Farewell to Paramadvaiti Maharaja.

Farewell to Paramadvaiti Maharaja.

Bogotá November 22, 2019

All glories to Sri Guru, Gouranga, Radha Govinda.

In First instance try to see gold for my words to be understood from love, and not from hate, nor resentment, for only love can give joy and hope to our lives. Today, I seek refugee in sri hari nam (the singing of the names of God), with full use from my mental faculties, and after consulting with several of my siksha gurus (teachers -- Instructors) I have decided to announce my official retirement from the community retreat and other projects.

So far leading (school yoga school and Vrindavanita Eco Yoga Village). 

Next up,

I express my reasons:

1. What was our Acharya (Spiritual Master) Paramadvaiti Maharaj doing during several years missing his post as sannyasi (Celibate Monk), by touching in the intimate parts to some of his disciples. This was not an isolated fact and I consider it was an abuse of power and an immoral act.

2. After more than a year of waiting, prayer and suffering, I can conclude to the date of today that:

A. Paramadvaiti Maharaj continues to minimize the situation.

B. There is no clear institutional policy of reparation to the victims.

C. Some community leaders continue to cover up the situation. In the case of the community in Bogota, prabhu Askalita improperly and without consulting with the other leaders who were part of the council council, decided to hide a video from two years ago that filmed Paramadvaiti maharaj, in which he apologized for touching the mothers, and he and others also have covered up the situation throughout this time.

D. In the community of Bogotá there is no legal, administrative and financial transparency by part of the official entities and their representatives (International Society for awareness; From Krishna, Church and society of support of Vedic culture. 

For years I ordered to prabhu Askalita and mother Mahanandi to update the statutes, which update the directives, to legalize what is to legalize, to be done for Annually Accountability to the community, but unfortunately my efforts have been fruitless.

I want to let the community know, that even though this is my first pronouncement public about it, since 2018 (the moment we met the first complaints by mother Radha kunda in Peru), I met the council of Bogotá and asked them to face this problem in front of the community and public opinion.

That would have been avoiding an aggravation of the situation, which is what unfortunately we are living in right now. On the other hand, I want you to know that I always told the truth to the mothers who personally asked me about the accusations against Paramadvaiti Maharaj. 

Also, I tried to help some victims according to my capacity. I also want to inform that due to the gravity of the situation and with the only interest to save our faith and continue with this beautiful process of consciousness of Krishna, me and my wife we have taken initiation harinam and diksha of his divine grace Srila Gopananda Bon Maharaj (President of the world vaishnava association and siksha guru of Paramadvaiti Maharaj) in India. 

From now on we will worship on our altar like Bhakti Hridaya Bon Maharaj, BHAKTI RAKSHAKA MAHARAJ, BHAKTI PRAMODE PURI MAHARAJ and other acharyas predecessors). The doors of our ashram called prema mandal, are and will always be open for all people who wish to improve their quality of life through the practice of Yoga; and for all the devotees and mothers aspiring to the prema bhakti (divine love), not to manifest encouragement of fanaticism or sectarianism.

For the last 20 years of my life, I was in active service in the vrinda family. I still thank Paramadvaiti maharaj because he gave some light when I was submerged in the Material Mud and no longer had any hope, for all the beautiful festivals that we shared, for all the kirtans (Congregational songs of God's names) which I participated, and for giving me so many beautiful brothers and spiritual sisters.

Everything this time I bring in my spiritual growth. Especially thanks to Paramadvaiti Maharaj for taking me to the lotus feet of Srila Gopananda bon Maharaj. Regarding those who remain in Vrinda I just beg you a favor: do not mistreat people that we have decided not to belong more to the community, to which we must accept the mistakes of Paramadvaiti Maharaj and especially to mothers directly affected by the situation.

Finally I pray that all the devotees and mothers who have at this moment their faith affected by the whole situation, that do not abort the process of krishna consciousness, a human failure is temporary, but serving Krishna (God) is the eternal duty of our soul (Sanatan Dharma) and it's the only thing that will give real relief to our heart.

Grace Rama das

[PADA: This is a big problem for ISKCON. First, the GBC sent everyone over to Sridhara Maharaja, and started siphoning off a massive amount of manpower over to his camp. And then they got the society to promote BV Narayan Maharaja, and siphoned lots of people over to his program. Meanwhile the New Vrndavana program was itself a spin off, in that it was not listening to GBC authority. 

Hansadutta was another spin off, Jayatirtha was another spin off, and so on and so forth. So what is going to be left when all these spin offs drain away the manpower? Or was this the plan, to drain down ISKCON? And now these above guys are not going to worship Srila Prabhupada, they are going to worship this maharaja, that maharaja and so on. More spin offs. ISKCON is spawning its own competition. ys pd]