Saturday, October 31, 2020
Hanuman Croatia Defends / Attacks Bhakti Vikash Swami
https://lastingimpression.info/scary-stuff-investigator-apologises-to-all-the-iskcon-pedophiles/
“Even ISKCON’s only guru-revolutionary, Bhakti Vikasa Swami was fighting against Sanaka Rsi. Bhakti Vikasa Swami felt a big urge to defend his friend Bhakti Vidya purna Swami who was canning Mayapur boys so hard that you could write a scenario for a horror movie. Bhakti Vikasa Swami also defended his friend Indradyumna who likes to pat small girls for 30 minutes at a time. I was never able to understand this “lila”. But hey, ISKCON is the most loving society, if you don’t believe that, you will be kicked out.”
Friday, October 30, 2020
Bhakti Vikas Swami Debates: Himself
[PADA: He is worried about ISKCON not attracting Westerners, and becoming a Hindu program. Meanwhile BVKS sets up his own base in India, and his main followers are from the Hindu sector. Then he says that the biggest ISKCON program i.e. Alachua is mainly the geriatric set (old people) because they are not bringing in hardly many young people. And these older people sector are managing just about everything else around ISKCON worldwide, and they are all dying off one by one.
And they are having a hard time finding new people to replace the older ones. So it is a crisis. Well yes and no. The Gaudiya Matha also became large empty temples with hardly any people, and the people there were almost all old. And we asked Srila Prabhupada about these few old men in their temples. And he told us: these old people chased out all the other devotees to take over the buildings. And now these old Gaudiya Math people are "fighting over who gets a room in the temple." ISKCON simply did the same thing.
The Gaudiya Math created their own devastation, and we did the same thing, our senior leaders drove out the God brothers and then made empty temples. Then they got some Hindus to give donations for "showing the deity."
We are simply doing the same thing. It is ironic that people like BVKS went to India after burning down the preaching in the West with their pedophile messiah's program, now he starts talking about solutions. There is no solution to "fix" a pedophile guru process, it has to be rejected and we need to move forward with the right process.
BVKS is a prime example of preaching in India while complaining, we cannot attract Westerners. Westerners are too intelligent, they will never worship an illicit sex with men, women and children guru process. That is why they are "not coming." And they never will. Human beings want to worship spiritual masters who are actually bona fide, and they do not want to worship falling down human beings, who are less advanced than they are already.
Why would I want worship the village drunk, if I am an ordinary man already? That means I would be worshiping someone less advanced than myself? This will never work. We need to give people someone who is bona fide, and if we give them people who are illicit sex, drunkards, drug addicts, homosexuals, pedophiles, and murder orchestrating criminals as their gurus, they will never be attracted. BVKS is with the so-called Hindu Bindu program, while complaining, it does not work. Well yup. He is arguing with his own shadow.
And now ex-Makhanlal (now Bhakti Madhurya) is evidently paralyzed, so one by one by one these senior elders are dropping away, and we have empty temples with a showing the deity business to -- the Hindus. Gaudiya Math pt. II.
ys pd
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Prayer Request for Kadamba Kanana Swami
Dear Vaisnavas, again we want to ask for your loving prayers. His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami has tested positive for COVID 19. Let us pray to Sri Nrisimhadeva so he can go through the process of this virus, without serious complications and soon to be preaching and singing as wonderfully as he does. All Glories to His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami, all Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
[PADA: Kadamba is the initiating guru under Jayadvaita swami. He is the ritvik of JAS? He was shot at in Vrindavan some years ago, a murder attempt. And he said it was an inside job. Ummm, some other GBC guru (or gurus) wanted to have him assassinated?
He was previously sick with other ailments, and we said that his acting as a diksha guru and having himself loaded up with the karma of others is going to make things worse. We think it is making things worse.
Oddly people like Bhakti Vikas swami keep essentially saying that anyone who "chants their rounds" is equal to Jesus and can absorb the sins of others as a diksha guru. OK, not something Srila Prabhupada ever said?
He said the opposite, if we neophytes take sins -- we will get sick, fall down, or both. He also said we will have to suffer if we take other's sins. Anyway we do not wish him well or unwell, he has to account for his own actions. And since he totally violates the instructions to not support pedophile guru programs, not to take karma etc., he will have to answer for that himself.
