ISKCON CHILD WRITES / Kartik / Mukunda / Yogi Writes / New Dwarka ETC. 11 13 26

AN ISKCON CHILD WRITES

PADA: A child of one of the big leaders recently said their dad was one of the people gleefully making documents to oppose the child abuse lawsuit. This child was only 12 at the time and did not understand the issues then. 

But they recently wrote to congratulate PADA for -- opposing the combined rank and file, the leaders, and whole lot of them -- and defending the children. I think this is a big victory for PADA, and for children. We are very glad this person is on board! Welcome! 

This really is a sign the GBC empire is in a state of decay and collapse, all the things they have been doing all this time are just -- not very popular and in fact --are a peril to children. This person is a sort of popular personality in their group of peers and hopefully will start to get others on track with these issues. I believe it can only go in our direction over time.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  

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His lips are sweet, His face is sweet. His eyes are sweet, His smile is sweet.
His heart is sweet, His gait is sweet. Everything about the Lord of Sweetness is completely sweet. 

Word-by-Word MeaningAdharam = lips
Vadanam = face
Nayanam = eyes
Hasitam = smile/laughter
Hridayam = heart
Gamanam = walking, movement, gait
Madhuradhipateḥ = of the Lord of sweetness (Krishna)
Akhilam = everything, all
Madhuram = sweet

Devotional Meaning The devotee sees Krishna's beauty everywhere. Not only His physical features, but His thoughts, feelings, actions, and movements are all spiritually sweet. The final line declares that everything about Krishna is sweet, leaving nothing outside His divine charm.

"Madhuradhipater Akhilam Madhuram" "Everything about the Supreme Lord of Sweetness is sweet."

 *Kartik Meditation Day 11-Sri Radha’s Ropes of Love - Namo rādhikāyai tvadīya-priyāyai*

*Why Radha-Damodara, not Yashoda-Damodara*?

The eighth verse of Satyavrata Muni’s famous Damodarashtakam might serve as a bridge from the Yashoda-Damodara-lila to Radha-Damodara,

namas te ‘stu dāmne sphurad-dīpti-dhāmne
tvadīyodarāyātha viśvasya dhāmne
namo rādhikāyai tvadīya-priyāyai
namo ‘nanta-līlāya devāya tubhyam

O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the brilliantly effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer my obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your most beloved Srimati Radharani, and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord, who displays unlimited pastimes.

It is stated Uttara-kanda of the Bhavishya Purana: “Once, in the auspicious month of Karttika,Krishna came late made with Radharani to wait so In loving anger, Sri Radha tied a rope around Sri Krishna’s belly to punish Him for not showing up as promised. In fact, according to Jiva Goswami, -Sri Radha-krishnarcana-dipika, texts 121–126 the binding pastimes by Sri Radha is the prototype for the Binding pastimes by Yaaoda:

Then Krishna, being pleased at mind, said to Radha, “The golden girdle belt which You have offered to Me around My stomach will cause Me to be known as Damodara. “Dear Radha! I will manifest this pastime in the material world when I will be bound by My mother to a mortar using various ropes. Its not undermining the Love of Yashoda for Krsna .Mother Yashoda is the epitome of vatsalya-rasa, or parental love for Krishna. The word yashoda means “giver of fame.” By binding Krishna with her ropes of love, Yashoda gave Krishna the fame of being controlled by His devotees.

But the essence is To love and be loved is the inherent and innate nature of every person not to speak of the Supreme Person.Krsna loves every living entity and He desires that every living entity also love Him.Love includes being controlled and dominated by one’s beloved and thus presenting oneself as a subordinate to such love.

cc adi 4.21-22 Thus Krishna finds great pleasure in being controlled by His unalloyed devotees and is purchased by their love. This quality of Krishna’s is celebrated as bhakta-vashyata.( SB 10.9.19 /10.11.9)

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𝙎𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙖 𝘽𝙝𝙖𝙠𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙞 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙠𝙪𝙧 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙝𝙪𝙥𝙖𝙙𝙖
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“We don’t have to make disciples, we have to become disciples. In other words, we have to remain constantly engaged in the service of Krishna and the spiritual master. The devotees of Vishnu, the Vaishnavas, see the guru in all things. If one becomes proud of being a Vaishnava, then one’s service to Vishnu and the Vaishnavas evaporates. One who is free from the sense that he is the doer, who thinks, ‘I actually do nothing myself, it is Krishna alone who engages me in all activities,’ and who is constantly engaged in the service of the Lord can actually do something beneficial for the ordinary souls by turning them towards Krishna. But it is not enough to make phoney speeches about how you are not the doer. You have to genuinely feel that you are being made to act by the Lord.

(From Prabhupader Upadesamrita. Bhaktissidhanta Saraswati Thakur)

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MUKUNDA DAS VS HIMSELF

the-preservation-or-destruction-of-prabhupadas-original-books-is-at-the-heart-of-the-fight-for-mother-earth!

"The fight between the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the demon is compared to a fight between bulls for the sake of a cow. The earth planet is also called go, or cow. As bulls fight between themselves to ascertain who will have union with a cow, there is always a constant fight between the demons and the Supreme Lord or His representative for supremacy over the earth."

— Srila Prabhupada, Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.18.20

We should understand very clearly that this great fight for Mother Earth is taking place right now, and Srila Prabhupada's original books are at the very heart of this struggle.

PADA: OK so when we started the BBTI lawsuit for original books, Mukunda started a giant campaign to say -- PADA is bogus for using the "evil karmi courts" to get the original books. He was saying PADA is a mad fool who is compromised with the karmis and their courts. Mukunda also said PADA is driving a taxi to get money for helping the BBTI lawsuit, which is "making money by moving around prostitutes." He does not want any funding for original books. 

OK, but we got at least some rights to make some original books from the courts, and we have had a lot of people subsequently take interest in the topic thanks to our BBTI lawsuit. Our friends are still in court now in Delhi working on the issue. Mukunda has meanwhile not done anything legal ever, to legally make originals, or anything else legal. 

When is Mukunda going to do something actually substantial to make original books legal, instead of harassing the people who are? Nope. He has no idea that the issue has had to go to court, there is no other good option.  

He and his pals like HKC Jaipur also said the Bangalore folks are bogus for making legal issues, but if they do not go to court, Jayapataka will be in charge of Bangalore. Why do these guys always want the homo and pedo guru system to win legally? We should avoid the courts, and hand over the books and temples to the pedo guru system? 

Sorry, we had to go to court and that is all there is to it. Doing nothing but blabbering all day has produced no legal resolution to anything. And attacking the people who are doing legal things is helping -- the book changers and pedo guru system. 

But this is Mukunda's problem the whole time, he is for Sulochana, and promoting the Radhanath program that got rid of Sulochana. He is fighting himself. Of course the demon courts also had to save children from Mukunda's homo and pedo guru program as well. No wonder he does not like the courts! It is the fight of the century, and Mukunda is trying to help the people making the fraud books and not us. 

That is how the book changers have been empowered, these Mukunda guys attack the people who want originals. Yep, we don't want to use the demon courts to go after the GBC guys, that would be -- helping Srila Prabhupada and not helping the GBC. Why should we help Srila Prabhupada when we can save the GBC instead? Which is why people ask me, what is wrong with these GBC enablers? A friend of PADA said, the answer is simple, they still have sympathy for Judas. ys pd    

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JUST AN OLD MAN? 

Nobody here is suggesting that Srila Prabhupada was “just an old man” or that he “blabbered” for years. Quite the opposite: precisely because we accept Srila Prabhupada as the acharya, we are asking that his actual instructions be followed without adding to them. Yes, Srila Prabhupada wanted his disciples to become gurus. But “become guru” does not automatically mean “become diksha-guru and initiate your own disciples.” 

Srila Prabhupada frequently quoted Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s “amara ajnaya guru hana” while instructing devotees to preach Krishna’s message. The specific question here is who was authorized to act as initiating spiritual master and accept disciples after Srila Prabhupada. Nor are we claiming that one July 9 letter suddenly overturned decades of teachings. 

The July 9 directive must be understood together with Srila Prabhupada’s books, conversations and other instructions—including the May 28 conversation. Interestingly, in that very conversation Srila Prabhupada says: “When I order, ‘You become guru,’ he becomes regular guru.” Therefore asking for that order is hardly rejecting Srila Prabhupada’s previous teachings; it is taking his words seriously. Regarding your argument that a representative can act only for a “living principal,” that is precisely something that requires evidence from Srila Prabhupada, not an analogy with ordinary institutions. 

