ISKCON Bombay Tax Exemption Questioned / Vrndavana Parker / Premature renunciation 05 20 26

OUR HELP IS ON THE WAY

======

ISKCON Bombay TAX EXEMPT STATUS LOSS 

Reliance, ISKCON, PD Hinduja Hospital, and Breach Candy Hospital Trust to Income Tax Exemption Denial Over ‘Commercial Activity’ Allegations

Reliance Trust, a well-known charitable trust in Mumbai, along with several other organisations, including ISKCON, PD Hinduja Hospital, and Breach Candy Hospital Trust, has filed an appeal in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), challenging a major decision of the Income Tax Department to deny renewal of registration under Section 12AB of the Income Tax Act. 

The organisations highlighted that this claim is essential for availing exemptions, and its cancellation can lead to massive financial loss to these institutions.
These entities have been alleged to be involved in commercial activities, a key ground highlighted by the tax authorities to deny the Section 12AB registration renewal, as relief under the said section is only permissible for non-profit institutions.

It was highlighted that one major hospital trust has also approached the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) after its renewal application was rejected in March 2026. During the initial hearings of the case, the tribunal noted that the grounds raised in the case are serious and hence need to be swiftly resolved.

Consequently, instead of granting temporary relief, the tribunal decided to hear the full appeal on priority. It was observed that the case is not only limited to hospitals, but religious organisations such as ISKCON are also involved. Despite this, these organisations make sure that any surplus income is used merely for charitable purposes.

Experts say that the law does allow charities to carry out limited commercial activities, as long as their main purpose remains charitable and the earnings are used for public benefit. They also argue that at the stage of registration renewal, authorities should only check whether the organisation’s goals are genuinely charitable, not conduct a detailed investigation into its finances.

With many appeals likely to reach the ITAT, the final decisions could have a major impact on how “charitable purpose” is defined for modern institutions in India.

Read more at: https://studycafe.in/reliance-iskcon-pd-hinduja-hospital-and-breach-candy-hospital-trust-to-income-tax-exemption-denial-over-commercial-activity-allegations-419586.html

PADA: Not sure the exact extent this is going to apply to Bombay ISKCON, and what are the real time legal and economic effects, but it is a sign their process is in trouble. Basu Ghosh himself said many years ago -- our making all these lawsuits might cause investigations into our status, and may cause us to lose our status with the government. Well yup. ys pd 

=================

ISKCON Tri-city

https://www.iskcontricentralvalley.com/?

PADA: Sorry prabhu, I am not familiar with their program or who is the guru of that program. If someone has news let us know.

=================

VRNDAVANA BRANNON PARKER ACBS

Gurukula was an equal opportunity torture chamber. Black, white, Mexican or Indian. All neglected tortured abused raped regardless of body type!
I didn’t wanna share this article cause it’s pretty horrible but this article I helped the author produce back in the early 90s and published by hustler magazine reveals How horrible Gurukula was for us REGARDLESS OF ONES RACE!

(I shared it with Henry Doktorski III since he's now the world's leading eminent historian on everything related to the tragedies connected to Iskcon).

Some are mythologizing our lived experiences attempting to say white gurukul kids had it good. Such BS and shame on any trying to minimize our suffering just because we are white! Its the same insane cold mindset that allowed our teachers to abuse rape torture us. Now its cloaked in one body type having more credibility than another. More racism as a matter of fact!

"Krishna Kids" HUSTLER MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 1991

PADA: Yep, there is some friction and tension among some of the ISKCON ex-gurukulis. And some of them actually hate each other, are part of competing guru camps, and so on. It is very sad because they were fellow inmates in the same prison system -- and yet they fight with the other prisoners. Which happens in actual prisons.

Some of the "dark skinned -- non-white race ex-kids" have said the white kids got off better while the brown and black kids had it worse, and he says that is false, they all got victimized. I believe his version. I also personally know "white kids" who were treated abominably, to say the least. 

The 1991 "Krishna Kids" article in Hustler Magazine was very shocking, and when someone showed me it, I thought this is going to be a wake up call for ISKCON, ISKCON's parents and leaders. It wasn't, things actually got worse in Mayapur. And a lot of senior devotees kept giving me grief, and many still do. The lesson was not learned.   

Word is that Ive been hospitalized. Well I saw that a 5 * stay with daily room service 3 free multi choice meals, free TV films, 24 hr room service and luxurious private room with day long family visiting hours was available free of charge.
So I walked over checked in and am now getting world class care and support.

So despite having a genuine medical condition, Taking the time to receive top quality care, hot food, injury care and in - depth investigation of my actual health status and then receiving effective treatment was a great opportunity to recoup and recuperate from this past year of tumultuous struggle and navigating the treacherous waters of Oahu’s cold petty social climbers, phony aloha friends that can't see past potential rivalry on the hot to trot market. 

PADA: The treacherous waters of of Oahu's cold petty social climbers, on the hot to trot (illicit sex?) market. Yep, there has been a lot of loose goose behavior going on with the ex-ISKCON youth. Some of the ex-kids told me -- sex, drugs, rock and roll, heavy metal music, and alcohol, are better friends to us than the ISKCON leaders. True dat!  

This means the society as a whole -- and the leaders in charge of upbringing these kids -- failed -- and badly. Why would these kids have all these falling down issues if they have been trained in spiritual life in the first place? So it is a failure on monumental scale, these children ended up worse than if they had gone to karmi schools in many / most cases IMHO.

Suddenly its sisters and brothers in name only. Just enough to prove social relevance for some potential on speed dial secret booty call action! So many clueless towards those genuinely breathing each day to be and breathe solely for their Keiki & Ohana. Family means spouse and kids first. Not some kind of clandestine network for secret sexual activities.

NOT as a sly bottom Feeders hunting ground for potential clandestine sexual encounters guised as family friendly church temple going butterflies who happen to always treat the kids as an obstacle to sense gratification. Phony parental concern as your teenybopper mind drools over this or that potential orgasm inducer.

PADA: Yep, in some cases the youth -- who were still part of an ISKCON temple -- were using the temple as a staging ground for "meeting up" -- for sexual encounters, or to get together for drugs and so on. And some of these kids ended up on hard drugs, and some of them died from those drugs. Again, a failure in their upbringing. 

One young woman told me it would be a miracle if she could have kids because she has had sexually transmitted diseases from her loose ISKCON youth days. That is not a very highly recommended lifestyle, but it became the life style of many of these kids. That is one reason they often tell me, do not ever use my name in these accounts, they are trying to rebuild their life outside of all this deteriorated mess they had to endure as kids. 

Its like most can't even imagine a man would choose the hard path of Godly condoned matrimony over self slutting cheap thrills of heart hardening soul numbing body based futile itch scratching sex maniacs.

And none even know I learnt the hard way before many of my younger friends and fam were even born that the entire modern sex scene was phony heart breaking soul numbing and emotionally disabling and a path to hell defeat and ungodly life devoid of mystery magic and disconnects one from the mystical reality all around us.

Many assumed I wanted to use my Zawj (زوج) the sacred gift of a Spouse from Allah as some kind of social credit in order to prove my status as a winner with a hot wife.

Truth is such a wife is a fortress a safety net a guardian that protects me from the wicked desires and petty jealousies of less evolved demonic Rakshashik Moon star types. These types are automatically jealous of others blessings. Godly types recognize others fortune as the earned and just rewards for noble efforts.

Human types go from normal to all in between. Each persons astrology chart reveals whether ones moon (mind & attitude) is demonic, human or Godly) as one with a Godly moon im so sick of all you less evolved petty fools so overwhelmed with jealousy and envy that others joy is painful. You types are the reason the world is so messed up.

So yall can stay as far the f*ck away from me as possible. And if u must insert yr nasty ways into my life, im quietly taking notes and will be ready for some good ole exorcisms on yr dirty dark hearts and dull souls. Just look in the eyes of those types, dull and patheticly shallow compared to the shining effulgent eyes of a babaji under a tree in India. 

Or even see the eyes of a loyal man or woman that takes thier sacred gift of matrimony to heart and actually lives and breathes the life of honesty and marital integrity.

