Madhu Pandit Legal Fix / Krishnafiles / Sundar Nitai / Natali / Donkey Urine 11 03 26

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SOLUTION FOR MADHU PANDIT'S LEGAL TROUBLES?

PADA: Yep prabhu, Madhu Pandit evidently just got a a free pass in the courts because the GBC just now admits their leaders are not submitting proper financials. All he has to do is show the proof the GBC have crooked financials -- is submit their own statement. We are crooks and we admit. 

Of course what happened to all the multi-millions already siphoned off and lost by the GBC gurus since 1978? We should raise a counter claim, correct. 

I mean for example after Hansadutta shot up downtown Berkeley here, including taking out giant car dealerships windows, then the temple ended up paying all his lawyers, legal bills, fees, court costs, fines and replacing the windows. A devotee told me that cost over half million dollars. 

Why was this expenditure authorized by the GBC, and who is going to pay back the temple for all this loss? Is the GBC EVER going to pay it back? And that is one of thousands of illicit expenses they incurred. I do not see any of this ever being recorded properly, never mind not being paid back -- anywhere? Yeah show us your financials, about time!  

Hee hee, yah. ys pd

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OMG Pilgrims! Lots of links to PADA here. 

ISKCON court filings, CPO rulings & letters | The Krishna Files

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SUNDAR NITAI DASA

ISKCON, the Direction of Management and Institutional Accountability

Anyone is free to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, establish a temple, hold classes, attract followers, become a guru and initiate their own disciples. Nobody needs the GBC's permission to do any of these things. You can establish your own spiritual organisation, develop your own community and operate according to your own management structure.

However, if you want to operate under the ISKCON name, represent ISKCON and use its institutional identity, then you are participating in an organisation established by Srila Prabhupada, with a specific system of management.

So what is that system?

Srila Prabhupada provided a written document called the Direction of Management, outlining how his society was to be administered. This is an essential reference point for understanding the institutional structure he established. The GBC's responsibility is to oversee the society in accordance with the founder's instructions. It is not an independent authority with the freedom to replace the founder's management structure with something of its own making.

The GBC members are entrusted with executing Srila Prabhupada's will, not creating a new institutional structure according to their own preferences.
This raises a fundamental question: if the GBC itself departs from Srila Prabhupada's documented management instructions, on what basis does it claim to represent his institution?

The same standard applies to everyone, including the GBC. You cannot demand that individual devotees represent the ISKCON brand faithfully while exempting the very people responsible for managing that brand from the founder's instructions. If the management structure has been changed, the question is whether those changes are authorised by Srila Prabhupada's instructions or represent a departure from them.

ISKCON is Srila Prabhupada's institution. Its management is a responsibility entrusted to representatives, not ownership transferred to them.

So let me ask a few questions.

Did Srila Prabhupada want the Direction of Management attached to each centre? Yes. Was he disappointed when this was not done? Yes. Did he subsequently write a letter emphasising the urgency of implementing his management directives? Yes.

Did Prabhupada ever issue a written instruction withdrawing the Direction of Management or stating that it was no longer to be implemented? No.
Did he have to make adjustments and reiterate his instructions because his disciples had failed to implement them? Yes.

So on what evidence do you conclude that Prabhupada did not want the Direction of Management implemented, or that he would not want it governing the society he established? Where is that instruction? How can you conclude that he intended a completely different management structure when his own written instructions point to the contrary?

I cannot reach that conclusion from the evidence. Can you?

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BV PURI

November 1, 1977: On or around this date in history 49 years ago, 

Bhaktivaibhava Puri Maharaj (1913-2009), the Founder of Sri Chaitanya Chandra Ashram in Puri, visits his ailing godbrother, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, at Krishna Balaram Mandir. He remembers,

I asked, “Maharaja, you have established eleven gurus. There is no harmony. This can be no harmony. Guru must be one. You have selected eleven gurus.” He said, 

“I have not selected [eleven gurus]. I have appointed eleven ritviks.” I said, “Ritviks, as long as you survive, they are ritviks. After your demise they are gurus. And unless guru blesses a disciple to sit on the throne and continue this service, he cannot survive. He cannot sit then. He must go [fall] down. And that sure it is happening now.”

Then he [Prabhupada] said, “What shall I do now? What shall I do now? . . . I have done my duty. Now the rest depends upon the Lord. What can I do?” . . . Then he stopped discussion. So it was not under his control in the last moment.
For more, see Eleven Naked Emperors, p. 60.

http://henrydoktorski.com/11NakedEmperors.html

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NATALI RAW

WE ARE NOT F**KED BECAUSE THE WORLD IS EVIL. WE ARE F**KED BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO TOLERATE EVERYTHING.

PADA: Yep, ten thousand times various devotees told me, we have tolerate all the banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders because "I have to chant some japa now." Oh swell! 

Think about how much absolute bullshit humanity has been conditioned to accept as normal. We have been taught to tolerate exploitation, corruption, manipulation, disrespect, abuse, and the slow destruction of our own freedom, health, and dignity. And somehow, we have been convinced that accepting all of this makes us mature, civilized, understanding, and evolved.

Governments take more of our money while ordinary people struggle to survive. Corporations profit from selling us products filled with poisonous chemicals, while the responsibility for protecting our health is pushed back onto us. People spend most of their lives working jobs they hate, barely earning enough to live, and are told to be grateful for the opportunity. We are expected to accept it, adjust to it, and keep functioning like obedient little machines.

And this conditioning doesn’t stop with governments or corporations. It follows us straight into our homes, families, friendships, and relationships. We tolerate disrespect because we don’t want conflict. We tolerate betrayal because we have history with someone. We tolerate manipulation because we have been taught to understand everyone’s trauma while completely abandoning ourselves. We tolerate selfishness, dishonesty, emotional abuse, and people crossing our boundaries because saying NO has somehow become more offensive than the behavior we are refusing to accept.

We have become so obsessed with being tolerant that we have forgotten how to be intolerant of what destroys us. And that’s the real genius of this conditioning. You don’t need to physically enslave people when you can teach them to accept their own exploitation. You don’t need to silence everyone when you can convince them that speaking up is rude, selfish, aggressive, or inappropriate.

Every time we say “that’s just how things are,” every time we look the other way, every time we swallow our anger and convince ourselves something isn’t worth confronting, we help keep the very conditions we complain about alive.

There is a massive difference between accepting that something exists and agreeing to live under it. But somewhere along the way, humanity confused tolerance with virtue, obedience with peace, and silence with wisdom.
Not everything deserves understanding. Not everything deserves another chance. Not everything deserves our patience, acceptance, or cooperation.

