Tribute to Ekanath / Mayapur is a Mess / Sridhara and Gaudiya Math 02 15 26

 

EKANATH DASA and BHAKTIVEDANTA ARCHIVES

PADA: Yes, we are in deep debt to Ekanath's Bhaktivedanta Archives.

In 1985 Sulochana said he "bribed someone at the archives" to get a microfiche of Srila Prabhupada's letters. We had to buy some really big, clumsy, and somewhat heavy metal microfiche readers to go through them. And we discovered a lot of revealing statements against the GBC, and especially Kirtanananda -- "a crazy man who should be sent back to Bellevue." And Sulochana also got a copy of the "guru appointment" tape from the archives.

Of course the bogus "guru appointment tape" reveals -- that none of these 11 were EVER appointed as gurus, that is not what the tape says. Sulochana also said the tape was spliced, and a forensic expert -- Norman Pearle -- said it is spliced.

Needless to say, our information was ripping the carpet out from under the GBC's whole "we are gurus" platform, and so we became targets for assassination. And one of us was assassinated, but it was too late, the cat was out of the bag. The information simply spread from there and it still is.

Then, maybe 1990 or so, the Archives printed 1,000 copies of the "Srila Prabhupada's conversations books" -- covering 1977. Tamal wanted only 1,000 copies made because he was afraid of the information contained therein, especially the doubts Srila Prabhupada had about the leaders even up to the end of his time here. Somehow or other I got one of the book sets. 

However, in one 1977 passage it says -- in brackets -- "conversation about poison in Hindi." OK that started my quest to get these Hindi tapes. To be honest I did not believe those tapes even existed anymore. But I kept praying to Krishna to get me these tapes, if they still existed. 

And later on -- 1997 -- a person went to the Archives, and got me a copy of those tapes, and brought them to me in Los Angeles. And that is what started "The Poison Investigation." And forensics done on the tape found incriminating whispers etc. 

But none of that -- the letters, the bogus guru appointment tape, the 1977 conversations, and the poison tapes -- would have been uncovered without help from the Archives folks. So we owe them a lot since much of our work has been founded on their supplying us with the needed materials. 

It is sort of like fighting a war, there is the guy who is at the front in the foxhole, and there are the guys in the rear sending ammo to the guys in the front, and the Archives sent me all sorts of ammo which I will be eternally grateful for. And without that ammo, I would have been severely hampered. So I give them a lot of credit for helping me, and for all the other things they have done to preserve the works of Srila Prabhupada. 

Having said all that, I have a lot of doubts about how well things will be preserved in the future -- if the Archives is handed off the the Jayadvaita book changers sampradaya. Of course this all happened because of so many devotees who were not even caring what was going on with the books, or much of anything else. 

Ekanath himself used to complain there is plenty of money for guru expenses and almost no money for my project. He was always scraping around to collect funds. Anyway he did a lot and he is a glorious person, and he helped me a lot with indirect help, information which he wanted to get out -- and thus he sort of made arrangements for us to get these vital things. 

In short, I wish him well, and God speed spirit soul, you are a great hero, you were my ammo supplier, despite not being known for that widely. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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MAYAPUR is a Mess 

Henry Doktorski III

I received this message from a Facebook friend, a former disciple of Bhavananda. He tells about the time, 41 years ago, when he served as a guard at the Mayapur Guest House during the GBC meetings and heard a scream coming from Kirtanananda Swami's room. 

He peeked into the window and was shocked. He writes:

They call me Max, because I despise CHAOS… The GBC is CHAOS and we need to get ISKCON under Control… 

I realised the GBC had gone over the Dark Side back in 1985 at the Gaura Purnima festival in Mayapur. Bhavananda gave me guard duty keeping devotees out of the Mayapur Guest House. Only GBC were allowed in. Vultures of a cult flock together.

 

I knew something was rotten when I heard a scream that came from Kirtananda Swami’s room. The louvre windows were open and I looked in. Kirtananda “Swami” was molesting a small boy. 

I immediately called Anirdesh (Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami ) to come and see but he just ran away laughing. I spoke to a number of other devotees about it and they said “There is nothing you can do about it. Kirtananda has very rich supporters who are very well connected in the highest level of government and there are ex-army security guards around. They have weapons and the GBC knows what goes on in Kirtananda’s room.“

 

Sexual abuse of children had been going on in Mayapur for years and the GBC had never reported anyone to the Police. The only devotee who was willing to go to the Police was Sarvaksha and he was being told by witnesses that testifying against the GBC could result in witnesses being drowned in the Ganges River. But Sarvaksha would never give up … and then Sarvaksha died mysteriously before he could get to the Police.

 

I was told he committed suicide but I didn’t believe that. The GBC said “Sarvaksha died because he was sick “… If that was true, why didn’t they take him to a hospital? 

 

According to Dhira Govinda Prabhu and the “Advancing Child Protection“ Facebook group there was a very thorough and professional investigation of the Mayapur Gurukula and reports were given to every member of the GBC in 1997. The report said Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami should be expelled from the Gurukula and he should not be allowed to work with children… because nothing was being done to stop sexual assaults on the children.

 

The GBC just ignored that report and Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami was allowed to carry on as principal of the Gurukula and he even invited to preach in Australia’s ISKCON temples where he was promoted as a saint. 

I complained about that to Australia’s Royal Commission on Child Abuse but they told me there was nothing they do about him because they only had jurisdiction over child abuse that was committed in Australia. They said he should be reported to the Indian Police.

 

When the Dallas Gurukula was closed down by the government the Psychiatrist who was appointed by the court to assess the mental health of the children told the court “These children are deprived of love” ... Prabhupada just didn’t accept that it is wrong to deprive children of a mother’s love and he told his disciples to send the children to the Indian Gurukula. The children said that was like being taken out of the frying pan and dumped into the fire. If there is a 99 out there … It’s about time the children were saved and the GBC are dealt with. That’s what Lord Krishna wants.

PADA: Yup. All kinds of people knew the child abuse was going on, especially in places like Mayapur. Everyone had a duty to try to challenge it, but instead, us whistle blowers were often the people being challenged, threatened, banned, removed and -- killed. Now Jayapataka is being awared the Bhakti Sarvabhouva title by the GBC, they love the guy who makes Auschwitz for kids. Sorry, Jayapataka has been the high command of Mayapur, in fact he still is, and he is responsible for what goes on there.  

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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PADA: Yes, in 1978 the GBC announced that BR Sridhara Maharaja is the GBC's newly annointed shiksha advisor. Sridhara said the 11 GBC gurus can be worshiped as "rati keli siddha," and he introduced the idea of "the acharya of the zone." Sorry. Conditioned souls are not rati keli siddhas, and there is no such thing as the acharya of the zone. When I said there is a problem with Jayatirtha having affairs with females, and offering LSD to the shalagram, the gang of four gurus headed by Jayapataka had me removed from ISKCON. 

And they confronted me with quotes from BR SRIDHARA MAHARAJA, that I should cooperate. Jayatirtha was later taken out by a disgruntled disciple because of his propensity for having affairs with married ladies. I also complained that the children are being mistreated. When they told Sridhara people like me are protesting, he said "none should protest." So we ended up suing the GBC for $3,000,000 and later for $400,000,000 for all the child mistreatment. 

