PADA: Yeah, notice that someone comments that Devakinandan is responsible, and he is one of the India ICC chiefs. Does not look like they have anyone on hand to fix this issue, or the Giriraj issue, or many other issues. They have become so incompetent they cannot even send out a team to sweep things under the rug these days. I hope someone can translate this for us, but it looks like the wheels are starting to come off their India molester messiah's project. ys pd
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FROM THE UK
Subject: Breakdown Of Religion
SOME THOUGHTS ON POST-1978 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS (ISKCON) WITH SOME SKETCH ON THE PRESENT SOCIETY IN UK and SOUTH AFRICA [NOT FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION]
These thoughts are based on the understanding that we are spiritual beings regardless of our bodily identification, though they touch on political matters connected to the external body.
It looks at certain things from a political point of view, however, from the perspective of the undermining of pure religion or sanatana-dharma (represented by Swami Prabhupada) and upadharma (approximate religion represented by religions that have been modified over hundreds of years, like Christianity). The opponents to dharma and upadharma are secret societies which, in the higher levels of initiation, are rooted in the occult and their secular counterparts, like Marxist-Communism.
Srila Prabhupada
Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, affectionately known as Srila Prabhupada by his followers, was the consummate spiritual teacher - on a par with lord Jesus Christ. A favourite Prabhupada-ism is "gold can be taken from a dirty place" and the movement does make Prabhupada's pure transmission of the Indian sacred texts available to some degree.
His Society, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was until the time of his departure the pure ecclesiastical expression of his purpose: to spread love of God, like lord Jesus.
There are strong indications that he was poisoned by some of his leading students from February to November 1977. This being said, he never wavered in his pure Krishna consciousness or missionary purpose as the founder and leader of ISKCON until his last breath.
The Zonal-acharya System and Deviant Management
The most telling proof of this sabotage to the leader of the Hare Krishnas is the usurpation of Prabhupada's exalted position of acharya by 11 unqualified disciples. This "guru system" was "reformed" in 1986, but never followed the specific instructions or orders of the founder-acharya, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who clearly and emphatically stated - despite of alterations to audio recordings and formal letters - that his successors were to initiate newcomers on his behalf (a system called the "rithvik representative system").
PRABHUPADA TRUTH COMMISSION
Words of Hope & Comfort
The poisoning of Srila Prabhupada, is a very difficult pill to swallow. When someone hears the tape, it shocks their system. It normally takes devotees years to fully digest and accept this reality. So many questions come to mind.
- Why would anyone think of poisoning a great saintly person like Srila Prabhupada?
- Why did Krishna not intervene? How did Krishna allow this to happen?
- How can the gurus whom we thought were the purest of souls, do something like this?
- Is this a personal vendetta and the evidence that is being presented has been manufactured for personal reasons?
- How could Srila Prabhupada be poisoned by the very people that he apparently picked as his successors?
We hear you and fully sympathise with you.
These questions, and many more, are natural for any devotee who is faithful to guru and the movement. This is because the foundation of the movement is surrender to guru. Many devotees in-fact have more surrender to guru than even Lord Krishna because their gurus are the accessible medium via which they can hope to serve the Lord eternally. Hence even the suggestion that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned is a very painful thought to entertain in one’s mind. To walk away from this subject and continue one’s Krishna Consciousness, as if nothing has happened, is the easiest thing to do.
But is this the right thing to do?
In fact, the very people who are involved in revealing this truth to the Iskcon community were also caught by complete surprise when the audio tapes were first discovered and heard properly in 1997. This is due to the fact that these devotees were not looking for malicious content from these tapes. They did not decide from day one that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned. Rather they investigated the suggestion from Srila Prabhupada himself in those tapes, that he was poisoned.
For 25 years, work was done with professional institutions and individuals globally to simply answer this question - Was Srila Prabhupada really poisoned? Or are we all just letting our imaginations run wild? With each year more and more evidence came forward, pointing to malicious intent by certain individuals. These suggestions of malicious poisoning were not investigated once or twice but over and over again to ensure that there was no ‘stone left unturned’. The committee wanted to make sure that we came to the right conclusion rather than be abrasive or presumptuous.
After all, suggesting that some of the most powerful people in the Iskcon movement poisoned Srila Prabhupada, is a very heavy allegation both individually and institutionally and not one that any sane individual would make lightly. If we were wrong, we’d feel terrible and we would have committed a great Vaishnava aparadha, with the stain of false accusation etched into our lives forever.
