket boy Narayan Maharaja. Sorry, there is a lot of EVIL karma associated with supporting pedophile messiah's projects. 

Of course this begs the question, why would anyone want small children to worship homosexuals and pedophiles as their messiahs? None of these leaders ever gives us a good answer. Neither did this God brother follower of Narayan Maharaja. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   


The Enforced Cult Ritualistic Worship
of homosexuals and pedophiles
as messiahs project.

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WE STUCK OUR HANDS IN WET STOOLS

𝐍𝐨 𝟔 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 (𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦) 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚-𝐦𝐨𝐲𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐚

IF YOU ARE ALWAYS IN ILLUSION THEN DELUSION IS A MUST, SO WHAT SOLUTION CAN BE THERE FOR THE POLLUTION INSIDE YOUR HEART

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

(By Srila Bhakti Vijñana Bharati Gosvami Maharaj)

After the disappearance of Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvati Ṭhākura, the time came to select a new President-ācārya of the Gauḍīya Maṭha. Guru Mahārāja believed Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Pradīpa Tīrtha Gosvāmī Mahārāja to be the worthiest candidate. However, in due time, Śrī Ananta-vāsudeva Prabhu was unanimously appointed to the position, with Śrī Vinoda-bihārī Brahmacārī serving as Secretary. 

When Śrī Ananta-vāsudeva Prabhu’s ill repute came to light, Śrī Vinodabihārī Brahmacārī called for Guru Mahārāja and said, “Hayagrīva Prabhu! We have stuck our hands in wet stools. Had it been dry, it would not have been so revoltingly foul-smelling. But unfortunately, the reality is that its stench and repulsiveness are excessive. 

"We must feel remorse and atone for having supported Ananta-vāsudeva and for having taken so long to understand what was actually going on. An incompetent person should be helped, but an incompetent person who makes fools of the general public by playing the part of a competent leader must be shunned. Let us help the people of the world by exposing this person, so that everyone may see his true nature. 

“Because of your refined, gentle Vaiṣṇava temperament, everyone considers you a friend and gives importance to what you say. Therefore, please bring everyone together and arrange a meeting, so that we may together determine how to oppose him.” 

As per Śrī Vinoda-bihārī Brahmacārī’s request, Guru Mahārāja gathered their godbrothers together and held a meeting, whereupon it was decided to file a court case against Śrī Ananta-vāsudeva Prabhu. It was this court case that made it possible for the Gauḍīya Maṭha to legally split into two factions.

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Śrī Vinoda-bihārī Brahmacārī’s preaching inspired his elder brother to take shelter of Śrīla Prabhupāda and join the maṭha. When Śrīla Prabhupāda ordered his brother to accept sannyāsa, he was unwilling. Although Śrī Vinoda-bihārī Brahmacārī was younger, he chastised his older brother, saying, “Why are you not fulfilling Śrīla Prabhupāda’s desire to give you sannyāsa?” 

After considering these words of encouragement, his brother agreed to accept sannyāsa, and he became known as Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Kevala Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja. Some time after the disappearance of Śrīla Prabhupāda, Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja observed Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja and his followers deviating from the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda in three ways: 

(1) they taught that the hare kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra is not to be chanted loudly, but rather silently in such a way that no one can hear the sound vibration; 

(2) although Śrīla Prabhupāda had personally initiated some of his disciples, including Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja, into the sannyāsa order, they gave up their saffron sannyāsa-veśa (dress) and instead wore white bābājīveśa, preaching that sannyāsa-dharma is strictly prohibited in Kali-yuga; and 

(3) although Śrīla Prabhupāda personally established Śrī Navadvīpa parikramā, they rejected its performance. Unable to tolerate even the slightest deviation from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s teachings, Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja completely severed his relationship with Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja and those who followed him. 

He would never allow his disciples to go to Ananta Vasudeva's Bāgbāzār Gauḍīya Maṭha or to any other place where Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja and his followers resided. If Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja were to discover that one of his disciples went to Śrī Auḍulomi Mahārāja’s maṭha, he would order that devotee to fast for three days, taking only pañca-gavya (the five products of the cow— milk, yogurt, ghee, dung and urine) as his atonement. 

He would say, “Why have you gone there? You are now impure; you must purify yourself by performing this atonement.” Finally, Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja decided to file a case against Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja and his followers, boldly announcing that because they did not accept many of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s teachings, they could not be considered his true disciples, and consequently should not be allowed to reside in his maṭhas. 

My Guru Mahārāja, Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Dayita Mādhava Gosvāmī Mahārāja, gave me the service of transcribing Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja’s dictations regarding the court case. I would then take those dictations to Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Rakṣaka Śrīdhara Gosvāmī Mahārāja, who would adjust the language and edit for clarity. 

When everything was complete, I would go to the court and submit the finalized documents. The day the judge was to present the verdict, Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja and his followers appeared in court wearing saffron sannyāsa-veśa and were followed by a large procession loudly chanting the mahā-mantra. 

Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja had given eight people sannyāsa just that day. In front of the judge, they said, “We are doing Navadvīpa-dhāma parikramā, wearing saffron dress, and carrying our sannyāsa-daṇḍas. Also, we have established a maṭha in the name of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, and have established his mūrti (deity form) in the maṭha we are constructing in Godrumadvīpa.” 

Although previously they had no plans of having a maṭha in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s name or keeping his mūrti there, feeling threatened by the bold endeavors of Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja, they named their maṭha Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gauḍīya Maṭha. They denied all the allegations put forth by Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja, and audaciously said, “Just see! We are chanting loudly, wearing sannyāsa dress, and we have named our maṭha after Śrīla Prabhupāda. How can he claim we are not disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda?” 

Seeing this to be true, the judge awarded the decision in favor of Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja and his followers. It appeared as though Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja had been defeated. I pleaded, “Many of your godbrothers were involved in building this case for a long time. I too labored so much in transcribing your dictations, going to Śrīla Śrīdhara Gosvāmī Mahārāja for editing and providing information to the court. Now that we have lost the case, will you not appeal the judge’s verdict?” Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja replied, “We will proceed further only if they again go against Śrīla Prabhupāda’s teachings.” 

