Harinama In London / Anti Ritvik Myths debunked (#47) 06 03 26

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PADA VIEWER STATISTICS 06 / 02 / 26

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PADA: There are still a few Western kirtans going on here and there, and that is wonderful. As long as ISKCON keeps kicking out Western people and tries to force forward their homosexual and pedophile's acharya's club, ISKCON will continue to suffer and the harinama program will continue to be small scale, rare, sparse, if not -- dwindling to non-existing in most cities. OK non-existing in almost all large USA cities. 

So this is the Harinama Samkirtana movement, minus the actual Harinama Samkirtana. As someone said to PADA, the GBC does not want Western devotees and their Harinamas, and they even destroyed the BTG and book distribution "samkirtana." 

Why? They want Hindus to line their pockets with dollars, end of story. ys pd 

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From: Mahesh Raja (written by Alexander Stegantsev) 

Anti Ritvik Myths debunked (#47)

Myth: “Pro-ritvik devotees are like whimsical rioters who try to impose a revolution which is not necessary and disturbing.” 

Truth: It’s anti-ritviks who, like Ekalavya, neglect Srila Prabhupada’s orders on initiations.

I recall how the temple president of our local yatra told us this myth when the discussion broke out that Srila Prabhupada’s instructions on his current acarya status and ritvik initiations in ISKCON were seriously violated and that following them should be restored. Unfortunately, anti-ritviks try to present Prabhupadanugas as some kind of strange rebels, misguided revolutionaries who, for no valid reason, want to stage a riot, senseless and merciless. But this is just another myth.

1. Demoniac revolution has already happened in ISKCON, therefore we need divine counter-revolution

The schisms and sahajiya influence in maya-ISKCON have their origins in the events of the 1970s, when there was a conspiracy and coup, attempts to conceal and distort important instructions of Srila Prabhupada, and a lot of convincing evidence has been collected by now to confirm this. Anyone who carefully reads "The Personal Ambition" series by Prabhupada Truth Commission, will see plenty of evidence for this. 

In particular, it has been proven that there were attempts to poison Srila Prabhupada, which he talked about on November 9 and 10, 1977, concealment of Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 audio recordings, instructions on ritvik initiations, etc. Eventually, ISKCON’s original axiological basis has largely been distorted and transformed into numerous deviations.

If one carefully looks into the history of these events, it becomes clear that the bottom line is that a narrow circle of individuals (the founders of modern unauthorized and failed guru system in maya-ISKCON), unfortunately, staged a real coup in 1977-78. This can also be called anti-Prabhupada rebellion, which was carried out with the use of weapons (poison) and by means of theft and treacherous concealment of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions, his documents and audio recordings from 1977, robbery of all-ISKCON scale and deception of his disciples. 

Although this rebellion was temporarily successful from material point of view, spiritually it was a failure and gradual scandals and fall down of the renegades, defectors to the dark side (some of them may have initially joined as agents of demoniac forces). 

This subsequently resulted in a number of scandalous fall downs of dozens of newly minted “diksha gurus” and their accomplices, although Srila Prabhupada taught that bona fide transcendental gurus do not deviate from the spiritual path.

I noticed the serious degraded erosion of ISKCON about a year after the departure of Srila Prabhupada. The leaders of ISKCON are deemed as criminals today by many. Srila Prabhupada once made a statement in the seventies – many of you are here in the garbs of a devotee, but you are here to destroy – demons from the lower planetary system have taken birth on this planet just to destroy this movement. 

We were all bewildered by these statements by Srila Prabhupada – we wondered who were these "sinister movement" people? Well, now we know.” (Jivadhara Dasa ACBSP, New York, USA, Back to Prabhupada, #42, winter 2013 / 14, pg. 11-12)

As a result, numerous scandals broke out in the hijacked ISKCON around pseudo-gurus: poisoning, pedophilia, ritualistic child abuse, drug addiction, sex with disciples, murders, financial fraud, admitted mental disorder of “gurus”, their philosophical deviations, non-adherence to sadhana, concealment of crimes, etc. One just needs to be informed of the history and the current situation in maya-ISKCON. 

Anti-ritviks, in most cases, poorly distribute and translate into other languages even their own soft-pedal official information about such scandalous fall downs of their “gurus”, because this is too much self-exposing.

PADA: Yeah, we are often admonished for "bringing out the dirt" and giving ISKCON a bad name. OK, but should we allow people to be cheated into worshiping false acharyas? Or let their kids get molested? Or read hatchet job changed books and etc.? I would say it is our duty to inform people about these deviations. 

So, according to the scale of the coup, it can also be called a revolution: demoniac / sahajiya anti-ISKCON revolution of the renegades - would be false gurus, which radically influenced the future of ISKCON, deprived it of spiritual purity and turned it into a disgraced maya-ISKCON apa-sampradaya.

It’s important to distinguish between a beneficial revolution and a destructive one (as Srila Prabhupada called the so-called “scientific revolution” rascal revolution, not scientific one). Srila Prabhupada has repeatedly quoted English proverb “Discrimination is the best part of valor”. 

Indiscretion is a sign of prakrita sahajiya. We should not have sentimental promiscuity: “Oh, the leaders of modern (maya) ISKCON are all pure devotees! They couldn’t have done such things!” Alas, they could and they did. Betrayal of any scale is only to be expected in this world. Just as Judas sold Christ to the priests for 30 silver coins, so Judas’ counterparts in ISKCON deliberately betrayed their teacher and deceived their Godsiblings. We shouldn’t succumb to their deception due to thoughtlessness and ignorance.

It’s worth asking the question: “Does the Krishna Consciousness Movement in principle approve any kind of revolution or not?” Of course, it does. Its aim is to reform the modern misguided civilization. Srila Prabhupada repeatedly quoted the verse of SBhag. 1.5.11 that begins with tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavo…: “On the other hand, that literature which is full of descriptions of the transcendental glories of the name, fame, forms, pastimes, etc., of the unlimited Supreme Lord is a different creation, full of transcendental words directed toward bringing about a revolution in the impious lives of this world’s misdirected civilization. Such transcendental literatures, even though imperfectly composed, are heard, sung and accepted by purified men who are thoroughly honest.”

PADA: Yep, it is like Judas betraying a pure devotee. We agree with that analysis. When we first launched the first public reveal of "the 1977 poison tapes," all kinds of people, including IRM's Krishna Kant Desai, Kamsahanta, Adridharan and many others -- told me this is insane, this will never be accepted and "no one will believe that Srila Prabhupada was intentionally poisoned." OK give up before you even get started. 

HKC Jaipur's darling advisor Kamsahanta also tried to physically block me from going out with the release and he said "do not release this tape, you will be dead in 24 hours, they will kill you." These HKC Jaipur type guys think covering up crimes, including mass child molesting, and even poisoning pure devotees, will save or fix ISKCON. It won't. Fake information is harming and not helping.

But hey! Thanks for the support guys! NOT!!!

Yup! Also as soon as we released the poison tapes -- Mukuna UK (Mark Whitely) and his pal Sanat joined the GBC and started to say "Puranajan is a crazy mad man liar," so they could help the GBC poison sabha at the time. And they did, poison sabha people began forwarding their complaints about our expose technique. In short -- they would rather have the poisoners party win -- and not the exposers party. 

Of course later they morphed into HKC Jaipur and Prabhupadanugas EU, who also say -- we are crazy mad people, liars etc. -- because we are releasing Srila Prabhupada's ACTUAL statements, and we are not helping them promote their pedophile messiah's club Saint Radhanath's cheer leaders. 

Narayan Maharaja also joined this group and opposed PADA. Never mind Tamal and the GBC went ballistic against us. So we had full scale opposition at the start, and honestly, it looked like we would never get much traction at the start. And we might not even survive physically, we would be iced out. 

I think however -- at this point -- it is safe to say, our opponents and nay sayers did not win, and the poison issue has been fully accepted by many thousands of folks -- fairly widely around the world. Even Narayan Maharaja people reluctantly agreed because we forced the issue forward. 

And our "child abuse scandal issue" has also been widely accepted all over the planet too, and we are getting new allies even from ISKCON members themselves on this issue. Same with the book changes issues.

Anyway, probably at least tens of thousands of people accept the poison issue as valid at this stage. The cat is FULLY out of the bag. The evidence? It speaks for itself. And then we have to ask, "if there was no evidence of any wrong doing on these tapes, why were these tapes hidden"? And why did people think I would die for releasing these tapes?

