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Bhagavan Das: A Controversial Past and an Alarming Return to Italy
William Ehrlichman, better known as Bhagavan Das, is a figure who has left a controversial mark on the ISKCON movement. His career as a spiritual leader has been marked by questionable actions, immoral behavior, and serious accusations, culminating in a mysterious escape from the Villa Vrindavana temple in Italy, where he had previously held the position of guru.
His return to Italy in 2025, though still under debate, raises several concerns among devotees. In this article, we will explore the implications of his return, his history, and his behavior.
Bhagavan Das and His Career in Italy
In 1983, Bhagavan Das made a significant move by placing Madhusevita Prabhu at the Italian BBT under the management of Sundararupa Das. This action marked a phase of power consolidation for Bhagavan Das, establishing him as a leading figure within ISKCON Italy's leadership. However, a few years later, his position was compromised.
Bhagavan Das lost his position as guru at Villa Vrindavana, the famous temple in Florence, when he fled with his personal secretary and the temple funds. This escape raised doubts about his integrity, and although Bhagavan Das claimed he did not flee due to child abuse occurring within the movement, his departure raised strong suspicions about his awareness of such crimes. Later, Bhagavan Das became involved in legal issues related to drugs, adding further shadows to his reputation.
Bhagavan Das's Alarming Visit to Italy
In 2025, Bhagavan Das was invited to visit the Genoa temple, known as "Sri Prabhupada Dhama," managed by Danesvari Devi and her husband Gopinath Das. His arrival is expected between June and July 2025, but his visit has raised concerns among devotees. Bhagavan Das seems intent on exploiting the current confusion within ISKCON Italy to regain influence and reposition himself as a spiritual leader.
Madhusevita Prabhu, the current leading figure in the ISKCON movement in Italy, strongly opposes Bhagavan Das’s visit. However, this opposition is not based on ethical or moral reasons, but rather on envy of Bhagavan Das’s charisma, which, despite his fall from grace, still attracts a strong following among some devotees who are still manipulated by him.
Bhagavan Das also secretly planned to visit Villa Vrindavana, a temple he once led as guru. His scandalous escape and questionable behaviors, however, marked the end of his leadership there.
The Role of Orlando Cecchini (Dayanidhi Das Vanacari) and the Abuse Allegations:
Orlando Cecchini, alias Dayanidhi Das Vanacari, president of the ISKCON temple in Athens, is another controversial figure who supported Bhagavan Das's return to Italy. Cecchini is known to have been accused of physical violence against a child in the gurukula in the 1990s. These serious accusations add to a history of violent and manipulative behavior that raises doubts about his integrity and Bhagavan Das’s ability to exercise spiritual leadership.
Orlando Cecchini, alias Dayanidhi Das Vanacari, president of the ISKCON temple in Athens, is another controversial figure who supported Bhagavan Das's return to Italy. Cecchini is known to have been accused of physical violence against a child in the gurukula in the 1990s. These serious accusations add to a history of violent and manipulative behavior that raises doubts about his integrity and Bhagavan Das’s ability to exercise spiritual leadership.
The Philosophy of Srila Prabhupada and Bhagavan Das’s Position
AC Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON, always taught that if a spiritual leader "falls" or is involved in immoral acts, they are no longer fit to hold positions of responsibility within the movement. According to Srila Prabhupada, a "fallen" leader should strive to be a humble devotee rather than attempting to regain the position of guru. Bhagavan Das, however, seems to ignore these words and attempts to reclaim a leadership role despite his compromised past.
The Abuse Allegations and Collusion with Other Leaders
Bhagavan Das played a significant role in the handling of the abuse that occurred within ISKCON. It has been reported that, despite being aware of child abuse, he chose not to intervene or report the crimes. This behavior makes him complicit by omission in the abuse that took place in the temples he managed.
Moreover, it is important to highlight that Bhagavan Das is not the only one responsible. Other leaders, including Tamal Krishna Maharaj and Narayan Maharaj, were involved in the dark network of protection and cover-up of abuses within the movement. Both leaders have been accused of supporting Bhagavan Das's actions, creating an environment where abuses were tolerated and even protected.
Conclusions: An Unacceptable Return
Bhagavan Das’s return to Italy is not just an issue of spiritual leadership, but also of moral responsibility. Italian devotees must be aware of his past and the damage he has caused, not only to the community but also to the people involved in his actions. His attempt to reclaim the position of guru is incompatible with the principles set by Srila Prabhupada and with the well-being of the community itself.
