Patita Pavana Das Writes Lokanath Swami (ISKCON)

Letter to a very junior Godbrother:

My dear friend Lokanath, Let me speak without formalities as your elder. First of all, one should avoid comparing oneself to the great Tukarama Maharaja. Shripada Tukarama ji never molested a child or begged to become Guru after an arbitrary suspension.

In the Ramayana, did Vishwamitra go before a panel and beg that they overlook his infidelity with Menaka? Or did he perform penance? Why is that only for him--are you greater than the great Munis like Vishwamitra? Where is your tapasya, rather than the sad legacy you have left that tells a far different story.

So now it is best that you PERFORM THE ONLY EFFECTIVE PENANCE -- AND THAT IS OBEDIENCE TO THE ORDER OF SHRI GURU. And, in your case, Prabhupada had ordered you over and over again to ride the bullock cart, instead of the other form of b.s. that you have swallowed thanks to impersonalism. And such awful symptoms of Mayavada including disobedience to the order ot Shri Guru will only create a voluminous series of books like the ones Henry Doktorski (Killing for Krishna) has written to expose ISKCON's corruption.

Remember Reagan said to Mondale, "You're no Kennedy." And we can add to that "You're no Tukaram," either, buddy.

So you have only a precious few seconds left before the curtain comes crashing down on your show. Everything has been recorded and is in the hands of Shri Chitra-Gupta, the secretary in the Akash to Dharmaraja himself.

The King of the Dead Yama is known as Dharmaraja because his concern--as one of the 12 Mahajanas--is how faithful to the order of the Sampradaya you were in your checkered career, as an officiator on behalf of the church or "institutional Guru."

[PADA: Correct, the neophytes are officiating on behalf of the acharya. This is also sometimes known as the "ritvik system" where the neophytes act as agents (or laymen, preachers or priests) of the acharya, and they do not claim to be acharyas themselves.]

Institution is only meant for recharging of batteries, not for lingering with a pink bonnet. When did Tukaram wear such a ridiculous bonnet?

Lokanatha, this is your very elder Gurubhai Patita pavana dasa Adhikary telling you for your own damn good -- get back. Get back to where you once belonged. Get back into the cart as you are presently leading thousands of gullible souls someplace other than pure Krishna consciousness. Wake up and get on the right path once and for all as per Prabhupada's orders to you. 

Once you are in the cart, and you can keep the danda and keshri vesh (sannyasa dress) -- then your people will understand what it means to see their Shri Guru doing as Prabhupada did -- FOLLOWING THE ORDERS OF THE PREVIOUS SPIRITUAL MASTER AS THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE DISCIPLE. 

[PADA: Nope, Lokanath has a propensity to enjoy some kind of relationship with females, and that disqualifies him as a sannyasa, never mind as a guru.]

He told you to get into the cart, but instead you have gotten yourself onto the wrong track of posing as guru rather than being guru.

[PADA: All of these post-1978 GBC gurus are posing and are not self realized souls, or they would not go along with all the GBC garbage.]

Anyone who has seen your flop movie LOST VILLAGE can see where you are at. That film wasted a huge fortune of Goddess Lakshmi on a ridiculously dumb PR project meant to portray you as some village saint. This film was made in collusion with others on the GBC to click on your REFRESH button, and give some good publicity for their village thronal acharya.

Even your Wiki page portrays you as some great Humanitarian rather than devotee. Get real, Loka. Lord Yamaraja will not be fooled by sentimental and impersonal public relations and excuses. Time is dear. It is running out for you.

Let me mention that I never saw you coming to the rescue of the Bombay Six at their years - long Murder Trial, or for Bhakta Dasa held illegally in Tihar Jail, or for the murders of foreign devotees by Indians who posed as devotees. Where were you then?

But instead of the bullock cart, you are taking taxis, or throne posing with a pink bonnet, or ripping off other people's writings or ideas, doing Bhagavata Saptas which inspire no one, or teaching your brahmacharis to beg instead of to farm, making people record your every burp with a date stamp, etc.

And those awful cut-and-paste book covers. Who are you trying to fool?

Get back now, Loka. This is your elder Gurubhai who am simply telling you what Prabhupada would be telling you. So listen up, buddy, drop the pompousness and the titles, kick the pink bonnet aside and hit the road.

Incidentally, I am your best friend for telling you this.

Best to you always

patita pavana dasa

[PADA: Sounds good, except Patita Pavana das is pals with Bhakti Vikas swami, who is promoting Basu Ghosh, who is promoting Lokanath as a guru. We need to cut the whole system, including its line of support, for this deviation. ys pd]