The GBC said 75% of their current work is in India.
And that is also where Radhanath's main program is.
Table of Contents
- Author’s Preface to the Full Edition
- Chapter One: The Journey Home Is the Worst Form of Guru Aparadha
- Chapter Two: The Journey Home Could Be the Worst Book in the World
- Chapter Three: The Journey Home Is a Flaccid Study in Compromise
- Chapter Four: The Radhanatha Gita
- Chapter Five: The Dalai Lama
- Chapter Six: Does Pretentious Love and Peace Make You Angry?
- Chapter Seven: Get the Picture
- Chapter Eight: Is it All One? “Whoever Describes Vedic Knowledge as Impersonal is a Demon”
- Chapter Nine: “Ek, Ek, Ek” The Oneness of Ignorance
- Chapter Ten: Krishna’s Dance on the Heads of Kaliya
- Chapter Eleven: Glorifying “Rascal Number One”
- Chapter Twelve: “Maharishi is the Agent of Maya”
- Chapter Thirteen: Truth is a Rare Commodity
- Chapter Fourteen: The LSD Baba
- Chapter Fifteen: The Company We Keep Reviewing Bad Association
- Chapter Sixteen: Shrila Prabhupada - Mayavada Is Not Very Good Logic
- Chapter Seventeen: Sex and the Swami Mayavadi Literature Gives Impetus to Illicit Sex Life
- Chapter Eighteen: Mayavadi Literature
- Chapter Nineteen: Meeting Mother Teresa
- Chapter Twenty: Sahajiyas Dancing on Thin Ice Anemic Contentions from the Camp of Oneness
- Chapter Twenty-one: Spreading the Poison to a Center Near You The Yogification of ISKCON
- Chapter Twenty-two: Destruction by Design From Krishna-loka to Yogaville
PADA: thanks for your question D Dasi. Yes, pretty much all of the bona fide Prabhupadanugas have rejected Bhakta das and his "Saint Radhanath." In fact, the GBC's biggest hero writer Bhakti Vikas swami wrote a paper that was criticizing Radhanath's "The Journey Home" -- as covered mayavada. Ooops, except then BVKS wrote a retraction and apology. Probably the GBC forced him to do so.
And many others have wrote papers to criticize the writings of Radhanath, and how he and his "motivational speakers disciples" rarely mention Prabhupada or Krishna, and how there is a lot of sentimental / new age / feel good / nonsense / Hindu Hodge podge / mayavada / mixed into their speaking. OK it is tinged with mayavada overall.
And meanwhile there are big questions about Radhanath's role in "managing" New Vrndavana where there had been all sorts of abuses, and the possible role he had in the assassination of Sulochana. So why, at this stage, would the GBC and / or people like GBC defender Mathura Pati try to promote Bhakta dasa's Saint Radhanath, knowing how defective he is, and his connections to mayavada, and maybe, murder?
And the answer is simple, likes attract. They would rather listen to the mayavadas who are connected to abuse and maybe murder, than listen to us. Because they are like minded.
Anyway, I think you should study the writings of Kaliya Mardan on this topic because he has done a pretty thorough overhaul. I am one of the people who believes Radhanath has had a large role in the overall corruption at New Vrndvana, probably Sulochana's departure and my near departure.
And I also know ex-children from there who just despise the man. So he has made a lot of victims / enemies along the way. And yes, it is amazing that a person with his track record has become the darling of the GBC, and Bhakta das, and his disciples like Mathura Pati. But the short answer is no, none of the bona fide Prabhupadanugas accept Bhakta's Saint Radhanath as a bona fide authority. And yes, Radhanath's writings are also full of defects, same reason, he listens to bogus people and does not consult us.
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Kaliya Mardana dasa presents a forceful defense of Srila Prabhupada’s original mission in this critical review of Radhanatha Swami’s book, The Journey Home, in which he accuses the ISKCON institution’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) of supporting impersonalist (mayavada) contamination of that mission through their endorsement of the book.
From Chapter 39:
There is an extremely urgent need to utterly wipe out and destroy Mayavada all over the world. That is because impersonalism spells death to the public at large and sends them one and all to hell. Destruction of Mayavada can only be achieved through preaching genuine Krishna consciousness in its pure form exactly as Shrila Prabhupada taught. Wiping impersonalism off the face of the earth will not come about by making convenient adjustments to the words of the spiritual master just to please the ignorant public at large. Not only is impersonalism a direct offense against the Supreme Lord Who is always a person, but to deny the transcendental form of the Lord is also the worst form of ingratitude.