PADA: He ruined everyone, himself and his own kids, never mind all the other victim kids. He should not be welcome anywhere, he is still the same cheater he always was. He helped have me kicked out in 1979 because I as complaining that the children are suffering from worshiping bogus people, he wanted the children to suffer, and they did.
He says he left ISKCON when he found out about the horrific abuses. Wait? He knows children are being beaten and raped, and he does not report it, that makes him a criminal accessory to the abuse. He should be arrested as a cover up man.
AD: In which case -- he knew about the child abuses and did nothing. Although he himself says he fled Italy claiming it is because of child abuse, but he doesn't specify.
PADA: He is an ISKCON leader and admin, so it does not matter where the abuse is taking place, he is a leader of the whole society. But he supported Narayan Maharaja even after we sued them and it was known there was a problem with NM's Tamal program. And he and his kids still promote NM.
AD: Unbelievable.
PADA: Yeah the fox that is trusted with counting the chickens then cannot explain why the chickens keep disappearing ... but all the rest of us know why.
BHAGAVAN DAS
Co-Founder of the Illicit Sex with Men, Women and Children
Messiah's Project.
Which bans, beats, molests, sues and kills
Vaishnavas.
PADA: Says he left ISKCON after he found out about all the "horrific" child abuse. Oh, you mean to say -- he finally knows the children are being mass mistreated (because he fails to listen to those of us ringing the alarm on this issue the whole time, and he helps kick me out in 1979 for my objecting to the worship of predators). And he finally reacts -- WAY too little and WAY too late -- and finally discovers the children are being mistreated badly in his molester messiah's guru process, after we complained about it all along.
Some of the children victims of Bhagavan's program report -- his program has been "Auschwitz for kids." "People treat their dogs better than us kids" etc. He finally realized that, but does -- what -- to fix it? He leaves and says and does nothing. Bye bye suckers!
What does he do? He just strolls away and leaves the children in the hands of the Auschwitz for kids abuser's program. Yep! I knew all sorts of people were screaming and dying in the burning down house fire. So I went home, popped a can of soda, and started eating popcorn while watching a romance drama on Netflix, without even notifying the authorities or the parents to come help the victims suffering and dying in the burning house.
WTF! I left the crime scene in silence, and that means I am NOT guilty of covering up the crimes. Not my problem. Sorry sir, it is YOUR PROBLEM -- as a big ISKCON leader and authority -- and even a so-called guru in the ISKCON movement -- thus it is your job AND DUTY -- never mind as an ISKCON leader -- but simply as a RESPONSIBLE HUMAN BEING ADULT -- to oversee and protect the citizens -- especially the children. Every adult human being has a duty to protect children -- period.
And Bhagavan's mentor Narayan Maharaja was in Texas, shouting (actually yelling and spitting) at my associates for challenging Tamal Krishna swami, when I was in Texas having Tamal sued for $400,000,000 for their mass child mistreatment program. And Bhagavan has been promoting NM evidently ever since, despite NM has been in league with the molester's guru process, and NM was one of Tamal's chief defenders, supporters and "rasika advisors."
OK so Bhagavan had to quit promoting his molester messiah's project, or was forced to quit by our exposing it, and then he just switched over to promoting the biggest enabler / cheer leader / hand maiden / rasika advisor / shiksha guru of the molester messiah's project namely -- Narayan Maharaja. Right, the same NM guy who was helping Satsvarupa write "The Guru Reform Notebook," so they could vote in another wave of deviants as messiahs, and declare me and Sulochana "poison pens" so they could get us exterminated.
Yep, Narayan Maharaja was one of the molester messiah's projects biggest cheer leaders, associates, enablers, apologists, assistants and even "rasika advisors" of their deviated program. Why are these guys helping promote the odious and deviated program that is mass abusing children, or worse, just exiting out stage left, abandoning the sinking ship -- leaving -- and doing nothing of substance to fix things? Leaving children to suffer in the hands of the program they co-created!
Bhagavan bails out, Narayan Maharaj bails out, Kirtanananda bails out, all kinds of these leaders bail out -- and many just slink off to India to hide out over there. OK actually almost all of these leaders bail out, leave, resign, quit and they never fix anything. Of course then Narayan has plenty of time to go hug Kirtanananda and invite Radhanath to his program.
