Gita Changes / Rupanuga Continued 07 22 26

Locan Ananda Das

THE ROD OF CHASTISEMENT IS GONE!!!

One of my favorite verses in the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is was once found in Chapter 10, verse 38:

"Among punishments I am the rod of chastisement, and of those who seek victory, I am morality. Of secret things I am silence, and of the wise I am wisdom." (B.g. 10.38, original)

Chapter 10 is entitled, "The Opulence of the Absolute" wherein Krishna enumerates some of His extraordinarily splendorous manifestations. On August 12, 1976, Srila Prabhupada was having an evening darshan in Tehran, the capital and largest city in Iran. He was talking about how ordinary people know little about the greatness of God. "They say, 'God is great,' but how great? That they do not know." Srila Prabhupada then asked his secretary at the time, Harikesa dasa, to read selected verses from the Bhagavad-Gita, beginning with Chapter 10, verse 20:

"I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings." (B.g. 10.20)

Harikesa prabhu continued to read through the verses that followed, the chapter ending with verse 42:

"But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge. With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe." (B.g. 10.42)

When he finished the reading, Srila Prabhupada said, "That's it. This is greatness. So we should not simply be satisfied 'God is great.' We must try to know how great He is. Then our God consciousness will be fixed up. It's all right?"
Atreya Rsi prabhu responded: "It's very beautiful."

So, in the course of that reading by his secretary, Srila Prabhupada heard the translation of verse 10.38 which included the phrase "the rod of chastisement." Not on any occasion did he ever object to that choice of words because it perfectly reflected his deepest understanding of this opulence of the Lord. It was his prerogative, and no one else's, as the empowered emissary of the Personality of Godhead, to choose the wording of this verse. This was Srila Prabhupada's language, and as he himself often said, he had to weigh every word carefully because he was describing the Supreme Personality of Godhead in Whom there is no imperfection.

Next, take a look at the original purport to verse 10.38 written by Srila Prabhupada, which begins with: "There are many suppressing agents, of which the most important are those that cut down the miscreants. When miscreants are punished, the rod of chastisement represents Krishna...." (B.g. 10.38, original purport).

I take it as my responsibility to bring to the attention of the devotee community to what extent this verse has been tampered with. That phrase, "the rod of chastisement", which so clearly expressed Srila Prabhupada's appreciation of the opulent attributes of the Lord delineated in Chapter 10, was removed, both from the verse and from the purport, by an irresponsible editorial department. 

Keep in mind that His Divine Grace never asked anyone to re-edit his Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. In fact, in the Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita, he wrote:
"In the present day, man is very eager to have one scripture, one God, one religion, and one occupation. So, let there be one common scripture for the whole world -- Bhagavad-Gita..." This statement was made in reference to the original edition of the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. It did not point to or include any later version of his work that he had not specifically authorized.

I did a little research online and found the revised translation of 10.38 as it now appears in the heavily edited book published and in print since 1983. Here is the revised translation of the verse:

"Among all means of suppressing lawlessness I am punishment, and of those who seek victory I am morality. Of secret things I am silence, and of the wise I am the wisdom." (B.g. 10.38, edited version)

The purport begins with, "There are many suppressing agents, of which the most important are those that cut down miscreants. When miscreants are punished, the agency of chastisement represents Krishna." (B.g. 10.38, revised purport)

Personally, I saw no need to make any changes to this verse or purport. It had been perfectly composed. In fact, I found that the revisions made the verse and purport both incomprehensible and meaningless. In addition, I would never change a single word in our scripture without the direct approval of the author. That policy is called arsa-prayoga, and it guarantees that the spiritual head of our institution would never be dishonored by headstrong, insensitive disciples acting independently to "improve" what was already perfect.

Srila Prabhupada was recognized as a great Sanskrit scholar. His depth of knowledge was unfathomable. With this in mind, the phrase "rod of chastisement" had a much deeper significance which the editors could not comprehend. I just scratched the surface by doing a little research and found a site online called Wisdom Library where this phrase was further explained in greater depth. There, it was stated that:

"In Vedic culture, the 'rod of chastisement' symbolizes a king's authority to uphold righteousness, enforce laws, and administer punishment, ensuring order and discipline among subjects, while representing the moral duty inherent in leadership."

