From the Executive Committee of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC)
August 3, 2013
Dear Devotees of ISKCON,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We regret to inform you that the GBC Executive Committee has received a letter from Mahanidhi Swami, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada since 1975, announcing that he has “decided to resign from the glorious preaching mission of ISKCON”.
Prior to receiving that letter, reports were brought to our attention alleging inappropriate behavior on the part of Mahanidhi Swami on both a personal and philosophical level. The GBC began an investigation of those and found some of the allegations to be true, including inappropriate interactions with a female disciple. Although the extent of those problems is not clear, we found there was definitely behavior not befitting someone in the renounced order of life.
It was during this investigation that Mahanidhi Swami chose to resign.
In a prayerful mood, we would like to comment briefly on this situation. As Vaishnavas, we understand that the obstacles of this material world are very difficult to overcome. Srila Prabhupada warned us that many stalwarts may fall from the path of Krishna consciousness if we are not cautious in the execution of our devotional service.
As stated in an official GBC paper in March of this year:
Those who accept the service of diksha or siksha guru within ISKCON are mandated to be strict followers of the instructions of Srila Prabhupada, and, as long as they follow, they are acting on the liberated platform. Thus they may serve, as Srila Prabhupada ordered, as bonafide representatives of the Lord and the Guru Parampara and be a via medium of Their mercy. Yet it should be clearly understood that if such diksha or siksha gurus deviate from strictly following, they may fall down from their position.
Therefore, we should all be careful to strictly follow the standards of Krishna consciousness as given to us by our Founder-Acarya and the previous acaryas. At the same time, Srila Prabhupada taught us to be concerned about the well being of our fellow Vaishnavas and to encourage each other to continue in devotional service to the best of our ability.
In that spirit, the GBC is continuing to reach out to Mahanidhi Swami. GBC members have also met with followers and disciples of Mahanidhi Swami to offer them our support.
We ask that the devotees of ISKCON pray for Mahanidhi Swami and the devotees affected by his difficulties. And as always, we offer our own humble prayers for all the Vaishnavas and the devotees of ISKCON and request Lord Krishna to kindly protect us and guide us all towards His eternal service.
Hare Krsna.
Your servants,
Tamohara Das, Chair
Anuttama Das
What does this say exactly: Dear mahabhagavats who chose Mahanidhi as their guru,
ReplyDeletewe did not like Mahanidhi at all and he did also not like us very much. Actually we are glad this finally happened because Mahanidhi never send us any money. We appointed him as full fledged diksa-guru because he was/is friends with SDG. In any case, all those who want to still take prasadam at KB Mandir get re-initiated immediately. No talking on the internet. All those who hesitate to get re-initiated we can't support you any longer. Please use rear exit.
C.mon people. It could have been worse. I actually used to think Mahanidhi Swami was gay, so at least he is a normal, sick, animal who had sex with his own daughter...not son. We should always try to see the good.
ReplyDeleteAnd mark my words, because we are supposed to also be forgiving, he will be reinstated after a few years, giving classes is ISKCON temples like the other senior vantasis (One who eats his own vomit). You have to be very respectful to senior vantasis in ISKCON. Shameless dogs!
So don't worry peeps, he'll probably come back and when he leaves his body, he'll get his own Samadhi and will be glorified like the other conditioned souls who are put into the ground as Guru's.
On his samadhi it should be written. "Here lies the famous guru, one of many in ISKCON who had sex with his own daughter...not son...so he's better than many of them."
Let the farce continue.
Let the blind remain blind.
What I CAN'T STAND! is how whenever a so called "guru" falls down they quote the Great Stalwart Devotee thing. Did Srila Prabhupada really say there will be great stalwart devotees who will fall down in the future, or are they just making this up?
ReplyDeleteWHAT ABOUT ALL THE REST OF THE DEVOTEES WHO TOOK INITIATION FROM THIS GUY? Sure they mention them in one line, but the whole thing is always about the guru. Oh, the guru is so important! How will the disciples go on without the guru! Well with "gurus" like this, who needs them! Better to have no guru at all!
And they say you have an eternal relationship with your guru. Cheating. In Kali-yuga, only cheating, prabhus!
DeleteAnd, do you know who will be next Acarya the One after Srila Prabhupada? When all of the gurus fall down or die one after another, the last, remaining One, he will be the 33rd Acarya. And he will put his glorious name in the guru-parampara list.
These quasi gurus, their only business is to take out our freedom, to squeeze all blood from us, up to the last drop, and enjoy it themselves. Mosquitos are neophytes in comparison to them.
What is their importance? They like to be worshiped not only by their disciples, but above that they feel even more pleasure when they are worshiped by all those other then their disciples. Their worship, they reason, is more important then worship of the Lord.
And when the gurus go insane, what next? Let them go. They are all free, liberated souls. They can do whatever they like, and maya will not touch them. Krishna will surely protect them and all those disciples who are still following in their footsteps.
And finally, who is crazy? We are crazy who believe in this cheating guru business. If we want to be cheated, all right. Krishna knows, and He will send us a guru cheater. Cheaters and the cheated. Welcome to Kali-yuga!
Any hope? Yes, there is. Well with "gurus" like this, who needs them! Better to have no guru at all!
Sri-bhagavan uvaca
ReplyDeleteKama esa krodha esa
Rajo-guna-samudhbhavah
Mahasano maha-papma
Viddy enam iha vairinam
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world". B. Gita 3.37
"When a living entity comes in contact with the material creation, his eternal love for Krsna is transformed into lust, in association with the mode of passion. Or, in other words, the sense of love of God becomes transformed into lust, as milk in contact with sour tamarind is transformed into yogurt. Then again, when lust is unsatisfied it turns into wrath; wrath is transformed into illusion, and illusion continues the material existence. Therefore, lust is the greatest enemy of the living entity, and it is lust only which induces the pure living entity to remain entangled in the material world". (Excerpts from Srila Prabhupada's purport to the verse above (3.37) My humble obeisances to all. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Jai, Sri Sri Nitay-Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
How many kicks in the face is it going to take for these self-motivated GBC/“guru” boneheads to finally realize that their pathetic attempt to be #33 of the disciplic succession (See: <http://causelessmercy.com/?P=BgIntroduction&TP=9863>) is simply a joke. Srila Prabhupada has a better idea:
ReplyDeleteRitvik henceforward!
They will get kicks in their faces again and again, but they will still not realize anything, just like the household flies are being kicked against the wall again and again, and still they continue flying like crazy until the housekeeper kicks them with his shoe.
Deletegeeta bidani is responsible for this just because she is rich she is a director of chenab plastics she thinks she can get away with this .....but she has made grt guru aprad and also cheated on her husband shame on her at 45 yrs she wants all this
ReplyDeleteWhy got shock or what ???
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