Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Food Banks / Sundar Nitai / Hansadutta / Temple Post / Narayan Maharaja / Rupa Goswami 10 20 26



Our soul is missing something?
This is what it is! 

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CAN'T GET TO THE FOOD BANK

PADA: My friend works at a Food Bank, and he says after they cut food stamps the Food Bank is overwhelmed with orders from poor people. First of all, they do not have enough food now, they are short on donations.  

Worse! A number of the poor are now calling the food bank begging for the donations to be delivered, because they cannot afford $6.75 gasoline to get there. Is this a plan to starve out the poor to get rid of them? People are starting to wonder, why is this going on? What is the plan? ys pd 

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Sundar Nitai Dasa

ISKCON in Context: Bhakti Cāru Swami’s Response to the Guru System
In August 1980, less than three years after Śrīla Prabhupāda’s departure, Bhakti Cāru Swami and other devotees approached Śrīla B.R. Śrīdhara Mahārāja to discuss the situation developing within ISKCON.

One of their central questions was whether Śrīla Prabhupāda had actually appointed the eleven ṛtviks as successor gurus.

Bhakti Cāru stated:

“Actually, one of the questions is that whether Prabhupāda really appointed them as Guru. Because so far we didn't find enough proof to confirm that.”

He acknowledged that the ṛtviks could initiate on Prabhupāda’s behalf, but raised the unresolved question of what should happen after Prabhupāda’s departure:

“But after Prabhupāda left, who will initiate Prabhupāda did not clearly mention. This doubt is coming up now.”

His concerns extended beyond the original appointments. He also described dissatisfaction with how some gurus were exercising their authority and the effect this was having on devotees. Bhakti Cāru spoke of disciples leaving ISKCON because they could no longer tolerate the situation. He explained that devotees were seeking guidance and hoping that the problems could be rectified.

This conversation provides a contemporary record of uncertainty about Prabhupāda’s instructions, dissatisfaction with the emerging guru system, and concern about its consequences for the movement.

It does not settle every question about Prabhupāda’s intentions, but it documents the doubts and objections being expressed at the time. The purpose of this investigation is to understand what devotees questioned, what they experienced, and how the situation developed—not to find fault with individuals.

Source: "August 1980 conversation with Śrīla B.R. Śrīdhara Mahārāja"

PADA: This guy writes a lot of interesting pieces and he gets into some important history, unfortunately, he blocks making comments. But yeah Bhakti Caru knew something was terribly amiss right out of the gate. But then he surrendered to their process, to get a post for himself. 

OK he sold his soul to Satan to get temporary opulence and worship. The GBC wanted to make me the guru of Ireland so I would sell my soul to them. Well there are devotees who think Satan already owns my soul, and maybe he does, but it is not for sale to the GBC's gurus, hands off my soul you bogus messiahs, fer sure! At least Satan is honest, he opposes God and admits.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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HANSADUTTA UPDATE

PADA: Well after Hansadutta declared that Kirtananda is the only pure devotee on the planet, and he cleaned out the Berkeley temple to send everyone to New Vrndavana, shortly after that Sulochana went down. Yuvati called the law enforcement guys and targeted Tirtha as the hit man, and he was arrested -- but he was seen in Berkeley doing surveillance on my pick up truck -- according to officer Joe Sanchez. 

They told me "you are next" and they wanted to send me to Kansas. Then a few days after Sulochana went down, I was confronted near the temple by three enforcers from New Vrndavana who were sent to "take me on a friendly picnic in the country." The Berkeley PD had been tipped off by the FEDS, who were tapping Hansadutta's phone, that they were coming for me, to take me away. 

And they had two cars with undercover guys inside following me around, and they yelled into their car loud speaker, everyone freeze. In other words, after I saved Hans from being taken out by a disgruntled husband whose wife he was stooping, Hans decided to thank me by sending me to the morgue. Thanks a lot dude! 

Later on he came back to Berkeley and was all smiley with me, "oh yeah we all went crazy didn't we"? He tried to make a joke out of sending people here to take me out. I think he has now found out that the higher authority is not laughing and he is in a heap of trouble. But yeah, the Berkeley PD said to me, the Krishna's won't eat a cow, but they will eat you for lunch. And they would have ate you for lunch if we were not around. Eric Johanson at the time was joining the Bhaktipada people saying me and Sulochana are drunks and not following, which Sulochana said -- was done -- to mark us as targets -- to make us look bad -- to take us out. Sulochana was 100% right. ys pd

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ISKCON TEMPLE OF THE HOLY NAME (POSTED NOTICE) (pg 1)

Our Position

ISKCON Temple of the Holy Name, the home of Sri Sri Parama Karuna Nitai Gaurasundara is a Temple within

The International Society for Krishna Caonciousness, as established by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acharya . We are loyal to, preach from, promote the (illegally changed) books of and espouse the teachings of His Divine Grace Srila Pabhupada. (When it suits us)

We serve within the greater ISKCON direction of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC). (Even though Srila Prabhupāda was adamant that each center should manage it’s self and that the GBC was only to make sure the rules, regs and standards were being followed)

Reason for the Policy

It is recognized that spiritual movements will inevitably develop many branches over time, particulcularly after the passing of the Founding Acharya. Since the physical departure of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupāda, we have seen a number of devotees join groups associated with the Gaudiya Math or other Vaisnava groups, as well as those following “alternative” philosophies regarding disciplic succession. ("ie" Follows the July 9th directive)

Policies will be sent to all community members via email (unless we don’t like you) and hard copy will be posted in the Tulasi room. (We will type this up after we finish our nightly TV program-S.J.)

Our Goal

Although our community may have philosophical and organizational diversity, our goal is to exist peacefully with all elements (This temple is not meant to be a public place for the whole world, only who we choose). However, to preserve the purposes of ISKCON, certain policy standards regarding activities on Temple Property (That we stole from the owner who is a Ritvik by voting him out so we could incorporate under ISKCON, and therefore could collect big donations). need to be clarified. (We do not go by the July 9th, 1977 final direction by Srila Prabhupāda of keeping him as the only Diksa Guru and those that follow Srila Prabhupāda in this regard will be excommunicated like how we did to Anda Bahya and her Husband). 

(We only follow the 11 fallen gurus that usurped his post and the fake chain of succession that followed, because eh, we can).

Welcome Activities

TAKE DARSHAN

ATTEND CLASSES (Either given by a pedophile or mentally Ill demon's who don't like Srila Prabhupada’s original books and banns them)

ATTEND PROGRAMS (Take a feast that may be offered to Krishna first because Srila Prabhupāda didn’t know you can go directly to Krishna even though he set it up to always go through the Spiritual Master and he offers to his Spiritual Master up the chain to Krishna).

ATTEND KIRTANS (But if you do not follow the current gurus, do not try to lead when and if you are the only Vaishnava in the room, otherwise you will be quashed by an unfriendly priest, if a drunk or Karmie enters the room, you must ask them to lead, they are much better devotees than you, and do not try to offer Tulsi Puja unless there is no one else to offer it, as usual)

OFFER SERVICES (You may be the only one willing and able to do it, because all the “Good” devotees can’t be bothered). (The camaraderie is high, even though we only come if and when there is Prasad and we spend a lot of time discussing those bad devotees who strictly follow everything Srila Prabhupāda taught).

Services

Services will be appointed and approved by Temple Management, which consists of Suddha Jiva dasa, Mamata Dasi and Madan Mohan Mohini Dasi. Temple Managers may require participants to fill out an ISKCON application before engaging in the following services. (Application and or screening may also be required when devotees are coming to stay overnight on the property) (But, we do not check if you are a Pedophile, that would be fine). (Do not try to screen us though you may find out how some of us abused the children in the past by being their teachers and handymen).