He then asked, “How many punches can you tolerate?” I replied, “Not even a single punch. I would strongly object to being punched.” Śrīla Mahārāja asked, “And how many could you tolerate if your hands and legs were tied with ropes?” I replied, “I would be forced to tolerate however many were given.” “In the same way, whenever someone makes mistakes and goes against the teachings of Śrīla Prabhupāda, we will bind their hands and beat them to our fullest capacity until they accept those teachings.” 

He then explained, “My only desire was for them to again follow the line of Śrīla Prabhupāda, and we see that they are now doing this. They are now wearing sannyāsa dress, awarding sannyāsa to others and loudly chanting the hare kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. This was my objective. In this way, we were victorious. 

Our fight was not for anything other than establishing the proper siddhānta (conclusive truths) and reconnecting them with Śrīla Prabhupāda.” Even now, all of Śrīla Auḍulomi Gosvāmī Mahārāja’s followers and devotees of Bāgbāzār Gauḍīya Maṭha accept sannyāsa, perform Navadvīpadhāma parikramā, loudly chant mahā-mantra, and perform harināma saṅkīrtana. This is all due to the mercy of Śrīla Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja.

PADA: Sulochana said that the anal reconstructive surgery epidemic of boys "GBC guru program" is a "sex with stools sampradaya." Well it looks like this is not new. In 1936 they made a false guru and it was like "placing our hands in wet stools." 

And the smell is over powering and everyone knows it, including the public. Much the same as ISKCON. They made false gurus, they stuck their hands in wet stools, and the smell is everywhere. Even the public is aghast. 

Unfortunately, Madhava Maharaja, Sridhar Maharaja, BP Puri and others did not help us out after 1978, and they ended up compromising with the GBC's guru process. In other word, the SAME false guru wet stools smell started all over again. ys pd  

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VARNASRAMA 

PADA: Yes Bhaktavasal here in America there are thousands of animal welfare programs. They never say the other animal welfare programs are "pyramid money making corporate business scams," because they actually cooperate among themselves and move animals from one shelter to the other when needed. And move personnel around etc. especially in emergencies and so on. Because their main interest is helping animals and not proving they are holier than the other programs. 

For example, when there is a flood, the various agencies will get help from outside welfare programs to bring in helpers and shelter the animals and so on. Whereas your Hare Krishna animal welfare program is battling other Krishna animal welfare programs, fighting like cats and dogs and that is not helping any of their programs. It is making people not want to support any of them. 

Maybe some day we can also grow up, and act as good as the mundane animal welfare programs do. And learn how to cooerate like mature adult people who actually care for animals and not -- who has the bigger better operation and fight among themselves, caring only for who has the better welfare program, rather than caring for animals. 

Same as Kris Drboy, he has no care for children. He wants me to neglect caring for children and have me sit chant my rounds, and do nothing to help others. This is exactly how the GBC talks to me. It is not mature and adult to try to take down programs that help others. It is immature, foolish and basically a lot of big ego and not care for others. The karmis are doing way better, and that is also why they helped me with their courts while your type guys were chanting your rounds, and giving me grief and harassment. 

I had a neighbor who had a horse trailer and when there was flooding in another state he drove there to help the horses. He did not start blabbing about how his program is better than someone else's, he does the needed work because he is not full of ego "my program is better than yours" like kindergarten children. 

He wants to actually help suffering animals and not harm programs that help animals. You guys need to come up to the standards of the mundane people and take interest in helping others, and not tooting your own horn about how you are greater than others. If you are not happy that the Jaipur cows are better off, you are not actually in favor of helping cows. You are only interested in self promoting and not animal's well being. 

ys pd

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

ISKCON Won't Accept My Karma / Delhi Bhagavatams / Varnasrama 04 15 26

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MY KARMA WAS TOO BAD FOR ISKCON GURUS

A DASI (On Namarasa Video): 

Want to explain why I brought up ritvik in Live chat. My spouse and I had a guru within ISKCON, but he kept putting off my initiation. Granted, I was quite messy emotionally, but clearly sincere, as I stayed in strict ISKCON Temples for 5 years. 

I believe he was afraid to absorb some of my clearly bad karma; I notice he mostly initiates very pious Indian devotees. 

PADA: Yes, many of the "pious Hindus" eat fish, mutton, perhaps even beef and so on and so forth. My lady landlord had a "Hindu boyfriend" and he ate every type of Western meat dishes -- including fish heads, beef etc. She was always cooking horrendous smelling meals. 

Honestly, it made the whole house stink badly. The one Vegetarian Hindu restaurant around here I sometimes went to -- now serves meat, because the Hindus want that. But notice, the GBC gurus are sometimes afraid of taking karma from a Western person, which means they are aware they are taking karma. 

The gurus seem to have no problem taking karma from Hindus, which is not always pious -- by a long shot. The Hindus running the 7-11 over here were eating some of those gross pizzas they have over there, which I personally would not feed to a dog because I would be afraid of making it get sick. But yeah, catering to the Hindus, duh!  

We married in courthouse only, as a fire yajna seemed impractical due to my large family all living far away. This Swami got extremely offended by that act since we didn’t inform him of it (meanwhile he was the one who arranged we meet to see if we’d be compatible) but we saw no need as he clearly approved. When he heard I was pregnant a couple years later, he wrote in a letter to us that this was just “a biological arrangement”, in other words, not Krsna’s kind blessing. 

He basically cut off any sign of affection or care towards us and was clearly bitter due to our “offense”. Not surprisingly, when I met ISKCON Revival Movement devotees (I.R.M.) who ran a Temple that was super vibrant, I gravitated to it. Knowing how this guru of ours (and his disciples / most ISKCON Temple devotees in general) felt about this group, since they practice the ritvik style of initiations, we just stopped attending ISKCON's Temple gradually. 