Other scriptural references to the "rod of chastisement" include:

The Ramayana of Valmiki:

1) A metaphorical weapon symbolizing Rama's intended punishment against Ravana for his sins.

The Mahabharata:

1) A metaphor for punishment, which should not be used against harmless creatures.

2) Symbolizes the authority and responsibility of the Kshatriya to enforce law and order.

3) A symbolic implement representing the authority to enforce moral order, passed down through various divine entities.

It should be obvious that due to a poor fund of knowledge, and being infected with the urge to sidestep the authority of Krishna's pure devotee, many unwarranted changes were made to his books posthumously which should never have been allowed.

I thank the readers for having patiently read this essay. Please share it with others to help get the word out. Arsa-prayoga is the way to go. The original books of the most superior acarya are the way to learn what is true and what is eternal. So remember these prophetic words:

"Let there be one common scripture for the whole world -- the original Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada."

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RUPANUGA CONTINUED:

Host: So let me get this straight. You are saying that ritvik is bunk, but you are saying that no one needs to be initiated anymore because Prabhupāda’s words are there in his books, which are nondifferent from him in some sense.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: That is what he said.

Host: Okay. Because I know one time someone asked Śrīla Prabhupāda — I think it was a reporter — “What will your disciples do after you leave?”

He said, “I shall live forever in my books.” And what did he say? “You shall utilize,” or something like that. So I am just trying to understand the difference between ritvik being not really appropriate or real, in that sense, but at the same time, you do not have to take initiation because you are already initiated by Prabhupāda’s books.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: Śrīla Prabhupāda— They hang everything on the word “henceforward.”

PADA: Except, the July 9th "henceforward" letter was not visible or even known to most devotees early on, nor was the May 28th tape, the will, the letters, the 1977 conversations and etc. In 1978 we did not "hang" everything -- or actually anything -- on the July 9th letter at the outset, because we did not have it. 

Nor was the letter even being discussed openly anywhere that I am aware of. This is called re-writing history, "everyone was discussing henceforward" when -- actually -- no one was. The Rupanuga GBC hid all these tapes and documents.   

Personally I did not need them. Srila Prabhupada had ALREADY said, hundreds (if not thousands of times) after I am gone -- make a Governing Body (proxies) and not gurus. Do not change anything (like the ritvik initiation program) -- none of that was important to the GBC and Rupanuga? 

That is when they started their idea, worship of pure devotees is temporary, worship of deviants and pedophiles -- is eternal. That was never stated anywhere, nor does it even make sense.

There are hundreds of quotes where Srila Prabhupada also says -- the acharya must be an utttama level, a pure devotee, gurus are not appointed, gurus do not fall down, and so on. What is interesting is that Rupanuga's GBC hid all these tapes and letters, and it was Sulochana and me who helped bring them out, in the mid-1980s. How was everyone "hanging on" to the words of these documents, that were not even being distributed or discussed? Or known widely?

And that is how and why we became targets for assassination, we were forwarding these lost documents and exposing the Rupanuga guru process as bogus. Now that we had to literally risk our lives in liberating these documents, "everything hangs on these documents." You guys hid these documents, we were not even discussing these documents right after 1978. 

Everyone was hanging on to the words in hidden documents -- which people were actually killed for distributing and liberating? Why weren't these documents readily available in the first place? People were all hanging on to unknown documents?

Nope! Everything hangs on you guys lying that your 11 bogus gurus had been appointed -- and then banning, beating and killing people who dissented, some of whom were murdered, when they found the actual documents in question.

Almost no one even knew about the "henceforward" idea until LONG AFTER we found these lost documents. Meanwhile people like me always -- ALL ALONG -- thought that Srila Prabhupada would continue to be the acharya, even in 1978, with no further documents needed. His books, his murtis, his temples, his devotees, all of the above should continue as his worshipers. 