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GIVING CLASSES (But only if you use the illegally changed books and do not mention anything controversial that Srila Prabhupāda said).

OFFERING WORSHIP (But, only if you bow to the GBC and all their rules).

LEADING KIRTAN (But only if you are a strict follower of the GBC or a Hindu who may eat meat and worship demigods and NOT one of those filthy, GM or Ritviks who are vegatarians chanting 16 rounds and following all the regs).

RESTRICTED ACTIVITIES

No persons shall be allowed to engage in the following activities on the Temple grounds and property:

Promote beliefs, personalities or organizations that are not directly endorsed by ISKCON and its representatives or unduly criticize ISKCON and its authorities. (You must only promote the changed books and the fallen gurus Prabhus, got it? How many of those do we have? only about 80 that is not that much why bother yourself researching that stuff? 

Yes, they fell down into pedophilia, prostitutes, drugs, murder stealing money, SRA and other light weight things, don't listen to those who are envious of them). (Such personalities that you may not be allowed to associate with, because it is our business are senior disciples of Srila Prabhupāda that were very close servants like Govinda Dasi, Yasodanandana Das, Ishan Das and Damaghosh Das).

Distribute literature that promote such beleifs. (You will fall down if you read how cadmium was tested by professional forensics and found in Srila Prabhupada's hair samples that are 400 times the amount that would kill a normal person).
Influence guests or devotees in the above beliefs/criticisms. 

This includes inviting congregational members to attend their functions and or join their groups. (Mostly we can control you because we know that you don't want to be banned). (Of course you can go to the Ritviks Ashram and be in a in a safe space where no politics are discussed and you can get close up darshan of 21 Silas and be exposed to the original Shakta Vesha Avatar's books that are well taken care of. That is why you must stay away from these rotten influences that may open your eyes to what Srila Prabhupāda really wanted).

CONSEQUENCES

(You knew they were coming, don't be naive). Anyone in violation of this policy will be asked to leave the Temple Property. (Unless maybe we can squeeze a few more farthings out of you for our beautiful show cows). If any residents of the community are found to be involved in any of the above restricted activities, which includes offensive online posts. (Like this one for example) Such persons can be banned from attending the Temple for an indefinite period of time. 

(Or Excommunicated like our monkey on the sticks Anda and Jiva. Although Srila Prabhupada never did that, nor would he if you are exposing cheaters and demons, that he always told us TO do). (Funny thing is that they excommunicated us, then let us do all sorts of services because the congregation was not willing to cope with them. 

Funnily enough we were doing the seva that the others were to far above to do, like making garlands, shopping for the kitchen weekly, doing repairs, shoveling manure, trimming Tulsi''s Manjaris everyday. Attending Mangal Aarti and Guru Puja daily, we were mostly the only ones that went everyday for 10 months, then one demon started after us saying that the others do not come to Mangal Arati because we attend. So, we stopped going so they could go, guess what 2 years later and they still never go. (But I regress)

(It makes you automatically envious when you try to follow Srila Prabhupāda the way he wanted us to, therefor we are the envious ones-against Srila Prabhupāda himself).

See .4.8.7 Envious Acts against ISKCON

A person who uses a public speech, published writings, or other media of social communication to blaspheme, or to seriously damage the good faith of ISKCON members and associates, or who tries to stir up hatred or contempt against ISKCON or the GBC is to be corrected with a just remedial measure. (The truth is that the Ritviks are trying to return things back to Srila Prabhupāda, not keep drifting further and further away from what he taught us).

CONCLUSION

In making this policy statement, we are in no way denying the freedom of thought (hahaha) and speech of any person. We respect the individuals's rights to other philosophical positions. However, we are upholding the purpose of the Temple of the Holy Name property and projects, which is to promote Srila Prabhupada's teaching (We secretly know that is not true, how can it be when there are 5000 changes to his Srimad-Bagavad Gita) as enunciated by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) under the direction of the Governing Body Commission.

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NARAYAN MAHARAJA

I see that so many devotees now want to come and hear hari-kathā, but due to their weakness of mind they allow themselves to be led. Those who try to control them are acting against Vaishnava etiquette and are committing a grave offense. If someone invites people to come and hear hari-kathā, and someone else warns them not to do so, then that person commits the most serious offense. 

PADA: Great, now the GBC gurus who are forbidding people to visit Narayan Maharaja are offenders, after he was giving them gopi rasika classes.


Neither in history, nor in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Mahābhārata, nor the Rāmāyaṇa have we ever seen Vaiṣṇavas behave like this. So this poison is being spread now. You should know that the one who spreads this poison is not even a Vaiṣṇava, let alone a qualified Guru.

PADA: Except Narayan Maharaja people ban the ritviks? They are infuriated when people worship pure devotees, and NM calls us "ritvik poison" -- because we did not promote his homosexual and pedophile guru society pals like Tamal. Bhagavan is still a NM groupie now and he says the ritvivks are bogus, but Tamal's cheer leader has been authorized.

If a so-called Guru gives such an order, he must absolutely be rejected. We are followers of Kṛṣṇa-bhakti. When we see someone who is qualified to give us that Kṛṣṇa-bhakti, then we must hear from him. Bhakti is not bound by sectarian limitations. Wherever a bona fide Vaiṣṇava speaks about Hari-kathā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, we must definitely go there to hear from him. 

PADA: Except if he promotes a pure devotee like Srila Prabhupada, then he is ritvik poison.

If such a Vaiṣṇava is present and we do not go to hear from him, then we commit an offense. Thus the explanation of the śāstra has been changed. Actually, the explanation itself has not changed, but the mentality of those who try to give it has. Therefore I think that you should not follow these false instructions, regardless of who gives them. Even if your Guru says this, you must reject it. This is Vaishnava etiquette.

PADA: NM invited me to his ashram to talk, and he left me sitting from 830 AM to 530 PN without seeing me, then he sneaked out the back door and left the property. Even the hamburger eating people know that is terrible etiquette. 

So listen attentively and take all of this to heart. Try to apply everything you hear in your life. If there is anything you do not understand or realize, you can ask one of the Vaiṣṇavas for an explanation, or you can come to me. I will try to help, without any discrimination based on caste or creed. The devotees of Mahā-puruṣa are not bound by sectarian values or limited by boundaries or walls; on the contrary, they are for the entire world. Just as Kṛṣṇa belongs to the whole world, so do the Vaiṣṇavas. If someone creates sectarianism in the name of spiritual life, then he is doing so without any reference to sadhu, śāstra, or Guru.
Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvamī Mahārāja.
Malaysia. February 1, 1998.

PADA: Saying the ritviks are poison is making them targets for banning, beating, molesting, suing and assassination. That is the plan is it not? ys pd

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RUPA GOSWAMI


Verse 60–61


When will Dhaniṣṭhā, seeing you from afar, hasten to joyfully accompany you, in my presence, to Nandīśvara, the magnificent residence of the king of Vraja? That glorious abode, surrounded by affectionate gopīs, resounds with the mooing of cows, the animated voices of the shepherds, and the praises of the skilled bard. Most beloved by the prince of Vraja and revered by all his inhabitants, it is considered even more exalted than the hill of Govardhana.


Verse 62
Oh, You, so kind and gracious! When will I immerse myself in an ocean of happiness while washing Your auspicious feet of lotus, enter the kitchen, offer respectful reverences to the queen of Vraja and to the other gopīs, and prepare an exquisite feast of nectarous delicacies?


Verse 63
Oh, Divine Queen! When will I be able to behold You with my head respectfully bowed and Your radiant face, while You glance at me with a loving gaze, and Your concerned mother embraces me affectionately, before You enter the forests to fulfill Your commitment to protect the flocks of cows surabhi?