If we were right, then the paradox is that we would look even worse, because the sinister nature within those that are still in power would make our lives hellish by turning their own followers against us. If they could poison the Acharya of Iskcon, then killing us would be a no- brainer. We still live in this knowledge that we could be attacked any time, and frankly this has already happened. Death threats, poisoning, and many others beyond the scope of this brief.
Either way, we had to ensure that there was enough evidence for us to believe that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned and that this evidence would also convince others of the same, should they take the time to consider all the material presented.
Hundreds of devotees, many of whom held powerful positions in Iskcon, are actually familiar with this subject and agree that there is undeniable evidence that Srila Prabhupada was criminally poisoned. Unfortunately, most of them are in a conundrum.
If they speak out, the leaders of Iskcon will strip away everything – their positions, their means of income, their affiliation and most importantly their service. In other words, they stand to lose everything. This is the unfortunate position of many sympathisers to this cause. Iskcon is their life, their lifeline, their livelihood, their community, and some of their deepest and most cherished memories.
To lose all of this in one go is the trump card that the malicious leaders hold up their sleeve. Hence we do have complete sympathy for devotees who wish not be named or do not have the ability to stand up. They are a bit like Bhismadeva when Draupadi was being stripped, in that they know the truth but cannot stand by it, because their bellies are fed by that very Institution.
However, there are devotees that have the fortune of not being completely dependent on Iskcon and therefore can make a stance.
What should Iskcon devotees do?
Srila Prabhupada discouraged blind acceptance, and also he didn’t advocate for blind rejection. In that spirit, we’re not asking you to uncritically believe a word we are saying. Rather we simply ask that each person who genuinely loves and appreciates Srila Prabhupada for what he has given us – Krishna Bhakti – makes a thorough investigation as to the sources of evidence presented by this committee of devotees. You may find that we are completely right, or you may find that that we are completely wrong. Either way, at least you have tried to look at the situation objectively.
My view is that the idea that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned should not rattle the faith of devotees who are mature and have understood our Vaishnava teachings. Pure devotees are often attacked in some way or another. Multiple attempted murders by Hiranyakashipu of his own son Prahalad, the beating of Haridas Thakur in twenty two market places, the killing of Abhimanyu (Krishna’s own student) and the crucifixion of Jesus.
We appeal to devotees who are convinced like we are, to stand and fight for the truth. Fight for Srila Prabhupada! Srila Prabhupada is living through his words, and his instructions.
If this can be done, then, with pride we can call ourselves followers of Srila Prabhupada. Take your time, hear the tape again and again, read all the evidence we have put together at the Justice For Srila Prabhupada site-
https://justiceforsrilaprabhupadafoundation.org/ -
and if you are in agreement with us, then join us. The more devotees we have, the more power we have to make change.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krishna
The heart & voice of an Initiated devotee, who has been in Iskcon for more than 25 years.
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PADA: Yes, when I first got the November tapes I was walking around the Santa Monica mall for maybe two weeks -- listening to the tapes over and over. I knew that if I released the tape, history would be turned upside down. And it would initially create a lot of trauma, freak outs, further questions, and even a lot of confusion. And maybe even some of their fanatics taking me out by assassination.
But on the other hand, maybe people would see, all the trouble that happened in ISKCON, started here. Srila Prabhupada was literally patient zero in the epidemic of mistreating Vaishnavas.
However, the maxim is -- the truth must be told, however painful, because hiding it causes even worse pain. And of course, the truth shall set you free etc. So I decided to go ahead, and the rest is history, quite literally. In any event, the cat is out of the bag, and that is just the nature of history.
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
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PADA: Yes, my friends in Vrndavana told me that Kirtanananda carcass was starting to stink so Gopal Krishna hired a big refrigerator. Then Radhanath got Gopal Krishna to get the government permits. In any case, Gopal Krishna, Radhanath and the temple president of Vrndavana temple -- Panca Gauda -- were all at the installation ceremony, acting as the head priests. Of course they also buried porno swami Gunagrahi in Vrndavana, and other deviants were buried in Mayapur.