If Srila Prabhupada had made a clear directive on May 28th 1977 that he was appointing 11 gurus, and that worship of pure devotees is temporary and worship of conditioned souls -- if not pedos -- is eternal, why was this not announced at the time? Why were all the documents hidden? 

Speaking of which, Rupanuga was told specifically to guard against the influence of BR Sridhar Maharaja, and the Rupanuga GBC all ran off to BR Sridhara Maharaja and made him the new shiksha guru of ISKCON. Rupanuga went along with that gang. 

I never thought anyone ELSE is going to be worshiped in ISKCON, ever. And then the Rupanuga program forwarded their replacement acharyas -- drunks, debauchees, illicit sex deviants, predators, sex fiends, porno swamis, homos, pedos, drug addicts -- even atheists -- as ISKCON's gurus "henceforward." 

There is no order for ANYONE to worship these deviated conditioned souls as gurus then or henceforward. Rupanuga NEVER SHOWS US the documented evidence that we were supposed to replace the worship of the acharya with the worship of his illicit sex fiend pals? 

Host: Right.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: That from that time on, everyone who is initiated will be my disciple. That is not what Śrīla Prabhupāda meant. That was henceforward, while he was still here.

PADA: That is not stated anywhere. Srila Prabhupada never said I shall only be worshiped as the acharya temporarily, until Rupanaga can concoct his homosexual and pedophile pals into being the next acharyas. Srila Prabhupada never said his worship would be temporary, EVER. Nor has Rupanuga EVER shown where he says it will be temporary. Nor has Rupanuga EVER shown where worship of conditioned souls is authorized. EVER!

Yes! Henceforward means from now on, hence and forward. It does not mean do this is on a temporary basis. And henceforward also means -- all bhogha should be offered to the acharya. Srila Prabhupada never said -- offer bhogha to Rupanuga's homosexuals and pedophiles messiahs -- anywhere! 

I forgot, offering food to pedophiles spreads the pedophile mentality beeja, and helped create a haven for pedophiles, as happened. As one gurukuli told us "there were pedophiles in every nook and cranny of ISKCON." Yeah, and we all know how they got there. 

Rupanuga cannot even change the mundane karmi laws and rules that are "henceforward." "Henceforward the speed limit is 35 miles and hour." Rupanuga gets pulled over going 55, and he says to the cops, I thought the 35 henceforward was temporary, so I am going 55. There was no order to change it?

Nope! It is not temporary -- unless it is specifically stated somewhere, and there is no change to that henceforward statement ever made anywhere. Nor do normal people think the speed limit henceforward is temporary, it is hence and forward indefinite time. From now on! No change was ever ordered or implemented.

Host: Okay. I can follow that.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: See?

Host: That is what I think too.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: Not after he disappeared, that the same principle would apply. “Henceforward” means “from now on.” But that did not mean forever. There are two different things. “Forever” and “from now on” are two different things. “Forever” is clear. It means to go on without stopping. It is eternal. But “henceforward” was like, “From now on, while I am with you, I am deputing these men to take disciples on my behalf.” 

That did not mean anything more. He did not say that the succession is going to change, that after I die there are no successors, and everybody has to be initiated to me. He never said that. 

PADA: What he said is, Rupanuga should appoint his homosexual and pedophile pals as the successors. Where does he say that?

He appointed these eleven people as regular gurus. 

PADA: Correct, a regulated devotee / priest / sadhaka / or brahmana is called a ritvik, he follows the regulations. A regulated devotee is a sadhaka and not a self realized soul. Nor can a regulated neophyte take the post of acharya, take sins, give pure divyam jnanam etc. 

Of course Rupanuga's team selected homosexuals and pedophiles as their messiahs and not even regulated people. Rupanuga keeps asserting that these people were regulated "regular" (sadhaka) gurus, but they were having illicit sex with men, women and children. Where is the regulation? They were regulated devotees? Nope!

