Dear Sattvic dasa

Sattvic Das: The worse part of all this madness is that Srila Prabhupada is getting a bad name. Yes, because people tends to associate these rascals with Him. They think Srila Prabhupada authorized these clowns to act the way they do. Are we to just sit and watch? Let the Australian yatra lead the way for a total Disobedience Movement against these fakes, cheaters, thieves, murderers and what not. It's time devotees the world over wakes up from their slumber and recognize the dept of darkness this Movement has been plunged in. Kali chelas have taken over the leadership by treachery and manipulation. How many more fools have to bite the dust before we act? How much more Prabhupada's wealth have to be plundered before we act responsibly? How many more families have to be broken apart and how many children have to be molested before we do something?

[PADA: This is the problem in a nutshell. The movement is so out of control at the moment, being unchecked since 1977 except for a few punctuation marks of very rare legal raids by the Federal Marshalls etc., and maybe few lawsuits from time to time, it has not been checked substantially -- and has thus grown into a giant mass of corruption. Meanwhile, the amount of people resisting have been so few and so dis-organized, and this has been the case for such a long time, the corruption is now pretty much cemented in. It might require much more of a public expose to start to shake the roots of this deviation. 

There are at least some dissenters finally getting together and comparing notes, and the good news is that the number of the dissenters is growing, but most of the dissenters are basically humble brahmanas aka poor beggars who are having a hard time challenging the big organization. OK, this is what happened in the Gaudiya Matha. Srila Prabhupada resisted and challenged, but he was not considered as a big threat because he did not have a big operation to back him up. 

I think a lot of what is happening is simply fear and repression of the evil empire, people are afraid to speak up because they are going to be suppressed. Srila Prabhupada said the same thing, my God brothers gave me depression, repression, oppression. Anyway, expose is the best tactic to work against them. Its working slowly but surely. As for Krishna getting a bad name, this has been the case all along. 

I remember way back in the early 1980s, some devotees showed me an article from a "Hustler" magazine, again way back in the early 1980s, ok its not such a good source of reading, but it had a big article in there, starting with the picture of a  goddess with a hundred arms pulling cash out of people's pockets, and it was all about the Krishna movement's "hustlers for cash." It was very detailed and showed clearly that the public was going sour on the movement way back then. Yet few people stood up to attack the leaders and their policies, most devotees simply compromised and did nothing. Of course in 1980 we also had the Syracuse NY lawsuit in all the news papers in the USA saying the movement was "engaged in systematic defrauding of the public."

Thus, the name of the movement has been going down the tubes all along, I think it is time we realize the leaders have never cared for the name of Prabhupada or Krishna, ever. People say we cannot speak up to avoid giving us a bad name, meanwhile not speaking up is giving us the name of compromisers with extreme deviants. ys pd]