Bhavananda and Hari Sauri
Hari Sauri das (Denis Harrison) in August 1975 moved to the newly opened ISKCON Krishna Balarama temple in Vrndavan U.P. India, where he served as temple commander. In November of the same year, he joined A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's personal entourage, remaining as His Divine Grace's servant for 16 months.
[PADA: This means -- Hari Sauri knew much more than the average ISKCON citizen about the ongoing 1970s deviations of the leaders of ISKCON. And therefore Hari Sauri knew ALL about all the "troubles" these leaders were causing ALL ALONG for ISKCON -- and some of the major headaches some of these leaders had made for Srila Prabhupada -- throughout the entire 1970s. A few examples:
* Stealing Srila Prabhupad's Gita manuscript.
* Four sannyasis locking Srila Prabhupada in a room in 1970.
* Shaymsundar's bogus ruby business bankrupts UK.
* The 1972 umbrella corporation take over attempt.
* Bali Mardan fiasco.
* Sending Tamal to China.
* Etc.!
And therefore Hari Sauri shold have known extensively how these "leaders" were quite often -- not -- following the instructions, if not leaving ISKCON with no warning -- to go back to their mundane life, usually their former life of illicit sex, drugs and etc. (For example: One prominent ISKCON leader ran off to become a big leader in the Rajneesh organization).
In short, Hari Sauri knew that these leaders were -- for the most part -- conditioned souls and thus not fit to be acharyas. And he at least should have known these facts perhaps much better than almost anyone else in ISKCON, since he was always associated with these "leaders." Hari Sauri also knew -- and extensively -- that Srila Prabhupada heavily condemned imitation of pure devotees and acharyas as "sahajiya-vada," which he said causes people to "glide down to hell."
Srila Prabhupada says that the people who make a business of showing the deity are "the most sinful" and they will end up as debtors. Worse, false acharyas (and their supporters / henchmen) will go to the most obnoxious regions of the universe, at least so says shastra. Yet in 1978 Hari Sauri became one of the biggest hatchet men / defenders of the false GBC's gurus. Hari Sauri's team even claimed that these ISKCON leaders -- with well documented mundane conditioned tendencies and behaviors -- are (by some sort of magic trick?) -- acharyas.
* How did Hari Sauri become duped into thinking these conditioned beings are acharyas?
* Did the guru clique offer him "a cut of the pie" after they hi-jacked the mission? Or what?
* How do the same people regularly displaying conditioned behaviors left, right and center, rate the title of "acharya" according to people like Hari Sauri?
One reason we think the 11 gurus annointed themselves with the acharya title (with the help of the Hari Sauri sector) is, then these "acharyas" became instant millionaires by declaring themselves to be the proprietors of ISKCON's properties and assets. Srila Prabhupada said that the whole 1936 Gaudiya Matha guru imbroglio was all about "usurping the assets," and we think the ISKCON guru imbroglio was made for the same reasons, they wanted total and unquestioned control of the money, resources, manpower, physical properties, and assets of the movement.
And then the 11 gurus "paid off" motivated lackeys by giving them a "post of authority," ok people like Hari Sauri. Just like Machiavelli said, give motivated people a post of authority, put them on the payroll, just to keep them on your side. As Trivrikrama swami said "this is our career." Right, a "career" of supporting deviants as acharyas -- in return for mundane fringe benefits.
Rocana has done a good job showing the myriad "spin off corporations and charities" these folks have made for themselves, while ISKCON was being burnt to the ground these "leaders" were taking off with big chunks and pieces of the remnants of ISKCON for their personal agendas. We would argue, when Stalin was handing out "posts of authority" to his friends and associates -- for his ruthless purge regime -- people like Hari Sauri signed up to get a position.
An acharya is supposed to be a person who is ALREADY freed from mundane defects such as: egotism, lust, anger, greed, illusion and so on. And yet Hari Sauri's program finds defective people to annoint as ISKCON's acharyas.