PADA: Yup notice, we may have to use Church exorcisms to chase out the demons in these dark hearted and dull souls. Which means yeah -- the rumors that there are dark arts, black magic, tantric curses, secret Satanic rituals, child sacrifice, pedophile cults etc. has never ended. 

But here we can see what kind of "not too happy" mental state some of these ex-kids have come to, and it is very sad. And unfortunately, the problems with their mental states has produced a lot physical pain, suffering and even -- death -- for their group as a whole. 

The ex-kids are a mixed lot. Some of them thank me for helping them, or even saving their lives. Some of them think I am a crook who made a lot of money from the lawsuit. Nope, did not take a penny. 

And some of them are upset that I am challenging Tamal's hero Narayan Maharaja and so on and so forth. OK a lot of this is because the parents gave them all sorts of confused signals and so they could not figure out what happened here. And a lot of the parents still don't know either. In any case -- we wish Vrndavana well, it sounds like he went through a lot of problems, which were never supposed to happen to him, or to any children anywhere. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com      

=========

Krishna Govinda

Breaking our legs with premature renunciation

The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement has existed since 1966. We may fail to realize it at first, but that’s 60 years, a lifetime.

Something common in the early days of our movement was for devotees to abandon their families and everything else and try to elevate themselves immediately to a platform of complete renunciation. This was called “surrendering to Kṛṣṇa,” just as Arjuna surrendered to the will of the Lord at the end of the Bhagavad-gītā. Often, it was taken as a form of instant sannyāsa.

Although renunciation is recommended in the scriptures, especially in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, it’s important to understand that this is a conclusion for a process that one is supposed to start much earlier, and not a mechanical or external process. Immature devotees who try to imitate Lord Ṛṣabhadeva can create a lot of havoc, as sometimes observed in the past of our movement. 

True renunciation is very positive, but artificial renunciation can have very negative consequences.

When I joined, in the 1990s, for example, it was common for new devotees to completely reject (and burn) their families and go to live in the temple, just to return to their parents’ houses after one or two years. Of course, this contributed to the image of a cult many people had from our movement, since in many respects we (at least where I lived) were behaving like one. 

To me, this is an example of the negative sides of artificial renunciation. In this connection, the Bhagavad-gītā mentions: “One who restrains the senses and organs of action, but whose mind dwells on sense objects, certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender.” (Bg 3.6)

As described in this verse, artificial renunciation is based on rejecting the world while one is still attached to it, trying to negate and suppress one’s desires and inclinations instead of positively using them for Kṛṣṇa. This can lead to erratic behavior and all kinds of psychological problems, which can be quite negative both for the individual and for the community he or she is part of. We can observe the negative effects of artificial celibacy in the form of many scandals that plague the history of our movement, for example.

We can see that Kṛṣṇa rejects this process at the beginning of the third chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā, and gives a positive alternative in the form of the process of Karma-yoga (detached work), described in the subsequent verses.

As he mentions in Bg 3.33: “Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?”

It’s not easy to suppress one’s nature by simple repression. One may use repression to mask his’s nature for a limited period, and this may be useful if there is some clear plan (like living for a year or two in an ashram to have an opportunity to go deep into spiritual life, for example), but it doesn’t work long term. Unless one is capable of reaching a high platform of spiritual realization and finding the higher taste that Kṛṣṇa mentions in Bg 2.59, the process of artificial repression will not do any good in the long term. We can observe that Krsna doesn’t recommend this process. In fact, he calls the ones who are trying to follow it “pretenders”.

If one is not capable of quickly finding a higher taste, Kṛṣṇa recommends the process of Karma-yoga, which is based on working for Him, trying to change one’s internal consciousness instead of his external activities. Arjuna wanted to renounce everything and go to live in the forest, repressing his natural qualities as a kṣatriya and instead acting like a brāhmana. At first, this could sound like a good idea, since a brāhmana is higher than a kṣatriya, but Krsna disagreed with this proposal, arguing that it would simply lead to degradation. 

This is an important point to understand: when we try to artificially imitate a higher platform, instead of following the process that is appropriate to us, we end up degrading ourselves instead of progressing. If a man who is too attracted to the opposite sex tries to artificially be a brahmacārī, instead of accepting the recommended path as a regulated householder, for example, he will probably end up involved in some illicit relationship or sexual scandal later on. We can observe that most cases of abuses we had in the past of our movement were performed by artificial celibates.

Some could argue that Prabhupāda himself instituted this process of artificial renunciation, establishing āśramas for brahmacārīs and giving sannyāsa to young men, but this is not exactly true. While Prabhupāda emphasizes the path of pure devotional service in his books and highlights the possibility of anyone quickly advancing to a higher platform by sincerely chanting, he never says that one should practice artificial renunciation. Instead, he emphasizes the idea of finding the higher taste and, at the same time, shows flexibility in adjusting and offering other paths for the disciples who would not be able to ascend to this platform so quickly. 

He would even marry sannyasis who would not be able to maintain their vows, engaging them as householders instead. He was never recommending false renunciation, quite the opposite.

He also never said that one should disrespect one’s parents, for example (although we may also not follow them if they are not devotees). In fact, he made Brahmananda and Gargamuni, two of his early disciples, pay obeisances to their mother when she visited the āśrama before their initiation. There are situations where one may not be able to maintain a relationship with the parents and other family members (in cases where they are strongly against one practicing devotional service, or in cases of toxic relationships), but this should be regarded as a last resort.

What we may sometimes lack is the capacity to understand not only what the goal is, but also the complete process of achieving such a goal. One who is not attentive may try to jump to a distant platform and thus break his legs, while others who are more attentive may notice a stair connecting the two. Taking the stairs is slower than just jumping out of the window, but it is safer.

On the specific point of relationship with the parents, if one acts responsibly towards his parents and other relatives, treating them well according to mundane etiquette without abandoning his or her spiritual practice or deviating his philosophical understanding, one can gradually make other members of the family devotees. When we study cases of families of devotees, in almost all cases, there is a story like that. Families are usually a combination of similar people. If one adopts the spiritual path, it means that probably others also have the potential to do so.

Not only that, but most of us (especially ladies) have the need for living in a family environment, and the proof of that is that even if they try to become renounced Brahmacārīs and brahmacāriṇīs, they enter into family life shortly afterward. What is then the value of rejecting and burning one’s parents? For one who is not on the level of being a sannyāsi (in form or spirit), the path to spiritual progress is not artificial renunciation but detached work, as described in the Bhagavad-gītā. If one follows the path of detached work for some time, cultivating internal renunciation, he or she may in due time be able to achieve a platform of true renunciation.

Even for one who is spiritually advanced, but is still young in age or still not prepared to fully accept the renounced path, the path of detached work is still the safest, as prescribed to Vrajanatha in the Jaiva-dharma. This is however a path that demands spiritual maturity, of following the Mahājanas instead of merely trying to imitate them.

As Lord Caitanya cautions: “Be patient and return home. Don’t be a crazy fellow. By and by you will be able to cross the ocean of material existence.” (Cc Madhya 16.237)

Check the book, where we discuss more dangerous mistakes in our spiritual practice, free for everyone. 

========

AMERICA WAS MISINFORMED ON IRAN

Netanyahu has – almost comically – been warning that Iran is weeks or months away from getting a nuclear bomb for decades:

1992 (Knesset speech): “Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.”

1995: (his book, Fighting Terrorism): Iran is “three to five years, at most” from a nuclear weapon.

1996 (to joint session of the US Congress): “the deadline for [Iran] attaining this goal is getting extremely close”.

2002 (to a US congressional committee): Iran is “racing” for the bomb (but Saddam might get there first).

2009: “Iran has the capability now to make one bomb”; they could “make several bombs in a year or two”.

2010 (to The Atlantic): “You don’t want a Messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs… that’s what is happening in Iran.”

2012: Iran is “a few months away” from nuclear capability.

2012 (to the UN General Assembly, the “cartoon bomb” speech): Iran will soon be “a few months, possibly a few weeks” from getting enough enriched uranium for their first bomb.

2015: Iran would be “weeks away from having enough enriched uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons” if Barrack Obama’s nuclear deal went through. (It did.)

2025: Iran could build a weapon “in a matter of months, or even weeks”.