And yes, it does look odd that so many ISKCON folks are getting the virus.
ys pd]
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Let the Senior ISKCON GBC Retire (Change Org)
PADA: Well yup. They kicked almost out all of the upper level senior Prabhupada devotees. And then they alienated and would not allow the second generation (gurukulis) in to manage anything barely anywhere.
Now they are facing a series of health crises and can no longer manage effectively. No kidding! They built a house almost no one can live in, even themselves. We know of ex-gurukulis who told me they are praying every day that all of them will die as soon as possible, since they are a GIANT burden on the earth. Could not argue with them. Gradually more and more people are saying, can you guys just -- disappear -- and as soon as possible? Heh heh heh!
ys pd
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
Sri Rama Vijayotsava and the appearance day of Sri Madhvacarya
Today (Sunday) is Sri Rama Vijayotsava and the appearance day of Sri Madhvacarya! Last night was the ninth and final night of Navaratri and today, the tenth waxing-moon day of Asvina, is known as Rama Vijayotsava or Dasara. On this day Lord Ramacandra killed the demon-king Ravana in a great battle. In commemoration of the event, effigies of Ravana are constructed and burnt down all over India and around the world.
“After thus rebuking Ravana, Lord Ramacandra fixed an arrow to His bow, aimed at Ravana, and released the arrow, which pierced Ravana’s heart like a thunderbolt. Upon seeing this, Ravana’s followers raised a tumultuous sound, crying, ‘Alas! Alas! What has happened? What has happened?’ as Ravana, vomiting blood from his ten mouths, fell from his airplane, just as a pious man falls to earth from the heavenly planets when the results of his pious activities are exhausted.” (Srimad Bhagavatam 9.10.23)
Saturday, October 24, 2020
I am Done With ISKCON's Bhakti Vikas Swami (AD)
Jasomatinandan Das Suffers Heart Attack
ayi nanda-tanuja kinkaram / patitam mam isame bhavambudhau / kṛpayā tava pāda-pankaja - sthita-dhūlī-sadṛśam vicintaya.
(Cc. Antya 20.32, Śikṣāṣṭaka 5)
Jai Shri Krishna
Hare Krishna
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PADA: Evidently Jasomatinandan das, the temple president of Ahmedabad ISKCON, has suffered a heart attack and is considered as "unrecoverable" in a coma. I have no other details at present but will provide updates here when they are available.
Jasomatinandan was one of the dissenting persons in 1986 who said "ISKCON has given Lord Chaitanya the gift of a homosexual acharya for His 500th anniversary." Unfortunately, he then went backwards, to go back to working with the GBC's leaders, for example Gopal Krishna swami who likes to help bury pedophiles and porno swamis in samadhis.
This is very unfortunate. India's spiritual leaders should be leading us Western mleccha-ites, and not vice versa. One follower of Sridhara Maharaja told me recently "PADA is an army of one."
Hee hee. Nope! Sridhara is another person who is supposed to be a big sadhu from India who can help guide us Western fools, but instead we Western fools have to advise him. This is how I responded:
Friday, October 23, 2020
Devotees' Book Distribution At Political Rallies
PADA: Cool idea. Going to rallies and handing out books. Why not? Some Krishna is way better than no Krishna, that is how we see it. ys pd
Thursday, October 22, 2020
PADA and Henry Doktorski
[PADA: First of all Henry Doktorski is a by-product of post 1978 ISKCON. He says that the reason he (and others) went along with Kirtanananda being an acharya is because he was told -- by most of the ISKCON devotees at the time -- that Srila Prabhupada had appointed KS as one of the 11 acharyas.
And in 1980 many hundreds of Srila Prabhupada devotees were flocking to New Vrndavana to "take shelter of Kirtanananda swami Bhaktipada." Even Sulochana went there, despite me telling him -- that would be a huge mistake. It was.
This "Srila Bhaktipada is the rising moon acharya of ISKCON" was going on so much so, New Vrndavana was being advertised as "the biggest community of Srila Prabhupada devotees in the world." OK that means that many / most of my God brothers were preaching to Henry, and to the whole world, that Kirtanananda is a pure devotee. And he is in fact, "God's living successor on earth."
