Hanuman Croatia Has Departed

SD: Hanuman Das of Lasting Impressions died. I first became aware of him at the beginning of the campaign to have Lokanath's child abuse case given to the ISKCON CPO. He was a vocal support in that campaign. I would like to honor him. He practiced what he preached. I didn't agree with everything he said, but overall he was spot-on and he wanted to see ISKCON leaders behave with more integrity. I wish his family well. 

SN: Was it a natural death?

SD: Someone said he had COVID for the last month or so and his condition deteriorated.

V DASA: I liked Hanumanji for His ability to use comedy for dramatic effect. Comedy is usually exaggerated to get the point across. Though not that PC. His videos were very compelling and many a true word is spoken in jest. It’s a very brave thing to call out GBC and Iskcon leadership. Some devotees need to be doing that to raise standards to a higher level.

He was quite a hero in my opinion. I personally liked him a lot and will miss him.
Hopefully Krishna appreciated his endeavours to improve the Movement and he’s nearer now. 

BWD: Covid is super gnarly. I’ve had it for the last 10 days. Not fun.

SD: We received confirmation from Hanuman's wife.

M DASA: May krishna be kind to him. I will certainly miss his videos . His humour was incredibly entertaining. And although there were things he talked about I likewise did not appreciate, I knew his talks were aimed towards exposing injustice. We need more brave people like him to in this world.

[PADA: We knew something was going on when his posts quit happening. Evidently, he died from complications from the Virus. That shows how anyone can be taken off this planet in a very short time, or no time at all -- if they get hit by a truck etc. There is indeed -- danger at every step. 

Anyway, Hanuman had half the problem figured out, the ISKCON GBC gurus are corrupt. Unfortunately, he said our idea of having people worship the pure devotee is "the bogus Christian ritvik idea." So he was still clinging onto GBC-isms, and citing the GBC's folks ideas. He started out defending Bhakti Vikas swami and so on and so forth, and he later realized that was a mistake. He was making some progress here and there. 

And yet he kept a photo of the GBC's guru Sridhar on his web site. We cannot promote the GBC's gurus like Sridhar -- who was Radhanath's best buddy -- and get rid of the GBC's bogus guru authority at the same time. Sridhar was also part of the "Lokanath committee" that covered up Lokanath's pedophile problem -- and kept Lokanath in the guru post. 

Sridhar is corrupt. In short Hanuman could not really understand that conditioned souls cannot take the post of Krishna's successor, it is not possible. This is the unfortunate result of association with the GBC's "less than kanistha" diksha guru standards. Hanuman evidently spent a lot of time with Sridhar swami so I understand the sentimental affection. Unfortunately, Krishna orders us to give that sentimentalism up and fight ... even our own leaders ... if they become corrupt like the Kauravas.

Hanuman did however make some very good exposes of some of the GBC's guru's shenanigans -- and to his credit -- he was against exploiting women and children. 

So there it is! Another devotee -- of one type or other -- leaves us behind and moves on. Someone said to me, maybe Krishna saw that Hanuman was at a road block -- being against the Prabhupadanugas -- and thus Krishna had to move Hanuman on by using His bag of tricks -- such as giving Hanuman the virus. Hard to know what really caused all this. 

I hold no grudges despite we had some serious disagreements. We wish him all the best in his next situation! May Krishna help Hanuman find the right path to get back to Him. God speed spirit soul! ys pd]