New Video / Tariffs / Kasyapa Writes 02 21 26

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PADA: Yeah the ordinary Joe citizen is paying the tariffs, which is really a tax, estimated at $1,000 - $4,500 for the average family depending on the type of household. This is also called inflation, which MAGA said they would bring down, but instead they are making household costs go up.

Meanwhile the billionaires get big tax breaks. Meanwhile farmers, wineries, bourbon makers, airplane manufacturers, and many other USA producers -- all lose their markets because other countries are quitting, boycotting and cancelling their USA contracts to buy from USA. And many of these USA producers go bankrupt, or cannot add more workers and expand etc. 

And places like Las Vegas and other tourist places dry up because foreign tourists are also boycotting -- after the USA insulted their country as "criminals who are ripping off the USA." Then MAGA is going to bail out the USA farmers who went bankrupt due to losing their sales -- thanks to the MAGA tariff wars -- with money collected from tariffs, but the Supreme Court says these tariffs are not legal and are -- a tax. 

Where is the bail out money coming from now? And the $12B bail out will not cover the $100B farm losses. "A drop in the bucket" said one farmer. This is also producing a giantic legal imbroglio nightmare, and ocean of hundreds of thousands of courts cases, where people will sue the government to get their tariffs refunded. All these hundreds of thousands of cases were made by the "smaller government" folks! The average Joe will never get his tariff losses back.

America meanwhile loses hundreds of billions in lost tourism, lost sales, cancelled contracts, and many companies and farmers go bankrupt, which increases unemployment. Meanwhile farmers and construction companies cannot find workers because they were all deported, and they also go bankrupted. Also losing billions of dollars.  

Meanwhile China is making record amounts of trade and has a $1.2 trillion trade surplus profit, because people are stopping buying USA products, and they are switching over to buying from places like China. But all this is required so a few rich folks can get more billions. So? Do I think all this is America First? No, I think it is billionaires first.      

Meanwhile business executives are complaining that MAGA's day to day changes in tariffs, from 10%, to 25%, 50%, 100%, 125%, threats of 500% -- are creating chaos for their ordering supplies and stabilizing their business planning. They cannot project their business expenses with all this chaos going on. No one would buy a car if they did not know if the interest was going to be 4%, 10%, 25%, 125% and so on, it stops business from being transacted.

So the result is, businesses overall are cutting back, slowing down -- not adding new jobs -- and not expanding their business, because they cannot properly plan for future expenses. They thought the Supreme Court would solve this, but MAGA simply announced a series of work arounds -- so they can keep collecting money by taxing the average Joe citizen, and continue to create chaos for the business world. 

But hey, my MAGA devotee friends said they wanted someone who would shake things up, and that is what they have, a guy who is adding $4 trillion more to the deficit and he is causing higher prices for the citizens. And he is making investors move their manufacturing to China and other places where they can actually plan out their business model on a stable basis, without day to day changes in the whole process. 

OK MAGA was a mistake, and I think even some of their die hard followers are starting to figure that out. Meanwhile it looks like they are back pedaling on the Epstein files, more unkept MAGA promises. Same thing, even some of the die hards are complaining. It looks to me like MAGA is in trouble. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   

JD: Holy unstable-ness, 10% went to 15% in one day. No wonder! People are making factories in China. Needs a stable plant base. People are going to just quit trying ... and wait for the next president. Right ... average person is paying the 10% or 15%, not China. Voted to pay more, and got what they voted for! More countries will boycott USA ...  

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The Epstein Files: So Much Fuss For What? -- (Kasya dasa)

The recent unsealing of documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein has produced the usual ritual of public shock. Headlines gasp. Commentators clutch pearls. Institutions promise “full transparency,” which in modern language means releasing just enough truth to confirm what everyone already suspected — and just a little enough to protect the machinery that allowed it.

Everyone is surprised. Again. But surprise, in this case, is not innocence. It is a theater. Because Epstein was not an anomaly. He was a symptom — a well-tailored symptom of a civilization that worships wealth, rewards manipulation, and treats restraint as a psychological disorder.

From a Krishna-conscious perspective, the Epstein story is not primarily about one man’s pathology. It is about lust when it evolves from private weakness into institutional privilege. Not the sinful inconvenience. Not the regrettable misstep. The all-devouring enemy. And lust has a predictable career path. First, it whispers. Then, it negotiates. Then, it demands. Finally, it governs. Epstein did not invent this force. He industrialized it, monetized it.

Money was not Epstein’s true power. Money is just paper with better public relations. His real currency was access — proximity to prestige, influence, and vanity. He offered powerful people the one thing more intoxicating than wealth: the illusion that consequences were optional. This is how illusion — māyā — actually works. It does not appear as a monster. It appears as a private jet. It does not threaten. It reassures. It whispers: “You are different. The rules are for others.” And people believe it — not because they are stupid, but because they are attached.

Epstein did not look like a villain. He looked like a donor. This is important. Because material society rarely trusts saints, but instinctively trusts wealth. A man in simple clothes is questioned. A man in a suit is obeyed. Krishna consciousness reverses this illusion. It teaches that external polish has no correlation with internal clarity. A person may be materially sophisticated and spiritually bankrupt. Another may appear materially insignificant and yet be internally free. Epstein’s empire depended entirely on confusing these two categories. And society cooperated enthusiastically.

Many ask: how could so many intelligent people remain silent? Because silence is often more profitable than truth. Lust creates attachment. Attachment creates dependence. Dependence creates silence. This is not merely moral weakness. It is metaphysical gravity. Once one’s identity becomes tied to prestige, wealth, or influence, truth becomes dangerous because truth threatens the false self that was constructed to enjoy those privileges. Krishna consciousness calls this false identity the ahaṅkāra — the ego, the great impostor. Epstein did not create ego. 

He simply learned how to feed it.

Files will be released. Names will circulate. Outrage will trend. And then? The same civilization that created Epstein will continue producing his successors. Because the root problem is not legal. It is existential. A culture that teaches people they are merely sophisticated animals should not be surprised when they behave like unrestrained animals.

Krishna consciousness offers a radical alternative: you are not the body. You are not your urges. You are not your appetites. You are ātmā — conscious, eternal, and capable of mastery over the impulses that enslave the untrained mind. Without this understanding, intelligence simply becomes a more efficient servant of desire. People have unrestricted sex life with anything — mothers, daughters, children, animals. Nothing is shocking about Epstein's. It will get only worse until people understand the need to stop this so-called freedom of sex with anything and in any way. Sex need is a byproduct, not the goal.

Epstein’s death did not kill the disease. It merely buried one of its most visible symptoms.

Lust still governs markets. Prestige still overrides conscience. Illusion still sells itself as sophistication. And society still confuses power with purity. Krishna consciousness does not express surprise at this. It expresses a diagnosis. The real prison was never Epstein’s cell.