Hugging my favorite
homosexual and pedophile messiah!
Who gets us dissenters assassinated!
(But zero time to see PADA).
NM did not want to listen to these tapes, because he said I was making huge offenses bringing out the poison case. NM has plenty of time to go and listen to his homosexual and pedophile messiah pals like Kirtanananda, but not Srila Prabhupada's tapes.
OK I was pointing out that NM was promoting Tamal, the Judas of ISKCON and NM did not like it. NM only has time to spend with his homosexual and pedophile pals posing as saints, no time for us. Yeah lets go hug our messiahs who are having oral sex with boys in the motorhome, and who are orchestrating murders of us dissenters.
And then, after it is clear -- the Tamal program that Bhagavan and Narayan Maharaja are promoting -- is causing mass child abuse, Narayan Maharaja says "the children are just getting their karma." Umm excuse me, Bhagavan and NM are authorized to promote a program that is mass victimizing children? And it is just "bad karma" to be associated with NM?
And then they blame the victims for having bad karma! This is like the ex-Hansadutta guy telling me -- it is ok to eat hamburgers -- because "the cows already have the karma of being a hamburger." Well sure, that may or may not be, but you have NO AUTHORITY to have the cows slaughtered so you can eat them. Sheesh pilgrims!
It is also my bad karma to be hunted like a dog to be exterminated by their program, and it is my bad karma too. Well maybe so, but they are not the people authorized to enact my alleged bad karma.
And Tamal lectures, my two favorite people in the world are -- Srila Bhavananda Maharaja and Srila Narayan Maharaja. Yep, the homosexual pedophile guru program's main leader, and the biggest hand maiden / cheer leader / helper / rasika advisor of the pedophile's guru program are my BFF eternally -- NM. Giving oral sex to taxi drivers, and giving that person the title of Vishnupada, making a mass child abuse program, and Narayan Maharaja, all my best pals assembled together!
We love the perps, and creators of the perps' webs, nests and infrastructure, and their number one rasika cheer leading hand maiden NM, who hangs out with Tamal. Did I forget to mention, Tamal is a prime suspect in the poison complaint of Srila Prabhupada, and association with him is like association with Judas?
NM: Param poojya pedophile messiah's club leader.
PADA: Right! Who knew? There are no examples from shastra of anyone ever worshiping a pure devotee (the ritvik system). Anyone who worships a pure devotee is a ritvik deviant! There are no examples of anyone ever worshiping a pure devotee in shastra? OK Narayan Maharaja says we need to hear from the living lips person, and Sulochana said NM's guru's living lips gurus are sucking on male and female genitals, so NM is promoting a "guru suck session."
Cannot worship the pure devotees! Swell! What then is the process of worship given in shastra? First of all, find the person who most likely the Judas involved in poisoning his guru, and he is considered as the worst offender Judas of the religion. Then, make sure our guru program is making homosexuals and pedophiles into Vishnupada's messiahs, and our program is forcing little children to worship our wunderbar illicit sex with men, women and children guru system as these kid's "eternal links to God."
And then, when our program has children being starved, beaten and molested left, right and center, we will start giving gopi rasika classes to the leaders of that process -- so we can create the false impression our pedophile messiah's program is also qualified for gopi rasika. Gopis, rasika -- and NM's homosexual and pedophile gurus, what could go wrong pilgrims? I think Bhagavan has got some of his own children -- and other's children -- to promote Premananda (Bhakti bandhav), a guy who is named as another sexual predator by other members of the NM program. Evidently, nothing has been done to remedy that issue?
PADA: I sincerely hope you kids have not been worshiping any pure devotees today, because that process is never found in shastra. Verbotten! But I have a nice pocketful of wonderful "new gurus" for you to worship in our parampara instead, namely -- our parampara's: homosexuals, pedophiles, drunks, drug addicts, porno swamis, orchestrators of murders, and guru poisoners messiahs etc. If you are not worshiping our nice anal reconstructive surgery epidemic messiah's program today, you are deviating from shastra! Forsooth!
I am however sorry that you kids sued our "dear Tamal tree of Radha" Tamal Krishna for $400,000,000 in Dallas, and you did not listen to me -- and worship our nice homosexual and pedophile guru program -- but you sued our program instead. I tried my best to shout down people when PADA was suing our process, but it did not work and we lost the lawsuit.