Netanyahu persuaded Trump to bomb Iran the first time around almost a year ago, in June 2025. “Look, Donald,” he was quoted as saying, “this has to be tackled, because they’re racing forward … You can’t have a nuclear Iran on your watch.” In making these confident predictions, was Netanyahu simply passing on the assessments of his country’s intelligence services? Not necessarily. In 2011, on his final day as Mossad chief, Meir Dagan told a Knesset committee that “Iran will not have nuclear capability before 2015″. In 2012, a leaked intelligence assessment said that Mossad believed Iran was still “not performing the activity necessary to produce [nuclear] weapons”. This was while Netanyahu was claiming an Iranian bomb was, at most, months away.

Book Changes / Shastra Chaksu vs PADA / Michael Jackson Documentary 05 19 26

CHANGED BOOKS

GCD: This is an EXCERPT FROM A PHONE CALL RECORDING WITH JAYADVAITA Swami ON 6-12-1995 IN REGARD TO A REQUEST From Godsister Dhanistha Dasi, FOR PRINTING A SPECIAL RUN OF 5,000 ORIGINAL GITAS, that was to be given to all the elderly disciples of Srila Prabhupada for the 100th Vyasa Puja Celebration in 1996. Well here it is this mentality is to destroy the original book to make the original inaccessible by keeping it OUT OF PRINT !!!

INACCESSIBLE !!! He wants to KILL the original book, the one Srila Prabhupada personally read had repeatedly reprinted and distributed worldwide instead for the past 50 years we have been led to believe that the standard Bhagavad Gita is one with 5,000 changes over all 74% of the verses reworded and a mere 16 illustrations out of 48 ALL DONE POSTHUMOUSLY ALL WITHOUT REVIEW OR CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR ! This is criminal.

Jayadvaita swami: "See our concern is that the old edition is obsolete. It's gone, it's been revised, there's a new edition out, we'd like it to be the standard edition. And every time we - no, we'd just be happy to see the old edition just y'know gracefully go into obscurity. And now to print another thousand or five thousand or however many, just prolongs the life of the controversy, it would seem, 'cos then people again dig out their two different editions and again start comparing line for line and again go through all their confusions and misunderstandings and umm we'd just be just as happy to see it y'know gracefully be let alone and not y'know gradually become a forgotten issue, which it deserves to be. Umm and it seems the longer the old edition stays in print the harder it is for that to happen naturally."

PADA: Ajamila ACBS is also a giant fan of the GBC gurus like Jayapataka. It seems the real problem is -- most of our God brothers went along with the GBC guru system, and they are the ones who orchestrated the books changes. They sort of "went along to get along" and thus aided and abetted the hi-jack of ISKCON, which included the hi-jack of the books. It is only a small handfull of devotees who realize the changes are detrimental. Worse, a number of our God brothers see nothing wrong with the re-editing program. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

=====

To sastra_casku 

PADA: Yep. Even the intoxicated womanizer "rascal society" section of Western culture never worships other intoxicated womanizers as their acharyas.

That is because even the average Western intoxicated womanizer knows other intoxicated womanizers are not Krishna's diksha guru successors. So when an intoxicated womanizer in the West self proclaims himself to be Krishna's successor, he will not be accepted even in Western culture.

In other words, even the fallen Western culture knows in advance that other fallen people are not God's successor acharyas. Meanwhile, where in shastra is it stated that intoxicated womanizers (like Jayatirtha, Hansadutta, Satsvarupa and numbers of others) are diksha gurus and acharyas? And their intoxicated womanizer parampara can "2/3 show of hands" vote in more gurus like Rohini Kumar? Why has this question not been answered since 1978? ys pd

=====

 

MICHAEL JACKON

D Dasa: Like the Jimmy Savile content posted a couple of years ago, these public figures who operated in plain sight might teach us not to simply ignore red flags - as we often seem to do when we regard all "sadhus" with starry eyes. This well documented/evidenced piece shows precisely how grooming works - the love bombing, the flattering of the adults "Wow, this great soul is showing an interest in my children, how fortunate...." The parallels are chilling.....

YD: YES the parallels to ISKCON are frightening.

Krsna Gopala Das: They saw a powerful Black man changing the world through music… and they couldn’t control it. The demonic leaders of this world didn't want the king of pop to be a black man so they tattooed his skin white. He wasn’t just the King of Pop — he was a phenomenon bigger than the system itself. His music crossed every border, every race, every language. The industry made billions from his genius, but the moment he stopped being their puppet and started speaking against corruption in the entertainment world, the attacks intensified.

The media tore him apart daily. They mocked his appearance, ridiculed his pain, and turned his suffering into headlines for profit. People laughed at the man while ignoring the pressure he carried from childhood — a soul pushed onto stages before he even had the chance to live a normal life. They watched him struggle with vitiligo, surgeries, isolation, and emotional trauma, then twisted it into a circus for the world to consume. Instead of seeing a human being, they saw a product.

But despite all of it, they could never destroy what mattered most: his impact. His voice still shakes stadiums. His dance moves still inspire generations. His message still reaches the broken, the rejected, and the dreamers. Decades later,8 the world still imitates him because nobody has ever matched what he brought to music and culture. The truth is, legends scare systems built on control — because real art wakes people up.

D Dasa: Your kind of naive hero worship is exactly how so many abusive "celebs" in ISKCON keep going too. 

Krsna Gopala Das: Bro saw someone appreciating and immediately activated FBI, CIA, 60 minutes documentary mode. Relax, bro. Admiring someone’s talent and impact on music doesn’t mean people are “naively worshipping celebs.” By that logic, every fan of music, art, sport, or history is in a cult. You’re meant to be a senior, but instead of inspiring balance and intelligence, you’re out here turning every conversation into a conspiracy TED Talk.

D Dasa: Feel free to be blind on the basis of skin identification.... But don't expect not to be called out for your foolish sentimentality. The funny thing is that you are the one actually advocating the conspiracy theory. I am simply believing what these folks are reporting. I am reasonably confident that you simply dismissed it without even examining the evidence…. and you’re literally advocating that these folks conspired against your hero.

I imagine the threats will follow soon…..

LB: Krsna Gopala Das People who are fanboys of pedos are to be pittied. They aren't Vaisnavas, they just pose as. Similarly to fake Christians, cosplaying as loving Jesus, while supporting war criminals. Your idol is pedo. Not violent, but serial.

https://www.lawcommentary.com/.../michael-jackson-estate...

Michael Jackson Estate Sued by Cascio Siblings Alleging Child Sex Trafficking and Long-Term Abuse | Law Commentary

LAWCOMMENTARY.COM Krsna Gopala Das Stop lying to us and yourself. 

ML Dasi; Krsna Gopala Das https://share.google/8EAKfV2qhO21NjdGG

Michael Jackson's "Second Family"

OPRAH.COM

D Dasa: This footage also gives some indication of why victims often take a long time to come forward, how their lives are impacted and.... the mistaken premise that simply reporting to the police is all that needs to happen. 

PC: Horrendous if it’s true for the family. but he was in Epstein files revealed in 2025. May be an image of one or more people and text.

LB: I wrote about this story some years ago when it came out. One American black devotee accused me of being jealous of black musicians rising and shining and being famous. Weird. Hello, it was the behaviour I criticised not his skin colour.

PK: Krsna Gopala Das Two things can be true at the same time: he was an icon, a remarkable artist, a powerful cultural force — and he was also a pedophile. He was likely a victim of child abuse himself. He was abused, and he went on to abuse others. And he was allowed to continue because the people who benefited from his fame, influence, and value protected him, regardless of the consequences for him or for the many children who were harmed.

It is deeply painful when someone you admire is revealed to have caused such devastation. Accepting that reality can be incredibly difficult, and denial often runs very deep. We see this not only in our own movement, but everywhere in the world. It is easy to condemn child abuse in the abstract — much harder when the abuser is your friend, your favorite sannyasi, kirtaniya, guru, artist, or someone you looked up to and trusted. Discovering that someone you admired was capable of harming children can shake your entire worldview, even your sense of yourself and your community. Facing that truth honestly is a profound and difficult test.

DS: Everyone knows the entire industry is pedophilic so when they throw Michael under the bus its probably because he was a hero.

