PADA: Is it just me -- or are a lot of GBC people having health, fall downs, and other major issues these days? ys pd
KAUNTEYA DASA
Everything Seemed to Indicate a Stroke…
I sang the mangala-arati at the Gaura Nitai temple, ISKCON Munich, and then I experienced a sudden loss of energy and signs of numbness on one side of the body.
After taking rest the symptoms persevered, and we called an ambulance. The medics’ preliminary tests brought them to the conclusion “It’s a 90 or 100% chance that you had a stroke.”
They recommended going immediately to a hospital (in on of the photos, I am explaining what happened to a doctor and a nurse at the emergency ward). To make a long-ish story short: after almost two days of all sorts of tests (including multiple blood tests, a CT scan with contrast, and a thorough MRI of the brain), they concluded that it hadn’t been a stroke, but something else that produced similar signs.
They don’t know exactly what caused the episode; it could have been over-exertion or several other causes—but the news is good. And so I came back to the temple, just in time to celebrate the birthday of Danakely Kaumudi Devi Dasi, the temple president.
And so our tour, Krishna willing, continues, with going to Berlin tomorrow, the multi-cultural, chaotic capital of Germany, as the next stop.
I am afraid I don’t have super-deep insights to share, besides the customary:
1. We are not the body.
2. This body is complex and fragile – it can crash at any moment.
3. Old(er) age makes the body more frail and vulnerable
4. German hospitals – and this one in particular – are good, but they are not infallible. (This one, for instance, couldn’t get the meaning of “vegan,” and kept bringing me slices of cheese…) I didn’t even try to explain “Ekadasi.”
5. Without its migrants Germany would collapse (not enough working men and women, much less taxes into the government’s coffers, etc.) – and so I had a number of nurses from a number of places (Serbia, Croatia, Russian-sounding, Philipino-looking, of African-ancestry, etc.—even a doctor from Italy!)
6. Buy medical insurance.
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PADA: As soon as we complained about the child abuse, and Kirtanananda having sex with boys, the GBC countered that me and Sulochana are liars, drunks and sahajiyas -- to discredit us. And according to Sulochana, to make us targets for elimination.
The ritviks are the only people who collated all of Srila Prabhupada's quotes in the 1980s where he should be the sole guru. And not only that, the ritviks recently won a Supreme Court case based on these documents. There should be a legal as well as spiritual basis for making Prabhupada the acharya. The ritviks have also made legal work to print original books, and that is in court presently. At the same time a criminal case has been made against the GBC in the Supreme Court, because it is our duty to expose false acharyas. It is a bad idea to allow predators and orchestrators of mass child mistreatment represent the name of Krishna, and allowing that is giving Krishna a bad name which makes it harder for the sincere. This needs to be cleaned up for the benefit of the Krishna society, or the Krishna society will be lumped in with the false acharyas process, and condemned thereby, if that has not happened already. ys pd
M DASA: What ritviks? Krishna Kant with his "The Final Order"? Madhu Pandit, who was behind the creation of the GBC ISKCON together with Jayapataka? Sundar Gopal, who served the GBC for decades and then suddenly saw the light and said that changed books are okay? Why support these rascals? Some people have done more than all of them put together, who took the name "ritvik" as an alternative and opposition to the corrupt GBC. But you can also take another name or just be under your own and not give the fruits of your activities to the ritviks, but keep them for yourself or as an offering to Prabhupada. Why do I need some ritviks who, within their group, cannot be grateful to other "ritviks" for their contribution or, worse, belittle their merits?
The ritviks may have been useful when their freezing of the sampradaya helped fight the GBC, but these are different times, you cannot keep the parampara frozen indefinitely when the 33rd acarya comes. Then the ritviks will become the GBC they were fighting before. The dragon hunter becomes a dragon himself.
PADA: Krishna Kanta never consulted with me. He said that Srila Prabhupada said there will be no more pure gurus for 10,000 years, but that was never stated. As far as people giving up bogus gurus and starting to worship Prabhupada, all kinds of people were worshiping bogus gurus when they became his devotees in the 1970s. Just because a person was worshiping a bogus guru previously does not mean he will be unable to change later.
I have got maybe 30 former Hansadutta people here to worship Prabhupada now. Srila Prabhupada never said the parampara is frozen, there is no such statement. He said a pure devotee will be self effulgent, and so far, no one is. As far as fighting the GBC, if no one fights the worship of homos and pedos as messiahs, then the public will think all of the Krishnas do. I have met TV and media people who tell me, I am the only Hare Krishna they ever met who does not worship homos and pedos.
So if we want to change that, we have to fight, or look compromised. If we do not fight the homo and pedo guru dragon, people will think we are the homo and pedo dragon's compromiser and acquiescing agent. And they already do in many cases. Many people already believe all the Hare Krishnas are with the false gurus, because not enough of them resisted. ys pd
M DASA: I am against both the GBC and the ritviks for their deviations. The fact that ritviks are marginal does not mean that they should be ignored. It is better to clarify everything in advance, as a preventive measure. I do not understand why you should speak for all ritviks, it is better to speak for yourself and promote yourself or call yourself something else. Because you are not a typical ritvik, not a "pure ritvik" and it is still not clear in the ritvik community what a "pure ritvik" is. Probably Krishna Kant with IRM, but now some ritviks are discussing this and calling it a toxic ritvik. You are more of a soft ritvik or a mixture of ritviks and are waiting for a successor - a new uttama. Not all ritviks agree to a new uttama - that is why they freeze the parampara.
PADA: Krishna Kanta is not a pure ritvik. He told me to stop the child mistreatment lawsuit, stop the BBTI lawsuit, drop the p*ison issue, because he has worked out a deal with me to go on vacation in the Caribbean, under the payment of Jayapataka. Jayapataka is paying for my vacation. OK I am suing Jayapakata for $400,000,000, and Krishna Kanta wants to to go on vacation in the Caribbean, stop all the lawsuits, and stop writing, and be subordinated to the payments of JPS. Do you folks have any idea what would happen to a person like me in the Carribean under Krishna's Kanta's plan?
Only the sharks would know what happened to me. Krishna Kanta is a pure compromiser, and he wanted me to stop everything and work under the GBC, because he was going to make them surrender to his plan. I never said I wanted to take a vacation in the Caribbean and work under Krishna Kanta, and all of my friends told me, I will never return from there, ever. You are mixing things up here, Krishna Kanta is not any sort of authority. And he still has on his web site that I am a trouble maker for bringing out the p*ison case, he wants to help the GBC stop that. I don't care what the other ritviks have to say, because I was writing papers in 1980 before anyone of them even knew anything about any of this. ys pd
PADA: Yeah, I told Jayapataka we are not qualified to take karma, he thought that was a hysterical joke. Well sorry, karma has the last laugh, doesn't it? He says he has taken karma from 50,000 people, and he will have to suffer in hell for a long time for that.
And he had us Prabhupada disciples banned, beaten, molested, sued and killed, and he ruined the name of ISKCON and bankrupted it, all so he could sit on a big gold seat and be a guru for a few years. And that is even worse karma and even a longer duration in hell.
Your karma is, you are not allowed to cause anxiety to any living being, even an ant, and yet you caused anxiety to tens of thousands, and mostly they were Vaishnavas. Your future karma is very bad, and it already looks bad now. Creating trouble for Vaishnavas is the same as causing trouble for Krishna, and He won't tolerate it. OK you folks are doomed.
PADA: It seems everybody has their own version of history, and in ISKCON there are many hundreds of versions of its history. Eventually, as time passes, somewhere a text book is made and a group of people decide, this is the actual history of what happened here. And that becomes the accepted and used version. If someone wanted to re-write the USA High School history books, they would have a lot of struggle to do that, because one version is already accepted for the most part.
So this is my condensed contribution to the ISKCON history. And perhaps this version will be accepted, and maybe not. However as an eye witness to a lot of this history, I think that many people will accept my version, or they already do.
This version is also a sort of challenge to the GBC types, and the assorted reformers who contest my version, to see if they want to make additions, subtractions or changes. If you want to submit alterations, or additions, make sure you add some sort of evidence or statement that can hopefully be validated. If you want to submit something to this history you can write to:
angel108b@yahoo.com
And if the ISKCON defenders and others to not write anything, I think that will mean they don't have any substantial counter claim to the statements made herein. In any case, this is the history as I see it, I don't expect it will be accepted everywhere or by a lot of people, but it is my contribution, and hopefully it will help some folks figure out what happened here. This is probably not the final draft, but hopefully it will not require a whole lot more modifications. ys pd
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ISKCON HISTORY SUMMARY
My first encounter with the Governing Body Commission (GBC) gurus in 1978 was, they claimed Jayatirtha (also known as James Immel) in now "the appointed successor to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna." As soon as I doubted the alleged "guru appointment," and asked for evidence of this guru appointment, I was painted as a sort of fringe trouble making dissenter -- who was "doubting Srila Prabhupada's pure devotee guru successors."