Yet a number of these God brothers also knew that Kirtanananda has been part of a homosexual household in the 1960s. And some people were telling me he is "Queer-tan-ananda" in 1971. That means many God brothers were covering up for Kirtanananda's weakness and they were artificially making Kirtanananda an acharya, despite knowing all the time, he is not. So they were selling Henry a rotten apple that they knew was rotten in the first place, but had only been spray painted to look fresh.
Then Henry -- and many thousands of others -- got sucked into this mess, due almost entirely to the fact that many / most of the God brothers were allowing, encouraging, enabling if not vociferously defending the policy that Kirtanananda is a pure devotee. Many / most of my God brothers were chastising me for challenging the 11, and thus they were selling a false product.
Can we blame folks like Henry for going along with this band wagon?
Well maybe yes and maybe no, but the root issue is -- the leaders combined with these many God brothers were creating this "misleading of others" situation wholesale. People like Satsvarupa were writing "Kirtanananda is everywhere," ummm -- like the Supersoul? And Rupanuga, Mukunda swami and many others were going to bat to defend Kirtanananda even later when Sulochana was asking them to rectify things.
So Henry was mis-informed, and therefore we feel he is mainly a victim. Sulochana is another type of victim. He was a somewhat junior devotee compared to some of the more elder seniors who knew more about Kirtanananda's dubious past. But yes, both of them were also voluntary participants. So that means, the victims are also in part to blame, but more blame goes to the leaders and seniors who sold the victims a bad product knowingly.
Now later on many folks, perhaps hundreds of thousands, believed Srila Prabhupada was wrong to have annointed these people as gurus.
What if he did not annoint them as gurus? So we would contend that many of the senior God brothers are to blame for participating in making the illusion that Kirtanananda is God's successor. Then many others were sucked into that vortex, and they got mistreated, misinformed, cheated, some got beaten, molested, killed and so forth.
Sulochana sent me a tape of Kirtanananda saying the real Jayatirtha is serving Krishna purely, whereas the sex and drugs Jayatirtha is like the false Sita. And Sulochana thought that was correct. Nope, mixing mother Sita with sex and drugs bogus acharyas is -- an offense. So I immediately told Sulochana, you are in a deep hole, get out of there! But he refused to leave, like many others who were staying there.
Now later on Henry writes a book from his point of view, i.e. he had been told Kirtanananda is a pure devotee. And people are saying Henry is bogus to be blaming Srila Prabhupada for apparently making this situation. Srila Prabhupada did not make this situation, the God brothers did, but it is very hard for people to sort all this out due to constant propaganda that the 11 were appointed as gurus. Even Sivarama recently lectured the 11 were appointed as gurus.
Now we know a whole lot of crimes and horrendous things were going on at New Vrndavana, and Henry has made a detailed account of all this. Why is his book even prominent? At all? Because no one else bothered to write a detailed account of what was going on at New Vrndavana, or anywhere else.
Why haven't some of the God brothers wrote a detailed account of say for example Los Angeles under Ramesvara? OK they don't give a care about saving others from being sucked into these types of things, evidently. No accounts or accountability is going on just about anywhere.
We think people should know what was going on there, because it is lesson number one why we cannot allow bogus acharyas. The things he writes about will be the result. And Henry encouraged a number of other ex-New Vrndavana folks to come out of the wood work and detail their experiences, which helps us understand the criminal nature of that program all the more. No one else could have or would have dragged out these accounts, which are important for us to realize to see the full scope of the result of false gurus.
OK no one else is bothering to do that.
It it like people are just saying, oh well crap happens, who cares? No, we need to know how and why crap happens, or it will happen again. At the same time I have been criticized for helping Monkey On A Stick, articles for the New York Times, participating in TV shows etc. Well guess what, these medias, books, TV shows etc. would be written anyway with or without my participating. I am just trying to put in my two cents, and sometimes I get to put in my .0005 of a cent.
At the same time Henry openly admits that he enjoys attending whisky tasting events at the San Diego Scotch Club and also smoking Cuban cigars. He is not pretending to be a big shot devotee. He has done what -- oh no -- my esteemed and senior God brothers should have done all along, write a detailed account of what happened. My God brothers are for the most part never going to do that, ever, let us face it. They might write a few pages of essays once in a blue moon, but not really explaining much for the most part. Most of their writings focus on "the glory days" of the 1970s and have little to do with the post-1978 apocalypse.