But yeah, this "poison sabha" was the root 1977 internal cabal that drove the rest of the deviants and deviations, and foolish people like Hansadutta, Kirtanananda, Bhagavan, Ramesvara and others latched onto the core cadre and helped the hi-jacking by joining their party. Yep. Some have said this is "the betrayal of Jesus by the Judas party," and that sounds about right. But hey, satyam eva jayate, truth always prevails. And it will. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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PADA: Yep TKD, rather oddly -- as soon as I came out with the child mistreatment issue, book changes issue, Prabhupada complaining about being given toxic materials etc. in 1997, my worst critics and opponents were the Krishna Kant IRM "ritviks." They demanded I stop writing and Jayapataka was going to host me on my new Caribbean vacation. Righty ho. I would never have returned from the Caribbean alive ... and that was evidently the plan. ys pd

TKD: You are a lucky man!

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IRAN IS A MESS UPDATE

PADA: Yep DD prabhu, supposing we sign a giant 400 pages agreement deal with Iran. As soon as Iran says we are not following the rules on page 27, the deal is off, and the straits are closed again. This could go -- on and on -- in an endless loop for a long time. Of course we already had a written Obama deal, that deal was ripped up and tossed out, and so Iran now thinks our deals are not worth much. They would be right.

There is no guarantee a signed deal will keep things going properly. And Iran will always have a boot on other nation's necks to close off the oil supplies at any time. Yep, the temporary cease fire deal might not produce a final long and lasting deal. And when Trump is out, then how will the next president fix that problem now on his lap?

Overall, we stepped into some major dog manure over there and we cannot get it off our shoes. But the MAGA people are helping China big time, by making record orders for Electric vehicles and green products made in China. But China is complaining that our actions are harming their oil / fertilizer supplies, so they are not happy with the USA, and their economy might start to get pinched. Then again almost no other nation in the world is happy with USA at this point.

In the short term, millions if not billions of farmers worldwide are now missing fertilizer and fuel -- which could produce mass famines in different places, and that could become nasty. Already "bread riots" are being predicted in 2027, and much worse in 2028. 

It is not looking good for the world. But someone said the real problem is not Iran, it is the leaders of Israel, who do not want peace at all, and that is the perception. It looks overall like the West is -- over and over and over -- trying to get this situation fixed by carpet bombing the Arabs over there and for decades, but it is not likely to be fixed since this problem has not been fixed for decades. 

The idea of MORE carpet bombing the Arabs ad infinitum forever has been our main if not only -- fix it all -- one size fits all -- solution forever, and no one has been able to really convince these neo-cons, this plan is not working. And never will. In any case buckle up, the ride could get bumpy when the neo cons start their sabre rattling show -- again. And again! ys pd  

President Donald Trump cursed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a roughly 15-minute phone call on Monday, multiple sources familiar with the call told ABC News, with the president angered by Israel's escalation in Lebanon and its potential to imperil the administration's ongoing negotiations with Iran.

Trump accused Netanyahu of being ungrateful and called him "crazy," sources familiar with the call said. At one point during the tense call, Trump asked Netanyahu, "What the f--- are you doing?" Axios first reported on the expletive-filled call.

OK HERE IS THE PLAN!

Kratu "Cancer" / Hindu's Sadh Guru / Prana das Health / Radhanath 06 02 26

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KRATU Das "Aggressive Cancer"

Medical updates from the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) note that Kratu Das is 82 years old and has developed a rapid health decline following an aggressive form of cancer. The cancer originated elsewhere and metastasized into his liver and lymph nodes and other areas, which is a structural and oncological failure entirely unrelated to dietary lifestyle. 

This perspective highlights a fundamental challenge: how can someone be called a "master" if they appear helpless against physical suffering? It is a fair question, especially when a leader claims to teach others how to transcend material suffering.

By shifting from a single, universally respected founder - Srila Prabhupada - to a system of living, but highly fallible Western gurus, the movement introduced a high-stakes spiritual gamble. When several of those prominent gurus suffered high-profile moral, financial, or psychological crashes, the psychological safety net for Western seekers vanished. For a regular Westerner, staying with Jesus Christ— whose position is fixed, timeless, and secure from modern scandals — became the logical choice to "play it safe."

The largest financial resources, administrative decisions, and massive temple constructions — such as the multi-million dollar Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP) in Mayapur and projects in Vrindavan — are centered entirely in India.
In Western countries (the US, UK, Canada, and Europe), the vast majority of temple congregations are no longer Western devotees, but rather Indian diaspora families seeking a cultural and spiritual connection to their homeland.

Because converting the native Western population came to a halt after the guru scandals of the 1980s and 1990s, the GBC adapted to survive by serving the traditional Hindu community, both within India and abroad.

PADA: Did I forget to mention, there is a cancer epidemic in the Krishna society, when there should not be one? ys pd

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WHAT IS HINDUISM? (Sadh Guru)

PADA: There you have it folks. Why has ISKCON gone Hindu? Because you can worship Lord Siva, a cow, a snake, a bamboo pole, Santa Claus, a rock, your cat or your dog, or worship nothing and no one at all, and still be a Hindu. And therefore you can worship the GBC's illicit sex with men, women and children guru parampara, what is the problem? So there is no real standard of worship. 

My Hindu friend all the time sends me "Krishnamurti" videos. And in one of them he says "God was simply created by your mind." Oh great, there is a big switcheroo! God does not create me, I created God with my mind. That makes me and my mind pretty powerful since I can then create God. 

But while I am quite capable of creating God, I am not capable of manifesting hundred dollar bills? What kind of person has the name "Krishnamurti" and he thinks, there is no actual Krishna anywhere? 

What Krishnamurti actually said across multiple talks: Krishnamurti argues:

“God is your concept.”

  

He says this directly when discussing whether God exists, explaining that the idea of God arises from human thought, fear, and conditioning. 

Belief in God is a projection of the mind.

  

In his "The First and Last Freedom," he states that belief in God is “merely a self‑projection and therefore not real.” This means the mind creates an image of God and then worships its own creation. 

The conditioned mind invents God. He emphasizes that our ideas of God come from culture, tradition, and psychological need — not from direct insight. 

He questions: “Did God create us, or did we create God?”  

In Q&A sessions, he pushes listeners to examine whether the human mind invented the idea of God. 

OK so there is no such thing as a God named Krishna, since -- we mentally created Krishna ourselves. This is simply another example of the lack of discrimination and thoughtful analysis by a number of Hindus, and the fact many Hindus listen to this type of -- covert atheist -- guy as their spiritual authority. And that is why the Hindus are the number one customers for GBC gurus, they often lack discrimination and that is why Srila Prabhupada says they are "a hodge podge." 

Another Hindu friend sent me a video where they were arguing -- atheists are superior to theists because -- they often behave better. OK so we should deny the existence of God, to make a better behaving society? What is the point of this argument? Nobody knows, it is all hodge podge. 

Worse! Unfortunately just as often -- atheistic and communistic countries -- do not have a good track record of human rights and care for the citizens either, so it is sort of a non-argument. But many Hindus listen to all these sorts of things and consider this all important spiritual understanding from achayas, gurus, swamis, yogis, avatars etc. It isn't. But it does explain why GBC gurus do so well in India and not the West. 

One devotee told PADA, the reason India is baking under extreme heat is -- they listen to all these bogus spiritual authorities. So now they have to figure out how to mentally make the heat go away, since they are the persons who mentally make God and everything within their minds. Lets see how well they can cool off India with their minds. Maybe they are going to figure out, they are not creating God, or India's heating problems, or cooling solutions, or anything else, and they are subordinate to a higher power. Well yup!  

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com          

Kanta das:  People of India origin are too humble, and prone to be misguided. When the British rulers spit on them -- they will say the rain is drizzling. In order to stop the British onslaught and oppression one wise man advised -- in order to stop and dismantle the British -- first you have to stop and dismantle the Indians that are propping up the British and that was the solution for freedom.

Similarly it's the Indians that are giving life to these false gurus. And that is why they make India their main area of preaching and influence. They have mostly abandoned the West.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

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Prayer Request for His Grace Prana das, ACBSP
Dear Devotees

Prana prabhu is in Hospice with a life expectancy of a few days. His wife Harsarani devi is with him. Radha Krishna prabhu has been helping them with all arrangements. Devotees are welcome to visit him at the Gainesville Haven Hospice Care Center. His name is Dean Mihalovitis. 