Some things deserve rejection. Some people deserve to lose access to us. Some systems deserve to be challenged rather than endlessly accommodated.
And maybe the most dangerous lie we have ever swallowed is that being a good human being means learning to tolerate more and more bullshit.

Look where that has gotten us.

We didn’t lose our freedom, dignity, and self-respect all at once. We surrendered them one small compromise at a time. And the moment we stop tolerating what is destroying us is the moment we begin taking our power back.

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𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆

— Siddhānt Vāṇī

Śrīla Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmī, while admonishing the mind in Manaḥ-śikṣā, says:

are cetaḥ! prodyat-kapaṭa-kuṭināṭī-bhara-khara-
kṣaran-mūtre snātvā dahasi katham ātmānam api mām?
sadā tvaṁ gāndharvā-giridhara-pada-prema-vilasat-
sudhāmbhodhau snātvā svam api nitarāṁ māṁ ca sukhaya

[Even after subduing enemies such as lust, anger, and so forth, one must still be instructed on how to conquer the great enemy of duplicity. O wicked mind! Even while following the path of devotional practice, you consider yourself purified by bathing in the flowing urine of a donkey—the urine of abundant, conspicuous duplicity and crookedness. Yet, through this, you are burning yourself, and you are burning me, this insignificant living entity, as well. Just see—do not act in this way! Instead, immerse yourself in the ocean of nectar that is the divine love for the lotus feet of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Yugala. By bathing in that ocean, make both yourself and me eternally happy.]

I derive great pleasure from bathing in the urine of the donkey of duplicity—a substance that is exceedingly foul-smelling, utterly undesirable, and most abominable, being the very embodiment of crookedness.

Why did Śrīla Gosvāmīpāda compare duplicity to donkey's urine? The reason is quite evident. A foolish donkey, even when provided with excellent objects of enjoyment loaded upon its back, is unable to enjoy them. Ultimately, all it receives is nothing but exhausting labour and punishment from its master.
Similarly, those who adopt duplicity and live by the external appearance of sādhus, while merely posing as devotees, display tremendous exertion in service with the desire to obtain money , women, and prestige from Hari, Guru, and the Vaiṣṇavas. Yet, in the end, they are simply deprived by Bhagavān Himself. Despite receiving all these Material facilities from Hari and Guru, such enjoyments ultimately become causes of terrible suffering, for:

ye hi saṁsparśajā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva te

“Indeed, the pleasures born of contact with the senses are verily sources of suffering.”

I, too, have been deceived in this very manner. Instead of receiving mercy that genuinely nourishes the soul, I have received only deceptive mercy. Just as a donkey remains perpetually deceived, I, too, have been turned into a donkey by māyā. By granting me the very things I falsely desired, she has diverted me away from the realm of service.

I accepted donkey-like personalities as my ideals. Consequently, I am now compelled to bathe in the urine of the donkey of duplicity and thereby burn my very existence.

Śrī Ācāryapādapadma continually inspired me to bathe eternally in the nectarean ocean of the congregational chanting of Kṛṣṇa's holy names. Yet I chose instead the stream of urine in the form of duplicity, which is even more dreadful than the river Vaitaraṇī [ that flows in Hellish planet].

Even the thought of how I might destroy this duplicity fills me with fear. Whenever I attempt to abandon my deceitful conduct, my other deceitful companions lead me back into this urine-filled stream.

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RUSSIA MANPOWER LOSSES

BA: Today is 3-11-2026. The price Putin has to pay for invading Ukraine is ...1,592,770 -- dead soldiers + 2,500 today. I feel bad for the families because now the male leader of the family is gone, forever.

Not including! The already 1,500,000 men who left in disgust with this war, and fled the country for good. They have destroyed Russia's family culture by making is a man-less society.

PADA: Wow pilgrims, those young Ukraine women with .308 sniper rifles are doing quite a powerful job. Sheesh! I saw a gruesome video where dead Russian soldiers are being eaten by packs of dogs. Why are ANY men still signing up? Ukraine is getting closer to their goal, they said they wanted to take out 3,000 men a day and it is getting closer to that.

We are killing you with love.

OMG pilgrims. 

He is "Putin's Brain" chief advisor.

Some comments on his video?

He is a mass murdering psychopath!

Sounds great, we love you, so we have to kill you.

For the greater good!

Sounds like some GBC leaders?

Where do I sign up?

Nail in GBC Coffin? // Ramesvara // Gurukula Mess // Swarup Damodar // ETC. 11 01 26

Just surrender to Me.

Your endless rotating in different bodies ends.  

Any questions?

FINAL NAIL IN COFFIN?

PADA: Thanks prabhu, yes the GBC making a moratorium on their own diksha gurus giving initiations seems like "the last nail in the coffin." Could be. Certainly not helping their case. 

But they are asking their gurus for financial disclosures and and oath of allegiance to the GBC, which means some of the big guru guys might resist, and bail out and start their own operations, if they are not threatening to do that already. It is a sign that they are having internal conflict problems keeping everyone marching in step. No doubt some of them will resist being managed and controlled by the rest of the GBC.

As for your question is Bhakti Chaitanya swami gay? I dunno, but some woman wrote to tell me I made a huge error saying maybe 50% of them are, and she says it is more like 95%. But yeah, there seems to be a lot of support for the homosexual agenda, and that is why nearly the whole gang was so highly supportive of Kirtanananda, who was always surrounded by lots of boys and even some media people told me he is a homosexual pedophile just by external appearances with all those boys. 

But none of the other leaders saw that, or else they knew all along and they supported the agenda? It is hard to say, but yeah you are correct, if ISKCON was hijacked by the gay agenda, that means everyone else was too weak or compromised to oppose them. So in that sense, the rank and file were weaker than the gays. 

OK that does make sense. I fully agree, if the gay pride parade enters and hi-jacks your Church, and makes some gay person the next messiah, and everyone acquiesces, then your Church was not on a very solid footing in the first place. Nor did your Church have any clear idea who and what is a messiah, from square one. 

But to sum up, no this is not the final nail in the coffin, but it is coming close to it. Their empire is in decay, it is rotting from inside out, and that has become self evident to a lot of people, including many of their own people. Time is not on their side. Time is on ours, we are gaining and they are slipping. 