This is a myth, they were falling down left and right, and could not follow the basic kanistha regulations. Rupanuga just piles one lie on top of the next. Of course even a regulated neophyte CANNOT take the post of another Jesus and absorb sins, even if he follows the basic sadhana. 

Now Rupanuga says Kalakantha can make more gurus, while most of their previous gurus have already fallen and blooped. They have not fixed their original first problem, making conditioned souls into acharyas. And yet they want to make more and more conditioned acharyas -- to add more misery, getting sick, falling down, blooping, scandals, lawsuits, banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing - and other problems -- to the mess they already made! 

Lets pour more petrol on the fire, that will fix it! Nope! Sorry, there is no such thing as eternal worship being temporary, and replaced with fools, drunks and debauchees, that is never found in anything Srila Prabhupada says.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

Hera Pancami / Purujit is Guru Deva / JPS Report 07 21 26

Original Bharat Natyam Dancer

PADA: I like the Hera Pancami idea, that Krishna's associates get very emotional in their exchanges with Krishna. Sometimes they try to act as Krishna's superior advisor etc. out of emotions. And then Krishna has to act very humble and pacify them etc. Very wonderful pastimes. So I feel very fortunate just to know these pastimes exist. ys pd

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PURUJIT IS OUR GURU DEVA

JND: One of Purujit's disciples is angry that someone suggests Purujit may have stolen the contents of the book from Mukunda, so he replies by accusing the respectable devotee lady of being a Pedo for no reason whatsoever. This is the level of these people. They are not even human beings, just complete disgusting behavior.

PADA: A lot of people noticed this all along, Purujit is placing his photo and name into publications to honor -- himself. And it was merely a question of time and he would announce he is the new acharya. Now he has advertised photos of Jayapataka and Bhakti Vikas and other GBC people with his book, showing they approve his "Prabhupada book." So he is with the GBC program more than ours.

And yeah, then HKC Jaipur's hero spokesman Mathura Pati goes to hang out with Purujit, and not us. Did If forget to mention Jayapataka and BVKS are credited with aiding and abetting Auschwitz for kids in Mayapur? Fine group of company you guys seek here! I said these HKC people are connected to Auschwitz defenders, and they are, and it keeps re-appearing.

Well no wonder they do not approve of PADA. But attacking some random woman as a "pedo" is very offensive and cruel, and no small amount misogynism. This lady has actually been helpful to PADA to clear up some of these child abuse issues. If anything -- she is anti-pedo. In short! She helps us -- the Purujit's do not.

That is the result of hanging out with their guru deva of the jagat. And their "Prabhupada book" is only $292, what a bargain! This is looking more and more like a bogus "selling Prabhupada and Krishna" guru business, which seeks support and approval from GBC folks to authenticate their position. ys pd 

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JAYAPATAKA SWAMI

He told me there is no need to avoid taking karma.

It will not cause him [or Jayatirtha] any suffering.

He will take karma from 50,000 people.

OK then, have at it dude! 

PADA: Current health outlook does not seem promising, but it is amazing how he keeps blathering onwards, coming back from one health crisis to the next. He needs to stay here with us to show people how foolish it is to accept karma without authority. I think his followers want him to continue living. 

The people who are pumping him up with all sorts of drugs, doctors, operations, breathing ventilators, organ transplants, pain medications, blood thinners etc. probably do not think they are prolonging his misery. I think they are. That means he could not avoid his karma. Told ya! ys pd 

Of all the gurus who currently hold sway in ISKCON, none can match His Holiness Jayapataka Swami (henceforward “JPS”), in terms of the number of disciples he has amassed (approximately 5,000 and counting). He has therefore stolen more disciples from Srila Prabhupada than anyone else, via masquerading as Srila Prabhupada’s “appointed successor”. 

Here we trace the history of his false guru programme.