Soft kirtan and reading are suggested. He is mostly unresponsive.

More details will be posted as they become available.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

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RADHANATH IS A HOAX GURU

Maitrya Muni

Who is the real Radhanath swami

Radha Madhava Dasa writes as follows:

Yes, I was the one who told Radhanath Swami he had to clean up his internet image. I was his disciple at the time, and was in charge of his media in the USA. His book was coming out and when you googled his name the only thing that came up was "Radhanath Swami Murder Conspirator" from the article on harekrsna.com

He just told me never to publish anything about him ever on the internet as people just criticize him. So I told him that, the first thing anyone does is that they search your name when they hear about you. Once you launch your book the first thing they will see is that article.

I told him that you have to have positive information out there to counteract the negative. So he gave me $2000 in cash and told me to take care of it.
We built a website with a few videos with him in it, but it didn't have much impact. He then hired a PR firm from Seattle and paid them $10,000 to create a bunch of fake websites about him with fake reviews written by a non-devotees.
That didn't work, so we engaged a hacker to try to take down the article, but that didn't work either.

So he engaged his entire congregation in Mumbai and around the world to create as many websites as possible, and their devotional service was to every day go to all the websites and click on the links and write glowing reviews.
He also had them all sign up for pre-purchase and to all buy his book on Amazon as soon as it came out so it would become a bestseller.

I met the brand ambassador for Google at burning man, and introduced Radhanath Swami to him. I believe they have been in touch since and have made arrangements for his total Google domination in the search results.

Since that time I have become disillusioned with Radhanath Swami, and have seen that indeed the articles which he was trying to cover up are actually true, as I have witnessed from his character, behavior and choices. When my sister approached him to tell him about the child abuse she underwent he covered it up and shut her down.

I tried to speak to him about it, but he would not speak to me, even though I followed him around the entire world for a year. It was later confirmed by other contacts that he was directly involved in abusing them.

I have since renounced any connection to him, and recommend anyone who has any interest in him to please do their research first. As far as Henry Doktorski's book goes, the cover and title are sensationalist and so it will end up being just a book for preaching to the choir and will not be accepted as being of value for people who actually need to hear the information inside of it.

I hope that he will consider changing his presentation at least on the cover so that it could be of more value for people who really need to hear it.

October 1, 1989: On this date in history 34 years ago, Radhanath Swami (in Pune, India) writes an inspiring letter to Sulochan’s murderer—Tirtha in prison—and explains, “Without a goal worth dying for we have nothing worthwhile to live for. Any shallow creature can speak these words. Very few most fortunate souls have the courage and integrity to engrave these words within the heart of hearts and remain faithful in the face of life and death.”

In the same letter, Radhanath glorifies Tirtha’s book, Meditations on the American Gulag, which Tirtha had written in prison, “Your beautiful book is THE MOST POPULAR BOOK amongst your godbrothers and godsisters in India. It is even more sought after than any other book.”
(Killing For Krishna, p. 390)

http://henrydoktorski.com/Killing4Krishna.html

Jeevas / Kratu Departs / Billie Eilish 06 01 26

My devotee is never lost to Me. 

THE JEEVA SOUL ISSUE

PADA: Srila Prabhupada says that anyone who does not accept that we originated with Krishna is tinged with Mayavada. He is our current acharya, and he started the Back to Godhead idea as our acharya. Of course yes, saying some special blessed souls start with God, and some lesser fortunates do not, is the Catholic church idea, it is mundane religion. 

To say some higher souls are blessed to be in heaven, and some lesser souls are cursed to fall and then go to hades, is the same thing I was told in Catholic church. The angels stay there, you poor bums do not, because God pre-selects who stays and who fails. I am not a follower of the Catholics anymore, I accept that all souls are equally loved and they all start out with the same opportunity. Yes, of course the Catholic Church idea is good for some folks, we fell because God goofed and did not make us angels in heaven with Him, therefore, let me go grab a beer and blame God for me being here! It is called blaming God, and that is not our siddhanta. We are to blame, not God. ys pd

KRATU DAS DEPARTS

AND HE WAS A HUMBLE GUY!

OK prabhu, Kratu das is "a very humble gentleman and his wife is also very kind hearted and so PADA, you are wrong to criticize them." Wait? Kratu is humble because he thinks "I am able to absorb sins (as a diksha guru) because I am equal to Jesus." Sorry, this is not considered as "very humble" in the Western world. 

The consensus of the karmi public here is -- this person is suffering from a GIANT ego problem, with barely a shred of humility. "Me and Jesus are equals, we can both take sins" is considered the worst case of ego-mania here in the West. It is not accepted here at all.

Kratu das was also in charge of Vancouver when they had a pile of photos of GBC gurus near the altar -- so they could offer bhogha to this guy or that guy. A Vancouver devotee told me "there are more guru pictures than there are devotees living in the temple. The temple is empty most of the time." 

And then Kratu's program had a Prabhupadanuga and his family kicked out of the temple, and he was one of their best kirtan people there. And his family was doing all sorts of other important services there. Anyone who worships Srila Prabhupada? Banned and not needed! 

Then the banned devotee started his own kirtan program, which many people attended at his house, and the temple complained he was "competing with ISKCON." Nope, he just wants to glorify Krishna and the GBC makes that a crime.

The ISKCON temple was basically made into a ghost town by Kratu das. But why does Kratu want people to offer bhogha to photos of people in a homosexual and pedophile guru lineage?

Sorry, the Western consensus is -- a person who claims himself and Jesus are of the same sin absorbing capacity -- sounds like a highly inflated ego, a person who has a higher estimation of themselves than 9999.9999% of the population. Of course there have been a number of people in Bellevue mental home who also thought they and Jesus are the same. 

But the average Western person never even dreams they have the same identical capacity as another Jesus. So people in the West would think he is highly narcissistic, is suffering from megalomania, delusions of grandeur, imperious overlord thinking, and he is declaring he is more potent and powerful than all the rest of the world's citizens, even other Vaishnavas, because he is another Jesus-like successor to God no less and etc. 

Where is the humility when someone announces he is no less than God's living spokesman, successor, and Jesus like -- sin absorbing -- messiah on earth? Ok there is none. Add to that, we have to FORCIBLY accept that he is God's living spokesman and another Jesus, or we will be banned, beaten, sued and killed for disagreeing. How humble is that? 

And Kratu's program spent $20,000,000 trying to sue the Bangalore devotees, so they could shut down a program that feeds millions of kids -- by having the directors placed in jail. How humble is it when your aim and object of life is to sue people who are feeding children, all at the same time -- your program is being sued for $400,000,000 for NOT FEEDING CHILDREN. 

Sorry, none of this looks humble, especially in the West. Suing programs that feed children is considered as highly obnoxious and abominable here in the West, it is not acceptable here. Trying to starve thousands of children is considered essentially as demoniac in the West, nothing humble about it.

And that is why these GBC guru people are only big gurus in India, and their temples here are empty. No one here wants to worship a megalomaniac Jesus wanna-be, it is not going to fly in the West, and it isn't. And it is not humble one iota to think "me and Jesus are equals," after you are voted into a homosexual and pedophile messiah's club. 

I don't see any evidence their program is humble. Their program will ban us, beat us, sue us, and -- kill us. And mass molest children. To say this is humble is "placing a velvet glove on the iron fist" as Sulochana said all the time. It makes a dangerous situation for anyone who wants to worship the actual pure devotee, they can end up -- harassed, banned, beaten, sued and -- dead, and they have been. Their program does not act humbly, and to say it is -- is dangerous. 

Meanwhile Srila Prabhupada says -- a person who acts as guru and take sins without authority -- can take future birth as a snake, the disciples can take birth as ants, and the ants will then eat the snake alive. And Kratu's humble wife did not ever seem to warn him or any of them of how this ends for fake messiahs, rather she encouraged all this. So she is part of the problem. "I am as good as Jesus," is considered as the highest amount of low class ego-ism in the West, it will never be accepted here. 

Anyway I wish him well, honest! But he fought hard to defend his homosexual and pedophile guru's brotherhood, and he will have to answer for that, and all the thousands and thousands of people who are victims of his process.   