I always have to pinch myself whenever I wake up and ask -- is this a dream, or did you really spend much of your adult life trying to establish that a homosexual and pedophile guru cult -- are not -- the bona fide successors to God's parampara? I have to slap myself in the face and say, "Silly you, you came to desire living in Kali Yuga, thinking this is going to be like eating a piece of cake, it is more like eating a piece of a rotten shoe someone found in a dumpster." Hah hah! 

The thing I have learned from all this is, my job is to surrender to whatever happens and try to understand it is not my job, or my capacity, to ask Krishna why He does this or that, or why He allows this or that, or why He gives me odd jobs around His universe. He is after all, the giant boss of the whole thing. I just have to be patient and roll with it. If He makes me the junkyard dog, then I have to grow up and accept, not my capacity to change His operating system. He is the boss, I am His junkyard dog, I am stuck barking in His junkyard, and I have to begin to accept and realize it. ys pd

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RAMESVARA PIPES UP

PADA: @robertgrant3088  Yeah I personally know the former 13 years old gurukuli child Robert Grant was "dating." And she has suffered her whole life as his victim. And she has all sorts of financial and physical problems now and no one from ISKCON cares or helps. And she is one of thousands of gurukuli victims, and that is why we had to sue his program for $3,000,000 and $400,000,000. 

And his program lost both times. The person should never be lecturing anyone on spiritual affairs, when the children in his program are MASS severely mistreated, so much so the court said this is the worse child mistreatment EVER RECORDED in the Dallas courts. 

Ramesvara made predators into acharyas, and children suffered and still are suffering, and his program does nothing to help their victims. And no one would have ever helped them if we had not made these lawsuits. Predators of minors are not acharyas, full stop period. Did I forget to mention Ramesvara helped get rid of my friend Sulochana by helping the New Vrndavana hunting party, and then they came here to hunt me -- and I was saved by the FEDS? Why is this person lecturing the hunted when he was in the hunting helper party? ys pd   

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GURUKULA MESS

PADA: Yeah prabhu, a number of gurukulis were taking their lives which is why we helped them with the $3,000,000 lawsuit and later the $400,000,000 lawsuit. Some of those kids thanked me and some of them think -- I am just as bad for not being stronger earlier -- and cursed at me for "doing too little too late." I do not feel upset at the least with the ones who curse at me, I understand their pain. 

I was removed from ISKCON in 1979 by Jayapataka, because I was complaining about the false gurus and their child mistreatment program. I am sorry there was so little I could do, and they sent a team of enforcers from New Vrndavana to take me to the morgue, and I would have been, without help from the FEDS, who arrested the hunting party that came to get me. These were some very nasty people, there is no doubt about it, and MANY children were victims, and so were us whistle blowers, because perps and their enablers are not actually devotees of God. 

I am very sorry for what happened to all of these Krishna kids. I wanted to do more, but as a San Francisco Taxi driver, I had little tools at my disposal to do much. Whole thing is very sad. Challenging these guys was a peril for anyone who spoke up, and that enabled the process to continue, and still does for that matter. I wish Krishna will send healing to the victims and help them in their trauma. 

I have cried too many times over all this because many victims came to me to tell me what they experienced, and this has been a big hardship on me to act as an advocate for these kids. But we are where we are now, and we need to hold those responsible to account. And make sure this never happens again to any more children. Do I believe there is a Krishna? I still love to listen to Krishna bhajans and it gives me great joy. At the same time, I received so many threats on my life I lost count. I believe Krishna kept me from being six feet under, but God does act in mysterious ways as the Bible says. ys pd

PS: Yes prabhu, the Dayalu Nitai Jaipur HKC people / Prabhupadanuga's EU Mathura Pati / Mathias Subji people were infuriated we liberated hundreds of kids from their Auschwitz for kids program, and we reduced the suicides of their victims. Yes, they have never explained why they are joining the GBC in cheer leading Auschwitz for kids. 

And their pal Bhakta Peter told a friend of mine he is upset because "PADA is a liar." Exactly what their child abusers pals said, it is all lies. They are parrots of the pedophiles, and proud of it. And their other pal Kamsahanta said PADA is the worst and most dangerous person in the entire ISKCON, well yeah, saving children is not a good idea for these pedophile messiah loving folks. And we exposed their poisoner sabha too. Very bad for the servants of Judas! 

My friend stayed at Kamsahanta's New Vrndavana home after driving all the way from California, and in the morning he found his car windows smashed out and all of their possessions were stolen, including all their personal items and kids clothing. Kamsahanta said he did not know there was a problem there, yep fer sure. And he did not lift a finger to help them. Then he was upset we helped children, that he was never going to help.  

ys pd  

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SWARUPA DAMODAR

PADA: Yes, I told Bhakti Swarupa Damodar we are not qualified to take sins as a diksha guru. He thought that was very funny joke. Not long after that he complained half his body felt paralyzed and he was in hospital, and the doctors could not understand what was the problem. He had various problems after that, and it was never fully resolved. He was not only taking karma without authority, he was encouraging others like Jayapataka to take karma, and look what happed there. He never understood that none of us, including his 11 compadres, were authorized to take sins. 

The guru he supported here was Hansadutta, who was drinking Vodka and having affairs with half dozen women. Swarupa Damodar never came here to fix the problem, although he had disciples here who were well aware of the problem. I told his disciples he has a duty to fix this and they said no, it is the job of the GBC. But he was a GBC? It is the job of the GBC, he is one, and then what? No it is not the job of the GBC, it is the duty of all Vaishnavas to stop intoxicated womanizers from sitting in big seats in Krishna's temples. 

Of course what do we expect from a person who takes sannyasa from a child predator of boys like Kirtanananda? Kirtanananda sent a party here to take me out of my body and into the graveyard. Swarupa Damodar supported the people who send out hunting parties to place me in the graveyard, and he was saying Kirtanananda is a pure devotee -- which made me in a lot of danger. He was making me a target by saying we are making aparadha to his predator guru. He has no idea that predators are not Krishna's successors, neither are drunken womanizers. After he left most of his disciples started smoking pot. ys pd

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ORGINAL BOOKS KI JAYA!!!

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PADA: Oh oh pilgrims, these people were starving and when the Ukraine drones dropped down food, Russian snipers would shoot them. It is all about starving old ladies and babies for these macho men Russian guys. The only good news is that Russians lost 2,250 of these old lady sniper guys in one day recently, so there will be less sniping of old hungry people. 

