ISKCON largely alienated its youth the same way.
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Exiled Russian journalists report attempted poisonings (yahoo.com)
PADA: Oh oh. People falling out of windows. People getting poisoned. Sounds like dissenters are being targeted, and dissenters in ISKCON are also sometimes targets. It is unfortunate that criminal empires often have to rely on heavy handed tactics to usurp and stay in power.
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
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RE: JAYATIRTHA
PADA: Not sure I can comment on all your points here at once, because there are many levels here. However, I would like to start out by saying Jayatirtha knew the whole guru appointment was a scam. And he also knew he personally was falling down into illicit behavior and taking intoxicants. And therefore he is himself not qualified to be an Acharya. All he would have to do is say, "I'm not qualified to be in an acharya, neither none of the other eleven are qualified either. The whole thing is a scam. Don't get involved with this giant scam. Guard yourselves against this deviation. Don't get sucked into this illusion. Because if you fall into this illusion trap -- we will have another Gaudiya Math Part 2, where there are false gurus and dissenters are severely mistreated by such false guru programs." That could have saved thousands of lives right out of the gate, including mine -- which was severely impacted by his scam. JT also told me at the end to "watch your back," which means he had plans to have me squashed -- if need be.
There was one follower of Srila Saraswati in 1936 named Professor Sannyal. And Srila Prabhupada says Professor Sannyal became a party man and in 1936 and he supported the false Ananta Vasudeva guru process. OK he was not a kingpin but he was a supporter of the kingpins. And because of that severe offense, his life was ended shortly after that by Krishna. Prabhupada said -- that is because he was the most advanced person in the entire Gaudiya Math. And therefore Krishna stopped him from making further offenses. His life was ended "very mysteriously." And I believe a similar thing happened with Jayatirtha. He was deviating severely, and he would have gone on deviating. And so Krishna arranged a situation where his offenses would be ended. And they were ended. That would make JT more advanced than the others.
When the JT people came to tear me up, JT was silent. He did not defend me in the slightest amount. Silence means acceptance. Silence means acquiescing. And that is what he did. But he was also part of the whole regime that was oppressing me and others all along. And that makes him co-responsible for all the activities of the whole regime. He may have been a small bit player. But all of the players in the Kaurava Family were punished without exception, except for the one brother who made a weak protest. The main perps and the acquiescing silent group -- all were punished Prabhupad said. Because of their silence. So JT knew -- this whole thing is a scam. And he didn't try to save me or anyone else from being victimized by that scam by calling it out, and he was still propping himself as some sort of messiah even at the end.
My life could have been ended by his followers, or from any of the other followers from his bogus guru's group that he had co-created. He co-created this illusion, 11 appointed people are Krishna's successors. And that makes him implicated. And that is perhaps why he had to be removed. So I agree -- he wasn't one of the main kingpins. But he was one of the foundational pins. And he was. A most important pin. And that makes him co-responsible for what happened to me and everyone else who was victimized by his promoting himself and others as false gurus. As far as shastra goes, it says false acharyas are the most dangerous elements in human society.
RE: JAYATIRTHA
PADA: Not sure I can comment on all your points here at once, because there are many levels here. However, I would like to start out by saying Jayatirtha knew the whole guru appointment was a scam. And he also knew he personally was falling down into illicit behavior and taking intoxicants. And therefore he is himself not qualified to be an Acharya. All he would have to do is say, "I'm not qualified to be in an acharya, neither none of the other eleven are qualified either. The whole thing is a scam. Don't get involved with this giant scam. Guard yourselves against this deviation. Don't get sucked into this illusion. Because if you fall into this illusion trap -- we will have another Gaudiya Math Part 2, where there are false gurus and dissenters are severely mistreated by such false guru programs." That could have saved thousands of lives right out of the gate, including mine -- which was severely impacted by his scam. JT also told me at the end to "watch your back," which means he had plans to have me squashed -- if need be.
There was one follower of Srila Saraswati in 1936 named Professor Sannyal. And Srila Prabhupada says Professor Sannyal became a party man and in 1936 and he supported the false Ananta Vasudeva guru process. OK he was not a kingpin but he was a supporter of the kingpins. And because of that severe offense, his life was ended shortly after that by Krishna. Prabhupada said -- that is because he was the most advanced person in the entire Gaudiya Math. And therefore Krishna stopped him from making further offenses. His life was ended "very mysteriously." And I believe a similar thing happened with Jayatirtha. He was deviating severely, and he would have gone on deviating. And so Krishna arranged a situation where his offenses would be ended. And they were ended. That would make JT more advanced than the others.