And so I was sort of blocked from personally visiting and talking to Jayatirtha, and a number of the UK devotees sort of shunned me as a trouble maker. And Jayatirtha told his followers I was making false accusations and incriminating innuendo.
However! No evidence of any substance ever showed up that these 11 had EVER been appointed as Krishna's successors. There was also a rumor that previously Jaya Tirtha had problems in Los Angeles with having affairs with female devotees there. So he already had a reputation with some of us, that he was not a very stable or steady devotee. Many of these leaders had displayed all sorts of problems if not gross fall downs throughout the 1970s, so we felt it was impossible that they could be now be transformed magically as Krishna's pure guru successors.
Not too long after that, Jayatirtha began to exhibit signs that he was highly intoxicated in public. He was making very strange "yelling and shouting" kirtans while sitting in his Vyasa seat, and nearly everyone noticed something was very strange. He began to claim that he was going to distribute "the feet dust of Radharani."
And unfortunately, it turns out the feet dust of Radharani was -- intoxicants like LSD, marijuana and some of the early forms of designer drugs. And Jayatirtha began to openly lecture how he was originally a disciple of LSD guru Timothy Leary, and he was going to "add a new dispensation for Lord Chaitanya's movement," which some of us believed -- was going to be promoting LSD and other drugs. Then we were told he was offering intoxicants to his shalagram (Krishna) deity, and then distributing "the feet dust of Radharani" to his inner circle of disciples.
So this deviation went on for some time and it was being reported to the ISKCON Governing Body Commission leaders, that Jaitirtha is starting to go off the rails. Then a photo surfaced of Jayatirtha having full on naked sex with a female follower -- which was taken by a female devotee photographer. She thought she was going to be photographing him in samadhi in the bushes behind the Bhaktivedanta Manor. I was informed about this photo incident because some of the leaders there -- like Vichitravirya -- were still friendly with me.
And he was informing me of the crisis that "His Divine Grace Srila Jayatirtha Tirthapada" was engaged in intoxication and illicit sex. And this was creating a credibility crisis. Meanwhile some of the other followers in other guru's zones had heard that Jayatirtha was "the ecstacy guru," thus devotees from "other guru's zones" wanted to come to his zone to experience this alleged ecstacy. And the other gurus started to be alarmed that their people would be siphoned off to the ecstacy guru, so they decided they had to clamp down on him.
Then Vicitravirya went to Los Angeles to meet with Rameshvara. An emergency meeting was held, and the result was that Jayapataka, Rameshvara, Bhagavan and Jayatirtha all came from the LA to the UK. Then we had another "emergency meeting" with all the devotees in England -- to sort out the crisis. So they met with all of us in the temple hall, while seated on big giant Vyasa seats. And they said -- sometimes Krishna's pure devotee is offered marijuana by degraded Sahajiyas -- and the pure devotees falls victim to the Sahajiya's program.
So I asked the question, I have resisted taking the same marijuana from the same Sahajiyas, but Krishna's pure devotee could not resist, does that make me more advanced than Krishna's pure devotee? They were very angry with my question and said they are going to talk to me later about all of this.
And later on, the four gurus called me in to their conference room. And they told me how they were very upset that I was challenging their authority. So I made a point -- Jaya Tirtha is having sex with a female follower -- and Srila Prabhupada says -- a guru who is having sex with a follower is the same as a father having sex with his own daughter. So "guru sex" is a form of pedophile sex or de facto pedophile sex, or maybe it could be called illegal clergy abuse.
But if we are forcing the small children of ISKCON to be worshipping an intoxicated pedophile or de facto pedophile, that will contaminate and pollute the spiritual direction of these children. Jayapataka told me also at the time, if I think there is child abuse going on "take us to court." OK I later on did that. But it shows they had no interest in resolving the crisis with the children on their own, it will always require outside pressure. OK the courts should decide not them.
I also said at the time, according to the Krishna philosophy, we become what we worship. So if we force the little children to worship a pedophile, this will cause the children to have a pedophile sympathetic mentality (a pedophile guru beeja or seed of desire). The children will then be HIGHLY contaminated in their thinking by worshiping a predator.
Or worse, possibly the children will become abusers or pedophiles themselves. And this actually has happened, some of the ISKCON children who were victims of sexual abuse later on became abusers, predators or violent "guru-school enforcers" themselves. And they passed down the problem to other children, and spread the problem around. As I said it would spread.
I have a legal friend and he said forcing little children to worship pedophiles is probably illegally "corrupting the morals of minors." And he thinks ISKCON should be sued for "corrupting the morals of minors," and for fraud, since Srila Prabhupada never authorized pedophile worship in the ISKCON by-laws and founding documents, or in any of his books, statements etc. Later on Jayatirtha was having sex with the wife of a disciple, and his head was cut off by a disgruntled disciple, and the UK news headlines said "Guru's Head Hacked Off."
So this problem was never fixed by the ISKCON society. Oddly the person who murdered Jayatirtha (Navanita) was later on released and he told my friend "they let me out of jail because I helped Her Majesty's government by getting rid of the biggest distributor of designer drugs in the UK."
One of the supporters of Jayatirtha was a God brother of Srila Prabhupada from India, called BR Sridhara Maharaja. And he backed having Jayatirtha as a guru early on, and even after it was known Jayatirtha was fallen into intoxicants and illicit sex BR Sridhara was still saying Jayatirtha is "nirguna brahman" (pure) and he said "none (of us) should protest" to try to silence us dissenters (and make us targets?).
BR Sridhara is the founder father of a 1940s bi-sexual guru program in India, where his guru "Ananta Vasudeva" was supposedly a bisexual deviant and dissenters there were being beaten and killed in the 1940s. Later on Ananta Vasudeva's son was poisoned to death to cover up a scandal "to save the Guru's Matha." Ananta was so discouraged that his son had been killed to save his program -- he drank the same poison and died. This is not a good program to reproduce?
So it is interesting that children are sometimes used as acceptable collateral damage to help promote false gurus, as happened in the 1940s, to the peril of those children then. And ISKCON went to Sridhara and made him their "shiksha advisor" despite knowing all the chaos he caused, and suffering of the child of Vasudeva -- and no doubt other children -- that his program caused.
Anyway, so I left England and went to the USA. I started to travel across country and decided to stop at New Vrndavana. There I was told that a woman (Jadurani) had been beaten badly for questioning Kirtanananda, and the people there were gloating about the good job they had done in having her beat up. She was actually one of the first female disciples of Srila Prabhupada, so it was astonishing that she was now a person who could be persecuted with violence and severe beatings as an enemy.
Thus women, especially dissenting women, were also being mistreated, sometimes badly. She went to Los Angeles after that and some of the Rameshvara people tried to assault here there, buy my karate expert friend protected her, or else she would have been beaten up all over again. Meanwhile, when I was at New Vrndavana, I could not help but notice that Kirtanananda was driving around in his jeep with a small boy in his lap. That looked very strange to me. I had heard Kirtanananda was gay before he was a devotee, thus it looked like a sort of "gay fetish" thing for him to be holding a small boy in his lap all the time.
As it turns out, my suspicions were correct. Kirtanananda was in fact having sexual relations with various boys, and other members of his upper echelon were also having sex with boys -- or with females. One of the people who raised the issue of Kirtanananda having sex with boys was Chakradhari, who was asking about this at a public meeting at New Vrndavana (istagosthi). He wanted to know what we are going to do to challenge Kirtanananda's problem with boys. Shortly after that, he was murdered in one of the most gruesome manners possible, he was sort of tortured to death.
After that, New Vrndavan leaders had a meeting with all the congregation saying, the police will be coming here, and no one should answer any of their questions. Obviously some sort of cover up was being made. Another "person who asked too many questions" was Taru dasa, a very humble and quiet brahmana type person, who was also murdered there. Of course no one really knows how many people were murdered or "disappeared." Berkeley law enforcement told me they were looking for "a few dozen people last reported going to a Hare Krishna property." We will probably never know how many people were silenced or disappeared for "asking questions."
Kirtanananda had a reputation for being one of the former "Mott Street Boys" from New York city, a group of gay men who then became devotees. I was told in maybe 1971 in India that Kirtanananda is "Queer-tan-Ananda" because he is gay. The Mott Street Boys includes Umapati (Wally Sheffy) who was apparently having homosexual affairs in China with young men there, and the China devotees reportedly asked the GBC to have him removed from China.
Umapati once visited Berkeley and he told me he considers Kirtanananda to be one of the purest leaders in ISKCON. He knew I was opposing and exposing Kirtanananda, and that could mean -- my life is in danger. But Umapati seems to have no problem being welcomed by the other ISKCON leaders.