It is amazing that big strong Russian soldiers consider old ladies and babies to be a dangerous threat to them, hence "starve the old ladies and babies to death." You got to be mighty paranoid if you think old grannies and two days old babies are out to kill you! But the Russians are getting wiped out too, and unfortunately getting rid of these dangerous snipers of old ladies is the only way to fix the problem. 

If the snipers are alive, they will shoot and starve people, especially un-armed old ladies on crutches with cats are very dangerous for them! OMG, an old lady is sewing a sweater for her kitten, we have to get rid of her before she blows up the Kremlin! Paranoid delusions won't save them from going to Yamaraja's court for old lady and baby killers.

There was a video of some young Ukraine lady snipers. They prefer the 1950s old style .308 gun that shoots USA grade hunting bullets. This takes a pretty heavy rifle, they like the ones made in the 1950s. They said modern lighter guns have a smaller bullet, so they might shoot some guy, and he is still alive and able to shoot back at them.  

But if the guy gets hit with a .308, they usually never hear from him again. One shot knocks em' down for good most of the time. So then they can go after the next guy. They also said the lighter gun's bullets run out of poop over a long distance, but the .308 keeps going further.

I know a neighbor guy who was hit with a .308 in a hunting accident, and there was a small hole in his front and a giant huge hole where the bullet came out of his back. He was gone in a second. These girls are not messing around! I think they are doing what I would do, take the "one shot does the job gun," and not the lighter but less effective one. 

The other reason they like the .308, ammo is readily available. Granny snipers beware, these ladies are looking for you! And they are taking them down every day. And they are just getting better at it. Personally, I would not want to mess with these ladies! 

But yeah I get it, the hunted and the hunters have some sort of karmic past process going on, I know all that too. But karma acting does not mean I now have a licence to harm others. And that is why even if the cow has the karma to be made into meat, it is still sinful to do that. ys pd  

GBC Moratorium Statement / Taking Sins / There Will Be Fire 10 30 26

PADA: Wow, lots of comments like, OK you guys have been gurus since 1978, but you never understood what is a guru? Hee hee. This is really a sign they are in cult melt down mode. The tragic thing is thousands of devotees were banned, some were beaten up, hundreds of kids were molested, some folks were killed, all so the GBC could be gurus. But were they ever Krishna's successors and gurus in the first place? Even they don't know. ys pd 

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OMG! Shocking Truth! After 50 years of practice, finally realised confusion in Guru Tattva! After fall down of many Gurus and Sannyasis, how this wasn't realised about Guru Tattva. Some of the Gurus ran away with guru dakshina wealth. Some of the Gurus ran away with women discples. Some of the Gurus involved in child abuse. After all these, how the GBC hasn't realised about Guru Tattva. what will happen to their disciples what will happen to guru dakshina what will happen to their faith who will take their karma and guide them who will take them BTG All these years, the self-made gurus cheated their disciples!

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THE JESUS WANNA-BE CLUB EXPANDS 

PADA: OK pilgrims, the DIKSHA guru takes part of the karma or samskaras of the disciple. I posted that on their forum -- that we neophytes should not take karma -- and my post was mysteriously removed. Sorry! They are not going to be able to take karma any better than the many other Jesus wanna-be acharyas from the Gaudiya Math and ISKCON. 

So here it is again, my comments on the hazards of taking sins:

In 1979 I told Jayapatka and Jayatirtha we neophytes cannot absorb sins, or we will have to suffer. They both laughed at me. Then, they suffered. And so have -- not only most of the original 11 -- but many others they subsequently appointed later on also suffered. And Srila Prabhupada says a Madhyama cannot be a diksha guru because he might once again become a d*mon. He cannot absorb the sins of others. And furthermore he says, anyone who is not an uttama does not have the brahmana tejyas to burn off sins, Srila Prabhupada is very clear on this. No, a kanistha or madhyama is not like fire, he cannot burn off the sins of -- his own -- never mind burn off the sins of others. That is why Nectar of Instruction says, one must only accept an uttama as his guru. There is no sin burning fire in any other category.


*** Narayan Maharaja: Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada says the guru takes the disciple's sins, papa.


PD: Correct. Almost all the neophyte GBC people who took sins under Narayan Maharaja's idea and policy suffered by falling down, getting sick, and leaving their bodies. Never mind their followers are not being liberated. Srila Prabhupada told us many, many times, if we allow people to touch our feet we will be acting like diksha gurus, taking sins. That will make us get sick, fall down or both. Of course many of them departed early. He said, only a pure devotee has the brahmana tejyas to burn off sins, and if you neophytes take sins "you will have to suffer" and they are suffering. So yes, this question was answered many times, none of you neophytes should attempt to take other's sins, but they neglected that instruction.


That is ALSO why Srila Prabhupada told the story of the snake and the ants. The false guru told the disciples he could take their sins, but he could not. So the disciples went to Yamaraja and they were very angry, and they wanted to take revenge. So Yamaraja made them ants, and made their guru a snake, and the snake went over the ant hill, and he was e*ten alive by the ants. In other words, it does not matter if this karma is not resolved now, it will be eventually.


And! When we were in India, Srila Prabhupada stopped the whole kirtan when he saw two of his lady disciples having their feet touched by the old ladies at the pandal program. He told them, "I told you -- do not let people touch your feet, you will be taking their karma and you will have to suffer." He told us repeatedly, none of you neophytes should attempt to take others sins, but they neglected that instruction. No idea why the ladies "gurus" would be able to be diksha gurus and take karma -- when the men who do so are suffering many reactions.


Yes, it is very amazing that in 1979, when I reminded the GBC that we neophytes are forbidden to take karma, or even let people touch our feet, because we will take karma, and we will fall down, get sick or both, the GBC guys just laughed at me. Well almost all of the 11 got sick, fell down, or both, and many of them departed early. "You will have to suffer." But many of them went on taking karma with no regards for all these dire warnings. I told Swarupa Damodar about that issue, same thing, he just laughed at me. Shortly after that he was suffering from partial paralysis and other ailments, and the doctors could not figure it out what was the cause. I already told him he would have to suffer.


There is no need for us to become and uttama ourself to help others connect to Krishna, when we can connect any other person to Srila Prabhupada right now. I told people to worship a pure devotee in 1971, and still tell them that right now 2026, there is nothing to add to the orders of the pure devotee.


ys pd

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"There will be fire...."

Prophetic words from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta to his disciple, Abhay Charanaravinda....... But let's consider the evidence he cited for arriving at this conclusion.....

"Since we got our marble temple at Bagh Bazaar, they are simply squabbling 'who gets this room, who gets that room'...."