Verse 66
Oh, You, with a beautiful face and a modest heart! When will I experience joy in my heart to see You happily enjoying a meal in the company of Your dear friends and the queen of Vraja, who showers You with affection that surpasses that of countless millions of mothers, in accordance with the loving promise You have made?


Verse 67
Oh, You, whose restless eyes resemble the graceful khañjana birds! When will I celebrate in my heart a magnificent festival of transcendental happiness by beholding how the queen of Vraja loves You as if You were her own newlywed daughter, embracing You, kissing Your head, and bestowing tender and affectionate glances upon You?


Verse 68
Oh, my dear friend Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī! When will I be able to follow you as you lovingly guide our Queen, Śrī Rādhikā, whose arm, like a delicate tangle, rests on yours, and whose very being has become the stage where the waves of divine playful love unfold, toward the secluded hill of Govardhana, where the Lord Madhusūdana, the most outstanding among those who master the art of playful jests, blocks your path with the pretext of demanding payment for a toll?


Verse 69
Oh, my dear friend! When will I feel filled with pride to behold how the Lord Mukunda, drawn by a breeze carrying the exquisite fragrance of Your slender figure, leaves, with some pretext, the bed of pastimes covered with jasmine, which Candrāvalī has prepared with her own hands, and, like a black bee irresistibly drawn by a fragrant lotus, hastens to meet you on the shores of the lake?

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Ukraine Video / Bhagavan's True Colors 10 /18 /26


Wowsers folks. She says she is in danger and is afraid, but somehow or other Krishna put her there. Yeah, me too, challenging the molester messiahs is very dangerous, but Krishna put me here to resist them. Krishna! You ARE the ultimate drama maker! And we are just Your teeny little ant stage actors on your drama theater. She is a very sweet lady and we hope Krishna protects her over there. 


Oh my, love this one!

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PADA: Bhagavan's program systematically has Vaishnavas banned, beaten, molested, sued and killed. But they would never have harmed a hair on the head of Srila Prabhupada himself. Honest! But they would brutalize his family and children. Does that make any sense pilgrims? 

We love the father, and that is why we brutalized his family and children? What makes more sense to PADA? The father AND his children were BOTH brutalized. Why would we protect one and cause severe harm to the other? What seems more logical is, they harmed their master, and then harmed his followers. They did not protect EITHER, and they attacked both, at least that makes sense. 

And that is why the Texas courts said, these ISKCON schools are the worst examples of mistreating children ever recorded in this court. Why would they also not mistreat Srila Prabhupada? The Bhagavan program was sending out hunting parties to take me and Sulochana to the morgue and out of our bodies, but they would not have done the same to Srila Prabhupada? 

Why wouldn't they? 

Even outside media people have told me, they hated and mistreated the followers of Srila Prabhupada because they hated Srila Prabhupada. The outsiders can follow common sense logic. Bhagavan said he had to leave when he discovered all the child abuse. That means the inside leaders did not know, but we outsiders did know? How is that possible? 

I said promoting predators as acharyas is harming children right out of the gate, Bhagavan did not know what was wrong with that? Then Bhagavan promotes Narayan Maharaja, Tamal's BFF cheer leader. We were suing Tamal in Texas and Narayan Maharaja was in Texas boosting Tamal, a big ring leader of the Auschwitz for kids process. We are promoting the Auschwitz for kids cheer leaders and management team, and then saying we are upset with the child abuse? Sorry, none of that makes sense. 

But Srila Prabhupada does say he is being poisoned, and that was all I needed to launch the issue. So far no rational explanation for the complaint and all the collaborating evidence has been made by Bhagavan or anyone else. Bhagavan's mistreatment of Srila Prabhupada devotees by banning and harassing them, and exploiting them, is famous. 

But the same party that mistreats junior Vaishnavas, would not mistreat a senior Vaishnava? A lot of people would say, nope, they would mistreat all of the above. And many of of think, they did. And many victims told me they were severely mistreated, and it looks to us like -- Srila Prabhupada is also one of the victims. 

Maybe Bhagavan was not a direct Judas, but he became a servant of the Judas party, and we believe -- Srila Prabhupada suffered being poisoned in that party's hands and then -- they came after us -- the followers, and our children. And then we suffered. But I would rather be a suffering victim and not an exploiting leader, because we will not have to share in their karma, which is going to be nothing short of horrendous IMHO.  

But the Bhagavan program here supports Narayan Maharaja, who eventually agreed with us on the poison issue. He does not even follow his own mentors and guides. He is against everyone else, even his own shiksha gurus.  

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   

Re: Bhagavan Das Shows His True Colors

Srila Prabhupada: Someone has poisoned me.

Kaviraja: Look, this is the thing that maybe some
rakshasa gave him poison.
(room conversaton 8-10 November 1977, Vrindavan, India)

What further proof is needed ?

Dear Friends and AISF Members,

We recently came across this exchange on Facebook between Bhagavan das (William Ehrlichman) and Dhira Govinda das (David B. Wolf). Read this very elegant response that Dhira Govinda das addressed to Bhagavan. As we all know, Bhagavan was in the highest echelons of the ISKCON hierarchy and, practically immediately after Srila Prabhupada’s tirobhava lila, became one of the eleven “Naked Emperors” to jump on the ISKCON throne in a tinsel show of pretended divinity. We’ll leave it to our members to judge why Bhagavan is so vehemently opposed to “poison conspiracists.”


Full text of a Facebook posting from Bhagavan das Prabhu-

"This is Prabhupada’s answer as well to all the poison conspiracists who like cadmium on their gulabjomons. Enjoy Nico, Dhira Govinda and Naveen. The time is coming when your poison thoughts and conspiracies will dissolve you from the inside out. So let’s see if the three of you are open to a live public panel with an outside moderator where you can bring all your proof for every one to see and hear. You’re all 3 cowards hiding behind a key board. 

Read the end- “he is Vaisnava all powerful.” Do you fools think this was some pastime- the cadmium Lila. Idiots looking to give Prabhupada a poisonous send off
legacy." 

October 12, 2026 Reply from Dhira Govinda das

Dear Bhagavan Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Hare Krsna. Thank you for referencing me in your fbook posting, in connection with our process of discovery related to truths related to Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance pastime. You wrote, “So let’s see if the three of you are open to a live public panel with an outside moderator where you can bring all your proof for every one to see and hear.”

If you’d like to discuss with me about Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance pastime, I’m glad to do that, via correspondence, phone, in-person, internet, whatever you prefer. And if you’d like others to be present, I welcome that too. I will be glad to hear and carefully consider your viewpoints.

Below I’m including links to two podcasts where the hosts discussed with me my perspectives in regards to Srila Prabhupada’s departure. If you’re interested in my points of view, then I encourage you to view / listen to these podcasts, and, as I’ve indicated above, I am open and ready to hear and consider anything you’d like to share.

Link to The Hare Krishna Project Podcast, hosted by Narada Prabhu, September 26, 2024-


Link to Vaishnava Voices Podcast, hosted by Sitapati Prabhu, March 23, 2025- Ep #55. Srila Prabhupada's hypothesis that someone gave him poison | feat. Dhira Govinda das https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZZDH4EJDzI

In your fbook posting you wrote- (((((((Read the end- “he is Vaisnava all powerful.” Do you fools think this was some pastime- the cadmium Lila. Idiots looking to give Prabhupada a poisonous send off legacy.)))))))

I’m attempting to understand the point that you’re wanting to establish, and, as of now, I’m not getting it. In the video link you include, Srila Prabhupada states, there in Los Angeles on June 20th, 1975, “He is Vaisnava; he is all-powerful.” So, a Vaisnava is all-powerful, and Sri Krsna and Sri Bhismadeva cocreated a disappearance pastime involving a bed of arrows. A Vaisnava is all-powerful, and Sri Krsna and Maharaja Pariksit cocreated a disappearance pastime involving a poisonous snakebird. 