Srila Prabhupada taught: “There are two conceptions, the physical conception and the vibrational conception. The physical conception is temporary. The vibrational conception is eternal.” And elsewhere: “So far I am concerned, I do not factually feel any separation from my Spiritual Master because I am trying to serve Him according to His desire.” 

Therefore, physical disappearance does not terminate the acharya’s authority, instructions or the disciple’s service to him. So let us absolutely read all of Srila Prabhupada’s books and instructions rather than getting stuck in polemics. But then let us apply the same principle consistently: show Srila Prabhupada’s instruction appointing his disciples as successor diksha-gurus, rather than assuming that physical disappearance itself supplied an authorization he did not need to state. If Srila Prabhupada firmly and explicitly established such a succession system throughout his teachings, producing that instruction should be straightforward. Hare Krishna. 

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PADA: Thanks Yogi. Yes, the entire GBC argument for making the 11 gurus is "Srila Prabhupada did not make it clear, so we had to go to BR Sridhar Maharaja for advice." And Sridhar said that the 11 are "zonal acharyas" and there can be "an acharya board" (not a GBC) and etc. So the entire GBC argument rests on the idea that Srila Prabhupada was not capable of making a clear order for how his society should be managed. 

Did I forget to mention the alleged appointment tape was only public when Sulochana bribed an archives devotee to get a copy, and he was eliminated two months after he published it, because they wanted this suppressed. The July 9th letter, all of the 1970s letters, all of the 1977 conversations, the will, the DOM, and many other documents were hidden and suppressed. And we literally risked life and limb to publish them. 

Nevermind I was the first person to get the November tapes and publish those, and people said I would be in the morgue if I published them, but I did anyway. But yeah, Sridhara said "vote in more acharyas" which is why Jayapataka offered to make me the guru of Ireland, and he said the GBC had already conference phone call made me the acharya of Ireland. Sridhar started this whole 2/3 show of hands acharya voting, not Srila Prabhupada. Of course I told them I cannot be the guru, because none of us is authorized to take karma, for starters. I had to get someone to break into Hansadutta's safe to get the will, it was not available. 

So the GBC has been promoting this idea that Srila Prabhupada was unable to make clear orders, and we had to thus seek shelter of the founder father of the illicit behavior acharyas program of 1937, BR Sridhar. Incidently, when I was complaining about the child mistreatment, falling down gurus etc. the GBC plastered quotes from BR Sridhara in my face "none should protest." "The GBC gurus should be seen as absolute" etc. 

So in other words, my protesting child mistreatment was suppressed, never mind everything else. PremesharNitaiDas never tells us which GBC gurus objected to keeping Jayatirtha, which objected to comparing Jayatirtha to Mother Sita etc., he just says all this is all ancient history. Yeah but this is the foundation of the entire operation going on now? 

And he also cannot name anyone who is currently objecting to re-certifying Keshava Bharati, who is known to be a predator. He never names anyone who objected, evidently because there is none. He just says going to Sridhar is ancient news, nope, all the GBC reports and statements made then are still part of the GBC catalogue of documents NOW, standing as authorized documents NOW. Sridhar is the ghost writer of the GBC reports 1978, 1979, 1980 and partly later. None of this has ever been corrected. 

But yeah, Satsvarupa and other GBC kept saying, there is no clear order, we need to go to the Gaudiya Matha. And then me and Sulochana became targets for elimination when we began to publish the "unclear statements." Why do we need to be placed into the morgue for publishing the statements of the acharya? Prem prabhu never explains any of this. He just said we have anger issues, which means personal insult and not an answer. He would have failed my High School debates class, personal insult disqualifies a person and they would be booted off the platform. He does not even follow karmi etiquette for mature discussion. He cannot name anyone and he is upset I can name names. ys pd

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NEW DWARKA LOS ANGELES ISKCON

i lived inside the Los Angeles New Dwaraka temple from 1999 to 2002. And i was looking around and seeing many things that were off to what the Morning SMB classes were purporting. It was confusing, but i decided to last there i had to look away from certain things and i got used to doing that. i was thinking this is better than what is offered out there in the material world, so understanding that we are in Kaliyuga, i settled for what i could get. 

i remember senior devotees living in the temple were approaching me in inappropriate ways. Even one was approaching me with his wife, looking for a threesome. This devotee was a Prabhupada disciple, who gave SMB classes. Many devotees would sit on the Vyasana and giving SMB classes with very little realization it seemed, although they had been in the movement for around 30 years. anyway,i just tolerated. In 2002 i took initiation from one this guru was above all of them in their deviation's. 

Little did i know that he was even below them, (those who seemed off track to me). He was a good actor, pretending that he was a pure soul. Nope, he was a Pedophile and attended SRA Rituals, even right there across the alley from the temple -- the gurus were on Santa Monica Blvd. 

i am forever indebted to some devotees that stepped out of their comfort zones to tell me what was actually going on!!! At first i did not want to believe them, it was so bazaar and not imaginable so i did some digging and soul searching and found so many things i had been closing my eyes to were BIG RED FLAGS! I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THOSE DEVOTEES. my humble respects to you who knew and helped me!!!

*WISDOM ABOUT LOOKING THE OTHER way were recommending...i should have known better, but alas i did not. i was sure tha the Masonic LodER WAY WHEN YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS WRONG*

*These words were spoken by the great sage Kasyapa Muni to King Vidura* (from Sabha Parva, Section 67, Mahabharata)

He that knows the truth, but remains silent due to gain, anger or fear, casts upon himself a thousand sufferings. He who is witness by seeing or hearing, but does not speak up, casts upon himself a thousand sufferings.

In an assembly where a truly censurable act is not rebuked and allowed to occur, half the merit of that act goes to the head of that assembly, one fourth unto the perpetrator and one fourth unto each who witnessed the act. By their silence, they are considered to be of similar minds.

On the other hand, when the censurable act is rebuked, the head of the assembly and others in attendance are freed from all sins. Only the perpetrator of the act reaps the total merit of the act. Those who, upon being asked, decline to assist a wronged person will similarly be wronged.

Those who, when asked, lie to conceal a crime destroy the meritorious acts of their seven upper and seven lower generations. The grief caused by *loss of wealth, loss of a son, incurring debt, separation from one's companions, loss of spouse, losses due to government decisions, sterility, being attacked by a carnivorous animal such as a tiger, becoming a kept woman and loss of property as a consequence of false witnesses* have been said by the gods to be different sorts of merits of those who speak false or remain silent when they ought to speak.

*Therefore, he who knows, should speak the truth without concealment. The attached person's picture is the one that they all told me was the "BEST". Good Lord!

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WHAT IS ISKCON?

PADA: @Rob-g1q3d This is very confusing? Are we saying worshiping illicit behavior with men, women and children, and predators of minors with venereal disease as acharyas is "ISKCON"? Where does Srila Prabhupada or Krishna say this is ISKCON? And now, we should not publicly criticize worshiping illicit behavior with men, women and children, and predators of minors with venereal disease -- as acharyas -- we should allow children to worship such morally corrupt persons as -- God's successors?


Why do we want children to worship such odious things as "God's successors"? Yep. Why do we want to merge together illicit behavior with God and His successors? And we have to go public because if we go to a temple, they will call law enforcement to have us removed, or sue us etc.


Public expose is the only option. Not only that, a friend of mine who said he was going to go and meet them in private to discuss all this, was found tied up and un-alived a few days before the meeting. And even law enforcement said "this is an inside job." I thought this devotee has to go public for his own safety, and he would not, and then he ended up departed.


Sorry, going public is the best, and no question about it, safest approach. Not going public is a hazard to our well being. The only reason I am alive now is, my public stance is too well known and thus taking me out would be a huge liability, and that is what kept me from going down.


The FEDS wanted to move me to witness protection in Kansas, even they knew how hazardous this can be, hee hee. But Rob lost me when he could not answer my original point, why we should train people to offer bhogha to a predators of minors with venereal disease -- and he never answers. He thinks this is the ISKCON Krishna approves of? ys pd

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A GODDESS SISTER SPEAKS OUT

Shrimati Asta Sakhi Uvacha:

This (the banning of Lochan Ananda Dasa---see post below) is absolutely terrible.
I was with his Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada when we launched the BG As It Is with Macmillan in London in 1972. I know that my beloved Gurudev had his copiers like Pradjumna Das and others work night and day to have it printed with Macmillan for the Launch in London where all the main publishing houses The Radio and the Major newspapers like the Telegraph were invited . They all came and it was successful. But a rush meant there were some mistakes made by the copiers and also by Macmillan mainly spelling mistakes and general English mistakes.

