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Henry Doktorski: I just received a letter of appreciation from a Krishna devotee for my daily posts here on Facebook. Thank you. I am grateful for your encouragement which helps balance the negative comments I also receive. 

DA Dasa writes:

Your consistent posts, Prabhu, are very succinct and they bring to life the history that you have carefully compiled and published in your books. Thank you for serving us kaliyuga people who can't find time to read big books and when we do, usually can't remember and quite specific points.
This type of real propaganda, repeated and with links to the research materials, goes a long, long way towards defeating the bogus propaganda that is keeping up, till now, this charade of the Naked Emperors. I hope it can be brought down before too many more of Srila Prabhupada 's direct disciples leave this world.

Thank you, prabhu, for your love for history & truth and for your readiness to honestly share your own experience of having been under the grip of devotional delusion and how you brought yourself out of it eventually. May more such deluded souls wake up soon.

Hare Krishna.

PADA: Yep. Even media people ask me, "which other senior devotees can we interview"? Ummm, they don't want to be interviewed. Media people: "You mean, they are never going to set the record straight, and are taking their secrets to their grave"? Yep. 

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THE HARE KRISHNA PROJECT (UK)

“The struggle for free speech in ISKCON”

PODCAST: The Hare Krishnas In Britain - Episode 72 – Tuesday 8th August 2023

We’re pleased to welcome Kesava Krsna Prabhu as our guest on this week’s podcast. Originally from Gloucester, UK, he joined the Hare Krishna movement in 1980 after receiving a Bhagavad Gita from devotees in the street. This book would go on to change his life!

After announcing to his parents that he was leaving home, he soon moved to Bhaktivedanta Manor to live as a bramacari for a number of years – whilst also staying for a time at Chaitanya College (ISKCON’s former countryside estate in Worcestershire).

Up until earlier this year, Kesava served as a director and conflict resolution manager with ISKCON Resolve – the initiative founded in 2002 to ‘heal broken wounds' and act as a restorative justice body within the organisation.

Concerned about the curtailment of his own free speech, he left the body earlier this year after feeling the need to ‘speak out’ and ‘stand up’ for those experiencing injustice within ISKCON.

Kesava Krsna das is a well-known writer, activist and campaigner for ‘the underdog’ in ISKCON.

This podcast is not to be missed!

You can watch it:

- Here on Facebook
- and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/@NaradaDasUK

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SP: "There are similarl men also. Unnecessarily they are envious, offensive, unnecessary. They cannot tolerate others' opulence. Just like our Godbrothers. They are envious. What I have done to them? I am doing my business, trying to serve my Guru Mahārāja. 

"But they are envious because I am so opulent. I have got so much fame, so many influence, so much influence all over the world. Everyone is praising me about... That is ignorance. And this is regrettable because they are posing themselves as Vaiṣṇava. Ordinary man can do that, but they are dressing like Vaiṣṇava, and they are so envious. That Tīrtha Mahārāja, unnecessarily he was envious, whole life fighting, fighting, fighting in the court and died." (Prabhupada Room Conversation January 8th 1977, Bombay)

Gaudia Math party factions existed in the Gaudiya matha. The Iskcon movement following in their path of misdirection have hundreds of deviant sects led by materially motivated fake gurus! 

Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Narayana Maharaja 9/30/69:
"Regarding the 92 section case against the Gaudiya Math, I don't think there is any possibility of compromise. Both the Bhagbazar Party [Sridhar Maharaja's group] and Mayapur party [Tirtha Maharaja's group] have unlawfully usurped the missionary institution of Srila Prabhupada, and whenever they will talk of a compromise, it means another complication."

"Despite the spiritual master's order to form a governing body and execute the missionary activities of the Gaudiya Matha, the two unauthorized factions began litigation that is still going on after forty years with no decision. Therefore, we do not belong to any faction. But because the two parties, busy dividing the material assets of the Gaudiya Matha institution, stopped the preaching work, we took up the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and Bhaktivinoda Thakura to preach the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world, under the protection of all the predecessor acaryas, and we find that our humble attempt has been successful". 

