End of Life Care Alachua
Dear Devotees,
It is with mixed feelings of great sadness and joy that we acknowledge the rejoining of His Grace Goura Hari Das ACBSP with his beloved spiritual master and guide, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Goura Hari Prabhu left this mortal world in the Brahma muhurta hours of Saturday, May 28, 2022, surrounded by the chanting of Srila Prabhupada.
The night before he read Srimad Bhagavatam in the company of three other devotees as he regularly did. He was 80 years old and had multiple health problems.
Herb Bressack became Srila Prabhupada's initiated disciple in September of 1969 and became known as Goura Hari dasa. He served in many capacities, most notably as a pioneer of the Gita Nagari project in Pennsylvania. Because of his entrepreneurial abilities, he was involved in many projects such as the Yogi bar factory in Gita Nagari, and business ventures such as his yearly Christmas games booth in Gainesville where he employed many devotees.
Goura Hari prabhu was always very particular about keeping Krsna and Srila Prabhupada in the forefront of his consciousness. He maintained personal deities of Lord Jaganatha, Baladeva, and Subhra and Srila Prabhupada. He participated regularly in reading of Srila Prabhupada's books both individually and in groups.
He lived and ate simply. Never complained. He is survived by his daughter Jaya Sri, and sons Siddhabhava and Arjuna. He was deeply affected by the untimely death of his son Guru Prasad das a little over a year ago.
We offer our sincere condolences to his sons, daughters, grandchildren, Prafulla Mukhi dasi, his brothers and all other family members. Vaishnavas are glorious whether they are here on earth to grace us with their association or gone back to join Srila Prabhupada in the spiritual world. May Lord Krishna always protect him. All glories to HG Goura Hari prabhu!
[PADA: We wish him well on his future spirit voyage. God speed spirit soul.
We had a young friend who was looking for a wife and he spent one year living in Alachua. Then he suddenly left there, very disappointed with the situation. He told me it is like a retirement home for the old time Prabhupada devotees.
He said they have a type of Prabhupada memorial society there -- sort of like the old folks home for WW II veterans. They all remember the war time, and discuss their memories of the war, but the war is over and done with a long time ago. What future is there for the young folks?
Not much available. Maybe they can get a job working as a cash register clerk at the stores in Gainesville, but there is not much of a functioning society for the devotee youth. And he said the ladies there who are his age are pretty much -- not interested in the Prabhupada focused idea, and there is a lot of compromise with various bogus gurus etc. And a lot of people are just paranoid about speaking up, lest they become shunned outcastes.
Worse, he said people who try to bring up the fact that bogus people cannot be gurus are not too welcomed overall. So it is sort of sad that the people there are clocking out of here one by one, without many of them making the point that the false guru process is bogus and we need to do something different. Hardly no one wants to shake up the status quo, even when they know they are leaving.
Anyway, I wish all of them well. But people who go along to get along with bogus guru programs are entangled in that karma, and it will not be very nice at least in the short term. That is why shastra says -- false gurus, and their supporters, enablers, acquiescing groupies, compromisers etc. are -- condemned. I think they will be eventually saved, but not immediately. It is the duty of the followers of a guru to speak up and protest deviants sitting in their guru's seat, especially when thousands of people are being banned, exiled, removed, sued, and -- worse. That process needs to be protested, or one is implicated in acquiescing.
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M Dasi. Yes, Alachua is a grave yard ... for the old retired Prabhupada devotees. One foot in the grave, and they still have a pedophile like Lokanath being worshiped as the guru there ... even by the children of Alachua. "Biggest Prabhupada disciple community in the world," where they still worship pedophiles as Krishna's gurus.
ReplyDeleteFirst, after 1977 the Prabhupada devotees made their children worship pedophiles as "the new gurus of ISKCON," and most of their children got molested. Did they learn anything from that? No. They are still making the children worship pedophiles ... to molest the children's brains.
And they don't have enough brains to understand ... pedophile worship is NOT authorized. AND it destroys children. AND it destroys ISKCON. One foot in the grave ... one foot in the pedophile worship society. Not where I would like to be.
[PADA: Yes, we have been interviewed again by some secular media people and they are astonished that a place like Alachua would continue the pedophile worship program, even after thousands of their kids were molested. It means they have no clue what is right and what is wrong, they never understood Krishna's teachings. Krishna sends members of pedophile guru guru cults to hell, do not pass go and collect $200, they are finished, end of story. Even the secular media people agreed, that is correct, pedophile worshipers are condemned by God.]
SD Dasi: One foot in the grave ... one foot in the pedophile worship cult. This will not end well ... if we have ANY faith AT ALL in shastra. A graveyard for the departing Prabhupada devotees. Come to think of it ... yes that is what is going on.
ReplyDeleteBut if they are compromised with a pedophile worship program ... they are already in the grave. Their bodies leaving is ... only external formality. Compromised with pedophile worship means ... dead already ... just not officially.
Why would anyone want their children to worship a pedophile, or people voted in by pedophiles, and etc.! Unless ... something is major wrong with their thinking. One foot in the grave ... one foot in the pedophile's guru's house ... what could go wrong here?