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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BILLIE EILISH

After telling Elle Magazine that eating meat is "inherently wrong" and that you cannot genuinely love animals while also eating them, Billie Eilish was hit with the predictable wave of online backlash — accusations of privilege, condescension, and being "out of touch." "The internet went ballistic."

She didn't blink.

Eilish took to Instagram to tell critics to stop "living a lie" and shared footage documenting the realities of industrial animal agriculture to her 124 million followers.

The "privilege" criticism is one of the oldest deflections in the book — a way of making the discomfort of cognitive dissonance someone else's problem rather than reckoning with the substance of what she said.

She's been vegan since she was twelve years old, her tour funded 7.7 million plant-based meals for people experiencing homelessness, and she's using one of the biggest platforms in pop music to say what most advocates are afraid to say plainly: you can love animals or eat them, but you cannot claim to do both.

PADA: Right MMD prabhu, she is doing more to spread animal welfare and stopping cow killing than all of ISKCON combined. Agreed.

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PADA: Thanks prabhu. ISKCON is not the only religion showbottle out there, there are lots of other examples. Kali Yuga's "irreligion becomes religion." Yup! And the result is -- people reject religion, also yup!

MPD/ Jayapataka on Sins / Jhulana / Kratu Health 05/31/26

PADA: Sorry, "preaching" that Krishna wants us to be promotjng Jayapataka's homosexuals and pedophiles guru lineage -- as acharyas -- is never going burn the sins away. Because every day that is done, the sins increase. Then, after preaching these pedo-pooja deviations for decades, they end up burying homosexuals and pedophiles in samadhis, which means the situation is getting way WORSE (more sinful) every day. I am digging my hole to hell deeper every day, but this is burning off sins?

That means their sins are increasing and not being burnt. Amazing, Jayaptaka thinks "preaching" that God's messiahs are often -- illicit sex with men, women and children debauchees -- or people like Kratu das "2/3 show of hands voted into the pedo-pooja sampradaya" is "preaching." I was preaching that God's successors are often less moral standard than the butcher shop's mlecchas, and that is going to burn off sins? Nope, that is going to INCREASE sins exponentially. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

WS: When he suffered the attack in Madrid one of his first words was that he has accepted sins of many disqualified disciples

GB: I asked initiation in 1991 in long island new york and he didn't want to give it, today I never understood but now I realize I haven't lost anything. A trip to Mexico city and they told me to take initiation with a sannyasi who is in command of Mexico Central and South America, but no. I stay like this without initiation.
All Glory's to the Pure Devotees. (If there are any of them!!)

PB: Conceited complicit pretender ….

AG: He clearly suffers from giant smelly farts due to overeating. I don't want to be near his smelly carcass.

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Jhulana's Post

Yes, I met Radhanath in 1995, he became my guru and I took 1st and 2nd from him. But, in 2020 I finally was crushed by that spell, because Krishna showed me all the deviations that this person had committed over the years. Up till then I had a lot of personal association with him as his personal cook, my husband was his chiropractor and we would lend him our car while he was in town, he would do some small programs at our home, so I thought I knew him...little did I know what a grand lier he is, I totally lost all respect for him and know many, many others who have exposed his lies, deceit and demoniac characters. 

I know some women who were raped by him when he was in New Vrindavan when they were mere children. He lied about being part of the plans for killing the one who was exposing him and Kirtananda. In his own book "The Journey Home " why is it that he never mentions those days in New Vrindavan and that his Sanyas guru was a pedophile who disobeyed Srila Prabhupada? 

In fact Radhanath has made so many direct offenses to Srila Prabhupada by disobeying him: becoming the CEO of a hospital, Being good with all the book changes, sheltering pedophiles and child beaters and letting them give classes at Bhakti Center, becoming a sanyasi without proper chain of disciplic sucsession because Kirtananda was very fallen and himself never given the OK to initiate...just see all of his deviations alone and Radhanath didn't care about all that, he just wanted to be guru at any expense. Check out the Amazon book "The Journey Home Exposed"

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KRATU DASA HEALTH CRISIS

Urgent request for prayers for His Grace Kratu Prabhu (ACBSP). Hare Krishna. 

As informed earlier, Maharaj has been suffering from advanced liver failure with multiple serious complications. In the recent days, his condition deteriorated further, and for consideration of liver transplant he was shifted from the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, to Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi. Simultaneously, legal proceedings regarding transplant permission were also underway.

However, due to rapid worsening of his health condition, Maharaj had to be placed on ventilator support on 22nd May. After careful medical evaluation, the doctors have presently advised that liver transplant is not possible in his current condition.
Considering Maharaj’s long-standing heartfelt desire to remain in the holy dham of Vrindavan, and after discussions among family members, senior disciples, and well-wishers, it has now been decided to shift Maharaj to Vrindavan under ventilator and medical support. 

Arrangements are being made so that he may remain in the spiritually surcharged atmosphere of the dham, surrounded by kirtan, prayers, devotees, and continued medical care. We humbly request for you to keep Kratu Prabhu in your prayers. Haribol.

Kratu dasa was working under the direction of Gopal Krishna swami of Delhi. 

A large number of devotees considered the qualities of Shriman Kratu Das as divine and started following him religiously. In 2002, GBC made Kratu Prabhu, into Shriman Kratu Das Adhikari and he became an initiating Guru in the ISKCON.

PADA: Deity Worship? OK so Kratu das went along with the GBC process of placing the photos of illicit sex with men, women and children deviants and / or homosexual pedophiles on the altars as part of the "deity worship." Of course, there is no record of Srila Prabhupada ever saying we need to place photos of illicit sex deviants on Krishna's altars. 

There is also no record of Krishna saying, "hey, we need to have photos of homosexual pedophiles on My altars, or else you will be a ritvik deviant." Where does He say that? So they are making Krishna say things He never said.  

Nor is there any record in Vedic history of worshiping Krishna via photos of homosexuals, pedophiles, debauchees, deviants and accessories to murders of Vaishnavas. Meanwhile, any ordinary USA mleccha citizen knows that we cannot worship illicit sex with men, women and children deviants as the Lord's messiahs. 

Not going to please God one iota! Gonna make God angry and upset with said program? Yep! So this is a major insult to God, let us make worship of homosexuals and pedophiles photos on Krishna's altars. Nope, He never authorizes such a process. In other words the Kratu program MADE ALL THIS UP wholesale.

Meanwhile his program, under Gopal Krishna swami, helped bury a known homosexual pedophile in a samadhi in the dham. Then he said he wants to die in the dham, so he can be near his favorite homosexual and pedophile's, and / or porno swami Gunagrahi's samadhi. Then he becomes certified as a guru in the homosexual and pedophile messiahs project in 2002, when it was well known by then -- we had sued them for $400,000,000 for mass child abuse already starting in 1999. 

So he was evidently well aware his program was brutalizing and sexually abusing children on a large scale, and that is why he wanted to be voted into that program? So he is 2/3 show of hands voted into an illicit sex with men, women and children guru parampara, that has to be sued for mass child abuse, and that is why people in India think he is a saint? Our guru was voted into the homo and pedo messiah's project, and thus -- he is a saint. 

And unfortunately, many folks in India cannot figure out what is wrong here. I get asked about this all the time, why is their homosexual and pedophile guru's program ONLY popular -- in India, NOT in the West, and thus their temples are empty in the West? So Kratu thought him and his homosexual and pedophile brotherhood clan can accept sins like Jesus, but they are going to suffer reactions, this life and the next. 

But hey, I still wish him well, and he is going to need all the well wishing help he can get when he has to answer to YAMARAJA for his helping making perverts into messiahs. Wow, I count my blessings every day! I was born as a mleccha and not in the so-called holy land of India, so I was blessed to know homosexuals, pedophiles, womanizing drunks and and criminals are not part of a chain of God's successors. Not are the people 2/3 show of hands voted into that guru chain. ys pd    

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aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate iti matva bhajante mam budha bhava-samanvitah

SYNONYMS

aham—I; sarvasya—of all; prabhavah—source of generation; mattah—from Me; sarvam—everything; pravartate—emanates; iti—thus; matva—knowing; bhajante—becomes devoted; mam—unto Me; budhah—learned; bhava-samanvitah—with great attention.

TRANSLATION: I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.