It is the human mind when it forgets its spiritual nature. And unlike sealed documents, that prison can only be opened from within.
#EpsteinFiles #harekrishna
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"Even you insult Krishna, He will tolerate. But if you insult His devotee, He will never tolerate. Then you are finished. Then you are finished. Just like a big man. If you insult him, he may think, “All right, let him.” But if you insult or do something harm to his child, he will never tolerate. He will never tolerate. Similarly, a devotee who is dependent on Krishna in everything, and if somebody does harm to him, insults him, Krishna will never tolerate. That is explained in the Caitanya-caritamrta, vaisnava-aparadha. Tara madhye vaisnava-aparadha hati matta. So we should be very careful not to offend Vaisnava devotees. Not to offend. This is greatest offense".

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--- The Vaishnavi Diksha Guru: First Understand What Diksha Actually Is ---

Much of the debate about female diksha gurus suffers from a fundamental defect: 

people argue about who can give diksha without first understanding what diksha actually is. Without this foundation, the entire discussion floats in vagueness, sentiment, and institutional politics — instead of siddhānta. Before asking who can give diksha, one must ask what diksha is, what actually happens, and who the real initiator is. Until this is understood, the rest is noise.

The classical definition of diksha is given in the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa:
divyaṁ jnānaṁ yato dadyātkuryāt pāpasya saṅkṣayamtasmād
dīkṣeti sā proktādeśikais tattva-kovidaiḥ

"Diksha is the process by which divine knowledge is transmitted and sins are destroyed."

Two things happen:

Transmission of divya-jnāna (transcendental knowledge)

Destruction of sinful reactions

Not symbolically. Not sentimentally. Actually. Diksha is not the giving of beads. Diksha is not the whispering of syllables. Diksha is the awakening of spiritual reality in the consciousness of the disciple. The external ceremony formalizes it. It does not create it. The person who embodies these two principles is a guru.
Krishna confirms in Bhagavad-gita (10.11): "I destroy the darkness of ignorance with the lamp of knowledge." The guru does not manufacture realization. The guru transmits Krishna’s mercy. Krishna is the ultimate initiator (caitya-guru), acting through the external guru. The external guru is the transparent via medium. This is why guru is honored as good as Krishna — not because of bodily identity, but because of functioning conviction.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura strongly emphasized that diksha is not a mere ritual. He warned against reducing diksha to a social ceremony. He explained that diksha means awakening sambandha-jnāna — the disciple’s real relationship with Krishna. Without the transmission of realization, the ceremony alone is insufficient. He established initiation not as cultural, social or institutional inheritance, but as spiritual transformation. Remember, we are still talking not about formality.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explained diksha in precise, practical terms. Initiation means beginning the process of spiritual purification under authorized guidance. He explained that the mantra received in disciplic succession carries spiritual potency. The mantra is not material sound. It is spiritual sound descending through parampara. The guru connects the disciple to this current. Without this connection, a mantra remains external sound. 

With it, a mantra becomes a spiritual force. That is for the initiation of any other mantra but Krishna's names. Anyone can chant Hare Krishna Mahamantra or numerous bhajans, deriving full spiritual benefits without undergoing the formal ceremony. Formality of harinam initiation falls within pancarātrika viddhi. 

Serves as confirmation of official acceptance into paramparā and the disciple's expression of a serious dedication to the process of sravanam-kirtanam. The formality is a natural consequence for the neophytes on the path of bhakti, but not an absolute necessity. There are several instances when Srila Prabhupada and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati performed harinam diksha in rather unusual and informal ways, or not at all.

The guru is like a wire. Electricity does not originate in the wire. It flows through it. If the wire is properly connected, electricity flows. If disconnected, nothing flows. The guru connects the disciple to Krishna through parampara. This connection is diksha. This is why qualification matters, not bodily designation, and the formality of the ceremony. Unfortunately, there are many cases of formality being done, but hardly, if at all, any transmission of sambandha or removal of sinful tendencies on the disciple's part. That means a connection was lost. It is no magic. It is a tangible process.

The Shastra defines guru qualifications clearly in several places. One must be fixed in Krishna consciousness, self controlled, free from material motive, faithful to parampara, and established in realization. The qualification is realization and fidelity — not anatomy. The soul has no material gender. Krishna does not empower based on bodily form. He empowers based on surrender.

The guru does not own the disciple. Both guru and disciple are servants of Krishna. The guru’s function is to guide the disciple back to Krishna. Not to create dependence on himself as controller. But to connect the disciple to Krishna. A genuine guru decreases ego, not increases it. He removes ignorance and doubts. He enthuses the disciple.

When Diksha is misunderstood as organizational rank, depersonalized institutional authorization, and emotional social ceremony, then the spiritual essence is lost. Diksha becomes external form without internal substance. The real diksha is the transmission of realization through faithful connection. The ceremony formalizes what must be spiritually real.

If Diksha is the transmission of divine knowledge through parampara, then the relevant question is simple. Is the person properly connected and qualified? Not what is the biological structure of the temporary body they occupy. If a person is fully faithful to parampara and fixed in Krishna consciousness, Krishna can act through them. If not, external designation cannot compensate. This applies equally to men and women. Because Diksha is not a biological function. It is a spiritual transmission.

The external guru is Krishna’s representative. Krishna is the real initiator. The guru connects the disciple to Krishna. This is the essence of diksha according to shastra, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, and Srila Prabhupada. When this principle is understood, secondary debates lose their emotional charge. The real focus returns to the essence. Faithful transmission of Krishna consciousness through realized souls in disciplic succession. One is empowered to act as a guru, urged by Krishna, his guru, and other Vaishnavas. It does not work based on votes, depersonalized resolutions giving no solutions, or on one's own ambition to get a good following and income from disciples.
#iskcon #vaishnavi #FDG #VDG #diksha
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ANOTHER GODBROTHER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, DEFENDING SRILA PRABHUPADA

Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja Defends Srila Prabhupada

BY: BHAGAVAT DASA (ACBSP)

Dec 7, USA (SUN) — Advice for the so-called editors of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja was given the opportunity to reveal to the world the unrivalled perfection of Srila Prabhupada's masterful translation from Sanskrit into English of Bhagavad Gita. Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja was given the service by Srila Prabhupada of translating all of His books into the Odiya language. Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja was a great scholar who could write and speak in five languages: Odiya, Hindi, Bengali, English, and Sanskrit. He got his degree in English from the University with a minor in Sanskrit. He translated Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad Gita with the greatest love and devotion and attention for detail.

