Various sources have confirmed that Giriraj Swami, one of the most veteran and respected ISKCON leaders, is being held in India in total isolation, deprived of communication devices and autonomy. This situation would have been triggered after the revelation of a emotional relationship with a disciple, prompting a strong scandal within the organization.
Giriraj, who is over 80 years old, was abruptly transferred from the United States to India, under the pretext of treating his health, although it is suspected that the real goal is to silence the scandal and protect the institutional image. Close devotees denounce this act as “institutional disappearance,” fearing it will be kept isolated until his death to close the case and evade responsibilities.
We demand their immediate release, respect for their dignity and transparency by ISKCON. Hiding the truth is not a solution: the community must not sacrifice compassion for reputation. We demand answers and do not allow anyone to suffer in solitude for a structure that prioritizes image over humanity.
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Ajamila Dasa Acbsp is at Sydney.
July 16 at 6:10 PM · Sydney, NSW, Australia ·
HH JAYAPATAKA SWAMI IS ONE OF THE CURRENT 112+ BONAFIDE ISKCON GURUS
THE RITVIKS BLASPHEME SRILA PRABHUPADA BECAUSE THEY OFFENSIVELY DECLARE ALL CURRENT & PAST BONAFIDE ISKCON GURUS ARE BOGUS.
THE RITVIKS ALSO BLASPHEME SRILA PRABHUPADA BECAUSE THEY FALSELY ACCUSE HIM OF THE VERY SERIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL DEVIATION OF CHANGING THE UNCHANGEABLE ETERNAL LAW OF DISCIPLIC SUCCESSION.
SRILA PRABHUPADA STATED HE IS THE 11th Branch from Lord Chaitanya and that his disciples are the 12th. And the disciples of his disciples will be the 13th branch. The reject ritviks are wretched poisonous snakes because they blaspheme Srila Prabhupada and all other sincere preaching devotees.
SRD: I have to confess that I am confused by this enmeshment of the Ritvik ideology with the need to defend the imagined purity of JPS. I get that JPS is one of the 11, and that if he is not actually 100% bonafide, then that creates a whole new set of problems for the institution...
BUT, how do you reconcile the fact that JPS likely bears more responsibility than anyone else for the child abuse in Mayapur and his supposed status as a pure bonafide guru? From time to time we hear that when pedophiles end up in prison the violent and degraded criminals, detest them so much that they murder the pedophiles.
JPS on the other hand, while he was one of the few people who could have actually protected the children in Mayapur, he has never done what was necessary to remove BVP, Bhavananda, Satadanya and many other violent child abusers.
What happens in a society where known come abusers are publicly honored? More child abuse! He enabled their abuse!!! I am no expert, but I'm not sure it is possible for someone to be a bonafide pure devotee, while having less compassion and heart than violent criminals! You don't need to endorse the Ritvik ideology to understand that child abuse is wrong.
All you need is the moral values of your common criminal... If you don't even have those, then what do you really have???
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp
SRD Prabhu. You have done so much for the protection of Srila Prabhupada's Vaikuntha children and your efforts are widely appreciated by the honest and not appreciated by unqualified persons in responsible positions who just don't care.
My understanding of Jayapataka Maharaj's involvement is that he is quoted as saying that in decision making committees to deal with child sex abuse his voting was just one when the majority irresponsibly chose to offer promising sound bites that ended up in nothing being done and the abusers were enabled.
To the extent he alone can be held directly responsible for the child sex abuse in Mayapur is questionable. He did donate $40,000 for CPO funding. Some argue its too little but at least he did something which I believe no one else matched.
In spite of that and so many other management issues Jayapataka Maharaja has the symptoms of a bonafide guru. In his latest communication he verifies his preaching and sadhana schedule that includes chanting 16 rounds daily admidst his very challenging medical condition. He still gives amazing authentic classes.
And most importantly is that he has some disciples that are definitely qualified to be diksha gurus and he has already instructed some to start initiating. In the future many hundreds qualifed Jayapataka Maharaja disciples will initiate and expand Srila Prabhupada's beloved Iskcon and prove that the ritviks are all evil minded Kali celas who have nothing better to do than blaspheme and insult Srila Prabhupada and every sincere preacher in Iskcon.
The money and power grabbing ritviks caused $100 million+ to be wasted on fighting. All that money could have been spent on child protection which the ritviks also heartlessly don't care about.