As Deva Madhava prabhu (Harmony Collective) said, ritvik followers can get (forgot word he used) obtrusive /aggressive towards those who think you need an “in the flesh” devotee as guru. 

PADA: Yes, the in the flesh gurus being produced by ISKCON are -- according to Jayadvaita swami -- often falling into illicit sex with men, women and maybe children. That is their idea of guru in the flesh. 

A lady (jokingly) told PADA I should not be offensive to ISKCON's holy men. Why? They have sex with every hole in the human body, and maybe some holes in animals too. So that shows how they have equal vision and do not see ANY difference in various living entities, which shows how they are truly holey men! Yep, their gurus will have sex with anyone and any hole in the house, which is equal vision. Hee hee. But this Deva Madhava guy is upset we are not worshiping these holey men? Why should we?  

But not all of us are like that. So in mid 90s anyway, there was this mood that if you followed ritvik path you are a great offender, and many were banned from serving ISKCON, which I’m sure displeased Prabhupada & Lord Krsna because I knew a couple of them and they were very sincere, and still chant & serve but on their own. Prabhupada was very broad minded and hopefully you in new generations will be also, and not ban people, unless they insist on arguing and disrupting the faith of new people, which of course is also not good. 

PADA: Yeah I have told that many times by ISKCON people. You are disturbing the faith of the members of the homosexual and pedophile messiahs club! Forsooth!

Thanks for anyone who listened to my story. I truly hope it can help unite ISKCON and I.R.M. slowly but surely. Every one of us needs to humble ourselves and learn true compassion, with Krsna’s help. I have a long long road ahead but I’m still chanting and attached to hearing from Prabhupada, ~his books & talks. Pray I can develop the courage to begin rising early again! SO hard for me, after years of not doing it now. Thanks!!!

PADA: I am glad you are banned. No one should eat food offered to a homosexual and pedophile guru club, it is contaminating. ys pd

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DELHI BHAGAVATAMS

Hare Krishna Yasoda Nandana Prabhu

These Delhi Bhagavatams are among the most valuable works of Srila Prabhupada. The timing of their publication coincides directly with Srila Prabhupada's departure for the Western world.

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Srila Prabhupada came to the United States in 1965 on the Jaladuta, an Indian cargo ship. He convinced the owner of the shipping company, Srimati Morarji, to give him free passage. According to Sally Agarawal, the wife of Gopal Agarawal, who sponsored Srila Prabhupada's trip and made the arrangements for the first three weeks he was in the United States:

"The Swami came with so few possessions. He came with the clothes he had on his back, He had a typewriter and he had his books. And he had a bag of cereal. Imagine coming to a country on the other side of the world with so little. And yet he came with so much in himself."

The books Srila Prabhupada brought with him from India were the first three volumes of the Srimad Bhagavatam he had printed in Delhi between 1960 and 1965.

In Srila Prabhupada's letter to Hanuman Prasad Poddar, written 2-05-70 in Los Angeles, Srila Prabhupada narrates some of the history of his Delhi Bhagavatams:

".... In 1936, my Spiritual Master left this world leaving a message for me that it would be better for me to preach in English language. So I was thinking very seriously, and then, as late as 1944 I started my paper, "Back to Godhead." Gradually, in 1954, I retired from my family life and began to live alone in Mathura Vrindaban. In 1959, I was awarded Sannyasa by one of my Godbrothers.

"Then I began translating Srimad-Bhagavatam in 1960; and, perhaps in 1961, I was your guest in the Gita Bagicha. You were very kind to help me partially for publishing my first volume of Srimad-Bhagavatam through the Dalmia Charitable Trust. With great difficulty, I then published the second and third volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam until 1965, when I prepared myself to come to this country with some books.

"With great difficulty, I was able to get the "P" Form passed by the Controller of Foreign Exchange, and, someway or other, I reached Boston on 17th September, 1965. I was thinking, while on board the ship "Jaladuta," why Krishna had brought me to this country. I knew that Western people are too much addicted to so many forbidden things according to our Vedic conception of life. So out of sentiment I wrote a long poetry addressing Lord Krishna as to what was His purpose in bringing me to this country.

"At that time, I was sponsored by a friend's son, Gopala Agarwal, who is settled up in this country by marrying an American girl, Sally. I was their guest, and I feel very much obliged to Gopala and his wife Sally for their nice treatment and reception. I was with them for three weeks in Butler, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then I came to New York. I was getting some money by selling my Srimad-Bhagavatam, thus I was maintaining myself in New York.

After some time, I rented one apartment at number 100 71st Street West, but after a few months, all my things--typewriter, tape recorder, books--were stolen. Then for some time one of my students gave me shelter at Bowery Street.

"I then rented one store-front and an apartment at 26 Second Avenue for $200 per month, but without any source of income. I started my classes and sometimes, on Sundays, I used to chant Hare Krishna Mantra in Tomkins Square Park from three to 5 P.M. During this time, all the young boys and girls used to gather around me, sometimes poet Ginsberg would come to see me, and sometimes a reporter from the New York Times came to see me. In this way, the Hare Krishna Mantra chanting became very popular on the Lower East Side."

Until now devotees have been searching for these incredibly rare copies of the first three volumes of Srila Prabhupada's Original Delhi Srimad Bhagavatam he printed in India. They are practically impossible to find and if they should become available they are collectors items worth thousands of dollars.

The wonderful news is that a limited edition of exact replicas of those original Bhagavatam volumes Srila Prabhuapda carried with him from India to the United States in 1965 is now available.

The book is presented in exactly the same way as Srila Prabhupada himself personally printed it. As hard-bound, cloth covered 6" x 9" volumes with the beautiful original color dust jacket Srila Prabhupada designed and had an artist paint for him.

This is a strictly limited printing and as you can imagine the books are selling very fast. This three volume set of Srila Prabhupada's original Delhi Bhagavatam is truly a priceless treasure that you will keep and cherish for your whole life and will be valued by generations to come. These books are printed on the best quality paper, with the best quality binding and will last for hundreds of years.

