Its those darn ritviks, go get em!

An ISKCON devotee invited all the ritviks to : meet me at Govinda’s! Nice, except if our people go there, they will be immediately banned, harassed, vilified, served with legal papers, and some of our people have been threatened with being arrested for trespassing etc. Some are threatened with beatings and some of them have in fact been beaten up. In sum, we are generally not allowed at the GBC’s establishments. And as soon as they find out we are getting nice prasadam distribution going, nice deity worship going, nice harinamas going and so on, they immediately spend $15,000,000 suing us so they can remove all these programs and kick out all the kirtaniyas, just like the did here in the USA. Their whole program for us is, as soon as they find nice harinama is going on, immediately, they call the police, call their lawyers, call in the enforcers to ban and remove the kirtana devotees. For example, one of our devotees is one of the biggest book distributors in the USA, he was recently kicked out of the Philadelphia temple. In other words, devotees who are preaching nicely are simply not allowed. We are as a group — not allowed to even enter their buildings, much less engage in kirtana there. We are CONSTANTLY being banned and forbidden, which is why we had to make our own independent temple here in Sunnyvale. And that is why their temple is empty and ours is full, we are not banning, harassing and suing — anyone, we are trying to attract people, and we are. So let them keep kicking people out, fine with us, we want these people, and we scoop them up all the time! I am getting nice new people involved all the time, they are not welcome there, fine, we will take them, became they are welcome here! ys pd