PADA: Gaura Govinda Maharaja consulted with his sankrit pals to "prove" that Srila Prabhupada's saying we originated with Krishna is bogus and wrong. He made a whole series of videos saying that Back to Godhead is a bogus idea because we were never there. He never followed Srila Prabhupada's ideas, and in fact he challenged them, which is why he was voted into a sex with taxi drivers guru parampara as well. ys pd

New Bhajan / ISKCON laws / Garuda and Ajamila / Wolves in Saffron 02 19 26

 

Sridhara Maharaja being cited:

A Moment of Truth for ISKCON — and for All of Us | February, 16, 2026 Swami Padmanabha 

Most Recent Videos In Part 2 of "Is This the End?" 

Swami Padmanabha reflects on spiritual authority, institutional belonging, and the evolving dynamics of guru-tattva in contemporary devotional life. Drawing on the legacy of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, and B. R. Sridhar Maharaj, he situates present tensions within a broader historical continuum, inviting us to reconsider what genuine loyalty to a tradition truly means. 

Through the lens of Radical Personalism, Swami explores the balance between personal realization and institutional structure, the risks of impersonal authority, and the need to cultivate thoughtful, discerning practitioners. 

Acknowledging the grief, anger, and uncertainty many feel, he calls for mature, integrity-centered engagement — neither passive conformity nor cynical withdrawal. He concludes with a hopeful vision of a future where spiritual authority flows from realized character, institutions serve relationships, and truth — satyam param dhīmahi — remains our highest guiding principle. 

PART 1: Exploring ISKCON’s Multi-Layered Polycrisis - February 6th, 2026 • Exploring ISKCON’s Multi-Layered Polycrisi...

PADA: Ok so the radically personal Sridhara Maharaja makes a bi-sexual deviant as "the person" we all needed to worship as God's successor after 1936. And the man falls down, condemns the Gaudiya Vaishnavas and Srila Saraswati, becomes a smarta, and eventually drinks poison to die because his son was murdered with poison -- to keep the mission from having its scandals exposed. Great "persons" that "radically personal" Sridhara selects as his acharyas. Yep, he personally selects deviants to be acharyas. 

OK Sridhara just artificially makes conditioned souls as gurus and does not select actually qualified persons as his gurus. Worse, Srila Prabhupada says "they insisted on it." And then Sridhara became the darling promoter of the GBC 11 gurus. 

Now swami Padmanabha says we have to be -- "Acknowledging the grief, anger, and uncertainty many feel, he calls for mature, integrity-centered engagement — neither passive conformity nor cynical withdrawal." You mean like the thousands of children who were being starved, beaten and molested in the guru schools managed by Sridhara's acharyas? 

And those of us who were banned, beaten and killed for protesting the child abuse, after Sridhara Maharaja ordered "none should protest." None should protest starving, beating and molesting children? Or get killed, like protesters after 1936 were killed? 

Sorry, I see no personally responsible anything going on here. They promote the wrong persons as gurus, and then do not take any responsibility for all the problems they create, including mass banning, beating, molesting suing and killing -- and their protecting all that process by saying "none should protest" "you will disturb the faith in the sisyas." 

OK Sridhara Maharaja has faith in worship of homosexuals and pedophiles as messiahs, and the rest of us do not. So integrity centered engagement means, admit this is wrong, and admit Sridhara is responsible for creating mayhem -- for generations. ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  

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BANGALORE VIDEO 

HK: The Bangalore video didn't talk about recent cases: 2012: HH Loknath Swami restricted by GBC for sexual abuse of child 2024: HH Giriraj Swami restricted by GBC for sexual relationship with disciple 2025: HH Trivikram Swami confessed sexual relationship with disciple. All this is published by official ISKCON GBC website.

PADA: Hansadutta had a personal harem of half dozen women, or more. One of the husbands of one of the women was going to the farm to "take out Hansadutta." And I restrained him and literally saved Hansadutta's life. 

Jayatirtha, Satsvarupa, Harikesh, Bhagavan, Kirtanananda, OK many of the others have been having affairs. Hansadutta was very grateful [???] I saved his life. After that he sent three enforcers from New Vrndavana to have me taken to the cemetary, I was only saved because the FEDS were tapping his phone and they sent undercover agents to protect me, and they did, they arrested the enforcers when they came to get me. 

Jayadvaita says their gurus have been engaged in affairs with men, women and maybe children, and then later he said that is the fault of the 5 years old gurukula children who "selected the wrong guru." They did not study the shastra properly! But Jayadvaita has studied the shastra, and that is why he annoints these predators as acharyas. ys pd

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GARUDA AND AJAMILA

Hare Krsna! Puranjan Prabhu, last time you advertised Garuda das for BG :

But we can see he was also into distributing his OWN version of BG and criticising Srila Prabhupada. This Ajamila - he is against Ritvik system. He was the one who wanted to take away my shopping trolley in London (it was filled with Ritvik Docs "Betrayal" etc) You still trust them????

PADA: OK when I post a news item here, it does not always mean I trust or support the persons in the news. Garuda has been one of the best people around to gather quotes in support of original books, hold forums on the issue, make all sorts of propaganda for original books etc., perhaps more than almost any other devotee. But yeah, he is compromised in many other ways, and in fact he is sort of pals with guys like Jayadvaita. 

I agree, he has problems. He never seems to comment on my child abuse issue or the bogus guru issue when he meets with the GBC guys etc. But as I explained before, he only became prominent because almost no one else was addressing the issue. 

Krishna Kant and Kamasahanta for example ordered me do NOT sue the BBTI, "you are AGITATING the GBC, making it hard for us to make a deal." Later on, the HKC Jaipur guys started to cite these Kamsahanta guys, saying hey, why is Puranjana agitating our favorite pedophile messiahs, and he wants original books? Whereas Garuda is collating citations that would help a BBTI lawsuit. 

And then Prabhupadnaugas EU Mathura Pati joined them, Puranjana is suing our favorite pedophile messiahs, he is causing them to lose our precious golden shekels! While oddly, all these guys claim the want original books. They don't. They despise our efforts to make them. 

When are they going to make a deal with the GBC over the original books? How about never, it is all bluff 100%. But Krishna Kant still has complaints on his web site, Puranjana is deviating because he is suing my favorite enforced cult ritualist worship of homosexuals and pedophiles as messiahs club, and he is saving hundreds of children who are being pulled out of that process. We cannot be saving children, verbotten!    

So same type thing with Ajamila. He does not like us, but he also does not like the book changes, so he is sort of an ally on a few points. I also post many comments on the child abuse, which he posts a "like" because he approves me on some levels. 

Oddly, he lets me post all sorts of things on his forum and he does not block me. So yeah, he is for and against us, because he is obviously -- confused -- like a lot of devotees. Many hate me, but agree with my ideas, OK they have been polluted by GBC-ism and they cannot figure out the whole picture. They agree with me on the child abuse, book changes and sometimes even the poison issue, but they hate my guts anyway. 