So essentially everyone else hands off the job to Henry, and then they complain "he did not do a good job." It is not his job to write ISKCON's history accurately, it is yours -- the ISKCON seniors.
Meanwhile, the seniors and church elders are basically doing no job at all. It is the same thing that happened to me in Berkeley, "well Puranjan likes the Berkeley police. He is a rat snitch." Ummm, well they are protecting me, you big shot senior devotees -- are not?
So we have then the persons who are willing to write historical accounts, like "Monkey on a Stick," "Dial Om for Murder," "Tempest in a Temple," and so on and so on and so on. They will add their dimension to it because they saw it the way they saw it. These people are not going to write as accurately as the senior devotees would. Nor should we expect them to. The senior insiders should be writing the senior insider view, not those who were not part of the core situation.
Yet if the senior devotees write essentially no books or almost nothing else of value, then these "junior" or media accounts will be seen -- as at least some account. So I have helped along various media and so-called "outside" writers because, they are going to write anyway -- with or without me. I'd rather at least try to help in some small way if possible.
Meanwhile no one seems to know, why the seniors themselves have not wrote the history? OK we basically know why, a lot of these seniors are implicated in the whole criminal guru enterprise. If they would write something, it would be like admitting they are a criminal accomplice, so they have to remain silent. Anyway, it is always the same thing. PADA is a terrible writer. Great, are you going to write a newsletter? Well nope. Sour grapes?
So Henry's book is not perfect, he and no one else ever said it is. Neither is Monkey on a Stick and so on and so on. So if the devotees fail to write their own history, it will be written by others. And that is another lesson we should learn from all this as well. If we do not shovel out our own stopped up toilet, the landlord will call someone else to do it instead.
Better that the seniors do it, but if they don't, someone else will. That is how history works, full time and all the time. I for one am glad we now know more details of the goings on there, and who is implicated in what, which never would have been exposed any other way.
Henry's story should be a case study of why -- we cannot ever allow false acharyas into ISKCON ever again. And we need to remove the Kirtanananda groupies who remain.
ys pd
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Purpose of Srila Prabhupada's Temple Murtis (SP Quotes)
If he were planning on his disciples taking his post, becoming the next acaryas upon his physical departure, he would have left these vyāsāsanas empty, being confident that his disciples were competent to occupy the seat of Vyāsadeva upon his physical disappearance.
Because they were not fit to occupy this post, Srila Prabhupada had life size murtis of his Divine Grace made and placed on every single vyasasana throughout all of iskcon. This was Srila Prabhupada's way of making sure no rascal would attempt to artificially seat themselves on the vyasasana.
Srila Prabhupada knows past present and future. He knew he had some envious overly ambitious disciples who were eager to artificially take his seat as soon as they had the opportunity to do so. Srila Prabhupada outwitted them, of course. No fool can place himself higher than Srila Prabhupada, however much they my artificially attempt to do so. It is artificial, and will not stand. Srila Prabhupada's murtis however, will be seated for all eternity on the seat of Vyāsadeva, and worshiped as good as Lord Krishna Himself. These pretenders will not last, they will/are dying off. They will be forgotten.
However, Srila Prabhupada as the proper bonafide acarya and representative of Srila Vyāsadeva and Lord Sri Krishna will remain seated on the vyāsāsana of every Iskcon temple throughout the whole world and will be worshiped by all present and future generations to come. Such is the mercy of His Divine Grace.
Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada KI JAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Prabhupāda: No. Vyāsāsana is good.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So either one is all right.
Prabhupāda: No. If there is picture in the middle and vyāsāsana.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So these mūrtis can be placed on the vyāsāsana.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
ISKCON Devotees Petition Narendra Modi
Narasimgha das started this petition to Narendra Modi, Premier Minister of India
1. We are ISKCON devotees from different countries around the World. Being influenced and enticed by the rich culture of the Hinduism, we came to India to study about the intrinsic fact of Hinduism and ancient Vedic Culture and Knowledge through ISKCON. We are a followers and propagators of Hinduism continuously residing in India with the permission of Government of India.