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The behavior of Madhavendra Puri and Krsna dasa Kaviraja plus Sb .1.8.11 and 12: Lord Krishna's Affection to His Devotees, and The Pandavas Take Up Their Weapons.

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India Heatwave

Why India’s heatwaves feel more brutal than ever as warnings issued over ‘killer’ 48C heat | The Independent

PADA: India is experiencing a heat wave, in some places 118C. And this is only May, so it is expected to get worse. During this heat asphalt can reach 70–80°C (158–176°F), and it will not cool down a whole lot at night, so the cities are more vulnerable to sustained heat at night, with all their asphalt roads. 

As one expert said "we are close to reaching the limits of humanly survivable environments." Meanwhile the MAGA people are saying "climate change is a hoax." Ummm, nope it is not. 

Kali yuga will have extreme weather and that is the Vedic prediction, and it cannot be changed by claiming it is a hoax. Many people believe this is connected to burning fossil fuels, and that is probably correct IMHO. Delhi already has a terrible smog problem, add heat to that -- and thus one resident said "it is like hell on earth." Well yup. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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NITYNANDA and Prabhupada Truth Commission

Dear prabhus

PAMHO AGTSrila Prabhupada!

I just wanted to update you, if interested, on the progress of the Personal Ambition series of books. Please recall that this series is a breakdown, revision, and expansion of the original 2022 two book set Srila Prabhupada's Hidden Glories.

1. Hidden Glories has been distributed for free around the world for years. ISKCON Bangalore ships all over India. Jaya Jaganath in Florida ships all over the USA. Previously Mandapa paid for cases to be sent to other parts of the world: Europe, Australia, Mauritius, Singapore, NZ, Africa, etc. Please advise if you know anyone or anywhere that we can send books to now, as we still have a good stock available.

2. In addition, we have Hidden Glories and 9 Personal Ambition volumes available for free download from our website:
www.prabhupadatruthcommission.org

Please avail yourself if you like, and please direct others to access this TRUTH LIBRARY, a very important asset in the ongoing war by rascals and demons against Srila Prabhupada's spiritual movement. They are also on other websites.

3. I have also been sending out free PDFs for all these 11 books to anyone interested. I can send them to you as well if you want to share them here and there in the future. They are good for cutting pieces from for Facebook!

4. The Personal Ambition series is also physically available all over the globe from www.amazon.com, either as softcover books (about $15-18 @) or as Kindle (etc) ebooks (about $3-4 @). Please keep this in mind if anyone you know might like a physical book. The list so far:

The Amazon.com “Personal Ambition” series:

Volume 1: Triumphant Departure: Complete Book of Poisoning Evidence
Volume 2: Anti-Prabhupada: Deviant Impact of Tamal Krishna Goswami
Volume 3: Pursuit of Srila Prabhupada’s Poisoners
Volume 4: Srila Prabhupada’s Mysterious Health Decline
Volume 5: ISKCON’s Hidden History: Coup, Scandals, Schisms, Utopia Lost
Volume 6: Deviations Spoiling the Sankirtan Movement: Corruption, Cover-
Ups, Treachery, Acharya Betrayed
Volume 7: Kill Guru Become Guru: Poisoning the Greatest Modern Day Saint
Volume 8: TRUSTING SRILA PRABHUPADA: Restore His Divine Mission With His
BBT, DOM, Awakened Followers
Volume 9: SHAKTYAVESHA AVATARA: The Current-Link, Exalted Living Acharya
...future volumes:
Volume 10: CHALA DHARMA CHEATING RELIGION: Defective Guru Doctrines
Volume 11: MYTHS and FALLACIES of ISKCON’S GURU BUSINESS
Volume 12: VEDIC VILLAGES: Experiments in Varnashrama Projects
Volume 13: LET THE JACKALS HOWL: The Caravan Will Pass
Volume 14: GAUDIYA MATH AND ISKCON: Historical Parallels
Altogether,

I started on Alex prabhu's 63 Guru Myths book but shifted to completing the last part of the Hidden Glories material, namely Vol. 10, about defective guru doctrines. It is already written and just needs editing and layout. It should be done in a few months, and then back to the myths and fallacies book (which meticulously destroys all of ISKCON's guru philosophy).

I aim to complete Vol. 10 and 11 before end of this year.

Please help in any way you can to distribute these facts and truths far and wide, as this is our tradition, to preach truth and defeat cheating and illusion.
Hare Krishna..

YS

Nityananda das 

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HIINDU-IZED ISKCON

PADA: Why has ISKCON gone Hindu-ized? It is all about the money! They need to feed their guru daksine accounts.  

IN WESTERN COUNTRIES (THE US, UK, CANADA, AND EUROPE), the vast MAJORITY of TEMPLE CONGREGATIONS are no longer WESTERN DEVOTEES,

but rather Indian diaspora families seeking a cultural and spiritual connection to their homeland.

Because converting the native Western population came to a halt after the guru scandals of the 1980s and 1990s, the GBC adapted to survive by serving the traditional Hindu community, both within India and abroad.

For many first-generation Indian immigrants in the West, attending an ISKCON temple has less to do with taking formal initiation from a Western guru and more to do with cultural preservation and networking with other Hindus.

Sunday feasts in the US and Europe provide an ideal environment to meet other professionals, talk about jobs, real estate, and navigate life in a foreign country.
Immigrants utilize the temples as a safe space to pass on basic traditional Indian heritage and languages to their Western-born children.

Western ISKCON temples are often packed on Sundays with thousands of diaspora members who donate generously, keeping the temples financially alive. However, very few of these attendees adopt chanting 16 rounds or following the four regulative principles that Prabhupada originally demanded to be spiritually strong. 

A lot of them are not even sure if Krishna, Siva, Durga or Ganesh are the Supreme Being or not. A lot of them also have adopted the Western meat eating diet, which is why almost all of their restaurants serve meat products. In fact it is rare to find a Vegetarian India restaurant anywhere in the USA. So the GBC is almost completely not even trying to make sincere following Western bhaktas anymore, but rather attracting cash donating Hindu sentimentalists.

After Western recruitment collapsed with all those living guru scandals, the GBC was left with massive, expensive buildings and almost no resident Western devotees left to pay the bills. Even Lokanath swami was shocked to find how badly empty the Western temples were in 1988.

The Indian congregation stepped in, effectively saving the Western temples from bankruptcy. As a result, the remaining Western leaders often adapted their preaching to cater to the cultural expectations of their wealthy donors, rather than strictly trying to convert the native Western population. And so the Western participants dried up, and are rarely seen at most ISKCON temples.

When settling into a highly secular Western environment, a local ISKCON temple serves as a ready-made piece of "home" that makes the stressful migration process feel psychologically safe. The Reality: Instead of converting Westerners, many diaspora members sought out the Western temples as a shield against the West — a safe space to retain their identity while they pursued the "American Dream." 

Prabhupada openly lamented that instead of giving spiritual knowledge to the West, many Indians simply adopted Western consumerism. And unfortunately, Western meat eating diets and materialistic consumer based lifestyles.

This creates the ultimate irony within modern ISKCON. The very money that keeps Western temples open today is generated by the "economic struggle" that Prabhupada labeled as a foolish waste of time. 

Prabhupada also said -- the pigs who are behind the fence sometimes jump over to get into the garbage patch. And the Hindus are jumping over the fence from India -- coming to America -- to find better sources of garbage. So he was not in favor of catering to this process, which he sees as deteriorating the Indian culture. 

In sum, seeking a better source of garbage is not seeking Krishna consciousness, and he would not have wanted his temples to become part of this deteriorating program. But the GBC has forced themselves into a compromise with the Hindus, by making ISKCON un-inhabitable for the Western people who reject hokey and falling down guru systems.    

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IRAN

PADA: I saw a female ex-Navy helicopter pilot being interviewed. She was saying, "MAGA started their whole house on fire (Iran) -- and they think they can put it out with a bucket of water." Hee hee, wowsers pilgrims.

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TULSI GABBARD

PADA: Thanks prabhu. Yes, various political commenters are saying that Tulsi was basically repeating Putin's talking points, and feeding that to our leaders. And if MAGA folks are making a lot of geo-political mistakes, could it be -- the "advisors" are giving the MAGA folks cherry picked or wrong info, so the leaders are not aware of the real issues? 