They were following Sridhara's advice, none should protest, when they should have listened to us. But Sridhara made a failed guru program after 1936 in India and he has a long history of making conditioned souls into acharyas, which is forbidden by Srila Prabhupada. Yes we were warned about all this repeatedly, do not follow the Gaudiya Matha conditioned soul guru system. ys pd

Ritvik Initiation / BVKS / More Cancer / Ekanath Departs etc. 02 14 26

 

Bhajan Clubbing. ISKCON has almost no more harinama going almost anywhere, but there is a demand for kirtan. So now it is going to "clubbing." That means ISKCON failed to deliver what people want, and in fact need. I am for Bhajan Clubbing because some chanting is better than zero.

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Asociación Vaisnavas de España

The myth of "Combat Preacher" by Bhakti Vikasa Swami

BVKS says "I speak harshly -- like Prabhupada, and if I get rejected that proves I'm right." "But Prabhupada challenged Mayavadis -- BVKS attacks other vaishnavas. He discards humility and diplomacy as weakness, directly contradicting Mahaprabhu's sunicene trnad api. Present a false disunited narrative: you're either aggressive or you're a phony.

This philosophy isn't just bad logic -- it's dangerous. In 2016, BVKS used this exact scheme to publicly defend Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami against the findings of CPO's child abuse, framing it as "speaking the truth boldly against the establishment." 

It was later confirmed that Bhakti vidya Purna Swami was a high level child abuser. Here’s the inevitable outcome: When you build an identity around “I’m the brave one to tell the truth and my critics are cowards,” you lose the ability to recognize when you’re simply wrong — even when children are the ones paying the price.

The doctrine of the "Combat Preacher" doesn't justify harshness; it provides a prefabricated excuse to silence accountability itself. BVKS is not accountable for all the damage his defending child abuse programs has created -- for children.


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MORE MALIGNANT TUMORS

Hare Krishna,

My name is Vijaya Pandita Dasa. I am launching this fundraising campaign to financially assist Guru Dakshina Prabhu, a pioneer in the distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books in Italy. Many devotees know him: he is a dear servant of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Guru Dakshina Prabhu was recently diagnosed with a malignant tumor and, unfortunately, is no longer able to work. He was the sole breadwinner for his family. They live in England and, unfortunately, English employment contracts do not provide for long-term paid sick leave: they only grant about twenty days per year, after which you remain employed but without pay.

Let's help Guru Dakshina Prabhu until he can return home healed: the road ahead will still be long.

Thank you very much.
Hare Krishna
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Vijaya Pandita Dasa


https://www.gofundme.com/f/hare-krishna-guru-dakshin-prabhu-ha-bisogno-del-nostro-aiuto?

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EKANATH DEPARTS

HG EKANATH Prabhu disappeared on Ekadashi afternoon of the 13th of February, 2026, in North Carolina, USA, due to heart failure. The Bhaktivedanta Archives, Friends, Family, and myself are devastated. Will dearly and surely miss him on his journey back home.

First photo on a Morning Walk with Srila Prabhupada 1974 Juhu Beach, Mumbai.
Second and Third Photos, Mayapur 1973 wearing white hat/beanie center.

Fourth Photo more recent with his wife Nitya-trpta Dasi.

Ekanatha Das of Dutch origin joined ISKCON Amsterdam in 1972. He came to India in 1973 and was a key figure in the construction of ISKCON Juhu, Hare Krishna Land, Mumbai. Later he moved to Los Angeles, then North Carolina, leading and preserving for nearly 50 years Srila Prabhupada's Works.

Ekanatha Das was a key figure and president of the Bhaktivedanta Archives, responsible for preserving the legacy of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He oversaw the digital preservation of thousands of original audio recordings, letters, documents, and photos, and frequently updated the VedaBase.

He worked to create a "museum-quality" facility that serves as a research center for studying Prabhupada’s life and work.

Key details, preserve original, fragile materials—including 4,500 documents, 9,000 letters, and 200,000 photo slides—in a controlled environment.

VedaBase Updates: He manages the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase updates, which involve reverifying audio transcripts and correcting text, providing updated resources for the Vaisnava community.

Archives Mission: The Archives ensure the "as-is" preservation of historical records to prevent degradation of original tapes and photos.

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UKRAINE

Bloomberg’s reporting put Russian losses for January just around 44,000 dead on the battlefield, a number Sciutto made even more eye-popping with added context. The Soviet Union lost some 14,500 to 23,000 troops between 1979 and 1989 fighting in Afghanistan, although estimates vary.

Sciutto shared Wickham’s post and wrote, “In a single month, Russia had twice as many soldiers KIA as its entire ten-year war in Afghanistan, which helped bring down the USSR. The losses are staggering.”

PADA: Ukraine is getting closer to their goal of increasing the current 1,000 per day eliminations to 50,000 Russians taken out per month. They also developed some new longer range drones that can go 1,100 miles and they hit a big refinery. 

I was watching a Tik Tok of Ukraine drone operators and they said the Russians are like zombies. They see a bunch of their comrades already dead in the field. But they just march forward over the same field, sometimes stepping over the dead bodies, just like a zombie movie. 

And then they end up getting hit and laying down motionless in the field with the rest of the lot. They were thinking a lot of these Russia guys are just hoping they will get taken out -- and die -- to end their misery.  

There are also a lot of videos of Russians trying to fight off drones with sticks and rocks, which does not seem to work in most cases. The good news is that Russians are struggling with their recently dismantled communications platform after starlink dropped them, so they are getting more disorganized, cannot ask for reinforcement or supplies and etc. It was already chaotic and now it is worse.

So a lot of them are just getting whacked. When Russia says they have taken a town, often times it is only a few teams of guys holed up in bombed out houses hiding in the basement there, they have not actually taken it all over. And then the Ukraine guys start mopping up the people who are hiding. 

Some of those guys end up freezing to death and never leave the house alive. If they are hiding in the basement of a bombed out house, they have not taken the town by any means. And what have they taken over? A pile of bombed out bricks. Congratulations, you now own a giant burnt out junkyard, which has a lot of dead bodies in it. Who even wants to own all that?

Meanwhile there is a drone view of a couple of Russian guys trying to surrender, and they are walking toward the Ukraine guys with their hands up, and the Russians shoot them in the back and kill them. Evidently, surrender is not an option. Ok all these guys are disposable and expendable. No one even cares about the losses. This guy does not want to be a mindless zombie, we have to kill him!

Someone said this is just like ISKCON, let them all leave, we will have a big empty building so we can make a Hindu program. There is no concern for the citizens. ys pd   

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Statement from the Executive Committee of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission on Vaisnavi Diksa Guru - GBC AGM 2026

At the GBC AGM 2026, the GBC considered and approved a proposal submitted by the GBC - ISKCON Bureau (IB) Committee concerning the topic of Vaisnavi Diksa Guru. The GBC Executive Committee presents the proposal below in its original form, as approved by the GBC. The proposal approved by the GBC is as follows:

Whereas the GBC - ISKCON IB joint committee was given the responsibility of suggesting to the GBC a way forward to resolve the issue of whether Vaisnavis can take up the service of being diksa-gurus in ISKCON;

Whereas this committee has since then discussed and deliberated Vaisnavi diksa gurus (VDG) and various connected issues to arrive at a way forward;

Whereas many highly qualified ISKCON Vaisnavis have done and are doing commendable service under Srila Prabhupada’s guidance and protection in the mission of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu;

Whereas the GBC-IB committee concluded that the role of a guru in ISKCON needs to be further examined and clarified in relationship to Srila Prabhupada’s position, the managerial system that Srila Prabhupada established, the guru’s disciples, and other devotees in ISKCON;

Whereas to conclusively determine who is qualified to take up a service of leadership in ISKCON it is necessary to first determine what the parameters of that service are and the necessary qualifications required to perform it.