A Vaisnava is all-powerful, and God and Jesus cocreated a disappearance pastime involving crucifixion. I’m not clear what point you’re trying to establish? Are you saying that Sri Krsna and Srila Prabhupada, combined, are not sufficiently powerful to arrange for a disappearance pastime involving poison? Like, they could cocreate a disappearance pastime that involves, a heart attack, or, some disease, but, not attempting poisoning? Please clarify.

Of course, it’s clear, that the arrows didn’t kill Sri Bhismadeva, the poison of the snakebird didn’t kill Maharaja Pariksit, etc. They departed according to their devotional will, in service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And similarly, if persons close to Srila Prabhupada in November 1977 did give him poison with homicidal intent, clearly that didn’t kill Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada departed by his choice, in cocreation with Krsna. And his departure pastime, and that of Jesus, Maharaja Pariksit, etc., are intended to move and inspire us to devote our lives with ever-increasing enthusiasm to self-realization and to cultivate purity of heart and service to the Supreme Person. 

Hare Krsna. Jaya Srila Prabhupada.

I’ll mention that on Feb. 1, 2024, I sent to you an email, to  Bhagavan.acbsp@gmail.com, from my email address - davidbwolf@satvatove.com. I began that email with “I appreciated your friend
request on fbook a few weeks ago. Over the weeks I’ve read and been inspired by several of your postings on fbook”, and I went on to invite your comments on Srila Prabhupada is Sastra: Perspectives on the Infallibility of Srila Prabhupada (SPIS). I’ve not received a reply from you to that email. 

In SPIS I do, in some way, address aspects of Srila Prabhupada’s departure. In case you’re interested, here is a link to SPIS, and that is followed by a link to a Vaishnava Voices podcast where we discuss SPIS.
May 11, 2024- podcast regarding Srila Prabhupada is Sastra: Perspectives on the Infallibility of Srila Prabhupada Ep. #43: Srila Prabhupada is Sastra | feat. Dhira Govinda das - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQdFHMl0JIM
I look forward to hear from you soon. I’ll mention that I’m not much active or responsive on fbook. I do regularly read and respond to email- davidbwolf@satvatove.com. 

Hare Krsna. I hope this meets you flourishing in your service to Srila Prabhupada and his movement. Your servant, Dhira Govinda dasa (David Wolf, Ph.D.)

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Friday, October 16, 2026

Who Owns Bengaluru’s Hare Krishna Temple? AI Translations 10 16 26


PADA: Thanks for that information prabhu, Mathura Pati [Prabhupadanugas EU] visits Madhu Pandit's temple in Bangalore. I have not heard anything but lets hope so. He declared war on all the other Prabhupadanugas and started working with Radhanath's cheer leaders like Bhakta das and Bhavananda's writer Hari Sauri, so lets hope he finally starts to realize, he should NOT be working with GBC's fan club folks, and he should be working with us -- the Prabhupadanugas. 

Actually no one was using the "Prabhupadanugas" title until I started to place it on my 1984 publications, and then many other folks hi-jacked it from there. I am very confident he will eventually realize -- his idea of hooking his horse to the GBC sympathizer wagon was and is -- a mistake. It also looks like him and Hitler-pada Mukunda had a falling out, and he is de-linking from Purujit's changed Gita, so we are maybe the only camp left remaining. He thus needs to work with us or no one, hee hee. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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Who Owns Bengaluru’s Hare Krishna Temple? 

Supreme Court Review Delayed Again as Judge Steps Aside and Former Auditor Retracts Affidavit

ISKCON Mumbai’s bid to overturn the May 2025 ruling that gave the Hare Krishna temple in Bengaluru to ISKCON Bangalore must wait for a third bench after a judge recused himself on 5 October. Meanwhile the former auditor whose affidavit Mumbai had relied on is trying to take it back.

NEW DELHI, India — Justice Manoj Misra of the Supreme Court has recused himself, citing personal reasons, from hearing ISKCON Mumbai’s review petitions against the court’s May 2025 judgment on the Bengaluru Hare Krishna temple.[1] With a second member of the bench due to retire in November, the papers have gone back to the Chief Justice of India so that a new bench can be formed, the second reconstitution since the review was referred to a larger bench. 

The court has not yet heard the review on its merits. ISKCON Mumbai argues that the Bangalore society was only its branch. ISKCON Bangalore, led by Madhu Pandit Dasa, says it is an independent society that has managed the temple for decades.[2]

What the court said on 5 October

A three-judge bench of Justices MM Sundresh, Satish Chandra Sharma and PK Mishra had been hearing the review petitions. It was later reconstituted with Justice Manoj Misra in place of Justice PK Mishra. On 5 October the court said that Justice Misra was recusing himself for personal reasons and that Justice Sharma is due to retire in November, so the bench will have to be reconstituted once again.[1] The order reads:


“The Registry is directed to place the papers of the present matters before Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India for reconstitution of a Bench, as one of us, (Hon’ble Manoj Misra, J.) would like to recuse himself from hearing this matter.”Supreme Court of India, order of 5 October 2026, as reported by Bar and Bench[1]

At an earlier hearing, ISKCON Mumbai’s counsel argued that several judicial admissions had not been considered in the May 2025 judgment and that ISKCON Mumbai was the parent society, of which ISKCON Bangalore was a subsidiary that could not claim the temple. The bench then said: “We will hear it both on merit and scope of review.”[1]

How the case got here2009–2011: A trial court ruled for ISKCON Bangalore in 2009. In 2011 the Karnataka High Court reversed that decision in favour of ISKCON Mumbai, and ISKCON Bangalore appealed.[2]

16 May 2025: Justices Abhay S. Oka and A.G. Masih set aside the High Court ruling. They held that ISKCON Bangalore is a distinct society registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960, not a branch of ISKCON Mumbai, and that it owns the temple.[1][3]

8 November 2025: Justices J.K. Maheshwari and A.G. Masih split on ISKCON Mumbai’s review petitions. Justice Maheshwari would have heard them in open court; Justice Masih dismissed them. The matter went to the Chief Justice, who formed a three-judge bench.[1][3]

28 September 2026: A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, on a request from ISKCON Mumbai’s senior advocate Shyam Divan, said the review and related applications would be listed “a week after October 5”.[2]

5 October 2026: Justice Misra recused himself and the matter returned to the Chief Justice for a new bench.[1]

The auditor’s affidavit 

A parallel dispute concerns V.L. Varadarajan, ISKCON Bangalore’s former auditor. In an affidavit in January 2026 he stated that Madhu Pandit Dasa, president of ISKCON Bangalore, had misled him. He alleged that 12 years of accounts had been backdated and that minutes had been fabricated for governing-body meetings that never took place. ISKCON Mumbai then took the matter to a court in Kolkata, which directed the police to register an FIR against Varadarajan, Madhu Pandit Dasa and others.

On 6 October Varadarajan filed a new affidavit seeking to retract the January one, saying he had signed it without reading it. The record of the January affidavit carries a notary’s certificate stating that the document was read and explained to him.

Three days earlier, on 3 October, Varadarajan had lodged a police complaint. In it he alleged that Madhu Pandit Dasa offered him ₹1 crore, and later more than ₹50 crore, to make him state that ISKCON Mumbai had offered him ₹5 crore, a claim Varadarajan says was false. The same complaint says he had no contact with ISKCON Mumbai for a year. 

His 6 October affidavit, however, alleges pressure from the Mumbai side dating back to June 2025, and says he received a loan from people associated with ISKCON Mumbai; that claim has not been substantiated. The new affidavit does not dispute the original audit reports, or the fact that 12 years of accounts were filed together in August 2001.