But this is all part of the pattern of glorifying deviants as Krishna's successors which they have been doing all along. The India Continental Committee people wrote to tell me the reason i do not endorse deviants in samadhis is that I am a mleccha who does not understand Hindu culture. Well no, I do understand, a person who contaminates the holy dham with the worship of predators in samadhis is called an aparadhi. And why do they do that? So they can make little children worship predators as messiahs in samadhi, which they have done the whole time. It is called corrupting the morals of minors, which is a crime here in the USA, evidently, not there. ys pd
FROM THE UK
Subject: Breakdown Of Religion
SOME THOUGHTS ON POST-1978 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS (ISKCON) WITH SOME SKETCH ON THE PRESENT SOCIETY IN UK and SOUTH AFRICA [NOT FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION]
These thoughts are based on the understanding that we are spiritual beings regardless of our bodily identification, though they touch on political matters connected to the external body.
It looks at certain things from a political point of view, however, from the perspective of the undermining of pure religion or sanatana-dharma (represented by Swami Prabhupada) and upadharma (approximate religion represented by religions that have been modified over hundreds of years, like Christianity). The opponents to dharma and upadharma are secret societies which, in the higher levels of initiation, are rooted in the occult and their secular counterparts, like Marxist-Communism.
Srila Prabhupada
Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, affectionately known as Srila Prabhupada by his followers, was the consummate spiritual teacher - on a par with lord Jesus Christ. A favourite Prabhupada-ism is "gold can be taken from a dirty place" and the movement does make Prabhupada's pure transmission of the Indian sacred texts available to some degree.
His Society, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was until the time of his departure the pure ecclesiastical expression of his purpose: to spread love of God, like lord Jesus.
There are strong indications that he was poisoned by some of his leading students from February to November 1977. This being said, he never wavered in his pure Krishna consciousness or missionary purpose as the founder and leader of ISKCON until his last breath.
The Zonal-acharya System and Deviant Management
The most telling proof of this sabotage to the leader of the Hare Krishnas is the usurpation of Prabhupada's exalted position of acharya by 11 unqualified disciples. This "guru system" was "reformed" in 1986, but never followed the specific instructions or orders of the founder-acharya, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who clearly and emphatically stated - despite of alterations to audio recordings and formal letters - that his successors were to initiate newcomers on his behalf (a system called the "rithvik representative system").
The reforms of 1986 simply continued the unauthorised system of taking Prabhupada's leadership and spiritual position and continuing a rubber-stamped guru system in perpetual, effectively de-legitimising the movement's spiritual link to its leader. Many of these leaders have been compromised with women, have female secretaries (which is contrary to the etiquette of the renounced order) and some, like Giriraja Swami (Glen Teton) even live with their female "disciples".
The zonal-acharyas flagrantly disobeyed Prabhupada's "Direction of Management" order which authorised a rotational managerial structure to be implemented which safeguarded the society from top-heavy dictatorships. This was ignored and leading positions have been held in perpetuo. When the zonal-acharyas came into power in 1978, they excommunicated anyone who did not conform to their modus operandi.
The zonal-acharyas flagrantly disobeyed Prabhupada's "Direction of Management" order which authorised a rotational managerial structure to be implemented which safeguarded the society from top-heavy dictatorships. This was ignored and leading positions have been held in perpetuo. When the zonal-acharyas came into power in 1978, they excommunicated anyone who did not conform to their modus operandi.
Some of the leading dissenters, like Pradyumna das (a great Sanskrit scholar) and people like Yasodanandana Swami were threatened with their lives. They promptly left. Assassinations and the suspicious passing of prominent devotees like Sadaputa das (Dr. Leonard Thompson) and Aindra das (ISKCON's famous singer or kirtaniya) and even deviants (a competitor who said he was going to be the main acharya) like Tamal Krishna (Thomas Herzig) point to the ruthless manner in which these pseudo devotees retain their power.
The 11 zonal-acharyas as they called themselves have brought disrepute to the Hare Krishnas since so many questionable things took place under their watch, the worst being a wholesale epidemic of violence and sexual abuse. Many of the offenders, protected by their peers, still hold prominent positions in the Society today. Dressed in the saffron robes of renunciates, many of these so-called mendicants have amassed large amounts of personal wealth in the name of the founder, Srila Prabhupada.
Posthumous Changes to Prabhupada's Books (the "Book Changes")
By 1983, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) had made nearly 5,000 posthumous changes to Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita As It Is which had been published by MacMillan publishers in 1978. The book only required 98 grammatical changes.