* Why is the Hari Sauri program juxtaposing mundane conditioning with God's successors and acharyas -- since 1977 -- and they still do that up to today?
Hari Sauri himself even admits he knew that Srila Prabhupada had suspended sannyasa in 1977, so he knew the sannyasa order was meant to be "closed off" for the time being and that would simultaneously mean -- they are not acharyas. Yet one year later, in early 1978, Hari Sauri himself began helping the bogus gurus in promoting their plan of making another 100 ISKCON sannyasas, which violated the DIRECT order from his guru -- to suspend the sannyasa program. And worse Hari Sauri started not only a bogus sannyasa rubber stamping factory, he ALSO created a bogus acharya's rubber stamping factory, creating major mayhem all over ISKCON.
Eventually, even Jayadvaita swami admits that Hari Sauri's acharyas were often caught "engaged in illicit sex with men, women and possibly children." What kind of acharyas are coming out of Hari Sauri's acharya factory? And if General Motors made cars that mostly crashed and burned all the time, how could they stay in business?
Yet Hari Sauri's program cranks out acharyas that mostly crash and burn, then they wonder why ISKCON is like an airplane crash disaster site, a burnt out shell of its former self? Hari Sauri claims to have been often in the association of Srila Prabhupada, this means -- he would have many times heard Srila Prabhupada saying, "Do not manufacture false acharyas like the Gaudiya Matha has done, this will destroy our mission." He knew about these warnings perhaps more than many others, but he was first in line to ignore these orders.
Srila Prabhupada says the false guru's program of 1936 "caused a fire in the math which destroyed the mission." And yet the first thing the Hari Sauri party did in 1978 was, they poured "false guru" gasoline all over ISKCON -- and then they lighted up a match by declaring these gurus are authorized -- with the assistance of their newly minted "Gaudiya Matha advisors." Then they wonder where all the banning, beating, molesting and killing comes from? Duh! Its coming from the Hari Sauri party's policy of promoting false acharyas. They started this fire in the ISKCON math, with the same odious results as the post 1936 Gaudiya Matha in India.
And eventually Hari Sauri became one of these bogus sannyasas himself, perhaps one of the worst examples of a "pompous ass" bogus sannyasas in ISKCON after 1977 "Srila Prabhupada Kripa Maharaja." He propped them up -- so they would prop him up. Gangsters of a feather.
And he has done this knowingly, i.e. enforcing people with known tendencies for deviation into ISKCON's Vyasasana acharya's seat etc etc. In short, Hari Sauri's program crammed the worship of bogus people down the throats of the citizens of ISKCON, and those who opposed like us, were banned, beaten, and sometimes killed, and thus all sorts of crimes were enabled, allowed, and enforced to continue by their violent purge of us "dissenters."
And Hari Sauri knew perhaps more than anyone else about the deviating tendencies of some of his "pals and buddies," but he still annointed them as the messiahs of ISKCON. Meanwhile, Srila Prabhupada says his heart has been broken because "the people I depended on so much -- did not -- rectify the situation."
* Why did Hari Sauri defend the criminals and deviants as messiahs program?
* Why didn't Hari Sauri help us rectify the situation?
Hari Sauri has not been "rectifying" anything, rather he has been pushing and cramming all these deviations down our throats by enforcing the worship of the clique of deviants as God's successor messiahs, and he still is promoting that agenda even TODAY. Again to be clear, the widely well known results of this policy of cramming false acharyas down our throats is: Krishna's devotees were systematically banned, beaten, molested and some were assassinated.
As one of the prominent leading henchmen / enforcers / apologists / vociferous advocates / writers for this bogus guru program, Hari Sauri bears considerable responsibility for this regime and its odious effects. OK he is a leading general who will be charged by Lord Yamaraja as a war criminal.]
*** In March of 1977, Srila Prabhupada appointed him ISKCON's Governing Body Commissioner for Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, a service he performed for over 7 years. During that period, he oversaw the growth of the ISKCON society in the South Seas from 4 temple and ashrams, to 17, including 4 farming communities, 2 schools and several restaurants. He was also instrumental in establishing branches of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in Australia and Indonesia.
