Can someone bring me some pot cookies in Vrndavana?
My migraines are acting up again!
Hee hee.
JD: I got it already. The meat eating Christian ritviks are welcome in ISKCON, the devotee ritviks are banned, beaten and sued. What I thought! Makes perfect sense about what is really going on.
Henry Doktorski:
Rest In Peace, Bhakti Ananda Goswami (David Sherman)
I attended Bhakti Ananda Goswami's sannyasa initiation ceremony at New Vrindaban, around 1992. Radhanath Swami presided at the fire sacrifice. I always liked him, for his friendly personality and his incredible research about world religions.
I also corresponded with him around 2015 when I was writing "Killing For Krishna." He is cited in the book several times, but he requested to remain anonymous, as he was a bit fearful that my godbrother Janmastami might cause him problems. He told me Janmastami in the 1990s had sent him postcards in the mail threatening karmic retribution for his prior support of Bhaktipada.
[Photo of Bhakti Ananda Goswami with Sister Piety in the New Vrindaban prasadam room adjacent to the temple room.]
Penelope Anderson says: I have just heard of the passing of the extraordinary personality Bhakti Ananda Goswami. When he was healthier he participated in several forums i was involved in such as Progressive Vaisnavism. He had a busy schedule but still made time to discuss various philosophical points with me and others.
One quality i particularly respected was his bold denunciation of the culture of child abuse within ISKCON. and his compassionate and empathetic nature.
From Soolabha Doyal
"Today I honour the passing of the saint and Vaisnava scholar Srimad Bhakti Ananda Gosvami Maharaja. Being a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, initiated leader of Jhansi League of Devotees, being an active Pureland Buddhist and consecrated Catholic Priest, the pioneer of interfaith paleo-linguistics, a master of multi-faith religious history, who's research and revelations unify all present and past religions in the name of Sri Caitanya-deva.
Maharaja brought down the walls of prejudice and sectarian spirit among followers of the one true God, who manifests in various ways throughout the ages. One great contribution was his tracing of the spread of the Holy Name of Hari through every culture of the Old World (Afro-Eurasia). Much of his work has been archived by his followers Elijah Dobkins (https://hierophant.netlify.app/) and Vedic Empire Productions.
May he continue to serve Sri Gauranga, Sri Krsna and Sri Radha in the spiritual world."
PADA: OK I am always totally bewildered if not pinching myself to see if I am dreaming or not, when all sorts of ISKCON people are promoting multi-cultural "interfaith dialogue and acceptance," including Kirtanananda's establishing a deity of Jesus. Right, we should all love and appreciate all other religions, especially the Christians -- who follow the ritvik system -- of having priests offer baptism on behalf of Jesus. Wow, where do I sign up?
Oooops! Not my experience whatsoever. As soon as I say people should worship Srila Prabhupada as the acharya, then all sorts of ISKCON people ESPECIALLY from ISKCON places like NEW VRNDAVANA say -- oh no, God forbid, that is the bogus Christian's ritvik idea! Stomp that out quick!
You ritviks are totally bogus and need to be banned, beaten, sued, and maybe -- killed -- for promoting the bogus ritvik idea of worship of a pure devotee! That is strictly verbotten in ISKCON and you will be punished badly for promoting such blasphemy, as to suggest it is a good idea to worship a pure devotee, and not worship our homosexuals, pedophiles and lusty intoxicated fools like Jayatirtha as the messiahs of the jagat.
Does the term double standard apply here? Or hypocrisy? Or just bone headed irrational cultism? Yeah we love the people who follow the ritvik system, which is why they need to be hunted and killed! And the GBC has made umpteen hundreds if not thousands of position paper directives on forbidding the worship of pure devotees in ISKCON aka the "bogus ritvik idea."
NOT allowed!
Meanwhile the ISKCON leaders are meeting with Protestant, Methodist, Pentecostal, Church of England and Catholic priests -- or even Muslim leaders -- all day and night, to make cheezy photos of themselves embracing these priests. Yep, we love the ritviks to pieces, which is why, we have them banned, beaten, sued and -- killed.
