ISKCON Bombay Tax Status / Succession Crisis Book / Karma and Mistreating 05 27 26

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https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/tax-exempted-institutions

ISKCON BOMBAY's TAX EXEMPT STATUS

"Why Business May Still be As Usual"

Recently Basu Ghosh wrote to temple presidents in India who are in the ISKCON Mumbai group of temples and in that email he informed them that they may continue with "business as usual." In the United States, donors may rely on a search of the official IRS page at https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos regarding donations to assure them that a particular organization is still recognized as exempt. 

The donors are then assured that donations to that organization will be deductible as charitable contributions. However, if the IRS revokes the 501(c)(3) organization status of a particular organization and later posts it, a search again on that website will show the revocation. Up until the IRS updates their data, donors (except corporate insiders) may deduct charitable contributions. However, after that date of update, no taxpayer may deduct donations to such organizations. It appears that India has the same -- temporary delay -- system.

Indian companies and individuals who want to be able to know that they may deduct on their income tax return the amount of their future donations to ISKCON Mumbai must search through https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/tax-exempted-institutions and put in the box under "Pan" the PAN (Permanent Account Number") of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Mumbai), which is AAATI0017P. 

Today, at the top of that page, under the heading "Exempted Institutions", is "Last Updated: April 6th, 2026". The listing would be updated every 2-3 months. From the point that the listing of ISKCON Mumbai has been changed to show that they lost their exemption under section 80G section 133, companies and individuals may not deduct donations to ISKCON Mumbai. 

From the date of such a public internet update ISKCON Mumbai may not indicate on websites or solicitation materials that it is an exempt organizations nor that donations to it are deductible as charitable contributions.

The article at https://studycafe.in/reliance-iskcon-pd-hinduja-hospital-and-breach-candy-hospital-trust-to-income-tax-exemption-denial-over-commercial-activity-allegations-419586.html was dated May 6, 2026. Therefore, updates to the search engine data for ISKCON Bombay on Incometaxindia.gov should soon be made.

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Ravindra Swarup dasa


*** Expanded the 11 fake messiahs to over 100.


*** Physically assaulted the "ritviks" for challenging his
pedophile messiahs project.


*** His main idea? "ISKCON's children must worship
his homosexuals and pedophile messiahs as their path to God."

Leading the Hare Krishna Movement

The Crisis of Succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

By Angela R. Burt (Disciple of Ravindra Swarupa)

ABSTRACT

This book examines issues of leadership and succession in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) which was founded in by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966. After the founder’s death in 1977, the movement was led by a group of gurus in a "zonal system" until their authority was challenged and reformed in the mid-1980s. 

PADA: The "crisis" was artificially created when people like Ravindra swarupa made his homosexual and pedophile pals and assorted deviants into "God's successors." And he helped Satsvarupa promote that Kirtanananda (a homosexual pedophile) is "like Jesus, Haridas Thakur and Prahlad" -- so he could make me and Sulochana targets for assassination. And then have his pedo buddies buried in samadhis in the dham. 

There was also no reform or change to the Zonal Guru system. The same gurus who were in charge of various areas remained there. The newer gurus were assigned other "lesser" areas. For example Bhakti Vikas was given the less significant Zone of Salem India, while his mentor and sannyasa guru Jayapataka kept the crown jewel of Mayapur. Nothing actually changed for the original Zone holders.

And every year these gurus are assigned often the same Zones, same as before. Worse, as part of the reform, they re-instated Bhavananda as Vishnupada, despite reports he was engaged in oral sex with taxi drivers in the holy dham.

At the heart of the book is an exploration of the developments, conflicts, and defining characteristics of leadership in ISKCON in this decade. Themes of hierarchy, status, power and authority, and the routinisation of charisma are shown to be keys to understanding the events of the time. 