I think that is possible. But yeah, some commenters are saying -- good riddance, she was not effective in helping the USA make the correct choices. Nor did she come out and publicly detail what the right choices would be. I agree. I still like her personally, but she has made some serious mistakes. ys pd 

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That’s an Offense! by Gaura Gopāla Dāsa (disciple of BG Narasimha)

May 22, 2026

After last week’s article on loyalty to the guru versus loyalty to the institution, Gaura Gopāla reflects on some of the criticism he received — particularly the accusation that such ideas are somehow “offensive.” He argues that among many devotees, the word “offense” is often used simply to shut down disagreement, criticism, or even the acknowledgment that sincere devotees may exist outside one’s own institution.

On Offense and the Offended

The Kaniṣṭha-adhikārī Mentality

Where There Is Sincerity, There Is Kṛṣṇa. “That’s an offense!” You’ve heard it. Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself. In contemporary Vaiṣṇava circles it has become the all-purpose response to anything that unsettles the comfortable boundaries of one’s own worldview. To question an institutional decision – aparādha! 

To disagree on a point of philosophy – aparādha! To acknowledge that sincere devotees might actually exist outside one’s immediate sanga – aparādha! The charge has been inflated to cover everything and, in being inflated, has become cheapened beyond all recognition.

Following the recent publication of ‘Never Leave ISKCON?,’ most of the responses were favorable, but a number arrived carrying exactly this charge. The article’s argument – that loyalty to the guru and the siddhānta is not the same as loyalty to any particular institutional framework – was condemned by some as offensive, divisive, and even ‘anti-Prabhupāda.’

I generally make it a point not to respond to most critics unless they show some genuine character, free from prejudice (internet trolls don’t factor into that!) What I would like to address is what their reaction reveals – the culture of criticism and lack of maturity within the Vaiṣṇava world, the widely misunderstood concept of aparādha, and why plurality in the Vaiṣṇava world is not merely tolerable but necessary.

On Offense and the Offended

One of the most common weapons wielded in the Vaiṣṇava world is the charge of aparādha. In Sanskrit, aparādha means offense – specifically, an offense against the holy name, against the Vaiṣṇavas, against the spiritual master, or against the Lord Himself. From a deeper understanding, aparādha means that which is against Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī – the very embodiment of bhakti Herself. 

These are grave matters, and the śāstra treats them seriously. But something strange has happened to this concept in certain contemporary circles – it has become simultaneously inflated and cheapened.

Inflated, because everything is now an offense. The word has become a blunt instrument, used not out of genuine concern for others, but as a means of social control.

Cheapened, because those who deploy it most aggressively are often the least careful about committing real offenses themselves. There is something ironic in someone launching a vitriolic personal attack on a devotee and in the same breath accusing that devotee of aparādha.

My Guru Mahārāja, Swami B.G. Narasingha, once said, “I don’t hate anyone. Hate is not a part of my life.” But for those who knew him, he was an intense personality, who guarded his gurus and the siddhānta with great care and attention. This was sometimes mistaken by others to be hatred or even envy. 

Energetic argument and disagreement free from envy and hatred is 100% justified in pursuit of the Truth and in pursuit of clarifying the siddhānta – what is real and what is not real, and what will help us in our progress on this path towards becoming conscious of the reality of Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

In answering a question on how to balance wishing everyone well and staying strict to the teachings of one’s guru, my Guru Mahārāja said: 

"We hate the sin, not the sinner. If we fall into the plane of hating the sinner then there is aparādha. We don’t hate the butcher we hate butchery. We don’t hate the pseudo-rāsikās, we hate the misrepresentation. If we allow ourselves to be consumed with hatred then even though we may be defending the conception of our gurus, that may be aparādha."

The misuse of the word aparādha reveals a deeper spiritual immaturity. A genuinely advanced devotee is kṛpā-sindhu – an ocean of mercy. Such a devotee does not run to condemn; they run to help and correct. The urge to pronounce that someone else is going to hell, that a fellow practitioner has condemned themselves to 10,000 koṭi kalpas in Kumbhīpāka, generally says more about the speaker’s own false ego than about the spiritual condition of the accused. 

The senior devotees, preachers, sannyāsīs, and especially gurus must approach spreading the word of Caitanya Mahāprabhu with energy, enthusiasm and a desire to help others through correction – not pass sentence as judge, jury and executioner.

The Kaniṣṭha-adhikārī Mentality

The kaniṣṭha mentality says: “Kṛṣṇa is here, in our group, with our guru, in our temple. He is not there.” And yet Kṛṣṇa Himself declares in the Bhagavad-gītā that He pervades all of existence – every atom of every living being. Every sincere seeker is animated by Paramātmā within the heart. How can a devotee simultaneously believe in the omnipresence of Kṛṣṇa and insist that He is absent from sincere practitioners in other Vaiṣṇava communities?

The tragedy is not that kaniṣṭhas exist – the tragedy is when the kaniṣṭha mentality hardens into a permanent state. A devotee who has spent years in practice but never grown beyond “we are right and everyone else is wrong” has missed something essential about the magnanimity of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and misunderstood what proper discrimination is for.

This same mentality produces the strange phenomenon of devotees judging fellow practitioners more harshly than they judge non-devotees. A complete stranger who has never even heard of Kṛṣṇa is met with enthusiasm and compassion – “Come, chant, take prasādam!” But a devotee from a different community, or with a different guru, is immediately treated with suspicion and contempt.

Plurality Is Not a Problem to Be Solved

My original article argued that loyalty to the guru and the siddhānta is not the same as loyalty to a particular institutional framework. Some read this as an argument for abandoning structure, anarchy, or some form of spiritual relativism. It was none of those.

All this goes to reinforce the essential nature of the guru-disciple relationship. The guru is diagnosing the individual patient, and according to their necessity, he is giving them the medicine they need. The path of bhakti is highly personal and individualistic, and while there are many aspects that all devotees follow, there are always gradations within that. What is good for me may not be good for someone else. What is good for others may not be beneficial for me.

As the practitioner grows in their own spiritual awakening, they also begin to help others in the same way that their guru helped them. However, it is important to note that following in the footsteps of the guru is not the same as imitating the guru. To follow in the footsteps means to follow the example of the guru according to one’s capacity and adhikāra. Imitation of the guru, on the other hand, means that strong statements made by the guru to correct others may be taken by the immature disciple as a free pass to say whatever they want for ‘preaching.’

If we understand this material world and all of our activities to be a reflection of the spiritual reality, then we can see that plurality is not only a consequence of this material cosmos – it is part of our spiritual identity. Light has no meaning without darkness. Compassion has no meaning without a fit recipient, love without a lover, or service without an object of worship. Kṛṣṇa means infinite spiritual variety; He is an ocean of rasa – so many personalities are taking part according to their nature, and there is competition, disagreement, play, argument and service, all aimed at the origin of everything – the Sweet Absolute Truth, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. 

This is all free from envy, hatred, and the anarthas of this world.
What the original article argued – and what I wish to reinforce here – is that the Vaiṣṇava world is inherently plural, and that this plurality is not a deviation to be corrected. It is the natural expression of how Kṛṣṇa works in the world.

Where There Is Sincerity, There Is Kṛṣṇa

Kṛṣṇa is not static. He does not wait in one place to be found by only those who have chosen the correct organizational affiliation. He is dynamic, present, and responsive. Where there is sincerity of search, there is Kṛṣṇa. This is not a philosophical novelty. It is the testimony of every ācārya from Brahmā to the present.

The ‘foam at the mouth’ critic, the institutional zealot, the devotee who cannot disagree without descending into personal attacks – these are not enemies. They are, most often, souls who have found something precious in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and are trying, in their own limited way, to protect it. That impulse is understandable, but it is a sign of weakness and immaturity. When you don’t know how to deal with something or someone, the reaction is, “Ban it! Excommunicate them! Throw them out! Attack!”

There is a distinct lack of maturity in the broad Vaiṣṇava world. I am not so bold as to say that I know exactly why this is, but I would guess that the modern Vaiṣṇava world has brought in so many people in the last fifty years that the predominating voice is one of immaturity. In other words, the majority of devotees fall into the category of kaniṣṭha, not necessarily by how long they’ve been around, but by how they behave. 