Whereas not only scriptural study is required for different parties to come to an agreement on such an important issue, but also continued discussion between concerned open-minded leaders who have mutual respect for each other. It will be helpful if underlying issues which are obstacles for the successful conclusion of the issue be recognized and attempts to resolve them made;

Whereas from the GBC-IB committee’s discussions and deliberations the committee can now present a way forward to resolve this issue. The committee’s proposal was arrived at after an examination of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions and example as well as after consultation with various ISKCON’s committees, leaders, and scholars.

Resolved:

1. There should be an ongoing discussion on guru-tattva based on Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and examples amongst qualified devotees in ISKCON. Details can be discussed further.

2. There should be a system to give more recognition and spiritual authority to certain qualified siksa-gurus within ISKCON.

3. Qualified Vaisnavis or Vaisnavas can be recognized as these special siksa-gurus.

4. Until the issue is satisfactorily resolved concerning Vaisnavi diksa-gurus, qualified Vaisnavis should only be recognized as siksa-gurus, with the exception of Narayani Devi Dasi who remains the diksa-guru of her current disciples.

5. The present committee remains open to assist in further research and discussions on the topic according to the GBC’s desire.

Issued by:

GBC Communications

ISKCON Constitution Links / "Operation Acharya" 02 12 26

DEVAKI HAS CANCER

PADA: She did write a good piece about how the GBC gurus are staying in their posts until the end of their lives -- and are thus not making room for the second generation to be the next wave of leaders. So the second generation is leaving ISKCON not seeing any place for them to participate. She is right. 

Anyway, another ISKCON person with cancer. Yeah, my Mormon nurse friend who reads my blog is correct, it is an epidemic. It could be stress, it could be a lot of things, and my ex-witch lady friend says -- it is coming from eating food offered to contaminated people. A lady friend of PADA has cancer and is not going to take any treatment, she is done with this place and just wants to go. Don't blame her for that. 

Something toxic is going on, for sure. Not sure the exact cause, but it is an epidemic -- for sure. I feel sad for these people, and wish her God speed in any case. Cancer is not fun. I have seen devotees with it and have seen the results first hand. ys pd 

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THE ISKCON CONSTITUTION:

PADA: It was too long winded for me to wade through. Lots of people complained, it is just more of the same: "we are the ultimate managers, you are not, so shut up already." ys pd

https://constitution.iskcon.org/constitutiondocument 

as linked to from the bottom of the page at https://iskconnews.org/iskcon-constitution-formally-inaugurated-at-the-2026-agm-in-mayapu

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Operation “Acarya”: 

The Secret Elimination of a Spiritual Leader and the Takeover of ISKCON.

The death of ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada in 1977 was long considered a "natural death." However, facts that emerged decades later indicate that it was one of the most successful operations by Western intelligence agencies to neutralize an ideological threat.

Motive: Why did Prabhupada become a danger to Washington?

In the mid-1970s, ISKCON ceased to be a group of "singing hippies." The movement transformed into a powerful international structure with enormous assets and, more importantly, an ideology that undermined the foundations of Western society.

Anti-systemic: Prabhupada openly called modern Western civilization a "society of swindlers," calling for the rejection of consumerism and the creation of alternative settlements (varnasrama).

Influence on the Elite: Scientists, rock stars, and the children of high-ranking officials came under his influence.

Geopolitics: The independent movement, equally influential in the US and India, was an "uncontrollable variable" for the CIA at the height of the Cold War.

Chronology of capture and liquidation: key stages.

1974–1975. Decision-making and infiltration.

US intelligence agencies (under programs similar to MK-Ultra) begin developing a plan to "modify" ISKCON.

Strategy: Not to destroy the organization (which would create an aura of martyrdom), but to replace the leader with a docile apparatus.

Action: Increased infiltration into Prabhupada's inner circle. Formation of a group of "trusted" Western disciples, whose ambitions and psychological weaknesses make them ideal conduits for the alien will.

Information blockade. A "ring" is created around Prabhupada. Secretaries begin filtering his mail and restricting independent access. During this period, reports on his health begin to appear in his handlers' correspondence, although he himself is still active and traveling.

1977 (March – November). The active phase of liquidation.

This is the key period of the operation.

May 1977: Prabhupada is persuaded to write a "will" and appoint 11 assistants (ritviks). The intelligence agencies receive a legal basis for the future transfer of power.

Summer 1977: His health deteriorates sharply. Modern hair tests conducted later confirm that it was at this time that cadmium, a heavy metal that causes gradual organ failure, mimicking natural exhaustion, began to enter his body.

Isolation in Vrindavan: He is transferred to India, where the intelligence agencies can more easily control his medical care and avoid independent examination.
November 1977: The Finale. Prabhupada openly declares on an audio recording: "Someone has poisoned me." His words are ignored by the "committee," and he resigns a few days later.

1978–1986. The Zonal Acarya Period.

Immediately after the founder's death, embedded agents (some of whom are part of the Eleven, while the rest are "useful idiots") stage a coup. They declare themselves "new messiahs," divide the world into spheres of influence, and impose a strict dictatorship. Disciples who attempt to raise the issue of poisoning or point out deviations are persecuted or even physically eliminated.

Creation of "Corporate ISKCON" (GBC ISKCON 1993).

When the "Eleven Dictators" model began to threaten the image of the United States due to scandals (drugs, murders), the intelligence agencies rebranded.
Goal: Create a respectable legal entity.

Result: The GBC ISKCON 1993 is established. This structure has finally secured the brand and assets, emasculated Prabhupada's radical teachings, and transformed them into "showcase Hinduism," loyal to any government.

Summary: Result of the operation.

By 2026, it becomes clear: Prabhupada's liquidation was not simply an internal conflict among disciples, but a high-tech operation to seize ideological resources.

The leader is eliminated.

The teachings are replaced (edits to the books).

The organization is controlled by Western legal and financial institutions.

What's next? The disclosure of archival data in 2026-2027 promises to be the end of the GBC ISKCON 1993. When it is proven that the current leadership is the legal successor to a group of conspirators acting in the interests of foreign intelligence agencies, the question of this organization's legitimacy will be closed forever.

According to preliminary reports, Tamal Krishna, Jayapataka, and Bhavananda were recruited by US intelligence agents, as was Kirtanananda and his entire "New Vrindavana"—a base for intelligence agencies where the poison could have been stored. The criminal case against Kirtanananda was forced and more of a rescue than a punishment. Kirtanananda knew about Prabhupada's poisoning. Tamal Krishna was later eliminated by the intelligence agencies—a witness cleansing operation.

After the failure of System 11, the decision was made to switch to the GBC ISKCON 1993. This switch was carried out by the fifth intelligence agent, Ravindra Svarupa, who also knew about Prabhupada's poisoning. Ravindra Svarupa had also long served as the chief GBC and the supervisor for Russia, building intelligence influence in the country using the "guru-disciple" method.

At a time when the world is reeling from the horrific details of the Epstein files, a small document about the assassination of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, approved at the very top and classified as "Secret," could easily become public knowledge.