[PADA: In March of 1978 the GBC declared that people like Bhavananada are acharyas, and this was supported by Hari Sauri, and for that matter Bhavananda still is supported by Hari Sauri in the Mayapura program. After Hari Sauri made Bhavananada into the messiah of the schools in India, the messiah of Australia etc. -- then -- these places became known as havens for homosexuals and even in some cases -- pedophiles.
* Since we all knew this was a growing problem, how come Hari Sauri didn't? And why has Hari Sauri suppressed us for trying to rectify these issues?
Meanwhile, Hari Sauri knew people like me and Sulochana were protesting his guru program, and its ill effects, but he simply criticized us and defended the regime. And the result of his protecting and supporting the Bhavananda / Kirtanananda regime was -- there was a horrible media publicity problem, a mass exodus problem, a criminal influence problem, a molesting problem, an assassinating dissenters problem, and actually -- ad infinitum problems.
And all these problems were apparently "required collateral damage," just as happened with Stalin's 1930s purges in Russia, i.e. almost everyone else has to suffer so that Hari Sauri and his pals can walk off with a few bits of stolen Judas gold. Millions of dollars were lost forever; Millions of people had to be turned away from Krishna basically forever; Thousands of devotees had to be banned, and some were beaten and killed; Many children were forced to suffer terribly, all so that this clique of fools could get a few "pounds, shillings and pence" into their greedy little pockets.
There is a picture in the Bhagavatam of a person literally being sewn up by the Yamaduttas for the crime of -- making others suffer by being too greedy for material gains. What if the people who suffered from one's greed are Krishna's dear sevakas? Well, as Sulochana used to say, he would not trade his past ten billion years of bad karma for -- one minute -- of these people's future karma.
Sulochana dasa felt that people like Hari Sauri were "demonizing" us -- in order to get us killed (by Hari Sauri writing for example a contrived story about us in his "diary" -- without ever consulting me and Sulochana for our version of the story.) And Sulochana was right, he was eventually killed -- by the Hari Sauri regime -- for his protesting the worship of deviants as acharyas. Me and Sulochana ilk were in sum "the enemies" of the Hari Sauri regime for one simple reason, we did not accept that deviants and conditioned souls are God's successors, gurus and parampara members.
Of course Sulochana's son mysteriously drowned at New Vrndavana right after he was killed, and the subsequent POLICE and FBI investigation of New Vrndavana uncovered that everything Sulochana complained about was actually going on, and perhaps even worse than what he had reported was going on etc.
Yet we never see any of these big leaders publicly apologizing to Sulochana, resigning etc, its just "business as usual" as if nothing bad has ever occurred. Special thanks then to God, and His police and FBI, which saved me from the bogus guru project's plan to have me "taken out," this disaster was averted only by help from the "karmi police." The police told me -- I was "next on the hit list."
* Why doesn't Hari Sauri know that deviants, criminals and molesters are not messiahs from heaven, which any hamburger eating mundane person already knows?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Everyone must make mistake because a conditioned soul is liable to four defects. One of them is to commit mistake. One of them is to become illusioned. One of them, he is a cheater. And one of them, his senses are imperfect. So every conditioned soul who has got this material body, he is defective in these four things. Therefore he has to take knowledge from a person who has no defects. Then his knowledge will be perfect. (Prabhupada Evening Darsana January 7, 1977, Bombay)
[PADA: Basically, we were hunted like dogs by the Hari Sauri regime simply because we agreed with Srila Prabhupada that the acharya must be pure.]
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Srila Prabhupada disciples purged from ISKCON modeled after Stalin's purge
History of Stalin:
The atrocities continue. Sadly there was no stopping Stalin once these early purges had taken place and it was now the turn of ordinary Soviet citizens to suffer. It’s always been impossible to explain exactly why some citizens were singled out and it’s often claimed that some were chosen simply because they looked to have a ‘will of their own’.