2. We being the followers and propagators of Hinduism and unique Vedic Culture and Knowledge purchased residential plots and constructed Ashram / Temple Sri Vrindavan Dham, also known as Russian House near ISKCON Temple, Ramanreti, Vrindavan for devotional purpose, for study and practice of ancient Vedic Knowledge and Culture and for seva in ISKCON Temple.
3. Sri Vrindavan Dham Ashram / Temple newly made for devotional purpose and including Ashram, Temple, Bhagavad Katha Hall and Prasadam Hall for free distribution prasadam, Goshala at Kalide with 40 cows. Devotees from this Ashram are doing many cultural program, seva in Temples and charitable activity, 300-400 local people and pilgrims get free food prasadam every day within last 4-5 years.
More then 350 devotees from more then 10 different countries around the World received Diploma Bhakti Shastri and another ISKCON Courses from our Vaishnava Academy Vrindavan - VAV which we organized in this Ashram within last 5 years, and after that these devotees went to their countries for propagating of the Hinduism, Krishna Bhakti and unique Vedic Knowledge and Culture around the World.
4. In this Ashram permanently stay around 200 foreigners international ISKCON devotees of Lord Krishna (and during Kartik or Festival time around 400 devotees stay in this Ashram). These devotees do daily seva in ISKCON Temple and in Temple of Sri Vrindavan Dham Ashram for Deities: Sri Sri Krishna Balaram, Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Nrisimhadev, Sri Jagannatha, Sri Chaytanya Mahaprabhu.
5. The foreign devotees coming to India to study the Hinduism required easily-available residential accommodation, as such we applied for approval of sanction plan for construction to MVDA - Development Authority after obtaining the no objection from the Municipality Vrindavan.
6. MVDA in pursuance to our application granted us a letter dated 21.08.2012 bearing file No. 89/V-12-13 approved the sanction plan granting permission to raise construction. In consequence to the approval, we raised construction over our lands as per the sanctioned plan.
7. Due to need of the demand of the foreign devotees who are coming to India to study Hinduism and Vedic Culture, devotees felt the need of raising additional construction over the existing floor, as such on 18.01.2014 we requested the MVDA seeking permission to raise additional construction over the existing structure. The officials of the MVDA asked to deposit fees for raising additional construction, as such we have deposited Rs. 2,00,000/- Rs on 18.01.2014 and 2,00,000/- Rs on 30.3.2017 Rs. Total 4 Lakh Rs.
8. But some local officials are trying to create big problems and are threatening to demolish the upper floors, and there is a group of persons who want to remove all foreigners out of their homes by capturing the property of the Russian House.
On 21.07.20 suddenly MVDA people affixed the notice dated 16.03.2019 on the wall of Ashram stating that if the devotees shall not remove the unauthorized construction over the properly then MVDA will initiate appropriate proceeding for destruction of Ashram and the Temple of Sri Krishna. But earlier we never received any notice from MVDA about canceling our compound application for extra construction.
On 26.09.2020 more than 10 people from MVDA and police came to Ashram and sealed 18 apartments where international devotees reside in Sri Vrindavan Dham Ashram / Temple and told to the devotees to leave apartments and buildings within 24 hours. After this horrible harassment all ISKCON devotees from different countries around the World residing in Ashram were suffering and worried of lot.
9. But international borders are now closed and there are no international flights, and devotees of ISKCON accepted India and Vrindavan as their shelter and home especially during COVID 19, so now it is very critical situation for all the devotees of Lord Krishna residing in Sri Vrindavan Dham Ashram / Temple because they do not have another possibility and no other shelter. So all the international devotees are suffering so much.
10. On 25.09.2020 suddenly was burnt Ashram's Generator and basement rooms (with loss of 14 Lakh Rs). Then some group of persons who want to remove all foreigners out of their homes by capturing the property of the Russian House with the help of some locals - managed 2 fake FIR against the devotees / managers / trustees with the intention to put them in jail and control and grab the Ashram.
11. The house administration continues to work with the Indian government and lawyers are already finding ways to solve these issues. But we really need your help and support. And first of all - spiritual support. We humbly request you to support the Russian House and the Russian Community of ISKCON devotees in Vrindavan.
12. We very very much appreciate and very much respect that earlier Hon’ble PM of India Narendra Modi Ji many times helped ISKCON and we pray and hope that in this horrible situation for us Hon’ble PM of India Narendra Modi Ji will help us and save us from the destruction of our Temple of Lord Krishna and our Ashram.