I am however sorry that you kids sued our "dear Tamal tree of Radha" Tamal Krishna for $400,000,000 in Dallas, and you did not listen to me -- and worship our nice homosexual and pedophile guru program -- but you sued our program instead. I tried my best to shout down people when PADA was suing our process, but it did not work and we lost the lawsuit.
Then I invited PADA over to discuss all this, but left him sitting all day, not able to see him for two seconds, because I was too anxious to leave and go visit my pedophile messiah -- Kirtanananda swami -- and give him a big hug! And invite over Radhanath to my ashram, the person alleged to have helped get Sulochana whacked, and have PADA almost whacked.
You kids are supposed to be worshiping our nice homosexual and pedophile guru program and not suing it, please try to stop attacking our pedo messiahs project! It is making me look bad! It almost looks like you are taking the side of PADA, who has rejected our pedo messiahs program!
You kids are supposed to be worshiping our nice homosexual and pedophile guru program and not suing it, please try to stop attacking our pedo messiahs project! It is making me look bad! It almost looks like you are taking the side of PADA, who has rejected our pedo messiahs program!
Yep! Our Narayan Maharaja / Tamal / Bhavananda guru sampradaya was being called "The Timothy Leary and Andy Warhol sampradaya" by Sulochana, and of course he is 100% correct, but hey there are not too many Andy Warhol disciples in my lineage! Which Sulochana said, is like saying there are not too many dog stools in the sweet rice! But people ask me this all the time, what kind of perverts would force little children to worship homosexuals and pedophiles as their messiahs? Good question!
Indradyumna swami: Bhagavan's "New Mayapur" hatchet man and enforcer. Hundreds of Srila Prabhupada disciples were kicked out of ISKCON after 1978 by these folks. Bhagavan kicked out a bunch of householders and left them stranded at the Paris train station with no supplies for their babies. Jayatirtha gave me a wad of cash to go there and help bail them out. These people are simply cruel and ruthless with families, children and their babies. And then Narayan Maharaja says these people are fit to be gurus and get rasika classes.
And the whole reason they were kicking these people out? Because the dissenters refused to worship their illicit sex with men, women and children guru process. In other words, in order to stay in ISKCON you'd had to worship their anal reconstructive surgery epidemic messiah's club, or be exiled, and / or be banned / beaten/ molested / sued or -- killed.
And Narayan Maharaja became Tamal's rasika advisor bucket boy, and then Bhagavan (and Indradyumna?) latched onto these folks as the saviors of ISKCON, when they are the same people who sent the ISKCON ship to the bottom of the ocean. OK maybe also poisoned their guru.
Indradyumna was one of the NM "rasika class" members, along with Satsvarupa, Giriraja, Tamal, Sivaram and others. Indradyumna is famously famous for his little girl hugging program, which gives people the creeps. Meanwhile their co-messiahs are having illicit sex with men, women and children.
It should also be noted that Srila Prabhupada told us to not allow people to touch our feet or we would be taking karma. And the results of these people taking karma is -- they get sick, fall down, or both, or die prematurely -- or just go bonkers. Bhagavan, Indradyumna and all of them encouraged people like Jayapataka to take sins, and we all see the horrible results.
It is the opinion of PADA that one of the reasons these bogus gurus cannot see anything clearly is, they are covered with the sins of followers, and it clouds their thinking, distorts their thinking, and basically steals their intelligence. And that is why they think conditioned souls can absorb sins like Jesus. But Srila Prabhupada says when a conditioned soul takes sins, he will eventually become degraded, and they are.
Anyway we could go on here, but you should get the point. Bhagavan is the co-founder father of the anal reconstructive surgery epidemic messiah's program, that bans, beats, molests, sues and kills Vaishnavas. And then Narayan Maharaja has been the main rasika advisor / apologist / enabler / supporter of Tamal and Bhagavan and all the rest of the founder fathers of that program. And now there are reports of bad behavior with leaders in the NM program.
In sum! Their program banned thousands of devotees, beat up a number of devotees, molested maybe 2,000 children, murdered dissenters, changed the books, and has made ISKCON into a Hindu cultural hall business. None of this is authorized and no accountability is being made by these folks even now, they just go on like nothing ever happened.
But all this did happen. Narayan Maharaja says we should not have images of Lord Narasimgha in Radha Krishna temples, that will frighten Srimati Radharani. Well nope, He will frighten defenders of the anal sex pooja messiah's project like NM.