As a general rule, everyone had to accept ‘Russification’ and the ideals of the Communist party. Christianity and the Muslim religions were also banned at the time. At the end of Stalin’s purges some 20 million ordinary Russians were sentenced to the Gulag’s where many died in the extreme conditions. For this reason alone, Stalin’s reign will forever be remembered for this unspeakable cruelty and his rule will be defined by one chilling quote.
‘A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic’.
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*** In 1986, Hari Sauri began the work of transforming the diary he kept while traveling with Srila Prabhupada into a book, or rather a series of books. In 1990, he moved to America and worked as publisher for Back To Godhead magazine, the Krishna consciousness movement's spiritual periodical, for a year.
[PADA: Correct, the "Back To Godhead" (BTG) magazine became the propaganda arm of the bogus gurus after 1977. And by 1986, the exact time Hari Sauri emerged on the BTG scene, the BTG was saying that Kirtanananda is "like Jesus." Its interesting to note that just at the time the GBC / BTG was saying Kirtanananda is like Jesus, they had ALSO just re-instated Bhavananda as their Mayapura messiah, despite knowing of his homosexual antics, Worse, in May of 1986, the GBC orchestrated the murder of Sulochana to keep these deviants in the acharya's seat.
* Wouldn't Hari Sauri have known about all this because he was in the inner circle?
In sum, Hari Sauri was brought in to "manage" the propaganda machine in 1986. The 1986 "Guru Reform" not only reinstated homosexuals as acharyas, it opened the door for the GBC to rubber stamp another 100 acharyas, many of whom later on fell down, and worse -- some of them later became anti-Krishna. Of course there was a simultaneous plague of "gurus" who ran off with money and women, and so on and so forth, in the name of acharyas. Hari Sauri's program simply increased the corruption of the acharya's platform.
Hari Sauri was always seemingly connected to keeping Bhavananada in a post of big authority, the whole time. Some folks have said "they are joined at the hip." One devotee commented that even if someone had paid a million dollars to a professional "corporate image" company to give ISKCON a bad name, they could never have given it a name as bad as Hari Sauri and the GBC company has done.
*** He lives at ISKCON World Head Quarters, in Mayapur W.B. India, near Kolkata, with his wife and daughter where he continues to publish his memories of being with Srila Prabhupada. He is currently the director of the Bhaktivedanta Reseach Center in Kolkata an academic resource of Gaudiya Vaisnavism and an archive library of ancient vaisnava text. These ancient texts are being both digitized and preserved in the original state.
- See more at: http://iskconleaders.com/hari-sauri-prabhu/#sthash.LR4XOb3E.dpuf
[PADA: Of course, anyone who creates a regime which bans, beats, molests and assassinates
other people is very sinful right out of the gate, never mind all the other considerations. Arjuna says since the people who destroy the family tradition of the society dwell always in hell. And Hari Sauri's program devastated ISKCON's root tradition of worship of the pure devotee in favor of their idea -- worship of illicit sex, drugs, and criminals, and this destroyed the family of ISKCON. They destroyed the tradition established by the acharya, and destroyed his family thereby.
Another major problem was that Hari Sauri and his twin brother Bhavananda were living like JET SET rich kids, flying around the globe dressed in silk clothes and living like opulent Saudi princes, at the expense of the ISKCON society. They were getting big fancy feasts, were being served by many servants, had nice luxury vehicles (Bhavananda was seen driving a Cadillac), were living in nice facilities and so on and so forth.
MEANWHILE, the children in their schools reported being abused, starved, deprived of basic requirements like food, clothes, shelter and medical treatment, and so on and so forth. That is because the money meant to care for the children was being SIPHONED off and was instead being used to make jet set lifestyles for these elite sannyasas / gurus.
This is exactly what happens under dictators like Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, and others, there are lots of citizens who are starving, maybe even eating old shoes and so forth, while the big leaders live like demigods on a heavenly planet. Simply stated, the citizens of ISKCON, including the children of ISKCON, all had to be crushed down to dust so that Hari Sauri and Bhavananda and ilk could fly around in Boeing 707s in silk clothes, where they could go out to the jewelry market and look for $5,000 jewel encrusted writing pens.