SRILA PRABHUPADA did want it corrected . He made a statement at the launch when asked how he gave the translation from the sanskrit verse and Srila Prabhupada said I HAVE NOT GIVEN A WORD FOR WORD TRANSLITERATION from sanskrit to English as there is not enough words to English from Sanskrit. I have given a translation in English from Sanksrit as close to the realisation of the verse.
QUOTE.He gave his heart. I have just found out from Macmillan there could be a recording of this conversation in their archives. This will prove that the Transileration word for word that Jaya Adwaita Swami has done which he admitted to me is how he redid it and consequently changed every verse and some purports and is so not correct. I don't believe he did it maliciously he did it as a scholar and im sure he is remorseful about it I felt it at the time i spoke with him..


The GBC should be remorseful and do not seem to be . They have sold millions and I believe do not know how to correct it. Instead they have just banned an incredible disciple like Locanananda Das my Godbrother and will probably end up banning all of Srila Prabhupadas disciples as nearly all of them will want to come together to put it right. I hope the GBc hear this with honest hearts and bring us all together to correct it.
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LIFELONG SOLD-OUT DEVOTEE PIONEER GOT 20-YEAR BAN FROM PREACHING FOR OBJECTING TO THE CHANGE DISEASE GITA
If allowed to preach, he could have made a million devotees in that time.
From His Grace Shri Locan Ananda Dasa Prabhu
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If the GBC were to take another vote today on whether to make changes to the wording of the 1972 edition of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, they would likely approve those revisions by an even greater majority than they did before producing the 1983 edited version.

Srila Prabhupada was well aware of the weak-kneed decision makers he had to leave in charge of managing the society he had built from the ground up. He had struggled against the "change disease" and the tendency of certain disciples who sought recognition of their superior erudition and capabilities which challenged his authority. He was certainly praying to Krishna to enlighten his disciples and keep them on the straight and narrow path.

It is now nearly fifty years since Srila Prabhupada left this earthly atmosphere, and the leaders of ISKCON still have not developed a means by which other senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada may offer suggestions as to how the condition of the movement our spiritual master founded may be improved and restored to its former glory.

I personally became aware of the seriousness of changes that had been made to the Bhagavad-gita As It Is in 1985 and I voiced my disapproval. Each of us has experienced the "voice in the wilderness" phenomenon, and I held back from voicing any further comments for fear of reprisal which came anyway, along with a twenty year ban from giving classes or leading kirtana in my local temple.
A few months ago, I found a significant revision in "The Opulence of the Absolute", B.g. 10.38, which originally read, "Among punishments I am the rod of chastisement.." 

Much to my shock and dismay, I saw that "the rod of chastisement" had been removed from both the verse and purport in the 1983 edition. Then, even more shocking, I found that the publishers had also decided to omit the pictures of the predecessor acaryas that Srila Prabhupada insisted be included, namely, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, Srila Gaura Kisora Das Babaji Maharaja and Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode, "the pioneer of the program to benedict the entire world with Krishna consciousness."

Just as problematic was the deletion from the caption under the picture of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as the "greatest exponent of Krishna Consciousness in the Western world." Gone! The offenses are egregious, and there is little, if any, concern among the leaders and decision-makers about the effect these offenses are having on the cohesiveness of our devotee family. So, we should appeal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead to impart this message as the Lord in the heart, from deeply concerned godbrothers and godsisters who bear no malice towards them, that they must change course and show proper respect to the predecessor acaryas and to Srila Prabhupada who disallowed such editing based on the rule of arsa-prayoga.

IMAGE: Locanananda Prabhu heats it up at a Rathayatra long ago and far away that seems like yesterday!

SHRIMATI SUBHALAKSMI ON BOOK CHANGES AND VAISHNAVA BEHAVIOR

From Subhalaksmi devi dasi ACBSP Australia.

For anyone interested, here is what I posted. I have repeatedly and clearly stated that I do not support the book changes. I am however alarmed by hateful, extremist and fanatical comments calling for the torture and even death of Jayadvaita Swami. Some of the rhetoric is way over the top and I can't understand why any thoughtful devotee would think that Srila Prabhupada would be pleased by this behaviour.

I am not specifically referring to my senior godbrother Patita Pavana Das. Memes and posts about Jayadvaita Swami are now all over Facebook. Many, many "devotees " are piling on the hatred and ridicule, some in very self righteous and egotistical ways.

MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS ON ISKCON 2026.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald.
My relationship with ISKCON is complex. I clearly state that I am post ISKCON. I do not care for how the organisation has evolved in many ways and in no way am I under the jurisdiction of the GBC.

Still, I am friends with quite a few souls who are still active in ISKCON- even my godbrother Atmarama das who is part of the leadership team in Australia.

I admit, this is quite strange. This photo was taken 4 years ago. Atmarama is a very serious, sober man and the photo captures a certain underlying jubilance.
Prabhupada Castle, where I visited yesterday, is not under the jurisdiction of the GBC. (Thank goodness). 

I avoided going out on the days where 2 Swamis were prominent in the programs. My main purpose was to catch up with my godsisters Ambika and Rasarani devis who were visiting from up north.

I would like to say a few words about His Holiness Jayadvaita Swami. Many of my Krishna friends will know that he is under severe attack from many devotees for the thousands of edits he made to Srila Prabhupada's books posthumously.
However I believe the rhetoric has spiralled completely out of control. There are now memes and comments where certain devotees are speaking with great relish that Jayadvaita Swami will end up in hell, tortured by the Yamadutas ( agents of the God of Death.) 

Comments have included that he can look forward to being boiled alive in a vat of oil or being eaten alive by rats. I am not defending his "editing " activities. I am simply trying to point out that such fanatical, extremist and hateful comments do not become those who are striving to be loving human beings on the path to self realisation.

HARE KRISHNA!!
Subhalaksmi devi dasi.

PADA: Yeah for some reason she was friends with me but then took offense at something I said, or didn't say, not sure what, and she un-friended me. I think a lot of people are upset with the changes, the false gurus, the molesting, but they have not figured out a good way to challenge it. They tend to think my approach is too heavy handed. I get it.

Or they have sentimental attachments to the leaders, which is often the case. Sorry I offended you dear, but hey, we have not been able to please everyone, fer sure! But yeah, we should not make public calls for people to be executed, that is not a good look for the public. I agree we cannot be over the top in our public postings as a reaction. I am over the top for most people, but hey, there are people even more over the top than me, who knew! ys pd 

Dharmasangha // Truth is Emerging // Satsvarupa's Writings // GBC Authorized? ETC. 11 12 26

TYING UP GOD IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY TASK!

EVEN MOTHER YASODA WAS GETTING EXHAUSTED.

INCREDIBLE MERCY WE KNOW ANY OF THESE THINGS!

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https://www.dharmasanga.org/blog/form-and-substance/whose-side-are-you-on-the-institution-or-srila-prabhupada/?

R DASI [Truths are manifesting]: 

It feels like so many truths are coming out on so many levels the last few weeks. Like there’s some sort of frequency shift or something. Lies that have been upheld for years and years, crashing down. Secrets no longer secret. Justice finally being served. And rising from the ashes of all of this healing destruction, there is this magical sense of hope and excitement for a promising future. I’m here for it.

PADA: Well yup. Many people have told PADA that we are beating an old dead GBC horse. The GBC guru process is -- on the skids, has one foot in the grave -- the other foot in a bear trap, and is a bunch of old farts of dying corpses etc. -- and all the rest of these suggestions coming in. I get it. 

But I think R dasi is right, the old GBC guard is crashing, and yet there is hope for the future, and I'm here for it along with her. I think that the MAGA Oligarchs, Russia Oligarchs, and well as the old guard in Europe, and many other big and small programs are crashing too, along with the GBC guru oligarchs. Change is in the air and we need to take advantage of this place in time, it may not come again for awhile. I see lots of good changes happening all the time, and our process gaining gradually. 

A devotee told me after his three gurus blooped, the GBC told him it is the job of him, the disciple, to save his fallen gurus. "You have to perform sadhana and that will save your fallen gurus." Wow, the disciples have to save their GBC gurus, the gurus cannot even save themselves never mind others. 