The 11 zonal-acharyas as they called themselves have brought disrepute to the Hare Krishnas since so many questionable things took place under their watch, the worst being a wholesale epidemic of violence and sexual abuse. Many of the offenders, protected by their peers, still hold prominent positions in the Society today. Dressed in the saffron robes of renunciates, many of these so-called mendicants have amassed large amounts of personal wealth in the name of the founder, Srila Prabhupada.
Posthumous Changes to Prabhupada's Books (the "Book Changes")
By 1983, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) had made nearly 5,000 posthumous changes to Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita As It Is which had been published by MacMillan publishers in 1978. The book only required 98 grammatical changes.
There was no need for further alteration, which, in effect, constitutes the changing of a religion. Would you feel comfortable if you knew the Bible had undergone nearly 5,000 changes in 35 years? The person responsible for the unauthorised editing and bowdlerisation of Srila Prabhupada's legacy is a man named Jay Israel or Jayadvaita Swami.
Among his close assistants is Stephen Doliner (Dravida Das) who evidently said he was coming from: 'A lapsed Jewish family ...There was no real religion in my upbringing: if anything, I guess you would say my faith revolved around communism - this is what I was brought up with. My parents idealised the Soviet Union, and my father was active in leftist politics - he was involved locally, at least during my early years, and nationally earlier in his own life ... my father had trouble finding a decent job because of McCarthyism'.
Prabhupada describes "the great sinister movement" or cult (call it communism or the Illuminati, if you will) who send agents into popular organisations and movements at their very outset to take them over and steer them forward according to their own particular design.
Future Directions
This is what has happened in ISKCON and that is why it has become increasingly cultish to those looking into the movement from the outside. The current leader of this faction in ISKCON is a very charismatic leader called Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin). I have been linked to him for some 20 years, but having heard of his suspect character from trustworthy sources and, more tellingly, seeing the deviant spiritual philosophy of his personal writings the Journey Home and the Journey Within, have chosen not to look to him for spiritual instruction.
Future Directions
This is what has happened in ISKCON and that is why it has become increasingly cultish to those looking into the movement from the outside. The current leader of this faction in ISKCON is a very charismatic leader called Radhanath Swami (Richard Slavin). I have been linked to him for some 20 years, but having heard of his suspect character from trustworthy sources and, more tellingly, seeing the deviant spiritual philosophy of his personal writings the Journey Home and the Journey Within, have chosen not to look to him for spiritual instruction.
He is not the only one. The famous French historian Marc Bloch stated that "forgeries occur in clusters", and that is visible in ISKCON. As we speak, Ambarish das (Alfred Brush Ford, great grandson of Henry Ford) is rushing to build the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP) at ISKCON's HQ in Mayapur, West Bengal.
Despite protests from the community of devotees, Ford appointed self-admitted paedophile and disgraced zonal-acharya Bhavananda das (Charles Bacis) as co-leader of the TOVP project. Kirtanananda Swami, another convicted criminal and paedophile, was placed in a samadhi tomb in the Holy land of Vrindavan by Radhanath and another ISKCON leader, Gopal Krishna Swami, much to the disgust of ISKCON members. Samadhis are reserved for pure saints whose bodies are embalmed and preserved and entombed in holy places of pilgrimage. They are reserved for perfect celibates.
The Breakdown of Religion
The Luciferian agenda is very real.
Kings, like world emperor Maharaja Parikisit, traditionally represented and protected religion as described in the classical Indian History the Mahabharata. This was slowly eroded away after Krishna's departure from the planet 5,000 years ago. In recent history, the already-corrupted ancienne regime of monarchs was destroyed by the French Revolution (in 1789) and the Russian Revolution (1917). There is no legitimate or even semi-legitimate monarchy in existence now.
The luciferian agenda has lead to the complete breakdown own the Catholic Church in 1962 with the liberalisation of Catholicism and all its concomitant problems. This is not accidental. It is a real agenda, like the ecclesiastical demolition of ISKCON.
The Breakdown of Religion
The Luciferian agenda is very real.
Kings, like world emperor Maharaja Parikisit, traditionally represented and protected religion as described in the classical Indian History the Mahabharata. This was slowly eroded away after Krishna's departure from the planet 5,000 years ago. In recent history, the already-corrupted ancienne regime of monarchs was destroyed by the French Revolution (in 1789) and the Russian Revolution (1917). There is no legitimate or even semi-legitimate monarchy in existence now.