(C.C Adi 12. 770422r3.bom Conversations

Prabhupada: He (Sridhara) cannot make any comment. These are facts. Two parties there were. One party, to use guru as their instrument for self-aggrandizement, and another party left guru. So both of them are offenders. This Kunja Babu, this Tirtha Maharaja's party, he wanted to enjoy senses through guru. And the Bagh Bazaar party, they left.
Tamala Krsna: Vasudeva.
Prabhupada: So both of them are severe offenders.
Tamala Krsna: What about Sridhara Maharaja?
Prabhupada: SRIDHARA MAHARAJA BELONGED TO THE BAGH BAZAAR PARTY. And I was living aloof. My Guru Maharaja approved. He said, "It is better that he is aloof from them."
Tamala Krsna: He could understand that his disciples were not...
Prabhupada: No, he was very sorry. AT THE LAST STAGE HE WAS DISGUSTED.

72-08-26. 

Letter: Gaurasundara
All along I HAVE BEEN DISCOURAGED IN EVERY WAY BY MY GODBROTHERS, but still I have stuck to my duty, keeping my Spiritual Master always in front.

72-09-09. Letter: Krsna dasa

MY GODBROTHERS ALWAYS DISCOURAGED ME BUT I DID NOT GIVE UP, I am doing my duty and always keeping my spiritual master in front. Even there is some difficulty or hardship, or even my godbrothers may not cooperate or there may be fighting, still, I must perform my duty to my spiritual master and not become discouraged and go away, that is my weakness.
760618rc.tor Conversations

Prabhupada: Daily night. And he was shocked. ONE OF MY GAUDIYA MATHA GODBROTHERS, BIG, HE BECAME THE HEAD OF THIS BHAG BAZAAR GAUDIYA MATHA. So his wife was debauched, and she was bringing new paramour, and the child protested.
Pusta Krsna: New?
Prabhupada: Paramour. And the boy, he was ten years or twelve years old, he could understand: "Who is this man?" So he protested and said, "I shall tell all these things to my father." And he was killed.
Pusta Krsna: The boy was killed?
Prabhupada: By the mother.
Hari-sauri: She murdered him?
Prabhupada: Yes. Killed means given poison. And the father, that is, my Godbrother, seeing this, he also took poison. This is the end of Gaudiya Matha scandal. He was also one of the trustees. This Tirtha Maharaja was a trustee, and another Godbrother and this man. In the beginning, they were made trustees. In the beginning, Prabhupada was to undergo surgical operation. So he was a little nervous, that "I may die." So he made a scrap paper, that "In case I die, these three disciples will be trustees of the Gaudiya Matha Institute." That's all. So this Kunja Babu kept this. There are many long histories. SO ONE OF THE SO-CALLED TRUSTEES WAS THIS VASUDEVA. So he died, his end was like this.
Pusta Krsna: His son was killed, isn't it?
Prabhupada: His wife was a regular prostitute, and she killed her child, and on this shock, he took poison and died.
Pusta Krsna: He killed himself, oh.
Prabhupada: Naturally, he became shocked, that "This is my family life--the wife is prostitute and son is killed. What is the value of my life?" This was his spiritual realization. Just see. (laughs) AND HE WAS MADE THE CHIEF, AND ONE OF THE SUPPORTER WAS SRIDHARA MAHARAJA.
Pusta Krsna: Vasudeva Sridhara?
Prabhupada: No, no. He was made chief. Guru Maharaja did not make him chief. But after his passing away, some of our Godbrothers voted him chief.
Pusta Krsna: Am I mis...? You had told me once, I'm not certain. Maybe I made a mistake. YOU SAID THAT VASUDEVA, IT WAS KNOWN FACT THAT HE WAS HOMOSEX?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Pusta Krsna: Vasudeva.
Prabhupada: HE WAS HOMOSEX AND SEX, EVERYTHING.