Then again another "guru" Bhavananda (Bacis) was reputed to be an original disciple of Andy Warhol. And Tamal used to brag that when Bhavananda would bloop (leave the temple) he could be found at Andy Warhol's house. Andy Warhol was famous for being friendly to the homosexual agenda, and making sensual movies like "Chelsea Girls."
This Andy Warhol disciple is now all of a sudden God's successor? Why did none of the other leaders protest? Because if they did, they would be removed from the guru clique's band wagon. One woman friend of mine said when she found out her five year old son was "massaging Bhavananda," she had a total nervous breakdown and she left ISKCON. She told me Bhavananda used to "inspect" the naked boys around the shower. I am sure some of the other leaders must have known about these events, but nothing was done.
In 1979 Hansadutta's farm was raided by Federal Marshals where they found illegal guns, stolen credit cards, stolen property, and a cache of C-4 explosives, oddly being stored next to a wood burning stove. One young girl at the farm had her hand up in the air and a bullet went through her hand, and she was hospitalized. None one knows where this stray bullet came from, but Hansadutta was always shooting at his pile of empty beer cans in front of his cottage and no one knows where all his bullets were going. A neighbor had Hansadutta charged with killing his cow, because a stray bullet from Hansadutta's farm hit one of his cows, and the cow died.
Around 1979 the Laguna Beach temple was raided by the FBI, and the temple president was arrested. Evidently the temple was being used as a heroin dealing operation. None of the leaders involved (like Rameshvara) were ever removed or even censured.
In 1980 ISKCON was sued by the Syracuse Federal court for "systematically defrauding the public," and ISKCON had to pay a big fine. None of the leaders who made this problem were ever removed, or even censured.
Around 1980 a minor aged female (Y Dasi) was arrested for interstate drug transporting on commercial airlines. And she testified that New Vrndavana was using minor aged children to transport interstate drugs for their drug business because "minors cannot be charged with a felony."
None of the leaders responsible for this were ever removed, or even censured that I know of. New Vrndavana was said to be part of a big designer drugs operation on the East Coast. Sulochana told me later on -- one of the alleged suppliers of the New Vrndavana designer drugs (Bhakta das) was arrested for selling these products. He then jumped bail and fled to Thailand, and was arrested when he went to Puri India for some sort of exploiting minors sex crime. He spent several years in (Tihar?) jail there.
Later on Y Dasi reported the name of the person who had killed Sulochana to the police (Tirtha / Thomas Drescher) and he was arrested. And she perhaps saved my life because according to the FBI, the same Tirtha was doing surveillance and following me in Berkeley just before Sulochana's murder. A description of my pick up truck was found on a note in his pocket when he was arrested. I subsequently thanked Y Dasi for saving my life.
When me and Sulochana were reporting on child molesting, including Kirtanananda having affairs with boys, the GBC deputed a "justices committee" to deal with us. We were then talking to Ravindra Swarupa (William Deadwhyler), Rupanuga dasa (Robert Corens) and others, and we exchanged many phone calls.
In then end the "reform committee" said we are "making great offenses to an excellent superior devotee like Kirtanananda." And so in March 1986 the GBC reinstated their sex with taxi drivers "Vishnupada acharya" Bhavananda, and excommunicated (me and) Sulochana for our opposing them. Sulochana said they are painting a bulls eye on our backs. Satsvarupa (Stephen Guirano?) was writing that Kirtanananda is a pure devotee and we are "poison pens." This was painting a bull's eye on us.
At the time a devotee named Yasomatinandan (from Gujarat) wrote that the GBC has handed Lord Chaitanya a homosexual guru for his appearance day. According to former enforcers from Los Angeles (Krishna Katha das) Ramesvara was involved in helping New Vrndavana go after Sulochana. Another one of Rameshvaras enforcers (Ramachandra Mimms) also told me Rameshvara was sending them out to do surveillance on Sulochana, and they wanted to get rid of Sulochana because "he needs to be in a new body."
When I was in Los Angeles the police would chase me down on my bike and chastise me -- "don't you know these (Watseka temple) people want to kill you, and they already killed your friend"?
For the record, Kirtanananda was officially expelled from ISKCON in March of 1987, but Umapati Swami performed the sannyasa initiation ceremony for the murderer of Sulochana in jail, namely Tirtha Das (Thomas Drescher) in August of 1987. So even after everyone in the world knew Kirtanananda is a criminal whose program engages in orchestrating murders, child molestation, and all sorts of other crimes, still Umapati didn't see anything wrong there.
He obviously thought ISKCON leaders are rascals who excommunicated his friend, and he obviously thought the court that convicted Tirtha Das were fools, and so he felt it was just fine and dandy to act as Kirtanananda's ritvik to personally give sannyasa to murderer Tirtha Das in prison. Again, it's an obvious case of people like Umapati trying to rewrite their past. After all, now he is a guru who is supposed to be as good as God. He has to keep the image up or business won't be good.
Later on ISKCON leaders like Radhanath helped bury Kirtanananda in a sacred samadhi in Vrndavana, so he was not really ever rejected by many ISKCON leaders. They just made a show of removing him for public perception purposes. Now some of my Brjabasi friends are mortified that a known homosexual pedophile has been buried in the holy dham, but they are too afraid to speak out.
A media person asked me "what exactly is pedophile samadhi"? That means the average Joe Six Pack USA person knows that burying deviants in samadhis is bogus, and VERY sinful. Same thing, children will come to the dham to bow down to the samadhi of a known homosexual pedophile, this is still contaminating and corrupting children's minds ongoing.
Some of the members of the current ISKCON ICC Bureau of India folks, people like Sridhara Srinivasa dasa (Coimbatore) have told me, the reason I do not know that gurus are falling into illicit behavior all the time is that I am "a mleccha." Srila Prabhupada said anyone who thinks gurus are ordinary and fallen are, residents of narakah (hell).
The ISKCON Berkeley messiah and guru Hansadutta was having sex with half dozen ladies. One of the husbands of those ladies was showing me his shot gun in downtown Berkeley, and he was going to the farm to kill Hansadutta, so I restrained that man and saved Hansadutta from being killed. Later on Hansadutta sent his goondas from New Vrndavana, to kill me. That is what happens when you save a snake?
Hansadutta was arrested for shooting four guns at occupied buildings in downtown Berkeley and his car was full of empty alcohol bottles, and he had $15,000 cash on his person. Then the GBC had an emergency meeting here in Berkeley. I went into the meeting (I was not invited) and said Hansadutta has to go, and they said no, he stays and maybe you have to go.
Then the temple had to spend $500,000 on lawyers, repairing shot up windows and buildings etc. to keep Hansadutta out of jail. Then people wonder why there has been no money for food, shoes and supplies for the ISKCON gurukula children. Obviously much of the ISKCON money is being used to maintain the opulent jet set leaders, and their lawyers, and not the children.
Same thing with New Vrndavana, after it was raided by the police the temple hired Alan Dershowitz, a very expensive lawyer, to defend Kirtanananda to "keep him out of jail." Helping children victims has not been a priority and has not been being done. Meanwhile ex-children from there paint a very dire picture of how they had to struggle to get basic supplies. Of course some of the former female children from there report they were married off when they were young minors, sometimes to much older men, and then mistreated horribly and so on.
One of the GBC leaders named Nrsimghananda (David Shapiro) very forcefully confronted me in Berkeley, getting right into my face, "you are not one of those bogus ritviks are you," in other words I am not a member of the homosexual and pedophile guru promoting program, so he was trying to bully me around.
Another GBC guru named Trivrikrama swami said he was going to call the police on me. And I said fine, bring the Berkeley police over here, they need to know who are the people forcing little children to worship your homosexuals and pedophiles messiahs project -- like yourself. He ran into the office and slammed the door, he never called the police. He did not want a police report where he was named as a defender of homosexual and pedophile guru programs.
Later on, when he is 84, he admits he was having sex with a female disciple, same thing, Srila Prabhupada says this is de facto pedophile. He called me "the barking junkyard dog of ISKCON." OK well at least us dogs know that worshiping homosexuals and pedophiles as God's successors / gurus / acharyas is -- wrong.
According to an account written by a former New Vrndavana resident (Henry Doktorski) there is evidence the current guru of the ISKCON Chowpatty Bombay temple -- Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin) -- was in involved in paying the hit man who came to kill Sulochana (and who the police told me was following me in Berkeley to do surveillance on me). This is detailed in the book "Killing for Krishna" by Henry Doktorski. Henry has wrote a series of books on the topic of New Vrndavana especially, but what was going on there was similar to other ISKCON locations.
