Second Letter to Tirtha In Jail

6/29/2022 

angel108b@yahoo.com

Dear Tirtha Dasa, 

This is Puranjan again. Thanks for writing back.

First of all I am not sure how you "do not know" who is Sulochana / Steve Bryant since, by all accounts you are in jail for his untimely demise. Me and Sulochana were working on various issues, including the widespread child molesting going on in and around ISKCON. Kirtanananda eventually admitted he was having oral sex with young men in his motorhome and other locations, but we know instances were going on well before that, apart from many other cases of child abuse going on in NV from other perps there. 

New Vrndavana is mentioned in the $400,000,000 Windle Turley child abuse lawsuit against ISKCON. Some of the people there knew abuse was going on, not only Sulochana. For example, Chakradhari was saying Kirtanananda was having sex with young men early on. So this deviation was known in sectors of the community, and was known by me personally. Kirtanananda was formerly part of the Mott street boys, includes Umapati and Hayagriva. Bhavananda was also a former follower of Andy Warhol etc. Well known to us old timers.

In 1997 I started to help put together a second Dallas child abuse lawsuit. This time using the Dallas firm Windle Turley -- where ISKCON was sued for $400,000,000. This lawsuit is mentioned in many newspapers. You should be able to find the case or related news. There were allegedly about 4000 kids in ISKCON, and out of that number various victims claim about half of them (2000) were victims of various abuses. 

I tend to believe the victims, and I know a number of them personally. Some of the victims were committing suicide by 1997, so we had to make some emergency effort to stop the process of molesting and suicides. Eventually, the ISKCON leaders pleaded "no contest" in the Dallas court, especially once they found out I was coming to Dallas to testify. They did not want to confront me in a public court case, so they pleaded out. Then they declared ISKCON as bankrupt to avoid paying the victims. They have had to pay, and I am told they are still paying monthly installments currently. I also helped with other lawsuits in India etc., all told -- some followers of Jayapataka blamed me for ISKCON losing $100,000,000. My fault really? Hee hee!  

As for the "Auschwitz for kids" idea. That is what some of the ex-children victims assessed was going on for them. There were some very serious cases of beatings, breaking bones, smashing out teeth, in addition to sexual abuse, psychological abuse, lack of food and basic supplies like soap etc. for a number of victims. Some of this testimony was being collated by Sulochana and me for some time before 1997, and I then forwarded all this info to the lawyers. I also sent out my newsletters with the address and phone number for victims to sign up for the case. 

About a thousand signed up initially, and many more would have, except the law firm decided to keep it at 500 maximum, since ISKCON could not pay for more victims. If some kids have been saying they have been in "Auschwitz for kids," this begs the question, why would they even say such things? And who are the persons responsible for creating, defending and enabling that regime? 

Imagine my situation! I am telling hundreds or maybe thousands of "loving devotee parents" that there is a mass molesting program going on left, right and center -- among their society's children. Perhaps this is affecting their own children. And most of them responded by saying -- you are using bad language; you need to be banned, removed, exiled, maybe beaten, maybe killed. In other words, most of the devotees have been working hand in glove in favor of the molesting regime, either by commission or omission. And that placed my life in severe danger. 

My own kids have been in anxiety that someone would come and "get me." And others were worried about my potential demise as well -- such as my friends in the police, FBI, media, Dr. Stilson Judah and others. They all agreed, I can die at any moment for defending ISKCON's children from this odious and dangerous child abuse regime. 

In 1986 I was interviewed by CBS TV and the newslady said, "First, I want you to look at this film we just made at New Vrndavana with Kirtanananda -- covered with with the hands of dozens of boys. Now my question is, is New Vrndavana pedophile's heaven or what"? I said "Yes, it is," and she said -- "Thank God we met you, we thought all of you were pedophile worshipers." Thus, any ordinary Joe six pack person on the street could figure this whole thing out in less than two seconds, but many devotees still cannot figure it out even decades later. 

Anyway, thanks to these types of people we then had a well publicized media voice on the situation. And then the GBC realized -- taking me out would be too much trouble for them, it would be all over the news media, there would be more police raids etc. and they could not afford another big scandal. They had already lost many thousands of people after the Sulochana murder, they simply could not afford more big losses. Bascially, this was all decided by them on the "cash flow loss" issue and not the importance of my life, or the children's.    

Should I hold a grudge against the people who supported the regime that wanted my friends and me dead? Well, most people in my situation would hold a grudge. I don't, especially at this stage. Rather, I feel bad for the people who supported the regime. They simply did not realize how evil their program has been, and they mistakenly thought they were doing the right thing. OK they were deluded. Most of the ex-children victims also boycott ISKCON and some of them around here even curse at the religion, and some eat meat out of protest etc. 

I really cannot blame them much, they were alienated and badly. So there has been a lot of suffering caused to children, and I believe there will be a lot of pay back for all those responsible eventually -- since these were not ordinary children but were Srila Prabhupada's personal hope for the world.  