Simply seeing such territorial disputes eclipsing the intended focus of his mission, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta could see where such a mentality would lead.

How much of the current tension around guru-fidelity, franchising parameters, making room for Vaisnavis boils down to the same territorial instincts.... neophytes prematurely elevated to acaryaship defending their turf.... insecure managers asserting their dominance.... hateful misogynists trying to legitimise their scorn by dressing it up in scriptural quotes....?

How to "weather the storm".....? In a storm out on the open seas, one's best protection against being blown off course is the compass - the ability to identify true north, the unchanging principles.... Prabhupada has told us many times what the secret of success is. It's hiding in plain sight.

ekeha kuru nandana.....

Make the spiritual master's order one's life and soul. Any other motives unexamined, unchecked... lead us astray. guru mukha padma vakya cittete kariya aikya, ara na koriho mane asa Let the vultures pick over the carcass, the empty shell that once housed the soul ..... The life of the Krishna consciousness movement is nourished by the 6 loving exchanges. The legislators may well be strangling any remaining life out of "Prabhupada's body".

The Night of the Long Knives is in full sway.... what a legacy to pass on.
Prabhupada's baton pass was always going to be fraught with challenge. His most senior disciples were only 10-11 years into their practice. He had formed the GBC - an innovation his own master had conceived of to foster collaborative leadership for a scaleable institution.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta knew very well of the risks that institutions posed to the "living spiritual current". Prabhupada witnessed first hand how individual ambition had imploded his spiritual master's hard earned institutional progress.
Prabhupada - living on borrowed time - started early.... supervised his fledgling leadership body, gave clear instructions about the ethos that governing a society of aspiring Vaisnavas should practice, passed on so many warnings about the risks of premature or ill motivated guruhood..... He ran an extraordinary leg of the baton race for someone who arrived in a foreign country with no means and no contacts in poor health and at an advanced age.

What he accomplished through faithful focus on guru maharaja's instructions in only 11-12 years (and a lifetime in preparation) is truly staggering. The current baton bearers are nearly at the end of their leg. How ready are they to pass the baton and to whom and in what condition? Are they even on the track anymore? Are they willing and able to pass the baton? Or imagining some heroic glory in just running till they drop basking in the crowd's hero worship?

Oaths of allegiance. "Kiss the ring. Humble yourself before me..." Is this compatible with amanina manadena? Or is it merely the weaponising of a power hierarchy by insecure people who cannot inspire actual loyalty but will accept a notarised terms and conditions document as a symbol of submission and obedience? Has Elvis left the building?

I have no doubt that there are many sincere and well intended, genuine sadhus in the movement. There are still "signs of life". But we should not mistake the large temples and crowds for spiritual health necessarily. The best indicator of the spiritual health of the movement is the quality of loving exchange between all of its members. 

And out in the devotional communities, in many places, that's exactly what's happening..... What's happening in the higher eschelons - the constant squabbling, the unkindness to children and women, the attempts to secure fealty by legislation...... these signal a worrying vaccuum of loving sentiment. Naked ambition, soulless bureaucracy.... this is not heading in the direction I expected when I felt inspired to join Prabhupada's movement and sought to help it pursue its noble mission. 

It was rapidly devolved into a "church" where the mission of reaching out to the masses and engaging them in bhakti has been obscured by in-fighting, power plays and "holy men" enriching themselves, avoiding accountability and wrangling over who gets which samadhi plot for eternal prestige.

Married At 13 // Dear Prahladananda Swami 10 29 26

PADA: Yikes, pilgrims a lot of parents just surrendered to the GBC guru process and did not look at how that would affect their children. There was a lot of child abuse and of course some girls being married off when they were still children etc. Yep, the GBC is mainly to blame, but the acquiescing parents had a role in enabling all this. 

Personally, I did not trust my kids to be in the GBC realm, and I sent them to public schools. I think the better results are clear, my kids are favorable to Krishna, many of their ex-kuli peers are not. 

The GBC gurus were eating giant feasts while kids were being malnourished with oat meal made from "not for human consumption" horse feed. All kinds of people knew that was happening, nothing was being done. That is the fault of all adults involved. Overall it looks like almost no one dreamed that these kids would ever grow up and tell their stories in public. There was just a lack of awareness of the long range effects of all these policies. And it is all catching up, including they suspended themselves from being gurus, because they have no credibility as gurus.

If you read the comments on her video it looks like a lot of people have the perception ISKCON is not women, children, or householder friendly. And there has been a lack of protection for these vulnerable citizens. And a lot of people are cheering her on for exposing all this. I think the big problem in ISKCON is, people feel compelled to expose things in public because they leaders are not listening to the citizens, so they feel they have to take their complaints public forum. I see why that happens, and it is happening more. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  

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Suggestions for the guru services committee to implement within this great window of opportunity for positive change in iskcon .

Dear Prahladananda Swami Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I would like to offer a few humble suggestions regarding the review of ISKCON’s guru system.

First, I am very glad that this responsibility has come under your influence. From what I have observed, you appear willing to remain fixed in Srila Prabhupada’s instructions even when doing so may be unpopular. I appreciate this and hope the following suggestions may be of service.

1. Audit the GBC before auditing the guru system.

I believe the review needs to begin with the Direction of Management, which established a governance structure including three-year voting procedures for GBC members by temple presidents. This structure remains outstanding in its full implementation.

When the GBC audits others, who audits the GBC? Implementing Srila Prabhupada’s original governance system would establish accountability, increase devotees’ participation and strengthen the GBC’s credibility.

2. Give priority to Srila Prabhupada’s formal written directives.

I suggest examining what Srila Prabhupada explicitly authorised and communicated for ISKCON’s implementation, giving particular weight to foundational documents such as the Direction of Management and the July 9, 1977 letter. There is a difference between what he formally directed, what he discussed in conversations and what later generations concluded he would have wanted.

Notably, the Direction of Management does not establish the guru-governance system that subsequently developed. I believe these original directives deserve central consideration in any restructuring.

3. Openly establish the delegated initiation system.

I believe many present difficulties could be resolved by formally recognising a system in which qualified devotees conduct initiation on Srila Prabhupada’s behalf, without thereby becoming independent diksha-gurus.

This would also clarify the distinction between initiation and siksha relationships. Devotees could continue receiving instruction and guidance from senior Vaishnavas, while initiation follows the formally established delegated system. 

Qualified Vaishnavis could also perform this service.