When the JT people came to tear me up, JT was silent. He did not defend me in the slightest amount. Silence means acceptance. Silence means acquiescing. And that is what he did. But he was also part of the whole regime that was oppressing me and others all along. And that makes him co-responsible for all the activities of the whole regime. He may have been a small bit player. But all of the players in the Kaurava Family were punished without exception, except for the one brother who made a weak protest. The main perps and the acquiescing silent group -- all were punished Prabhupad said. Because of their silence. So JT knew -- this whole thing is a scam. And he didn't try to save me or anyone else from being victimized by that scam by calling it out, and he was still propping himself as some sort of messiah even at the end.
My life could have been ended by his followers, or from any of the other followers from his bogus guru's group that he had co-created. He co-created this illusion, 11 appointed people are Krishna's successors. And that makes him implicated. And that is perhaps why he had to be removed. So I agree -- he wasn't one of the main kingpins. But he was one of the foundational pins. And he was. A most important pin. And that makes him co-responsible for what happened to me and everyone else who was victimized by his promoting himself and others as false gurus. As far as shastra goes, it says false acharyas are the most dangerous elements in human society.
My kids grew up thinking my life could be ended by these folks at any time, or they were worried I would just be "disappeared." Forever. JT has had no authority to place me or my kids into such a state of anxiety. Srila Prabhupada says a person who places a Vaishnava into stress is never forgiven by the Lord nor any agents of the Lord. In sum, he had no authority to do what he did. And JT sent everyone to Sridhara, who was saying it is common for acharyas to fall down, so he was trying to make excuses for their bad guru process. And this siphoned off thousands of people from ISKCON into the Peace Krishnas, or Sridhara or etc. JT has no authority to siphon away the manpower and assets of a pure devotee. JT also tried to talk to my wife in private about how badly I am deviating, he was trying to break my marriage. All of these things combined are why he has become a responsible party for all the mayhem, either big kingpin or little under-pin, all of them conspired together. ys pd
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INTRODUCTION
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." (George Orwell)
“History is a lie agreed upon.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
George Orwell wrote in his classic book 1984 that “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” In the same way, ISKCON’s leadership has worked relentlessly to distort public and members’ perceptions of the institutional past, or history, by promoting false and manufactured versions of what really happened when Srila Prabhupada was mysteriously ill during 1977 and in the following decades.
They rewrote history to conform to their deviant policies and doctrines, as though ISKCON and its Governing Board Commission (GBC) were the faithful executor of Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and instructions. Unfortunately, since Srila Prabhupada’s physical departure, ISKCON has been changed into something unrecognizable from what he created and left to us. He hoped ISKCON would be maintained without changes and he many times warned his disciples to avoid such a calamity.
“From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way. You manufacture ideas and then I have to waste my time. I have given you everything already, there is no need for you to add anything or change anything. Why you are asking these things? Who has given you such freedom?” (SPL Dhruvananda Jan. 4, 1973)
In his Introduction to the 1946 edition of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley noted that the greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing, but by not doing something. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply being silent on certain subjects, by lowering an effective ‘iron curtain’ between the general devotees and such facts or arguments as the ISKCON GBC regards as undesirable, their totalitarian propaganda is even more effective than their lies.
By this silence in ISKCON, by ignoring, suppressing, concealing, rewriting, and wrongly interpreting what actually took place since Srila Prabhupada became “ill” in 1976, we are not permitted to know the truth, nor are we allowed to speak openly and discuss it.
This volume summarizes and reveals the unvarnished, hidden history of the ISKCON organization from 1977, when Srila Prabhupada was poisoned with lethal levels of heavy metals (see Vol. 1: Srila Prabhupada Triumphant Departure- Complete Book of Poisoning Evidence for the conclusive scientific proof of this tragedy).
