Jayapataka Defends Kirtanananda / Narayan Maharaja Folks / Sattvik Writes 01 12

January 12, 1986: On this date in history 38 years ago, Bhaktipada’s former housekeeper mails a second letter to the ISKCON acharyas (she wrote to them also in December 1985) in which she states that her “spiritual master” drinks alcohol to cure his pain, engages in sex with his house cat, and uses many different objects to sexually stimulate himself.

None of the acharyas respond, except for Jayapataka Maharaja, who writes directly to Bhaktipada and suggests Bhaktipada “take legal steps” against her.
(Gold, Guns and God, Vol. 4, p. 356)

NARAYAN MAHARAJA UPDATE

PD: Good, but all along nearly all the members of the NM sangha agreed with Narayan Maharaja -- that I was insulting Tamal and other ISKCON leaders, and NM was saying I am a bogus person for addressing various ills in ISKCON. For example, NM was in Texas supporting Tamal, exactly when I was in Texas organizing the child mistreatment lawsuit. 

And NM was very upset, evidently he was livid, when my associates went to discuss some of these points with him. Then NM invites me to his ashram to discuss all these issues, and he leaves me sitting from 830 am to 530 pm -- avoiding seeing me the whole day, and then he sneaks off the property. 

After that -- he goes to meet with other ISKCON leaders like Kirtanananda, whom NM is seen hugging and encouraging. And NM has invited many other ISKCON leaders -- like Radhanath swami -- to his ashram and he always has plenty of time to speak to them, and zero time to talk to us. Meanwhile, the local law enforcement wants to give me a Kevlar vest because they think the GBC guru process NM is cheer leading is a peril to my existence, and the existence of others. 

I was always being shown photos of people who had "disappeared" after being last seen at a Krishna camp, by local law enforcement, asking me if I had seen any of them. And I could go on for three days explaining so many other issues that were going on with the camp NM was cheer leading. 

So I fail to see how NM has the authority, any authority, to be a cheer leader, advisor, position paper writer, associate, darling, rasika teacher etc. to this group of ISKCON leaders -- who are causing severe problems for all the rest of us, like me being chased with bats, and all sorts of similar problems for many other victims, including evidently several thousand children who were also victims of his "dear Tamal tree of Radha" Tamal program. 

That is not only my question, that is the same question I get all the time from -- law enforcement, the FEDS, West Virginia Marshals, CBS TV, Rolling Stone Magazine, New York Times, Dr. J Stilson Judah and way too many to name herein, including many ex-children victims, "who authorized all this, and who authorized anyone to support it"? And yeah, Bhagavat knew NM was supporting the GBC leaders and he was one of those leaders for a long time himself. Agreed. Now he just wants fame and position, and evidently he is not helping resolve the Bhakti bandav problem. So they are just doing what they said was wrong with ISKCON. These reformers did not want an actual reform, they just wanted a seat at the guru table. ys pd

PD: Narayana Maharaja invites me to his ashram, and yet then they filter out us whistle blowers on mass child mistreatment? But they have no problem having him seeing the GBC's child mistreatment regime leaders for years, and years and years. And NM invites in the leaders all the time, and associates with Radhanatha, Kirtanananda and so on, yeah I agree. 

So I am a threat to NM -- because why? I am helping suing the mass child mistreatment program that NM is in Texas cheer leading? The local law enforcement, the FEDS, West Virginia Marshals, CBS TV, Rolling Stone Magazine, New York Times, Dr. J Stilson Judah and hundreds of others find me completely coherent, and NM does not? 

So yes, with any child mistreatmen regime -- there are: A: the perps, and B: the perps support team regime, and then there are often C: many cheer leaders and rasika type advisors for the regime, also called enablers. I am saying children are being mistreated, and that is incoherent to the GBC and their NM supporters and enablers, but not to the general mass of public, law enforcement, courts and media? 

I need mental health treatment to help me understand that my exposing child mistreatment is crazy and wrong? OK that is the process that enabled the mistreatment. You are just recycling what the NM people said the whole time, let us nullify this guy and enable the regime thereby. 

And Bhagavat is enabling problems in the current NM program the same way. Local law enforcement wants me to wear a Kevlar vest, it is not because me or they are crazy, it is -- that they can clearly see the regime NM supports is a peril to my continued existence. Calling me crazy is the same as saying the victims are crazy because I am their advocate, and that is enabling the problem the whole time. You are just recycling what they said about us whistle blowers the whole time. That is not healing the situation. ys pd

PD: I need a Kevlar vest to deal with your regime, and I need to take some meds? What specific statement did I make that is not sane and sound about my complaining about mass child mistreatment? Show me exactly which statement is not sound or correct, then I can try to correct it. 

