EKANATH DASA and BHAKTIVEDANTA ARCHIVES
In 1985 Sulochana said he "bribed someone at the archives" to get a microfiche of Srila Prabhupada's letters. We had to buy some really big, clumsy, and somewhat heavy metal microfiche readers to go through them. And we discovered a lot of revealing statements against the GBC, and especially Kirtanananda -- "a crazy man who should be sent back to Bellevue." And Sulochana also got a copy of the "guru appointment" tape from the archives.
Of course the bogus "guru appointment tape" reveals -- that none of these 11 were EVER appointed as gurus, that is not what the tape says. Sulochana also said the tape was spliced, and a forensic expert -- Norman Pearle -- said it is spliced.
Needless to say, our information was ripping the carpet out from under the GBC's whole "we are gurus" platform, and so we became targets for assassination. And one of us was assassinated, but it was too late, the cat was out of the bag. The information simply spread from there and it still is.
However, in one 1977 passage it says -- in brackets -- "conversation about poison in Hindi." OK that started my quest to get these Hindi tapes. To be honest I did not believe those tapes even existed anymore. But I kept praying to Krishna to get me these tapes, if they still existed.
And later on -- 1997 -- a person went to the Archives, and got me a copy of those tapes, and brought them to me in Los Angeles. And that is what started "The Poison Investigation." And forensics done on the tape found incriminating whispers etc.
But none of that -- the letters, the bogus guru appointment tape, the 1977 conversations, and the poison tapes -- would have been uncovered without help from the Archives folks. So we owe them a lot since much of our work has been founded on their supplying us with the needed materials.
It is sort of like fighting a war, there is the guy who is at the front in the foxhole, and there are the guys in the rear sending ammo to the guys in the front, and the Archives sent me all sorts of ammo which I will be eternally grateful for. And without that ammo, I would have been severely hampered. So I give them a lot of credit for helping me, and for all the other things they have done to preserve the works of Srila Prabhupada.
Having said all that, I have a lot of doubts about how well things will be preserved in the future -- if the Archives is handed off the the Jayadvaita book changers sampradaya. Of course this all happened because of so many devotees who were not even caring what was going on with the books, or much of anything else.
Ekanath himself used to complain there is plenty of money for guru expenses and almost no money for my project. He was always scraping around to collect funds. Anyway he did a lot and he is a glorious person, and he helped me a lot with indirect help, information which he wanted to get out -- and thus he sort of made arrangements for us to get these vital things.
In short, I wish him well, and God speed spirit soul, you are a great hero, you were my ammo supplier, despite not being known for that widely.
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
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MAYAPUR is a Mess
Henry Doktorski III
I received this message from a Facebook friend, a former disciple of Bhavananda. He tells about the time, 41 years ago, when he served as a guard at the Mayapur Guest House during the GBC meetings and heard a scream coming from Kirtanananda Swami's room.
He peeked into the window and was shocked. He writes:
They call me Max, because I despise CHAOS… The GBC is CHAOS and we need to get ISKCON under Control…
I realised the GBC had gone over the Dark Side back in 1985 at the Gaura Purnima festival in Mayapur. Bhavananda gave me guard duty keeping devotees out of the Mayapur Guest House. Only GBC were allowed in. Vultures of a cult flock together.
I knew something was rotten when I heard a scream that came from Kirtananda Swami’s room. The louvre windows were open and I looked in. Kirtananda “Swami” was molesting a small boy.
I immediately called Anirdesh (Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami ) to come and see but he just ran away laughing. I spoke to a number of other devotees about it and they said “There is nothing you can do about it. Kirtananda has very rich supporters who are very well connected in the highest level of government and there are ex-army security guards around. They have weapons and the GBC knows what goes on in Kirtananda’s room.“
Sexual abuse of children had been going on in Mayapur for years and the GBC had never reported anyone to the Police. The only devotee who was willing to go to the Police was Sarvaksha and he was being told by witnesses that testifying against the GBC could result in witnesses being drowned in the Ganges River. But Sarvaksha would never give up … and then Sarvaksha died mysteriously before he could get to the Police.
I was told he committed suicide but I didn’t believe that. The GBC said “Sarvaksha died because he was sick “… If that was true, why didn’t they take him to a hospital?
According to Dhira Govinda Prabhu and the “Advancing Child Protection“ Facebook group there was a very thorough and professional investigation of the Mayapur Gurukula and reports were given to every member of the GBC in 1997. The report said Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami should be expelled from the Gurukula and he should not be allowed to work with children… because nothing was being done to stop sexual assaults on the children.
The GBC just ignored that report and Bhakti Purna Vidya Swami was allowed to carry on as principal of the Gurukula and he even invited to preach in Australia’s ISKCON temples where he was promoted as a saint.
I complained about that to Australia’s Royal Commission on Child Abuse but they told me there was nothing they do about him because they only had jurisdiction over child abuse that was committed in Australia. They said he should be reported to the Indian Police.
When the Dallas Gurukula was closed down by the government the Psychiatrist who was appointed by the court to assess the mental health of the children told the court “These children are deprived of love” ... Prabhupada just didn’t accept that it is wrong to deprive children of a mother’s love and he told his disciples to send the children to the Indian Gurukula. The children said that was like being taken out of the frying pan and dumped into the fire. If there is a 99 out there … It’s about time the children were saved and the GBC are dealt with. That’s what Lord Krishna wants.
PADA: Yup. All kinds of people knew the child abuse was going on, especially in places like Mayapur. Everyone had a duty to try to challenge it, but instead, us whistle blowers were often the people being challenged, threatened, banned, removed and -- killed. Now Jayapataka is being awared the Bhakti Sarvabhouva title by the GBC, they love the guy who makes Auschwitz for kids. Sorry, Jayapataka has been the high command of Mayapur, in fact he still is, and he is responsible for what goes on there.
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
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PADA: Yes, in 1978 the GBC announced that BR Sridhara Maharaja is the GBC's newly annointed shiksha advisor. Sridhara said the 11 GBC gurus can be worshiped as "rati keli siddha," and he introduced the idea of "the acharya of the zone." Sorry. Conditioned souls are not rati keli siddhas, and there is no such thing as the acharya of the zone. When I said there is a problem with Jayatirtha having affairs with females, and offering LSD to the shalagram, the gang of four gurus headed by Jayapataka had me removed from ISKCON.
And they confronted me with quotes from BR SRIDHARA MAHARAJA, that I should cooperate. Jayatirtha was later taken out by a disgruntled disciple because of his propensity for having affairs with married ladies. I also complained that the children are being mistreated. When they told Sridhara people like me are protesting, he said "none should protest." So we ended up suing the GBC for $3,000,000 and later for $400,000,000 for all the child mistreatment.
They were following Sridhara's advice, none should protest, when they should have listened to us. But Sridhara made a failed guru program after 1936 in India and he has a long history of making conditioned souls into acharyas, which is forbidden by Srila Prabhupada. Yes we were warned about all this repeatedly, do not follow the Gaudiya Matha conditioned soul guru system. ys pd
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