Krishna Soldier Dies / Ramesvara was right (for awhile) Govinda Dasi ETC. 03 29 25

Another Russian soldier, call sign "Krishna", was killed.

The post is taken from the page of one devotee:

"Time of Heroes:

Stormtrooper commander Krishna distracted three enemy Baba Yagya drones and died saving equipment and people. A fighter with the call sign Ter told RT about the heroic deed of young volunteer Krishna.

Krishna led a company of the Cossack reconnaissance and assault brigade "Dnepr". Krishna was very good at dealing with drones, shooting them down with small arms, Ter says. In August 2024, four drones attacked a convoy of ammunition and fuel in the Kherson direction. One UAV was shot down by fighters from an adjacent unit, the rest began to attack.

"Krishna gave his anti-drone cape to a young fighter and ordered us to drive the equipment into the forest, and to disperse along the forest belt. He himself began to shoot at the drones with a rifle. He understood that he would die."

(This frontline story was shared by a senior devotee, military officer Dvija Krishna Prabhu)."

PADA: The un-official count is around 930,000 Russian soldiers killed or incapacitated in Russia's war program. Another un-official count is that 1% of the male population either left the country -- or have been taken out in the war. It also looks like Russia is running out of armored military vehicles, so they are using bicycles, motorcycles, ATV off road vehicles, civilian cars and trucks, even horses and donkeys etc. We also saw videos where they are sending men back into battle, on crutches. Yeepers! 

But yep. None of these civilian vehicles offer much protection. 

A Ukraine sniper was saying how easy it is now for him to shoot at soldiers in civilian vehicles. He just shoots holes in the sides and he knows he is hitting them inside. And he is. I am not sure why people keep telling me, Russia is winning. If you are losing all these people and machinery every day, and for three years, you are "winning" what? You are winning the prize of having the biggest pile of corpses in Russia in recent history. 

It also looks like the land they "conquered" is a pile of bricks of bombed out buildings, that is now not habitable. They are also bombing their own cities in Kursk to reduce their own towns into rubble. I am the king of the pile of rubble!  

I think that is why one Russian lady made a video "Russia is turning into country of crying widows, crying mothers, and crying children who will never see their fathers again, ever." Yeah, sounds like we are winning here! 

Anyway this poor devotee soldier got wrapped up in the whole affair. Very unfortunate, but karma is always spinning for everyone, and it cannot always be avoided. So we wish this guy God speed in any event. His war here is over, and he needs to get connected to Krishna wherever he is now. ys pd

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MOLESTERS IN ISKCON

SSD: In last week, Temple President of ISKCON Rohini Temple in New Delhi (Keshava Murari Das) was caught red handed trying to molest an under age girl in the Temple. Her grandmother filed a F.I.R. against him. He has ran away from the temple.

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ACHARYA FOR THE AGE

I repost the announcement for the book Acharya for the Golden Age.

Hare Krishna dear Vaishnava, we have finally printed in English the book "Acharya for the Golden Age" The Unique Historical Position of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, compiled by Yasoda nandana prabhu and Narasimha prabhu. If anyone is interested in having it for a free donation please contact Yasoda nandana prabhu through his email address or through his WhatsApp number please contact him. It is a very special book. We printed 1800 copies, 1000 in Italian and 800 in English. Please come forward dear Prabhu's. Thank you

Contact Yasoda nandana prabhu on
WhatsApp +1 (562) 413-1374
j.langevin@yahoo.com

or for the Italian and also English edition
Vijaya pandita dasa
WhatsApp +393474593142
vijayapanditadasa@gmail.com
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krishna

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RAMESVARA WAS RIGHT (FOR AWHILE)

A letter from a concerned follower of Srila Prabhupada detailing his experience of "initiation" soon after Srila Prabhupada's "departure". Robert Grant (Ramesvara) it would be SO helpful to the future of Srila Prabhupada's movement and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mission, if you came out and were honest about this MOST critical aspect of ISKCON history!! 

You know there is a GREAT and SWELLING tide of devotees that already know the truth and are just waiting for someone to lead the charge in the RIGHT direction...after 48 LONG and TRAUMATIC years!! "The truth will set you free"! The Movement CANNOT limp along on the back of a HUGE lie for the next 10,000 years! Krsna will NOT let this deceit go on forever...you know that! Why not bring this sad era to an end?

GOVINDA DASI

Dear Prabhus,
My respectful obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada 

Thank you for sharing the obvious truth regarding our Spiritual Master's pure and perfect international society for Krishna Consciousness. It was, and still is, poisoned by the agents of Kali. Tamal left his body in a way befitting his choices during and after Srila Prabhupada's manifested presence.

My direct experience of surrendering to Srila Prabhupada is worth a review, as it relates to the power grab perpetrated by Tamal.

In 1978, I was fresh out of college and decided to travel to the Big Island of Hawaii. After wandering around for about six months, I was out of money and food. All I had was a return plane ticket back to Los Angeles. While at the Hilo airport, I was approached by a devotee named Maduha dasa. He gave me a book titled Sri Isopanisad. My flight was in 3 hours and I read the entire book twice. I was enthralled. I wanted to know, who is this A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada?