He now believes the GBC system is cheating and does not promote bona fide gurus. He thinks Srila Prabhupada should have been his guru the whole time. But in Towaco and other temples there where he is, it is almost 99% Hindus who do not know or care what guru is worshiped there. 

He said -- ISKCON is sort of crashing on the beach and morphing into a Hindu temple program exclusively. Westerners are never going to come to a program where the disciples have to save their fallen gurus. Your guru is chasing women and intoxication, and your job is to perform sadhana to save him. Wait, the guru saves the sadhaka?    

 

The MAGA movement is crashing sort of for the same reasons. Their leaders are old and out of touch. Most MAGA guys are the retiring old timers, the baby boomers, who all voted for Ronald Reagan so they could have reduced "de-regulated" trade restrictions on China. Then China could transfer most, in some cases all of various sectors, of the USA manufacturing jobs and wealth over there. 

That would "off shore" our jobs, actually millions of jobs, and trillions of dollars of manufactuting income gone -- off shore -- over there. Their plan was called the "de-industrializing of the USA." Works great, for the communists in China, made them very wealthy and USA very poor and in debt.  

Now we have little manufacturing jobs left over here, and trillions in debt, all so the baby boomers could buy cheap shoes in Walmart. They were madly chasing after cheap-oh China made products, and had no concern that they were losing millions of jobs and trillions of dollars here. Well now that is all catching up to them. And the false gurus are catching up to ISKCON.

So what did the MAGA folks do to fix this? Elect a guy who will send all their farm workers, food production workers, construction job workers, food service workers, truck drivers, nurses etc, to -- Mexico, and bankrupt all sorts of small businesses especially farmers. So they just made things WAY worse for themselves. Now the farmers who voted for all this are crying about going bankrupted on TIK TOK. Well duh, you created all this mess because you voted for it! Just like the GBC votes for their bogus ideas.

ISKCON has done the same. They created all sorts of problems, and then made a moratorium on gurus, and that made their problems worse. The good news is, in both cases, the young people are getting tired of all this and they want these old timers to get out of office! Just retire already, before you blow up the whole planet!  

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  

PADA: This guy has to retire as well. Ukraine started with taking out 1,000 Russians a month, then to 2,000, 3,000 and on and on, and recently they have scaled up to 70,000 a month and they want to make it 30,000 a week, and they are gaining to that level. 

And they are making longer range weapons that can reach Siberia. Hard to imagine these noisy lawn mower motor drones are flying all over Russia and they cannot do anything. Oh look it is a cardboard and duct tape plane with a lawn mower motor, what can we do? 

I have seen videos of Russians throwing shoes at them. Oh great, Russia also shot down two of their own KA helicopters with their own air defense. They could not figure out if their own helicopter was not a cardboard and lawn mower motor plane?  

Yeah! That means, 70,000 fewer sniper guys shooting at old women collecting bread at the donation center. That is going to save lives! But he is another old fart out of touch guy who is doing more harm to Russia than anyone else. He is destroying himself and Russia, and causing havoc on the rest of the planet. He has to be part of the world of changes to stop all these old farts and get younger and more intelligent people in charge. He needs to join the GBC and retire on moratorium. Heh heh! ys pd 

If you want others to die, you might die yourself.

It is called karma. 

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SATSVARUPA WRITES WRONGS: 

THIS HAS BEEN EDITED PLEASE READ MORE ON WHAT I JUST FOUND.

Satsvarupa's mad art work:

Srila Prabhupada: "This is not a good style of painting. It is an artistic style for sense gratification only. I cannot encourage this style it should be stopped immediately. Paintings should be like the Deities, formal and worshipful. This type of painting is sentimental and not authorised. Paintings should be as our artists in New York are doing. Do not introduce any new styles." (Srila Prabhupada letter to Madhudvisa, 8 December 1973)

Satsvarupa's suppression of truths.

HERE IS THE EDIT I JUST ADDED BELOW

SDG Writings Excerpts: Here is Srila Prabhupada 1991

"So here I am, beginning another book about Prabhupada with a feeling of regret. Prabhupada should be the center of my life, but I continue to take his place…" 

August 16, 1991 Page 2, Week One from here is Srila Prabhupada

"A few years ago I asked Narayana Maharaja what he thought … Narayana maharaja encouraged me…" August 7, 1991

…" There is a danger of creating an illusory Prabhupada. It is all too easy to worship malleable Prabhupada, one who changes his orders to suit our own needs and deviations?…" August 7, 1991

"Occasionally I look at a random paragraph about Prabhupada in one of my own published books. Sometimes it looks wrong. Not quite wrong, but too colored for my own view of Prabhupada. I always regret seeing those things in print…" August 8, 1991

"Earlier in the dream, I was talking either with Srila Prabhupada or with devotees … I think my envy was manifesting in the dream when I was glad to see that the person being massaged was no longer Prabhupada…." Page 22, August 9, 1991

"… What if the disciple is not completely spiritual? Or the guru for that matter?…"

"… We read Krsna Book while the fire burned down in the fireplace. I confessed I battle constantly with doubts that Krsna-lila is mythological…" August 10, 1991

"…Thousands of devotees who never had much personal exchange with Prabhupada felt relief, when after his disappearance, there were no more secretaries to keep them out of his rooms or presence…." 

"My relationship with Srila Prabhupada is lifelong and solid, yet I still struggle with it, just as I struggle with my doubts about the Krsna Book stories. Although I am convinced that I love Prabhupada, I still confuse him with the "authority figure" who forced me into the US navy and who thought that writing poetry was for sissies. …

"… I am more afraid of my own possible deviations-seeing him as an ordinary man, minimizing him in some abstract way, not reading his books, leaving his movement - than I am of Prabhupada…" page 76

" Sometimes I imagine Prabhupada has come back for only one day and he has agreed to see me. Imagine inviting him to a secluded place in Ireland…" page 108

"Now Prabhupada is arriving, he pulls up in a big comfortable BMW…As I offer the arati articles, I feel rushes of emotion. Srila Prabhupada doesn’t have to read my mind; just by standing before him my activities since his disappearance – my attempt to become a guru and some of the excesses of that, my reading in Christian saints, my publishing my own books, my seeking lonely places, my hurts. He also sees my desire to serve him…" page 111

"… He cites prema-dhvani prayers and mangala-carana prayers " My dear boys and girls…He says that these young Irish devotees are also his disciples as long as they follow …He refers to corruption that has occurred in ISKCON since his disappearance. The references are indirect but we feel the weight of them…" page 112

" Should I ask him something as I used to? Is this the time to do it? Or should I wait? Remember Srila Prabhupada probably knows all about ISKCON. He didn’t come today to learn basic news but more to hear how you Satsvarupa das Goswami. … Page 116

"…Why do I aspire something more when I can’t even practice the preliminary stages? Can I ask questions of Narayana Maharaja when you’re not here? What do you want me to do?.." page 117

"After your disappearance I went along with the guru worship which our society now deems as a period of abuse to devotees and minimizing the central position of your Divine Grace. It would have taken great conviction of purpose to keep a humble course in defiance in those years, and I didn’t have such strong conviction to stand alone…" August 14, 1991 page 118

"… I stopped yesterday’s meditations when I got to the point of asking Srila Prabhupada questions. Again I don’t think I can fill in Prabhupada words in this imaginary dialogue" page 120

"…All things considered I want to please him and serve his purposes. I’m doing it to some degree behaving according to sannyasa dharma, writing books for those I initiate in his name…but I know I could do a lot better…" page 122

"…Even when he is here my rounds are not attentive. If he could teach us, by magic or blessing how to read his books once and for all… Should I ask about svarupa-siddhi and rasa? No, it’s premature. The origin of the living entity? He already told us…. he can see in my face that I didn’t turn out to be lie a pure devotee. . Page 126

"… While he speaks and drifts off, we are there with him. Now I am satisfied. Whatever problems I haven’t yet resolved in terms of how to get rid of anarthas and excess baggage and the vain glory of thinking myself special devotee – I know it will all work out in my remaining days…" page 130

" Tonight we read of Abhay’s initiation. I defend the Lilamrta’s presentation which only hints at the fact that Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura recognized Srila Prabhupa as an eternal great pure devotee even in the early years of Abhay’s household life…" page 134

"If the world leaders are not praising Srila Prabhupada and the authorized parampara, the "stand-ins" like me will have to do unto the world discovers that this the real responsibility of writers and readers." Page 139

"...Srila Prabhupada –you have to read his books to know him. Otherwise it is a bluff." I love Prabhupada and I talk about him". Moment to moment, his association is available. Why don’t you take it? What are the objections?