You have my blessing to be a co-defender
of Tamal's illicit sex with men, women and children,
anal reconstructive surgery epidemic,
guru parampara. Me and Andy Warhol pada are
Tamal's favorites!
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Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja
OUR RESPONSIBILITY TOWARD OUR DEPENDENTS:
Srimad Bhagavatam 5.5.18
gurur na sa syāt sva-jano na sa syāt
pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt
daivaṁ na tat syān na patiś ca sa syān
na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum
gurur na sa syāt sva-jano na sa syāt
pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt
daivaṁ na tat syān na patiś ca sa syān
na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum
SYNONYMS
guruḥ—a spiritual master; na—not; saḥ—he; syāt—should become; sva-janaḥ—a relative; na—not; saḥ—such a person; syāt—should become; pitā—a father; na—not; saḥ—he; syāt—should become; jananī—a mother; na—not; sā—she; syāt—should become; daivam—the worshipable deity; na—not; tat—that; syāt—should become; na—not; patiḥ—a husband; ca—also; saḥ—he; syāt—should become; na—not; mocayet—can deliver; yaḥ—who; samupeta-mṛtyum—one who is on the path of repeated birth and death.
TRANSLATION
“One who cannot deliver his dependents from the path of repeated birth and death should never become a spiritual master, a father, a husband, a mother or a worshipable demigod.
PURPORT
There are many spiritual masters, but Ṛṣabhadeva advises that one should not become a spiritual master if he is unable to save his disciple from the path of birth and death. Unless one is a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he cannot save himself from the path of repeated birth and death. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so’rjuna [Bg. 4.9]. One can stop birth and death only by returning home, back to Godhead. However, who can go back to Godhead unless he understands the Supreme Lord in truth? Janma karma ca me divyam evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9].
We have many instances in history illustrating Ṛṣabhadeva’s instructions. Śukrācārya was rejected by Bali Mahārāja due to his inability to save Bali Mahārāja from the path of repeated birth and death. Śukrācārya was not a pure devotee, he was more or less inclined to fruitive activity, and he objected when Bali Mahārāja promised to give everything to Lord Viṣṇu. Actually one is supposed to give everything to the Lord because everything belongs to the Lord. Consequently, the Supreme Lord advises in Bhagavad-gītā (9.27):
yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi
yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat
yat tapasyasi kaunteya
tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam
yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat
yat tapasyasi kaunteya
tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam
“O son of Kuntī, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me.” This is bhakti. Unless one is devoted, he cannot give everything to the Supreme Lord. Unless one can do so, he cannot become a spiritual master, husband, father or mother.
Similarly, the wives of the brāhmaṇas who were performing sacrifices gave up their relatives just to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. This is an example of a wife rejecting a husband who cannot deliver her from the impending dangers of birth and death. Similarly, Prahlāda Mahārāja rejected his father, and Bharata Mahārāja rejected his mother (jananī na sā syāt). The word daivam indicates a demigod or one who accepts worship from a dependent. Ordinarily, the spiritual master, husband, father, mother or superior relative accepts worship from an inferior relative, but here Ṛṣabhadeva forbids this.
First the father, spiritual master or husband must be able to release the dependent from repeated birth and death. If he cannot do this, he plunges himself into the ocean of reproachment for his unlawful activities. Everyone should be very responsible and take charge of his dependents just as a spiritual master takes charge of his disciple or a father takes charge of his son. All these responsibilities cannot be discharged honestly unless one can save the dependent from repeated birth and death.
LD: This is the problem. Almost no one knows the history of Tamal, Bhagavan, Narayan, Indradyumna ... and their helpers ... = all the problems they made for ISKCON. And children. The rasikas and the Auschwitz for kids mash up.
ReplyDeleteNow they go out to find fresh sets of victims ... to pounce on. It is like a vampire society. They suck people dry, then look for new people to suck off from.
People in Italy who are asking him to come there, opening the door for more cheating n' problems. But ISKCON has no clearing house to tell people what is what. So ... there is a lot of ignorance going on.
Narayan Maharaja successors are fighting too, same as ISKCON. They are not pure and it is another case of false advertising. It never ends. But sure, they cheated people then re-invented themselves as the reform saviors. We are here to save you ... from us.
People buying that now are fools and they deserve to serve fools. Everyone should know this is all cheaters and the cheated by now, and if you don't, then buyer beware.