This volume is also about Srila Prabhupada’s glorious pastimes. His final instructions as to how ISKCON should be managed, especially in terms of future gurus and initiations, were suppressed and hidden in a “conspiracy of silence” by Srila Prabhupada’s leading disciples, who chose their illicit ambitions over being faithful. The temptation was enormous- to become “as good as God” or an ISKCON successor guru.
They would collect disciples who would worship them as pure devotees, representatives of the Supreme Lord. Wealth, power, glory, prestige, unquestioning loyalty within their own guru empires was more temptation than they could withstand, and they chose “the dark side.”
To this end, they wanted to eliminate Srila Prabhupada so they could take his place, although the poisoning was done by just a few, led by Tamal. Then a dozen or so of the most ambitious and unscrupulous men conspired on a massive fraud-hoax, boldly claiming that they had been appointed by Srila Prabhupada as his guru successors. They all knew this was not true, yet they cooperatively adopted this false narrative, as promoted by Tamal, and then parroted by Hansadutta, Satsvarupa, Hrdayananda, and others.
This appointment lie was accepted universally, hook, line, and sinker, and by the time it began to unravel a decade later, the bogus “living guru” philosophy and a deviant cult was too deeply entrenched in the institutional psyche to dislodge. Like the irretrievably endemic corruption in American democracy, with private interests inextricably woven into the fabric of society, ISKCON by 1987 had become an unredeemable system whereby anyone could easily become a guru, and thousands were hopelessly infected with the disease of this subtle desire.
The starting point and very basis of reform, of restoring Srila Prabhupada’s Divine Mission to its original condition of purity, must be the revelation of siddhantic truth and actual history. One is the spiritual theory, the other is the practice as it occurred. Then, by practically applying the undistorted instructions of the Founder-Acharya, “reformers” or fundamentalists can either revive the original institution, or a new one be established from scratch. This is the purpose of the Personal Ambition Series, to assist in uncovering truth, history, and the best path forward for Srila Prabhupada’s faithful followers.
From the introduction of Henry Doktorski’s Eleven Naked Emperors is a summary of the ISKCON era March 1978 to March 1987:
“During a single scandal-filled decade, eleven leading managers of the ISKCON—more commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement — utilized deception and collective fantasy to enact a bloodless coup, which resulted in the hijacking of a Gaudiya-Vaishnava religious organization, the banishment of dissenters, the abuse of innocents, the brutal murder of one outspoken reformer, and the nearly-fatal hemorrhaging of the society as thousands of once-loyal members defected or were blacklisted.
This ten-year-long reign of self-aggrandizement and political intrigue by the self-appointed leaders, characterized periodically by strong-armed tactics, tainted the society which had been carefully and painstakingly tended to and cultivated from 1966 to 1977 by the society’s founder and spiritual preceptor…
“After Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 departure, eleven senior disciples (“zonal acharyas”) installed themselves as successors. An ‘acharya’ is the spiritual head of an Indian religious institution and ‘zonal’ means a geographic ‘zone’ of control. Therefore ‘zonal acharya’ refers to a spiritual leader who presides over a specific geographical region. Each of the 11 had their own ‘kingdoms’ where they were worshipped as good as God. Their orders were considered coming directly from Lord Krishna, the Absolute Truth and the Cause of all Causes.
Unfortunately, the system of guru succession that they established was fraught with unanticipated and unresolvable issues, least of all that the entire system was based on a fallacy.”
While most ISKCON devotees readily accepted the deception of the supposedly appointed zonal successor gurus, some had doubts, and a few became increasingly adverse to what they sensed or understood was a concoction and deviation, if not a colossal fraud. Soon these doubts increased, especially after the appearance of a quick succession of mounting troubles and anomalies that beset ISKCON post-1977.
The doubters became more vocal and some became outright dissenters, who were ruthlessly crushed by the now oppressive and corrupt ISKCON leadership. Gradually the doubters came to see that Srila Prabhupada’s directions had been grossly disobeyed and that those directions needed to be excavated from the institutional philosophic misinterpretations. Then it would be possible to discern the correct path forward.
Dissenters and “objectioneers” wanted the issues researched and openly, honestly discussed to find out what Srila Prabhupada had really intended for the future of his beloved ISKCON. They knew it was not what they were told by their guru Godbrothers whom they knew were conditioned souls, not fit for delivering fallen souls as a new link in the disciplic succession. The reformers’ discovery process was done by the tedious circulation of Xerox copies of typewritten philosophical tracts and essays. It was an underground circuit of secondary leaders exchanging their considered opinions and shastric realizations.