"He’s too repetitious."

"It’s too philosophical."

"My mind is too scattered."

"I’m not serious enough, what can I do?" Page 144

"…Shortly before the disappearance of his guru, Abhay wrote him a letter…" page 164

"… Gaudiya matha sannyasis moving into rooms rented from Abhay…"p 165

"Similarly if I want to compose Here is Srila Prabhupada, the I must keep my home base in ISKCON at Prabhupada’s lotus feet. "Don’t leave," Prabhupada requested. Stay in the fellowship of devotees." Page 171

"…One barrier is the resistance I have built up against reading his books. It’s just a bad habit…" page 176
"… Even as a businessman Abhay was spirited…"
"… Abhay went to their offices…"
"… When Abhay tried to start his own factory…"
"… It’s pleasing to see Srila Prabhupada in public like this, retaining his devotional composure …" page 183
"… Srila Prabhupada’s movement is one of self-sacrifice and the following of authority-
the previous acaryas, the sastra, and the present leaders…"???? Page 185

"…In his letter to Gandhi, Abhay called himself, "Your unknown friend..." Page 191

"…He wrote to all the leading politicians and to anyone who would listen. In one sense, the letters had little effect. But one effect it did have it did was to enable Prabhupada to focus all his energies as a preacher…" page 193

"…It’s embarrassing. What use is my attraction to truthfulness if all I can do is admit my anarthas, especially the anartha called pramada, inattentive chanting..." page 196

"…If I can overcome my lack of appreciation for the poetic metaphors the acaryas have used to describe Krsna’s beauty, then I too will one day appreciate seeing Krsna returning home after a day on Govardhana hill..." page 202

"… Also beauty is always incomplete until it is engaged in Krsna’s service. Krsna says that he is the strength of man when the man is "devoid of passion." We may become affected by the first "shock wave" when we see a woman "dressed to kill" But on second glance, we are not interested in becoming entrapped by her physical features…." Page 204

"I used top feel more the conflict between trying to be his disciples and trying to be guru. That was because there were excesses in the way we received grand worship befitting only Srila Prabhupada. I sometimes saw him as my rival. Still, I sometimes feel a tinge of jealousy when one of my disciples speaks on and on about all the realizations he is getting from his direct relationship with Srila Prabhupada. In the old days (1978-1986) we used to tell them, "Don’t jump over your spiritual master. You cannot have a direct relationship with Srila Prabhupada. You have to go through us." Now I encourage the differently, Srila Prabhupada…" page 211

"…And I always feel betrayed when someone decides to make a clean break with Krsna consciousness. So I think, "Why bother? Why be betrayed in the end by such a high percentage of those I accept for initiation?" But I keep doing it, Srila Prabhupada, out of my desire to serve you. Despite the argument, by those who say that us nobodies can’t be gurus, ISKCON is committed to continuing the parampara of diksa-gurus. It appears that this is supported by guru, sastra, and sadhu. We just have to somehow come up with the right attitude when doing it…."page 211

"… I can’t even imagine giving up the responsibility I owe to those I have already initiated. I took those disciples on behalf of ISKCON, as a servant of the movement. It keeps me in the camp. There are advantages to taking disciples, although these same advantages can become curses if they are not treated the same way. The guru is the representative of Krsna to his disciples. Therefore they want to please him and they do this by offering service and money.

"…Srila Prabhupada, it didn’t work when I tried to imitate you, when I tried to be for my disciples what you were for me in 1966. Now I’ve adjusted myself within the general reform in ISKCON. I also tried to bring about that reform. I now try to strike the profile of servant and friend to my disciples." page 212

"…I must search and learn – more microscopic honesty. So that you can see the difference between Prabhupada’s actual presence and my literary game…" page 236

"…He also teaches us to be patient with the dryness that comes due to all of our offenses…" page 252

" …He was dangerously old and not in strong health.. in America it would be different…" page 258

"… Madhu closed the book and looked up beaming," That’s fabulous!" Ganga dasa was smiling too. The best story, the very real and human story of Srila Prabhupada" page 259

"… He explains that we should never have deviated in any way. Did he ever deviate from the orders of his guru maharaja? Never. Why do we? The instructions are clear. Deviation means we are foolish rascals with desires other than service to guru. He means me. …" Page 261
ys yasoda nandana dasa

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Who Authorises the GBC, and Who Holds Them Accountable?

Governance in a posthumous Prabhupāda ISKCON

1. Doubt

Who authorises the GBC? Who holds the GBC accountable? And, now that Śrīla Prabhupāda is no longer physically present, who has the authority to correct, redirect or discipline the GBC when it fails in its responsibilities?

2. Thesis

The GBC is legally and institutionally bound by Śrīla Prabhupāda's instructions, his Will and the principles under which ISKCON was established. But who provides the living supervisory authority that holds the collective GBC accountable?
There is no living Prabhupāda-equivalent above the GBC who can intervene, correct its decisions and hold individual commissioners accountable.
The GBC has become the ultimate managing authority. But who holds that authority accountable?

3. Expansion: Why is this important?

During Prabhupāda's lifetime, he understood the importance of establishing a governing body that could manage the Society after his departure.
His own spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, had expressed regret that he had not established a GBC to manage the institution after his departure.
Prabhupāda took that lesson seriously.

He established the GBC, developed it, trained it, directed it, corrected it and repeatedly intervened in its affairs. He spent considerable time and effort trying to get the commissioners to cooperate and implement his instructions.
In his own words, managing the GBC was sometimes a headache.

There were disagreements, dissensions, failures to cooperate and instances of disobedience. Prabhupāda had to reprimand commissioners, remove individuals and reorganise the governing arrangements.

In other words, the GBC was not an automatically self-correcting institution. It required active supervision.

Now Prabhupāda is no longer physically present.

Who performs that supervisory function?

4. The original accountability mechanism

The Direction of Management (DOM), dated 28 July 1970, contained an important provision concerning the future selection of GBC commissioners.

It provided for Temple Presidents to elect commissioners for three-year terms, with the possibility of re-election. This created a mechanism through which the local leadership could participate in determining who represented them on the governing body.

Prabhupāda subsequently modified the appointment procedure in 1975, taking responsibility for nominating GBC members himself.

However, the March 1977 GBC minutes still document a collective review mechanism through which Temple Presidents could propose amendments to GBC decisions, with a two-thirds majority required to refer proposals back to the GBC.
This raises an important question:

Were these arrangements intended to ensure that the GBC remained accountable to the Society after Prabhupāda's departure?

And, if so, what happened to that accountability mechanism?

5. A practical example

Consider the current moratorium on initiations.

The GBC announces that initiating gurus cannot perform initiations between 1 

December and Gaura Pūrṇimā.

What happens if a guru disagrees? What happens if a Temple President disagrees and facilitates an initiation anyway?

What are the respective responsibilities, disciplinary procedures and consequences?

Who determines whether the GBC's decision is consistent with Prabhupāda's instructions?

And who holds the GBC accountable if its decision-making process itself is defective?

These are not merely theoretical questions. They concern the authority of individuals to perform their services and the ability of local communities to function.

6. The organisational problem

There is also a question about the actual distribution of authority within ISKCON.
The GBC is supposed to provide worldwide management and administration. Yet, increasingly, the distinction between spiritual leadership, managerial authority and local operational responsibility appears blurred.

Sometimes individuals simultaneously occupy several positions: GBC commissioner, initiating guru, sannyāsī, regional authority and temple leader.

Where does one responsibility end and another begin?

Who evaluates their performance in each role?

Who resolves conflicting instructions?

How long does it take to make decisions? How effectively are decisions implemented?

An organisation can have elaborate committees, ministries, regional structures and constitutional documents, but these do not automatically produce effective governance.

The head of an organisation needs clarity of purpose, responsibility and direction. When the governing authority itself appears confused about its mandate, the rest of the organisation inevitably experiences the consequences.

7. The fundamental question

I am an adult considering whether to participate in an organisation and potentially dedicate a significant part of my life to its mission.

I want to understand its authority structure, accountability mechanisms, decision-making processes and standards of leadership.

I want to know who authorises the governing body, who evaluates its performance, who corrects it when it makes mistakes and who has the authority to replace those who are not fulfilling their responsibilities.