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DEVIATIONS SPOILING THE SANKIRTAN MOVEMENT:
Corruption, Cover-ups, Treachery, Acharya Betrayed

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“Because I am not adulterating the sweet rice with sand, people are tasting it very nice. So you also follow the same principle. Don't try to adulterate. Present it as it is.” (SPLecture July 17, 1971)

THE DIVINE MISSION POISONED
FUNDAMENTAL BASIS SPOILED
CRIMINAL RASCAL MISLEADERS
GURUCRATIC CORRUPT TYRANNY
REGIME OF FALSE, CHEATING GURUS
THE GURU COUP TAKEOVER OF ISKCON
MAYAVADI, SAHAJIYA CONTAMINATION
UNACCOUNTABILITY, COVER-UP CULTURE
DISOBEDIENCE OF THE FOUNDER-ACHARYA
DEVIANT DOCTRINES, UNAUTHORIZED PRINCIPLES

This volume is about the heretical deviations that are corrupting and spoiling the Sankirtan Movement as a result of its being infiltrated by less than holy snakes in saffron, primarily fake, bogus gurus.

In Chaitanya Charitamrita Adi Lila Ch. 9-10, it is described that the transcendental Sankirtan Movement descended with Lord Chaitanya from the spiritual world to Mayapur, India some 500 years ago. The Sankirtan Movement has since grown as the “Chaitanya Tree” with many personalities and their groups of followers being its branches, with 90 branches enunciated from the time during and in the generation after Lord Chaitanya’s 1486 AD appearance. After Lord Chaitanya disappeared in 1533 AD, Kali sent her agents to subvert the Sankirtan Movement and it became almost lost, filled with sahajiyas, aberrants, and imposters. In the mid-1800s Bhaktivinode Thakur wrote of 14 deviant apa-sampradaya sects of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, and by his vigorous preaching he re-established the purity and correct siddhanta of Lord Chaitanya’s teachings.

“So, this Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s birthday, we should adore, we should worship, because in the modern age he re-introduced the disciplic succession. From Chaitanya Mahaprabhu... Five hundred years ago, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu taught this philosophy, but within two hundred years... Because this material world is so made that whatever you introduce, in due course of time it will deteriorate. You make a nice house, but after one hundred years, two hundred years, or nowadays, even after fifty years, it becomes dilapidated. That is the nature's law, kala. Time will destroy everything. Now, British empire, such a big, vast empire, now it is finished.” (SPLecture Sept. 3, 1971)

"In the course of time many unscrupulous men have interpolated chapters; mandalas, sections; and mantras into the Vedas for self-interested reasons. A Vedic text may be discovered somewhere, but that does not mean that all parts of the book are authentic. " (Jaiva Dharma, Part One, Bhaktivinode Thakur)
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati in Sri Sajjana-Toshani (The Harmonist) Vol. XXV, Sept. 1927 No.4 wrote:

''Within the Gaudiya Sampradaya an abundant crop of evils have sprung up during the last four hundred years. The first and foremost duty of an Acharya is to uproot those evils completely. He alone is an Acharya who teaches the Dharma that he himself practices."

Bhaktivinode’s son Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur took up the same cause and in 1920 founded the Gaudiya Mission. By 1936, when Bhaktisiddhanta left this world, he had established 64 temples and trained thousands of disciples, and Lord Chaitanya’s movement was making substantial progress in freeing the conditioned souls from material existence. Unfortunately his leading disciples disobeyed his instructions and installed false acharyas, leading to a chaotic breakup and subterfuge of his accomplishments. Bhaktisiddhanta’s faithful disciple, Srila Prabhupada, later came to America in 1965, becoming the self-effulgent Founder-Acharya of ISKCON, a resurrection of the wayward Gaudiya Math. 

He established 108 temples, initiated 5000 disciples, translating and commenting on the main Gaudiya Vaishnava literatures, including Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagwatam.