Maduha returned before my flight and invited me to live on a farm for a few weeks and there are more books to read. I accepted. I met the senior devotee and disciple of Srila Prabhupada named Guarsundara Prabhu. I studied Srila Prabhupada's books under the guidance of Gaurasundara Prabhu for 1.5 years as a celebate student. As things in this world go, the farm lease was not renewed and I flew back to Los Angeles. My takeaway from my experience at the Hawaii farm are many. Most significantly, is that Srila Prabhupada is my spiritual master. Gaurasundara enlightened all of us the true purport of guru tattva.

Now in L.A. New Dwarka, I'm an aspiring bhakta, serving Maduha and Caru Prabhus on the traveling festival preaching program. After about six months, Maduha speaks to me about taking initiation from Srila Prabhupada. He said that Ramesvara is not following the zonal acarya concoction and will be giving initiations on behalf of Srila Prabupada. Maduha said that I will become an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada. How could I say anything but YES! What oceans of mercy have been bestowed upon me.

Maduha went on to say that this is a rare opportunity because the other "questionable gurus", his words precisely, are giving initiations on their own behalf, not as Srila Prabhupada instructed them to His representative. A week later became the day of the initiation ceremony.

It's important to describe this seemingly unimportant detail I want to share with you. The course of my devotional life and Ramesvara's life is significantly altered in these next set of events.

The scene inside the Temple is set, the fire sacrifice is assembled. Their Lordships Rukmini Dwarkadisha are beautifully dressed as always. We are truly blessed with their darshana. The bhakta's and bhaktin's are sitting around the fire sacrifice ready for Ramesvara to begin speaking into the microphone.

For no less than two minutes, Ramesvara sat silently, eyes closed. His face was strained and his head swayed side to side, struggling with beginning to speak. Two minutes is a long time and it became a bit awkward.

I'm paraphrasing with verified accuracy from other devotees that bore witness that day and finally, he said these words:

"Actually I'm not qualified to give all of you HariNama diksa initiation. My spiritual master, there's a pause, and Ramevara turns his head to look at Srila Prabhupada seated on His Vyasasana, has somehow or other given me the service of initiating all of you on His behalf. You will all be disciples of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

Instantly there was a huge roar of ectatic JAYA JAYA JAYA, drums beating and even clapping.

Now fast forward two weeks. Ramesvara disappears for two days.

He returns to New Dwarka totally distraught and visibly upset. Mother Govinda dasi, yes the original one and only, meets with Ramesvara in his quarters. Govinda dasi witnesses Ramesvara crying uncontrollably. He shares with her that Tamal summoned him to Dallas. Ramesvara arrived at the Dallas Temple to Tamals office, where he was directed by Tamal to read a pre-written letter articulating Ramesvara's resignation and expulsion from Iskcon. Tamal ordered him to go back to New Dwarka and announce to the recent group of initiates that they are not Srila Prabhupada disciples, they are your disciples. If you don't do this, then sign this letter and you are kicked out of Iskcon.

Ramesvara did not sign the letter. He returned to New Dwarka. A few days later a "vyasasana" was placed next to Srila Prabhupada in the Temple. Kusakratha Prabhu authored prayers for all of us to sing during Ramesvara's guru puja. Ramesvara held his head down, eyes shut the entire time, at every guru puja. He did not open his eyes until the singing and flower offerings stopped.

Fast forward approximately two more weeks. Two GBC members (I can't remember their names) arrived at New Dwarka and approached me. They demanded that I hand over the audio tape recording of my initiation ceremony. I told them I did not have a copy. They both pressured me to tell them who is in charge of audio recordings. I said I didn't know. 

They also threatened that I would be kicked out of Iskcon, if I didn't accept Ramesvara as my diksa guru. They said Srila Prabhupada is not my guru.
As you know, so many horrible, sinful behaviors, by these eleven offenders, occurred during the 80's and beyond. All the sinful and criminal behavior is directly related to the concocted zonal acharya system. We all witnessed Ramesvara begin a dating routine of a young 15 year old named *******. I witnessed on several late nights, Ramesvara driving away from New Dwarka, in the blue Mercedes, wearing a wig, and stopping to pick up ******* across Venice Blvd, in the alley behind the Spanish Apartments. 

He would return around 4am. Diksa guru behavior? We all know that the eleven disciples of Srila Prabhupada, blessed with being His ritvik representatives, now posing as diksa gurus, is a recipe for disaster and highly offensive to Srila Prabhupada and our parampara.

I share this true and verified history with you, Prabhus to help fill in important facts that degraded our Spiritual Master's perfect and pure society of devotees.
I spoke to Govinda dasi a few months ago and her recollection of Ramesvara's visit to Dallas is very vivid in her mind.

These events, as I describe, are true and accurate to the best of my memory. I have not and will not exaggerate or invent a single word in furtherance of the truth about what I, and many other aspiring devotees in New Dwarka, experienced in the 80's and beyond.

Incidentally, after the GBC departed New Dwarka, I was approached by many senior godbrothers, who always referred to me as their godbrother, telling me not to obey such orders from those two GBC. Always hold sacred that you are a disciple of HDG Srila Prabhupada.

Namely:
Rajendranatha Prabhu
Madhua Prabhu
Nara Narayana Prabhu
Vatsal Prabhu
Jagad Isvara Prabhu

Thank you for taking the time to read this true account of some of my experiences in the early days. I pray this letter reaches you in good health and ecstatic Krishna Consciousness. Chant Hare Krishna and be happy.
ys
Krishna Katha dasa