PC: Nobody will ever believe these victims because he was greater than the gods with his fame and money. And he paid his innocent with his money in 2005 trial, and needed the money so that’s why he tried for a comeback in 2009. Someone knew about him being a pedophile. Killed him off or he killed himself with propofol, because he knew that the new accusations will haunt him forever!

He got away with it in a sense. (Jordyn chandler 2003, Garvin Arvizo in 2005, wade Robson and James Safechuch in 2019, and now the caischo siblings of four. And more will come forward unfortunately they bought their silence first Michael and the estate of Michael Jackson. And now they are running out of money after all the accusations towards the estate of Michael and that’s why they waited so long to do this “biopic”. And now they bring big money to the estate and maybe the victims also se their chance to cash in in it if what they really have been throng in the hands of the biggest pedophile in human history Michael Jackson.

LB: I remember when Oprah hosted first two MJ victims. Full testimony on air. Then after that ... after mass" hate - mail" and ostraciaisng calmed down a bit, more of MJ victims started talking including young actor that MJ basically force - dated under pretense of mentoring right in the open. And as pedos do; soon as they grow old- he would find a younger new one " to mentor ". (IDK or claim what else she did or didn't do in private , I wasn't there), but Oprah back then is the only one who dared. Backlash and revenge was unfogiving to this day. It was especially renewed recently after she exposed pedos and hebephiles as well as inceastous elderly " Cho.mo's" ( Child molesters), abusers in black families around mega Churches, in her " Green Leaf Church" ( or similarly named) series.

LB: For those who still adore the pedo- read more ; and then watch interviews by the victims.

https://www.latimes.com/.../la-xpm-1994-01-26-mn-15478...

Jackson Settles Abuse Suit but Insists He Is Innocent : Courts: Singer will reportedly pay $15 million to $24 million to teen-ager. Criminal investigation will proceed.

LATIMES.COM

Key words: "That's how we were raised ".

https://youtube.com/shorts/FDnlNYW8MN8?si=ctAminzVdfd3bJCB

LB: Two of the first survivors-whistleblowers. (YouTube won't play their oldest; younger age interview.) 

https://youtu.be/NOrOZL7_NkI?si=hY3eibJ1Btr2WRJz

CBS Mornings

YOUTUBE.COM

Maybe it is not a coincidence that many devotes of all races still adore MJ, even those though they are not interested nor current with other "karmi" artists.Of course, if they cannot be objective regarding secular figure that they won't be with "holy man" sanyasi.

The system defends itself :

https://youtube.com/shorts/lmgLCr7WNDQ?si=0f2FuDchx6sC3tZy

"He was not a pedophile" Alan Dershowitz on Epstein

YOUTUBE.COM

Still, love of fanboys and fangirls is blind. https://youtu.be/IV3-s5x92PI?si=SBhM3nGuB4Jwx1yd

The 2003 Michael Jackson Interview Moment About Kids That HAUNTED Him, with Geragos and Murphy

YOUTUBE.COM

This song was initially used in main TV studio with commentators for London Olympics; and at least they had decency to switch to another one half way through. It is played occasionally during American Football Games. IT IS objectively one of the best glitter rock and beyond - composition. But it's stained forever. And this one must have one of the largest "body counts". Not just cause he was the rock star; but he knew where to go to hunt-SE Asia. Many doesn't care, or he wouldn't have almost 2 milion views combined.

https://youtu.be/8OJ01psE6wc?si=-96PG7n-paHLNuhc

vj saul edwin orihuela lobato

Jimmy Saville defending Gary Gliter.I heard similar defense for devotee caught with pedo-porn here in USA around 15 years ago.

https://youtu.be/rNOwr2nB8gs?si=abkrzAP7rWv2k0Xk

D Dasa: And the threats came as predicted:

May be an image of text from Krsna Gopala Das 

"Your gonna beg for mercy when see your ugly old face. I have all your details." 

PK: I also got those. We must have struck a nerve. Report him to the police. Maybe he should be back in jail.

LB: Another interesting aspect is just how powerful idols and celebrity worship can become. People’s desire for hero-worship often supersedes everything else. Their determination to preserve the image, no matter what happens, is almost formidable. The case of Michael Jackson is one of the best examples because, in his case, there seemed to be additional obstacles that ordinarily would have weakened mass appeal: race, apparent sexual ambiguity, and eventually even his physical appearance.

Despite widespread racism in society, despite even stronger homophobic prejudice at the time, despite his increasingly affected high-pitched voice and effeminate mannerisms in later years, despite visibly botched plastic surgeries and deeply disturbing public incidents — including dangling a child over a high balcony in front of the entire world — masses of people still refused to reconsider their devotion.

At a certain point, it almost stops being about the idol himself. The worship develops its own momentum, and people become psychologically incapable of stepping away from it because too much identity, emotion, and meaning have already been invested. Which is why I doubt that ISKCON’s pedophile enablers and abusive swamis will ever truly lose all of their followers either. Once a movement of absolute loyalty forms around charismatic authority figures, evidence alone is often not enough to break it.

=========

IRAN IS A MESS UPDATE

PADA: Yeah I cannot figure this out either. We have already been bombing the bejeepers out of Gaza, Hezbollah, Syria, Houthis, Afghanistan etc. and we never really "win." So we are going to start another aero assault, one more time, and "win" this time. 

Why would we win this time -- when we did not win previously over and over already? And Iran is much more formidable and well armed than Afghanistan, Gaza etc. Sorry, this was never going to end well for anyone IMHO. But didn't we already know that? 

A previous report said taking down Iran would require a ground operation of at least 1,000,000 (1M) boots on the ground. And we are wondering why no one is signing up to do that, when we cannot either? Meanwhile Coronel Mc Gregor says escorting a ship through the strait is "a suicide mission." And no one is signing up? Wonder why? Yeah, looks like -- this whole thing was never planned out from the get go. 

ys pd     

Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates Says Netanyahu Has Been Selling the Same Iran Story Since 2009

Robert Gates says Benjamin Netanyahu told him in 2009 that Iran’s government was weak and would “crumble at the first attack.” Gates said he immediately told Netanyahu he was “dead wrong.” Why?

Because Netanyahu was underestimating how resilient Iranians are during foreign attacks. The exact same argument has been repeated for years to multiple US presidents.

The message was always similar:

• Iran is weak
• The regime is fragile
• One major strike could collapse the government
• The Iranian people will rise up afterward

But according to Gates, reality was very different. He warned that military attacks could actually unite Iranians instead of collapsing the country. Netanyahu spent decades trying to convince America that regime change in Iran would be quick and easy.

From the 1990s onward, Netanyahu repeatedly warned that:

• Iran was close to nuclear weapons
• Iran’s government could collapse under pressure
• Military action was necessary sooner rather than later

Every US president before Trump resisted fully committing to that vision.

• Obama refused direct war with Iran
• Biden avoided full-scale military confrontation
• Even former Pentagon officials warned attacks could backfire

Because once war starts … controlling the consequences becomes impossible. The Iraq War was also sold as:

• Quick
• Necessary
• Strategic
• Liberating

Instead it became:

• A regional disaster
• A trillion-dollar war
• A source of instability for decades

Now people fear the same logic is being repeated again with Iran. And the biggest question is this:

If Iran was supposedly “about to collapse” in 2009…  and the same thing was repeated year after year… was the threat exaggerated to push America toward another war? Regime change sounds simple in speeches … but in reality it usually creates:

• Chaos
• Civilian deaths
• Refugee crises
• Regional instability
• Endless military escalation

And many Americans are now asking: How many times can leaders sell the same prediction before people stop believing it? If multiple US presidents refused to fully accept Netanyahu’s Iran strategy for years… why are tensions now moving closer to war than ever before?

Rukmini Kumar Swami / Nepal Mess / Pancaratna / Ukraine etc.

You can turn on the English CC

 

More disturbing reports coming out 

from ISKCON Vrindavana Gurukula.

I have been informed that one of the school's teachers recently had a violent rage fit in the IT lab and brutally attacked a student. The child is now in serious condition. According to reports, the teacher kicked him, beat him, and repeatedly slammed his head against the wall.

The boy is currently being kept in the school infirmary and has not been taken to a hospital — likely to avoid legal repercussions. This is not an isolated incident.

Additionally, some time back, the Vrindavana Gurukula management re-hired a teacher by the name of Surananda, why has previously removed for physically assaulting the students. He continues to need the children and runs the school like a boot camp.