In my view, the GBC has gradually imposed increasing restrictions on gurus, moving towards greater central accountability without openly resolving the underlying question of authority. Rather than continuing to manage these contradictions, I suggest examining whether the delegated system can be openly and consistently implemented.

4. Implement the Direction of Management as a whole.

My concern is that individual provisions are being applied while the wider governance structure remains unimplemented. Accountability, financial transparency, voting procedures and the responsibilities of GBC members belong to the same framework.

Implementing that framework would help resolve longstanding conflicts over authority and give devotees a meaningful voice in the Society they serve.
Maharaja, I offer these suggestions respectfully, with the hope of bringing ISKCON closer to Srila Prabhupada’s documented instructions. I believe this presents an opportunity to resolve many longstanding difficulties through institutional clarity rather than further restrictions.

Thank you for your service and consideration. If I can assist you in any way with the original documents or developing these proposals, I would be very happy to serve.

Your servant,
Sundar Nitai Dasa

PADA: Oh yeah, the GBC makes all sorts of committees to monitor a wayward guru and so on, but who monitors the GBC overall? We need accountability, sounds good, but the gurus do not seem to have any. Lokanath and Giriraj and others have had scandals but, no consequences? And this pattern repeats over and over. 

All of kinds of banning, beating, molesting suing and even murders have been going on, no one ever seems to be accountable for any of that? So yeah, the whole system of making artificial messiahs won't work. They need to be designated as managers and not gurus, and be held to account. Prahladananda has a reputation for covering up reports of troubles and keeping the trouble makers in power. He has no credibility.

He came to Berkeley and was shouting and yelling at me and he said "I am never going to talk to this person ever again." OK so you are not allowing us to report issues, then you claim you never knew about these issues? Sounds like you all suffer from Ivory Tower syndrome, you have no idea how the citizens are suffering under your policies. 

Not talking to us means, we have to make public exposes, and we are. You do not give us any other option. But at the same time, it looks like they are leaving Prahladananda holding the bag for all the molester messiah's club's mess, you sort it all out dude! Good luck! Heh heh heh. ys pd      

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Yamaraja Fundme


https://gofund.me/26d929165


Raga Davi Dasi took formal initiation into Srila Prabhupada movement in 2005 and her husband Yamaraja das took formal initiation. A little bit after,  Raga and Yamaraja took second initiation and got the Gayatri Mantra. They are both faithful followers of Srila Prabhupada's movement, for their services over the years. 

Raga is the author of under the spell of God poems for the Lord‘s pleasure. She is a singer songwriter and she has some of her music on YouTube, and she’s also an artist and she has some children’s coloring books that she authored. If you care to listen, go to YouTube and put in Raga Swan. She’s been a book distributor for many years also.

Yamaraja Dasa's services for the lords pleasure are numerous he was a Pujari for many years in the Chicago, Temple, St. Louis, Temple, and Alachua Temple he’s a cook and a book distributor his current service to this day is distribution of Srila Prabhupada s Original Books this is his current service. 

He still distributes every day whenever he goes out. Over the years he has distributed thousands of books. And one important service that Yamaraja das took to heart was Srila Prabhupada order no divorces so through thick and thin him and his wife Raga have been married 23 years. Both of these Devotee’s are born on the same day January 22, Raga was born in 1957 and Yamaraja 1955. 

Currently Raga had to have some minor surgery vertebroplasty minimally invasive surgical procedure that injects medical-grade bone cement into a fractured vertebra to stabilize the spine and relieve pain. Also, she has MS and mobility issues. Her husband Yamaraja has high blood pressure and type two diabetes. 

And he is also his wife’s 24 seven caregiver. Because of mounting costs related to the situation, we have set up a GoFundMe account. The link is at the top of this post. We live in a mobile home in Gainesville, Florida and our rent is about to be raised $75 next year in addition to repairs that must be done on the Plumbing in the mobile home so we are appealing for anyone to donate to our GoFundMe account. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and all glory’s to his divine grace Srila Prabhupada 

ISKCON Suspends Guru Initiations 10 27 26

Yes as a matter of fact,

falling down people are 

NOT our guru successors!  

GBC GURU MELTDOWN

PADA: Oh oh pilgrims! Big trouble in River City. It does seem like the ISKCON GBC is having a sort of melt down crisis. There was supposed to be a discussion over Female Diksha Gurus (FDG) and that seems to have reached the same loggerheads it has already been at for over a decade. No agreement could be made on the topic. Nor will any ever be made it seems? 

Now they have suspended ALL of their gurus from initiating, which means? None of them were ever qualified! The conservatives are headed by HH Bhakti Vikas swami, big promoter of Jayapataka, and the liberals are the Kalakantha / Pranada / Hrdayananda / Bir Krishna type people. Oddly Jayapataka says he favors female diksha gurus. OK they are fighting with their own shadow. 

So it looks like they just switched gears and said a study should be made, what is an ISKCON guru? Oh goody, after all the banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders, we might ask what program are we promoting and defending here? I think this is a sign, the dysfunction of the GBC has reached a point where it just cannot continue with business as usual, which is pretty much out of control already. 

Now they want people to sign a legal oath of alliegience, I think that is a sign more folks want to bail out and become independent. There has already been a lot of preliminary discussion on how the succession should continue. Will the new wave of younger gurus get to have their own Vyasa poojas, photos on the altars, unlimited un-monitored bank accounts etc., or what is their status? So it looks like a sort of reckoning is coming to roost. 

Overall I think this is a sign their program is sort of self-imploding, disintegrating, and that is good for us. Yeah what is an ISKCON guru? Same thing Banu swami was saying, he will not become and ISKCON guru until they define what that is. 

Well we know already, the guru is a person who might be engaged in illicit sex with men, women and children, who drinks Vodka, who watches porno and who gets arrested with a machine gun etc. There does not seem to be any standard for guru before he is selected and voted in?

OK Madhu Pandit people! Take their document to court and show how falling apart their whole guru system is. They want Madhu Pandit to accept their gurus, when they do not even know -- if they are gurus? Lets wait until we know if they are even gurus in the first place, according to, themselves! Hee hee! Told ya! 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com  

https://akincana.net/2026/10/23/watch-the-gbc-decide-the-future-of-female-diksa-gurus-eight-unreleased-committee-recordings-published-in-full/?

Statement from the ISKCON Governing Body Commission on Srila Prabhupada and the Role of Gurus in ISKCON

The ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) passed several resolutions during its Mid-Term General Meeting 2026 regarding the need to better educate ISKCON devotees with “a clearer understanding and articulation of, the qualification and service of all gurus, and their relationship with ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the ISKCON society, and ISKCON’s managerial line of authority.” 