The two sides

ISKCON Mumbai maintains that before 2001 Madhu Pandit Dasa himself told courts that the Bangalore temple was under the control of ISKCON Bombay. It says that in 1994 he described the Bangalore unit only as a branch, and that in three lawsuits filed between 1999 and 2001 he described himself as president of that branch, with no mention of the society registered in Karnataka in 1978. 

ISKCON Bangalore disputes this account. After the hearing date was set, ISKCON India’s communications director, Yudhistir Govinda Dasa, called the court’s decision to review the case a “significant milestone”.[4]

ISKCON Bangalore’s position is that the temple land was allotted to it by the Bangalore Development Authority in 1988, and that the temple’s property and funds were raised in Bangalore.[5] After the May 2025 verdict, Madhu Pandit Dasa said:

“They can no longer expel the thousands of devotees who accept only Srila Prabhupada as the sole Acharya of ISKCON.”Madhu Pandit Dasa, ISKCON Bangalore, 16 May 2025[5]

As of 12 October 2026, ISKCON Bangalore’s website carried no statement on the recusal or on Varadarajan’s affidavits. The claims about the accounts, the affidavits and the alleged offers of money are the parties’ allegations; no court has ruled on them, and the weight to be given to them will be for the Supreme Court to decide.

What happens next

The Chief Justice must now name a new three-judge bench before the review can be heard. Until then, the May 2025 judgment stands, and the Hare Krishna temple in Bengaluru remains with ISKCON Bangalore.[1][6]

Sources Ritwik Choudhury, “Supreme Court Justice Manoj Misra recuses from hearing case between ISKCON Mumbai and ISKCON Bengaluru”, Bar and Bench, 9 October 2026. barandbench.com/news/litigation/supreme-court-justice-manoj-misra-…

PTI, “ISKCON vs ISKCON: Supreme Court agrees to list review plea for hearing on Bengaluru temple”, ETV Bharat, 28 September 2026. 

etvbharat.com/en/bharat/iskcon-vs-iskcon-supreme-court-agrees-…
“बेंगलुरु इस्कॉन मंदिर विवाद: सुप्रीम कोर्ट 5 अक्टूबर के बाद करेगा पुनर्विचार याचिकाओं पर सुनवाई”, Law Trend, 28 September 2026. lawtrend.in/supreme-court-bengaluru-iskcon-temple-dispute-hearing

“India Court’s Decision to Review the Bengaluru Case Marks a ‘Significant Milestone’”, ISKCON News, 1 October 2026. iskconnews.org/india-courts-decision-to-review-the-bengaluru-case-…

ISKCON Bangalore, “Supreme Court’s Judgement: ISKCON Bangalore – ISKCON Mumbai dispute”, iskconbangalore.org, 16 May 2025. 

iskconbangalore.org/supreme-courts-judgement-iskcon-bangalore-…
“Ritviks’ Temple Win Under Threat: Supreme Court Sets Date for ISKCON’s Review Plea”, Akincana Gocara, 29 September 2026. akincana.net/2026/09/29/ritviks-temple-win-under-threat-…

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CHAT GPT  AI TRANSLATIONS

PADA: OK folks I know there are going to be both potential complaints and praises for AI translations of the writings of the Goswamis, and this section was analyzed and compared to Kusa Kratha's versions by the devotee who is posting them (see footnotes). 

A devotee is making these and I like them from the point of view, we probably never would have any idea what these writings are, without these attempts. The whole gopi lila process is a very extraordinary idea and it seems to hold the key to knowing how we have come to be mundane men and women in the material world, trying to artificially imitate these higher transcendental pastimes, which are ultimately abominable in the contaminated material world version. 

I know the topic is very serious and delicate, but anyway, here it is. Hope you like it! ys pd    





Śrī Vilāpa-kusumāñjali
Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī — Verses 1–10
Translation of the Śrī Vilāpa-kusumāñjali by Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, one of the most moving works in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava devotional literature.
ChatGPT: I would like us to preserve three fundamental qualities: fidelity to the Sanskrit, philosophical precision and literary beauty. We will neither introduce sentiments that the author has not expressed nor sacrifice the delicacy of his poetry for the sake of an excessively literal translation.
The work belongs to his collection Stāvalī, and its title may be translated as “A Handful of Flowers of Lamentation,” a poetic offering at the lotus feet of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Verse 1 — The Chastity of Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī
tvaṁ rūpa-mañjari sakhi prathitā pure ’smin
puṁsaḥ parasya vadanaṁ na hi paśyasīti
bimbādhare kṣatam anāgata-bhartṛkāyā
yat te vyadhāyi kim u tac chuka-puṅgavena

O dear friend Rūpa Mañjarī! In this village you are renowned for your chastity, for you never even look upon the face of another man. Yet although your husband is away, your lips, resembling reddish bimba fruits, bear the marks of a bite. Could they perhaps have been made by the most extraordinary of parrots?

Note: The verse contains a confidential suggestion expressed through a playful question. The reference to the parrot allows the poet to allude to Kṛṣṇa without naming Him directly. Puṁsaḥ parasya should not be translated as “the Supreme Personality of Godhead,” since it literally refers to another man.

Vilap-kusumanjali

Verse 2 — The Black Bumblebee

sthala-kamalini yuktaṁ garvitā kānane ’smin
praṇayasi vara-hāsyaṁ puṣpa-guccha-cchalena
api nikhila-latās tāḥ saurabhāktāḥ sa muñcan
mṛgayati tava mārgaṁ kṛṣṇa-bhṛṅgo yad adya

O terrestrial lotus flower! With good reason you are proud within this forest, and under the pretext of your clusters of blossoms you display a splendid smile. After all, the black bumblebee Kṛṣṇa has abandoned all those fragrant creepers and today seeks the path that leads to you.

Note: The lotus flower and the bumblebee form a poetic image of amorous attraction. The verb mṛgayati means “seeks,” while kṛṣṇa-bhṛṅga makes it possible to identify the black bumblebee with Kṛṣṇa. The expression does not refer to a “lotus tree,” as stated in the English translation.

Verse 3 — The Fortune of Rati Mañjarī

vrajendra-vasati-sthale vividha-vallavī-saṅkule
tvam eva rati-mañjari pracura-puṇya-puñjodayā
vilāsa-bhara-vismṛta-praṇayi-mekhalā-mārgaṇe
yad adya nija-nāthayā vrajasi nāthitā kandaram

O Rati Mañjarī! Among the many gopīs who reside in the dwelling place of the King of Vraja, you are certainly the most fortunate, for you have attained the fruit of an immense accumulation of pious merit. Today your own Mistress has asked you to go to a cave in search of the girdle She forgot during Her intense amorous pastimes.

Note: The expression pracura-puṇya-puñjodayā indicates the fruit of a great accumulation of pious merit. Rati Mañjarī’s extraordinary fortune consists in receiving such an intimate commission directly from her own Mistress.

Verse 4 — Prayer to Yadunandana Ācārya
prabhur api yadunandano ya eṣa
priya-yadunandana unnata-prabhāvaḥ
svayam atula-kṛpāmṛtābhiṣekaṁ
mama kṛtavāṁs tam ahaṁ guruṁ prapadye

I take refuge in my spiritual master, Śrī Yadunandana Ācārya, who possesses extraordinary spiritual influence and is very dear to Lord Yadunandana, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He personally bathed me in the incomparable nectar of his mercy.

Note: Here Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī expresses his gratitude toward Yadunandana Ācārya. The expression kṛpāmṛtābhiṣekam evokes a ceremonial bathing performed with the nectar of mercy.