That is because they still have some level of sympathy for the GBC process, and they cannot be loyal to either me, or the GBC, so they are sort of in no man's land. Lots of Gaudiya Matha people ended up same, they did not like the bogus gurus, but could not support making Srila Saraswati the acharya. Confused. Rocana is similar, he helped the child molesting lawsuit, he does not like changed books, but he still thinks he is going to reform these GBC guys and make them behave, which he will never do. ys pd    

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THE STORY

This upcoming documentary exposes the systematic child abuse within the boarding schools of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. It examines how institutional failures allowed this abuse to continue for decades.
Sanaka Rsi guides viewers through his personal journey as a former gurukula student, grappling with the contradiction between founder Srila Prabhupada's vision of loving educational environments and the harsh reality he experienced. His search for answers leads him to question whether spiritual leadership can coexist with the protection of abusers.

Vedasara, a survivor of sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators within the organization, shares his testimony and his decades-long fight for justice. Despite repeated failures to achieve institutional accountability, he has found a path forward rooted in forgiveness and a commitment to protecting current and future children.

Dhira Govinda, former director of ISKCON's Child Protection Office, provides an insider's perspective on the corruption he witnessed—revealing how the organization systematically failed victims while shielding perpetrators.
The film exposes prominent ISKCON leader Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin) as a key enabler who maintained his position of influence while allegedly supporting known abusers. 

It reveals that Bhakti Vidya Purna (Alan Ross Wexler) abused children for 40 years at Mayapur gurukula, and Dhanurdhara Swami (Dennis Winiker), former principal of Vrindavan Gurukula, subjected children to savage physical abuse. The documentary examines how these figures were protected by the institution, explores the devastating toll on survivors, and ultimately asks whether ISKCON can find redemption after straying so far from its founder's principles.

DON'T WORRY -- BE HAPPY.

You will be pulled off My magical Maya's theater stage 

soon enough.

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PADA: Mukunda UK does not like Nathan because he does not think we should be helping Mukunda advertising for reading Hitler's Mein Kampf, and instead Nathan wants people to read original books. Hey, I am in favor of original books! Good job! This is more than most people are doing! ys pd

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HOW OUTSIDERS VIEW ISKCON

ISKCON? What a funny lot they are with their extraordinary titles and peculiar interpretations of Vedas. They sneer at every other branch of the Hindu fold and insult the great realizers of our time such as Sri Ramakrishna, Anandamayi Ma, Ramana Maharishi. Pompous and self regarding, in love with their tilaks and kuntis attempting to bestow rules and regulations on all. 

Foolishness of a high order when they are riddled with scandals, particularly child abuse of all stripes! This cult has taken much from the colonial Christian converters of the eighteenth and nineteenth century in its tactical approach to mass religious sanctimony. I will say their temples are clean and peaceful, but woe betide any intelligent conversation with these prabhus!!!! 

Prabhupada was no match for the above mentioned or Devraha Baba or Neem Karoli Baba which is why he avoided them like the plague and wrote all Yogis off as Babajis. While he can be seen as an inspirational figure his highly repetitive interpretation of Scripture belongs to the class of sectarian pundit rather than illumined sage. The state of mind of his rabid cultic followers illustrated the validity of this point.

PADA: OK so when we said mass child abuse is a MAJOR problem, almost all the devotees said: -- so what, who cares, you are a nobody; a personna non grata; get out of ISKCON; you are an offender; leave us alone; you are the lone wolf barking at the moon etc. They forgot that a mass child abuse problem left unattended will eventually explode into the public arena and create big scandals. As it has.

We can only cover these things up for so long, and then it becomes a large scale publicly known problem. An odious looking scandal. Just look at the whole Epstein thing, all sorts of big wig people knew there was a problem, but no one did much of anything, instead -- efforts of cover up were made, and now it is all over the media. The cover up looks just as bad as the original crimes. 

Of course, there are complaints it is still being covering up and we are not getting to the root issues. Bottom line, cover up of child abuse often ends up badly, for the victims and for the cover ups. And it makes the organization look bad. 

And thus now more and more people are publicly criticizing ISKCON as a haven for child abuse. That means, not listening to us -- one or two crank cases -- forced the issue out into the mass of public where it is no longer "one lone wolf PADA fool barking at the moon and talking about it." Now millions and millions of people know about it, and worse, they know some of us who protested -- like Sulochana -- were murdered by ISKCON goons. 

Yes, we are gurus, and yes, that means we are "riddled with scandals particularly child abuse of all stripes." That is EXACTLY what we warned about originally. We have to contain this problem, or it will explode into the public arena -- never mind many children will suffer exploiting, become victims, and live a distressed life of trauma, psychological problems, drug abuse, potentially suicide and etc. 

Silencing us simply caused the problem to get exponentially worse, and then leak out in other formats. And now it looks more and more -- to the public -- like "rabid cultic followers" than a bona fide religion, which is what we said would happen. I take no joy in this, because we all have to now suffer getting a bad public image, but -- I told ya!  

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com 

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ORIGINAL BOOKS, at least I hope this is being done right. 

MALAYSIAN DEVOTEES TO BEGIN LEGAL PRINTING OF SRILA PRABHUPADA'S ORIGINAL AND UNCHANGED BHAGAVAD-GITA LATER THIS YEAR!!! MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON...

If you can help in any way with the first printing of these original editions of Bhagavad-gita As It Is in Malaysia, please contact Ajamila Dasa ACBSP on WhatsApp on +60 17 227 6208 or email him at arthursvastu@gmail.com


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DESIRE FOR PRESTIGE

Achyutananda: One time Prabhupada and I visited Lalita Prasada, Bhaktisiddhanta's brother, who looked exactly like their father, Bhaktivinode Thakura. In his house I saw some of the hand written books written by Bhaktivinode Thakur. At that time Prabhupada was living in Bhaktivinode Thakura's birthplace in Birnagar. Prabhupada said, "We will take care of you. We will develop this place. It will be an international center."

Lalita Prasada said, "Yes, but I must be guru. You must step down and I must be acharya."

Prabhupada said, "Okay", and we left.

Prabhupada then looked at me and said, "I didn't believe it, that even after giving up lust, desire for prestige lingers on even to the end."

When I asked him, "What broke up the Gaudiya Matha?" Prabhupada said, "They were always worried who was going to give initiation. They couldn't wait a few years until a guru manifested?" He said, "My Godbrothers were fighting over material properties and money."

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PADA IS THE ENTIRE PROBLEM (update)

PADA: Oh no, another GBC guy from India complains that I am "giving ISKCON a bad name." 