I am not questioning the need for management. I am questioning whether the present management structure provides sufficient accountability.

The GBC was established to serve Śrīla Prabhupāda's mission and manage the Society on behalf of its members.

The governing body exists to serve the Society. The Society does not exist to serve the governing body.

So, who holds the GBC accountable?

And, looking at the present organisational structure, what institutional improvements can we identify that can assist ISKCON in functioning as a healthy, self-correcting and dependable spiritual society?

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DEVOTEES HAVE TO START REPORTING TO THE POLICE

PL: I am not fine with that... But what stops devotees who care from uniting and filing an official report with law enforcement about sexual abuse of children and women in ISKCON? Why hasn't it happened yet? There are hunters of pedophiles who are hardly waiting to track some of them.... Why do many of the victims keep quiet? Because they are afraid of ISKCON authorities? Who cares for them if they try to hide this... What can they do, proclaim the victims crazy? If a big enough number of victims step out officially, they are done

Guru Must be Mahabhagavat / Mukunda UK / MAGA / ISKCON Gay Marriage / ETC. 11 10 26

PADA: Wow, something we almost never hear in GBC ISKCON, yeah the guru cannot be an ordinary human being. No kidding! Someone told PADA they had to leave ISKCON because their guru kept complaining about how being a guru was such a dire painful burden, and he was exhausted from all the drama. 

And being a guru gave him "guru headaches." And taking karma was making the guru feel ill all the time etc. The devotee just got tired of hearing all the complaining. Why bother being pure when it is just a giant burden and headache? 

At different times he says his guru just sits in a room and does not allow any visitors so he can "recover." Well duh, he sits in a room and does not allow visitors so he does not have to answer all the questions -- why there are so many problems with these gurus. The real problem is -- there is no recovery, once a person takes a lot of sins without authority he has to suffer. And Bhakti Vikas says he now has to retire because of bad health. No kidding! ys pd 

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MUKUNDA UK (Prabhupadanugas EU / HKC Jaipur etc.)

MD: I will never understand their way of thinking, where someone picks and chooses – or how shall I put it – what they accept and what they reject from Krishna consciousness, or from Srila Prabhupada’s teachings, or from ISKCON’s history.

I’m thinking, for example, of how some people favour the original books, whilst others are either for or against fake gurus, and so on and so forth, but aren’t interested in anything else. I hope I’ve managed to put this across clearly.

By the way Prabhu, I agree with the children issue. I’ve read about the conditions in which the devotees and children lived, for example in New Vrindavan. In Henry Doktorsky’s post.

It’s appalling. In fact, they were just tormenting everyone especially children, in inhumane conditions, as they say. This whole movement has become a disaster since Srila Prabhupada left this physical body. And this was one of the worst examples. For anyone to say you are wrong to save children is diabolical, and only helps the people exploiting them. Which is their mission almost?

Countless lives have been ruined, many of them permanently, a number are dead, and so on and so forth. And even today they’re doing nearly the same exploiting, just on a more subtle level, or not quite so conspicuously.

Radhanatha and the other deranged gurus have helped make these problems.

PADA: Yes, these Mukunda guys made a video with Radhanath's defense team to oppose PADA. And Radhanath's fingerprints are on the money that was paid to Sulochana's hit man. These guys are allegedly promoting Sulochana, but also promoting the people who wanted him dead. They are not really for us, they are still compromised. It is amazing that they claim to be champions of Sulochana, while they wanted us to help them promote their hero savior Saint Radhanath's program. 

They were infuriated when I refused to help them promote Sulochana's hunting team leadership. For his part, Mathura Pati / Prabhupadanugas EU says he is promoting the Radhanath defenders team because "they oppose PADA." Wow, he admits he wants to be in bed with pedophile guru program folks in order to oppose the people promoting Srila Prabhupada? 

So yeah, a lot of them are ultimately compromised -- if not back door pedophile guru lovers, and that is why we had all these problems. But even today some of them still say yeah, we promoted pedophiles as gurus, and we were still right and the ritviks are still wrong. They cannot admit this is a deviation, because they are deviants.

I’ve just read that everything has been turned upside down at ISKCON in Vrindavan as well. This is due to that Sruta Kirti disciple of Srila Prabhupada—who is also said to be deranged—and his wife, who are, so to speak, running the Vrindavan temple or congregation from behind the scenes. The so-called ISKCON might as well shut down before it discredits itself completely. And it should be shut down, and the good news is, they are making a moratorium shut down themselves.

PADA: Yes, a lot of devotees are against certain points that are wrong, but they still defend other points that are just as wrong as well. It is called mixed devotional service. They cannot clean up the whole thing. But all of this rot would NEVER have happened without a lot of people supporting and defending it. 

The rank and file devotees should have stood up and resisted all this, and instead, most of them criticized me and defended the regime. And that is why it is what it is now. And for them to say -- we are for Sulochana, and we promote the cheer leaders of his hunting party -- is simply another example of the hypocrisy. That explains why we had to take the whole mob to court, these guys are not going to help us save these children, the courts had to do it for them. 

All of these above guys told me not to help Bangalore, who are the No. 1 people promoting ritviks. I forgot, they are with Saint Radhanath's people instead. Sorry, we placed our money on the Bangalore horse, and we are winning the race, at least in India. Better than anything these guys will ever accomplish.

ys pd

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HARIKESH SWAMI

Harikesha was removing all of my God brothers from ISKCON, including some of the most senior people who were leaders. The real problem then was -- that these senior people were often replaced with child predators, and that is how Harikesha created a massive child mistreatment program by getting rid of us "regular householders" and bringing in a group of predators to replace us. That created a situation where we had to help hundreds of victims sue ISKCON, for $3,000,000 and then $400,000,000. 

Notice that as soon as we began to put together the $400,000,000 case (1998) that is when Harikesa Swami blooped and left. He knew we were going to expose his program and its agenda and he wanted to bail out, and he did. He said oh yeah, we are going to lose in court, I better leave before they connect my name to this mess. He never contacted me because he knew I was leading this legal effort and he did not want to go on record saying anything about it to me. 

He was promoting all of this mess for decades and when the results were finally known, he abandoned ship. We knew the child mistreatment was going on in 1979, we were reporting it then, and that is why he and his group had us removed. And so many children suffered, actually probably thousands. ys pd *** Harikesh effectively left his leadership role in ISKCON in July 1998 after what ISKCON's Governing Body Commission (GBC) described as a serious physical and mental collapse. On July 14, 1998, the GBC announced that he had resigned from key positions, including the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust board, and stepped down from his responsibilities.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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MAGA MESS

Yep, the Texas farmers formed a Blue Coalition after they lost $100 billion from the tariffs and had to plow their crops under because MAGA removed all their tomato pickers. There was a carrot farmer who lost $240,000 after his 110 workers were removed by MAGA, and he had to plow his crop under and declare bankrupted. So they are trying to destroy America's agricultural business, and that us why the USA is now record number of importing food products. Did I forget to mention MAGA increased the price of fertilizer 300%? So they are going after the farmers and the farmers decided to stand up and vote against the people trying to bankrupt them, which should be expected? Who would vote for the people who want you to be bankrupted? ys pd

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BHAKTI VIKAS SWAMI RETIRES (Sort of)

Bhakti Vikasa Swami Announces He Will Reduce His Traveling and Establish a Base in Mayapur.

Published on Akincana Gocara on 6 November 2026

Bhakti Vikasa Swami has told his followers that his health has been declining, that most of his trips this year have been cancelled and that a facility is being set up in Mayapur for his writing and media work.

In a 15-minute video published on 2 November, the ISKCON sannyasi and guru, nearly 70, said he became quite sick after Rama Navami this year and "never really picked up after that." He named no diagnosis.

"Some days it's just difficult to get through the day. Just chanting my rounds takes all my energy," he said, adding that he now misses Mangala-arati most days.

He has spent most of this year at the ISKCON center in Vellore, South India, on Ayurvedic treatment monitored daily by his disciple and doctor, Keshavananda Prabhu. "That might be the position with me, or I could recover," he said, adding that he is confident he is "in the hands of Krishna."

The main announcement concerns his base. He said Hrsikesa Prabhu, who has worked on his media for 10 or 12 years by his estimate, is making a facility in Mayapur to bring the scattered BVKS Media team together and to support his health, talks and books. He hopes to travel more in future, but not as widely as he used to.