PRAYER :
We humbly pray to Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi Ji may he kindly be pleased to allow us - ISKCON devotees of Lord Krishna from different countries around the World to continue to peacefully reside and to do seva in the Holy place Vrindavan and please kindly protect us from horrible harassment and save our Sri Krishna Temple / Ashram Sri Vrindavan Dham from destruction and kindly help to complete Sri Krishna Temple in Vrindavan - Holy birth place of Lord Krishna.
With endless gratitude and humble obeisances to all the devotees and well-wishers -
residents of the Russian House and devotees of the Russian Community of ISKCON devotees in Vrindavan.
Please kindly send this Petition to everyone you know.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Goddess Durga and Lord Krishna (SP Quotes)
Goddess Durga & Lord Krishna.
Having uprooted all relationships with his sister because of intense selfishness, Kaṁsa, who was sitting on his knees, grasped the newborn child by the legs and tried to dash her against the surface of a stone. The child, Yogamāyā-devī, the younger sister of Lord Viṣṇu, slipped upward from Kaṁsa’s hands and appeared in the sky as Devī, the goddess Durgā, with eight arms, completely equipped with weapons.
The goddess Durgā was decorated with flower garlands, smeared with sandalwood pulp, and dressed with excellent garments and ornaments made of valuable jewels. Holding in her hands a bow, a trident, arrows, a shield, a sword, a conchshell, a disc, and a club, and being praised by celestial beings like Apsarās, Kinnaras, Uragas, Siddhas, Cāraṇas and Gandharvas, who worshiped her with all kinds of presentations, she spoke as follows.
After speaking to Kamsa in this way, the goddess Durgā, Yogamāyā, appeared in different places, such as Vārāṇasī, and became celebrated by different names, such as Annapūrṇā, Durgā, Kālī, and Bhadrā.
The goddess Durgā is celebrated in Calcutta as Kālī, in Bombay as Mumbādevī, in Vārāṇasī as Annapūrṇā, in Cuttack as Bhadrakālī and in Ahmedabad as Bhadrā. Thus in different places she is known by different names. Her devotees are known as śāktas, or worshipers of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whereas worshipers of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself are called Vaiṣṇavas.
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Fusing Hare Krishna Art Into Tattoos (Vice Video)
[PADA: Various devotees have told me they are not sure if it is a good idea -- or not -- to have Krishna or other Vedic deities tattooed onto one's body. On the one hand, we take that image with us wherever we go, to the toilet etc. which is not always a clean situation.
On the other hand, having an image of Krishna on one -- reminds one of Krishna or some other deity. Actually, might even -- make it hard to forget Krishna, or other deities. So I am sort of personally mixed on the issue.
Anyway, if this helps makes someone think of Krishna, overall -- it might be a good idea. A devotee told me he got the name of "Krishna" tattooed on himself -- but not for himself, rather so the Yamaduttas will see it and give him some mercy. Hee hee.
Might not be a bad idea, if that works. Tattoos of Krishna will get people to think about Krishna one way or other. So in that sense, whatever works to help folks think of Krishna -- might be the best answer. ys pd]
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Hamsavatar Das Departing Soon
Haribol.
UP Government Cracks Down on Vrndavana "Russia House"
Wonderful spiritual festivals and programs were held here, many spiritual teachers gave lectures and seminars for hundreds of devotees during Kartika and Gaura Purnima, for several years studying was conducted at the Vaishnava Academy Vrindavan and more than 350 devotees from around the world received diplomas in Bhakti Shastri and other ISKCON Courses.
But on the way to Krishna, the Lord periodically tests us. The Lord undoubtedly always gives these tests only for the good !!! But sometimes these tests are so difficult that you can't handle them alone.
https://igrsup.gov.in/prernadoc/propertydoc/145/00764/246/2017/145246120179845.pdf?
Friday, October 16, 2020
ISKCON Guru Sivarama Swami -- Attacks ISKCON Gurus.
[PADA: OK so Sivarama swami is voted in as guru by -- the other GBC's "gurus." These are his co-gurus, and gurus who are the sum total of the demigods and God's spokesmen on earth. Yet he complains his co-gurus are making bogus statements and written resolutions. They are not consulting the shastra, nor consulting proper sadhus for reference.