My reply:

Dear Prabhu, When I told Jayapataka there is a mass child mistreatment program in 1979, he told me to take all of this to court. So we had them sued for $3,000,000 then later on sued for $400,000,000 for that issue, because the GBC wanted a public court process. They wanted all of this in the public courts and news. 

Are you saying we should have allowed more children to become victims and not taken any action? They told me they wanted all this dirt in the media and courts. Sivarama swami met with us? No, he supported the illicit affairs with men, women and children guru program and helped have us removed.

They also sent enforcers here to take out my associate, and put him in an early grave, which they did, when he was complaining about the mass child mistreatment. And they would have taken me out and put me into the graveyard, except the FEDS arrested the three people then sent here from New Vrndavana to remove me from my body. 

All of that was all over the TV and news. The GBC wants all sorts of bad media stories about their scandals such as "Monkey On A Stick" books and movies (which I am in). So I was interviewed a number of times in the media over -- why ISKCON guru process wanted me in the early graveyard and not alive anymore? It was a scandal they wanted to make, not us? And I always have to explain in the media, they wanted to take me out because I complained about the mass child mistreatment.

When Jayatirtha was taken out by a disciple -- because he was having affairs with followers, that was all over the news medias "Guru's head removed." That does not include all sorts of other bad medias going on constantly. Then the GBC sued Bangalore, which was also in all over the newspapers. The GBC went back to court again with Bangalore recently, and it was all in the news media. They WANT bad media.

They removed me for complaining about criminal things, including mass child mistreatments -- and wanted all this in court -- because -- they want bad publicity. They told me they want bad media public court cases -- and yes -- that means -- bad media. Then the Jayapataka people complained I cost ISKCON $100,000,000 by supporting a number of lawsuits, but they are the ones who told me -- they wanted me to work with PUBLIC lawsuits. 

So if we allow child mistreatment to go on, and not challenge that process, then we are enabling mass child mistreatment and we are implicated. It amazes me that GBC people are complaining that we are against child mistreatment, and they are angry with me, but not angry at the people who made the child mistreatment problem that we had to sue -- like Jayapataka.

Sivarama fully supported the guru parampara of illicit affairs with men, women and children, he does not even know that this is not part of Krishna's parampara. He also complained that I was causing publicity, because he wanted me not to help the thousands of children victims.

A person who is artificially making illicit affairs with men, women and children into gurus and God's successors -- wants bad media, because bad media always follows such a process -- because it is unacceptable even for the karmis. And yes, anyone who makes illicit affairs with men, women and children into Krishna's successors had better be challenged, because if we do not, we are implicated in acquiescing, and Chanakya Pandit says those who cover up crimes are equal as the criminals. 

You guys always tell me I should remain silent on the mass child mistreatment process, that is aiding and abetting the crime. It is amazing I am always advised by GBC guys to sit back and do nothing when children are victims. Of course just telling children to worship people who are engaged in illicit affairs is a crime against children in itself. Sivarama does not know that. ys pd

A few Videos / Illuminutty-ness / Nimai Hemphill's Horror Story 02 17 26

 

PADA: "Shastra is the center." We should follow shastra, and help Sridhara Maharaja promote his post-1978 program of promoting the worship of illicit sex with men, women and children as Krishna's acharyas in ISKCON? And thereby cause massive banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders? And we should follow Sridhara's advice, and have people offer bhogha to homosexuals and pedophiles photos on the altars, so people will eat contaminated offerings. 

After Sridhara already made a bi-sexual deviant acharya after 1936, that ALSO caused banning, beating, illicit sex, massive lawsuits and -- murders, we should follow him -- again? That is how we follow shastra? These people have no idea what shastra says. ys pd

PADA: Yes, very dangerous for Bhakti Vikas swami to annoint his deviant illicit sex with men, women and children pals as acharyas, and cause massive amounts of banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing Vaishnavas. He is enabling a criminal program, not a guru program. Very dangerous man. Agreed. ys pd

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ILLUMINUTTY-NESS

PADA: There are still devotees telling us that we are wrong to NOT realize ISKCON was taken over by the Illuminati / CIA / Cabal. Well for starters, I don't see how these leaders would qualify as members of these groups. I also do not see why any of that matters, since our job as Vaishnavas is to oppose deviations posing as acharyas, from either drunk and disorderly low level criminal people like Hansadutta, or CIA agents posing as acharyas, our job remains the same, to oppose and expose. 

Yeah, I see no reason to think this is something to dwell on, even if these leaders are part of some Satanic Cabal. Yes. Our job is the same, to oppose them whoever they are. Meanwhile, the Gaudiya Matha was hi-jacked by India people, no CIA was involved, because hi-jacking religions is something that happens all the time in all sorts of cultures and religions. 

Meanwhile, many dozens if not hundreds of devotees told me they cannot help PADA because "we cannot fight the all powerful Illuminati and CIA, they are too strong." OK, and that is what I call a lame excuse to not take any action on the wrong doers. 

I am personally done with that excuse. We must oppose evil doers, especially when they hijack our religion, especially when Krishna's children are being harmed. And I personally don't care if they are Satan worshipers or whatever it is. 

We should not make up excuses to acquiesce and remain silent, which is what this whole Illuminati thing has accomplished, mainly acquiescing -- nothingness and -- silence. And more than a few victims told me, "The silence of the seniors and leaders is what made our victimizing possible. Their silence is deafening." It does not matter what category of evil false guru people are, a Vaishnava has to stop them from being worshiped in his church.    

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com 

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NIMAI HEMPHILL

WOMEN ARE OUR GURUS

In response to the GBC's radical conclusion that women are not qualified.

Here is my humble Ashtika

While the men in orange were on their thrones you Dear Mataji’s protected me from the abuse and anger of the Male pseudo devotees who beat me and tried to rape me.

PADA: Sheesh pilgims, what on earth has ISKCON done to its children. The women had to protect a child from the orange robed sannyasa guru clique -- false messiah's regime -- because the children were being beaten and raped. Holy Mother of Jesus, for real? And again, this begs the question, where were all the ISKCON parents -- and why was all this not reported to the POLICE? Or protested in any meaningful way? 

Thank you my dear mothers, my true Guru’s.

While the men in orange stole money and ran around abusing so many, the count has been lost, you Dear mothers gave me shelter and Love, which I did not experience from your male counterparts who only taught me through harsh punishment and abuse.

Thank you my dear mothers, my Guru’s.

In gurukula we were thought first and foremost that we are not these temporary bodies. But apparently the GBC didn't read that verse yet and have come to the conclusion that women are just not as good as Men even though these women have dedicated their lives to the propagation of the holy name. 

Thank you my dear Mother's, you are my Guru’s.