My Guru Mahārāja was not an advocate of increasing the numbers of kaniṣṭha devotees in the world, but for “boiling the milk” as Śrīla Prabhupāda himself said. What does that mean? “Boiling the milk” means devotees becoming mature, diving deep into the understanding and feeling of Kṛṣṇa consciousness – it means the process of anartha-nivṛtti is happening. When the kaniṣṭha mentality petrifies into a rock, it is very difficult to break in this lifetime. Let us not allow our hearts to remain hard as stone and our heads even harder.

It gets so bad in the comments section of any slightly controversial social media post by devotees that it practically resembles medieval peasantry coming with pitchforks and torches to burn a heretic. It is shameful and embarrassing to see this type of mentality shown to the broader world – the pinnacle of theistic thought and practice coming from the most magnanimous personality of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu being misrepresented so badly.

I am not advocating for the kicarī principle of unity with everyone together harmonized on a superficial basis, nor am I advocating for division based on false ideas. Maturity means, “What I know is by the grace of my gurus; what is good in my life is the grace of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees; what is bad is my own fault, and I discriminate with sincerity of purpose for my own good and the good of others.”
Disagreement is not aparādha. Robust discussion is not aparādha. Kṛṣṇa is present in the heart and already knows who is sincere and who is not – we just need to understand what is most beneficial for ourselves and act on that. 

PADA: First of all, the only reason that Paramadvaiti, Aranaya, Sudhir, Pancadravida, BG Narasimgha and others went to Sridhara Maharaja in the first place is -- the GBC and people like Ramesvara were sending ISKCON's sannyasas to Sridhara "to take advice." No one even knew who Sridhar Maharaja was before he became the darling consultant of the GBC. And Sridhar was the GBC guru's biggest cheer leader and ghost writer of many of the early post 1978 GBC documents.  

But Srila Prabhupada warned us that Sridhar Maharaja is the leader of the "severe offenders" Bagh Bazaar party, and thus we should NOT consult with him. And Srila Prabhupada told us the history of Sridhara Maharaja: after the departure of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati on Jan 1 1937, some of the leaders of the Gaudiya Matha -- especially BR Sridhara Maharaja, Professor Sannyal, Madhava Maharaja -- and others -- decided to artificially designate Ananta Vasudeva as the next acharya. 

They wanted to make some sort of institutional conditioned soul figurehead as the acharya, something like the Pope. Srila Prabhupada says "they violated the order of Guru Maharaja to make a Governing body." After 1978 the Sridhar Maharaja people were also big time against us Prabhupada devotees, because we did not want to promote worship of their conditioned soul figurehead acharyas.  

Later on, Sridhar's false prophet messiah Ananta Vasudeva was exposed as writing love letters to a female with a dubious reputation -- and some of the dissenters who exposed those letters were beaten with bricks, had their faces pushed into dog stools, and some were terminated -- and they lost their lives. And that is because Sridhar makes very fanatical personality guru cults that are -- dangerous -- if not deadly -- for anyone who disagrees. 

So when we are discussing heated debates among "kanistha" Vaishnavas, descending into criminal mayhem, violent behavior, and / or terminating the lives of dissenters, Sridhara Maharaja is one of the original pivotal past masters / founder fathers of that entire process. He engineered that to happen after 1937 already. A devotee said, "Let us make barking dogs into gurus and then make pretend we do not know where all the barking comes from." 

Did I forget to mention bona fide kanisthas do not engage in cat and dog fighting because they all agree to promote the bona fide acharya, and not promote themselves as the acharya? Yep, "If you convince a dog he is the master, he will bite the actual master." 

Then later Ananta Vasudeva's female lover administered poison to the son, because the son was on the verge of exposing that she had continued her prostitution business activities, even after becoming "the guru mother of the Math." And when Ananta Vasudeva found out that their son was terminated "to save the mission," he took the same poison and terminated himself. 

Srila Prabhupada said, that is how the scandal was ended. Of course Srila Prabhupada also said Ananta Vasudeva was heterosex, homosex, sex and sex, so he was for sure -- a loose moral standards debauchee. In other words, Sridhar Maharaja was unable to distinguish a pure devotee acharya -- from a conditioned soul non-acharya. He does not understand how they are different. So he juxtaposes these platforms together artificially. 

And when Sridhar Maharaja was later asked by some news media folks about the problems his program generated, he answered -- there is a lot of violence and death in the Bhagavad Gita, we have to expect that result. WTF? We have to expect that Vaishnavas will be beating and terminating one another, because someone like Sridhar Maharaj wants to make conditioned souls -- if not debauchees -- into Krishna's acharyas? 

Yep, we should make conditioned souls into messiahs, and when the wheels start to come off our program, we blame Krishna for giving (bad?) advice to make violence in the Gita. What does Krishna and His Gita have to do with their debauchee acharya's program? This is how Sridhar tries to shift the blame for his mistakes onto God, which is very misleading -- to say the least. Yeah God says violence is a good idea, so we are going to spread it among Vaishnavas. That is insulting God, for starters.

So when the GBC came to Sridhar in 1978, he was one of the world's leading living eye witness experts to the tragic and odious history of what happens when we artificially make conditioned souls into acharyas. He knew more than anyone else on the planet at the time; conditioned soul gurus will create fall downs and scandals. And then there will be violence, even more -- and much worse scandals, dissenters being terminated, bad public news media, because that is how false messiah cults tend to end up repeatedly. 

And worse, we could likely end up with children getting severe problems as well, which happened to Ananta Vasudeva's child. False guru programs place children into peril. He knew that -- in spades. 

GBC pictures on altars. 

This was another boondoggle invented by the GBC and their "advisor" Sridhara Maharaja. Srila Prabhupada personally told me -- we cannot change the bhogha offering system or it will NEVER be ACCEPTED by Krishna. But right away Sridhara helped the GBC come up with their bogus system of offering bhogha to the photos of conditioned souls. 

I said at the time, offering food to intoxicated womanizers will give people the intoxicated womanizer beeja (desire) and not the bhakti beeja. And worse, this will make a loose atmosphere by giving people the lusty and intoxicated desire beeja or seed. I said worshiping predators will attract more or same. 

And just as I predicted, this created a mass child mistreatment problem because the lusty beeja was fanned and encouraged. Worship of lusty and intoxicated people is even condemned in mundane mleccha society. 

Did I forget to mention that my ex-witch lady friend says -- offering food to contaminated people -- contaminates the food, which she says -- is why so many Krishna devotees are getting sick and dying of CANCER. She said this is a well known Satanic principle, offering food to the contaminated, contaminates the food, and this is making devotees fall down, get sick, and die. And BG Narasimgha himself got cancer and died.   

When was ANY of this "offering bhogha to conditioned souls" system authorized by Srila Prabhupada? It was not, he condemns such systems.  

Acharya of the zone.

Sridhar said there will be "the acharya of the Zone." Srila Prabhupada said -- when he was once checked from entering a country -- there are no geographical restrictions on a pure devotee. And the people who make geographical restrictions on pure devotees are making offenses to pure devotees. In short, there is no such thing as pure devotees having physically restricted geographical Zones. 

That makes the acharya a mundane business franchise operator and not a guru. The acharya is called Jagat guru, which means he is the acharyas all over the universe, never mind a small GBC Zone. OK the whole Zonal Guru idea is a deviation, a scam, and against the Vedic principle of Jagat Guru. 

Jayatirtha. 

Sridara was told that Jayatirtha is taking intoxicants and is having affairs with female followers. And yet Sridhar said -- Jayatirtha has to stay in the guru post or "we will disturb the faith of the sisyas (followers)." We want people to "have faith" in worshiping lusty intoxicated debauchees? And why would we force little children to worship contaminated, lusty debauchees as their messiahs? 

Again, even in mleccha society no one wants their children to worship lusty and intoxicated debauchees as their messiahs. That is never accepted even in mleccha society.

Hansadutta. 

Hansadutta himself told Sridhara he was taking intoxicants and having affairs -- with half dozen ladies (or more?). But he was told by Sridhar to -- stay in the guru post -- repeatedly. And this went on and on and on, all the way up to 1985 when Hansadutta finally realized, I am going to die following this person. 

Hansadutta later told me, Sridhar's telling me to stay in the guru post when I was near SUICIDE was the WORST advice anyone every gave me in my whole life. I could easily have DIED from all the intoxicants (and he almost did die a number of times, and required doctor's treatments). I am lusty, I am intoxicated, what should I do? There is only one thing to do, be worshiped as good as God! WTF?  