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Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

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VARNASRAMA KI JAYA!

Bhaktvtsal Das I am for everything includes Varnasrama. But when you say temple goshallas are temporary and independent programs are the ones lasting for time, that is not realistic. Temple programs continue for centuries, even thousands of years. And independent programs may or may not last. 

You already said you do not even have a president for your cow program, whereas a temple will appoint a new one when the old one leaves. If you do not even know that temple programs last longer than independent programs, you are not even telling us how your plan will work over time. 

There are churches in San Francisco that were made in 1776 that still operate now. Ten thousand independent programs came and went in San Francisco in all that time, the organized religion program lasted, the independent ones did not. I want to make varnasrama, but trying to shut down temple programs that can last for centuries is not the way forward. 

Varnasrama also needs to have the stable and centuries running programs that have lasted from 1776, they need to work together with the independents. You want to separate the centuries running programs from the independents, and that is not the process. 

And instead of being happy I saved kids, Kris Drboy is not happy I did that, because I was not chanting my rounds and it is all material courts. He has no idea that children are living entities and we have to save them. People who think that saving children is material courts and not spiritual -- are not qualified to make varnasrama or any religion programs. You are not answering any of these points, and establishing temples and temples and temple goshallas is part of varnasrama. ys pd

Bhaktvtsal Das: It means you are nothing know about urgent need of reestablish varnasharma dharma!

PADA: Bhaktvtsal Das When we were in India we visited a brewery where the owner made apartments all around for the workers. And he made a temple in the center and all the workers went to the temple before work. Srila Prabhupada said -- this is ideal Vedic culture. Kris Drboy says that this program of making temples is a pyramid business. It is, one temple is making devotees and then sends some devotees to another city to make another temple. 

He says Srila Prabhupada's pyramid making temples is a mundane business. But starting out the day taking care of cows is not the center of Vedic culture, it is temples. Cows are part of Varnasrama but temples are the center. You guys do not like temples where people worship Krishna, because you have no idea how varnasrama works. This brewery fellow understands varnasrama better than you. The only way varnasrama will happen is when temples make devotees, and the devotees are them divided into varnas and asramas. You have no idea how the program works. 

Bangalore followed Srila Prabhupada's process here. First they made a small temple program here, which gathered some support members. Then they imported a few South India brahmanas for the pooja. Then they gathered up more and more congregation, enough to buy land for a temple and cows. Then they started Sunday schools for kids. Then they got some land where they could make a temple and have cows. 

Then they imported their first cows from India. That is the system, we start with a temple, we get a congregation, we expand from there to eventually making a cows project. They have nice cows project here and are going to soon have another Goshalla in Dallas, so it is expanding. When the people managing this program leave their bodies, they will hand it off to other devotees so it is not temporary, it is an ongoing process. 

Simultaneously, they are getting people to read Srila Prabhupada's books and worship Krishna. So that is the process Srila Prabhupada made, and it is working nicely here and in many other places. The basis of all varnasrama programs is to FIRST MAKE A TEMPLE. Because we need to build a group of people to designate in different varnas and ashramas. And that is happening automatically. The men who can manage are managing, the brahmanas are doing the pooja, the preaching devotees are preaching, the cow devotees are taking care of cows, the ladies are making garlands, deity outfits and even they have a nice ladies bhajan group. 

And the Vaishyas are serving and supporting all of the above. That is basically how Srila Prabhupada did things, and it works when done properly. These cows they have here are not often seen in the USA, and they are attracting nice attention from the regular people. I think this is all a win win, for everyone, includes the cows. And the Bangalore folks like what I am preaching about guru tattva. So this is good option in my opinion. At least it is better than what most others are doing. ys pd https://www.kbgoshala.org/about-us/

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CONDITIONED GURUS

Dusyanta dasa : As this purport has progressed Srila Prabhupada reveals more and more for the FUTURE candidates to follow and become His Diksha disciples.

Mahesh: You peoples CONDITIONED SOUL CON ARTIST “Diksha” disciples are described here:

Anti Ritvik Guru Parampara: the disciplic succession of manipulative CROOKS
FISKCON has had pyschopath gurus, rapist gurus, murderer gurus, paedophile gurus, homo-sex gurus, drug gurus, alcoholic gurus, thug gurus, manipulative con man gurus, embezzler gurus, book changer gurus, mad man gurus, womaniser gurus,sex-yasi gurus, sin-yasi gurus, GBC conditioned soul factory produced rubber-stamped gurus.

And—— now—— for that SPECIAL treat: FISKCON’S PROSTITUTE GURUS.

Compare above with our BONAFIDE guru parampara:

SB 3.13.8 P The Appearance of Lord Varaha

Brahma is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahma is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next. The disciplic succession from Brahma is called the Brahma-sampradaya, and it descends as follows: Brahma, Narada, Vyasa, Madhva Muni (Purnaprajna), Padmanabha, Nrhari, Madhava, Aksobhya, Jayatirtha, Jnanasindhu, Dayanidhi, Vidyanidhi, Rajendra, Jayadharma, Purusottama, Brahmanyatirtha, Vyasatirtha, Laksmipati, Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Svarupa Damodara and Sri Rupa Gosvami and others, Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Krsnadasa Gosvami, Narottama dasa Thakura, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Jagannatha dasa Babaji, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

ISKCON Excludes White Middle Class (HK Project) 04 14 26




INDEPENDENT PROGRAMS

PADA: Right, every endeavor requires manpower, land, capital and organization. Srila Prabhupada wanted independent centers, but also tied together with an international organization. Then -- there could be big temples, large scale harinamas, book printing and festival programs and so on. And when I was in ISKCON I could fly anywhere in the world and stay at an ISKCON center, and I did. 

So that was the original model Srila Prabhupada made. It seems to me you guys are missing the whole international organization idea? And that is why Kris Drboy's people never write me any questions on siddhanta, deity worship, which books are originals, what did Srila Prabhupada say on different issues etc. That is because he has no followers. 