“If the GBC had been more astute, they might have recognized that the subject of initiations was generally little understood, and commissioned a panel of Brahmins to comb through Prabhupada’s books, lectures and conversations and compile his statements about initiations and the guru-disciple relationship. They could have studied the May 28, 1977 conversation and the July 9, 1977 appointment letter…
“Perhaps the committee could also have interviewed [devotees] who had been privy to Prabhupada’s last conversations regarding the guru succession system for ISKCON. The committee might have even been able to locate the missing tape recordings. In the meantime, a moratorium could have been placed on new initiations. Everyone could have waited a year for the results of this study.... A serious disciple is always conservative in regard to taking license from his guru’s instructions and would not take liberties about such an important act as initiating as a new guru before this study was completed.” (ZA p. 75).
ISKCON’s hidden, largely unknown history from 1977 is a one of pain, turmoil, discord, vanity, fraud, and ruination of the first worldwide and truly spiritual organization for propagating pure love of God. The same happened to the Gaudiya Math in India after Srila Prabhupada’s spiritual master had departed in 1936. Although both acharyas gave clear instructions, they were neglected, hidden, misinterpreted, and superseded with concocted deviations.
This has effectively reduced ISKCON to a shadow of its former glory and potential. It continues to lose spiritual purity and potency as deviant doctrines and grave offenses to Srila Prabhupada, shaktyavesha avatar of Kali Yuga, increases daily into its fifth decade. This should not continue, and must be forcefully, urgently rectified by clear-headed and uncompromised sincere devotees.
This guru hijacking of the Hare Krishna movement was a secretive, vile scheme executed in 1977 and into 1978 by some senior ISKCON leaders, led by Tamal and collaborators like Kirtanananda, Satsvarupa, Hrdayananda, Hansadutta, Bhavananda, and Jayapataka, as well as more passive abettors such as Harikesh, Bhagavan, Ramesvara, and Jayatirtha.
The intense ambition to become an initiating guru was the conspiracy’s fuel. Tamal carefully groomed his façade of devotion and protectiveness towards Srila Prabhupada while the poisoning went on, little by little. He concealed Srila Prabhupada’s instructions as hundreds of tape recordings in his care went missing, especially during the last six months before Srila Prabhupada departed, when much instruction for the future was given. He controlled who visited Srila Prabhupada, what was discussed, and successfully evaded any proper medical attention or diagnosis so that the poisoning was not suspected or discovered.
Both the May 28 conversations and the July 9 Order (letter) were, for the most part, concealed, neglected, and unexplained. A tacit pact coalesced within a group of senior men that they would become the new gurus after Srila Prabhupada departed. This began with Tamal, then Bhavananda, Bhakticharu, Jayapataka, and perhaps a few others, in the poisoning that began July 20, 1976 or even a bit earlier. As it became clear that Srila Prabhupada would be departing, by October-November 1977, Tamal induced the other ritviks that had been appointed in July to join his guru-jacking conspiracy. This is clearly seen between the lines in Satsvarupa’s diary ISKCON In The 1970’s and in other sources.
Open discourse and free speech, amongst other things, are healthy and empowering to an enlightened person. Otherwise one becomes a victim of belief disconfirmation paradigm. But there were no open discussions, no research panels or committees, no brahmanas or pundits consulted, no istagoshtee meetings; nothing except a silent conspiracy climaxing in a coup at the March 1978 Mayapur GBC meetings. The schemers had lined up a majority vote on the GBC body, which then suddenly publicly announced for the first time that Srila Prabhupada had (supposedly) appointed eleven senior devotees as the next ISKCON acharyas. This was a surprise to all ISKCON members, as it had only been discussed amongst the 11 plotters. And it was a bald-faced lie.
There had never been an appointment of gurus, as Tamal himself confessed at Topanga Canyon on Dec. 3, 1980 (see Vol. 2: Anti-Prabhupada). The argument that the appointed ritviks were meant (without any evidence, “it was just understood”) to become full initiating gurus after Srila Prabhupada’s departure did not appear until many years later, only after the zonal acharya system and guru appointment was exposed as a deceptive scam. This was another back-dating cover-up rationalization of their crimes.
