PADA: I don't see the GBC readily admitting there was a problem with Srila Prabhupada's departure. That would essentially dismantle their entire post-1978 guru system, by claiming the founders were corrupt or even -- murderers of their own guru. Not likely something any of them would want to admit.
Of course, all along they are reluctant to admit many other faults, such as -- their gurus are falling into scandals. And there is often a huge effort to keep these guru guys in office even after some scandal has been discovered. Anyway, the Justice for Srila Prabhupada committee is doing a good job of exposing this issue, and we look forward to them increasing the pressure on the GBC. Meanwhile more people are accepting that Srila Prabhupada's poison complaint is about a factual poisoning event, and that spread of information cannot be stopped. ys pd
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Dear JW: I have no need to use argumentum ad hominem, nor do I. When I was having the GBC sued for $400,000,000, Mayesvara was one of the GBC people grimacing and glaring at me on Watseka. They have no ability to communicate on these issues, they have to stand behind a wall of lawyers.
Dear JW: I have no need to use argumentum ad hominem, nor do I. When I was having the GBC sued for $400,000,000, Mayesvara was one of the GBC people grimacing and glaring at me on Watseka. They have no ability to communicate on these issues, they have to stand behind a wall of lawyers.
Had they listened to me in 1979, when I told them the children issue is going to eventually create a crisis, that would have saved them from being sued. Instead, in 1979 they removed me from the society. Then I had them sued in 1986 in Dallas for child mistreatment and we won that case hands down, and I warned them we would be back if they did not fix this. They didn't. I said there is a child mistreatment problem, a book changing problem, and a Srila Prabhupada complaint problem, and -- there is.
The evidence speaks for itself. GBC gurus like Trivrikrama swami calling me "the junkyard dog of ISKCON," has not helped them change people's opinion from accepting my arguments. If everything I am saying is false, that does not explain why they could not say one word in the Dallas courts when we had them sued, twice, they had to plead no contest? If there is no contest, then that means -- I am correct and they cannot prove otherwise. Calling me the junkyard dog has proved -- nothing. ys pd
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March 19th, 2025
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Dear Members of the ISKCON GBC EC,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Hare Krsna. We request that communications between the ISKCON GBC EC and Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation Inc. (JFSPF) in regards to Srila Prabhupada’s departure pastime are directly with you, the GBC EC, rather than through your deputed representatives. In that regard, we ask that we arrange a meeting between the members of the GBC EC and the JFSPF.
That meeting could be via internet (eg., zoom video), as that might be relatively more convenient and easier to arrange, and we’re open to and ready for the possibility that our meeting is in-person, if our schedules and situations reasonably allow for that. We request that this meeting between us takes place before April 5, 2025, and we’d like that meeting to be recorded.
Brahmatirtha Prabhu, representing the GBC EC, wrote on February 27, 2025, “I guess this closes the issue”. We are in agreement with him, that, whatever effectiveness may have resulted from the GBC EC communicating with us through the Executive Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies as your (GBC EC) representative, has likely run its course, and has come to closure. In a letter from Dhira Govinda dasa to Brahmatirtha Prabhu, dated March 12, 2025, that was copied to the ISKCON GBC EC, Dhira Govinda dasa wrote, “I’ve appreciated our communications on the topic of Srila Prabhupada’s departure pastime, dating back to May 2024, and including our correspondences in more recent weeks, when you’ve been officially representing the ISKCON GBC EC”.
If you, the GBC EC, would like, we’ll share in more detail, when the GBC EC and JFSPF meet and speak, regarding how come it’s clear to us that communications between the GBC EC and JFSPF, from now on, will be best done directly, rather than through representatives of the GBC EC.
On Feb. 27, 2025, Brahmatirtha Prabhu wrote, “You keep referring back to GBC statements of 20 years ago about no evidence. If the GBC believed there was NO evidence then they would have not have tasked Balavanta. The GBC statement can be adjusted…” The GBC resolution that states, “There is no evidence at this time to support the allegations of poisoning of Srila Prabhupada”, is from 2000. And, importantly, that GBC resolution is current, present. It is the GBC’s current, official position, not merely past history.
We appreciate hearing from Brahmatirtha, “The GBC statement can be adjusted”. We’re understanding from Brahmatirtha that that resolution does not actually reflect the GBC’s stance. And so, we request and suggest that the GBC rescind that resolution (GBC Resolution 617, Year 2000).
Also we ask that you publicly revoke the GBC’s official statement from December 2017, where you, the GBC, state that there is “no credible evidence” to support the viewpoint that Srila Prabhupada was criminally poisoned, and that the stance that Srila Prabhupada was given poison with homicidal intent is “ghastly” and “monstrous”, based on “pseudo-scientific arguments” and no “reliable science”. That GBC statement from December 2017 is found at
Our hope and wish is that the ISKCON GBC and JFSPF will cooperate towards the realities of Srila Prabhupada’s departure pastime becoming revealed to the worldwide community of Srila Prabhupada’s followers and supporters. We’ll continue our efforts for these truths to be known, and we’d like to do that conjointly with you. Regardless of whether you choose to meet and speak with JFSPF, and to collaboratively discuss, we will move forward. In this regard, we cite a section from the letter we wrote to the GBC EC on September 16, 2024.
“We take this opportunity to bring to your awareness that litigation in multiple jurisdictions and media campaigns have been proposed and are being planned in connection with the rigorously validated scientific findings related to the realities of Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance pastime. These findings confirm Srila Prabhupada’s own words about the circumstances surrounding his departure.”
We look forward to hear from you soon, and to meet and speak with you, and we wish you well in service to Srila Prabhupada and his movement.
Your servants,
Naveen Krsna dasa
Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation- President and Director
Dhira Govinda dasa
Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation- Director
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Sunday March 23 5pm Eastern Time
Monday March 24 10am NZT
Dhira Govinda (Dr David B. Wolf) joins us in this episode to discuss Srila Prabhupada's hypothesis that someone gave him poison.
We will examine what Srila Prabhupada's hypothesis was, how followers should handle it, and what investigation has been done to validate or invalidate this hypothesis.
Many theories have been developed from this hypothesis, but we will be starting from first principles, and proceeding carefully step-by-step using the philosophical tools given to us by Srila Prabhupada himself, examining the strength and caveats at each point.
This will be a rigorous vada - a structured philosophical discussion aimed at discovering truth. Get ready for a fresh take that cuts through the complexity and brings illumination to the topic.
Dhira Govinda is the Vice President of the Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation. He is the Founder of the ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection and was its Director from 1998 – 2004. He is the author of "Krsna, Israel, and the Druze: An Interreligious Odyssey", "Relationships That Work: The Power of Conscious Living", and "The Power of Bhakti: Ancient Spiritual Science for the Modern Distracted Mind".
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Sunday March 23 5pm Eastern Time
Ep #55. Srila Prabhupada's hypothesis that someone gave him poison | feat. Dhira Govinda das
Ep #55. Srila Prabhupada's hypothesis that someone gave him poison | feat.
Dhira Govinda (Dr David B Wolf) joins us in this!
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