PADA: This is something I get a lot of, even way back in the 1980s. ISKCON has been taken over by a government agency like the CIA, or the Illuminati and so on. I am not so convinced. First of all, why would a paid CIA agent spend his whole life acting as a Hare Krishna leader or guru? 

I think he would want to have mostly a regular Joe life and not be a pretend guru for his entire lifespan. One would really have to be dedicated to the job to spend all the days of their entire life on one job. Ooops, then there are people like Tamohara who think PADA is a paid CIA agent!

That really does not make much sense. CIA folks usually infiltrate something on a temporary basis -- to gather info, then maybe get rid of people or arrest people etc. but not stay on one job forever. They generally do not live out their whole entire lives as spies or agents inside of a particular cult. 

It is also hard for me to believe that people like Satsvarupa, Kirtanananda, Jayatirtha, Tamal, Bhavananda and others could even qualify as government agents -- when they are basically foolish ex-hippie type guys, and Bhavananda was hanging out with Andy Warhol etc. These guys would not pass the tests. 

But were they capable of plotting to take out Srila Prabhupada and taking over ISKCON -- and maybe poisoning Srila Prabhupada in order to conduct the take over? Well yes, they were quite capable of that, and I believe they did exactly that. 

But it was somewhat of an amateur job. For starters, we never would have got the November poison tapes, the appointment tape, and other evidence items from a truly organized professional group. Even if we had got the poison tapes by chance, they would have eliminated a person like me for exposing their plots. 

It looks like an amateur take over job to me, but even amateur killers who want to take over the assets of the father or leader can be very effective. And no doubt fathers and leaders are killed every day by motivated children and / or lower level leaders who want the top spot. So yeah, it was a conspiracy, and it was effective, they did take over. 

But no, it was not a professional CIA agent master class operation. But a lot of devotees are catching on at least to this point, it was an organized take over scheme among these leaders. That is a fact.

And yeah, anyone who tries to expose things is suppressed, by the clique or its enforcers. So I think the whole thing was sort of loosely put together by a bunch of motivated people, many of them stoner heads, and Vodka drinking fools like Hansadutta. And the plan was later on uncovered due to the sheer negligence of putting together a solid plan, along with the fact that these guys could not carry on the fake guru act for very long because they were such fallen and conditioned souls.

All that being said, there is a reason this keeps coming up. The idea that the GBC is some sort of highly trained professional Government Agency / Illuminati operation is making them way larger than they really are. They became some sort of super demons with super powers. 

I think that is because so many people failed to oppose them, and so now they want to make excuses for why so many never opposed the GBC guru scheme -- "no one could oppose the mighty CIA Illuminati."

Well yeah, but if 20 people with protest signs had gathered in front of a temple "this place worships homosexuals and pedophiles as its messiahs," then the protesters could have effectively shut down one or many temples in the GBC program. But no one thought that was a good idea. Even people who found out their children were molested told me they did not want to report the crime, to "save ISKCON." 

These people who "saved ISKCON" in reality only saved the pedophile guru process, and not ISKCON. Rather ISKCON suffered by allowing all this abuse to go on, while worshiping the orchestrators of the abuse process. So in that sense, the acquiescing rank and file were also part of the conspiracy to make all this possible.  

Do I believe Hansadutta, a life long Vodka drinker fool who was having sex with hald dozen ladies -- was a professional CIA agent? Nope. He was a drunken womanizer, but he became guru by what I would call an amateur guru appointment hoax, that had all sorts of holes in the plot. 

OK there is no way this guy was a professional at anything. The police told me, Hansadutta is a low level criminal who makes so many mistakes, we arrested 72 of his disciples because they were so clumsy performing crimes. 

Even Himavati, Hansadutta's then ex-wife, was busted by the police for wearing the same clothes that were purhased on a stolen credit card. Amateur hour. Not CIA level. 

But if we make the boogey many way bigger than he is, then that gives us an excuse not to chase him out of the Church house. And I believe that is what happened here. We could not confront an amateur hour criminal operation, because we were amateur hour criminal hunters, so the criminals won by default and not by any brilliant strategy. 

Nowadays all their plots and schemes are being uncovered, and the poison plot is the worst, second only to all the child abuse. But it is all coming out now, and a professional CIA program would not have been exposed like this, because their "rule No.1" is -- no one should be able to expose our plots, we should be operating in secrecy. "Go in and go out without being detected." 

That is not happening here. All their plots and schemes are unravelling one after another. On the other hand, it speaks volumes against the mass of rank and file for allowing all this to transpire without protest. They added fuel to the fire that burnt down the house by -- a conspiracy of silence. That is also a conspiracy. 

Anyway, these GBC guys were motivated, they cooked up an appointed guru scheme, and even today some of my God brothers argue with me that there is no precedent for worshiping a departed pure devotee. They drank the kool aid, and that is how they helped all this happen. 

There are many components to the conspiracy, and most of the rank and file supporting or at least acquiescing is a big reason this all developed. None of this looks professional to my karmi friends who are looking at the whole mess from outside. 

One of them told me -- "this is just a bunch of goof balls, posing as gurus, who are not being challenged by the other goof balls -- who are in the congregation. The Emperor CLEARLY has no clothes, but no one wants to say anything. The whole lot is all goof balls, because even we outsiders know -- the Emperor has no clothes." Well yup.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   

Bhakti Vikas Swami / ISKCON Poly Crisis / Discriminating Who is Guru 02 11 26

PADA: For some reason BVKS recent videos can only be viewed, but cannot be shared. And he is also making a series of short videos one after another, which seems like he is sort of trying to correct the mess he made on the previous ones. 

Anyway! I cannot listen to all this, but I did catch one glaring mis-representation which needs addressing. He said the major splits in post-1978 ISKCON are the ritviks and the women guru splinters. 

Wrong! The first splinter group was created by Bhakti Vikas swami's GBC gurus, when they announced in 1978 that Sridhara Maharaja is the shiksha guru, and senior most advisor etc. Then Sridhara Maharaja was the ghost writer of many early GBC papers. 

For example Sridhara said there should be the Acharya of the Zone, which is called the Zonal Acharya. Later on -- things soured, and the GBC decided Sridhara was taking over too many people. So they wrote a paper around 1982 condemning Sridhara and saying anyone who associates with him is out of ISKCON.

OK many of the ISKCON senior sannyasas and maybe 500 or more of Jayatirtha's disciples all left ISKCON, and started various splinter groups of competing organizations. There was the Peace Krishnas, Pancadravida in Soquel, Jagat Guru in South India, Sudheer Krishna in San Jose etc. The result for the UK was that Bhaktivedanta Manor went nearly bankrupted -- due to losing all the manpower. 

They even lost Croome Court. However some pedophiles who were using chloroform on children were roaming around Croome Court for some time. So this was the first big splinter, and ISKCON lost almost the whole Zone of Jayatirtha and most of his people as a result. The Sridhara folks are still around in various forms, siphoning people out of ISKCON. But one of their biggest swamis, Paramadvaiti swami, was caught having sexual affairs and his mission sort of broke apart.   

   

 

ISKCON'S POLY CRISIS HEE HEE!

But he cannot participate in any Sridhara Movement either. 