In the last 50 years, I have witnessed the women of ISKCON who have cleaned, cooked, sewn the deity's clothes, gone out on endless hours of Sankirtan and raised millions of dollars for ISKCON, after being forced to send their kids to foreign lands to be beaten and raped by the men in orange. 

Thank you my dear Mother's you are my Guru’s, you are ISKCON.

I apologize to you my Guru’s on behalf of the men of ISKCON who don’t understand the scriptures or the history of this movement, who somehow missed the teachings of Queen Kunti, Janavi Mata, Parvati Mata, Vrnda Devi, Subhadra, Radharani and Mata Yashoda. Thank you my dear mothers, you are My Guru’s.

When I was in gurukula I would run to the mothers, the Mata’s who would protect me, who understood the qualities of compassion, love, truthfulness, tolerance. I was running from the men in orange who did not have these qualities but are still on their thrones even today, studying whether or not you women are qualified. 

Mother's: You are far more qualified than them. They know this deep down so they try to keep you down and want you to just shut up and serve them in a humble state of mind -- not understanding that's what you have been doing for 50 plus years.

They are scared you may actually save Srila Prabhupada’s movement from their corrupt hands. To you my dear mothers the true servants of Krsna and Srila Prabhupada, I bow. I do not know how you tolerate this indignity from these clowns in Orange. 

Thank you my dear mothers for you are My Guru.

My mother Shyam Priya Devi Dasi was my first Guru and she dedicated her life to servring those in the most difficult situations -- even on her death bed -- she was writing prisoners encouraging them to start on a better path towards Krsna and the loving shelter of Radharani Mata, but according to the GBC she was not qualified, but these men who have beat their wives, abandoned their kids, have been endlessly cruel to fellow devotees -- are thinking they should still be on thrones and worshiped like gods. 

My mothers, my Guru's, please forgive them for they do not know what they are doing, even after so many clear instructions on this matter, you are the true Bhaktivedanta's, you understand that service to the supreme Krsna is the end of all knowledge and you have compassion for all the condition souls. 

My dear mothers, my mata's, you are my GURU.

Wish I could name all the of the kind loving mothers in this ISKCON movement who have tirelessly continued to serve against all olds and without prestige or glory, who -- when beaten and kicked -- got up and continued to show loving compassion for all. 

You (women) are the Real guru’s of ISKCON. Srila Prabhupada would be so proud of you and glorify your service but these foolish men who are still very much conditioned cannot see your true beauty because they are stuck on the bodily platform of life, therefore they miss the essence of this movement, love and compassion. They think themselves important, they do not get to relish the selfless love and devotion that you bring before them. 

I feel sorry for these lost cold and timid souls who will never experience Krsna prem, being trapped on the bodily platform of life. To you my dear mothers, My Guru’s I offer my humble obeisances over and over.

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NIMAI HELPHILL

Having grown up in this organization, and having personally seen many horrible things get covered up to protect the organization leaders, I'm glad to see this Monkey On A Stick show is coming out, I hope they stay accurate not everybody was bad or evil in ISKCON but some were Evil, horrible people who did disgusting things (rape and murder) to the women and children.

I hope this helps the truth come out and shuts up those who protect and defend the child abusers and fasle gurus, time to pick a side, defend the horrible abusers or stand with the innocent children, women.

If the ISKCON leaders / GBC would have dealt with the abusers in a mature, legally responsible manner from the beginning they wouldn't have to watch the whole movement and Prabhupada legacy get dragged into a sensational murder mystery TV shows.

But to this day child abusers are still protected and defended by the GBC and good old boys network of appointed gurus so we get this wonderful entertainment experience, get your popcorn, enjoy.

PADA: The women who want a guru rubber stamp from the orange clad molester messiahs program are deluded and are not gurus, they are compromisers. ys pd 

Book Changing / Mahavishnu Health / Anatomy of a Psychopath 02 16 25

PADA: Really pilgrims? We are discussing Mein Kampf -- again? India scholars board (ICC) are saying we cannot change Srila Prabhupada's books, this is a severe offense. Fine, except they also endorse Jayadvaita's butchering and hatchet job changing all the books -- which is unilaterally upsetting devotees in every Vaishnava camp.  

Not sure why they are bringing up Hitler here, except that they are very angry and worried that Hitler's books are being re-edited and re-written. But they are in favor of re-writing Srila Prabhupada's books. Yes, the new mission of the Sridhara Srinivasa ICC scholars board is to preserve the writings of Hitler -- while having Srila Prabhupada's books -- hatchet job butchered. Told ya! 

And these are they guys who call themselves "conservatives," evidently because -- homosexuals and pedophiles are sometimes -- or often -- links in their guru parampara, but more strict women cannot be links. 

Ummm, what? They are in favor of book changes, while making pretend they are not. They are in favor of a homosexual and pedophile guru process, but women who are at least trying to follow -- are not allowed in their guru process. Hypocrites!

A woman chastised PADA when we said maybe over 50% of these GBC's gurus are gays. She said, get your facts straight, it is WAY MORE than that! Anyway I am glad the ICC has joined the Hitler book preservation club, maybe they will eventually extend that process to the books of Srila Prabhupada. But I am not holding my breath waiting. It is amazing that the India Scholars Bureau is more interested in Mein Kampf than the Vedas, but alas -- not really surprising. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   

PADA: There you have it friends. Deviants are in their guru sampradaya. 

Whereas! A woman who follows the process strictly is not allowed in their guru process. Yep, Sulochana said their guru system is pro-homosexual pedophile, and then he was taken off the planet. Odd coincidence huh? 

And the ICC bureau promotes the people who orchestrated the homosexual and pedophile guru process, and taking out of Sulochana. I don't think these women are qualified either, but you see the point. ys pd

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His Holiness Mahavishnu Swami - Health Update (2)

Feb 15, 2026 | 10:30 PM | Kathmandu

Dear Devotees,

All necessary investigations have now been completed, and our beloved Guru Maharaj has been diagnosed with Pneumonia and sepsis. He has been started on IV medications and is under strict medical care and close observation.
By your prayers, there has been slight improvement, and Maharaj has even expressed a desire to record a message for the devotees (will be uploaded soon).
We humbly request everyone to continue chanting more and more rounds and to keep Maharaj in your heartfelt prayers.
Thank you for your continued support.
— MVS Medical Committee

PADA: OK Mahavishnu swami (the UK one) has been credited by some folks for transferring young boys to Mayapur from Nepal, where allegedly a number of those boys were abused. I cannot verify that, but that is what some said. 

At the same time, it seems almost impossible to me he did not know there was a lot of abuse going on there. Anyway he is struggling with his health now, he thought he was another Jesus of Nazareth and he could absorb sins, well lets see how that works out. 

