Cooperate with? / HK Project UK / Falling gurus / Where is the Love? 02 22 26

PADA: GBC leader Goverdhan says -- all groups need to cooperate now for the future of Lord Chaitanya's movement. We are all brothers. Fine. Except then they ban all the Prabhupada promoting devotees from ISKCON. We need to "cooperate" with banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing -- ourselves? 

Are these people spraying too much fentanyl on their hash pipes again? 😂 ys pd

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THE HARE KRISHNA PROJECT

“Support Needed: New Bhagavad Gita School to open in Bangladesh”
PODCAST: Episode 206 – Saturday 21st February 2026

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We’re delighted to welcome Priya as our guest on this week’s podcast.
Born and raised in Bangladesh, she has been following the teachings of Srila Prabhupada for many years. An enthusiastic advocate for education, and teaching children about bhakti yoga, Priya is currently raising funds to open a new Bhagavad Gita School in her village.

In this Special Edition of The Hare Krishna Project Podcast, she talks with Narada Prabhu about:
- Why the school is being set up
- Why educating children about the Bhagavad Gita is so important
- How people can get involved

** Priya needs to raise just £225 ($300) to open the school with the first purchase of Bhagavad Gitas. If you can help please email info@harekrishnaproject.org **

This week’s podcast is not to be missed!

For more details about The Hare Krishna Project check out our website www.theharekrishnaproject.org.uk


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FALLING GURUS

PADA: The idea that Krishna's gurus and successors commonly fall down was established early on. In 1980 Satsvarupa, Jaggadish and Jayadvaita (in consultation with BR Sridhara Maharaja) wrote "The Mahajanas Have Difficulties," where they said it is common for the GBC gurus to fall down -- because WHY? -- the Mahajanas are often CONTAMINATED BY MAYA, just like us GBC gurus.


In 1988 Gaura Govinda Maharaja wrote another paper (there were many) for the GBC "how to understand that your guru might be an asura." But GGM gives no explanation why he is promoting asuras as his gurus in the first place? GGM even says -- after you get one of his asura gurus, you have to "cry to Krishna" to get a real guru. A person can sell bogus toxic medicine, which harms the patients, and then the patients have to pray to God to get fixed from the bad medicine? But who authorized GGM to sell bad medicine? And why does Krishna have to fix our selling bad medicine?


Jayadvaita says taking a GBC guru is like buying a used car, it might drive, it might start on fire. He also said the 5 years old children of ISKCON got a bad guru because "they did not study the shastra." I thought JAS was supposed to read the shastra and make sure the 5 years olds got a good guru? When did Srila Prabhupada says the 5 years olds are in charge of ISKCON's guru tattva?


I was invited to the 1990 Ritvik Debate. But I refused to go. Why? Because Jayadvaita said -- Puranjana will not be able to discuss the behavior, actions and qualifications of our GBC gurus. We cannot discuss the behavior of bona fide acharyas, and non-bona fide acharyas? Then how will we ever know who is an acharya? So I was going to submit a paper on the ACTUAL qualifications of an acharya (namely Srila Prabhupada), and was told I would be FORBIDDEN for even bringing up the topic. How can we know who is an acharya if we cannot mention what are his qualifications?


So yeah, the whole thing was tilted against us all along, and an honest debate was never conducted. Nor have they ever debated me in public even 1978, they wanted to meet in private. Nor will they ever debate me in public most likely. If "gurus are often in maya and are often asuras" is the allowed position, and we are not allowed to say "gurus must be pure servants of Krishna," there is nothing really to debate. They are admitting they are wrong de facto by not debating, or tilting and cheating the terms of debate. Their insults to the Mahajanas was the beginning of the end for them, Srila Prabhupada says -- when great souls are insulted "you are finished." ys pd

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NUN SEES KRISHNA LOKA 

This is incredible! It appears that the great 16th century Catholic mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila, had a vision of Sri Krishna in the eternal Vrindavan!
Saint Teresa in Seville recorded in her "Accounts of Conscience" chapter 38, August 9, 1575:

“Suddenly a recollection came to me with such a great interior light that I seemed to be in another world, and my spirit found itself within itself, in a very delightful forest and orchard, so much so that it made me remember what is said in the Song of Songs: Veniat dilectus meus in hortum suum – come He, my beloved, to His garden and eat its delicate fruits.

“I saw there, in this Eliseo (delicious place where great souls go), a blackish youth with a strange beauty; On top of his head he had something like a garland, not a crown, of great stones, and many maidens who walked there with him, with bouquets in their hands, all singing praises to God.

I did nothing but open my eyes so as not to be distracted and it was not possible for me to take my attention off it."

“There was a music of angels and singing of birds, which the soul enjoyed, although I did not hear it with my physical ears, but the soul was in that delight.
I looked as there was no other man there."

“This lasted for more than an hour and a half – that I could not take my eyes off or my attention, and with great delight, something different from other visions; and what I got from there was more love for God and keeping him more deeply present with that beauty, it is not possible that it was imagination."

(Accounts of Conscience August 9, 1575)

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WHERE IS THE LOVE?

NOTICE THE LOVE HERE

PADA: Yeah, people ask me that all the time. Why do so many Hare Krishnas hate the other Hare Krishnas? The Berkeley Police told me -- the Hare Krishnas will not kill a cow, but they will kill you and eat you for dinner -- in a heartbeat. The Hare Krishnas hate your guts. Los Angeles police, same thing, these people killed your friend and will KILL you over here at Watseka temple. 