PADA: I personally never felt any of the 11 had any charisma. Satsvarupa was always a geeky guy who was later hiding out living in Howard Johnson Motels. He does not conduct emotional kirtans, leading samkirtan or preaching of any significance, but neither do most of them. Hansadutta was a drunk. Bhagavan was arrogant. Kirtanananda had a gay vibe. And so on. 

Never felt any charisma vibes from any of them. People keep telling me Kirtanananda had a lot of charisma ... ok but only ... for them to worship. I always viewed him as a Mott Street bum who came across a place to exploit and make himself a position. 

Never had a lot of respect for the guy. And I considered him as potentially dangerous since he had a propensity to challenge Srila Prabhupada. OK the opposite of me feeling ANY charisma. I saw him as a potential for trouble, and he was.

With careful analysis of interviews and documentary evidence, the research offers a unique insight into ISKCON as an organisation and the broader religious community in which ISKCON is located. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of new religious movements and those concerned with religious leadership.

PADA: There was no leadership. Devotees were being banned, beaten, molested, sued and killed and there was no real checks and balances. If the leaders of a company bankrupt the company, and create one scandal after the next, they will be fired and sued for destroying the company. 

In the film The Paper Chase, two law students break into an enclosed area of the Harvard Law School to gain access to their professor's notes. On locating them, one student asks: “Do you realise what this is? This is it. This. This is the unbroken chain. This is the ageless passing of wisdom”. He reads the notes:

After all I am almost the living extension of the old judges. Where would they be without me? I carry in my mind the cases they wrote. Where the hell would they be if it wasn't for me? Who would hang their pictures if there were no law students? It's hard being the living extension of tradition.

(The Paper Chase 1973)

PADA: Yeah, they started calling homosexuals and pedophiles the unbroken chain from Krishna. Sorry, that is about as broke as it gets.

A crisis of charismatic leadership in the post-succession period

Many of us here, older Godbrothers, are very concerned in two ways—

1) that the 11 gurus not having been appointed to the position of acarya and for which they are unqualified both by: 

a. the insufficient knowledge of sastra and 

b. the incomplete realization of Krsna consciousness, are accepting worship on that level—and this may lead to anomalies in the society and personally, because of lack of complete detachment in atmajnana, leading to a buildup of pride and subsequent falldown, and 

2) that the united society ISKCON, because of illegal division and control by a few members instead of the joint GBC will become broken up in separate societies and the unified preaching effort very much hindered.

PADA: The gurus were not appointed. Well yeah, so why did Ravindra and others support that the 11 are gurus -- if none of them were ever appointed as gurus? Yup. NOT HAVING BEEN APPOINTED. That means they usurped the post of acharya.

 

The zonal acharya system was this very archaic style of management and I am not saying it's wrong. But it requires a different civilisation.

PADA: No, all civilizations reject worshiping deviants as messiahs.

Experiences of disciples of the gurus and women

My dear godbrothers, it was too much too soon, they weren't pure devotees, they weren't able to handle it … I'm not blasting them because if I had been in the situation where I would have -- you know -- hundreds of people bowing down before me throwing me money … we had gone from an absolute to a relative. With Srila Prabhupada it was an absolute and with the godbrother gurus it was relative and it became increasingly difficult … to remain inspired.

PADA: So they were not appointed and not pure devotees, so the whole thing was a scam.

Long-term effects of the zonal acharya system and the guru reform movement

I wouldn't have left if I could have been a guru in a different way. I wouldn't have felt I was living a nightmare. 

PADA: Well yeah the devotees who were being banned, beaten, molested, sued and killed were and are living a nightmare. Why did Ravindra support the GBC program, and he attacked us thus co-creating the nightmare? 

That could have saved people like me. I think people can have a completely different concept of guru without thinking of them as having completely realised experiences of Radha-Krishna and Govinda in Goloka Vrindavan. 

PADA: OK a less realized guru is a shiksha guru or a ritvik, exactly what we said. Except Ravindra would not allow us to promote that process.