Evidently Radhanath was orchestrating arranged marriages of minor aged girls, he was covering up child abuse, and he was turning a blind eye to many of the evil things going on there. And he was making propaganda that me and Sulochana are offenders and blasphemers etc. And supposedly, he was paying for the hit man to come and get us. Shortly after Sulochana was murdered three "enforcers" from New Vrndavana came to get me in Berkeley. They were arrested by undercover officers when they were chasing me. The police told me they knew the enforcers were coming to get me, but they had to use me as bait.
After Hansadutta moved everyone to New Vrndavana from the Berkeley temple, the GBC appointed Hari Vilas (Harry Terhanien) as the new temple leader. When a congregation member molested an 11 year old girl, the perp was reported to the police and was arrested. Then Hari Vilas bailed out the molester and said that the people making charges should "shut the hell up" and he defended the molester. A report was made to the GBC, and they rewarded Hari Vilas for bailing out the molester by placing him in the ISKCON Justices Committee.
After Jayatirtha's departure Bhagavan (William Erlichman) took over Croome Court in the UK. A lady friend of mine told me that some child molesters were using chloroform to knock out children -- so they could be molested there. She said, when Bhagavan was notified, he evidently had the children hypnotized so they could forget their abuse. The lady told me the hypnosis did not work effectively, and the victims remembered and "suffered for their whole lives and still suffer now." In other words these victims think the leaders sabotaged their criminal complaint problem to "save the society" because destroying children is accepted collateral damage. Evidently, none of the perps were ever charged criminally, and the problem was covered up by the leaders. And still is.
Satsvarupa broke up a marriage and promised the husband he would personally make sure the kids were not molested. But the kids were molested, and according to a former teacher from Satsvarupa's school "every single kid in his school was molested." Satsvarupa was given a big bag of mail in Vrndavana (with perhaps complaints of child abuse) and he said put these letters in the trash, they give me a headache. Satsvarupa was taking psychotropic medications for his eternal "headaches" which he used as an excuse not to have to deal with the problems.
He was known as "Ho-Jo swami," because he would like to hide out in motels where no one could find him to raise complaints. He also said we dissenters are "poison pens" to try to get rid of us, and one of us was eliminated. Later on Satsvarupa admitted he was having an affair with the wife of the marriage he broke up. Once again, Srila Prabhupada says this is de facto pedophile when a guru has sex with a follower. Satsvarupa keeps saying he does not know about these issues, but he does know us poison pens are writing about it. That means he does know.
Jayatirtha's "peace Krishnas" came to Berkeley and when they saw me, they said -- there is Puranjana, lets tear him up. And they would have, except some of the Hansadutta people came out of the temple and said, you peace Krishnas have maybe two hundred people here, and we have only ten, but all of us ten have the guns. So I was saved. A person supposedly went to Kathmandu to preach to Jayatirtha that he is deviating, and that person was found dead, floating face down in an icy lake. The rumor is that Jayatirtha ordered his execution.
Hansadutta (Hans Kary) also broke up a marriage to get his hands on the wife. He never stopped drinking and even a few weeks before his death he was showing my associate that he had a six pack in his shopping bag. He was basically a lifetime alcoholic up to the end. Yet the GBC never says he was never a guru.
Harikesh evidently said he has to leave ISKCON because of the horrific way children are being treated. There is no evidence any perp was ever reported to the authorities by Harikesh. Harikesh has been suspected of taking a load of cash when he left ISKCON.
Jajadish (Hickey) evidently also said he has to leave ISKCON because of the horrific way children are mistreated. There is also no evidence he reported any of it. He later ran off with a married disciple and the husband wrote to me to help find him, because he took the five years old daughter with him. And I helped locate him and told him Interpol was looking for him, so he surrendered the child. He says he was not aware of all the problems, while he was one of the persons in charge of the schools.
Bhagavan for sure (I have seen the texts) said he has to leave ISKCON because of the horrible way children are being mistreated. Did he ever report any of it to the authorities? I had to help various people who were kicked out of Bhagavan's zone, along with their children, and he left them stranded with no resources at the Paris train station. I also helped recover a baby girl that had been kidnapped from the UK back to France, and I had to go fetch this baby girl and bring her back to the UK.
The mother said Bhagavan gave her no diapers, no baby supplies, and it was freezing cold at the Chateau. This story was in the UK newspapers, so the other leaders knew Bhagavan was not caring for the citizens, but they took no action. The UK customs people let me take in the baby with no documents for her, because they all read about the baby in the newspapers.
Rameshvara was "dating" a minor aged girl named R Dasi. He would deposit her back at the girl's ashram at 4 AM. She told me Rameshvar was doing "full on relations" with her. A group of Los Angeles devotees wrote a report on this matter, but none of the other leaders took action. He was never reported to any authorities for doing that. He is also suspected of assisting in having Sulochana hunted, and assassinated. He eventually went to Mayapur, which is where a lot of these leaders end up, being given some sort of retirement assistance there.
Meanwhile, in 1997 someone gave me what are now called "the 1977 poison tapes" where Srila Prabhupada complains of being poisoned. I had the tapes transcribed and they have produced a big investigation into the matter. There are too many points to be made in this document herein, but suffice it to say, there is compelling evidence some of the top leaders were giving Srila Prabhupada toxic heavy metals in his final days here.
Dr. J. Stilson Judah also met with me regularly and he told me -- you are in extreme danger. If they think they can take you down, they will. You need to go into hiding, or I probably won't see you next week. He said I was in the same position as people who challenged the Popes in the middle ages, very dangerous. "You are not going to live long if history is any example."
It should be noted that as soon as we brought out the child abuse lawsuit, the changing of Srila Prabhupada's books -- to change his philosophy, and the poison case altogether around 1998, the GBC offered me stiff opposition. They tried to paint me as a drunk and sahajiya (false devotee) to discredit my efforts. That is the same thing they did in 1986, me and Sulochana are drunks and sahajiyas and liars etc.
A number of false reformers ALSO jumped on the GBC's band wagon to discredit us, and some of them are still discrediting us (which has helped cover the mass molesting problem) -- such as: Krishna Kant Desai's ISKCON Reform Movement (IRM), Mukunda UK (Mark Whitely), Sanat (Steve Voight), Prahlad das (Paul coats), Dayalu Nitai's HKS Jaipur, Mathura Pati's (Mathias Jabczynski) Prabhupadanugas EU, and others. These people have become parrots of people like Kirtanananda and the molester messiahs project: "Puranjan is a liar and drunken sahajiya etc." OK that is exactly what the Kirtanananda's people said in 1986. Basically the false reformers are in league with the GBC, acting as their de facto cheer leaders.
Oddly, some of the reformers like Prahlad and others have been citing the writings of Hari Sauri, who has been one of the kingpin supporters of Bhavananda and the Mayapur molester's regime. Some of the victims told me Mayapur is "Auschwitz for kids," therefore citing the promoters of that project is de facto supporting the regime. Hari Sauri also evidently wants to discredit us and boost the Auschwitz regime. Yep, quoting the leaders of the Auschwitz for kids project is the real history?
Sorry, the mass molesting, beatings and murders etc. actually has been occuring and is not a lie. And victims were taking their lives in the 1990s and that is why we helped them start a lawsuit here for $400,000,000. This evidently means, for the GBC and the false reformers, only us drunks and sahajiyas (false devotees) are willing to stand up to a mass child abuse program that has a thousand other criminal programs going on at the same time, including assassinating us dissenters.
So it is not only the leaders who are fully responsible for these criminal out croppings, many rank and file -- as well as false reformers -- have all tried to chop the legs off our protest, to the peril of the children of ISKCON, and ISKCON itself.
In 1998 some of the "reformers" joined with the GBC gurus and told me I am "destroying the Golden body of ISKCON," which means a program that worships homosexuals and pedophiles as its messiahs, and mass molests children, and murders dissenters, is evidently the golden body of God for some of these folks. Citations from the false reformers (like Krishna Kant Desai and Mathura Pati) are often sent to me by the GBC guru regime people, because when it comes to the issue of us containing mass child abuse, they all seem to agree -- we dissenters should be contained and disbanded instead.
The main leader of the false reformers Krishna Kant Desai said he had "used me as a bargaining chip and made a deal with Jayapataka for me to stop writing, stop all the lawsuits, and go on vacation in the Caribbean under the support and care of Jayapataka."
OK Jayapataka had just ran at me yelling and screaming, acting like he was going to punch me, trying to intimidate me on Watseka. And now I am going to work under his program, after the Los Angeles police told me, these people want to kill you. For his part HKC Jaipur enforcer Prahlad admits to me, he is working hand in glove with the enforcers of the pedophile messiah's project, and he wants to help them hunt me down -- to take me out. He was also crying that his favorite pedophile messiahs would be missing funds. OK, so maybe they now cannot afford to sue the directors of free food programs in India for $20,000,000, as they have done.