The luciferian agenda has lead to the complete breakdown own the Catholic Church in 1962 with the liberalisation of Catholicism and all its concomitant problems. This is not accidental. It is a real agenda, like the ecclesiastical demolition of ISKCON.
Very soon you will have a once-pure organisation like ISKCON endorsing actively homosexual men and women as priests and gurus ('guru' simply being 'spiritual teacher') and the traditions of Indian dharma (going back over 5,000 years) being broken down by liberal western swamis posing as Indian saints. After the communist takeover of South Africa in 1994, religion was taken out of traditionally Christian school curricula; abortion, prostitution and pornography were legalised; gambling was legalised; the Sabbath (e.g.. movies and shops were previously closed on Sundays) was not observed; restrictions on the sale alcohol were relaxed etc.
The attack on traditionally European and Christian society by the mass influx of third world Islamic refugees from Africa and the Middle East is also taking place under the aegis of the covertly communist organisation called the EU. Millions of "refugees", many emancipated prisoners, are entering Europe through the economically collapsed gateways of Greece and Italy.
They are mostly young men in their early to mid-twenties and they fit in comfortably with the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan - a plan of European ethnic integration (which also endorses this wholesale interracial agenda above mentioned) - which is openly endorsed and pushed by the leaders of the EU and the corporate heads of state (and Wall Street-City of London funded or employed) of Europe like Macron, Merkel etc.
Low European birth rates + high islamic birthrates (funded by mainly by white, middle class taxes) = the extinction of the European people in their ancestral lands. This is an outrageously racist agenda and an attack on Christianity. Ironically, it is the Christian traditions of charity and inclusiveness (as opposed to the separatist tribal agendas of Old Testament dogmas and self-fulfilling prophecies) that are being used to undermine its fundamental roots.
Collapse of ISKCON in the West and ISKCON's Governing Body Commission (GBC) focus on India, Hindu Congregations in the West and ex-Communist Countries
Collapse of ISKCON in the West and ISKCON's Governing Body Commission (GBC) focus on India, Hindu Congregations in the West and ex-Communist Countries
The Waffen SS, an army composed of Christian Europeans, who fought for the much-maligned German Reich is responsible for one major, and often overlooked achievement, in WWII: the stemming of a Stalinist purge of the entire Europe.
If Hitler had buckled after his losses on the eastern frontier in 1941, France and most of Europe would have succumbed to Stalin's Red Army. History has shown that Bolshevik Communist Russia was responsible for the genocide of some 100 million Christian Russians in the century between 1917 and 2017.
It is interesting to note how, after the collapse of Soviet Russia, how ISKCON's focal "preaching" activities are in Poland and Russia. I feel this has to do with using the movement as a Trojan Horse against Russian Orthodoxy and as part of the communist plot to destroy dharma. How this is so, I do not quite know.
ISKCON in the US is just about finished as an organisation. Whatever little remains is largely managed by Hindus. Same with the UK.
ISKCON is working co-operatively with compromised political people like Prime Minister Modi to breakdown India's strong traditions of dharma.
Anglo-American Communist South Africa has taken any "international" influence out of ISKCON. There are strong indications that the leadership (Govardhana das (Manny Singh), Bhakti Caitanya Swami (Richard Naismith, NZ), Svarupa Damodara das, Vibhu Caitanya das (Temple President, Durban), Kabamba Kanana Swami (Holland), Jayadvaita Swami (Jay Israel), Devamrita Swami (USA), Indradyumna Swami (Brian Tibbets, US) and a cohort of others Kavi Karnapura das (Kobus, from Stellenbosch), Vraja Krishna das (Vassily Dimitrov, Bulgarian now based in CT), Nanda Kumar das (leader of ISKCON Sandton) Savya Saci das (Sibusiso, based in Sandton), Karuna Gaura das and Jambavan das (black devotees based in Sandton), Hollywood film director Mukunda Michael Dewil from Pringle Bay (a close associate of Giriraja Swami who lives in Carpentaria, California) are in collusion with outside agencies and, I am firmly convinced, some kind of Luciferian cult/influence.
If Hitler had buckled after his losses on the eastern frontier in 1941, France and most of Europe would have succumbed to Stalin's Red Army. History has shown that Bolshevik Communist Russia was responsible for the genocide of some 100 million Christian Russians in the century between 1917 and 2017.