Hierarchy, status, and the distribution of power and authority

The great tension was how to hold these gurus together within the institution of ISKCON, and ISKCON was struggling mightily to do that.

PADA: They were not kept together, one by one the gurus left, often in scandals, and often took a bunch of followers with them. Or they lead people away to Sridhar or Narayan or others and that siphoned off people en masse. 

Systemic and individual issues in religious leadership in ISKCON

I think it was less a matter of an adjustment or two, than a pattern of behaviour over time, a repetitive pattern that said something's wrong intrinsically here. It's not just an individual or two individuals; there's something that's happening because it's so pervasive now. … Structure is not per se wrong … don't condemn the system, condemn the people who manipulate that system to the wrong end.

PADA: The system is, everyone has to promote conditioned souls as absolute or be driven out. Sorry, that is the wrong structure from square one. We cannot make conditioned souls into absolute and realized souls artificially, it won't work, and never has worked, and never will work.

Conclusion

 

I think ISKCON's main strength … is its ability to be self-correcting. The decision to restore or give authority to the GBC … those are decisions that at one point would not have been possible … but enough people saw reason and had the welfare of the institution in mind to agree to move somewhat to a different position. No institution that is not self-correcting is going to survive.

PADA: There was no correction made. The gurus are still being worshiped as absolute and those who disagree are still being exiled and punished, or even sued. ys pd

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KARMA AND MISTREATING DEVOTEES

PADA: Notice that lots of devotees are talking about persons who abuse their authority, and then the abusers seem to think their karma is non-existing, and they are not in trouble. Not so fast! Karma is always going to apply -- eventually. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  


Jagannath Nitya Dasi

The evil one was arrogantly asked, “When will he face the consequences of his wrongdoings?” The answer is simple: the consequences of karma are already on their way.

The greatest delusion of the wicked is -- believing that a delayed consequence is a canceled debt. 

No empire built on the blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of innocent people survives forever. Every enjoyment, from sensual pleasures to luxury gained through injustice, from the pain of innocents, carries a curse within it. Cruelty may appear powerful for a time, but destruction is already growing inside it.

When a man spends his life torturing his innocent wife and children, he does not merely harm them — he commits a crime against the very fabric of justice itself. He takes the peace, dignity, resources, and lifeblood that rightfully belonged to others.

Then he feeds his corrupt companions with the profits of that cruelty and mistakes their greed for loyalty. But parasites are never loyal.

The people surrounding him do not love him; they love what they can extract from him. They feed on his ego, his wealth, and his wrongdoing like vultures feeding on a dying body. The same people applauding his cruelty today will become the architects of his downfall tomorrow.

Because nothing built on shattered innocence can stand forever.

The lies, manipulation, abuse, and deceit they use to dominate their society or even legal family are already eroding their own life from within. The same deceit that lifted them will become the weapon that destroys them. The suffering they inflicted upon innocent souls will return with greater force. The betrayal, harm, and destruction they spread into the lives of innocents will slowly consume their own world piece by piece.

They believe that because consequences have been delayed, they escaped them.

Profoundly mistaken. The universe keeps an absolute ledger, and every injustice creates a debt. People who built their lives upon greed, oppression, and blood money are living on borrowed time. Their pleasures are temporary distractions hiding an irreversible collapse. And when the downfall finally arrives, the very people who stood beside them celebrating corruption will drag each other into ruin to save themselves.

Consequence is the law of the universe.

Every act of cruelty leaves a mark upon the one who commits it. Every abuse digs a grave inside the soul of the abuser long before the world witnesses the collapse.
Karma is not merely a distant punishment waiting in the future.

Karma is the slow destruction already unfolding beneath the surface while the wicked mistake temporary comfort for victory. And when the illusion finally shatters, they will stand alone in the ruins of a life destroyed by their own hands.

Illusion: The collapse is not coming.

It has already begun. 

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