So full disclosure, this has been a combined conspiracy effort: the acquiescing rank and file, the false reformers, as well as the GBC leaders and their minions, all seem to want me to end up in the Caribbean where I will no doubt be disappeared and fed to the sharks. In sum, there has been a united "conspiracy to silence," or "actively suppressing us whistle blowers of the child abuse" and other criminal issues.
And many of these seemingly disjoined elements conspired together to make these crimes against children occur. Ultimately, the leaders are the main people responsible, and we hope they will be legally held to account for orchestrating these crimes against children and others. However, without their support sustaining network of hand maidens, assistants, enforcers, hit men etc. they could not have sustained all this for so long.
Some victims told me that out of an estimated 4,000 ISKCON children, half or 50% were abused. That also means many parents did not report the issue either, which is the crime of omission. I think many parents feared repercussions from the regime. That being said, there is no real good excuse for not reporting these crimes. Not reporting is placing other children in peril as well, and is enabling the regime.
After all sorts of children were proven to be molested, then many ISKCON leaders and their advisors like Narayan Maharaja began to argue "the children had bad karma." They started to blame the victims. Jayadvaita swami (Jay Israel) also began to argue that the five years old children of ISKCON are responsible for their own suffering because "they (children) chose the wrong guru."
Wait, the ISKCON leaders and society overall chose the gurus for the these five years olds, how could the children choose anything at five? Sorry, Auschwitz for kids was created by the leaders and adults, not the child victims. The leaders are blaming the victims to get themselves off the hook for orchestrating these crimes against children.
I was asked by a media person to summarize the whole thing in one sentence. I said -- I am fighting "the enforced cult ritualistic worship of homosexuals and pedophiles as God's gurus and successors regime." Emphasis on enforced. I could go on for another 450 pages here easily, but if someone cannot understand the sinister and criminal program that I am describing herein already, they will probably not realize the issue in another 450 pages.
My interview: in Monkey On A Stick book by John Hubner.
Dr. J Stilson Judah is a widely known scholar.
My interview: CBS West 57th Street / Jane Wallace
My interview: Investigation Discovery channel.
My interview: Monkey On A Stick movie.
My help: Dial Om For Murder (Rolling Stone Magazine).
ETC.
Thanks prabhu, The ISKCON people do not accept court rulings. When the Jayapataka people wrote to me to complain about losing $100,000,000, they never said the leaders who caused this court loss like Jayapataka need to be removed from office. The leaders of a company that causes $100,000,000 court loss are removed and sued by the share holders for bankrupting the company. Instead, ISKCON doubles down on supporting the leaders who cause these bad court ruling losses. If anything, ISKCON loves people who are causing their society to go bankrupted and losing one court after another. The more that ISKCON loses in court, the more those leaders are glorified. I am sorry to report that your idea that courts will change opinions is -- proven to be wrong. After Hansadutta was arrested several times here, his followers rallied to raise $500,000 for his lawyers. In ISKCON, the more a leader is a criminal, and loses court cases, it seems the higher he goes on the worship totem pole. If anything, losing court cases makes a person higher status in ISKCON. ys pd
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
Subject: A Humble Appeal for Integrity — Request for Immediate Suspension and Independent Investigation into Allegations Against Shri Dayaram Das
Dear Respected Members of the GBC,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I write to you not out of anger, but out of pain. Not to rebel, but to remind. Not to accuse, but to awaken. The gravity of the circumstances compels me to set aside hesitation and speak with clarity and conscience.
In the sacred legacy of Srila Prabhupada, we have inherited not just temples and deities, but the deeper mandate to embody dharma, truth, and compassionate leadership. When those values are eclipsed by unchecked power and institutional silence, the result is not just administrative crisis — it is a spiritual emergency.
Today, I bring to your attention grave concerns regarding the conduct of Shri Dayaram Das, whose actions have deeply shaken the conscience of many devotees and well-wishers of ISKCON.
A Pattern of Abuse and Exploitation
Numerous reports and testimonies have pointed toward a pattern of systemic misconduct — ranging from financial impropriety to coercion, land acquisition by intimidation, mistreatment of local residents, and the use of violence and fear as tools of control.
There are also chilling accounts of physical abuse inflicted upon dissenting devotees by those under his direction, including unlawful detention and bodily harm.
If these reports are even partially true, we are not merely confronting managerial lapses — we are confronting violations of fundamental human dignity and justice, under the guise of devotional administration.
How can we, as custodians of Srila Prabhupada’s movement, stand by while such actions are perpetrated in the name of service?
The Rise of Empire, The Fall of Ethics
From humble beginnings, Dayaram Das has amassed considerable wealth, influence, and infrastructure — including commercial real estate, corporate entities, and private landholdings. This rapid accumulation, especially within the precincts of a renounced order, raises profound questions of transparency, motive, and institutional oversight.
To question this is not to condemn prosperity — it is to ask whether the resources meant for service have been diverted for personal empire-building. When power becomes insulated, and questions are met with threats, the very soul of our movement is endangered.
Cronyism, Fear, and the Chilling of Conscience
Within the ISKCON Bureau and associated bodies, there are sincere devotees — thoughtful, honest, and committed. Yet even among them, a palpable fear exists.
When those in positions of responsibility are too intimidated to speak, or worse, become complicit for fear of repercussions or in exchange for favors — then the principle of collective leadership turns into silent compliance. This is not just a managerial concern. It is a test of our moral compass.
Misuse of Law and Inversion of Justice
In recent months, brave individuals — whistleblowers, community leaders, and former staff — have attempted to bring these concerns into the light. But instead of being heard, many have been silenced, threatened, or entangled in false legal accusations. It appears the instruments of state — police, legal machinery, and bureaucracy — are being deployed not to protect the truth, but to shield misconduct.
This inversion of dharma must be addressed. Swiftly. Decisively. Compassionately.
Our Humble Appeal and Request
With all humility and urgency, I place the following fourfold prayer before this esteemed body:
1. Immediate Suspension of Shri Dayaram Das
Pending inquiry, it is only just that he be relieved of all managerial and administrative responsibilities. This protects the integrity of the investigation and upholds the principle that no one is above scrutiny — especially those entrusted with power.
2. Formation of an Independent Investigation Committee
We request a high-level, impartial panel comprising retired judges, neutral auditors, and senior ISKCON leaders unconnected with the case to examine the evidence and bring forth recommendations. Internal committees may lack the credibility and independence that such a matter demands.
3. Complete Audit of Assets and Financial Dealings
All trust accounts, land transactions, business associations, and financial dealings related to Shri Dayaram Das should be brought under transparent and public review. If he is above reproach, he will welcome the opportunity to clear his name through full disclosure.
4. Protection and Recognition of Whistleblowers
Those who have spoken up, often at great personal risk, must not be punished for their courage. Instead, they should be recognized as upholders of dharma and safeguarded through both legal and institutional means.
A Final Word — From Caution to Courage
Srila Prabhupada taught us that spiritual leadership is not a throne, but a service. Not a platform for ambition, but a platform for humility.
The crisis before us is not just about one individual. It is about who we are becoming as a movement. Are we prepared to uphold truth, even when it is inconvenient? Will we protect our institutions by addressing internal decay, or allow silence to corrode our foundations?
Please do not let this be remembered as a time when convenience was chosen over conscience. Let it be remembered as the moment when ISKCON chose courage, chose integrity, chose Srila Prabhupada.
The cost of inaction is not just legal liability. It is spiritual erosion.
With faith in your collective wisdom and your sincerity to serve Srila Prabhupada’s mission, I offer this appeal with folded hands and a heart full of hope.
Your servant in service to Srila Prabhupada’s lotus feet,
Prabhu Caran das
From Bhakta Das :
As one who is a direct victim of Dayaram and who lost what would now be probably more than $1 million, I know what this is about. They now want to point the finger at Aloy Govinda @ Alok, but Alok worked always under the direct control of Dayarama, who worked under JPS. When I had a lovely land of 14 bighas that extended from the Jalanghi to the road, and was absolutely perfect, JPS personally told my son Bhishma that he will never let me keep that land.
RS: You can’t make a deal with the devil — the only thing you can do is expose him and let the public decide. A proper ISKCON GBC has not existed since the ‘Direction of Management’—written and signed in 1970—was not followed.
TD: Bureau should know that the Supreme Court case was lost with a main part being the preparation and strategy given by Dayarama. This cost ISKCON millions of dollars of which some was certainly channeled by Dayarama. His new filing of "COURT REVIEW" has very little percentage of chance of success. It is also improperly prepared.
Large sums of rupees will be required to fight the REVIEW CASE IN SUPREME COURT. That laxmi is also in jeopardy along with the whole case filed by Dayarama.
KA: Why single out one person, there are many in iskcon who came with nothing, living in temples, and today they are millionaires and billionaires with no personal income, where is accountability of all these people in position, about time gbc do some in-house cleaning of its leaders, including gurus sanyasis and grihasthas and brahmacharis.