To help achieve this, the GBC determined there should be a temporary moratorium on initiations from December 1, 2026 to Gaura Purnima 2027.

The resolutions are below in full:

Clarity on the Role of Gurus and Disciples in Relationship to Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON To Be Provided by the Guru Services Committee

Whereas, within the ISKCON society there is a need for further clarification on the relationship of ISKCON gurus with ISKCON, and ISKCON’s managerial line of authority,

Whereas, elder ISKCON gurus are passing away and younger devotees are taking up the responsibility of serving as guru, sometimes for large number of disciples,

Whereas, it is seen that some disciples of ISKCON gurus need to better understand their relationship with ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON’s managerial line of authority,

Therefore, the GBC directs the Guru Services Committee to research and highlight Srila Prabhupada’s writings and instructions, existing GBC authorized papers and statements, and relevant ISKCON laws to better educate and clarify for ISKCON members:

The role of an ISKCON guru in relationship to ISKCON and ISKCON’s managerial line of authority,

The proper mood of a disciple towards their initiating guru and other ISKCON authorities,

That gurus in ISKCON have the responsibility in instructing their disciples how to advance in Krishna consciousness, but may not have the expertise to guide disciples in matters of marriage, employment, child rearing, investment of funds, and other areas of life,

The Guru Services Committee shall also determine if educational processes need to be developed or adapted within ISKCON to clarify these issues.

The Guru Services Committee will consult with the various RGBs around the world, the India Bureau, and ICC to better consider how misunderstandings in these areas have manifested in their regions and seek their input to resolve them.

This research is also intended to complement and support the work pursued under the Terms of Reference Working Committee. To be completed by the AGM 2027.
Seeking Clarity on the Comparative Roles and Relationships Between Siksa and Diksa Gurus Within ISKCON

Whereas, there is a need within ISKCON to better understand the comparative roles of, and relationships between, diksa and siksa gurus, and

Whereas, there has been a call for additional clarity of these roles by devotees around the world, therefore, the GBC Body directs the Guru Services Committee (GSC) to do research to develop a comprehensive report and statement on these two services within ISKCON;

In so doing, the GSC shall consult with the ISKCON RGBs around the world, the India Bureau and ICC, the Sastric Advisory Council (SAC), and other scholars put forward by those bodies; 

A report or statement shall be presented to the GBC at its AGM 2027 for ratification.

This research is also intended to complement and support the work pursued under the Terms of Reference Working Committee.
Moratorium on All ISKCON Initiations

Whereas, as we celebrate ISKCON’s 60th Anniversary, it is the GBC’s duty to consider the health and future of our society;

Whereas, many older ISKCON gurus are passing away and many younger gurus are taking up responsibility for large numbers of disciples;

Whereas, there is a need to develop a clearer understanding and articulation of, the qualification and service of all gurus, and their relationship with ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the ISKCON society, and ISKCON’s managerial line of authority;

Whereas, many new disciples in ISKCON misunderstand the service role of their guru in ISKCON in relationship with Srila Prabhupada and the ISKCON managerial line of authority, as outlined in the ISKCON document “Harmonizing Lines of Authority”;

Whereas, according to our Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya, both siksa and diksa gurus are of fundamental importance in the spiritual life of a devotee;

Whereas, in practice, a significant difference can be currently observed in the worship, recognition, and treatment accorded to siksa-gurus and diksa-gurus within ISKCON;

Whereas, since the departure of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the Society has not undertaken a sufficiently comprehensive study and explanation of Guru-tattva, particularly the standards, principles and practices of initiation as related to an unprecedented growing global ISKCON society;

Whereas, it is urgently important to take concrete steps to ensure that Srila Prabhupada’s position in ISKCON as our Founder-Acarya and pre-eminent siska guru for all ISKCON members is not minimized in any way;

Whereas, the GBC has directed the Guru Services Committee to research and further clarify the role of gurus and disciples in relationship to Srila Prabhupada and the ISKCON society, based on Srila Prabhupada’s teachings, existing ISKCON law, and GBC statements, and to present a summary paper on the same no later than the GBC AGM 2027, and,

Whereas, the GBC has directed the Guru Services Committee to research and clarify the service roles of siksa and diksa gurus, with appropriate consultation, and present either a summary paper, or at least a progress report on the same by the GBC AGM 2027;

Therefore,

All initiations by ISKCON diksa gurus shall be put on hold from December 1, 2026, until Gaura Purnima 2027. (This date could be extended.) No ISKCON guru shall initiate new disciples, or offer second initiation to existing disciples, or offer sannyasa initiation during this time. Additionally, no new initiating gurus shall take up or complete the authorization process during that time.*

In addition, before they may restart initiating disciples, all ISKCON gurus will be required to:

Sign a notarized ISKCON Oath of Allegiance, as presented by Srila Prabhupada and,

Submit the required annual financial reports for the previous year (2026).

*Exceptions may be allowed in the case of a qualified aspiring disciple who may pass away before Gaura Purnima 2027 (in the opinion of medical experts), and with the approval of the ISKCON Guru Services Committee.
Terms of Reference Working Committee

It is resolved that a structured Dialogue be convened to enable a meaningful and productive discussion on the relationship of siksa and diksa, including Vaishnavi Diksha Guru, all within the principle of Guru Tattva.

To this end, a working Committee comprising of the GBC EC, and one or two representatives of the IB, ICC and concerned RGBs will be appointed to determine the Terms of Reference for the successful convening of such a Dialogue by 15th November 2026. The Terms of Reference presented by the committee shall be subject to GBC approval.

The anticipated Dialogue shall commence and conclude between the months of December 2026 and January 2027. A .pdf of the statement can be viewed and downloaded here.
Tag: education , gbc , guru , Guru-tattva , gurus , initiations , leaders , leadership

PADA: Jayadvaita swami has already explained all this. A number of their gurus are having illicit sex with men, women -- and maybe children. OK also maybe their messiah who masturbating with cats -- when we include their topmost messiah and samadhi buried acharya Kirtanananda. I forgot, masturbating to porno Gunagrahi also warrants a samadhi in the dham.  

And thus the "clear understanding" is: people who are of less moral character than the town dog catcher are fit to be worshiped as Krishna's successors. Do we have a question? Good, we will be banned, beaten, molested, sued and killed for being a doubting Thomas. Doubts are not allowed! So these guys are gurus, that is very clear, anyone who doubts they are gurus gets poked in the rear with a metal pipe. YS PD

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FULL ISKCON DIKSHA MORATORIUM ANNOUNCED

(Starting December 1st, 2026 till Gaura Purnima 2027. Watch this space for possible extensions.)