NM invites me to his ashram, and leaves me sitting all day. Is that sane, sound or even -- proper etiquette among the conditioned souls, who never dream of treating me that badly. Bad behavior is allowed on your side, and I am not sane for objecting? And then after NM is oppressing my complaints, NM says the children "just got their karma." AFTER he suppressed my complaints. Is that sane in your opinion, or is it a total cop out excuse. Saying the children "just got their karma" is showing NO REMORSE according to some of the experts on child mistreatment I have spoken with. ys pd


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SATTVIK DASA:

ISKCON has also failed horribly in the 40 years since Srila Prabhupada's departure. The reason is simple: the ISKCON leaders tried to be more than their guru by manufacturing so many speculative things (zonal acharyas, voted in acharyas, successor acaryas, suspended acharyas, fallen acharyas, etc.).
Srila Prabhupada established a system in his temples whereby his unique position as founder-acharya (samsthapaka-acharya) was highlighted through his own worship in every single ISKCON temple. 

Some of the specific ways in which Srila Prabhupada did this was by having his vyasasana installed in all temples, installation of his deity while he was still living (in Vrindavan), having his photo on all ISKCON altars, having all disciples worship him every morning through “guru-puja”, etc. As soon as Prabhupada departed, ISKCON leaders suddenly tried to compete with him, installing their own Vyasasanas in all temples, keeping their own photos on the altar, instituting mandatory worship of themselves through “guru-puja” in all ISKCON temples, etc. 

Oddly, one will not find a single instruction by Srila Prabhupada to any of these ISKCON leaders, nor to ISKCON as a whole, to implement any of these changes to his institution. Srila Prabhupada specifically instructed how worship and sadhana in his movement should be carried out. Every detail of the morning program, evening program, japa, worship, etc., was given by Srila Prabhupada for all ISKCON devotees. 

Yet in an instant, the ISKCON leaders decided they were more than their guru, and made all sorts of unauthorized changes to his movement.

2) "He, before passing away, he gave all direction and never said that 'This man should be the next acharya.’ But these people, just after his passing away they began to fight, who shall be acharya. That is the failure."

Srila Prabhupada also gave all instructions before departing. Yet he never said "this person will be next acharya" or "these people will be the next diksha gurus". Despite the fact that he never authorized anyone to be the next diksha guru, immediately after his departure his disciples fought over the position of acharya, throwing out anyone who did not accept their chosen 11 leaders as equal to Srila Prabhupada.

3) "They never thought, 'Why Guru Maharaja gave us instruction so many things, why he did not say that this man should be acharya?’"

After Prabhupada's departure, the ISKCON leaders never thought "Why Srila Prabhupada did not say that these men should be acharyas?" Prabhupada gave so many instructions, yet he specifically never authorized anyone to be the next acharya and diksha guru of ISKCON. Instead of understanding the reason Prabhupada never authorized or appointed anyone, the ISKCON leaders immediately fought over who would succeed Srila Prabhupada as acharya. 

It is a fact that Srila Prabhupada did not say that any of the 11 appointed zonal-acharyas should be acharya. It is also a fact that Srila Prabhupada did not say that any of the present 100 mini-acharyas should be mini-acharya. “So why did he not say that this man, [insert SWAMI X here], should be acharya?” That is Prabhupada’s own question. You can take it up with him.

Tamal Krishna Maharaja, one of the 11 zonal acharya's, explained their mood at the time of appointing themselves as successor acharya's:

“They immediately… these eleven people are the selected gurus. I can say definitely for myself, and for which I humbly beg forgiveness from everybody, that there was definitely some degree of trying to control. There's a degree of this in most GBC's parts, in most temple president's parts. This is the conditioned nature, and it came out in the highest position of all. ‘Guru, oh wonderful! Now I'm a guru, and there is only eleven of us’.”

4) "They wanted to create artificially somebody acharya and everything failed."
The ISKCON leaders wanted to artificially appoint themselves as acharya, and as Tamal Krishna Maharaja explained above, it was due to their desire to control, due to their conditioned nature, and due to their desire to become gurus (only 11 people, worshipped as good as God Himself). 

Once the 11 zonal acharya's were artificially created to replace Srila Prabhupada, everything in ISKCON failed. The history since that time has been one disgrace after another, so much so that devotees are embarassed to let other people know they are devotees. All of Prabhupada's wealth and assets, meant for Krishna's service, have been looted and stolen; many wonderful temples have been closed down and sold off; and worst of all, tens of thousands of devotees have been exploited and then left abandoned by fallen "gurus" and "acharyas".

5) "They did not consider even with common sense that if Guru Maharaja wanted to appoint somebody as acharya, why did he not say? He said so many things, and this point he missed? The real point? And they insist upon it."

To this very day the ISKCON leaders still do not consider this point with common sense. If Srila Prabhupada wanted to appoint some people as acharya, why didn't he say so? Srila prabhupada taught so many things, yet they think he missed this simple point, forgetting to specify who will be acharya and diksha guru after him? Prabhupada's use of the phrase "and they insist upon it" is amazingly relevant to ISKCON today. 

The ISKCON leaders repeatedly insist that Prabhupada failed to specify who would be the next diksha guru. They insist upon it so much, that if you do not accept their view on this matter, then you are banned and thrown out.