It is always amazing to me how these people take karma without authority, and then a bunch of their people pray to save them from the reactions. We are not supposed to violate Krishna's rules then pray for Him to save us. ys pd 

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Anatomy of a Psychopath: The Spiritual Predator Behind the Saintly Mask | Light of Dharma Publishing

Anatomy of a Psychopath: The Spiritual Predator Behind the Saintly Mask

An analysis of Radhanath Swami's recorded statements rationalizing child abuse and deflecting murder allegations, examined through psychological frameworks and spiritual tradition.

Light of Dharma

1 Feb, 2026 

Priya had been a devotee for eleven years. Every morning at 4:30 she rose for mangala-arati, chanted her sixteen rounds, read from the Bhagavatam. She had given up a career in biochemistry. She had given up her family’s approval. She had given up the kind of life her college friends were living – the brunches, the vacations, the casual freedoms. She had done all of this willingly, even joyfully, because she believed she had found something rare: a genuine spiritual teacher, a living saint, a soul so surrendered to God that simply being in his presence could purify your heart.

Then someone sent her a link.

It was a youtube video. A secretly recorded phone conversation – over 32,000 words of it – between her guru, Radhanath Swami, and a longtime ISKCON member named Sanaka Rsi. A private conversation. Unguarded. The kind of talk that happens when a man believes no one is listening.

She pressed play. And within minutes, the ground beneath eleven years of devotion began to crack.

The voice was unmistakable – that same gentle, measured tone she had heard deliver hundreds of lectures on humility and compassion. But the words coming out of it belonged to someone she had never met. Someone rationalizing child sexual abuse. Someone casually deflecting allegations of murder conspiracy. Someone whose primary concern, when discussing the rape of a thirteen-year-old girl, was not the child but the reputation of the abuser.

Priya did not finish the recording that night. She sat in her room, staring at the wall, feeling something worse than grief. She felt the specific nausea of realizing that the person you trusted most in the world may never have existed at all.

This article is for Priya. And for everyone like her.

The Saintly Mask

To understand what the recording reveals, you must first understand what it contradicts.

Radhanath Swami – born Richard Slavin in Chicago, 1950 – is one of the most recognized spiritual figures in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). He has published bestselling books on devotion and humility. He speaks at international conferences. He is received with garlands and prostrations on six continents. Thousands of disciples treat him not merely as a teacher but as a transparent medium to God – a soul so advanced that to question him is to question the divine order itself.

His public persona is built on a few carefully maintained pillars: humility (he speaks softly, dresses simply, deflects praise), compassion (he emphasizes service to the poor and marginalized), and wisdom (he positions himself as a vessel for ancient Vedic knowledge). His memoir, The Journey Home, reads like a spiritual adventure novel – the young American seeker wandering through India, guided by providence toward his destiny as a sadhu.

It is a beautiful story. The recording tells a different one.

In the phone call, speaking privately to Sanaka Rsi, Radhanath addresses two categories of allegation that have followed him for decades: his involvement in the 1986 murder of Steven Bryant (known as Sulochana das), and his institutional protection of men who sexually abused children.

On the subject of child abuse, he says this:

... “having a consensual relation with a minor is not as evil or as abusive as raping or abusing a little kid in a gurukula… I don’t think they should be treated in the same way.”

He is discussing the case of Varkeshwar Pandit, an ISKCON leader who had sexual contact with a thirteen-year-old girl. And he adds:

“Even the girl admitted that it was consensual.”

A thirteen-year-old cannot consent. This is not a matter of cultural interpretation or spiritual nuance. It is a matter of law in every civilized jurisdiction on earth, and it is a matter of basic moral reasoning accessible to any adult with a functioning conscience. That a man revered as a paramahamsa – a topmost saint – would construct a framework in which the sexual violation of a child becomes “consensual” tells you everything about what lies behind the mask.

On the murder allegations, the tone is equally revealing. Multiple witnesses have claimed that Radhanath pushed for and knew about the 1986 assassination of Sulochana das, a dissident devotee who had been publicly exposing corruption within ISKCON. Six thousand dollars in “escape money” was provided to the murderer, Tirtha das. The FBI investigated. Radhanath’s response, decades later, is not outrage or grief. It is this:

“I had absolutely no communication with Tirtha.”

And regarding Janmashtami Das, the key witness against him:

“Somehow or other, he just hates me.”

No horror at the accusation. No anguish for the dead man. Just casual deflection and the implication that anyone who questions him is motivated by personal vendetta. Yet multiple people across different times and backgrounds are saying the same things.

The Psychology of the Spiritual Predator

What kind of person can deliver tearful lectures on divine love in the morning and rationalize child abuse in the afternoon? What kind of mind can maintain two completely contradictory identities without apparent internal conflict?

Modern psychology has a name for it: psychopathy, specifically the integrated, high-functioning variety described by Hervey Cleckley in The Mask of Sanity and refined by Robert Hare in his Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R).

To understand what we’re dealing with, we analyzed the phone call recording using methods that have proven 84-87% accurate in identifying deception in research studies. These techniques look at speech patterns, word choices, and psychological markers that people display when lying. The analysis revealed an 87.3% probability that Radhanath was being systematically deceptive throughout the conversation – in other words, he was almost certainly lying.

We also scored the conversation against the PCL-R, the standard clinical tool for assessing psychopathy. The score came out between 31 and 35. To put that in perspective: 30 is the threshold where clinicians diagnose psychopathy. Radhanath’s speech patterns scored above that line.

But the numbers, while important, are not the point. The point is what they describe: a human being who has learned to perform empathy, perform humility, perform spiritual depth – while possessing none of these qualities in any authentic sense.

Dr. Inaki Pinuel, the Spanish psychologist who has extensively studied the spiritual narcissist, offers a framework that illuminates this phenomenon with uncomfortable precision. His central insight is this: a true mystic struggles to verbalize their experience. The genuine encounter with the transcendent is, by its very nature, inexpressible. As the ancient saying goes: the one who knows does not speak, and the one who speaks does not know.

San Juan de la Cruz captured it perfectly:

“I entered where I did not know, and I remained not knowing, all science transcending.”

The authentic spiritual person guards their inner experience with a kind of sacred reticence. They do not broadcast it. They do not use it to fascinate or seduce. They do not convert it into a product.

The spiritual psychopath does exactly the opposite. He takes the language of transcendence and weaponizes it. He uses supposed spiritual experiences to create an aura of otherworldly authority that makes him immune to questioning. He lacks genuine self-esteem – Pinuel emphasizes this – and uses his followers as fuel, as narcissistic supply, as an audience whose constant adoration substitutes for the love of self he has never possessed.

And here is the crucial distinction: a true spiritual teacher grants freedom. Over time, the authentic guru works himself out of a job. The disciple grows, matures, becomes autonomous. The teacher steps back. The relationship, like that of a good parent, moves toward independence.