SD: Prabhu Caran das should put out a request for all devotees with any information to send it to him. A case will need to be carefully built, otherwise the GBC might not do anything. These events must be brought to light - even outside ISKCON. The government of West Bengal must be involved. They know about the systemic corruption.
ISKCON Mayapura is a hotbed of criminal activity. West Bengal is full of corruption, it’s like living in a mafia state. You either submit or die. Do a search on "West Bengal corruption." Naturally the mafia is going to be very powerful in Mayapura with all the money pouring in there. Many disciples of Jayapataka Swami are part of it.
Jayapataka Swami certainly knows about it, but I doubt he can do anything. It is systemic in West Bengal. These thugs take devotees land. They leave the land title intact, but they threaten devotees with their life, and then they move their own people onto the land, and the devotee has effectively lost their land even though he legally owns it.
How can Prabhu Caran das be contacted? We need to get behind this. This should be spread far and wide. Share everywhere. Get attorneys involved. 🙏
PADA: Yeah Dayaram told me sure, the GBC makes homos and pedos into its acharyas, but I am going to still spend millions defending them. Anyone who supports the elite jet set gurus always has prayers, support, people visiting the hospital etc. One of the earliest lady disciples here was in a retirement home. No devotees that I know of ever went to see her, or even cared what happened to her. She was smoking at night, fell asleep, the cigarette fell out of her mouth, and started her bed on fire and she died.
There was zero response from ISKCON, no thoughts, no prayers, no nothing, because she was not part of the big elite's clique. Did I forget to mention many ex-Krishna kids live around here too, and they tell me, no one knows who we are, where we are, what happened to us, how all that affected us, or even -- if we are alive or not. Yep. Not part of the jet set elites, so they do not count, and they know it. ys pd
PADA: Thanks prabhu. The GBC will bribe their way out of the Delhi criminal case?
The court case is only 10% of the GBC's problem. The real 90% problem is that a court case eventually gets into the mass media. And if the GBC looks like it has been protecting perps and removing whistle blowers, if not having us whistle blowers hunted to be placed six feet under in the grave, which they have done, then the media circus will take them down de facto.
Chat GPT says the GBC will try to drag this on for 5 years or more, that means 5 years of constant media publicity -- wave after wave after wave -- of exposing them. They might bribe this person or that person, but they cannot shut down a giant media circus. They already had a media circus with the Windle Turley case here, they could not do one ounce of anything to stop it. Once they are exposed, their support will drop, members will leave and etc. That is the 90% problem they have no control over. ys pd
Multiple forensic studies have established that Srila Prabhupada’s was lethally poisoned with primarily cadmium for the better part of a year, at the minimum, by some of his own caretakers. In contradiction to scientific proof, inane deniers like the ISKCON GBC protest that this is impossible and ludicrous, claiming:
(1) cadmium was unknown in 1977 as a homicidal poison, and that,
(2) even today there are no cadmium poisoning cases on record.
Both are totally untrue. These people will deny truth and facts until they die. The use of cadmium in Srila Prabhupada’s extended, lethal poisoning means that someone in Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 entourage did know of its lethality and its homicidal applications with proper doses. So, who could that have been? Where did these poisoners find out about the use of cadmium? Yes, cadmium is still not a well-known poison today, but Srila Prabhupada’s poisoners may have simply been advised by someone with a good knowledge of chemistry.
Even in 1977, any chemist knew about cadmium’s lethality, its suitability as a homicidal poison, and that it causes gastrointestinal symptoms that are common to many ailments. There were many chemists in and around ISKCON in the 1970’s, who could have, innocently or not, either way, passed information about heavy metals, and cadmium specifically, to one or more of the poisoners. Among the known or possible sources of such information are:
(1) Forensic studies have placed Tamal Krishna Goswami at the center of the poisoning. In 1968 he spoke on tape with Srila Prabhupada, showing he knew the ways of arsenic poisoning. The use of arsenic and his brother, cadmium, are practically the same. Already knowing about arsenic, and at a chemist’s suggestion that cadmium acts in the same way, Tamal could make the substitution with no need for any special expertise.
(2) Bhakticharu Swami studied chemistry for 6 years, which was his college study major in India and Germany up to 1976. However, he joined the caretakers after the poisoning was already underway, and as such, he was not the chemist who suggested cadmium to the poisoners. He was late on the scene, although he is very much implicated as an accessory during and after the fact.
(3) Chandra Swami was associated with many New York devotees in 1976-77, and he could have given the idea of cadmium to one or more of the poisoners, directly or indirectly. He was an expert in Ayurvedic medicines, black magic, extortion, bribes, and many dark activities, suspected in murder, poisonings, assassinations, bombs, terrorist wars, etc. He stands out with immense suspicion, and was the one who donated makharadhvaja to Srila Prabhupada in late 1977.
(4) The apparently naïve and innocent Swarup Damodar Swami was in India and with Srila Prabhupada many times in 1977. He was a Ph.D in organic chemistry, and certainly knew about cadmium, and he could have been easily, unknowingly “milked” for this simple information, that would only require a sentence or two. Not that he was involved, but the point is that this information WAS READILY AVAILABLE in 1977.
(5) Knowledge of heavy metal poisoning methodologies were readily available long before 1977, in literatures and medical publications. The 1960's discovery of Napoleon's very high hair arsenic levels gave much attention to the subject of secretive homicidal poisoning. Srila Prabhupada’s poisoners may well have read the 1972 book Who Poisoned Napoleon?
(6) Toxicology of the Eye by WM Grant (1974): “Ingestion of cadmium salts has caused severe and sometimes fatal poisoning.” This was years before Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 poisoning.
(7) Even by the 1940’s, cadmium was widely used in industrialized societies, and frequent accidental cadmium poisonings led to cadmium studies (including Friberg/1950, Bonnell/1955). It was well known by 1977 that cadmium caused life-threatening kidney malfunction, and this was Srila Prabhupada’s condition in his last year. Japan’s infamous 1960’s “itai-itai” incident involved hundreds of deaths and critically ill from cadmium tainted rice fields.
(8) In Srila Prabhupada’s Triumphant Departure: Complete Book of Poisoning Evidence, a list is given of 18 intentional, non-environmental, lethal or almost lethal cadmium poisonings, and many are related to political or religious conflicts.
(9) Cadmium is used by various foreign intelligence agencies, using atypical poisons like cadmium, polonium, dioxin, nerve agents, etc. And since only 10% of poisonings are discovered, the incidences of cadmium poisonings must be far higher. Political assassinations worldwide are increasingly using cadmium as one ingredient in a mixture with others (e.g., with arsenic and antimony, just as was done with Srila Prabhupada). Creative exotic heavy metals poison cocktails are extra toxic and logical for anyone with a chemistry background.
(10) Cadmium salts, the logical media for a cadmium poisoning, are readily available by mail order, in chemistry labs, etc. It is not restricted.
Cadmium is not commonly used as a poisoning agent in societal homicides (unlike arsenic). And most cadmium poisoning studies focus on hazardous occupational or environmentally contaminated situations, such as factory pollution in Poland.
But to say, “it was not possible in 1977 because it was unknown,” is UNTRUE and does not negate the forensic findings by Dr. J Stephen Morris at the Missouri Univ. Research Reactor that Srila Prabhupada endured almost an average of 16 ppm cadmium in his hair throughout 1977. Using cadmium salts to poison someone is very feasible, effective, and difficult to discover. And it is not hard to get this information...it is almost common sense.
Please accept my humblest obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The ICU doctors have added a third medication and are giving one more day before making a decision regarding surgery.
Ambarisa Prabhu is in considerable pain, but his spirits remain uplifted by the outpouring of love and support from devotees around the world. He has been deeply touched by the messages, prayers, and blessings being offered on his behalf—including those sent through yajnas and special offerings. Mother Svaha and the entire family wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to all the devotees for their ongoing prayers, care, and affection during this difficult time.
Please continue your sincere prayers so that Ambarisa Prabhu may recover steadily and come out of the ICU soon.
It is deeply disturbing and disheartening to learn that Sri Vinod Prabhu, a disciple of HDG Srila Bhakti Pramode Puri Goswami Maharaja, was brutally murdered at his residence in Radha Kunda, Vrindavan, yesterday afternoon.
Sri Vinod Prabhu had been residing in Radha Kunda for quite some time and was well-known and respected among the local devotees. According to reports, during a heavy downpour that lasted for around three hours, a group of dacoits broke into his house. They tied him up, mercilessly took his life, and looted gold jewellery belonging to his deities along with silver utensils used in worship.
The police investigation is currently underway, and this is the information available so far. His body has been sent for post-mortem, and the final rites are expected to take place later today once it is handed over to his family.