It looks like a brazen attempt to pre-empt and/or prepare for a SCHISM.
GBC STEPS TO AVOID A SCHISM OR TO MANAGE ONE AS CLEANLY AND LEGALLY AS POSSIBLE.

STEP 1. Introduce a Full Moratorium to assert GBC dominance over all ISKCON gurus and leaders requiring Oaths of Allegiance clearly stating they must LEGALLY follow the GBC.

STEP 2. Require all ISKCON gurus and leaders to provide full LEGAL FINANCIAL disclosures. This will be important evidence with which to LEGALLY challenge any defectors who might attempt to leave the domination of the GBC and split from ISKCON proper (as the Rtviks in Bangalore have done).

STEP 3. Whatever paper the Guru Services Committee comes up with at Gaura Purnima 2027 it will not satisfy all parties.

STEP 4. When one or more resolutions are made subsequent to the Full Moratorium those who threaten to split from ISKCON will therefore be in a weak position morally and legally because they have already just sworn an Oath of Allegiance and disclosed their full financial details.

STEP 5. Make resolutions that significantly change the system of guru in ISKCON. State clearly and openly that those opposing such resolutions have violated their Oaths of Allegiance and are not allowed to re-start giving initiations in ISKCON unless and until they agree to submit to the "new" system the GBC is proposing.

STEP 6. If necessary take legal steps to bring the financial assets of apostate gurus and ISKCON leaders again under the direct control of the ISKCON GBC.
This whole plan is the GBC realizing their system of the last 50 years is crashing down around them because it was not based on sastra and tradition and yet trying to save themselves from splitting ISKCON further by re-inventing the system in some way. (Presumably the "new" system will introduce tighter controls of ISKCON gurus and leaders).

The ONLY "real" solution to the problem is to establish a truly sastric and traditional system of Guru Tattva within ISKCON which would require the GBC to get rid of many ISKCON Guru Laws and the appointment system altogether and allow the natural system of choosing a guru (or gurus) to be practiced in ISKCON. As per Srila Prabhupada's purport to CC Adi 1.35.

I do not see the ISKCON GBC giving up their position of managing who can and who cannot initiate in ISKCON. This would simply require ISKCON leaders to judge all persons who want to serve within the ISKCON Insitution on their own merits rather than judge who they decide to take Vaishnava Diksha from. But this seems to be a "bridge too far" for the ISKCON GBC.

SUNDAR NITAI DASA

My Response to the GBC’s Recent Announcement on the Guru Situation in ISKCON
When I read the GBC’s statement of 26 October 2026, I feel both hopeful and apprehensive. I feel excited that the GBC is taking steps to revisit guru-tattva and the future of ISKCON, and concerned about the evidence and principles that will guide this important work.

My hope is that those entrusted with this service will make Śrīla Prabhupāda’s own written instructions the central reference point. The primary question is not simply what was practised in another age, during Lord Caitanya’s time, or within traditional Vedic society. It is: What did Śrīla Prabhupāda want for the society he founded, and how did he direct that society to function after his departure?

Prabhupāda brought his understanding of the Vedic and Vaiṣṇava traditions into ISKCON through his own teachings, instructions and institutional arrangements. Those who choose to serve within the society he founded have a responsibility to take his specific directions seriously. General scriptural principles and historical traditions can provide valuable context, but they do not replace an examination of what Prabhupāda himself established for ISKCON.

I therefore respectfully request that the GBC, its Executive Committee, the Regional Governing Bodies, the India Bureau, the ICC, the Guru Services Committee, the Sastric Advisory Council and everyone involved in this review give particular attention to the following:

1. Prabhupāda’s written directives on management

Please give serious consideration to the Direction of Management, which sets out Prabhupāda’s intended managerial arrangements, alongside his other formal written instructions. The review would benefit from establishing how these directives were intended to operate and how subsequent GBC structures and decisions relate to them.

2. The July 9, 1977 directive on initiation

Please examine this directive alongside the other relevant written documents, establishing precisely what arrangement Prabhupāda authorised, how he instructed it to operate, and what the complete documentary record establishes about its intended continuation. The review would also benefit from examining the will, relevant probate documents and other formal instructions in their proper historical context.

3. A clear distinction between written instructions and later interpretations.

Recorded conversations, general statements and discussions about possible future appointments are relevant evidence. However, discussions about hypothetical arrangements need to be distinguished from appointments or directives that were actually finalised and formally communicated. Where an instruction is claimed to have been given, I believe it is important to establish what documentary evidence supports that claim and how it relates to Prabhupāda’s formal written directions.

4. An independent examination of the GBC’s own accountability

The review is considering the relationship between gurus and ISKCON’s managerial authority. It is equally important to examine how that managerial authority itself relates to Prabhupāda’s instructions. The Direction of Management and the other relevant documents deserve careful consideration as possible foundations for assessing the GBC’s own structure, authority and accountability.

5. Putting Prabhupāda back at the centre of ISKCON

I would welcome serious consideration of a model in which Prabhupāda’s position as Founder-Ācārya and pre-eminent spiritual guide is reflected not only in statements of principle, but in the actual arrangements for initiation, discipleship and management.

My own view is that ISKCON would benefit from reconsidering whether initiating devotees need to occupy the distinct institutional position they hold today. Senior devotees could continue serving as spiritual guides, instructing devotees and conducting initiations under an arrangement consistent with Prabhupāda’s documented intentions. The precise form of such an arrangement is a matter for careful documentary examination, rather than assumption.

I would also welcome consideration of how discipleship is understood and recorded within the society: whether those initiated within ISKCON are recognised primarily as members and disciples of Prabhupāda’s society, rather than being defined institutionally by exclusive allegiance to an individual initiating guru. This is an important question about the place of the Founder-Ācārya in the life of every ISKCON member.

I recognise that devotees may interpret some of the evidence differently. My request is that these differences be addressed through an open, independent and thorough examination of the primary documents, with the reasoning and conclusions made available to the wider membership.

This is an important opportunity to put Śrīla Prabhupāda’s documented intentions at the centre of the discussion—not merely to clarify the existing guru system, but to examine whether the system itself reflects the arrangements he intended for ISKCON.

I sincerely hope everyone entrusted with this service will approach it with the care, honesty and responsibility that such an important task deserves.