This is another example of following Sridhara's people, but he now says he is not part of any of their organizations. Pranada is promoting him as an authority on her female diksha guru campaign. Does anyone not notice that Sridhara endorsed a bogus guru after 1936, and he endorsed the GBC 11 after 1978, causing havoc and mayhem, and no small amount of banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders? Yeah that is the path we need to follow!

OK after all that then Narayan Maharaja became the darling of the GBC. And he was hanging out in Texas with Tamal and all that, and saying we are ritvik poison. Well yeah, we were having Tamal sued for $400,000,000. Same thing, NM was starting to become too powerful and influence and so the GBC axed him out, and forbade people from visiting him. And hundreds of people, including some prominent leaders, all left and started a competing organization against ISKCON. 

Of course the 1986 murder of Sulochana caused hundreds of people to leave, and New Vrndavana to become a ghost town. The $400,000,000 lawsuit caused many parents to pull out their kids and leave, and so on and so forth. There has been many splinters, spin offs, people leaving in droves, and all sort of things -- apart from the ritviks and the women guru advocates. So BVKS is misprepresenting the actual history. The ritviks are one of many splinters from ISKCON, and as we see, ISKCON is experiencing "a poly crisis" where more splitting is inevitable.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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NOT STABLE

Thanks prabhu, Yeah Jayamadhava many times disagrees with me, and I do not think he has a stable platform on the issues. He seems to confuse the issues, and sometimes confuses me as a person supporting various issues, which I never supported. 

Garuda is sometimes an ally and sometimes not, but so is Jayamadhava. My kids told me the whole problem is, I was blowing the fire alarm alert starting in 1979, but almost no one cared, rather everyone waited until everything was at a crisis state, the Titanic was taking in tons of water, before they agreed with me. But it was a little late in the game.

OK they waited until the house was burnt to ashes, the gurukula kids were all alienated out, the media was full of scandal stories, books were being changed etc. Then after the house was nearly demolished, they offered to help me with a bucket of water, way too little, way too late. 

I have some friends working on the BBTI legal issue and I hope they can make progress, we have to see. But it is all very late in the game and Garuda should never have been the BBTI issue front man on any other issue, but he became a prominent figure by default because -- everyone else ran away and did not help at all. When no one else does anything, someone doing something becomes prominent, which is also how I became sort of prominent, I was the de facto point man -- by default. ys pd

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Devotion, Discernment, and Shared Responsibility (SRD)

Over the past few years I have given a lot of thought to the nature of the guru disciple relationship, surrender, authority, and conscience.

I share some of my thoughts, not as conclusions, but rather as evolving ideas that I am still striving to discover, grasp and integrate. As far as I understand, in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, surrender to Sri Guru is sacred. It is not optional; it is fundamental. We are taught that grace flows through the guru and that with faith it opens the heart, and that humility and trust allow spiritual transformation to occur.

I do not question that. I have had some personal experiences of transformation and insights through grace and faith. At the same time, I have become increasingly aware of a vulnerability that can arise within a tradition that revolves around the surrender to a vertical authority. I don't see it as a structural flaw in the philosophy itself, but rather something that I have witnessed emerge in practice.

When a teacher’s spiritual authority and guidance become intertwined or dependent on assumptions of moral perfection, acknowledging the possibility of ethical failure can be perceived as deeply destabilizing; not just personally, but spiritually.

In such atmosphere, raising a concern is sometimes viewed as a form of betrayal. Questioning is discouraged as offensive and ethical discomfort can begin to feel like a threat to faith itself. It is my understanding that the Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy, is more nuanced than this.

On one hand the guru is described as Sakshad Hari, but on the other, the guru is also clearly distinct from Svayam Bhagavan.

The guru is a via-medium; a representative, but not the Absolute Himself. We speak of the need for guru, sadhu and sastra to be coherently aligned, but the guru is not isolated and immune from evaluation. We are encouraged to engage our intelligence in order to surrender, not to discard it.

Disciples are rarely prepared to tackle the possibility that their guru may be fully aligned sometimes, and act as a transparent conduit and misaligned at other times and act in ways that are destructive.

We have all witnessed instances where surrender to the guru drifted into something more absolute and beyond scrutiny, something perilous that is not in line with the teachings of our Acharyas. An extreme example comes to mind. A few years ago a respected Gaudiya Vaishnava teacher was credibly accused of sexual misconduct with some of his young male students. 

This teacher was not a guru, but to this day he has a large following of dedicated supporters. Attempting to defend the teacher, one devotee argued that his behaviour could not have been motivated by lust for he really wanted or needed to believe that his teacher was a fully liberated Maha-Bhagavat.

He suggested that perhaps his actions must have been motivated some form of selfless intervention of a higher spiritual or esoteric nature, something that lesser evolved devotees could not understand. He tried to argue that the teacher's only motive must have been to cure the students of their own lust.

Aside the fact that there was no evidence presented to support such an outlandish proposition, what unsettled me was not only the extreme nature of the claim, but what seemed to drive it.

If the supporter admitted moral failure on the part of his teacher, his entire spiritual narrative surrounding that teacher would become fractured and incoherent. Preserving the narrative of sanctity seemed more urgent than examining a conduct that to me was so obviously harmful.

It is easy to dismiss the example and the reasoning as extreme. But I cannot simply point outward. I have witnessed subtler versions of the same ideology at work in myself. When something sacred to me feels threatened, I felt a strong pull to reinterpret, soften, or spiritualize what disturbed me — not necessarily out of malice, but out of fear that the authenticity of the transmission, its meaning and my identity itself are at risk.

This acknowledgment has forced me to ask uncomfortable questions.
Does devotion require that discernment and moral concern take a secondary place?

Is faith strengthened by suppressing doubt, or by learning to examine it honestly?
If acknowledging human limitation destabilizes me, what does that say about the foundation of my faith?

What happens to the tradition, the teacher and the students, if the teacher is expected or attempts to live up to a superhuman ideal of perfection; one that requires a metaphysical justification for abuse of power, immorality and harm?
If spiritual teachers are placed beyond ordinary ethical evaluation, it can create a burden that is not humanly sustainable. If students equate surrender with silence, this will gradually erode discernment. In the long run, I don’t see how either of these outcomes can serve the individuals or the purity of the tradition.

Bhakti does not ask us to abandon intelligence. We are encouraged to take full responsibility for our spiritual lives by exercising our discernment before we surrender, not to surrender our discernment. Conscience/discernment (Vivek) is not an obstacle to devotion. It may in fact be one of the ways Sri Guru protects us from harming ourselves.

Devotion without discernment can drift into unhealthy dependency. Discernment without compassion, love and devotion can harden into counterproductive cynicism.

I am now of the view that a genuine and transformative spiritual experience, however meaningful, is not an automatic guarantee of absolute purity and perfection of the teacher or settle questions of responsibility, abuses of power, or impact.

Personal transformation does not erase the need for shared ethical clarity. I hope to learn how to hold devotion and discernment together without dismissing one in favor of the other. The work, as I see it now, is not to choose between them but rather to find a way to integrate them; especially when doing so is uncomfortable.
If my faith depends upon the impossibility of moral failure of my teachers, then it is more fragile than I may wish to admit.

I like to believe that a mature spiritual culture should be able to withstand truth, especially the most painful truths, without feeling that transcendence itself is threatened. But rather recognizing that honoring the truth, however devastating that may be, may be what brings us a little closer to Krsna.

I do not offer these reflections to weaken faith or to cast suspicion on authority itself. I offer them because I hope they may be of some value to the devotee community.