Hearing this news last night from a friend was truly shocking. Radha Kunda, known as one of the holiest places, is home to many sincere devotees who have renounced worldly life to live peacefully and perform their devotional practices. Incidents like this raise serious concerns about their safety and the lack of basic security in the holy dham.
Nearby residents are now gripped with fear, wondering how safe they truly are, even in such a sacred environment. It is heartbreaking to think that a devotee, who chose to live at Radha Kunda simply to serve the Lord, could lose his life like this. Even in the dham, the lives of innocent devotees are at risk from the greed and cruelty of such miscreants.
May Srimati Radharani protect all the devotees residing in the holy dham, and may the Lord deliver strict justice to those responsible for this heinous act. We hope that the authorities will take swift and strong action to ensure the safety of devotees and increase security in sacred places like Radha Kunda. This tragic event is a wake-up call and must not go unanswered.
PADA: Thanks JJ. Yes, the bogus ritviks are nobodies and cannot do anything substantial. Well then -- why is the GBC always crying that they are losing legal cases, helped or started by the ritviks? Hee hee.
Even people like Kailasa chandra are complaining the ritviks are not effective. Meanwhile he could not conduct any substantial action against the bogus GBC gurus. Of course neither can the IRM, HKC Jaipur, Mukunda UK, Mathura Pati etc. types ever take on the GBC substantially either. All bark and no bite.
Sorry, the ritviks have created an alternate system of worship, based on worshiping the pure devotee, and they have simultaneously challenged the fake guru parampara of the GBC. And both issues are going forward with substantial progress.
In any case, since children are in peril in their operation, we need to address their deviations in court from time to time, because we have no other path to fixing these issues.
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
ISKCON CRIMINAL CASE / CHAT GPT commentary:
Based on the criminal complaint filed with the Delhi High Court and standard Indian legal procedures, the following steps are likely to occur next in the ISKCON child abuse case:
1. **Judicial Admission & Preliminary Scrutiny**
- The High Court will review the 850-page complaint for maintainability under relevant laws (POCSO Act, Juvenile Justice Act, IPC). Given the severity of allegations — systemic abuse across ISKCON institutions, cover-up evidence, and survivor testimonies — the court is likely to admit the case.
- A bench Judge will be assigned, potentially directing the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for impartial inquiry.
2. **Investigative Phase**
- **Evidence Collection:** Authorities will scrutinize the complaint's annexures, including:
- Internal ISKCON Child Protection Office (CPO) reports documenting past abuse. - Survivor statements and psychological assessments. - Documentary proof of cover-ups by ISKCON's Governing Body Commission (GBC). - Witness Protection: -- Survivors and whistleblowers may seek protection under POCSO or witness protection schemes. -- Multi-Agency Involvement: Given the transnational scope, agencies like the CBI or NCMHR may join to investigate cross-border institutional failures.
3. **Legal Proceedings**
- Issuance of Summonses to: ISKCON's leadership, GBC members, and specific accused individuals (e.g., past abusers named in CPO reports) will be formally summoned.
- ** Bail Hearings:** High-profile defendants may seek anticipatory bail; courts are likely to deny it given the gravity of charges and risk of witness intimidation.
- **Trial Framework:** The case could be tried in a Fast-Track POCSO Court to prioritize survivor welfare and avoid delays.
4. **Institutional Accountability Demands**
- The complaint seeks:
- Criminal prosecution of offenders. - An independent audit of all ISKCON institutions. - A court-mandated victim compensation fund financed by ISKCON. - Past failures (e.g., the Turley lawsuit settlement in 2000, where ISKCON accepted liability but reforms were inconsistent ) will bolster demands for external oversight.
5. **ISKCON's Response & Internal Fallout**
- **Legal Strategy:** ISKCON may attempt to:
- Dispute jurisdiction or seek out-of-court settlements (as in past abuse cases). - Highlight recent CPO reforms (e.g., global Child Protection Teams) to mitigate penalties.
- **Leadership Crisis:** The GBC could face internal dissent, with devotees demanding accountability for historical cover-ups. External pressure may force resignations of implicated leaders.
6. **Timeline & Challenges**
- ** Short-term (1-6 months): ** Evidence preservation orders, initial witness depositions, and possible interim relief for survivors (e.g., counseling funding).
- **Long-term (1-5 years):** Protracted trials, appeals, and potential convictions under POCSO (mandating life imprisonment for aggravated assault).
- **Major Hurdles:** Institutional resistance, witness tampering risks, and ISKCON's resource advantage could delay justice.
7. **Broader Implications**
- **Precedent Setting:** A conviction would challenge religious immunity globally, echoing past cases like New Vrindaban's murder / abuse scandals.
- **Reform Catalyst:** Mandated structural changes (e.g., third-party audits, survivor-led oversight) could transform child safety in religious institutions.
*This case marks a critical juncture for ISKCON—its response will determine whether it aligns with Srila Prabhupada's teachings of compassion or perpetuates systemic failure . Survivors’ pursuit of justice, now amplified by legal momentum, may finally dismantle decades of impunity.*
================= PADA: Yeah as soon as I said that there is a child mistreatment problem in 1979, Jayapataka told me he had me removed from all ISKCON property worldwide, and I was not going to be able to be on his property -- or he would call the police. In other words, instead of calling the police on the perps, he is calling the police on us whistle blowers.
In 1979 we did not have to appointment tape, which we did not get until 1984. So no one was even discussing ritviks or even knew that that was. They wanted to have us whistle blowers removed, and the perps and their enablers stay, and that is what they orchestrated. And that is why this whole process is going into the criminal court in Delhi. To remove whistle blowers and keep the perps is -- criminal. ys pd
AD: Puranjana Dasa acbsp. You have your side of the story, while others have more believable versions. And the fact that you are a hard-core ritvik does not give you any real credibility, with all due respect.
PADA: I helped have had them sued for $3M, and then $400M, and helped save a free food program from being shut down with them spending $20M, and now our 1998 Dallas case is being used as a "precedent case" in the Delhi criminal court. I have been interviewed by law enforcement and media many times, and I personally know hundreds of children victims.
I am sorry you guys cannot see that my side is credible, because it is accepted all over by millions and millions of people who have already read about my side in the media. It really does not matter if I am a ritvik or a garbage man, the GBC has no authority to remove us whistle blowers and keep the perps, this is illegally protecting child mistreatment, and that is why we had to take this to court, you guys are still blocking us, so we will go where we have a voice. And we are.
I already stated these things in court documents and the GBC has never countered me in court, they pleaded no contest both cases. But hey, if you guys want to spend another $100,000,000 challenging us in court, go for it! ys pd
AD: We are getting bored hearing your version like a recording with no OFF switch. All of what you say can't be proved factually; it's your version. It may be true, it may not be true. Devotees will know when the opposite versions are given a proper hearing.
PADA: No problem, my version is the identical version of hundreds of kids I had put on the $400,000,000 case. My version is the version being submitted into Delhi court. If you guys want to spend another $100,000,000 trying to defeat us, you are welcome. However, I think your money won't fix the Delhi criminal case, it is not a money case, it is a criminal case.
The devotees already know I am right, because many of them had their kids mistreated, while us whistle blowers were removed, and they know what happened. So go ahead call the law enforcement when we come to your property, we do not need to be on your property, we will meet you in court. You guys already pleaded no contest in court, we already know this cannot be contested or you guys would not have pleaded no contest already. The devotee all know you guys pleaded no contest, it was in all the news here. ys pd
AD: You speak me as if I am one of "you guys" when I'm not on either side. All I'm saying is yours is not the only version and you telling it is.
PADA: You said that Jayapataka, the person who had me removed for complaining about child mistreatment, and said he would call law enforcement to remove me from ISKCON property, is a guru. Nope, he is the person who has us blocked by law enforcement when we go to ISKCON, and he has the perps protected and not removed, which is called criminally orchestrated child mistreatment, which is what is currently being filed in the Delhi court right now as a criminal complaint.
It is illegal to protect the perps and remove the whistle blowers, never mind they have us hunted and we have to be saved by the FEDS. I am not the only person, well yeah, thousands of people now agree with me -- protecting the perps and removing us whistle blowers is criminal. My version is not my version, my version is the testimony of victims, I am citing them. As soon as I cite victims, then law enforcement has to save me from the JPS process because the JPS process has us whistle blowers oppressed. And law enforcement did save me ... multiple times. A guru does not protect perps and eliminate whistle blowers, this is called criminal, as the courts agree. ys pd
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BHKATI TIRTHA KRISHNAPADA TO BHAGAVAN ACBS
Reply Date: December 16, 1992
My dear bhagavan das Please accept my humble tributes. All glories to our Eternal Father Srila Prabhupada. I'm writing to you from Africa, but this letter will be sent from Washington D.C. or Detroit. I think of you often but because I'm selfish and impersonal I never contacted you.