A guy here and there is the perfect independent program, but it cannot do what Srila Prahbupada wanted. He also says I am not chanting my rounds, and that is what they ALL said when I was saving the children. Boo hoo! He should not save the children, which is all karmi courts. And Kris Drboy is one of their parrots. He is with that camp. And that is why he has no followers or program, no one cares for that camp today. 

Our idea is making progress, and some young man wrote me today to say my writings saved his life. So Kris Drboy is against our helping saving children and others, and that is why we cannot follow his ideas. They are the same as the GBC's idea, protecting children and Jaipur cows is wrong, that is what the GBC has said all along. Chant your rounds and let others suffer. We are not buying it. ys pd

WHITE MIDDLE CLASS EXCLUDED FROM ISKCON

Pinned by @NaradaDasUK

@NaradaDasUK

This short talk is also available on our Facebook page: https://fb.watch/GlJo-k5rg1/

@kanteya108: The reason so many Indians come to ISKCON is because it's the only organisation that answers questions about sanatan dharma ... I would go far as saying that ISKCON has saved santan dharma outside India and stopped 2nd / 3rd generation Hindu converting to Islam or Christianity.

I hope westerners come back. Srila prabhupada said that India has the spiritual knowledge however the European have first class administrative skills...if we worked together then it would be something formidable. I'm sorry that you faced discrimination.. at least you are still a devotee.

@PuggiTheGreat: Wokeness destroys everything. Kaliyug eh.

@blissfullife490: If this happened accidentally then pls forgive but repeatedly then such mistakes should be corrected in vaishnav manner .... otherwise law of  karma... it works for true justice.

@CliveAdlam-yn8uz: Birmingham ISKCON, a Hindi Bindi club.

@danobrien9925: Most spiritual groups have issues. No group can stop your love of God, best to be free of being attached to any group or guru in my opinion. God bless everyone. 

pada1008: Yep, Srila Prabhupada told us -- "I preached in India for 40 years with no result." "If the Hindus take over my movement it will become a business." "The Hindu men are all watching cricket while only the Indian women come to my programs." "The Hindus are a hodge podge." "India has an abundance of nothing because they are offending Krishna." 

AND SO ON. He was not a fan of Hindus. My friend back East says, almost all of the Hindus who come to his temple EAT MEAT. And a number of them have been put onto the temple managerial board. The Westerners are being culled out. He said -- It is a Hindu business. ys pd

@CliveAdlam-yn8uz: Great Speech and so true. I relate to everything you say. What we going to do now? Respect.Srila Prabhupada. 

@extemporaneous4545: Looks like the human species will always descend into tribalism based on skin colour. That is the default setting for this species.

@HanumansMace: Maybe, just maybe, it is more of a demographic + cultural bias. It has got nothing to do with being Eastern or Krishna. I hope the sense of discernment aka Viveka is functioning at full throttle to separate the grain from the chaff.

@HarryJagernauth: Hare Krishna prabhuji. As someone who has been around this movement since 1970, I have personally witnessed the decline of Srila Prabhupada’s movement in many ways, from the book changes to the many rules that Srila Prabhupada instructed being broken over time. 

My body is not white but I am of Indian descent born outside of India. Like your good self I have walked away many years back, but continue to worship the Lord in my home on a daily basis and try my utmost to follow Srila Prabhupada’s teachings. I sincerely understand what your intention is in presenting this video. 

My humble suggestion is that you continue your devotion and follow Guru, Sadhu and Shastra. Keep an open mind. We are fortunate that we have been given the opportunity in this lifetime 

By the Mercy of Srila Prabhupada. Conversely I can also say that I have been shunned many times over the years by white devotees and Indian devotees as well because I was born in a British colony and cannot speak any Indian language, but so what. I never showed off my advanced graduate degrees or my military experience as a war veteran of the US. 

We are not this body and it’s the core teachings of BG that we must follow if we want to transcend this place. Like my idol George Harrison wrote in “Living in the Material World” got to get out of this place by Lord Sri Krishna’s Grace, my salvation from this material world. 

So keep on this transcendental journey. It’s the only way and, with an open mind. 

Haribol

All Glories To Srila Prabhupada

@HareKrishna_pl: There seems to be quite a bit of frustration in the video and in the comments. Śrīla Prabhupāda said: “Indians are fortunate because they are born in a land where Kṛṣṇa consciousness is already there. Even a child in India chants ‘Rāma’ or ‘Kṛṣṇa.’ This is a great advantage.” Because of that cultural exposure, many people may naturally feel attracted to the temple, deities, the holy name, and kīrtan.

At the same time, it’s sad if anyone feels unwelcome in a temple. Krishna consciousness is meant for everyone. Śrīla Prabhupāda repeatedly said this movement is for the whole human society.

Maybe we should also ask ourselves honestly: how many people around us are we actively preaching to and bringing to the temple? If we’re not reaching out and sharing krishna consciousness, how will others come and become devotees?

Ultimately, Śrīla Prabhupāda taught us to rise above bodily identification and see everyone as a spirit soul, a servant of krishna.

Hare Krishna

@Storywryter: The more devotees speak up & out, the less alone those of us feel who have had to leave Iskcon’s dysfunction for practicing at home. Over the last 20 years Iskcon Temples have become all about catering to the Indian diaspora. It actually feels uncomfortable in the U.S. Temples. Instead of a house for the whole world, it’s become Hindu Temples only. Very sad. This is not what Prabhupada wanted. But… there is no turning back now. Iskcon has become an example of what not to do to help souls on a spiritual path. Sad. 

@Nelson-z5g: Srila prapupada had run away from india, could not establish real honest movement of chaitanya. even osho who attracted white ppl to india, run away from india. indian are program for decades by rituals, corrupted priests, pundits who sing lullaby keep them asleep, keep donations going promising pious life. Western white ppl will eventually realize stay away from indian way practicing kk, follow real genuine way srila prapupada taught.