Reports suggest that the school is understaffed, with 1 ashram teacher for up-to 50 students. For years, the GBCs have repeatedly turned a blind eye to reports of extreme abuse coming out of this Gurukula. Nothing has been done. Nothing has changed.

How many more children will have to suffer before the GBCs wake up and take meaningful action? A child needs medical attention. The community deserves accountability. ISKCON needs to prioritize the protection of its children!

Please share widely!

======

NEPAL ISKCON IMBROGLIO

The Case Summary:

**For anyone who doesn't know what's going on:

 
1. Gurukula students were physically abused and subjected to severe punishments. Two of them have filed a case against the teacher.

2. A female student was sexually abused and molested by a male Gurukula student. She has filed a case against the boy.

3. Before filing the legal case, the victim contacted ISKCON’s Child Protection Office (CPO). The CPO came and conducted an investigation.

4. During the investigation, several serious issues surfaced, including teachers having affairs with students and leaders from ISKCON Kathmandu having multiple affairs.

5. Devotees from ISKCON Kathmandu then realized that the truth had been exposed to the CPO.

6. Immediately, 25–30 devotees rushed to the interrogation room and surrounded the CPO members with knives in their hands.

7. They copied all the information and deleted everything from the laptops. During this incident, the CPO messaged Kanai Sundar Prabhuji, who came with others to rescue the team.

8. This video shows that scene. He did nothing wrong—he only rescued the CPO members. He did not use abusive language, nor did he retaliate or argue. He simply took the CPO team to safety.

9. The police were called by Kanai Sundar Prabhu to rescue the CPO. If you look closely, the police are not chasing him; they are chasing the Kathmandu devotees who came there to attack.

10. The CPO is preparing their final report. We have all the evidence.

11. Once the report is ready, we will post it here.

12. The video where the CPO "admitted fault" was taken by force after they were grabbed by the collar and threatened with a knife.

13. It is wrong for people who never even leave their rooms in Budhanilkantha to say Kanai Sundar Prabhu was "hiding," especially when he traveled all the way from Palpa just to help the CPO.

Re: Your letter

Child Protection Office Bharat
To: HEMRAJ  

Mon, May 11 at 11:19 PM

Dear Hemanga Vishwambhar Das. Thank you for your concern but since you decided to send this mail to such a huge number of receivers, some who are no longer present on this planet and others who are new bhaktas, it does not seem that you are really concerned about the child abuse. It looks as if you are yourself making a political statement. Neither do you introduce yourself or inform in which way you are connected to this case. You do not give proper references or evidence to your claims. 

As you say the real discussion should be regarding the child abuse. "Do you accept that there may have been child abuse in your gurukula." That is the answer we are trying to understand. That is the question from CPOC and the GBC of Nepal. This is the question we have asked of the Temple President and the Nepal Management. But your concerns are noted. Your servants, in the service of the Children. CPO Bharat.

From: SRD

Hare Krishna Pancaratna,

Only a few years ago, the worldwide ISKCON community witnessed the formation of CPO Bharat. It is worth noting that the first known mention of a separate CPO body for India emerged during the leaked ICC video meeting, shortly after the GBCs asked the International CPO to reassess the Lokanath case. The GBCs have since publicly confirmed their belief that Lokanath sexually abused an 11-year-old girl.

The timing was not lost on many, and the formation of CPO Bharat has been viewed by much of the international devotee community as a politically motivated move designed to shield ISKCON India's leadership from accountability.

In our last open correspondence, you acknowledged that you had published a favorable assessment of the Vrindavana Gurukula without having carried out the in-depth review that a school with such a concerning track record clearly warrants.

Since that exchange, you have not communicated to the devotee community that any such assessment has since been completed. As far as the international community is concerned, the question of whether the children of the Vrindavana Gurukula are truly safe remains unanswered.

I have recently received a deeply disturbing report that one of the school's teachers had a violent rage episode and physically attacked a student, leaving the child with serious injuries. Rather than taking the child to hospital, the school management has reportedly kept him confined to the school infirmary; a decision that strongly suggests an attempt to avoid legal scrutiny.

This incident, along with the case in Nepal, points to a fundamental structural problem with CPO Bharat. Your office does not currently enjoy the institutional credibility necessary to carry out its mandate effectively.

This is not surprising, given that its very formation was clouded by political intrigue and that its conduct since has done little to earn the confidence of the broader devotee community.

It is my further understanding that in the investigation of the Nepal case, your office failed to follow the GBC's own requirement that such investigations be conducted by hired professionals. You sent a team of Indian lawyers to investigate allegations of child abuse in Nepal.

Could you articulate how this decision served the best interest of the child victims?
Your office also failed to suspend the school principal who currently stands accused of child sexual abuse. Given the gravity of the allegations, such a suspension should have been the very first step to take!

The situation, as it stands, is untenable. You cannot operate a Child Protection office founded under such questionable circumstances, fail to secure the trust of the international devotee community, and still hope to be even remotely effective in the vital work of protecting children.

You cannot prioritize political considerations and protect children simultaneously.
A choice must be made.

Praying for the protection of Srila Prabhupada's Vaikuntha children!

ISKCON NEPAL IS BEYOND SUSPICION

HOW CAN SOMEONE DOUBT THIS GREAT PERSONALITY? (Patri dasa)

He gave many of us more than just guidance — he gave us a spiritual family, a place where we felt protected, accepted, and connected to Krishna. Through HOLD (Home of Love and Devotion) Patri Prabhu created not just an organization, but an emotional shelter for countless souls searching for peace, belonging, and spiritual warmth in this harsh world. 

For many devotees, HOLD became the family they never knew they needed — a home where broken hearts were embraced, confused minds were guided, and lonely souls finally felt seen.

So how can people doubt him so easily now? Do they even realize that the confidence with which they walk today as devotees — wearing tilak without fear, kanthi mala around their neck, and Krishna’s holy name on their lips — was also nurtured through the encouragement, protection, and support Patri Prabhu gave over the years?

The strength, shelter, association, and devotional atmosphere that helped so many hearts grow spiritually did not appear overnight. Behind it was someone sacrificing his own comfort, carrying responsibilities silently, staying awake through difficulties, tolerating pain, criticism, and pressure — all so that others could smile, serve Krishna peacefully, and feel spiritually alive. Some people gave lectures, but Patri Prabhu gave people a home, a family, and a sense of belonging.
Many devotees who once felt spiritually lost found hope because of HOLD. 

Many who were emotionally broken found strength again through the association and care they received there. Some found genuine friendships, some found purpose, and some even found the courage to continue living with faith because someone believed in them when nobody else did.

That is why it feels deeply painful to watch people throw accusations so casually, forgetting years of care, compassion, sacrifice, and protection in a single moment. Before judging someone who stood like a guardian, mentor, and father figure for so many souls, people should first remember the countless silent efforts that shaped their own devotional journey too.

Gratitude should not disappear during difficult times. Respect should not vanish because of rumors or temporary emotions. A heart that has truly received love, shelter, and guidance can never forget the person who helped it stand again when it was spiritually and emotionally weak.

=======

SAJJANA DEPARTS

Dear Vaishnavas,

Jaya Srila Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada and our beloved Guru-varga.

Pujyapada Bhaktivedanta Sajjana Maharaja has departed from this world today. He will wear the indelible mark on his heart of having left his body in Sri Vrindavan-dhama, at 1:41pm on this sacred Apara Ekadasi. He departed amidst his loving godfamily, loudly and prayerfully chanting the Maha-Mantra and
"Jai Prabhupada! " ,
"Jai Gurudeva!" .

All glories, all glories to our powerful, merciful Gurudevas. All glories to Pujyapad BV Sajjana Maharaja and his glorious passing.
Aspiring to serve Sri Guru and the Vaisnavas
Sripada Sajjana Maharaja’s Seva Team

==========

UKRAINE UPDATE

PADA: No one could figure out what was the use of Ukraine knocking out Russia's air defense and radar systems for years now? Well it makes big holes in Russian defense capacity. That makes it easier to get the larger drones in later on. 

Meanwhile, the smaller carboard drones used by Ukraine cannot be seen on radar anyway. They have the same radar signature as a small bird, and cannot be detected. Nor does it have a heat signature that can be locked onto. 