Verse 5 — The Mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

yo māṁ dustara-geha-nirjala-mahā-kūpād apāra-klamāt
sadyaḥ sāndra-dayāmbudhiḥ prakṛtitaḥ svairī kṛpā-rajjubhiḥ
uddhṛtyātma-saroja-nindi-caraṇa-prāntaṁ prapadya svayaṁ
śrī-dāmodara-sāc cakāra tam ahaṁ caitanyacandraṁ bhaje

I worship Śrī Caitanya-candra, who, being an ocean of profound mercy and supremely independent by nature, immediately rescued me with the ropes of His compassion from the immense, waterless well of household life, from which it is exceedingly difficult to escape and which is the cause of unlimited suffering. Having rescued me, He granted me shelter at His feet, whose beauty surpasses that of the lotus, and placed me under the care of Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara.

Note: The image of the dry well conveys the condition of one who is trapped in an existence of suffering without any means of escape. Mahāprabhu’s mercy is personified as a rescuing rope.

Verse 6 — The Shelter of Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī

vairāgya-yug-bhakti-rāsaṁ prayatnair
apāyayan mām anabhīpsum andham
kṛpāmbudhir yaḥ para-duḥkha-duḥkhī
sanātanas taṁ prabhum āśrayāmi

I take refuge in my venerable master, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, who is an ocean of mercy and who suffers upon witnessing the suffering of others. Although I was spiritually blind and had no desire to drink the nectar of bhakti-rāsa joined with renunciation, through his persistent efforts he made me drink it.

Note: The expression vairāgya-yug-bhakti-rāsam means “the nectar of bhakti-rāsa joined with renunciation.” The author acknowledges that Sanātana Gosvāmī bestowed upon him that which, owing to his spiritual blindness, he did not know enough to desire.

Verse 7 — The Lament of a Maidservant

aty-utkaṭena nitarāṁ virahānalena
dandahyamāna-hṛdayā kila kāpi dāsī
hā svāmini kṣaṇam iha praṇayena gāḍham
ākrandanena vidhurā vilapāmi padyaiḥ

Alas, my beloved Mistress! I am a humble maidservant whose heart burns intensely in the unbearable fire of separation from You. Overwhelmed by sorrow and profound love, I now lament for a moment through these verses, accompanied by bitter weeping.

Note: This is the explicit beginning of the lament addressed to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. The term svāminī means “Mistress” or “Lady” and expresses the relationship of loving dependence characteristic of rādhā-dāsya.

Verse 8 — The Boat of Mercy
devi duḥkha-kula-sāgarodare
dūyamānam ati-durgataṁ janam
tvaṁ kṛpā-prabala-naukayādbhutaṁ
prāpaya sva-pada-paṅkajālayam

O Devī! This wretched maidservant is tormented in the depths of an ocean of countless sufferings. Please rescue her with the powerful and wondrous boat of Your mercy and carry her to the abode of Your lotus feet.

Note: The Sanskrit text employs janam, “person,” without specifying a feminine grammatical gender. The preceding verse, however, establishes that the supplicant speaks from the disposition of a dāsī; therefore, “maidservant” is appropriate in this contextual translation.

Verse 9 — The Medicine of the Lotus Feet

tvad-ālokana-kālāhi-
daṁśair eva mṛtaṁ janam
tvat-padābja-milal-lākṣā-
bheṣajair devi jīvaya

O Devī! This maidservant has become as if dead from the bites of the black serpent that represents the inability to behold You. Please restore her to life with the medicine of the red lac dye adorning Your lotus feet.

Note: Kālāhi means “black serpent,” while lākṣā refers to the reddish dye traditionally used to beautify the feet. The image expresses that even contact with the dye from Rādhārāṇī’s feet possesses the power to restore the spiritual life of Her maidservant.

Verse 10 — The Nectar of a Single Glance

devi te caraṇa-padma-dāsikāṁ
viprayoga-bhara-dāva-pāv akaiḥ
dahyamānatara-kāya-vallarīṁ
jīvaya kṣaṇa-nirīkṣaṇāmṛtaiḥ

O Devī! This maidservant of Your lotus feet has the delicate creeper of her body consumed by the intense flames of the forest fire of separation from You. Please restore her to life with the nectar of a single glance from You, even if it lasts for only a moment.

Note: The expression kāya-vallarīm compares the maidservant’s body to a delicate creeper that withers beneath the fire of separation. The nectar of Rādhārāṇī’s glance is the sole remedy capable of restoring her to life.

Editorial Observations

I have compared these ten verses with the available Sanskrit versions and with the English translation attributed to Śrīmān Kuśakratha dāsa.

For the definitive edition, we should preserve the following textual precisions:

• In verse 9, the correct reading is tvad-alokana-kālāhi- (“the black serpent of not beholding You”), rather than tvad-ālokana-kālāhi-.

• In verse 10, the text should read viprayoga-bhara-dāva-pāvakaiḥ, without a break within pāvakaiḥ.

• In verse 7, it is preferable to retain dandahyamāna-hṛdayā according to the edition consulted, while continuing to verify orthographic variants in other editions.

We should also distinguish clearly between the translation proper and interpretive notes. Explanations concerning the confidential sentiments of the mañjarīs are valuable, but they should not be confused with words directly expressed in the verses themselves.

My editorial proposal is to retain the Sanskrit and its translation in the main body of the work, while reserving the notes for a commentary at the end of each group of ten verses. In this way, the text will remain elegant, compact, and suitable for publication.

The Sanskrit text may be checked against the edition in Devanāgarī and IAST transliteration.
Jaya Śrī Rādhe!

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

BVKS / Drutakarma Health / Jayadvaita / Angela / Hladini 10 13 26


PADA: Well yeah, most Western devotees around here, say 99%, never go to ISKCON. Maybe a few show up at a festival.

 

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RUSSIAN DIESEL WILL FIX IT


PADA: Ok wait a minute pilgrims? Russia is allegedly providing Iran with weapons (Shaheds have been found to have Russian writing inside etc.), and perhaps intel of US targets in Saudi Arabia and so on. And so now the USA is going to fund Iran's main ally and helper -- Russia, by buying Russian oil? I thought we were fighting Iran? We are supporting their allies = fighting ourself? 

Why would we be fighting Iran, and funding the people supporting Iran, at the same time? So that is why I said at the start of all this, there is no plan, there never was any plan, and the current plan is helping our opponents, which is worse than no plan. Or was helping the allies of Iran always the plan?

Did I forget to mention we blasted severely on India for buying Russian oil, and said we would place 150% tariff if they buy oil from Russia. But now we can buy from Russia because we are above our own rules. 

It seems the rules do not apply to us, and worse, change every day so no one even knows what the rules are. Needless to say, this flip flopping is not making India happy. Indian politicians are openly saying USA wants India to fail by forcing India to drop Russian oil, while the USA takes it instead. The problem I see is that this will encourage Russia that they have USA support.  

But can we even get any diesel from there? There is a world wide tanker shortage and more are getting blown up every day, and Russia is not exporting finished oil products. OK it looks like this was not a workable plan from the start. 

I think this is all about making the voters happy, especially the diesel using famers and truckers, but it is not likely to help them at least in the short term. Its kinda emabarassing to have a leader who makes all these contrary executive orders, that never seem to fix much, and simply create a lot of chaos. 

A leader who wanted to fund the people who supply weapons to the enemy in any country would normally be yanked out of office. But these guys think this is 4D chess! I think it is 5D haywire. Hee hee.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com


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DRUTAKARMA GLORIFIES SRILA PRABHUPADA DEVOTEES!

Drutakarma Prabhu was sleeping all morning on October 11. Jayapataka Swami had a video call with him but we were unable to wake him to participate. 

PADA: Well there you have it, Drutakarma is getting a call from the founder father of the Auschwitz for kids program. When I tell people these guys are all colluding together people get upset, but the evidence just piles up. 


DRUTAKARMA's KARMA VACUUM.
Big guru leader of Los Angeles.
Where Drutakarma has been hanging out.  