@maxbeaverwax9693: Unfortunately, it slowly but surely began in the early eigthies Prabhu. I fall at the lotus feet of Prabhupada and Lord Krishna eternally. I have my alter, Prabhupada’s original, unaltered books and I have The Lord but I don’t have Iskcon association any more… to be honest Prabhu, it works well for me. 

The reality is, if you can’t get the answers you need from Prabhupada then, in my humble opinion, there are not many souls on the planet that can help… do you know any personality equal to or greater than Srila Prabhupada? …I don’t. We just stay strong in our faith, be guided by Prabhupada and keep moving forward. 

 All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and the devotees!  Hare Krishna!! 

@pauljohnson6019: Yes, we are pure Atman or spirit soul. We've been trapped in the material body since beginningless time.

@dervish108: It’s both sad and ironic considering most of the disciples of Srila Prabhupada appeared to have come from white middle class families.

@CliveAdlam-yn8uz: We were called" White Elephants". My family were, working  class. Hare Krsna.

@johntrin: This is the problem with many eastern religious organizations in the west, they rely on donations, so wealthy donors end up being paid attention to more because the organization needs them to survive. Also, who has the time and resources to be able to regularly go on retreats? 

Certainly not the working class. So many practitioners end up being older wealthy retired folk who are the opposite of what is preached in their scripture. Easy to be detached when you have no financial stressors.

@akumarmalai: Same in every religion.

@johntrin: @akumarmalai  yeah if only religions had spiritual power that could transcend the need for the material, but that would require them to actually be true.

@Marvaey: I also noticed the Russian, east European influence, with poorly speaking devotees, giving classes without much meanings, my opinion is that those deceiving a group, harm the group, but they lose their soul, sad to say, thanks for sharing, Hare Krsna.

@wellwisher7778: Yeah, I would say it's wrong for persons of any race not to feel welcomed at the ISKCON Temples.

@arnabdas2679: I am of Indian descent and was born and raised in the US. I don’t know the politics of the movement so I am sure there is a lot of ego and corruption whether it be about ISKON or any other org. 

That said, you have to understand about the legitimate motivation about many Indian people who have been colonized and continue to be colonized by European and Middle Eastern peoples whom have tried to usurp and appropriate the good parts of our heritage for their own while not giving credit as to who invented it. Simultaneously, they highlight negative aspects of our people and illuminate it as if we are the only ones with problems even though their own communities have the same problems sometimes at higher rates. European and Middle Eastern people continue to do this to this day and that dehumanizes us and our contributions to human civilization. 

I hope you honor and appreciate the spirituality that has come out of India and it all brings you peace. Part of the peace for us who do descend from there is being recognized for our humanity and the contributions of our ancestors whose teachings you all are now espousing. Thank you.

@aka-o9x: What was appropriated? I mean, cultures also learn from other cultures, is that bad? E.g., so called "arabic" numbers (which morphed their shape many times on the path since they were invented in India), and e.g. Chaturanga, which now is played in many different further versions around the world, Chess, Chinese chess, and Shoogi.

@aka-o9x: that’s exactly what I was referring to with appropriation. Giving credit to where it came from. I only came across this video of yours so I’m assuming you do that and not accusing you of not, but rather explaining the suspicions those of us in the diaspora have.

@Listenerandlearner870: Is it mostly Indian diaspora in Britain? In some countries such as eastern european devotees look white.

@SaraFreedMiami: *What city 🤔🌆 in UK??*

@edvinchandra1277: It's not just class, education or wealth, Indians have a high level of culture, tradition, moral standards that are unmatched by other cultures. Most are already born  vegetarian and very pious. So ISKCON has now created this attributes as standard and qualification of a devotee.

@ВикторШифердеккер: Харе Кришна!!! Материя не позволит сидеть на двух стульях выбор за каждым!!!Удачи!!

@Parzival94-w5i: Preach brother!

@Ajacharya: Back in early 70's it was EXTREMELY Strange to see an Indian bodied person in the Seattle or Portland temples.  Now, the Portland temple has basically nothing BUT Indian devotees.  And certainly few if any temples have white bodied people living in them that I know of.  I left in 79 when the devotees told me it was no longer Srila Prabhupada's temple but the new gurus.  That was it fo rme. ❤️🙏🏻

@philo8040: This is not particularly new; I identified this in my own life nearly a couple of decades ago now. It began in the UK with excluding white people - It's difficult to write that, but it is so true - Even at festivals - I am a stranger, not because I feel like one in the company of many Indians etc but because I am treated like a stranger. I hope it changes

@GangaMayi-um6zw: It is really hard but let's be rebels and visit the Deities and chant loudly in the kirtan from time to time because it does make a difference ❤

@bhaktiyogareatreat108: Thank you for making the distinction between ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada movement. An institution is limited a movement keep moving.

@jedsteelwell2354: I live by new Vrindaban and have been going there for years and I can tell you when I was a teen in the 90s there was plenty of white people interested in Bhakti but now when I go the only whites I see are old first generation deciples and Indians. They are all still very welcoming as I know everyone but there's no interest from white people to join iskon or even practice Bhakti because they see it as a cult.

@jackieparcell1370: Hi Narada I am out and about and just watched yr clip by reading the subtitles (sound off because I am in a public meeting). Well done Narada - great that you're giving voice to what you see. I didn't realise you'd left iskcon. 

I have heard of your League of Devotees, i will have to Google that. I listen to a lot of hd goswami talks; I think he expresses the situation well. I would only disagree with you on one point: iskcon HAS failed. At least is failing right now.  Pascatya desha tarine and all that.  Hopefully will run into you sometime y.s. Govardhan dasi

@TaoistMovementArts: Thanks for sharing. Informative.

@chadbutler2287: Feeling unqualified because of body, class, or whatever can either become the root of our indignation or it can humble us and bring us closer to that ideal of humbler than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, and respectful to all without expecting respect. Without expecting respect. The discrimination you've felt is a gift to help destroy your ego, even though you've got twenty years experience AND a university degree with a good job. Maybe specifically because of those factors. All the best to you. Hare Krishna.