He answered in advance the objection that a sannyasi should not spend heavily on such a place. The facility, he said, is "not to facilitate my sense gratification," but to keep his "worn-out body" functioning for Srila Prabhupada's mission.

He said the work on his books and recordings will go on after he leaves this world, and asked devotees for their "blessings, appreciation and support." 

PADA: Oh great, going back home, back to Mayapur, main headquarters of the molester messiah's project. He is going where he belongs. Ill health from taking karma is taking a toll on these guys, have to say! ys pd

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ISKCON performs the first Hare Krishna gay marriage ceremony in Brazil

Published on Akincana Gocara on 3 August 2019

Verônica Monteiro, 23, and Tatiane Alves, 25, were married according to Hare Krishna rituals at the Bhakti Yoga House in Taubaté, São Paulo. According to the couple's testimony, this was the first homosexual couple to marry within the movement in Brazil.

"We married with the blessings of Krishna and the devotees," Verônica said, according to the Brazilian site Razões para Acreditar. The only earlier gay marriage within the movement that she knew of took place in Los Angeles in 2009, and it was not disclosed.

She told the Portuguese site dezanove that she wrote to people advanced in the movement, including Chandramukha Swami, a sannyasi and ISKCON spiritual master. He sent her several audios explaining how the movement sees marriage and same-sex relationships. "He told me that ISKCON was not ready to receive the marriage, but as God's blessings are important to any relationship, therefore, if we were sure about our feelings, then we should go to the Brahmin priest Rama Putra and talk about the ceremony."

"We are very grateful to all who helped us, devotees, parents, priest and Maharaj Chandramukha Swami, who is now my spiritual master and has given us his blessings," she said.

The Bhakti Yoga House is not an ISKCON temple. It is a place for a programme organised by an ISKCON devotee, Narada Muni Das, which the official page of ISKCON Brazil has advertised on Facebook. Hridayananda Dasa Goswami was then serving as the GBC for Brazil.

Photos of Chandramukha Swami and Hridayananda Dasa Goswami, not taken at the ceremony.

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An Unhappy Diwali

I don’t know how you usually celebrate this festival of hope — when everyone remembers the return of Lord Rama and Sita.

But here in ISKCON Vrindavan, this Diwali broke many hearts. Our leadership decided that HG Mukunda Datta Prabhu’s service as Head Pujari was no longer needed. And somehow everything was presented — delegation, younger generation, new leadership.

But does it not matter who is actually influencing these decisions? Of course our great Shrutakirti Prabhu and Vishakha. Does anyone seriously believe that this couple is qualified to make decisions, manage, and influence the life of the all Deity Department in ISKCON Vrindavan?

Seriously? We have personally watched this situation for a year. We have seen how people are treated. And honestly, we saw nothing divine in it. Even not business objective can justify treating devotees this way. If this is acceptable to our management— fine. Live with it. But please do not call it Krishna consciousness.

And do not present it as the mood of Srila Prabhupada. There is a difference - big difference between this type of politics and real Krishna consciousness in Srila Prabhupada mood. And more and more devotees understand that difference very clearly. So I want to say one thing to everyone reading this:

Before you give your time, trust, resources and life to service under this couple — think carefully. Especially when the names of Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships are used. One thing I know: Srila Prabhupada would never have treated a devotee this way. Never!!! 

And no matter how much someone tells us about how much time they spent with Srila Prabhupada — that is Srila Prabhupada’s glory, not theirs. To treat a devotee who represents Guru-tattva this way… During Kartik month.

On Diwali. In Sri Vrindavan Dhām… I have never felt so ashamed of what I am witnessing. The attack on Guru tatwa in ISKCON continues ...

Where will this lead our society? Who will protect our Deity Department from this Ravana’s mood influence? Let’s express our endless gratitude to Mukunda Datta prabhu in the comments.

#iskcon #iskconvrindavan #guru #vrindavan #radharani 

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RUSSELL BRAND

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of r-pe and three counts of sexual assault, bringing a dramatic conclusion to one of the most high-profile criminal trials involving a British entertainer in recent years.

The 51-year-old comedian, actor and former television presenter was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday, 9 November 2026, four days after a jury found him guilty of offences involving four women.

Brand, who had denied the allegations, was convicted following a four-week trial. The jury also acquitted him of two further r-pe charges and one count of attempted indecent assault.

The offences for which he was convicted took place between 2004 and 2009, when Brand was establishing himself as one of Britain's most recognisable entertainment personalities.

His career began in stand-up comedy before he became a prominent figure on MTV, Channel 4 and BBC Radio. Known for his flamboyant appearance, outspoken personality and controversial humour, he went on to achieve international recognition through films including Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek and Arthur.

He later moved away from mainstream television and film, building a substantial online audience through political commentary, discussions about addiction, spirituality and criticism of established institutions. However, his public career came under intense scrutiny in September 2023, when an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches brought allegations of sexual misconduct into the public domain.

The Metropolitan Police subsequently launched an investigation, interviewing witnesses, examining historical records and gathering evidence relating to allegations dating back many years.

According to police, detectives spoke to more than 100 witnesses, obtained over 400 witness statements and examined more than 1,400 documents while building their case. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Brand had exploited his growing celebrity status to gain access to women and sexually assault them.
Following his conviction, David Roberts, a senior Crown prosecutor, said: "Russell Brand was predatory and used his celebrity status to commit sexual crimes. He was a manipulator with an insatiable desire to get what he wanted regardless of whether consent was given or not."

The prosecution maintained that Brand's fame and influence played a significant role in his offending, while the women involved described the lasting consequences of their experiences. One conviction concerned the r-pe of a young woman who had met Brand following a stand-up performance in 2009. The other three involved sexual assaults in circumstances connected to his growing entertainment career.

The sentencing hearing heard accounts of the psychological harm experienced by the women, including anxiety, distress and the difficulties of seeing Brand continue to appear in public life. Brand had maintained during his trial that he was innocent of the criminal allegations, although he acknowledged aspects of his previous sexual behaviour.

Following the guilty verdicts on 5 November, he was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/11/09/russell-brand-dr-oz-consent-joke-maha-summit/

ISKCON Bombay Suspends Gurus / Bangalore ISKCON 11 07 26

 

Russell Brand // Mirror UK // De Facto Ritvik // India Heritage Boston etc. 11 06 26

Yep, people are having a field day with the 

"suspended Guru" issue.

The memes are everywhere. 

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RUSSEL BRAND: ABUSERS AND THE ABUSED

PADA: Someone said there are a lot of photos of him with ISKCON people like Radhanath, and it is going to come back to bite ISKCON for promoting this fellow. I dunno, let's hope not. I mean how much worse can the name of ISKCON be? 

But if this guy is a predator, while preaching heavy duty against the globalist women and children children trafficking and exploiting society, that would really be a lot of hypocrisy. He is a very clever and convincing speaker, and I can see how so many people would easily accept him as a champion of the down trodden and even a sincere spiritual seeker. It is unfortunate ISKCON is now connected to his legacy.

In any case, if he goes to prison, the prisoners are not going to be kind to him, that is for sure. I don't envy his situation at all, for one who has been honored, infamy is worse than death. True dat! The good news for PADA, we were never really put on a very high official position or pedestal, so we really have no got far to fall back down to. We are still taxiing the runway, so our crashing won't be a big crisis.  

On the other hand, his arrest has inspired other victims of other cases to come out of the woodwork, so maybe this will overall have a healing impact. Whole thing is sad, he comes to Krishna, sort of, and ends up with Saint Radhanath. Sheesh pilgrims! 

Anyway now he really has time to repent and think about what he is doing with his life, and let's hope he makes better choices. I think the Russell Brand legal issue has been going on for quite awhile, and therefore have confidence the courts did their homework on his case. But still the whole thing is sad, he could have been a good advert for Krishna, then he ends up being the worst. ys pd  

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The Mirror [UK]

Sadly, every time another famous person faces serious allegations, whether it’s Russell Brand, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Huw Edwards or someone else entirely, I recognise the same public conversation.

The names change. The emotions rarely do. Warning: Sensitive content. 

As someone who gave evidence in the Rolf Harris trial, I know just how difficult it is to speak out against someone the public admires. I also know why so many people struggle to believe it could possibly be true. People often ask why women wait so long to come forward.

I’ve come to believe we’re asking the wrong question. The better question is this. Why is it still so incredibly hard to speak in the first place. 