Some of Srila Prabhupada’s ambitious disciples poisoned him with heavy metals in 1976-77, proven by a series of hair tests in 1999-2005, and confirmed by medical symptoms, witnesses, forensically certified caretaker whispers about poisoning (recorded Nov. 11, 1977), and by Srila Prabhupada stating several times that he had been maliciously poisoned. He and his caretakers discussed homicidal poisoning at length Nov. 9-10, but amazingly nothing was done and the issue was buried for 20 years. Srila Prabhupada’s poisoning is studied in Vol. 1-4 of this series. After Srila Prabhupada departed, in early 1978 the ISKCON GBC falsely claimed 11 senior men had been appointed as successor acharyas, but actually they had only been chosen by Srila Prabhupada as his future proxy-initiators, called ritvik representatives.

ISKCON fell into a decade of chaos as these “gurus” ran amok, their fallen condition soon made obvious. The remnants of the Gaudiya Math took advantage, absorbing alienated ISKCON members, and spread outside India, garnering interest from ISKCON’s diaspora. Tamal led a major split in ISKCON to Narayana Maharaja’s rasika bhakti camp. Started by the New Jaipur farm community, a new and diverse Prabhupadanuga movement based on the July 9 Order has been expanding (including the 1998 Bangalore split). Meanwhile ISKCON’s GBC struggled to deal with schisms (see Vol. 5) and the anomalies caused by their weird, illogical, and ashastric guru-initiation systems. ISKCON’s first female diksha guru appeared in 2022, over which its India temples and leaders were threatening to secede.

Thus the Sankirtan Movement has evolved and the Chaitanya Tree has many new branches, although there is a strong case to be made that most of the branches from 1937 onwards are diseased, dying, or dead, due to severe offenses and disobedience to the instructions of Bhaktisiddhanta and Srila Prabhupada. As explored in this volume and reviewed in the Epilogue, Lord Chaitanya’s Sankirtan Movement has been largely spoiled by deviations, disobedience to the bona fide Acharyas, sahajiya-mayavadi pollution, cover-ups with hypocrisy and lying propaganda, corruption, misinterpretation of shastra, Srila Prabhupada’s books being adulterated, and his teachings neglected.

Somehow, amidst all the effects of these subversions by Kali and her agents, the Sankirtan Movement, while sharply diminished in purity and potency, compared to during Srila Prabhupada’s manifest presence 1966-1977, still survives and spreads. But unless the offenses and deviations are corrected, and the pure teachings of the living current-link Acharya, Srila Prabhupada, are broadly re-established, the Hare Krishna movement will continue to suffer and dwindle. A cancer patient will die unless his disease is cured by proper medical methods. The majority of the Chaitanya Tree’s branches today are not healthy, and many are likely effectively expired. The disease in question is false guru ambition, or Tamalism, which sprouts from the conditioned soul’s immemorial desire to be God (or as good as God, the guru).

PERSONAL AMBITION Series:

Volume 1: Srila Prabhupada: Triumphant Departure: Poisoning Evidence
Volume 2: Anti-Prabhupada: Deviant Impact of Tamal Krishna Goswami
Volume 3: Pursuit of Srila Prabhupada’s Poisoners
Volume 4: Srila Prabhupada’s Mysterious Health Decline 1976-1977
Volume 5: ISKCON Hidden History: Coup, Schisms, Scandals, Utopia Lost
Volume 6: Deviations Spoiling the Sankirtan Movement
Volume 7: Kill Guru Become Guru: A Primer on Srila Prabhupada’sPoisoning
Volume 8: Restoring Srila Prabhupada’s Divine Mission
Volume 9: Srila Prabhupada: The Current Link Living Acharya
Volume 10: Vedic Villages: Experiments in Varnashrama Projects
Volume 11: Srila Prabhupada: Shaktavesh Avatar of Truth and Mercy
Volume 12: Let The Jackals Howl: The Caravan Will Pass