About an hour after the video call with Maharaja, Drutakarma was moving his mouth and attempting to say something. I put my ear close to his mouth to ascertain what he was saying. At first I couldn't understand, it was a soft inaudible mumble. I asked to please repeat so that I could try to understand. That time I made out the word "disciple" but everything else was inaudible.

I told him, "I understood 'disciple', please try again if you wish." Then I made out the words "Prabhupada disciple", with the rest of the sentence again being inaudible. I said "Prabhupada disciple. Yes, you're Prabhupadas disciple..."

He then repeated his original sentence, this time it was clear enough to understand. He said "All glories to all Prabhupada disciples." I repeated what I thought he said and he confirmed "Yeah". Then he said "All glories to anyone who's performed devotional service." 

Because it was a soft mumble, I kept having to repeat back to him what I thought he said to confirm if I heard correctly. He responded, "yeah". He then said, "Anyone who's performed devotional service, man, woman, disciple or non-disciple." I repeated to confirm what I thought he said. He softly replied, "yeah".
Then again he went into a silent sleep. ~ from Brighupati Prabhu

PADA: Right, so we should glorify the Prabhupada disciples, by promoting a program that bans, beats, molests, sues and kills them! Why? So we can empty out the temples and make them into Hindu festival / marriage / cultural halls, and bring in the Hindus to support the temples. And evidently, a number of these Hindus eat meat and still worship Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Sai Baba, Lord Siva, Durga, Laxmi and who knows what? 

There are many photos of Drutakarma lecturing in the LA temple and there are maybe a dozen people attending, when there used to be hundreds. He clearly knows the temples are empty. Did I forget to mention, his karma vacuum cleaner Jayapataka looks like he's got too much karma in his vacuum bag! 

I did meet Drutakarma in a store near Watseka and I asked them why there are so many sexual predators in his guru parampara (at the time Harikesh was falling down) and he said "I don't have time to talk now, I have to go." 

Well yeah, there is no good answer. What these guys do not realize is, they will have to answer when they go to Yamaraja. Why are you guys promoting homosexuals, pedophiles, deviants, drug addicts, drunks and etc. as Krishna's guru successors? No answer on Yama loka? No worries! You guys don't have to answer that, the court of Yamaraja already knows the answer. 

Looks like? You guys wanted children to worship illicit sex with men, women and children because you wanted to contaminate them and not liberate them. The only good news is your temples are ghost towns so not many kids are affected. 

Now after supporting a process of thousands of people being banned, assorted beatings, molesting, suing and killing -- of us Srila Prabhupada followers, he is in love with us! It is all BS and we all know it. He is just trying to get sympathy and recognition. What he should be saying is, we apologize for mistreating all of the Srila Prabhupada followers. That would lighten his karma load on Yama loka, at least he repented. But he isn't. ys pd   

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THE JAYADWAITA CONUNDRUM

Is Jayadwaita a victim or patsy of higher authorities in the GBC?

Mother Deva Līlā wants us to see this comment from Ted Walford . She suggests that "We should not treat Jayadvaita Swami as a scapegoat- directing all our anger and ridicule towards him- without considering the full scope of the offenses."

"We should consider, though, that JAS was not the decision-maker or approver of the inclusion of edits in the reprints. Those persons were rather the GBC &/or BBT / I members. Each who said "Yes" bears individual responsibility. THEY are the persons without whose approval changes would not have gone to print, whether by Jayadvaita or Dravida or Swami Somebody or Dr. Doofus. 

THEY are the ones who owned the process, who managed the people, who controlled the money, and who contracted the work. THEY are the ones condemning and banning Prabhupada's books. THEY are the persons with the power, and therefore the ultimate RESPONSIBILITY, to ensure that Srila Prabhupada's books were protected and his instructions followed. THEY are the ones who ultimately failed Srila Prabhupada, his ISKCON, each of us, and the whole world."

IMAGE: Jayadwaita giving his classes on how he can improve Krishna's words. The fact is that Jayadwaita approached the GBC just 3 years of so after the disappearance of Guru Maharaja with his ideas to "edit" (rewrite) Prabhupada's books in total disonedience of the spiritual master's orders. The GBC approved, especially Jayapataka and Gopala Krishna. 

Thus the GBC sent out an official statement taht Jayadwaita would be sent around the world to "defeat" any objections to his editing. However, the editing was not carried out in a scholastic way, and the new editions of the books were clandestinely presented as originals. This cloak-and-dagger change disease has only caused greater displeasure among the family of true devotees.
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ANGELA NICHOLSON

You can never be eternally separated from an omnipresent God. You can never be separate from an omnipresent God ever. To believe in eternal damnation is to reject the omnipresence of God. The unconditional love of God. And the true nature of God.

There is nowhere you can go where God is not. There is no corner of existence outside of the Divine. No realm beyond God. No place where the presence of God suddenly ends.

God is the source light from which all of existance is emanating. Creation can only flow from God's perfect Love, because only Love can unify to create.
Separation cannot create. It can only steal. The illusion of separation from the perfect Love of God is what causes suffering and evil.

When we become so identified with the belief that we are separated from perfect Love, we create a hell experience. But losing awareness of God does not mean that God has left. The Divine does not cease to be present because consciousness has forgotten how to perceive it.

Separation is a mistake in perception. There is nowhere you can go where the heart of God is not present. Even in the most evil places. Evil is not a result of separation from God. Evil is a result of consciousness being so far into believing in the illusion of separation from God that it begins acting that way.

To commit evil is to reject your true nature as perfect Love- the divine spark giving life to all of existence. To deny your oneness with God is to deny your oneness with Perfect Love, and that is what leads us away from heaven.

Heaven is not the place we go when we finally become worthy of God. Heaven becomes our reality when the illusion that we were ever separate from God dissapears. 

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HLADINI'S DEATH 

Yes, Prabhul. I have now found where the accusation actually comes from, and the picture is more serious—but also more complicated—than it first appeared.
The primary source is not an anonymous rumor. There is testimony directly attributed to Mahāvegavatī Devī Dāsī, a disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda who served for years in Africa under the direction of Bhakti Tīrtha Swami and who stated that she traveled with both him and Hlādinī. 

Her status as a disciple of Prabhupāda can be independently verified: she appears among those accepted for initiation by Śrīla Prabhupāda in a 1974 letter. Vedabase
Most importantly, Mahāvegavatī claimed to have been a direct witness to part of the situation, rather than merely having heard rumors years later.

According to correspondence of hers that circulated publicly in 2005, she wrote that Bhakti Tīrtha Swami had ordered her to continue traveling with him and Hlādinī, even though she had repeatedly asked to be relieved of that service. She says that, as a result, both Bhakti Tīrtha and Hlādinī spoke to her separately about the problems they were having with each other. According to Mahāvegavatī, neither of them initially knew that the other was also confiding in her. rodpush - 

ISKCON

This is where the central allegation appears. Mahāvegavatī wrote:

“In Nigeria Hladini told me YOU WERE FORCING HER into having sex with you!”
That is important, because it changes the way the matter was originally framed. Mahāvegavatī’s allegation was not simply that “Hlādinī and Bhakti Tīrtha were having a sexual affair.” According to her testimony, Hlādinī personally told her that he was pressuring or forcing her to have sexual relations with him. rodpush - ISKCON

Mahāvegavatī also claims to have seen indirect evidence of a deeply troubled relationship. She says that Bhakti Tīrtha showed her letters Hlādinī had written to him and that he was extremely disturbed by them. She describes them as “bizarre letters.” We do not currently have the originals of those letters, so we cannot know exactly what they said. But if Mahāvegavatī’s testimony is authentic, this means that she was not basing her entire allegation solely on something Hlādinī had told her orally. rodpush - ISKCON

Mahāvegavatī further recalls that Hlādinī told her she wanted to get “as far as possible” from Bhakti Tīrtha and that she felt “terrorized” by him. At the same time, Mahāvegavatī acknowledges something very important for an honest assessment of her testimony: at the time, she herself did not know whom to believe, because Bhakti Tīrtha and Hlādinī were giving her conflicting accounts of what was happening. Only years later did she conclude that she believed Hlādinī’s version more than Bhakti Tīrtha’s. rodpush - ISKCON

And then comes Liberia

Mahāvegavatī makes an even more serious allegation.