Ummm yep, cannot argue that, they DO want to kill me. And they would if they thought they could get away with it. Trivrikrama swami greets me at Rathayatra, "Holy F*cking hell, you are still walking on the planet and are not six feet under already"? 

So yeah, lots of hatred going on here, cannot be denied. But why? Because the atmosphere has become polluted with hateful speech, mostly from the GBC guru guys, "go harass a ritvik (anyone who worships Srila Prabhupada and not them) today and we will reward you with a sweet ball." 

They are spreading hate, and it manifests in odious ways. And the people they hate the most are the people who promote worship of Srila Prabhupada the most, ironic huh?

Meanwhile check out these "karmi" skating girls. They support each other, hug each other, have feelings for each other, and in sum -- they love and protect each other. We don't. Duh!  What kind of society do we have? 

I forgot, it is a society where we have crash courses in -- Trauma Informed Leadership, Trauma Therapy, Survivor's Forums, and "Classes to help free devotees of chemical dependency, addictive behaviors, and other ill effects from traumatic experiences." 

OK, we have a society that is not full of love, support and helpfulness, rather we have one where people are suffering trauma, if not suffering being starved, beaten and molested as children. And then -- not much support for the victims, but plenty of support for the leaders who orchestrated all the trauma -- who then get lifetime millionaire lifestyles paid for by ISKCON. 

Which further re-traumatizes the victims, the leaders of the abuse process are being worshiped as saints. So we have a long way to go to get to the skating girls level of care and concern for one another.    

Classic example of what I mean here. If we go to any normal mundane man, or female ice skaters on main street USA etc. and tell them there is a situation where children are being starved, beaten, molested, sometimes raped -- and then after being severely traumatized -- some of the victims commit suicide, the normal mundane person will react by wanting to figure out a way to help those children. 

What happens when PADA tells a lot of "devotees" the same thing?

Well as it turns out, the children's situation is not even any sort of problem on their radar. Why always negative news? Nothing to see here! What is the problem then? The problem is that PADA's editor is driving a Taxi around San Francisco, where people are going to Mc Donalds and Pizza houses, and moreover there are prostitutes and drug dealing folks riding around in my car. Forsooth! Ooops! Same job Jayananda had here!

So the problem is that PADA editor is having a job, so he can fund his program, and his program is helping children, so it is evil. Ummm what? The problem is not traumatized children, it is PADA trying to help save those children. Or worse, the real problem is -- pizza? 

See what I mean? Then GBC folks, and their hand maidens like Sanat, Mukunda, Prahlad, HKC Jaipur, Matura Pati etc. all complain that the real problem is -- PADA -- helping the children. And worse, getting money from the pizza people to fund his work. Even worse, he is getting help from the mundane pizza society's law enforcement, courts and media to help him because -- none of us will. And many of us will try to thwart what he does. OK so the pizza society knows mistreating children has to be contained, they don't! 

Is there any wonder those children are traumatized, when the whistle blowers exposing their abuse are the entire problem, or even pizzas are the problem, but not the abuse or the abusers? Meanwhile, over time actually a lot of people even agreed with a lot of my points over the years, but they were afraid of making waves. So that created a vacuum where evil doers could function unchallenged. 

But learning how to love cannot be made by legislated GBC laws and therapy groups. If legislation produced love, Krishna would legislate we all have to love Him. That is not possible. We have to motivate ourselves to have the right desires, it has to be internally done. Just like these skater girls, no one has to tell them to love the other skater girls, they do so spontaneously because that is in their hearts. 

So the real problem in ISKCON is not so much the bogus gurus, although they added to it, it is that a lot of devotees have no feelings for other devotees, or even the children of ISKCON. And when we came out with the poison issue there was a lot of push back, because there was no love. 

Oddly, some skater girls on Venice beach took my poison pamphlet and asked me, what happened? I said, this man was complaining of poison. They all looked sad and felt emotional. That is because their heart chakra is up and running, while the devotees there gave me vulture glares, and even some of them pounced on me, because they hated that we were exposing their whole false guru scam, and probably, the assassination of the actual guru. So, until we get some of the heart chakra problem fixed, nothing else will be. 

So the sad looks on the skater giris on Venice Beach vs the vulture looks of the devotees says it all, there is a lack of concern for others, not just against me -- although I could gripe about it forever -- but a lack of love for Srila Prabhupada -- and thereby, lack of love for ISKCON, his devotees, his women and children, his temples and deities, his books and so on. 

As one karmi lady friend told me, there is clear lack of sympathy for Srila Prabhupada in ISKCON because any elderly man who complains he is being poisoned by his staff members would get a lot of aggressive concern from the family of that man, but ISKCON seems to have -- not much feelings -- even for the same complaints from their own guru. 

They have a lack of love and concern for their own so-called master, no wonder they allowed so many children and others to become victims, they just did not care enough, because care comes from love, and they lack the love to care. The good news is, at least they have a lot of care for -- taxi driving and pizzas, priority A1.

ys pd angel108b@yaho.com     

New Video / Tariffs / Kasyapa Writes 02 21 26

Please comment on this video when it is up and running.

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
https://kasyadas5.wixsite.com/.../the-epstein-files-so...

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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
https://kasyadas5.wixsite.com/.../the-vaishnavi-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...

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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