It is amazing that Russian stuff is getting constantly blown up with teeny cardboard aircraft, with the wings held on by rubber bands. But these things are great for finding and knocking out anti-air systems. 

Meanwhile intercepted radio calls from Ukraine show that different Russian soldier's groups are shooting at each other fighting over food supplies. It looks like Russia is having troubles supplying their troops. Of course the food problem is not as bad as the fact that drones are chasing soldiers even into the woods and through fields and are taking them out, hundreds per day, often over a thousand. 

A Ukraine drone guy said "they always run, but some of our drones can go 75 mph and there is no way to get away even in a car or on a motorcycle." Russian soldiers have been seen swatting at drones with their rifles, but it does not help, they are done in the next few seconds. 

Of course it also does not help that Ukraine is using scatter bombs to toss hundreds of little mines all over fields, and then Russians are losing legs when they step on them. I am not sure why Putin says that this is all going exactly to plan? What is the plan?

Meanwhile fires have been reported all around the Moscow area.

If you wanted a never ending war, beware, you might get what you wanted. 

===========================

IRAN UPDATE

PADA: OK these guys always say the same thing: The Gaza; Hezbollah, Houthis, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran "temporary three days war" will be over in three days. It never ends in three days, three weeks, three months, or maybe three years, or maybe three decades. 

When they say "three days war" this was always a giant bluff to get their foot in the door. Now they are saying, we have to go forward because our foot is already in the door. They are even trying to say "this is not a war," "it is a temporary incursion," OK what they also say all the time.   

Yep, what they always say. And the benefactors are also always the same: Ratheon, Mc Donald Douglas, munitions chemical plants, missile and bomb manufacturing etc. The peons just get more expensive gas, fertilizer, cooking fuel, food, electrical power and everything else, while a few others get billion dollar defense contracts. See how this works? 

Anyway, it looks like the USA has created yet another long term mess over there, and the whole "three days" thing was a giant bluff from square one and we are finally figuring that out now. This was never going to be three days, and neither were all the others. The USA is now insisting all the rest of the world wanted all this. Nope, they were never in favor of chopping off their own fuel and 

fertilizer products supplies. 

They did not approve, nor were they ever asked to approve. Yep, USA owns this hot mess. The only good news is USA is creating a giant pile of orders for green energy products and EVS for factories in China. That is making China great again.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com 

Troubles in the Muts of Orrisa (Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura)

Orrissa 

Troubles in the Krishna temples and Mathas

Not a new thing!

Unfortunately!

"Some of them worship Beelzebub (Satan)"

Yikees pilrims!

Troubles in the Muts of Orrisa 

(Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura)

Orrissa is a beautiful province. Its physical aspect is pleasing. Its hilly sceneries, its sandy rivers, its tiger-inhabited jungles, and its mouldering temples and towers, all combine to please the heart, and to awake the soul into a burst of divine emotions. Here the Hindoo pilgrim stands between two hills covered with jungle, and looking at the temple of Ramnath at Bhoobuneshur, recollects those antiquated days of Hindoo grandeur, when stones floated on the sea, and monkeys sung the praises of Rama!! 

Here it is that the traveller is put in mind of the divine amusements of Krishna with Radha in the famous grove of Brindavun, when he reflects on the proceedings about the big temple at Pooree! The broad banks of the meandering Mahanuddy and Brahmini, overshadowed by beautiful trees and scattered bushes, are annually visited and trodden by the pilgrims to the handless deity (Jagganath). 

The Nilgirri hills range from one end of Orrissa to the other, affording on their sides the safest shelters to several members of the carnivorous tribe. There is not a traveller whose mind is not highly delighted by the picturesque beauty that abounds in the land. Notwithstanding these physical beauties, this province is immensely low in point of morality. The intellects of the Ooriahs are not enlightened, their hearts are not improved, nor their feelings cultivated; in a word, the inhabitants of Orrissa are not free from many iniquities. The greatest of these are the Zemindarry oppression and Mut-irregularities. The latter form the subject of this paper.

Orrissa abounds in Muts. From the banks of the Shooburnarekha to the utmost end of the Chilka, there is not a village in which some land is not granted for the maintenance of these institutions. The heads of the Muts are commonly called Mohunts or Mutdharries. They hold lands free of rent, collect the revenue, and defray the expenses in the names of the gods whom they are understood to serve. 

The former Rajahs and Zemindars of those lands granted them to the Muts with the view that all travellers, sick men and pilgrims, should be fed out of their proceeds. In former days the iniquities in the Muts were not so great as they are now. 

This was owing to constant inspection by the Rajahs of the day. The Mohunts feared, lest they should be superseded by other Mohunts appointed by the Rajahs in case of their being known as miscreants. Although the Rajahs never resumed those lands, yet they often displaced the Mutdharries, who were proved to be neglecting in fulfilling their duties. 

But since the memorable year 1803, a year which was productive of much good in a general point of view, the myrmidons of the shodaburts have turned out monsters of rapacity. They have at once given up their antiquated hospitality. The Muts are now converted into temples of Bacchus and Belzeebub (Satan). 

Pilgrims and sick men never approach them for fear of being rudely expelled from their portals laden with abuse. The Mohunts have yielded to most degrading and grossly carnal pleasures, and their Challas or pupils emulate their vices and try to surpass their Mohaprovas in sensuality and obscenity. The Muts at midnight regularly become the resort of concubines and harlots, and it would be difficult to point to any particular vice that is not perpetrated there.

I have seen nearly all the big Muts in this province. I have found Pooree to be the metropolis of all these iniquities. There is not a street in that town in which there are not a number of rich Muts. The Mohunts are very influential there, as they are masters of large properties in land, and are equal to large proprietors, usually denominated zemindars. I know of a Shodaburt, whose annual income is about 25,000 Rs. and whose expenditure does not exceed ten thousand. A yearly saving of fifteen thousand rupees is sufficient to turn a Mohunt into an Indian Croesus within twenty years of economy. And so it is.

The Muts, I repeat, are very rich. Their money is being wasted in their coffers and still they will not spend it for such charitable purposes as it had been intended for by its by-gone donors. Atits and Obhiagats are not regularly fed. Although the Rajah at Pooree sometimes takes the matter into consideration, yet he cannot do anything, on account of their disobeying propensities. 

In Kendraparah I saw some Muts, which I found to be in an equal condition with those at Pooree. Their expenditures were also much below their incomes. I have a small village in the Moffussil of Cuttack of which I am the proprietor. In that village there is a Mut to which was granted by my predecessors a Iakhiraj of 7 bigghas of land. The babajee of the institution gave up entirely entertaining such men as chanced to seek shelter in his Mut on a rainy night. 

This came to my notice, and I administered a severe threat to the babajee, warning him that his lands would be cruelly resumed if in future complaints of inhospitality were brought to my knowledge; the result was a decided improvement in the state of affairs.

I could do this piece of good to the world only in consequence of the Mul being in my zemindarry; but I was unsuccessful in endeavouring to infuse a spirit of reform into neighbouring villages owing, to the cupidity of their zeminders. It happened once, that I wrote to a zemindar on the matter as there was a Mut on his estate which was in a very bad condition. 

The zemindar at first enquired into the matter, and expressed a desire of bringing the Mohunt to a sense of his duty. But in course of time, I found the zemindar to be as cold as ice, and after enquiry learnt that he hushed up the matter of the Mohunt presenting him with fifty rupees. 

I once visited the Atri-hills near the Virpa, with my family. I had nearly 20 men with me. The sun came on the meridian, and there was no bazar from which we could purchase our food. I was then informed that there was a Mut adjoining the hills. We went over to it, and asked the Mohunt if he would be kind enough to feed us on payment of the expenses. 

The Mohunt at first consented, but when we took our palkees near the door of the Mut, we found it, to our great grief, closed from inside. I called aloud, but no body answered. Upon this I enquired into the matter and learnt from one passing by, that the Mohunt was a great rogue, and would not entertain any passenger unless the latter happened to be acquainted with the zeminder. 