These are the most difficult times for everyone, however devotees like us can never be satisfied or stable with material life, but at the same time there are so many complications in trying to move forward in this spiritual mission given by Lord Chaitanya and Srila Prabhupada. We have all deviated in various ways because this is part of the painful experience of growing up, but those who are blessed like you, actually have only one alternative, develop a greater inner connection with Srila Prabhupada and Krishna, or continue to put ourselves in more torturous situations.
We can't really go back to living as normal material citizens of the world, but we can't go back to living a life of quite mechanical devotional service either. In a way you are the luckiest because Krishna is constantly intervening in your life to take everything away. You've seen the highest and lowest aspects of the material universe and it's disgusting.
After all, you only have a short time to live, so what will you do? You have helped so many souls on this planet knowingly and unknowingly, we are all indebted. I cannot begin to tell you how much you have helped me and still helping me.
Relationships between true brothers are very rare and can never be broken. What can I say, I love you and I want to be of use. How can I help in anyway? It's not funny, I don't have money, don't have a serious intelligence, I'm a second class citizen materially as well as among the Vaisnava's, however I offer my service even though I have nothing to offer. This is part of the mystery of devotional service.
If you choose to write, please send a copy of your letter to Washington DC, because very often the mail is lost in Africa. Hope to hear from you soon, I remain your little brother in the service of Srila Prabhupada
Bhakti Tirtha Swami, Krishnapada
PADA: Yeah we are all in this together, which is why Bhakti Tirtha swami has been promoting Kirtanananda as a guru, while all the rest of us do not accept he is a guru, or that Bhakti Tirtha is a guru. We are not together with the bogus guru cult. ys pd
A Story of Service, Struggle, and the Need for Protection
For years, I served my local temple with all my heart. I sacrificed my personal time and energy to help maintain the temple: cleaning, cooking, baking, and supporting various projects. No task was too small or too big; whatever the Temple President asked, I would do—even while carrying my child in my womb.
When I moved away for a period, my service didn’t stop. I continued to donate, arranged for items needed for the children’s tents, festivals, and other events. My commitment to serving Krishna and the community never wavered.
But life took a painful turn. My husband became fanatic and abusive. The peaceful life I thought I had in Krishna consciousness shattered. He used scripture as a tool to control and spiritually manipulate our children. I was deeply hurt — not just physically and emotionally, but spiritually.
In my pain, I reached out to the Temple President, someone I considered a friend. I trusted him with my story, believing he would help protect my children and me from harm. His wife was my friend, and his children were like siblings to mine. I opened my heart fully, believing the community would stand by us.
He listened. He said he understood. He promised to protect.
But then, he allowed my husband back into the temple space, even after knowing everything. When I questioned this, I was told to “concentrate on serving the Lord.” I was spiritually manipulated and silenced. My voice was shut down.
This hurt me deeply. My health declined. I suffered from nightmares and couldn’t speak about my trauma anymore. My children were affected too. When abuse happens, especially in a spiritual community, the leaders must protect the vulnerable—the wife and children—not the abuser. Protecting the abuser undermines the entire foundation of dharma and destroys trust in the community.
As shastra teaches:
"Where women are honored, divinity blossoms there; where they are dishonored, all actions remain unfruitful."
— Manusmriti 3.56
In the Bhagavatam, the protection of women and children is emphasized as the duty of righteous leaders:
"The duty of a king is to protect the citizens, especially those who have no one else—like women, children, the elderly, and the brahmanas."
— Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.45
A true temple community stands on the foundation of protection, compassion, and dharma. Without that, everything crumbles.
BB: When the spiritual leaders are abusers, or exploiting, the followers will be too. Reporting things to the GBC or ISKCON leaders? Often ends up with the leaders reporting you to your abuser. You will be "ratted out" ... and the abuser will get all the more infuriated with you, the victim, and things will get worse. You won't expect help, they will often un-help. Because they are like minded as the abusers.
DK: Hare Krishna mataji. I am deeply moved with your story. I once served as Temple Chairman and left the position once many so-called senior devotees try to manipulate the society for their own benefits and I'm against it. GBC also did not help in my case. I will pray for your well being. Take care mataji. Hare Krishna.
AD: This is how they conduct themselves over and over.
BK: Don't worry, no one will escape Lord Kalki s wrath, every single person with demonic attitude will be dealt appropriately. Om Shree Shree Shree Satya Ananth Madhav Mahaprabhu ki Jai.
MD: Wait for Kalki? Mataji just share the suffering she underwent due to those non following the instructions and directions given by Srila Prabhupada, and you want to give her a solution that will prolong her sufferings?
KJ: Anyone in the centralised, Hindu / Focused Iskcon cult business is either a blind follower, or there for personal motive! Srila Prabhupada told us blind followers are condemned! He also told us when pseudo devotees take over his movement,to take shelter of him. Jai Srila Prabhupada who is with us 24/7
The misleaders in control want their position, title, salaryman, etc for profit, adoration, distinction. It's not the ISKCON when Srila Prabhupada was with us in the 60-70's! The infiltration of sinister elements took and still control the cult, enjoying profit, adoration, distinction.
EA: Can you share the quote were Srila Prabhupada said to take shelter of him when psuedo devotees take over his movement.
KJ: Hare Krsna prabhu CC Madhya 19.157
Text 158 NOTE: The rascal editors changed Srila Prabhupada words in the purport. you need to find this quote in the original 75 edition CC books of Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada said to take shelter of him, they changed the words to take shelter of the society. Here is the original text that was changed!
“If one thinks that there are many pseudo devotees or nondevotees in the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Society, one can keep direct company with the spiritual master, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master.” (from purport to Original 1975 Edition)
PADA: Well yeah, when a woman reported that Kirtanananda was having s*x with everything in the cottage, including an attempt with an animal, the woman sent a letter to Jayapataka to complain. Jayapataka replied to her letter by writing Kirtanananda, telling him his servant was a snitch and he should get rid of her and sue her for slander. That is how the whole thing evidently operates, they most often protect the perps and deviated -- and not the whistle blowers. JPS also removed me from the society when I complained about the children being mistreated. It is what they do, and their underlings are trained to be the same. ys pd
BD: Attempt with an Animal is what you said .. what ?????
PADA: Yep, that is what was reported. And the GBC elites backed Kirtanananda, and they still do, because they helped have him buried in samadhi. ys pd
DD: I answer you provocatively and brutally: give up everything... you don't deserve all this... look for alternatives, find a system that allows you financial security, give up this dependence on hypocritical and collusive people, find devotees, and non-devotees, who can help you in this spiritual and physical catharsis of yours ... Fight for yourself and your children... No God can want this for His devotees!
SS Dasi: Sad ... I experienced the same incompetence from the leaders.
SF: Initially, after intro, was scared to continue read in one try, afraid what was done to victims. General basic facts in it sounding so much the same old same old familiar story of bad ISKCON leaders.
Sadly, when it got to "and I thought he was my friend" it is really PTSD triggering. Why do they all suffer from same ethical deformity? Not to minimize, but while so typical; victim is lucky that it wasn't way more back - stubbing and worse. For both spouse - wife victim of DV as well as the kids.
Depending on abuser connections -- mom and kids could have ended up ostracized, openly shunned or even formally banned. Especially so if husband was the one who was either big - spender- donor or blessed with having such family or friends. Bullies of ISKCON often have number of powerful good - old-boys friends. The empathic and tolerant types of friends -- temple authorities (in certain countries), mainly tend to care primarily about - economic survival.
Hence either priority is monetary contribution -- or they are suffering from chronic disease of being susceptible to charismatic charmers. The leadership tend to have condition of letting abusers and serial evil-actors talk their way out of trouble. Bullies near the top or on top have been operating in sync with such friends for decades. We are fighting an organized system.
Many leaders got so desensitized, it became their culture. Culture that habitually lets the worst of criminal behavior - slide. Fascination with spiritual seniority seems to make them resistant to compassion. Then, there are legal issues. DV in family is often hard to prove and legally persecute for easily intimidated victims. And unless victims end up are near death - it is hard to ban abuser from place of worship.
Usually it always ends the same: victims are the ones who " self-segregate " from such "Temple spaces" that are friendly to abusers and their flying monkeys.
DS: "ethical deformity" is an accurate assessment
SSH: CULT MENTALITY
VM Dasi: The sad reality in iskcon you have to watch out for yourself AND your children. No one cares in reality. You have truth on your side and Krishna will be in your side to help you through this and you will come out stronger and Krishna will above all else help you to find peace and guide you to therapy to try to help you cope as well as your spiritual practice.
GH: I so resonate with your story. Try to find emotional resources and help outside of the devotee community. This is what I did to save my sanity.
