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PADA: 4th of July is the appearance day of Sulochan dasa.
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ISKCON BANS MORE DEVOTEES
CD: Recently a devotee friend of mine in the UK told me that in 2021 he was banned from ISKCON by the ISKCON UK Management Council. I listened to his side of the story. Then I wrote to our acting GBC and asked him to tell me the management council's side of the story. His response was that he couldn't tell me the management council's side of the story because the matter is confidential, but that the management council are satisfied with their own investigations and decisions, and that there's a lot I don't know about the case (as if to imply that therefore I should be satisfied with the decision and drop my enquiry). Something about this doesn't sound right to me, but I don't have a background in law or management or government, so I am lost for how to respond.
I am writing about this in hope that perhaps some others who do have a background in law or management or government might be able to shed some light. It seems to me that if an administrative body in ISKCON undertakes such a serious and extreme form of action as banning a person from the society, they should be obligated to make a written report of the matter accessible to any member of the society who wants to know the details. This is a matter of public interest because potentially any member of ISKCON could be handed the same treatment as my friend who was banned from the society.
PADA: Basically anyone who does not agree that messiahs are commonly falling into illicit sex with men, women and children can be banned from ISKCON. However if one worships the bogus messiah leaders of an anal reconstructive surgery epidemic, one is welcome. That is what we see happening in many cases.
DS: Those who indulge in this now-common practice of ban ban banning devotees might be renamed as Ban-asura. We don't see in Prabhupada's history with us that he banned devotees. Now it's commonplace. Imagine if we tried this in his personal presence?
We DO see it in his history that if a devotee somehow got ostracized and left, Prabhupada would become extremely concerned and say emphatically, "Go find him and bring him back!"
BA: I was banned by kolkata iskcon from taking classes of bhakti vriksha.
YD: Corporate ISKCON only needs yes men and money.
PADA: Yes, I was banned from the ISKCON UK when I said we cannot worship predators who are offering LSD to the shalagram as God's successors. Later on their acharya was eliminated by a disgruntled disciple in a UK store, oddly called "Knobs and Knockers." Then there was horrible headlines all over the UK, but on no account does ISKCON just say, no -- none of these people are, were or could have been gurus. They have been banning people all along, and they still are.
I am writing about this in hope that perhaps some others who do have a background in law or management or government might be able to shed some light. It seems to me that if an administrative body in ISKCON undertakes such a serious and extreme form of action as banning a person from the society, they should be obligated to make a written report of the matter accessible to any member of the society who wants to know the details. This is a matter of public interest because potentially any member of ISKCON could be handed the same treatment as my friend who was banned from the society.
PADA: Basically anyone who does not agree that messiahs are commonly falling into illicit sex with men, women and children can be banned from ISKCON. However if one worships the bogus messiah leaders of an anal reconstructive surgery epidemic, one is welcome. That is what we see happening in many cases.
DS: Those who indulge in this now-common practice of ban ban banning devotees might be renamed as Ban-asura. We don't see in Prabhupada's history with us that he banned devotees. Now it's commonplace. Imagine if we tried this in his personal presence?
We DO see it in his history that if a devotee somehow got ostracized and left, Prabhupada would become extremely concerned and say emphatically, "Go find him and bring him back!"
BA: I was banned by kolkata iskcon from taking classes of bhakti vriksha.
YD: Corporate ISKCON only needs yes men and money.
PADA: Yes, I was banned from the ISKCON UK when I said we cannot worship predators who are offering LSD to the shalagram as God's successors. Later on their acharya was eliminated by a disgruntled disciple in a UK store, oddly called "Knobs and Knockers." Then there was horrible headlines all over the UK, but on no account does ISKCON just say, no -- none of these people are, were or could have been gurus. They have been banning people all along, and they still are.
BUT HEY KEEP BANNING THEM! MANY OF THE REFUGEES COME TO US!
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
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NARADA MUNI dasa acbsp UPDATE July 4, 2023
Narada Muni prabhu is transitioning to the end of his life. Southcare End of Life Care is helping his wife, Vedamata dasi, to pay for his funeral expenses. And, although she has not requested it, we would like to hold a memorial and feast in Narada Muni prabhu’s honor. He has served Srila Prabhupada’s movement selflessly since 1969. Let’s give him a warm send off.
Here is a list of the expenses.
Cremation: $795
Death certificate: $ 15
Feast at temple $751
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Total $1561
Please DONATE here. https://tinyurl.com/kd2xnsav
All donations are tax deductible.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!! All glories to Narada Muni das adhikari!!!
PADA: Many of the faithful promoters of New Vrndavana have wound up in Alachua, and as a reward, ISKCON gives them zero support and they have to fundme for their welfare and care, or even burial expenses. Unfortunately, many Alachua folks still promote Radhanath, the leader of the bogus gurus process. ys pd
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London Pride Parade
PADA: OK some folks have said that PADA is homo-phobic and is against their entire process. Truth be told, many gay folks like me and they like PADA. I have also had some gay friends where I worked, and they were very kind to me. OK. Much more kind than many "devotees." I also drove around lots of gays, lesbians, and who knows what -- in my San Francisco Taxi, and they too were generally very kind to me, and they helped me survive in that business.
I am not against gays per se, but clearly some of them are rotten apples, and neither me -- nor my gay friends -- support what the deviants are doing. So when someone sent me this -- saying the BLISS guys going to this festival is favoring the gays, I don't think so.
They went to a parade, and it is a big public event, and I do not fault them for going there. Next week they will maybe be at the national horse races festival or who knows what else. I am just glad to see some devotees doing some preaching somewhere, anywhere. When devotees are not seen at any public events at any time anywhere, that is when we need to start to worry.
In sum, being gay is another form of material attachment, among many thousands of others. Material attachment keeps us glued to the material world. We have to give up all these false designations if we plan to escape being confined in the material world.
ys pd
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