@KajanLakhan: I didn't understand what you where saying - so I pressed the summerise video. It's quite an issue. That's why there was a system to have a brahmin controlling prayer. ..then iskcon came , and started talking ill about brahmins. Yip it's quite an issue - and things cause schisms.

@mahasimha8379: Indians work hard and support the temple ... Whites opposite ... That is the reason for the schism.

Lilamanjaridasi: I have white skin but I don't class myself as any class. I have looked at some of the small groups you mentioned, I can appreciate what they're trying to do but there aren't any suitable to me. Change is very much needed there also.

I have a suspicion that ISKCON is approaching a drastic change with westerns taking over and making sure the right things are done for Srila Prabhupada and His mission and for every sincere soul who is seeking something more than the mundane material world.

@aktywnyobserwator5868: Very thoughtful comment.. ISKCON will be brought back to the original purity of SP teachings, in  next few years, false gurus will fall or be exposed ! This is happening right now and what we see is just the beginning.. obeisances from Polska.


Lilamanjaridasi: To add - I don't mean there aren't any suitable small groups in the sense of what I think they're doing wrong. I'm sure there are many wonderful groups.

@AnkurSethi108: I have heard in temples, if you want some service or a donation, you ask an Indian, if you want some advice, you ask a white person. It is funny but also true, see where donations come from. ISKCON has such a large demand for money and temples that really only Indians can fulfill it. 

Indians are valued because as a group they give a lot, service wise and money wise. It is natural. I don't mean this as for or against what is being said here, but there is a reason for what has happened. Leadership knows that if white people come or not it doesn't matter, but the temple will fail if Indians don't come.

@andersbhakta2563: Sorry to hear about your experience. Of the temples I have visited in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the London temples, I havn't experienced any discrimination of white middle class devotees. I have never heard of it either. In the temple where I serve, the board of seven members consists of five nationalities and I haven't observed any serious conflict in the twelve years I have seved there. I guess everyone has a strong desire to cooperate and find solutions. I hope you find a satisfying spritual association. 

All the best

@lilamanjaridasi: In my experience some devotees choose not to notice these things, which sometimes isn't a bad thing because perhaps it's their service to not notice and do anything about it. Instead their service is to serve in that capacity.

There are huge problems, some see them, some feel them and some just don't.

@andersbhakta2563: Yes, it can happen that one sees just what one wants to see, avoiding the painful truth. But you mentioned practical issues, like different rules for different people and that is easy to spot. When it comes to mentality, well we are in the process and noone is perfect. Important thing is that we try together. That is what I have to share from my own experiences in ISKCON.  Thanks for sharing yours.

@lifeofsukanti: Thanks for sharing. This is my experience as well in USA. Hindus mainly.

@alanmcbride6658: Thanks brother. God bless.

@Gooliejibson: Definitely small is beautiful.. no room for corruption.

@akumarmalai: Yes remain small and do your service quietly.

@Gooliejibson: Yeah the uk temples do feel more like Hindu temples. Everythng started to change when the road was built at the Manor. Before then it was indescriminate and proportionate demographically

@B.C.ShantaMaharaj: ISKCON is a business, a corporation. They are not going anywhere. I wish them all the money in the world, but you can't buy Krishna consciousness. Basically the leaders have betrayed the rank and file devotees, over and over again. Some one will have to pay the bill.

@aktywnyobserwator5868: Business. Exactly, Prabhu ! Hare Krishna.

@B.C.ShantaMaharaj: There's nothing wrong with being white and middle class. Some of the best people are white and middle class, like me. We left. ISKCON has gone woke. But it was the white middle class who built ISKCON. It's bizarre.

@AllanJones-mb7dt: I'm very low class. And white. And very difficult to fit in at the manor. I live near it. Thier mostly from rich families.  I'm a bit scruffy.  I think I'm too down to earth for the place.  I'm unsophisticated . That's how I was bought up. But im a sincere devotee.  

I even got baned over a year ago. Nothing seriose I done. Now they say I can go back but only if I'm with someone. But that's redicoulas . I've no friends or family.   I'm a loner.  And reclusive. Never mind I just practise kc in my own company. I know I'm a good guy!  And krsna also knows. 

So im not bothered. I can chant without the temple. Haribol!

@lilamanjaridasi: What I'm about to write may displease you greatly but I feel it's important. How we dress, behave and conduct ourselves is hugely important. New people visit temples all the time, we go to outreach programmes, we're always meeting new people. How we present ourselves has a huge impact on others.

Srila Prabhupada would not want us to be scruffy while trying to encourage others to join in.

@lilamanjaridasi: 

​@AllanJones-mb7dtIt's a shame you feel you can no longer go.

Of course "lower class" can be devotees, although I don't feel we should think of ourselves as such. Devotees are extraordinary souls. All this class talk needs to go. I do understand and accept hierarchy but low/high class is different.

@paulthomas281: @AllanJones-mb7dt They said that you can come back to the ISKON temple once you are no longer single? That is ridiculous.

@Cihan-o6e9l: Simple living, high thinking.  Your qualification is 'being fallen'. That's Lord Caitanya's movement. It has been turned into something else. I am going to suggest what Prabhupada disciples and other senior devotees advised me to do: keep on listening to Prabhupada every single day and ignore the politics within the supposed movement. 

That was more than 2 decades ago. Now it's unrecognisable as Prabhupada's movement, even compared to the state it was in then. I can only repeat the same: listen to Prabhupada's actual talks every single day, chant your rounds, develop some sadhana etc. 

That IS Krsna, so doing those activities you are associating with Him. Pray to Prabhupada from the bottom of your heart to guide you to find 'real' devotee association. Study his books very carefully. Practical: you need to read Prabhupada's original books. Many devotees do that. Ramya, Bhaja Hari's wfe, distributes the original books.  Find her on Facebook and direct message her both about getting the books, and to see, if there are devotees getting together in your area. There are homegroups by those who want to avoid the politics and share the knowledge. Once you feel inspired by this, get out there and share it. You can do that even now, whenever you meet people you get on with.😇😇🙏🙏🙏

Sorry forgot; Ramya's full name is Ramya Murphy.