Srila Prabhupada also says anyone who glares at a Vaishnava has to take birth as a vulture and sit and glare all day long. Imagine a guy like Kirtanananda training thousands of people to glare at the Lord's Vaishnavas. In sum, I do not believe anyone has EVER had any authority to orchestrate any of this process in any capacity -- either as a leader, subservient cheer leader, enforcer, supporter, enabler etc. ... to create so much suffering for the children, to bankrupt the ISKCON society, and to harass people like myself and make my life hell, and to actually take out my associates like Sulochana and others. 

Thus, according to shastra, people who act without authority will have to pay for that. And I believe they will. Many of their leaders got sick, fell down, and / or died prematurely, and that is only the start of their reactions. Why would I begrudge any of them since karma is always due process eventually? 

The good news is -- most of bogus guru's Western ISKCON went bankrupt in USA and Europe, and their temples emptied out. Then the snake had little or no teeth to come after us. The bad news is -- even now some poor mother with her own little tykes is getting threats of violence for her protesting their current pedophile guru named Lokanath swami. I am friends with Lokanath's female victim and she also suffered badly. In other words, there is still some ongoing effort to force / enforce their pedophile guru's process, although it is not nearly as dangerous as it was. 

However, this mother now has her own protest blogs with thousands of followers -- so she is exposing them and she is gaining lots of nice sympathy and support. Of course, I am also advocating for this cause and thousands of people read my blogs and sites every day. I have helped many media presentations, and am also helping current professional books, news article writers, TV shows etc. which will come out in future. Overall, I would say our protest sites are gaining more steam and the regime's are dwindling.  

I was just explaining to some media person that when I said "There is a mass child abuse problem," the answer I often got was "Well jeepers prabhu, are you saying that Krishna cannot make another pure devotee"? WTF? OK we are talking here about child abuse, maybe your own children are among the victims, not whether or not Krishna has the potency to make another pure devotee. In other words, it just seems to go over their heads that mass child molesting / pedophile worship is even a problem. Well, it is! Then after we had them sued, all sorts of these same parents, elders, seniors and big important leaders complained (some even yelled at me and wanted to do worse) that I did not address this "in house internally." 

Umm what? I am being banned, beaten, threatened to be sued, chased with baseball bats, given threats etc. for addressing this internally already. Thanks, but we will address this externally, that way, at least we might survive the ordeal! Hee hee! Clearly without support from the police, FBI, courts and media, I would be dead a long time ago. In other words, most ordinary Joe six pack citizens understands that child molester messiah's programs are evil and must be contained, the devotees, ok not so much.

I think what it boils down to is -- most devotees never studied the actual siddhanta. Or they would know that a Mott St. boy is not going to catapult from there -- to assisting the gopis -- from 1967-1977, when people from the Gaudiya Matha could not catapult themselves to pure devotees even though some of them were brahmanas by birth. It is just not that cheap and easy. And trying to force people to worship deviants as messiahs only works very short term, and then the whole thing deteriorates and disintegrates -- as it did after 1936 in India and countless other bogus guru cults. The devotees were in sum arrogant and foolish and they thought they could cheat the universe with an artificial guru process, but Srila Prabhupada told us thousands of times -- that never works in the end. 

Anyway, now I am helping a sort of loose knit alliance of "Prabhupadanuga" followers, who are making new devotees, temples and programs emphasizing that the actual guru is Srila Prabhupada (not his imitations) and we are making good progress. Srila Prabhupada gave me the name Puranjan in 1971 and when I asked what that means, he said you will find out everything later. And later the Puranjan story was printed in 1974, and it said that after the spiritual master departs -- there will be chaos in the name of bogus gurus, swamis etc. and the sincere persons will have to address that. 

How could we avoid addressing that issue when we got the name Puranjan, and it tells us these bogus gurus will manifest, and it is our duty to challenge them. So I was sort of awarded the post of being ISKCON's sewage cleaner. I would not want anyone else to be in my shoes and have had the horrific experiences I have had, but on the other hand, I would not want to be in the shoes of my opponents, who will be held accountable for all this. Despite all the troubles I have had, I'd rather be me than them.

In short, if God orders Noah to build and ark and put all the animals in it to save the world, and some goondas come over and start the ark on fire to destroy the animals who are supposed to be the future salvation of the planet, it would seem to me, those goondas would be number one on God's "Yamaraja, please put these bogus people into the crapper" list. 

Sulochana used to say he would not trade one billion years of his past karma for 10 minutes of their future karma, and -- I believe he is right. Some of the former enforcers have apologized to me and we became friends and I really appreciated that they did that. It is a start. Anyway, all we can do now is try to pick up the pieces, and that is gradually happening by Krishna's grace. If you wanted to write a clarification of what your position is on all this currently, I will post it for you on my blog. We must never forget that Lord Balaram took out Romaharsana for being a false spiritual authority, the Lord has Zero Tolerance for such offenders and their help mates.  

Hope you are well, your servant Puranjan das