PADA: Yep, children were committing suicide and we wasted money helping that process reduce, and we also got some money to victims who were homeless and living in their cars etc. Many kids thanked me for getting them yanked out of GBC schools. So all this help was only coming from the court case. Of course the HKC Jaipur thug Prahlad was crying that his favorite poofers would not have a nice new Cadillac, since the money went to the court case. Notice how these pedophile messiah clib folks only worry about money and not kids?
HVD: Ajamila Dasa Acbsp child abuse doesn’t exonerate him. He was the main in charge and he selected the leaders in the committee.
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp: It doesn't exhonerate you too. You aided and abetted by doing nothing, and then you have the gall to point your greasy finger at others when you have no evidence as to who tried to solve the problems and who didn't.
It would take a public enquiry with top QC solicitors to judge who failed in their duty and who didn't. Are you a QC solicitor? If not, then stop rash judging.
PADA: Jayapataka kicked me out of ISKCON in 1979 when I complained about the children being mistreated.
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp
Mr. PADA - The FACT that you are a ritvik blasphemer of Srila Prabhupada is every reason for everyone to disbelive anything you say. You are a servant of concoction and so what you speak is just more concoction. You have disowned Srila Prabhupada and are taking shelter of ritviks who indulge in deplorable blasphemy of Srila Prabhupada and every bona fide guru in Iskcon along with all since devotees who outright reject your ritvik lies, filth, and blasphemy. You are shameless.
HVD: Ajamila Dasa Acbsp I’m in Australia and have been really associated with ISKCON only a couple of years so I think your comment has no foundations
But you and your associates have known about this for a long time and stood by the sidelines and just glorified various filthy disgusting child abusers who are behind the cloak of religion thinking he’s (JPS) going to get away scott free while he tries to glorify the name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the teachings of his spiritual master (who initiated him in good faith) but was actually the devil in disguise as were his associates and those that knew him and about his fetishes and perverted filthy mind and desires
SRD: Ajamila Dasa Acbsp of the 50k that JPS pledged, he only actually gave 10k. I struggle to accept your argument, your basically that 'some people say that he voted to protect children, but when outvoted, was happy to let the kids get abused'...
I am not sure there is anybody in Mayapur that has and for many years, had more power and influence than JPS. With power and influence comes responsibility. I don't know what is the yardstick you use to establish who is and why isn't a qualified guru. But if I were to try and assess JPS from his moral values and his inaction before the rampant could abuse that has taken and continues to take place in Mayapur, I would have to say that he doesn't even have the ethics, values and moral standards of a virtuous non devotee.
If a Ritvik guy were to come to pass flyers in Mayapur, there are clear provisions that everyone is aware of, to remove him from ISKCON property. The same cannot be said about child abusers. ISKCON and JPS view Ritviks as a greater threat than child sexual abusers. Let that sink in for a second...
Do you think JPS ought to bear some responsibility for this? You rightly accuse the Ritviks of wasting millions of dollars in lawsuits. But you seem unable to acknowledge that ISKCON was dancing the same ballad.... ISKCON wasted millions of dollars to try and secure land and properties.
If ISKCON had invested a fraction of than money in child protection, in the education and well-being of Srila Prabhupada's Vaikuntha children. Today we'd have an army of qualified gurus... Given the horrific child abuse that has taken place in Mayapur for 40 years, with JPS's knowledge how can you honestly claim that he is a pure devotee and that he's some a wonderful job as a guru???
Has he done a wonderful job for the hundreds of children that have been sexually abused in Mayapur?
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp: SRD of the 50k that JPS pledged, he only actually gave 10k.
[I see.]
I struggle to accept your argument, your basically that 'some people say that he voted to protect children, but when outvoted, was happy to let the kids get abused'... [When you say he was "happy to let the kids get abused" you lose credibility for fair representation. Its totally unfair and offensive to accuse JPS of being happy to let kids get abused when you know only too well that is not true.
[What you can say is that you hope he would have made much more effort to ensure the kids were not abused. Wouldn't that be a more fair way of saying it?]
I am not sure there is anybody in Mayapur that has and for many years, had more power and influence than JPS.
[On paper yes, but in reality on the ground no. It does not work like that in Mayapur. For a start JPS spends most of his time travelling and preaching, dealing with health issues. His influence on the ground is not as unlimited as you think. ]
With power and influence comes responsibility.
I don't know what is the yardstick you use to establish who is and why isn't a qualified guru.
But if I were to try and assess JPS from his moral values and his inaction before the rampant could abuse that has taken and continues to take place in Mayapur, I would have to say that he doesn't even have the ethics, values and moral standards of a virtuous non devotee.