I asked the name of the zemindar, who, I found, was a friend of mine. I wrote a letter to his Thesildar, whose Cutchery was some yards off, and who immediately came to me. On becoming acquainted with my condition, he made a great noise with his Payadas at the door of the Mut. The Mutdharri, on the approach of the Thesildar, came out and received us all with an altered countenance. The Thesildar made a virulent attack on him, and in a few minutes the man appeared a model Mutdharri. 

He gave us food and all we needed, and when I wanted to remunerate him for the articles, he declined, remarking that the Mut was in want of nothing. I returned home the next morning and pondered over the proceedings for nearly a week following.

On another occasion, I happened to be travelling accompanied by a friend and a servant; my palkee broke down and we went over to a Mut in a village about 20 miles from Cuttack. The Mutdharri looked very hospitable at first, and told us to sit outside. There was a beautiful garden belonging to the Mut abounding in mangoe and jack trees, and I ascertained from one sitting by me, that the annual income of the Mut was no less than two thousand rupees. 

The style in which the Mohunt lived was a very respectable one. I saw about twenty persons who called themselves the servants of the institution. They were all very busy in walking to and fro with eatables in their hands. My friend and companion Baboo R. was very much delighted in the hope that we should be sumptuously entertained. But lo! to our disappointment the door was suddenly closed, and no one belonging to the Mut again appeared to whom we could address any questions.

Pressed by hunger, we thought of crying aloud, but other considerations deterred us. We fasted the whole day, and would have been seriously inconvenienced, had not our servants towards evening with commendable forethought, brought us some food from my own Zemindarry.

I once had to go to a place called Aul on foot with three of my servants. The sun sank in the west and darkness spread over the earth. The place was covered with jungle on all sides and tigers were in the habit of prowling there under the shades of evening. We found ourselves to be in great danger, and thought of making to the nearest Mut, which was half a mile distant from us. 

We reached it after much trouble, but the Mohunt was quite against our admission into it. Happily for us we had in our company a Moonshi’s Chaprasee who was going to our destination to serve a Perwannah on a defendant. The Chaprasee gave a severe threat to the Mohunt, who, fearing his displeasure, gave us all the comforts which a passenger could respect to have at a Mut. Thus were we saved that night by the Chaprasee!

At Bhuddruck there is a Mut whose annual income, I am informed, exceeds the sum of five thousand rupees. Its landed estate is equal to that of a rich and respectable Zeminder. It holds nearly all lands on Lakhiraj tenure. The ancient Zemindars and Rajahs about the station granted those lands on condition that all guests, travellers and sick men should be entertained there. It is usually called the Bhuddruck Shadaburt. Its Mohunt is a nasty rogue. He deceives, and is always deceived. 

Whenever an Obhiagut comes to it. he treats him coldly. His licentiousness and sensuality are unparalleled. He has, I hear on good authority, two country seats, each of which is the residence of a paramour, and his Challas imitate his example within the precincts of the Mut itself. He has a threaded prime minister who takes care of, and manages the property belonging to the institution. This Brahmin is a monster of rapacity, and enters, I am told, half the income in the book of receipts, and doubles the real expenditure in the column of disbursements. 

This is efficiently done through a private arrangement between him and the collecting Amlahs. The half of the income thus saved in favour of the rogues, is divided amongst all concerned in the jobbery. On the other hand they are very neglectful of their duties towards the Shadhoos that come out on pilgrimage to Juggonath from the western provinces.

While I was at the Thesildar’s the other day, I saw two bearded Shadhoos, coming to complain to that officer against the Mohunt. I asked them, what was the matter! They, in an angry tone, said that the Mohunt of the Mut had abused them and had given them nothing to eat and that they had not been allowed to offer flowers to the God. I requested my friend, the Thesildar, to call for an explanation which he could not immediately comply with, for want of men at his command. The Shadhoos expressed their disappointment, and went away with sighs.

These are the proceedings at the Muts in Orrissa. Licentiousness, inhospitality, and petty robbery are the daily vices that have crept into them. Instead of feeding the sick and the helpless, the myrmidons of these places are supporting myriads of big bellied creatures, whose profession is so graphically pictured in the pages of the Calcutta Review. 

Those who become Mohants are very licentious characters, unsoftened by the correcting hand of education. When they go out of their Muts they pass with a retinue composed of elephants, horses and sometimes camels. Tom-Tom players and performers on the horn go actively along with them. They never think of doing their duty. Nay, never dream even! The Muts hold, in truth, half the lands occupied by the zemindars. But they are of very little use to the public. Hence it is absolutely necessary to have the evil removed as soon as practicable.

I quote the following from an article in the Calcutta Review.

“One of the most interesting and most important features of Puri is the vast number of Muths or monasteries it contains. These establishments are said to have been originally founded in India by a sect styled Gosais or Gosains. Each Muth is governed by a Mohunt, who, with his disciples forcibly reminds one of the abbot and friars of European history and romance. In Orrissa, an assistant, styled “Adhikari,” transacts part of the business of the Mohunt, and, if he be a “proper man” eventually succeeds to the management.”

“It is affirmed that the principal disciples of the founder of this sect were of the Shiva religion; at Pooree, the thriving members of the order are all of the religion of Vishnu.”

“The head clerk of Pooree gives a list of about thirty principal muths or ‘richest muths’ as he terms them, with the amount of annual rent, and estimated value of land pertaining to each. Of these endowments of the temple of Jugonath, he informs us, that the produce of the lands is realized by the Muthdharri or abbots, who by this means, though professing themselves mendicants, have become the richest merchants in India, and are now enjoying every comfort.”

“The writer proceeds to expose those pilferings so clandestinely made by the religious imposters. This is strictly prohibited by the Hindoo Law. These endowments have been made by rich Hindoos and Rajahs. The Mahrattas also gave Talooks, Villages and Putnas, placing them under the Muths, with a view to the Muthdharries appropriating the income derived therefrom to the performance of ceremonies and offerings to Jugonath, besides the distribution of Mohaprosad or holy food to Byragis, Kangalis, etc. but the intentions and wishes of the donors are seldom carried out. 

On the contrary, the Muthdharries appropriate the produce of such endowments to illegal purposes. It is supposed that the amount of rent realized from estates so held is not less than two lakhs and ten thousand rupees, the lands may be valued at eight lakhs, and would realize that sum if sold.”

Such is the case at Pooree alone; but if we go from one end of Orrissa to the other, we shall find that the proceeds of the lands endowed in Muts will surely defray the expenses of dispensaries and schools if established within every ten miles of each other throughout the province. 

The intentions of their donors were very good indeed; but as they were not so enlightened as to have appreciated the value of real charity, they granted those tenures on ambiguous conditions, such as Shutkarma, Paropokar, etc. The Mutdharries taking the advantage of these ambiguities, have dedicated those lands to the gods of their own creation, and are expending the proceeds thereof for their own gratifications. 

If the conditions of these institutions be officially enquired into, then, we are sure it will appear that the intentions of the donors of such tenures are not at all carried out. The term Shutkarma has been unfortunately construed to mean religious service, By Paropakar it is understood the maintenance of the lazy drones that pass by the names of Adhikarris and Challas. In the face of such stubborn facts, who will not pray for the removal of the evil? The echo answers – “who?” – Conscience, every one!

But men are born not only to pray, think, feel, and doubt. It is action according to valuable suggestions that gives man sovereignty over the lower mammalia and their brother classes. All public actions must be performed by that august and holy body whom God has made to govern their brethren. We are therefore perfectly justified in laying the matter before our rulers for their just consideration. 

My fellow brethren are too ignorant to join in the cry I attempt to make. Imperfect education does not enable them to be thankful for the many benefits they are periodically deriving from Government. These reasons have led me to publish my thoughts and opinions on the subject under treatment.

To make some practical remarks and suggestions, it is highly desirable that there should be a new establishment for the purpose. An Inspector with two or three Deputy Inspectors, will be all that is required for the strict supervision of the Muts in Orrissa. The Inspector shall occasionally visit the institutions, and take the accounts of receipts and disbursements during every month. 

The expenses should be allowed according to the intention of the donor of the lands granted to each Mut. The Inspector should take the assistance of such men as have received a sound education in the English language, but not of Amlahs. To speak candidly, the Amlahs are the sources of most of the grievances of Muffussilites, though they perform much official business. It is by their bribe-taking habits, that many of the invalid tenures were concealed from the knowledge of the Special Deputy Collectors appointed for resumption purposes. 