It is interesting to note how, after the collapse of Soviet Russia, how ISKCON's focal "preaching" activities are in Poland and Russia. I feel this has to do with using the movement as a Trojan Horse against Russian Orthodoxy and as part of the communist plot to destroy dharma. How this is so, I do not quite know.
ISKCON in the US is just about finished as an organisation. Whatever little remains is largely managed by Hindus. Same with the UK.
ISKCON is working co-operatively with compromised political people like Prime Minister Modi to breakdown India's strong traditions of dharma.
Anglo-American Communist South Africa has taken any "international" influence out of ISKCON. There are strong indications that the leadership (Govardhana das (Manny Singh), Bhakti Caitanya Swami (Richard Naismith, NZ), Svarupa Damodara das, Vibhu Caitanya das (Temple President, Durban), Kabamba Kanana Swami (Holland), Jayadvaita Swami (Jay Israel), Devamrita Swami (USA), Indradyumna Swami (Brian Tibbets, US) and a cohort of others Kavi Karnapura das (Kobus, from Stellenbosch), Vraja Krishna das (Vassily Dimitrov, Bulgarian now based in CT), Nanda Kumar das (leader of ISKCON Sandton) Savya Saci das (Sibusiso, based in Sandton), Karuna Gaura das and Jambavan das (black devotees based in Sandton), Hollywood film director Mukunda Michael Dewil from Pringle Bay (a close associate of Giriraja Swami who lives in Carpentaria, California) are in collusion with outside agencies and, I am firmly convinced, some kind of Luciferian cult/influence.
Other potential participants are Rupa Raghunath das (Rory Stansfield) who had links to Mandela in the 1980's. They have strong connections with the SA political establishment eg. Nelson Mandela, Thuli Madonsela, Mangasuthu Buthelezi, Helen Zille etc. etc.
The SA government is a communist front for Anglo-American the new world order. To realise how this is so ask yourself, 'Who has benefitted from this government'? I am not saying all of these devotees are consciously part of a broader movement to subvert religion in society. Their close association with those who do - such as Jay Israel and Glen Teton (whose father was an judicial activist in the black civil rights era) - is proof that they are "guilty by association" or are co-operating without being aware of the agenda, counter-Prabhupada, that they are serving.
FW De Klerk, who colluded with the ANC and the Ford Foundation in 1986 to undermine the SA NP government, overrode visa bans on leading American devotees based at the Radha-Radhanath Temple in Durban in 1986. What was his link to the leadership that he could effect this?
When I chanced upon Patrice Motsepe in Sandton once he told me he knows some Hare Krishnas. He got into the gold industry via Anglo-American. If prominent members of SA society know the Hare Krishnas why don't the Hare Krishna leadership, like Govardhana das for example, advertise such connections? The Hare Krishnas are, after all, famous for advertising their connections to celebrities and politicians. I find it odd, therefore, to get a statement like this from someone as influential as Patrice Motsepe.
I am focussing on SA, since I have served ISKCON here. Indradyumna Swami has always connected with Mandela at public events. The Durban mayor's office has wrangled with ISKCON senior management since 1988 over positioning its Festival of Chariots on the Durban beachfront during the Easter weekend. The Festival draws over 400,000 people, mainly Hindus, to the beachfront since it was moved from Tongaat by Indradyumna Swami (Brian Tibett) in 1988. Could holding the Festival during the Easter Weekend be considered disrespectful to Christianity as the Durban municipal officials suggest? It was held during the December holidays before.
This is a summary of some of the key points of what has happened to ISKCON. There have been many more deviations from the original instructions and teachings of the founder, Prabhupada.
Hare Krishna
I am focussing on SA, since I have served ISKCON here. Indradyumna Swami has always connected with Mandela at public events. The Durban mayor's office has wrangled with ISKCON senior management since 1988 over positioning its Festival of Chariots on the Durban beachfront during the Easter weekend. The Festival draws over 400,000 people, mainly Hindus, to the beachfront since it was moved from Tongaat by Indradyumna Swami (Brian Tibett) in 1988. Could holding the Festival during the Easter Weekend be considered disrespectful to Christianity as the Durban municipal officials suggest? It was held during the December holidays before.
This is a summary of some of the key points of what has happened to ISKCON. There have been many more deviations from the original instructions and teachings of the founder, Prabhupada.
Hare Krishna
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