[You are entitled you your opinion in furthering child protection.]
If a Ritvik guy were to come to pass flyers in Mayapur, there are clear provisions that everyone is aware of, to remove him from ISKCON property.
The same cannot be said about child abusers.
[Ex BVP was removed, right?]
ISKCON and JPS view Ritviks as a greater threat than child sexual abusers.
Let that sink in for a second...
[Child molesters deeply hurt children. Ritviks tear open Srila Prabhupada's heart by falsely accusing him of the very serious philosophical deviation of changing the eternal unchangeable law of disciplic succession. Both are criminals but the ritviks are worse because the attack Srila Prabhupada's heart.]
Do you think JPS ought to bear some responsibility for this?
[All managers will have to suffer from crimes that took place under their watch, Srila Prabhupada stated that.]
You rightly accuse the Ritviks of wasting millions of dollars in lawsuits. But you seem unable to acknowledge that ISKCON was dancing the same ballad....
[Iskcon has committed serious wrongs and so have the ritviks, the latter being far worse. ]
ISKCON wasted millions of dollars to try and secure land and properties. If ISKCON had invested a fraction of than money in child protection, in the education and well-being of Srila Prabhupada's Vaikuntha children.
Today we'd have an army of qualified gurus...
Given the horrific child abuse that has taken place in Mayapur for 40 years, with JPS's knowledge how can you honestly claim that he is a pure devotee and that he's some a wonderful job as a guru???
[If we look at the quality of his best disciples it can only be concluded he is pleasing Srila Prabhupada very much.]
Has he done a wonderful job for the hundreds of children that have been sexually abused in Mayapur?
[Thank you for your concern for child protection in Mayapur, and I agree that anything less than ZERO TOLERANCE with child abusers will be most upsetting to Srila Prabhupada and will put his Vaikuntha children at risk.]
SRD: Ajamila Dasa Acbsp the truth is that when you compare how much money ISKCON'S leaders, including JPS have wasted trying to recover the Bangalore temple and building the tovp, with the pittance they allocated for child protection, what transpires is an alarming degree of destructive and materialistic impersonalism...
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp: I agree that child protection has been seriously neglected by Iskcon leadership, resulting in horrific moral and monetary consequences, amounting to culpable negligence. Its a huge mess. I believe and pray that the future generations will do better and clean up Iskcon's messed up reputation.
I heard JPS in a class say he is prepared to go to hell for preaching. At the end of the day everyone will be judged by how much good they did compared to how much harm they did, even unintentionally. If a self sacrificing guru like Jayapataka Maharaja creates hundreds of bonafide gurus, and it looks certain that will happen, then Krishna will recognise the good and overlook everything else.
Among the current 112 + Iskcon gurus representing the 12th disciplic branch from Lord Chaitanya, around half will each produce on average 100 bonafide gurus representing the 13th branch, giving Iskcon an army of around 5,000 bonafide gurus who will each expand in the same way.
The ritviks will go down in history as the worst blasphemers of Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada's real iskcon will shine with Krishna consciousness as he intended. But the most important concern is: What will the future generations do for the protection of Srila Prabhupada's Vaikuntha children?
If they don't get that right then the whole show will be so many apa sampradayas that Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur warned is about. So please keep pushing Iskcon leaders for a ZERO TOLERANCE policy on child sex abuse and an ABSOLUTE MUST policy of sufficient funding for CPO staff all over the world.
SRD: Ajamila Dasa Acbsp I agree that I have no way to know whether JPS was happy or not that children were getting abused. What is painfully evident is that he invested far more efforts into his travels than he did in protecting the children in Mayapur. How health issues are a relatively recent factor.
The rampant and violent child abuse in Mayapur pre-date his health issues by decades. BVP was removed. This is one way to present the events. The other way to describe what happened with BVP is that JPS enabled the child abuse that BVP perpetrated for 40 years. Is that the conduct of a soft hearted Vaishnava?
I don't think so. At any given moment JPS could have asked his army of Bengali disciples to push BVP out of Mayapur... You appear to be minimizing the gravity of child abuse when you say that it is not as bad as the Ritvik philosophy because they attack the heart of Prabhupada's mission.
What do you think will happen to the future of Prabhupada's mission when the children are spiritually, sexually and physically abused and destroyed???
If I am to judge the tree by the fruits I don't see how you can believe that someone who participated in enabling the large scale abuse is so many devotee children is a pure devotee. As far as JPS having made all these pure devotee gurus, I'd say that the jury is still out on that. Only time will tell. Numbers are not evidence of purity.