Bhavananda was famous for wearing extremely expensive jewelry while the children were eating rotten oatmeal, and Hari Sauri was famous for defending this regime and also living like an opulent jet set dictator himself. Why is this team still in charge at Mayapura?
SULOCHANA DAS: These guys are standing on the skulls of their God brothers ...
Kirtanananda's Vrndavana "samadhi" -- courtesy of the Hari Sauri program?
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Mathura Pati Das (Mathias) moderator of Prabhupadanugas EU
Ajit Krsna Dasa is a very sentimental Devotee because he even don't like to call a rascal as rascal. Hari Sauri knows very well that Prabhupada's Iskcon is infiltrated by Kali and that Prabhupada's books, his vani (more important than vaphu), are being changed unauthorized by black snakes and judas Putanas like Dryadvaita Jaya Israel Iskcon destroyer! But Hari Sauri is not protecting his guru Maharaja Prabhupada and his Iskcon. No he supports the demons, rascals, infiltrators and Prabhupada vani killers and book changers.
He even is supporting all the book changes of Jaya Israel Putana! And now Ajit Krsna Dasa don't want to hear that someone call such rascals and Guru Vani Killer as Hari Sauri as Rascals. This is sentimental platform. He even don't want to accept Prabhupadas ritvik order so for him such rascals are real Iskcon gurus.
[PADA: Great, all this is basically what we said in 1980, we are glad more people are finally catching on to the PADA message which we stated all along. We are glad that Mathura Pati das backs our idea that no one should cite people like Hari Sauri and his "diary" as their authority.]
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(quoting a pilfered e-mail message):
HARI SAURI: "As far as clarifying what I said, I tell you frankly I have no clue what to say instead as WHAT I said, I believe in. Namely that the Zonal Acarya system and the still perpetrated remnants of it has brought ISKCON to the brink of ruin - and one has to be blind to deny that. In fact I actually think we are better off to be honest about it."
[PADA: Except, the GBC gurus still have zones? Hari Sauri knows his guru system has brought ISKCON to the brink of ruin, or ruin really, so why does he still support that system? Who authorized Hari Sauri to ruin ISKCON? And since the GBC gurus still have zones, when is Hari Sauri going to make a public statement that their whole program is bogus?]
Since it is undisputed that Harikesha has acquired at least half a million dollars of Srila Prabhupada's laxmi, and since the GBC admit that this is a violation of ISKCON law (and almost certainly criminal law also) What Is The GBC's Executive Committee Doing To Retrieve It ?
[PADA: Yep, millions and millions of dollars are missing and un-accounted for, and meanwhile there is no harinama and book distribution in many cities, of course San Francisco temple was just shut down, all because the Hari Sauri program killed the yagna of Kali yuga so they could instead make presents of Judas gold to one another. Did we forget to mention it all has to be paid back with interest accrued by the second? Did we forget that killing God's yagna for the age is going to really upset God, Who is a Person with feelings? And messing with His feelings does not produce good results? Ever!]
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Do Not Trust Hari-Sauri das
BY: MATSYA DAS
When we read Rupanuga Prabhu's article, "A Scientific Method For Evaluating Editorial Changes to Srila Prabhupada's Books", it is very clear. Srila Prabhupada makes it very clear: "Our editing is to correct grammatical and spelling errors only, without interpolation of style or philosophy"
Now Hari Sauri das is speculating that the re-edited versions are better even if it means being disloyal to Srila Prabhupada. Actually, he deep down knows he is being disloyal. And his trying to justify it is 'OK, how can we trust Hari-Sauri Prabhu?' That is my question?
The former sannyasi (Prabhupada Krpa Goswami) who used to boast that he had exalted consciousness because of his association with Srila Prabhupada, simply became a vantasi like so many other former ISKCON sannyasis. He has always defended Bhavananda and still is his biggest supporter and defender, despite all Bhavananda's crimes.