If we can find ways for love to coexist with accountability, and surrender with discernment, then what we preserve will be more valuable and stronger, not weaker.

I do not have any conclusive answers, I do not know how the guru as Sakshad Hari can coexist with the guru that is also human, but I am looking the possibility that Grace may operate through a person without erasing their humanity.
These are unsettling questions and observations that I am learning to live with.

PADA: Yep. I said in 1979 that Jayatirtha is a predator. And Srila Prabhupada says -- when a guru has amorous affairs with his own followers -- is the same as a father having an affair with his own daughter. So if we worship a predator, as a society, we will become what we worship -- and there will be many other predators attracted to the predator worship magnet. And predators will be allowed and protected, just like he is. And worse, we are offering food to a predator, and people eating it are getting the predator beeja, or contamination. Well as we know, they removed me and kept the predator guru. We become what we worship, and worship of predators will make a society that protects them, that is really common sense. And as a matter of fact, ISKCON became a magnet for predators and protecting them and etc. ys pd

Legal Notice / Stuck in ISKCON / Tale of Wisdom / No Care 02 10 26

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LEGAL NOTICE

PADA: I think this legal notice is a little old, maybe a few years back, since it is addressed to Gopal Krishna swami, who is deceased. Some folks have said that India is a terrible place to try to report women and children physical or sexual abuse, because the police and courts are often corrupt, inefficient, and in any case slower than a slug on my driveway. 

Another person told me that dealing with the court system in India is not very fruitful because of the "dense" and complicated nature of their court system. Srila Prabhupada himself said as much, the Gaudiya Matha was "40 years in court with no resolution." 

Very sad because meanwhile, if there is an ongoing abuse problem, more victims are being added and previous victims are sometimes feeling trauma -- often feeling depressed -- and maybe taking their lives etc. Very sad when we have to depend on the un-dependable courts to deal with actual issues in ISKCON. 

Of course as soon as we take things to court, the GBC folks, Krishna Kant's IRM, Dayalu Nitai's HKC Jaipur, Hitler's disciple Mukunda UK, Mathura Pati / Prabhupadanugas EU folks start crying like lost puppies. Oh no, someone is attacking our favorite molester messiah's project in court! 

How will our favorite molester messiah's swamis afford a nice town car now? Yep, children being abused, and even taking their lives -- is never the problem. The expense of the swami's new town car is always the problem. No wonder there is a problem then? You guys are first of all making the problem, and then, making it worse.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  

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LEGAL NOTICE, No. 4

Notice under Section 9 of ‘Religious Institutions Act, 1988’

R/w section 19(1), 21(1) and 21(2) of POCSO Act, 2012

FROM

Tirtha raja dasa, UTN Director & Founder

Mobile No. 7981 779 760; E-mail: tirtha.raja.108@gmail.com
TO

1. Mr. Gopala Krishna Swami, Chairman, ISKCON Bureau
2. Mr. Basu Ghosh, Vice Chairman, ISKCON Bureau
3. Mr. Sankhadhari dasa, Secretary, ISKCON Bureau
4. Mr. Braja Hari dasa, Treasurer, ISKCON Bureau
5. Mr. Devaki Nandan dasa, Member, ISKCON Bureau
6. Mr. Ravi Gomatam, Member, ISKCON Bureau
7. Mr. Loka Nath Swami, Member, ISKCON Bureau
8. Mr. Bhakti Rasamruta Swami, Member, ISKCON Bureau
9. Mr. Bhakti Purushottama Swami, Member, ISKCON Bureau
10. Mr. Bhakti Vinoda Swami, Member, ISKCON Bureau
11. Mr. Bhanu Maharaj, Chairman, ISKCON GBC, Mayapur
12. Mr. Revati Ramana das, Vice Chairman, ISKCON GBC, Mayapur
13. Mr. Guru Prasad swami, Member, ISKCON GBC
14. Mr. Anuttama das, Member, ISKCON GBC
15. Mr. Tapan Mishra das, ISKCON GBC, Mayapur
16. Mr. Gauranga das, ISKCON GBC, Mayapur
17. Mr. Braja Vilas das, Co-Director, ISKCON-Mayapur
18. Mr. Subekshana das, Co-Director, ISKCON-Mayapur
19. Mr. Jayapataka Swami, Member, ISKCON GBC
20. Mr. Radhanath Swami, Member, ISKCON GBC
21. Mr. Prahladananda Swami, Member, ISKCON GBC
22. Mr. Bhakti Chaitanya Swami, Member, ISKCON GBC
23. Mr. Hrudaya Chaitanya das, ISKCON GBC, Mayapur
24. Mr. Sahadeva das, Chairman, ISKCON India Continental committee
25. Mr. Sumitra das, Vice Chairman, ISKCON India Continental committee
26. Mr. Pancha ratna das, Chairman, ISKCON India Advisory Committee
27. Mr. Sura das, Vice Chairman, ISKCON India Advisory Committee

Subject: In spite of several requests through legal notices, you are violating and disobedient to the mandatory law under section 9 of ‘Religious Institutions Act, 1988’, by Non-reporting of Crimes against Children inside ISKCON Gurukul and thereby protecting and helping the Accused persons to escape from legal punishment by taking Law into your Hands.

Reference:

1. Legal notices served by Registered Post to the office addresses of
· Jayapataka Swami & Other GBC members, ISKCON, Mayapur office dated 19-12-2022
· Bureau, ISKCON, Mumbai office dated 19-12-2022
· Chairman, ICC, ISKCON, Secunderabad office dated 19-12-2022
· Radhanath Swami, Chowpatty office dated 19-12-2022
· Gauranga das, GEV office dated 19-12-2022
2. Legal Notice served through E-mails dated 14th November of 2022; 29th November of 2022 and 8th December of 2022.

Sir/Madam,

1) Take this notice that the legal notices are served at ISKCON office address by registered posts as mentioned in the above Reference about compliance of the mandatory law under Section 9 of ‘Religious Institutions Act, 1988’, read with section 19(1), 21(1) and 21(2) of POCSO Act, 2012. However, till date there is no reply about your compliance of the mandatory legal obligation.

2) Annexure No. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 are the Postal evidence that the legal notices are served and received by your offices at various addresses by Registered Post.

3) Annexure No. 6, 7 & 8 are the evidence that the legal notices are served and received by the above leaders of ISKCON through the Electronic-mail addresses.

4) However, all of you mentioned in S.No. 1 to 27 are in gross violation of discharge of the legal obligation under Section 9 and Section 2(f) of the 

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ACT, 1988; read with section 19(1), 21(1) and 21(2) of POCSO Act, 2012.

5) In the light of the above grounds and in the interest and welfare of entire ISKCON congregation, I seek and demand your reply within FOUR weeks that why I should not initiate both civil and criminal legal proceedings against you ISKCON leaders for gross violation of the mandatory legal obligations under section 19(1), 21(1) and 21(2) of POCSO Act, 2012 (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act); read with Section 9 of ‘Religious Institutions (Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1988; read with Hon’ble Supreme Court Judgment, dated 2-11-2022, [Criminal Appeal No. 1874 of 2022; 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 898]. Failing which it will be adversely inferred against you all ISKCON leadership.