1978: JPS leads Guru Hoax delegation

JPS was one of the 11 ritviks, or officiating priests, appointed by Srila Prabhupada in his signed institutional directive of July 9th 1977 to initiate new disciples into ISKCON on his behalf. Immediately on Srila Prabhupada’s physical departure from this world in November that year, the 11 appointed ritviks unauthorisedly discarded their spiritual master’s directive, abandoned their appointed roles as priestly representatives, and claimed instead that they had been appointed as Srila Prabhupada’s “good-as-God” guru successors. 

Thus the Great Guru Hoax, part 1 was created. The new “gurus” knew, however, that simply inventing a radically new guru system would be an extremely difficult hoax to foist on the movement without any sort of authorisation. Since this authorisation clearly did not come from Srila Prabhupada, the 11 decided rather cleverly to approach one of Srila Prabhupada’s senior Godbrothers, HH Sridhara Swami, and get him to lend some semblance of spiritual authority to their deviant plans. 

The meeting was recorded, and the following conversation transcripts illustrate how JPS seriously misled Sridhara Maharaja with the lie that Srila Prabhupada had appointed 11 guru successors:

JPS: “Maharaja, when our Srila Prabhupada left, then he has given instruction that for initiating and for carrying on the sampradaya there would be eleven – in the beginning, he appointed eleven devotees, his disciples, to be initiating spiritual masters or to accept disciples and in the future that number would also be able to be increased. So we wanted to take your advice on some points as to various details of how these initiating spiritual masters should deal with certain questions. If we could ask questions to you then?”

Sridhara Maharaja: “Yes, you may ask.”

JPS: “He has given explicit desires, but he told us that, on other technical points and other matters of philosophy, if there was question we should approach you.”

(GBC conversation with HH Sridhara Maharaja, Mayapur, March 1978)

Above we see that in addition to lying about the appointment of 11 gurus, JPS also misled Sridhara Maharaja that Srila Prabhupada had given “explicit desires” for his disciples to approach him for advice on “matters of philosophy”. This piece of fiction is directly contradicted by Srila Prabhupada himself:

“Actually amongst my Godbrothers no one is qualified to become acarya. So it is better not to mix with my Godbrothers very intimately because instead of inspiring our students and disciples they may sometimes pollute them.”

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 28th April, 1974)

1998: JPS invents “instruction” from Srila Prabhupada

JPS once claimed in a Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada:

“In your transcendental literatures you repeatedly mention how you hope for the day when all your followers will be initiating spiritual masters, initiating even 10,000 or more disciples into the guru parampara.”

(Jayapataka Swami, Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada, 1998) 

JPS has not allowed the fact that the above instruction is not mentioned even once, not to speak of “repeatedly”, in any of Srila Prabhupada’s “literatures” to deter him from amassing over 5,000 disciples, far in excess of any other ISKCON guru hoaxer. Indeed, in the same year as this statement above, the GBC body (ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission) had issued a warning about JPS’ ambitions in acquiring disciples:

“We note that (Jayapataka) Maharaja has already made adjustments in his approach to the question of siksa relationships in ISKCON and accept his assurance that he is not initiating discussion on the establishment of siksa relationships with those devotees who are not his disciples unless they themselves broach it.”

(Final GBC Appraisals, 1998)

1998: GBC encourages JPS to chant on his beads

“We also note he (JPS) has made positive efforts to improve the visible chanting of his japa and attendance at the morning program and encourage him to continue with this.”

(Final GBC Appraisals, 1998)

1998: JPS talks himself out of a job

“As such he (Srila Prabhupada) is the Foundational siksa guru for all ISKCON devotees. […] Whether as disciple, grand-disciple, and siksa disciple everyone has a direct access to Srila Prabhupada and His Divine Grace’s full mercy.”

(Ritvik Theory – Out of The Question, JPS, 1998)

If a “siksa disciple” of Srila Prabhupada has direct access to and the full mercy of Srila Prabhupada, pray tell for what reason does anyone need to take initiation from JPS? It cannot be to “connect” to Srila Prabhupada, since we already have direct access, just by taking siksa from Srila Prabhupada, according to JPS. And since such a disciple is also getting the full mercy of Srila Prabhupada, they are totally set in their spiritual life, and there would be no need to additionally surrender their life to JPS. They could just stick with Srila Prabhupada, which is what we recommend!