I do not trust Hari Sauri. I accept Bhagavat Prabhu's recollection. Hari-Sauri's is most likely changed to suit his homosexual pedophile friend, Bhavananda. Well, Srila Prabhupada called Australia the land of the mellechas. There might be mellechas everywhere in Kali yuga, but his watering down things is upsetting. His disloyalty to Srila Prabhupada is obvious to me.
He believes it is ok to fall from sannyasa then get married, and later take sannyasa again (hoping he once again will be flattered left and right by taking sannyasa?) The danger with Hari-Sauri das is too many GBC men take him to seriously, as if he was the siksa guru for all of ISKCON.
He is the one that started a rumor that it is ok to accept grains on Janamstami, Gaura Purnima, Rama Navami, and such days, though Srila Prabhupada never allowed this, and has written differently in his letters. To me, it seems Hari-Sauri teaches many things opposite of Srila Prabhupada's instructions. He disagrees with many devotees about their recollections of things in Srila Prabhupada's presence, as he wants to be the greatest authority in ISKCON.
Do not trust Hari-Sauri - he appears loyal to Srila Prabhupada, but it is fake -- familiarity breeds contempt. This is what has happened to Hari-Sauri. He thinks he is on the same or higher level than Srila Prabhupada. Otherwise why would he admit his disloyalty to Srila Prabhupada and be proud of it, too. Shame on Hari-Sauri das and those who take him seriously.
The fact remains, the changes done to Srila Prabhupada's books is a clear violation of Srila Prabhupada's instructions. Rupanuga and Bhagavata Prabhus are solid Prabhupada disciples you can trust, but watch out for Hari-Sauri das......he will throw sand in your eyes like Trinavarta so we can not see Krsna (the absolute truth). The fact is, Srila Prabhupada wrote:
"Our editing is to correct grammatical and spelling errors only, without interpolation of style or philosophy"
On top of that, meanings have been lost and changes have been done to the philosophy out of ignorance. Just like when Srila Prabhupada talks about Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Surya Siddhanta in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Srila Prabhupada wrote, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati translated and gave commentaries, Dravida and the BBT speculated Srila Prabhupada was mistaken, and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada did not write a commentary to Surya Siddhanta, so they changed the whole purport to their speculated version. It is offensive and mistaken.
Hari Sauri promotes book changes:
http://youtu.be/cn-eMMq0124
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[PADA: Then again there is the poison issue which folks like Hari Sauri and Bhavananda have left us with more questions than answers:]
http://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2014/04/nanda-kumars-testimony-on-last-days.html
He even is supporting all the book changes of Jaya Israel Putana! And now Ajit Krsna Dasa don't want to hear that someone call such rascals and Guru Vani Killer as Hari Sauri as Rascals. This is sentimental platform. He even don't want to accept Prabhupadas ritvik order so for him such rascals are real Iskcon gurus.
[PADA: Great, all this is basically what we said in 1980, we are glad more people are finally catching on to the PADA message which we stated all along. We are glad that Mathura Pati das backs our idea that no one should cite people like Hari Sauri and his "diary" as their authority.]
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(quoting a pilfered e-mail message):
HARI SAURI: "As far as clarifying what I said, I tell you frankly I have no clue what to say instead as WHAT I said, I believe in. Namely that the Zonal Acarya system and the still perpetrated remnants of it has brought ISKCON to the brink of ruin - and one has to be blind to deny that. In fact I actually think we are better off to be honest about it."
[PADA: Except, the GBC gurus still have zones? Hari Sauri knows his guru system has brought ISKCON to the brink of ruin, or ruin really, so why does he still support that system? Who authorized Hari Sauri to ruin ISKCON? And since the GBC gurus still have zones, when is Hari Sauri going to make a public statement that their whole program is bogus?]
Since it is undisputed that Harikesha has acquired at least half a million dollars of Srila Prabhupada's laxmi, and since the GBC admit that this is a violation of ISKCON law (and almost certainly criminal law also) What Is The GBC's Executive Committee Doing To Retrieve It ?