In 1978 the GBC blatantly lied that Srila Prabhupada had “appointed eleven new successor acharyas.” This lie was finally admitted by the GBC decades later, but they explained it was just an immature misunderstanding on their part. However, it was greed, lust, desire to become as good as God, as the representative of God, as the spiritual master. They had seen Srila Prabhupada command so much love, service, worship, and absolute authority amongst his disciples, and they wanted the same thing for themselves.
This was as good as it could get in the material world. They wanted the ultimate position: GURU. To get it, some poisoned Srila Prabhupada and they all engaged in a conspiracy to take over as succeeding acharyas, each getting a slice of the ISKCON pie. No one wanted to be just lowly “officiating acharyas.”
“…I am not performing merely a priestly function, however. That is ritvik-acharya. I link them to Srila Prabhupada, their parama-guru, and that goes at once to Krishna. Now they should also turn to me for instruction. We have to have an ongoing relationship- they have to worship their spiritual master I have talked at length with Hrdayananda… Once I come and perform a ceremony, what then?... I do not want the man myself. But I do not want (I dread) to think of myself as a mere priest coming to ‘bless a few heads’ and leave with no inner (only outer) effect on the disciple… I have also been thinking… I should be a transparent medium.” (Satsvarupa, ISK70s, Mar. 28, 1977)
Unfortunately for them, their evil plans were destined to fail, which came quickly. By disobeying Srila Prabhupada’s instructions for ISKCON’s future, they ruined themselves and the Divine Mission (at least temporarily). So many problems arose, and it was an unbelievable havoc. Thousands of sincere Srila Prabhupada disciples were driven out of the institution back into the material world. Srila Prabhupada’s teachings, instructions, and philosophy of Krishna consciousness was twisted and adulterated to accommodate their hidden agenda of securing followers, wealth, and power for themselves.
These evil men used the program of “kill guru, become guru” that Srila Prabhupada had warned about: ‘Now I am so advanced that I can kill my guru and I become guru.’ Then he’s finished.” (SPConv Aug. 16, 1976)
Many will experience shock when confronted with this hidden history, and due to cognitive dissonance, may try to reconcile the new information with their previously held convictions or hopes by denying its veracity. By denial, avoidance, argumentation, or disbelief one may postpone acceptance of reality, but it remains fact.
“I think that the biggest impediment is cognitive dissonance. When someone believes something to be true and then is confronted with evidence/data that contradicts that belief, one of the ways that they cope with the dissonance is to find evidence or an explanation that supports their original belief.” (Anuttama dasi, 2016)
As aptly described by Mahesvara das: "’For the love of money is the root of all evil.’ But money itself is not evil. For love of money, so much that they were prepared to deny Srila Prabhupada's instructions for the future of the mission (the criminal take-over motive) and for that reason they wanted to get rid of Srila Prabhupada (give him poison)- THAT is evil. The manipulation plan was that they could then usurp Srila Prabhupada's disciples (make them slaves), grab assets, money, control media, and change/distort the sacred books to replace Srila Prabhupada with bogus gurus’ ideology and power control.”
(1) “In India, we have a saying: guru-mara-vidya. You sit opposite a guru, learn from him everything, then you kill him, move his dead body aside, and sit in his place, and then you become the guru.” (Srila Prabhupada, cited by Mukunda Goswami, Miracle on Second Avenue)
(2) “We are not proud of this; however, the truth must be explained.” (CC Adi 7.95 purport)
(3) ''We have to defeat tyranny in the realm of thought and create a will for world peace.” (Srila Prabhupada)
(4) “And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.” (Daniel Defoe)
Most Hare Krishna devotees do not know much about the facts of ISKCON history. Many blindly believe what their superiors, friends, or ISKCON guru has told them. The record must be set straight, in light of so much false propaganda and obfuscation from those who want to fend off discovery of historical truths. Institutions falsify the past to keep their membership loyal and subservient to their corruptions (the theme of Orwell’s 1984).
The material world is a dirty place, and it is imperative to clear up the lies and misconceptions which obscure what has happened to Srila Prabhupada’s Divine Mission. Cheating narratives are based on falsified history and science, or on distorted perceptions.
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