She states that Bhakti Tīrtha called both Hlādinī and her into his room and informed them that they would be sent to Liberia. According to her testimony, Liberia was already engulfed in an extremely violent civil war at that time, and Bhakti Tīrtha was fully aware of the situation, whereas they were not. Mahāvegavatī refused to go. Hlādinī did ultimately end up in Liberia. rodpush - 

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Mahāvegavatī interprets that assignment as deliberate. She maintains that both women knew too much about Bhakti Tīrtha’s alleged sexual misconduct and that sending them into a place where they could be killed would have eliminated both witnesses. She explicitly accuses Bhakti Tīrtha of sending Hlādinī there with the expectation that she would be killed. rodpush - ISKCON

At this point, however, a fundamental distinction has to be made.

The claim that Bhakti Tīrtha sent or assigned Hlādinī to preaching service in Africa is entirely consistent with institutional sources. ISKCON News acknowledges that Hlādinī left New Vrindaban in December 1989, traveled to West Africa, and eventually served as a regional secretary, moving between different centers. She ultimately arrived in Monrovia while Liberia was in the midst of civil war. ISKCON News

What those sources do not confirm is the alleged secret motive for sending her there. The evidence can therefore be separated as follows:

• That Hlādinī worked within the African mission associated with Bhakti Tīrtha Swami: documented.

• That Bhakti Tīrtha exercised authority over her service assignments: highly plausible and consistent with the testimony.

• That Mahāvegavatī was personally present in the African mission and served there: independently documented. Back to Godhead even published an account of her preaching service in Kenya in 1996. Back To Godhead

• That Hlādinī personally told Mahāvegavatī that Bhakti Tīrtha was forcing her to have sexual relations: direct testimony from Mahāvegavatī, but not corroborated by a second eyewitness source that I have found.

• That Bhakti Tīrtha deliberately sent Hlādinī to Liberia so that she would die and the matter would be concealed: Mahāvegavatī’s interpretation and accusation; I found no independent evidence sufficient to establish it as fact.
Something even more interesting: the allegation did not originate in 2016
The page most commonly reproduced today dates from 2016, but the material it contains is considerably older.

The reproduced correspondence identifies a message from Mahāvegavatī dated February 3, 2005, and states that the exchange appeared on the Istagosthi Forum on February 8, 2005. In that email she was already explicitly asking Bhakti Tīrtha why he had intentionally sent Hlādinī to Liberia when he knew that the country was experiencing an extremely violent coup/war. rodpush - ISKCON
That same year, after Bhakti Tīrtha’s death, Mahāvegavatī again made similar claims publicly in discussions preserved by Sampradaya Sun. There she says:

“I was THERE!”

and states that Bhakti Tīrtha was sending both Hlādinī and her to Liberia while neither woman understood the full extent of the conflict. She also claims that he was particularly concerned that she might speak about “what happened with Hladini.” Harekrsna

This means that the allegation did not originate on Facebook fifteen or twenty years later. It can be documented at least as far back as 2005. Mahāvegavatī also makes an even more striking claim: she says that as early as the beginning of 1991 she had sent ISKCON’s then Ministry of Justice a statement of her own and copies of alleged evidence concerning Hlādinī’s death, addressed to several individuals, including Ganapati Swami and Abhirama, but received no response. That claim later appeared in an article she wrote in 2009. Harekrsna

This would be extremely important if those 1991 letters could be located, because they would be documents produced only a few months after Hlādinī’s death. For the time being, however, all we have is Mahāvegavatī’s later statement that she sent them; I have not located the originals.

What did Bhakti Tīrtha say in response?

Here too, the situation is interesting.

In the 2005 exchange that was later reproduced, portions of Bhakti Tīrtha’s response appear. He speaks about the sacrifices Mahāvegavatī made in Africa and acknowledges that the service there took place under extremely difficult conditions: illness, crime, conflicts among devotees, and so forth. He also says that he regarded Mahāvegavatī and Hlādinī almost as “brothers” and as renunciants. rodpush - ISKCON

However, in the material I have been able to locate, I did not find a specific and detailed denial of:

1. having had sexual relations with Hlādinī;
2. having sexually pressured or coerced her;
3. having ordered both women to travel to Liberia;
4. having known how dangerous Liberia was when he did so.

That does not mean that silence proves the allegations. It means only that, within the portion of the correspondence currently available to us, there is no point-by-point refutation.

There was also a public defense of Bhakti Tīrtha by some of his followers in 2005. One of them explicitly asked where the evidence was that Bhakti Tīrtha had been sexually intimate with Hlādinī and characterized such claims as unsubstantiated rumors. Harekrsna

There is another very important earlier source

The article “The Martyrdom of Hladini,” attributed to Jalakara Dāsa and based largely on investigations conducted in Africa by Tribhuvanātha Prabhu, appeared around 1999–2000. That text explicitly says that “how Hlādinī came to be in Monrovia” was something “obscure” and that there were “mysterious overtones” surrounding why the devotees were there under those circumstances. It does not mention an alleged sexual relationship, nor does it accuse Bhakti Tīrtha of arranging her death. 

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That seems significant to me for two opposite reasons.

On the one hand, it shows that even before Mahāvegavatī made her allegations public, questions already existed about how and why Hlādinī had ended up in that situation.

On the other hand, those who investigated the killing in Africa during the 1990s apparently did not publish evidence that Bhakti Tīrtha had arranged the murder.

My conclusion after tracing the sources

I would no longer describe the story simply as “a rumor that Hlādinī had an affair with Bhakti Tīrtha.”

It is more accurate to say:

Mahāvegavatī Devī Dāsī, a disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda who worked closely with Bhakti Tīrtha Swami and Hlādinī in Africa, publicly stated that Hlādinī had personally told her that Bhakti Tīrtha was forcing her to have sexual relations with him. Mahāvegavatī also maintained that Bhakti Tīrtha ordered both women to be sent to Liberia despite knowing the extreme danger posed by the civil war, and she later interpreted that assignment as a deliberate attempt to eliminate two witnesses to his conduct. Mahāvegavatī refused to go; Hlādinī went and was later murdered there.

The first part—what Hlādinī allegedly told Mahāvegavatī about the sexual matter—is direct second-hand testimony concerning the alleged sexual conduct: Mahāvegavatī says she heard it directly from Hlādinī herself.

The second part—that the motive for sending her to Liberia was to have her killed—is Mahāvegavatī’s causal allegation and interpretation, not an established fact.
So far, I have not found an original letter from Hlādinī stating, “Bhakti Tīrtha is forcing me to have sexual relations,” nor have I found another witness claiming to have directly observed the alleged sexual abuse, nor any police or judicial documentation linking Bhakti Tīrtha to Prince Johnson or to the execution itself.

That last point is essential, because the available evidence concerning the actual killings points directly to Prince Yormie Johnson and his men as the immediate perpetrators of the massacre. The unresolved question is whether anyone deliberately created the circumstances that placed Hlādinī in danger; that remains unproven. More Studies

There is, however, one lead that I believe is worth pursuing: the alleged letters Hlādinī wrote to Bhakti Tīrtha, and the documents Mahāvegavatī says she sent to ISKCON’s Ministry of Justice in 1991. If any of those documents still survive in old archives, they could substantially change how much can be established with confidence.