@Cihan-o6e9l: Ros Ramya Murphy. Just tried searching. There are other Ramya Murphys , but this is her full name.

@AllanJones-mb7dt: ​ @Cihan-o6e9l well. Thats a very interesting coment.  Somthing to consider. I have many of prabhupadas lectures and vidioes.  And yes. All the politics are confusing . Thats why i dont bother much about it all. I just wana chant and that. Im not likely to get initiated . 

All this debate like...isckon is bad or isckon is good . I dont know about all that. 

But ill keep in mind what u say. 

Main thing is...chant my rounds . Witch i do.

@CliveAdlam-yn8uz: You're  a good person .You sound like me .I wish you well forever .Srila Prabhupada,  ki. Jay.

@bodhi9464: the Melbourne temple in Australia 🇦🇺 is busy and the BG classes are mostly westerners ..the Krishna restaurants always have queues at lunchtime and many books are also distributed.. 

I’m sorry this is happening where you are .. I am a Caucasian and always get treated extra special whenever I visit .. the Kirtan I last went to in Melbourne was half full of white western male and female ..

stokaji: May I ask which kirtans you are going to, in which you see so many westerners? The one that is held once a week at the community centre across the road from the temple? Not at the temple itself, surely?

@bodhi9464: @stokaji the last one I attended was in the old theatre room in Prabhupada house about a year ago..  many westerners in there .. 

the Melbourne temple itself is mostly Indian folk. Hare Krishna.

@stokaji: @bodhi9464 Yeah, they moved those kirtans from the theatre room to the old reception, then across the road to Mary Kehoe Community Centre. They are held at 6pm on Sundays and are meant to be outreach to Westerners, although many Indian guests attend anyway.

@atrismith7487: It may be International but it isnt diverse

@Jarys-y7t: Generally self-realization is not a mass production except for rare occasions when either Lord Sri Krishna personally intervene or His top servants take the wheel, otherwise it's a lonely rare exercise of very lucky few all together.

@HumptyDumpty-o5q: It’s KALI YUGA and nothing is untouchable by it, even ISKCON.

@TheConduit10: Sad that you feel this . I visited some Brahmacharis of European descent , (I'm of Eurasian descent) You know them , but I wont say who , And I felt I was slighted and put down , But I just sucked it up , and rose above it , didn't harbour any malice - and grew because of it- Hare Krishna

@sarayudas: A prominent Iskcon guru once told me how Iskcon has now turned into IRskcon, Indian and Russian society for Krishna Consciousness, there are no new devotees in the temples in the West, temples are mostly empty except the days of big celebrations and even then, there's mostly Indians who never read a Srila Prabhupad's book and are not really interested in KC. 

I think a lot has to do with western people being disappointed with the corruption, scandals, unchecked child abuse, power and money hungry people in charge of the institution.... Maybe western people just ask themselves too many questions for their likings...

@chadbutler2287: Wow. I've also seen a huge difference in the congregations of ISKCON, but to generalize our Indian population as not having read Prabhupada's books couldn't be further from the truth. In Portland Oregon at least I'm surrounded by a mostly Indian community whose realizations are as emotional as they are intellectual, in a perfect balance. In my own experience, it's this Indian community which keeps me attached (to ISKCON). 

Two main differences I've seen since I joined in the 80's has been that the temples used to serve small communities that mostly lived within the ashram where nowadays the temple supports a larger community in the varnashram system. The second change was that in the 80's there was a strong focus on rules and hierarchy. Women were unquestionably second class. Now there is a much greater acceptance of devotees' participation regardless of their body type. Maybe a third change worth recognizing that has to do more with our times than our organization is the existence of the internet where it's easy to spew or digest criticisms and politics which affects the openness of our hearts...

@sarayudas:  @chadbutler2287  I'm glad you had a different experience than mine. You also live in a different part of the world. 

I can assure you, a lot of the Indians attending big utsav like Janmastami, have no idea who Srila Prabhupada is, have a hard time singing along the mahamantra and some even show up drunk smelling of whiskey. On the contrary, people from the Mauritius turn very easily into wonderful devotees.

That is my personal experience. I'm not claiming to know each specific situation in each Iskcon temple the western world.

@CharlesRayWallace: I am Raivata Muni Dasa. New Orleans Devotee.

Sri Sri Radha-Radha Kanta pioneer and servant of Srila Bhakti Tirtha Swami.  I traveled to Africa and India. I helped build Srila Prabhupada Palace of Gold.  I distributed books in airports in America! I did Sankirtan every where.  Preaching is the essence and purity is the force. I know without a doubt ISKCON is UNSTOPPABLE LEGACY BUILDING! Jaya Srila Prabhupada. 🪞™️

@DarkMagaBrandon: The question I keep asking is , why have the Cities got worse when prabhupada would tell city authorities that Harinam Sankirtan lowers crime but there's been half a century of Harinam and ratha yatras around the world and it's increasingly become worse everywhere ???

I joke with my Dad that it's the Hare Krishnas to blame , look at the tineline and their chanting as made everything turn to shit .

@NaradaDasUK: This short talk is also available on our Facebook page: https://fb.watch/GlJo-k5rg1/

🎶 Celebrating 21 Years of The Hare Krishna Centre - Leicester, UK - Kirtan Festival 🎶
🎥 Film 2 - Gauranga Sundara Prabhu cuts the cake 🎂 🔪
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday night for a very special event to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the opening of The Hare Krishna Centre in Leicester and the installation of Their Lordships Sri Sri Nitai Sachi-Sundar 🥳
A blissful evening of chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophy with Gauranga Sundara Dasa Prabhu and The League of Devotees 🙂
💬 "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. In Kali-yuga, if this Vedic maha-mantra is chanted regularly and heard regularly by the devotional process of shravanam kirtanam, it will purify all societies, and thus humanity will be happy both materially and spiritually."
- Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.18.14)