It is by their illegal interference that several invalid Jaghires were at that time passed for Debetwar lands. Hence it is our hearty prayer, that none but those well educated in English should be allowed to assist the Inspector and the Deputy inspectors of Muts. Notwithstanding the constant supervision of the Inspector and his Deputies, the Muthdharries, I am sure, will endeavour to screen their faults by artifice, such as making a show of charity on the day that the Inspector is expected on a visit to the Muts, and forging the accounts in their own favour. 

To avoid this, it should be the duty of the Inspector to visit the institutions unexpectedly – and the divisional Commissioner should make it a part of the duty of the local police to report after occasional personal examination the daily average number of Atits and Shadhoos fed in the Mut or Muts.

This will no doubt be a bold and generous attempt on the part of our rulers. But it will be a fair one. It will break none of their former pledges. It will be no act of resumption or violence. God is the guardian of Truth and Fairness. It will never create a spirit of disaffection. It is not for the personal good of any man, that our rulers will do such an act. The public good will be at their heart. To neglect the doing of good things is no doubt a sin, and if the evil complained of be not remedied, then our Government will be guilty of that neglect. 

It will not also affect the resolution of our Gracious Queen of not touching religious matters. It is a matter that comes under the head of hospitality and not that of religion. It should be, as it has ever been since the creation, the duty of Government to protect our moral and social comforts. Most Muts are established for charitable, and not religious purposes. I do not advise my rulers to touch the matters connected with the temple of Kallighat or that of Juggonath, nor would we be pleased if the lands granted to the Muts were resumed at once. 

To speak in plainer terms, let all lands be as they are, but let such endeavours be made (as the one I have suggested above) that the proceeds of the tenures granted for charitable purposes, may not be squandered in fattening regular hogs and donkeys who have no claims upon public charity.

But how are the Inspecting Officers to be paid? It is a reasonable question. Government cannot pay them from the revenues. The finances are now in an embarrassed condition. But they must be paid. How then? The Muts must pay them. If the Judicial Officers are supported in a great measure by the Stamp Act making applicants for justice pay for it, would it not be more desirable that the Muts should be taxed for the better management of their affairs?

One word more, and I have done. Mahomedan despotism has long passed away and a generous and just Government has been destined to rule over one hundred and fifty millions of India. This is the time, when we can speak out our thoughts and sentiments with a degree of liberty unknown to us a century back. It is now that we can pray for reforms and improvements hitherto strange to the “land of the sun,” as the Indian poet styles his country. Take for instance the case of the Indigo-Planters in Bengal. 

They were tyrannizing over the ryot to an extent which threw them into despair. But despair of success in favour of right is a thing that has nearly ceased to exist. When the ryots boldly came out in their defence, the Government of Bengal took the matter into its serious consideration, and the present Indigo Commission has been the result. A brochure of deodecimo size, some petitions presented to the Lieut. Governor, and the telling remarks on the subject by the Bhowanipore Crusader, have chiefly tended to bring about this enquiry. 

Can we not then eagerly hope that a similar enquiry will also be instituted to ascertain the truth of our statements? The Madras Torture question has had its day – the irregularities of rent-collection in the Jullunder Doab, has occupied the attention of the rulers; the murmur of the Oude ryots brought on the annexation of that kingdom to the British territories though at the risk of the mutiny of 1837; even the Indigo Plantation has received proper attention from Government. 

From these instances we may hope that the rogueries of the Orrissa Mutdhurries will soon be taken up as a subject demanding official enquiry and speedy remedy, Notwithstanding the mis-statements made by several designing men with the view of creating a spirit of disaffection in the minds of their fellow brethren, I should ever vindicate the character of our well-meaning Government whose intention is clearly perceived to be the good of India. Hence I venture to pray to our good rulers, that the irregularities complained of above, be at once done away with. I am sure that the evils will be remedied, and hope with William Cullen Bryant that 

–

There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night,
And grief may bide an evening guest
But joy shall come with curly light

Glossary

Adhikari – ‘One who is qualified.’ The title sometimes used by heads of maṭhas.
Amlah – A revenue inspector in British India.
Atri-hills – the Atri Hot Springs near Bhubaneswar.
Atits – from the Sanskrit word atithi, meaning ‘guest.’
Bacchus – the Roman god of wine and fertility.
Babajee – another way of saying bābājī.
Belzeebub – or Beelzebub, a demon in Christianity, sometimes synonymous with Satan.
Bhuddruck – Bhadrak in Oḍiṣa.
Bhoobuneshur – Bhubaneswar.
Bhowanipore Crusader – the name of a newspaper in South Kolkata during the British era.
Biggha – or bigha; a measurement of land aprox. 14,400 sq. ft.
Brahmini – the second longest river in Oḍiṣa.
Brindavun – Vṛndāvana.
Byragi – Vairāgī, or renunciate.
Calcutta Review – an English newspaper during the British era in India
Challas – celā, a disciple or follower.
Chaprasee – an official messenger employed by the British administration.
Chilka – a lagoon in Oḍiṣa.
Cutchery – a localised public administrative or judicial office in British India.
Debetwar land – of ‘devatā land’; land which was placed in the name of a deity.
Duodecimo – a size of book whose pages are one twelfth the size of the printing sheet.
Gosai / Gosain – the Bengali or Oḍiya way of saying gosvāmī.
Lakhiraj – land which is completely exempted from paying public revenue or land tax.
Jaghire – a land grant system in medieval and colonial India.
Jobbery – using public office to engage in corrupt practices.
Juggonath / Jugonath / Juggonath – various spellings of Jagannātha.
Jullunder Doab – a region in the Punjab between the Beas and Sutlej rivers.
Kallighat – or Kālī Ghāṭa; a famous temple dedicated to Goddess Kālī in Kolkata.
Kangalis – a mendicant. The word is based on the Bengali word kaṅgāl, meaning ‘poor.’
Mahanuddy – or Mahānadī; the biggest river in Oḍiṣa.
Madras Torture – An incident in 1854 when the British East India Company tortured farmers to extract high land taxes from them.
Mammalia – Mammals.
Moffussil – a Persian word to describe rural districts outside major cities.
Mohaprosad – mahā-prasāda.
Mohaprovas – Most likely, this is a corruption of ‘Mahāprabhu’. Bhaktivinoda is using it sarcastically.
Mohunts – or mahanta; the head of a maṭha or temple.
Moonshi – a Persian term for a clerk or secretary.
Mut – or maṭha; an āśrama.
Mutdharri – or maṭha-dhārī; one who is in charge of a maṭha.
Myrmidon – In Greek history, they were the soldiers of Achilles. It later denoted a person who was unscrupulous and carried out orders unquestioningly.
Nilgirri hills – the Nilagiri Hills in Oḍiṣa.
Obhiagats – or abhyagat in Hindi, meaning ‘guest.’
Ooriahs – or Oḍiyās, the residents of Oḍiṣa.
Palkee – or palaki; a palanquin.
Paropokar – another spelling of the word paropakāra, meaning ‘benevolent deeds.’
Payadas – the official entourage of a Thesildar.
Perwannah – an official order written by a government employee.
Pooree – or Purī, the famous town in Oḍiṣa.
Putnas – or patna; from the Sanskrit word pattana, meaning ‘town’ or ‘city.’
Ramnath – Rāmanātha, a temple in Bhubaneswar.
Ryots – an Indian peasant or tenant farmer.
Shadaburt/shodaburt – or sadāvrata; an institution for feeding pilgrims and sādhus.
Shadhoo – or sādhu; a holy man.
Shooburnarekha – the Subarnarekha River which flows through Jharkhand, Bengal and Oḍiṣa.
Shutkarma – or sat-karma; pious activities.
Stamp Act – an act in 1860 meant to generate revenue for the state through taxes.
Talook – or taluk. An administrative district for taxation purposes, comprising a number of villages.
Thesildar – or tahsildar. A government-appointed land revenue officer.
Virpa – the Birupa River in Oḍiṣa. A tributary of the Mahānadī.
William Cullen Bryant – (1794-1878), an American poet, journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post.
Zemindarry – or zamindari; a landlord-based land revenue system introduced by the British.
Zemindars – or zamindar; a landlord.