Krishna, God, is giving everything—yet the individual who is deluded by impersonalism thinks that all such benefits he enjoys are automatically supplied for his sense pleasure. With no appreciation or thankfulness he sees no need to recognize from where and from whom, as the Christians say, “all blessings flow.” In this world of conditioned entities there is no sin equal to ingratitude.
The only way to teach genuine thankfulness for the kindness shown by the Supreme Lord is through this personalist philosophy of Krishna consciousness. Keep in mind that only Shrila Prabhupada and none other gave this understanding of an unadulterated path that can deliver the entire world. This is not fanaticism, but rather verified historical fact.
Yet, with the advent of The Journey Home into the temples of Shrila Prabhupada, a GBC of loose cannons has now turned the Krishna consciousness movement 180 degrees away from the intended direction established by the Founder-Acharya. The GBC’s open door policy to Mayavadi cheaters and scoundrels who pose as yogis and avataras (but who are actually wholesalers of sense gratification in the guise of spiritual practices) is an oblique deviation from the teachings that they are avowed to uphold.
Yet, with the advent of The Journey Home into the temples of Shrila Prabhupada, a GBC of loose cannons has now turned the Krishna consciousness movement 180 degrees away from the intended direction established by the Founder-Acharya. The GBC’s open door policy to Mayavadi cheaters and scoundrels who pose as yogis and avataras (but who are actually wholesalers of sense gratification in the guise of spiritual practices) is an oblique deviation from the teachings that they are avowed to uphold.
The GBC has refused to wake up because—as Shrila Prabhupada stated many times — you cannot awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep. In other words, even though they know better, these pretentious “elders” act as if their Radhanatha’s "The Journey Home" is some new form of advancement in preaching Krishna consciousness that has now become acceptable to a rising generation.
Rather than maintaining the steady and secure course of the eternal disciplic succession, they have offensively instituted “out with the old and in with the new.” They have compromised and watered down the teachings of the Founder-Acharya to the extent that, as Krishna told Arjuna, “the message has been lost.”
Such forms of deviousness—willful divergence from the standard practices and principles of parampara on the part of ISKCON’s GBC—are the most serious of all offences. Let us give as the example of the “three-time loser,” a criminal who stands convicted of a crime for the third time. In a court of law, the “three-time loser” or repeat offender is given the maximum sentence under the law.
Such forms of deviousness—willful divergence from the standard practices and principles of parampara on the part of ISKCON’s GBC—are the most serious of all offences. Let us give as the example of the “three-time loser,” a criminal who stands convicted of a crime for the third time. In a court of law, the “three-time loser” or repeat offender is given the maximum sentence under the law.
Such a dull-witted deviant should have learned his lesson if not the first time in court, then surely during his second appearance before the judge. In the same way, those who know better but who refuse to do better are considered incorrigible and are handed the stiffest sentences.
Similarly, this is the law of material nature, the law of karma. Certainly a severe sentence will be the fate of the all those “devotees” who are involved with distributing The Journey Home. Not only the author and the GBC who promote it (including those GBCs who sit silently on the sidelines and do not speak up against this outrage to the Founder-Acharya) but every other devotee who is involved in the distribution of this Mayavadic so-called literature. This means that all the so-called devotees who translate, type, print, and distribute Radhanath’s anti-devotional nonsense in the form of The Journey Home must someday pay the consequences for straying from the prescribed path into the dark wilderness where lurk the dangerous beasts.
MMD: Seems some people promoting themselves as "Prabhupada followers" ... so they can sneak into our camp. Then !!! they announce they are really followers of persons arrested for child porn. And they are upset we are not promoting Radhanath.
ReplyDeleteThey only came to the Prabhupada camp to cause confusion and chaos and harm the Prabhupada people. Infiltrators.
Traitors.
Happens with every movement in Kali. Gaudiya Matha? Infiltration. Even Prabhupada had infiltrators. Criminals. Poisoners.
That is how Kali Yuga harms bona fide devotees ... he sneaks in infiltration. We have to beware of them ... and purge them out of our society. Or else we too ... will become contaminated by their influence.
Radhanath is not called Rotten-nath by some people for no good reason. I see that many women are upset with this whole bunch. The women are seeing they are anti-woman, children, family and wholesome life styles. They are Rotten-naths, or those under his influence.