Hence this Legal Notice dated 3rd February of 2023

LIST OF ANNEXURES

Annex-1: Registered Post to GBC, ISKCON, Mayapur office dated 19-12-2022
Annex-2: Registered Post to Bureau, ISKCON, Mumbai office dated 19-12-2022
Annex-3: Registered Post to Chairman, ICC, ISKCON, Secunderabad office dated 19-12-2022
Annex-4: Registered Post to Radhanath Swami, Chowpatty office dated 19-12-2022
Annex-5: Registered Post to Gauranga das, GEV office dated 19-12-2022
Annex-6: Legal Notice served through E-mail dated 14th November of 2022
Annex-7: Legal Notice served through E-mail dated 29th November of 2022
Annex-8: Legal Notice served through E-mail dated 8th December of 2022
P.S: Selected Legal provisions of RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ACT, 1988

Section 9. Certain persons bound to give information to police.—Every manager or other employee of a religious institution shall be bound to give information to the officer incharge of the police station within whose local jurisdiction the religious institution is situate of any contravention or any impending contravention of the provisions of this Act and any failure to do so shall be punishable under section 176 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).

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STUCK in ISKCON

Kshama Buddhi: I SAW THAT MANY DISCIPLES OF PRABHUPADA GOT STUCK IN ISKCON, FEELING THAT THEY COULD NOT RETURN TO OUTSIDE LIFE AGAIN HAVING GIVEN UP THEIR FUTURE TO SERVE PRABHUPADA IN ISKCON.

These Godbrothers became "institutional puppet dependents," sticking to ISKCON no matter how deviant and corrupt the GBC guru cabal had become. I could not do that.

I could not give my life over to a movement that had become corrupted. After leaving ISKCON I was with the Sridhar Maharaja group for a few years before I departed their San Jose temple, never to return to cult life in the movement again.

I made my choices way back then and I have been living with the result of those choices since then. Life hasn't been easy outside the movement. Life was not easy inside the movement. My life stopped being easy when I joined the Navy in 1975.
The struggle lessened after the kids were all grown.

When my youngest daughter turned 18, I felt like a big weight had been lifted off my back. She had already left home to be with Japa by then, but nonetheless, it was a landmark in my life when that day arrived.

When I moved my family to Alachua over 31 years ago, the temple was an old mobile home on the temple property. My son helped build that temple. He was friends with a devotee kid whose dad was cutting and laying the marble in the temple. My son and his friend would help carry the marble pieces to the devotee that was doing the marble work. I think he also built the first altar for the new temple.

I wanted better for this community. There were no fraud gurus allowed back in the early days, but in time -- the ISKCON parasites managed to get their dirty little fingers on the temple administration and so the temple went to Hell with these fraud gurus swooping in occasionally to mislead and misguide some unfortunate newcomers.

Now, it's a community that has lost it's way and become a melting pot of these misguided and deceived younger devotees that foolishly accept one of these corporate crony gurus as spiritual master, pushing Prabhupada to the side of his own movement.

There is no shelter but the books of Srila Prabhupada and the Holy Name. The movement is corrupted and deviated. You can either go along with the corruption or you can reject it. I have always rejected it and I always will, no matter how hard life can be in the struggle for existence.

I am in good place these days. I am independent of the cult. I feel sorry for those who are dependent sycophants and parasites of ISKCON. It was never meant to be your career or your job. When ISKCON became a job or a career for these lifelong dependents, it lost it's authenticity and legitimacy and became a scam and a fraud upon society, pushing fraud gurus who had no power or authority to be gurus in ISKCON.

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TALES OF WISDOM 

by Prabhupāda Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura

Translation and Commentary, Śrī Sarasvatī-toṣaṇī by Śrī Prema Prayojana dāsa

CHAPTER 31

MORALITY, IMMORALITY AND THE TRANSCENDENT MORALITY OF DEVOTION (SUNĪTI, DURNĪTI AND BHAKTI-NĪTI)

Śrī Rāmānuja was an ancient preceptor (ācārya) of the Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition. He appeared in this world near Mahābhūtapurī in Perambedūr Nagara, close to Madrās, in the year 1016. Before Śrī Rāmānuja, the preachers of this philosophy were referred to in the Dravidian language as ‘Ālvaras’, denoting great liberated associates of Bhagavān. Among the Ālvaras, there was a revered saint known as Tirumaṅgai Ālvara. Some say that he appeared in the eighth century.

In his youth, he travelled to pilgrimage sites and dedicated himself to the devotional service of Bhagavān. His sole principle was that all things in the world have been created for the service of Lord Nārāyaṇa. Therefore, it is one’s duty to serve Lord Nārāyaṇa with all these things in the most appropriate manner. He believed that there is no meaningful purpose for any object or living being if it is not utilized in the service of Lord Nārāyaṇa. While travelling to various pilgrimage sites, four individuals endowed with extraordinary qualities accepted him as their spiritual master and became his disciples.

The first disciple was named ‘Toḍavāḍakkun’ or ‘Tarka Cūḍāmaṇi’, signifying that no one could defeat him in logical debate. The second disciple was called ‘Tāḍaduyān’ or ‘Dvāronmocaka’. He could open any security lock just by blowing on it. The third disciple was ‘Neḍelāi Merippan’ or ‘Chāyā Graha’. Whenever he touched someone’s shadow with his feet, they would become motionless. The fourth disciple named ‘Nīlmel Naḍappān’ or ‘Jaloparicara’ had the ability to walk on water.

Tirumaṅgai, along with his four disciples, travelled on a pilgrimage to visit various holy places. During this time, they arrived at an ancient and dilapidated temple where the four-armed form of Lord Raṅganātha reclined upon the bed of Śeṣa. At that time, this famous temple was the residence of animals and birds, and it was surrounded by a jungle inhabited by ferocious animals. A servant would come for a brief moment every day. He would place fruit and water in front of the Lord and then quickly run away from there as soon as possible.

After witnessing this, Tirumaṅgai was deeply inspired to build a magnificent temple for Śrī Ranganātha. Along with his disciples, he travelled to different countries, seeking alms for the construction of the temple. However, all the wealthy individuals they approached called them scammers, bounders and thieves and chased them away without giving even a penny.

Tirumaṅgai was not disheartened by this. Rather, he became even more determined to serve Śrī Raṅganātha. He called his four disciples and said, “My children! You have witnessed how the wealthy are blinded by their riches. Nārāyaṇa, the husband of Lakṣmī, the Goddess of Fortune, has deposited a small portion of His own wealth with them. They should use that wealth to serve Nārāyaṇa. However, they have misappropriated this wealth and assumed that they are the owners. 

How averse to the service of Śrī Nārāyaṇa they are, as they live a life of luxury. They rest on beds as soft as the foam of milk in their lofty towers while the deity of Śrī Nārāyaṇa is lying broken and neglected in the jungle. Alas! They do not even think about this injustice. It is the duty of wealthy householders to serve and worship Lord Viṣṇu. Otherwise, their journey towards hell is inevitable. Therefore, auspiciousness must be bestowed upon these affluent people by any means possible.”

Then Tirumaṅgai properly utilized the great talents of his disciples in Viṣṇu’s service and manifested his desire to bring auspiciousness to those wealthy people. He summoned his first disciple, Tarka Cūḍāmaṇi, and instructed him to ensnare wealthy individuals in the net of logical debates. While the debate was going on, the second disciple, Dvāronmocaka, opened the doors of the treasury using his skills and freely collected together masses of treasure. 