I didn’t come forward because I wanted attention. I came forward because I watched an interview with one of the young women Rolf Harris had abused.
She was only 14 years old when he assaulted her, and I knew she wasn’t lying.
I came forward for her. I came forward for the other women. And I’d do it again in a heartbeat. 

For a long time, I couldn’t understand why so many people called us liars or accused us of wanting money. There wasn’t any money. There never was.
We wanted justice. Looking back now, I don’t think it was only the victim / survivors who had a journey to make. The public did too.

When someone has entertained you for decades, you’ve welcomed them into your home through your television, you’ve trusted them and admired them, discovering that they may have abused that trust is incredibly confronting. People weren’t just losing a celebrity. They were losing someone they thought they knew.

That doesn’t excuse victim blaming. It never will. But understanding it has helped me stop carrying the anger I once felt towards people who couldn’t believe us.
Eventually I realised they weren’t asking the same question I was.

I was asking, “Why don’t they believe us.” Many of them were asking themselves, “How could someone I trusted possibly have done this.” Those are two very different questions. [Suzi Dent, who bravely gave evidence against sex offender Rolf Harris.]

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DE FACTO RITVIK

PADA: Trvrikrama swami was yelling and shouting at the other GBC at the 1990 GBC meeting. He said -- making all these "ISKCON laws" that apply to us gurus, such as financial accounting disclosures, making us sign an oath of allegiance, monitoring our correspondence with disciples etc. is "de facto ritvik." It is like the Council of Churches that makes the priests do the same thing, sign an oath to the Church and submit financials. And he is right, the rules the GBC are making for their gurus are the same type rules the Church applies to priests. Therefore it is ritvik de facto.

At the same time, Trivrikrama complained, a few GBC elite people like Jayapataka are not monitored by anyone, so he is more or less absolute. Trvikrama said the good old boys network of original 11 have different rules than us newcomers. So he was saying, the old guard have no rules and we have all the rules, thus it is a double standard. I think he is correct. There is good news, after awhile Trivrikrama was having an affair with a woman disciple and the GBC told him he has to cut that out, or wear white. Eventually, due to GBC pressure, he had to stop being a sannyasa. But some of his disciples from Eastern Europe told me, he was being very secretive for a long time and he was hiding the affair.

Which makes us ask, what kind of acharyas are having secret affairs with disciples? But this was causing a lot of confusion and infighting among his people because some supported him even when he was fallen. A bunch of people left after he blooped out. That is why Badrinarayan wrote a paper in 1982, the disciples should be considered the property of Srila Prabhupada, so when the guru bloops, the followers will stay. His paper was never accepted.

By the way Trivrikrama saw me at Rathayatra and he said "Holy h*ll, you are not six feet under, you are still walking around on the surface of the earth, why are you not six feet under in the graveyard"! So he was very disappointed their enforcer teams had not put me in the grave. What kind of acharya wishes others to be -- in the grave?

And Trivrikrama's buddy Ravindra Swarupa said the same type things, we are trying to restrict our acharyas -- but we cannot get Kirtanananda to do anything we say. He operates outside our authority. Hansadutta said the same type thing, a committee of defective people cannot make rules for an acharya, the whole idea is ritvik-diculous.

So now they are going to make a committee to consider the role of Srila Prabhupada and making him "more central," which is what they have been saying since the 1980s. But that never seems to happen. In any case, making Srila Prabhupada central and making the GBC agents or proxies, is also the ritvik idea. They also said we need to emphasize shiksha over diksha, again, making leaders into shiksha agents of the acharya is the ritvik idea.

But if we are going to have a threadbare theological re-make, we have to go back to ALL their previous papers and documents and sort through all the false statements. For example -- Gaura Govinda Maharaja's 1988 "Guru Tattva" paper said -- gurus can become asuras, and "hopelessly entangled in sense gratification." They never explain how the residents of Krishna loka are sometimes fallen and even asuras. And how is fallen Jayatirtha the Maya Jayatirtha, just like the real and false Mother Sita. What does Mother Sita have in common with intoxicated womanizers. What about the 1980 "The Mahajanas Have Difficulties." Or in 1978 BR Sridhar is our seniormost advisor, but then in 1982, he is a rascal and no one can visit him.

Instead of explaining all this, they just make another pile of new documents which are full of even more mis-statements and falsity, never correcting all the previous document's mish mash. I think it is finally time to say, a person who needs to be monitored by the Church Council, who needs to sign and oath and submit financials, is not Jesus. 

He is a conditioned soul priest, and therefore -- the ritvik idea is the only idea that is going to work. And that is why Srila Prabhupada ordered it. Making more rules and by-laws will never change the essential fact, a conditioned soul cannot take the post of acharya, and no amount of reams and reams and piles and piles of GBC rationalizing documents is ever going to change that fact. They need to make ritvik official. And if they don't, ISKCON will continue to spiral down in public and devotee opinion, and it will fade off into insignificance which it has been doing since 1978. ys pd

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INDIA HERITAGE BOSTON

Śrīla Prabhupāda’s System of Initiation | Ritvik Harināma Dīkṣā Ceremony

On Sunday, October 11, 2026, six devotees received initiation at Sri Sri Radha Damodara Mandir in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Of these, three received Harināma Dīkṣā and three received Brahminical initiation.

The ceremony was conducted on behalf of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda, the Founder-Ācārya of ISKCON, in accordance with the ritvik system of initiation outlined in his July 9, 1977 letter. The devotees took sacred vows and received their spiritual names, marking an important milestone in their spiritual journeys.

“Initiation means you agree to enter the world of enlightenment.”

— Śrīla Prabhupāda, lecture in Los Angeles, December 13, 1968

May this sacred new beginning inspire deeper surrender, sincere chanting of the Holy Names, and a lifetime of loving service to Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Damodara.

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BHAKTI CARU SWAMI SPEAKS

"Like in 1987, although we had a reform, after so many gurus fell down, there was a fifty man committee was formed, and there was reform; it was not actually, at least my perception is that it was not actually a reform. It was kind of watering down the same misconception and continuing. Like what we did was we appointed some more gurus and opened up the world for anybody to initiate wherever he wanted. Whereas previous to that it was a kind of zonal acarya. So that I think is the main mistake where we started, that took place after Srila Prabhupada's disappearance that has never been properly rectified. [...] Yes, I agree, to begin with, I think at the beginning I said our main problem was introducing a defective initiation system. 

And that defective system may have been watered down to some extent but it's still prevailing. After Harikesa fell down in 1998, in 1999 I proposed that it's obvious that we are going in the wrong direction. Now, when you go wrong, when you know you're going in the wrong direction, what do you do? You stop to find the right way. So for the time-being, let's stop giving initiation and find out what actually the problem is and what is the solution to this problem, whether we can find a solution and until then, let us stop." (Bhakti Caru Swami, Toronto Meeting, July 20th 2003)

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FEMALE DIKSHA GURUS

ISKCON Gurus Urge the GBC Not to Force a Decision on Female Diksa Gurus

Published on Akincana Gocara on 21 October 2026

As the GBC devoted the second and third days of its 2026 Midterm General Meeting at Govardhan Eco Village to Vaishnavi diksa-gurus, two senior sannyasis and disciples of Srila Prabhupada addressed its members directly. Bhakti Raghava Swami wrote to GBC members in a letter headed "GBC/FDG October 2026", and Bhakti Vikasa Swami recorded a four-minute video message. Both ask the GBC not to force a decision. Neither had been published before; Akincana Gocara reproduces both in full.

Bhakti Raghava Swami, who says leaders of the India Continental Committee and the India Bureau asked him to take part in the meetings, writes that the GBC "as a whole" has "failed to take up seriously Srila Prabhupada's 50 percent mission, that of establishing Daiva Varnasrama Dharma", and that without that foundation its members are "recklessly tampering with" a principle concerning women that he regards as primary, not secondary, instruction. "When there is a clear majority opposition again and again voiced by the leaders in Bharat, as well as others around the world, it is wise not to force this issue and best to give additional time," he writes. "History has shown that within other major religious organisations premature decisions on crucial matters have had devastating effects."

Bhakti Vikasa Swami says in his video that a Mayapur resolution calling for guru-tattva to be thoroughly discussed before any change "was jettisoned", and that the GBC instead decided there had been enough discussion. He argues that the Sastric Advisory Council's research was "seriously flawed", that its flaws were never acknowledged, and that "to those who think that there is a strong case for instituting FDGs, you are highly likely to be seriously misinformed." Members, he says, "need to take the time to thoroughly, openly and honestly address all the pros and cons."

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