How does this make ANY sense? OK it is the highest form of hypocrisy ever made in religion's circles. The good news is, I was loved so much that I was only chased with bats, before the FEDS stepped in and saved me from getting a .45 slug in the head. OK the police told me these people HATE your guts, and they want to KILL you. And they will kill you -- if they think for one minute that they can get away with it. OK. They have zero percent love for us ritviks, lets fact it.
That means all this interfaith "pro-ritviks" messaging is -- to me at least -- simply false propaganda, ok lies, and has no actual bearing on the situation going on in ISKCON. The ritviks are commonly banned, if not beaten -- sometimes to a pulp like Kulashekar was, if not sued -- like Bangalore was -- if not -- killed.
In sum, the Hare Krishna's rtiviks are not allowed, but the mundane religion's ritviks are embraced. The upshot now is, the Western people are abandoning the ISKCON ship, because yeah, the Westerners are following a tradition of worshiping a pure devotee like Jesus (the ritvik system), and so they are going to reject a religion that worships deviants.
Bhakti Ananda did not want his statement published until he departed, fearing for his safety. OK, I hear this a lot, well yeah prabhu, you are right, but I am never going to speak up, these people are too scary. OK and what happens to the children when the people who know there is a problem -- do not speak up -- and defend those children? Yep, we all know what happens to those children.
As for Janmastami well this is another baffling case. First, he wrote to apologize for being part of the group that was hunting us. He says, 1,000,000 obeisances at your feet prabhu! He was very friendly and apologetic. Then he oddly went haywire, and started blaming me for this and that happening. Dude! I was a taxi driver in San Francisco, I had no powers to change the ISKCON world.
And no one wanted to join me because you guys were frightening them. Sorry, you guys are 99.99% responsible for the whole imbroglio, OK I am too, but only .001%. You guys are the main cause of all this mess, please do not blame the messenger! So I had to block the guy's e-mails because he was resorting to swearing and cursing at me, and had no control over his communication skills. Evidently, after that his house was raided by the police for his pot program.
Which shows me -- he has a lot of anger management issues, if not intoxication issues, which is why he was chosen to be their goonda. Anyway, these interfaith people are just beating around the bush in my opinion, and avoiding the real issues that plague ISKCON. And they are making ISKCON look all the more like a hokey compromised Hindu Bindu hodge podge or "it is all one religion" etc. -- while not fixing the giant mess in their own religion. OK it is a cop out in my estimation, to avoid dealing with the actual situation on the ground in ISKCON.
October 12, 1993: On this date in history 32 years ago, in a letter to a godbrother, Hansadutta explains, “The bottom line about Kirtanananda Swami is he has an overwhelming, deep-seated ambition to be a holy man, . . . a religious mentor—in short, a guru, or to put it bluntly, ‘The Guru of the Gurus.’ In one word, he wants to be Prabhupada.”
For more about this topic, see Henry’s book, “Gold, Guns and God,” Vol. 9, p. 218.
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RMD: We all know the reason Bhakti Ananda Goswami gets a nice write up on Dandavats, but Sulochana ... never does. He was more with them than with us.
ReplyDeleteHe could not speak up when he was alive? Too bad, he should have said something about all the mess ... and mass confusion ... these people made. And apologized for all lives that were destroyed by people like his sannyasa guru, Radhanath.
Once you are gone ... it is too late, and you'll have to explain your case to Yamaraja. Why do none of these people ever speak up, even when they are dying? Very bad and sad. He says he knew there was child abuse, but, where was he complaining about it? Never heard of this man until now.
Janmastami was threatening him for formerly supporting Kirtanananda? But so was Jansmastami ... ??? I forgot, holier than thou disease is really strong with these fools. Janmastami seems to have a lot of guilt ... seems to be why he is smoking pot to drown out the reality. Yamaraja never forgets the reality.