Through his disciple Chāyā Graha, Tirumaṅgai made the wealthy householders motionless and looted all their wealth. Through the disciple capable of walking on water, he collected a significant amount of wealth from the royal towns surrounded by water. It seemed as if he were the leader of a formidable group of dacoits, amassing an immense amount of wealth for the service of Raṅganātha.

Tirumaṅgai gathered renowned sculptors from various countries to commence the construction of the temple. After the labour of a thousand sculptors for four years, the first outer portion was completed, and in two more years the second and third. In eight years the fourth, in twelve years the fifth, and in eighteen years the sixth outer portion was completed. The construction of the complete temple took sixty years, by which time Tirumaṅgai was eighty years old.

After the completion of the inner sanctum, the nearby king was eager to assist Tirumaṅgai. Some were inspired on seeing his prosperity, while others assisted him in his service out of fear. They all acquired some piety (sukṛti) by assisting a great saint (mahā-puruṣa). Although it seems that Tirumaṅgai adopted the occupation of a robber from an external perspective, because he never endeavoured for his own personal enjoyment, he was exclusively engaged in the service of Bhagavān. 

He did not spend a single penny of that wealth on himself.

When the construction of the temple of Śrī Raṅganātha, with seven concentric townships, was successfully completed, Tirumaṅgai paid the builders their due wages. In the end, there was no money left over. In such a situation, almost a thousand robbers surrounded him and demanded money. Tirumaṅgai whispered some advice in the ear of his disciple Jaloparicara, who was skilled in walking on water. 

Jaloparicara told the robbers that he would take them to the location where the stolen wealth was stored. He called for the same ship that had been used to bring huge stones for the construction of the Śrī Raṅganātha Temple. The robbers boarded the ship with Jaloparicara and they set off. The Kāverī River was overflowing at that time, during the monsoon season. 

Jaloparicara took the ship to the middle of the Kāverī River where he intentionally sank it, along with all the robbers. Jaloparicara walked on water and returned to his guru. Those robbers had actually come there to kill Tirumaṅgai.

On the return of Jaloparicara, the great sage Tirumaṅgai said, “The Kāverī River is the destroyer of sins and the bestower of devotion to Viṣṇu. By giving the robbers samādhi (last rites) in the purifying waters of the Kāverī, their souls will undoubtedly be accepted in the service of Śrī Raṅganātha. Do not worry about them. By not allowing the robbers to loot and commit violence against vaiṣṇavas, you have given them the opportunity to go to Vaikuṇṭha. 

Is this not highly beneficial for them? We took their assistance only for the service of God. If anyone follows this path for personal gain, it will certainly be considered the terrible sin of murder and the path to hell. There is no doubt about this.” To this day, the northern part of the Kāverī River where the robbers were eliminated is still called ‘Koliran’, meaning the place of murder.

From Tirumaṅgai’s example, we learn the lesson that bhakti-nīti, or the transcendent morality of serving the Supreme Lord, is superior to and cannot be compared with any worldly morality (sunīti) or immorality (durnīti). The morality and immorality prevalent in society must be done for the sake of the pleasure of the Supreme Lord, Śrī Hari. In this regard, there are two scriptural statements found in the Bhakti Sandarbha (Anuccheda 148) of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī Prabhu. In the Revā-khaṇḍa of the Skanda Purāṇa, Śrī Brahmā says:

sa kartā sarva-dharmāṇāṁ bhakto yas tava keśava |
sa kartā sarva-pāpānāṁ yo na bhaktas tavācyuta ||
pāpaṁ bhavati dharmo’pi tavābhaktaiḥ kṛto hare |
niḥśeṣa-dharma-kartā vāpy abhakto narake hare |
sadā tiṣṭhati bhaktas te brahmahāpi vimucyate ||

O Keśava! One who is Your devotee has performed all religious duties (dharma). O Acyuta! One who is not Your devotee has committed all sins. O Hari! The religious duty performed by one who is not Your devotee is only sin, and although he completely performs all religious duties, he still always resides in hell. However, even if Your devotee has killed a brāhmaṇa, he becomes liberated.

In the Padmā Purāṇa, Bhagavān explains:

man-nimittaṁ kṛtaṁ pāpam api kṣemāya kalpate |
mām anādṛtya dharmo’pi pāpaṁ syān mat-prabhāvataḥ ||

The sinful actions performed by My devotee for My sake are considered virtuous deeds, whereas the righteous actions performed without honour for Me turn into sinful acts by My influence.

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura would narrate this anecdote to illustrate that the character of a true devotee of Hari cannot be measured by the insignificant yard stick of sense perception (pratyakṣa-jñāna) because all their actions are solely for the satisfaction of Śrī Hari. In devotion (bhakti), there is a beautiful harmony of all things. The great devotees, like snake charmers, can take along with them even cruel and wicked individuals, who are like poisonous snakes, and still accomplish their tasks. However, if someone else imitates this, his demise is inevitable.

From an external perspective, the immortal preceptor (ācārya) shows the pastime of accepting many persons with ulterior, material motives (anyābhilāṣī) to assist in his devotional service and to generate spiritual merit (sukṛti) for the living beings. However, when those individuals begin to adopt the attitude of a merchant (vaṇija-vṛtti) in their dealings with the spiritual master or the ācārya, then the spiritual master destroys them for their own auspicious benefit. This truth is established by the examples of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s annihilation of the Yadu dynasty and by
Tirumaṅgai drowning the robbers who had assisted in the construction of the Śrī Raṅganātha temple in the Kāverī River.

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NO CARE FOR THE WORKERS UPDATE

Dear friends,

Śrī Mādhava-Mahotsava Prabhu from New Dvārakā (ISKCON Los Angeles) has recently suffered a serious medical emergency and is currently hospitalized. He is expected to remain in the hospital for several weeks and will face a long and difficult recovery afterward.

At this time, Mādhava-Mahotsava Prabhu is unable to work. He serves as a substitute teacher, and the sudden loss of his income has placed significant financial strain on his family. While his wife, Tulsi Gopi Mataji (Norma Barajas), continues to work and has some support from family, the situation remains very challenging.

We humbly ask the community to come together and support Mādhava-Mahotsava Prabhu, Tulsi Gopi Mataji, and their family during this difficult time. Any donation, no matter the size, or even sharing this fundraiser will make a meaningful difference.

Thank you for your kindness, prayers, and support.

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Your Servants at Vaishnavas CARE International

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UKRAINE

Yep prabhu, Trump is not directly helping Ukraine, but he is putting the squeeze on people buying things from Russia, and that is helping bring down their resources to continue the war. Meanwhile Starlink internet has been stopped for Russians and that is having a big effect on their logistics. Overall, things are getting worse for Russia. 

Meanwhile Ukraine's ladies drone operation team has been supplied with giant pink drones, which can carry five munitions drops at a time. They said now they can take out vehicles with some munition types, some are designed for high impact in trenches, some are designed for a larger dispersing areas for shrapnel like a field and etc. And now they have thermal, night vision and motion sensing, so they can operate in fog etc. They said it is a lot easier to use these new drones. 

They also noted that if they just injure someone, he is likely to use his own weapon to finish himself off, because help will not arrive anytime soon. So they cannot take credit for taking out that guy because he is taking himself out. These ladies with their pink drones mean business! Anyway Trump is adding his two cents to harm Russia's capacity, and it is better than nothing. ys pd