Various PADA / ISKCON News Bytes 04/07/23

https://www.prabhupada-media.net/?

https://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2019/04/lord-balaram-rasayatra.html

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PADA: Thanks BCD. "No one listens to PADA's ranting." Well hee hee prabhu, now you know why we have been going to the public -- police, FBI, courts and media etc., because they do listen, at least better than many "devotees." We had this same problem with the Kamsahanta / Sanat / Mukunda / Prahlad das / Bhakta Peter / HKC Jaipur folks, "no one listens to PADA."

Fine, but then they were spending all day long trying to get PADA banned from the internet. Of course, they did want everyone to listen to their shiksha guru masters -- like Radhanath's lovers and / or Bhavananda's bucket boy Hari Sauri. Yep, they just could not stop licking the jackboots of their pedophile messiah's club folks.

Then all of a sudden, they said --- oops! Wait, actually millions and millions and millions of people are listening to PADA, because we are having their molesting program sued for child abuse, which then became a major public spectacle news issue. So, no one listens, or too many people listen, hey, I don't really care.

Srila Prabhupada said if no one comes, preach to the four walls. It is not really a numbers issue, although 9999.9999 percent of the world population is 100% with PADA, they do not want to see pedophiles worshiped as messiahs either. Numbers are clearly in my favor, I'd say, bare minimum -- 9999.9999 percent. But hey, if you got a better idea, go ahead and show us the better plan. Right now, more people listen to me than you, with all due respect, you need to start to work on your own numbers.

Leader of Mayapur's Pedo-loka In Los Angeles.

Sorry! Child molester messiah programs need to be exposed and eliminated, and if that process cannot be exposed and eliminated among the devotees, then no problem, we will work on other venues. And we are. ys pd

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KRISHNA WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE BAD FOR US

Inner change can only begin to happen when we learn to accept the situation Krishna puts us in and see that it is His will. "There is no other reason why I got myself into this situation and that I am doing so." 

Krishna made it this way, and if Krishna made it so, and it is His will, then I need to learn to accept it. And if He wants me to be in a different situation, He will make it happen. " The more you listen about Krishna, the more you will understand that Krishna is a very loving friend.

Krishna knows what is going on in our hearts. And Krishna would never do anything which would be bad for us. And the more we hear about Krishna and the more we see His presence in our lives, the more thankful we become to Him.
And the more grateful we become,the more Krishna massages our heart and we truly feel His presence in our lives and become peaceful.

But that process takes time.

Either way, this place, this ashram, these circumstances are your test now. And when you can truly accept that, then you can move on, and other challenges await you. But it's all because Krishna wants more than anything for you to come back to Him. He wants to make this your last visit to the material world. And He will do everything possible and give you the strength you need to overcome all those obstacles in your way and get back to God.

You are very lucky .

This can't happen soon. Maybe not even in this lifetime. But you have a very favorable opportunity to make it in this lifetime. 

E. S. Srila Niranjan Swami 

PADA: Really, so all of the devotees who have been banned, beat, molested, sued and killed -- are getting that treatment "by Krishna's will." Yep, it is your bad karma to be abused by the Niranjan swami / GBC guru process. Or maybe, the GBC guru process is demoniac -- and they are not authorized to mistreat others, and what they are doing has no authority from Krishna? Just asking for a friend. ys pd 

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The NYC Bhakti Center History

Very interesting recently-published book about the innovations introduced by Devamrita Swami, Hridayananda Goswami, and Radhanath Swami. Especially memorable to me is the story of how Radhanath Swami took over Bhaktipada's 6-story New York City property (The Interfaith Sanctuary) worth $838,350, and evicted Bhaktipada and his disciples to turn it into the Bhakti Center. Following is the story from the book "Branding Bhakti":

Prior to coming into Radhanath Swami’s hands, the Bhakti Center was called "the Sanctuary" and was a religious center built and financed by the disciples of ISKCON’s most infamous outlaw guru, Swami Bhaktipada (also known as Kirtanananda). From 1979 through 1990, Swami Bhaktipada had been the guru in charge of ISKCON’s New Vrindaban community in rural West Virginia, which at that time was a large and thriving residential community housing a number of ISKCON projects, including a number of theme park-like attractions and an opulent temple complex called Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold. 

Although this community was initially thriving (and also immensely lucrative), it was eventually rocked by a number of scandals, including numerous acts of child molestation and even two (or more?) murders. These crimes eventually led to the ousting of Bhaktipada from the community (and from ISKCON). They also led to his ultimate conviction on mail fraud and racketeering, crimes for which he eventually served eight years in prison.

Despite the fact that he had committed morally and criminally atrocious acts, however, many of Bhaktipada’s followers remained loyal to him, even after his imprisonment. These followers — who had by then formed an ISKCON splinter group known as "the Interfaith League of Devotees" — were the ones who built up and financed "the Sanctuary." And upon Bhaktipada’s release from prison, they had the Sanctuary prepared for him so that it could be a comfortable devotional place for his return. 

And when he was released from prison, he did, in fact, return there. Over time, Radhanath Swami and his disciples came to inherit the Bhakti Center from Bhaktipada and the Interfaith League of Devotees. The gist of the story is that at around the same time that Bhaktipada and his Interfaith League of Devotees were residing in the Sanctuary (upon Bhaktipada’s release from prison), another group of ISKCON devotees had been living a monastic life around the block, at an ashram affiliated with the 26 Second Avenue ISKCON center. 

Because their rent was too high and because they had outgrown the worship space of both 26 Second Avenue and their affiliated ashram, Bhaktipada invited them to come and live with him and his disciples in the Sanctuary, offering to let them live there at a reduced rent. Somewhat surprisingly, the devotees took him up on his offer, and before long, all of the devotees and programs from the 26 Second Avenue location and its ashram shifted to the Sanctuary. 

Over time, however, the devotees did not just continue to shift to the Sanctuary, they ultimately also took over its management, eventually asking Bhaktipada and his disciples to leave. This is, of course, a highly contested history. 

The party on the other side of this story, the disciples of Bhaktipada who were asked to leave, claim that they were unjustifiably evicted and that the disciples at the ashram with Radhanath Swami directing them ... stole the Sanctuary from them, essentially taking the building that they worked so hard to build and pay for ... and take it out from right under their noses. There is a video of Radhanath on an elevator arguing with people over the take over.

Needless to say, whichever account of the story one accepts, the disciples of Bhaktipada no longer have possession of the Sanctuary (now called the Bhakti Center). Instead, it is run under the direction of Radhanath Swami and administered by a board of ISKCON devotees who are largely under his discipleship. In the meantime, the original 26 Second Avenue location is still barely recovering from the exodus of devotees and programs.

“Once everything moved over to the Bhakti Center [then still called the Sanctuary],” one devotee told me, “we were just holding onto 26 Second Avenue strictly for historical purposes. Literally nothing was going on there for years. And it was just being maintained by some donors, and nothing was going on. So then one program started up, must have been 2011 or so ... and for several years his [one devotee’s] program was the only thing happening there.”

They abandoned the ISKCON program and switched it over to Radhanath.

[PADA: Yep, ISKCON removed Kirtanananda, but some of his disciples were still worshiping his photo at New Vrndavana not that long ago. And then there is the Kirtanananda samadhi, also supposedly made with help from Radhanath and others from ISKCON.]