[PADA: Yep, millions and millions of dollars are missing and un-accounted for, and meanwhile there is no harinama and book distribution in many cities, of course San Francisco temple was just shut down, all because the Hari Sauri program killed the yagna of Kali yuga so they could instead make presents of Judas gold to one another. Did we forget to mention it all has to be paid back with interest accrued by the second? Did we forget that killing God's yagna for the age is going to really upset God, Who is a Person with feelings? And messing with His feelings does not produce good results? Ever!]
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Do Not Trust Hari-Sauri das
BY: MATSYA DAS
When we read Rupanuga Prabhu's article, "A Scientific Method For Evaluating Editorial Changes to Srila Prabhupada's Books", it is very clear. Srila Prabhupada makes it very clear: "Our editing is to correct grammatical and spelling errors only, without interpolation of style or philosophy"
Now Hari Sauri das is speculating that the re-edited versions are better even if it means being disloyal to Srila Prabhupada. Actually, he deep down knows he is being disloyal. And his trying to justify it is 'OK, how can we trust Hari-Sauri Prabhu?' That is my question?
The former sannyasi (Prabhupada Krpa Goswami) who used to boast that he had exalted consciousness because of his association with Srila Prabhupada, simply became a vantasi like so many other former ISKCON sannyasis. He has always defended Bhavananda and still is his biggest supporter and defender, despite all Bhavananda's crimes.
I do not trust Hari Sauri. I accept Bhagavat Prabhu's recollection. Hari-Sauri's is most likely changed to suit his homosexual pedophile friend, Bhavananda. Well, Srila Prabhupada called Australia the land of the mellechas. There might be mellechas everywhere in Kali yuga, but his watering down things is upsetting. His disloyalty to Srila Prabhupada is obvious to me.
He believes it is ok to fall from sannyasa then get married, and later take sannyasa again (hoping he once again will be flattered left and right by taking sannyasa?) The danger with Hari-Sauri das is too many GBC men take him to seriously, as if he was the siksa guru for all of ISKCON.
He is the one that started a rumor that it is ok to accept grains on Janamstami, Gaura Purnima, Rama Navami, and such days, though Srila Prabhupada never allowed this, and has written differently in his letters. To me, it seems Hari-Sauri teaches many things opposite of Srila Prabhupada's instructions. He disagrees with many devotees about their recollections of things in Srila Prabhupada's presence, as he wants to be the greatest authority in ISKCON.
Do not trust Hari-Sauri - he appears loyal to Srila Prabhupada, but it is fake -- familiarity breeds contempt. This is what has happened to Hari-Sauri. He thinks he is on the same or higher level than Srila Prabhupada. Otherwise why would he admit his disloyalty to Srila Prabhupada and be proud of it, too. Shame on Hari-Sauri das and those who take him seriously.
The fact remains, the changes done to Srila Prabhupada's books is a clear violation of Srila Prabhupada's instructions. Rupanuga and Bhagavata Prabhus are solid Prabhupada disciples you can trust, but watch out for Hari-Sauri das......he will throw sand in your eyes like Trinavarta so we can not see Krsna (the absolute truth). The fact is, Srila Prabhupada wrote:
"Our editing is to correct grammatical and spelling errors only, without interpolation of style or philosophy"
On top of that, meanings have been lost and changes have been done to the philosophy out of ignorance. Just like when Srila Prabhupada talks about Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Surya Siddhanta in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Srila Prabhupada wrote, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati translated and gave commentaries, Dravida and the BBT speculated Srila Prabhupada was mistaken, and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada did not write a commentary to Surya Siddhanta, so they changed the whole purport to their speculated version. It is offensive and mistaken.
Hari Sauri promotes book changes:
http://youtu.be/cn-eMMq0124
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[PADA: Then again there is the poison issue which folks like Hari Sauri and Bhavananda have left us with more questions than answers:]
http://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2014/04/nanda-kumars-testimony-on-last-days.html
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