And this proves what?
Hee hee, what we said all along, they are not gurus. Sivarama swami actually raises the right question, how can people who make bogus statements, and make bogus written resolution -- be gurus -- at all? And he says he has been arguing with the other GBC (gurus) for ten years now.
So the gurus are residents of Krishna loka. Thus they are arguing with their other co-gurus, to prove that each other are -- bogus? This is really showing how badly they have misunderstood the post of guru. Guru is one, they have the same siddhanta. They are not fighting like cats and dogs among themselves.
Sivarama even quotes the May 28th tape, where Srila Prabhupada says they will act as ritvik acharyas after he departs. And the tape says when they deviate they will have to be replaced, therefore they are not diksha gurus. Moreover, Srila Prabhupada says they will be guru "when I order" -- which is not an order.
Then Sivarama says 11 men were appointed as diksha gurus. Nope, he did not appoint anyone as guru. Anyway, it looks like their process is melting down more and more. Sivaram says he tries to follow the GBC, ummm, so when GBC members say that gurus engage in illicit sex with men, women and children, we have to accept that? He is not clear?
Guru cat fights. Really? ys pd]
Tamal Krishna Glorification (Founder of Molester Messiahs)
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Krishna Balaram Swami is Kidnapping Ritviks?
Institute for Pure Devotional Service
OFFICE of PUBLIC RELATIONS
Dear devotees and friends,
On September 13th 2020 Bhagavat Dharma Samaj’s Office of Public Relations received information about a REGISTERED LAWYER’S NOTICE sent from the law office of PRASAD & SUKUMAR ASSOCIATES, representing the ‘Ritvik’ organization called ‘Hare Krishna Movement Vishakapatnam’ affiliated with ISKCON Bangalore. Their legal notice was delivered to Bhagavat Dharma Samaj at the Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir (Red Stone Temple), 100 Feet Road, Raman Reti, Vrindavan, India.
We understood their notice to be an attempt to stop our Internet preaching efforts and to intimidate one of our successful preachers who used to render volunteer services to their organization, but who later found them to be spiritually incorrect and not benefitting to him and decided to join Bhagavat Dharma Samaj and follow the teachings of His Divine Grace Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Krsna Balaram Swami. Their legal notice was a bit surprising to us and did not seem legally appropriate either. Nevertheless, we thought we should respond accordingly and let our devotees and the world judge for themselves the injustice being committed against us.
No disconnected volunteer member of any organization anywhere should ever feel concerned, intimidated or afraid when wanting to distance himself/herself when he/she no longer feels connected to the organization. Article 19 of the Constitution of India guarantees to all its citizens the right to freedom of speech and expression, and this includes the right to express one’s views and opinions at any issue through any medium, e.g. by words of mouth, writing, printing, picture, film, movie etc. It thus includes the freedom of communication and the right to propagate or publish opinion.
Therefore we are always prepared to freely use our right to freedom of expression at any given moment or by any means we deem necessary in order to rightfully educate the public in the matter of pursuing authentic spiritual life. So we decided to take yet another opportunity to exercise such freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution of India and composed the following which was made part of our official legal response:
THE INCONTROVERTIBLE VERDICT OF THE VEDIC SCRIPTURES AND THE VAISHNAVA ACHARYAS ON WHO CAN BECOME GURU AND WHO CANNOT.
Our response is the following 12,000 words, composed in a comprehensive yet summarized manner, and presented in systematic sequence to make the subject easy and straightforward for anyone who wishes to explore the subject. It covers many important points that people over the years have had doubts about in connection to who can become Guru and who cannot, with added back history, quotes from the Vedic scriptures with comments by Vaishnava Acharyas, and much more.
We hope this document brings to light the evidence necessary to expose injustice and will also help those who are sincerely seeking authentic spiritual life to make well informed decisions for their benefit. We welcome you to read this important document and also take advantage of the information provided here. You can download the PDF (6 MB) here:
https://www.krsna.org/The_Incontrovertible_Verdict_2020.pdf
For any comments or questions please write to us anytime. We respond to all correspondence.
Thank you. Jay Sri Radhe!
Sincerely,
Krishna Kirtan
Bhagavat Dharma Samaj
Institute for Pure Devotional Service
Office of Public Relations.