A false guru creates dependency. The relationship never matures. The follower is kept in a permanent state of spiritual childhood, needing the guru’s approval, fearing the guru’s displeasure, unable to trust their own perception. The organization becomes a closed system where the guru’s word overrides observable reality.

Pinuel’s verdict is stark: the spiritual psychopath is the most dangerous of all integrated psychopaths. Because he operates in the one domain where human beings are most vulnerable, most trusting, most willing to surrender their critical faculties.

The Evidence Speaks

Let us be precise about what the recording contains, because precision matters when the stakes are this high.

On child abuse, Radhanath does not merely fail to condemn it – he actively constructs a moral framework in which certain forms of child sexual abuse are less serious than others. He distinguishes between “consensual” relations with minors and other forms of abuse, arguing they “should not be treated in the same way.” He maintained a personal friendship with Dhanurdhar Swami, who was found personally responsible for child neglect, physical abuse, and psychological abuse at the Vrindavan gurukula. He advocated for reducing penalties for convicted abusers within ISKCON’s internal justice system.

This is not a man who “didn’t know.” This is a man who knew, who chose a side, and who chose the abusers.

On murder, the deception patterns are clinically textbook. Analysis of the recording reveals:

Truth-claiming overcompensation: Phrases like “I can tell you very honestly…” and “I’m going to tell you the truth here, and there are court records to verify everything I’m saying” – when someone insists this hard that they’re being honest, forensic linguistics tells us they’re almost certainly lying.

Cognitive load markers: A 289% increase in sentence fragmentation when discussing the murder – incomplete thoughts, broken syntax, verbal stumbling – all consistent with the increased cognitive demand of maintaining a false narrative under pressure.

Semantic coherence disruption: A 412% increase in topic drift when addressing criminal allegations – the mind sliding away from dangerous territory like a hand pulling back from a hot surface.

Impossible knowledge-ignorance combination: He claims “absolutely no communication” with the murderer Tirtha while simultaneously demonstrating detailed, intimate knowledge of Tirtha’s legal proceedings, testimony patterns, and post-arrest activities. The level of specific detail he possesses – not general facts anyone could learn, but insider knowledge of how Tirtha testified and behaved – contradicts his claim of zero contact. Why would someone with “absolutely no communication” track these details so closely?

The Bhagavad-gita warns us about exactly this kind of person:

“Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance – these qualities belong to those of demoniac nature.” (16.4)

And in the same text, Krishna explains why the behavior of leaders matters so profoundly:

“Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow.” (3.21)

When a man revered as a saint rationalizes the rape of children, he does not merely commit a private moral failure. He corrupts the moral framework of everyone who follows him.

Why Followers Cannot See

If you have never been inside a high-demand spiritual organization, the question seems obvious: How can they not see it? The evidence is there. The recording exists. The witnesses testified. How can intelligent, educated people continue to follow someone with this history?

The answer lies in a concept that ISKCON has weaponized with devastating effectiveness: vaishnava aparadha – offense against a pure devotee.

In authentic Vaishnava theology, this concept serves a legitimate function: it warns practitioners against frivolous criticism of genuine saints. But in the hands of a corrupt institution, it becomes a thought-stopping technique of extraordinary power. The logic is circular and airtight: Radhanath Swami is a pure devotee. To question a pure devotee is the worst spiritual offense. Therefore, to even consider the evidence against Radhanath Swami would destroy your spiritual life.

The follower is trapped. Accepting the evidence means accepting that their guru is a fraud – which means their initiations may be invalid, their years of service may have been misdirected, their entire spiritual identity may be built on sand. The psychological cost of seeing the truth is so catastrophic that the mind simply refuses to process it. Psychologists call this identity fusion: the follower’s sense of self has become so entangled with the guru that an attack on the guru is experienced as an attack on their own existence.

This is not stupidity. This is sophisticated psychological conditioning, and it works on intelligent people precisely because intelligent people are better at constructing elaborate justifications for what they need to believe.

But the scriptures themselves – the very scriptures ISKCON claims to follow – warn against exactly this trap. The Vedic tradition has always recognized the dharma-dhvaji: the one who uses the flag of religion for personal gain. Across traditions, the principle is the same. As it is written in Matthew:

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.” (7:15-16)

By their fruits. Not by their words. Not by their saffron robes. Not by the size of their following or the eloquence of their lectures. By their fruits.

Some will object: “But look at all the service he has done. Look at how many devotees he has made. Look at how many people he has helped.” This is precisely the mistake the scripture warns against. A man who rationalizes the sexual abuse of children has not “helped people” – he has helped abusers. A man who protects predators and deflects murder allegations has not done “service” – he has done a profound disservice to truth, to justice, and to every victim whose voice he has worked to silence. The number of people who bow before him does not erase the children who were violated under his watch. Popularity is not the same as virtue. A large following is not evidence of spiritual advancement – it is often evidence of effective manipulation.

The Path Forward

How do you recognize a spiritual predator? The Vedic tradition already gave us the answer, centuries before modern psychology confirmed it: judge by actions, not by words.

A man who rationalizes child abuse is not a saint, regardless of how beautifully he speaks about divine love. A man casually deflecting murder accusations is not a paramahamsa, regardless of how many garlands are placed around his neck. A man whose primary response to serious criminal allegations is reputation management rather than moral reckoning has told you everything you need to know about the condition of his soul.

If you are inside this system, know this: your ability to question is not a spiritual defect – it is a spiritual gift. The capacity for discernment – viveka in Sanskrit – is celebrated throughout the Vedic literature as one of the highest qualities a human being can develop. Any teacher who asks you to surrender that capacity is not leading you toward God. He is leading you toward himself.

True spiritual authority liberates. It does not bind. It does not threaten. It does not require you to ignore what your eyes can see and your conscience can feel. If your spiritual path demands that you stop thinking in order to keep believing, then it is not a spiritual path. It is a cage.

The recording exists. The evidence is public. What you do with it is between you and your own conscience – that quiet, persistent voice that no guru, however charismatic, has the power to silence unless you let him.

Questions for Reflection

If the same evidence – rationalizing child abuse, deflecting murder allegations, protecting abusers – were presented about a leader of any other organization, would you find it credible? What changes when the accused wears saffron?

When was the last time your spiritual practice increased your capacity for independent thinking rather than your dependence on an authority figure? Does your path make you more free, or less?

The Vedic principle of dharma-dhvaji – using the flag of religion for personal gain – was articulated thousands of years ago, suggesting this problem is as old as religion itself. What structural safeguards could spiritual communities adopt to prevent charismatic individuals from exploiting positions of sacred trust?

The phone call recording referenced in this article is publicly available on YouTube: Radhanath Swami Phone Conversation Recording

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