Vote in the envious.  

When Sridhara was told some people were envious of Ramesvara, he said "then vote them in as acharyas" so they will be appeased. We need to vote for the envious as acharyas? 

Mahajanas.

Around 1980 Sridhara was helping the GBC write "The Mahajanas Have Difficulties" -- which compares the failures of the GBC gurus -- with alleged failures of the Mahajanas. What do fallen down conditioned souls have in common with the Mahajanas? So this is another means of insulting the Mahajanas in order to prop up their false guru system. 

Taking Karma.

We also argued with the GBC in 1979 that none of us are authorized to take karma (as diksha gurus). Srila Prabhupada told us never to even have people touch our feet. But they all disobeyed this order, and Sridhar encouraged them to take disciples and take karma. 

BG Narasingha was himself totally defying this order for us NOT to take karma, and he eventually suffered from CANCER. Sridhar Maharaja has no idea how the process of pure devotees helping resolve sins operates, he thinks any conditioned soul can take the post of Jesus and take sins. That is not possible. Srila Prabhupada says a false guru will go to hell and so will the followers. The process of conditioned souls taking sins like Jesus is not even done in mleccha society, they know only a person like Jesus is qualified to take the post of diksha guru.   

None should protest.

When we challenged the GBC early on, they began to flash copies of conversations they had with Sridhara in my face to shut me down. "The acharya is an absolute monarch." "The acharya should not be questioned -- or it disturbs the faith of the sisyas." "The acharya must be seen as the highest realm, rati keli siddha (serving the gopis)." ETC! 

And as for us dissenters? "None should protest." OK so all the banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders -- should not be protested by anyone. How is that going to end up? Well lots of people are going to be banned, beaten, molested, sued and -- killed, because we cannot protest any of that. And there were thousands and thousands of victims as a result, including evidently thousands of children. But -- none should protest? 

So we would argue that when Vaishnavas are being systematically banned, beaten, molested, sued and killed we have A DUTY to protest and try to salvage the situation from getting worse. And even the karmis have a law, if you know about crimes (especially against children) it is YOUR DUTY to protest. But Sridhar says, we should not. OK that makes us targets for violence if not assassination.

None should protest! So, lets go stop these aparadha protesters! The good news is the karmi laws enforcement and FEDS saved me from Sridhara's violent cult program. But yeah, the followers of Sridhara are advocating for violent cult gurus, and at the same time asking for everyone to cooperate. 

OK anyone who cooperates with a program of banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing devotees of God -- shares in the karma with the perps, orchestrators, enablers, facilitators, advisors (like Sridhar) and "gurus." It is the duty of all human beings to stop evil acts from be committed upon God's devotees. 

That is not only our duty to God, but our duty to human society as a human being. Sridhar says no, our duty is to help the program that is banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing. He is wrong. 

And as far as the kanistha problem, sorry the people who saved me from Sridhara's guru program are the meat eating karmi police and FEDS, they are many times more advanced than Sridhar and his violent personality cult guru process. If I had lived in the 1940s, Sridhar's program would have eliminated my life and taken me to the morgue. He wanted that same thing to happen to us dissenters again after 1978, because he either never learned, or he knows what happens and he wanted that. 

So if we want to know who created all the banning, beating, lawsuits, murders and overall violence against us "aparadhis," it is Sridhar and his followers, which includes the GBC who all followed him and made him their "senior most Vaishnava consultant on the planet." We want to stop the violence among Vaishnavas, and keep our deviants and conditioned souls in the guru seat which is the root source of the "aparadhi" labels being thrown around, that will never work. We have to re-establish the worship of the bona fide acharya so we can UNITE everyone under one flag. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com 

It gets so bad in the comments section of any slightly controversial social media post by devotees that it practically resembles medieval peasantry coming with pitchforks and torches to burn a heretic. It is shameful and embarrassing to see this type of mentality shown to the broader world – the pinnacle of theistic thought and practice coming from the most magnanimous personality of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu being misrepresented so badly.

YEP!

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ISKCON's ATHEIST ACHARYA

WAYNE BOYD (Vipramukhya Swami)

I went from being deeply religious to being an atheist, but it was not a quick emotional reaction or a desire to rebel. I joined ISKCON in 1973 after a failed marriage and dropping out of physics at college. I spent nearly three decades in the Hare Krishna world. I was initiated, later accepted sannyasa, served as a teacher and leader, and lived inside a religious framework about as completely as a person can.

I had my own disciples, served as the Regional Director for Washington State and Western Canada, ran the U.K. Bhakta Programme, and served as temple president of both London’s Soho Street temple and Bhaktivedanta Manor. I collected Salagram Silas from the Kali Gandaki river bed in Nepal, climbed the Himalayas up to Muktinath, prayed to Krishna many times a day, always chanted my 16 rounds daily, and used to coach others who “fell behind” to “catch up.”

So for me, religion was not something I only knew from the outside. It was my identity. My name was Vipramukhya Swami. The name Prabhupada gave me was Vipramukhya dasa Brahmachari.

What changed me was the slow realization that sincerity and devotion do not make a belief true. I began to see the difference between powerful religious experience and reliable evidence. People in every religion have profound experiences, deep convictions, answered prayers, miracles, scriptures, saints, and traditions. They cannot all be right in their specific claims, but they can all feel completely certain from the inside.

Over time, I became less willing to accept claims simply because they were traditional, scriptural, emotionally meaningful, or supported by a community I loved. I wanted beliefs that could survive honest questioning. The more I looked at religion through evidence, history, psychology, and science, the less reason I had to believe supernatural claims were true.

For me, it was not only one claim. It was a whole pattern.

Humans walked on the Moon. Life evolved gradually through common descent. The Earth is not arranged according to ancient sacred cosmology. The Moon is not farther away than the Sun in any ordinary astronomical sense. Disease is not cured by ritual purity. Cow urine is not divine medicine. Karma, reincarnation, demigods, subtle bodies, heavenly planets, and hellish planets may be meaningful religious beliefs to those who hold them, but they are not supported by empirical evidence in the way scientific claims must be.

That distinction became impossible for me to ignore. I could still respect sincerity, devotion, discipline, and service, but I could no longer treat scriptural claims as true simply because they were traditional, emotionally powerful, or central to the life I had lived. I still value compassion, honesty, discipline, humility, and service. I am still a lacto-vegetarian. I just no longer think those things require belief in God.

PADA: Right, so Vipramukhya and Danavir once confided to me, they would never have joined ISKCON and worshiped a person like Jayatirtha themselves. They would not be part of ISKCON if they had to accept these people as gurus. But everyone who is coming now has to accept Jayatirtha, like it or not.

Anyway Vipramukhya went on to become a guru and he was acting like a goofball, getting his feet massaged by his favorite female devotee, riding horses -- and falling off and breaking both arms -- and lecturing really silly mundane examples and materials. However, Srila Prabhupada said we cannot take sins or we would have to suffer. To his credit, Vipramukhya later complained that he was hesitating to take more disciples because -- everytime I initiate someone it makes me sick (by taking karma).

So fast forward to now, and he is an atheist. OK this is one of the results of making offenses and taking karma and so forth. It makes a person lose faith, as has happened here. What is remarkable is how the GBC takes people who have very weak faith, not far from being atheists, and they make them into their "shaksat Hari" (good as God) sin absorbing newly minted Jesus like saints, acharyas and gurus. Then when their guru leaves (bloops) the ISKCON GBC wonders why his followers lose faith in the religion, and also leave. If the GBC is making borderling atheists into God's successors, they are not doing a good job of testing their would be messiahs. ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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BHAKTI TIRTHA WAS A KIRTANANANDA CLONE

May 29, 1991: On this date in history 35 years ago, Bhakti Tirtha Swami, the ISKCON guru for most of Africa, defends his sannyasa guru (who was convicted for racketeering two months earlier at the Martinsburg, West Virginia courthouse):

“Swami Bhaktipada’s position is like that of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. All three of these men dedicated their lives very selflessly in trying to bring peace to mankind, but in the process they were often misunderstood and even violently attacked. The Swami is a man of the stature of these two great stalwarts of peace.”

For more, see, Gold, Guns and God, Vol. 9, p. 17.

http://www.henrydoktorski.com/Gold_Guns_God/Vol9.html