Beginning in the 70s Srila Prabhupada started giving instructions about the importance of 'boling the milk' he was emphasizing the importance of purity over quantity. He even said that if you continue to dilute the milk eventually you'll only have water. He said we have enough devotees and enough temples, we need to focus on quality. But it seems that nobody paid any attention.
And today we see devotees routinely mistaking numbers and quantity for purity....
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp: SRD - I see things differently because I meet many many JPS disciples and I can vouch for so many good ones I have meet that you have probably never met. Like it or not JPS is producing some jems of devotees. You can't say because you are not meeting and observing them like I do. I'm not saying they are all good, far from it. But there is a significant number of gems to carry Srila Prabhupada's movement forward and greatly please Srila Prabhupada.
I agree we should boil the milk. Purity is the force. I preach it all the time, telling those in saffron that if they can't observe the very easy vrata of nirjal fasting on all Ekadasis and Madhava Tithis they should wear white.
SRD: The simple truth is that no self respecting human being is going to take ISKCON seriously until the leadership demonstrates the very bare minimum human decency that is valuing and prioritizing the protection and welfare of our children. The fact is that nothing the Ritviks can say about ISKCON will ever discredit ISKCON more than what the leaders have done and continue to do to our children.
As things stand, ISKCON leaders come across as hypocrites.
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp: I agree. The very top level needs to change or be changed. The best are being prevented access at this dark point in time. But in time it will change for the better if the right devotees can get in on the top level.
HVD: SRD -- yes yes and yes.
GP: Many fully committed Iskcon members are also not happy with the ever changing crisis management iskcon guru system, let's be honest about the situation.
MCD: Poisous snakes (nagas) is the right description of the Ritviks. The problem with them is that they have infiltrated themselves in the CPO (Dhira Govinda and others), in the GBC (the bureaucrats) and represented by Vedic Inquiry Facebook group. They all have the same aim: 1) to destroy the respect for the authority and ISKCON Gurus, 2) to close all Gurukulas, 3) to introduce non-Vedic values like women liberation and similar, 4) to centralize and bureaucratize ISKCON.
The common strategy (root) is the same: to deviate from Srila Prabhupada’s teachings.
A Adikhari: The problem had been that ISKCON were not bonafide till recently that they started to accept subordination to senior Acharyas, desciples of Srila Prabhupada Thakur. ISKCON also deviated for many years from the real instructions of Swami Maharaja Prabhupada, as a reactions the "ritviks" who always had been offenders arised and will be disturbing the ISKCON who had take to long to start to be a mature vaishnai institution.
Ajamila Dasa Acbsp: Iskcon's disciples of Srila Prabhupada's disciples, who are currently forming 100s of qualified gurus, will prove the ritviks are nothing but envious blasphemers of Srila Prabhupada. Those many hundreds of qualified gurus will each similarly create many hundreds of gurus and Krishna consciousness will be spread all over world via Iskcon just as Srila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya intended.
After Srila Prabhupada's departure the preaching suffered many setbacks. But the future is bright with many Iskcon branches spreading all over the world. Srila Prabhupada said he is the 11th branch of the Brahma Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya coming from Lord Chaitanya and that his disciples are the 12th branch. The disciples of Srila Prabhupada's disciples will be glorious and the blasphemous ritviks will be weeded out to die by Lord Chaitanya.
VL: Where is the reference to that quote exactly?
HV: excellent question as I’m also looking for some of these quotes with the reference and somehow I’ve failed to find them.
May be an image of text that says '12:47 Personality Lord then similarly, coming down, down, Bhaktivinoda (Lecture, London TIME misguided SOON by 5/16/72) and many that spiritual and daughters will that family generations Those WILL title "So Bhaktivedanta trying from Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Bhaktisiddhanta TENTH, FROM distribute Lecture Angeles, 1972]
Prabhupada Sri 14:35 "γου WILL HAVE More CONCLUSIVE Evidence the Ritviks are WRONG BECOME SPIRITUAL MASTER... YOU... (Vyasa-puja ONE YOU, MAHAPRABHU BECOME 3/28/75) THAT YOU BECOME, this district home that district, doesn't matter. Either γου home, doesn't matter. (Sannyasa Initiation, BECOME STUDENT YOU'LL REMAIN SHALL BECOME ALSO GURU AND STUDENTS MORE. REMAIN GURU. Yes, Caitanya'