1999: JPS’s personal finances average “$70,000 per month”

“To give you a brief of myself before going further, I am the secretary of GM (‘GM’ = ‘Guru Maharaja’, in this case referring to JPS – ed.) by mainly taking care of all the finances […]

This year the average month expenses in travel alone have gone to the tune of over 60,000 dollars plus […]

The average bills for GM’s travels, secretary and other expenses come to about $70,000 per month.”

(Date: Sun, 12 Dec 99 04:44 +0000, From: “COM: Mahaguna (dd) JPS (Atlanta, GA – USA)”, Text 2850317)

1999: JPS upset at anti-sastric (scriptural) GBC GURUS

“Actually the scriptures mention that the guru can be called by such names as Visnupada, Prabhupada, Acharyadeva. Nonetheless the GBC felt that being attached to this particular scriptural instruction has been counter-productive as many devotees felt that it was artificial to accept such names. [...]

At first I was quite upset because this was not according to Srila Prabhupada’s instructions given in his books. [ …]

Considering the time, place and circumstances we are in there is some merit in this decision although it apparently contravenes a direct instruction of Srila Prabhupada given in his books. “

(JPS Letter to Disciples, March 24th 1999) 2000: JPS declares Srila Prabhupada “dead”

“The following article was published on the Front Page of Today’s Asian Age [...]

SHANKARSHAN DAS

Shankarshan das and Nitai Prasad das delivered the press release and cultivated the press. I drafted the press release and it was edited by our lawyers. The newspaper edited it themselves as they always do. Still the main gist is there: ‘In a signed statement issued to all Krishna bhaktas around the world, Mayapur general manager Dham Nitai Prasad Dasa has accused […]

... all devotees wanting to receive diksha within Iskcon should still receive it from founder-acharya of Iskcon, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada, and become his direct disciples, in spite of him being dead for the last 23 years,” the letter says.’”

(Asian Age, front page, 24/7/2000), Emphasis added

(Jayapataka.Swami, Monday, July 24, 2000 10:12 PM)

Note: The newspaper quotes directly from the press release drafted by JPS (“the letter says”), delivered by Nitai Prasad, and which JPS also agrees contains the “main gist”.

2000: JPS implicated in false rape and suicide case

The following newspaper reports refer to the suicide of an ISKCON devotee who was falsely implicated in a false rape case:

THE TIMES OF INDIA

10 August 2000:

The acting chief metropolitan magistrate K.P. Dutta on Monday ordered the police to take nesccessary steps against eight persons attached to ISKCON, so that they cannot leave India. The eight are

1. Jayapataka Swami
2. Satadhanya Das,
3. Dayaram Das,
4. Bhadracharan Das, [...]

THE TELEGRAPH Calcutta, 10 August 2000:

WARRANTS OUT FOR 8 ISKCON MONKS ISKCON’S MAYAPUR CENTRE

The case of the Iskcon monk’s suicide took a dramatic turn on Wednesday with the court ordering the police to arrest 8 monks of the order. One of them, the chief of Iskcon’s Mayapur centre, is said to be absconding. 2004: GBC attempt to rein in JPS fails

JPS ran into trouble with the GBC, the body that illegally maintains he is a bona fide guru successor to Srila Prabhupada, when he started approaching and writing to the disciples of other ISKCON gurus, sending them his blessings and offering to act as their spiritual guide:

“Happy Birthday to you! You are in my regular prayers whenever I pray to the Deities. (…) Please find attached a picture of myself sending you blessings. I hope this finds you blissful in Krishna consciousness and healthy.

Your well wisher always, Jayapataka Swami”

He was cautioned by the Executive Committee (EC) of the GBC in an extraordinary meeting to deal with the crisis, but to little avail. Here is one angry complaint from Indradyumna Swami, whose disciples were so propositioned:

INDRADYUMNA SWAMI

“I would like to request you not to send such letters to any of my disciples in the future. I feel these letters are in the mood of canvassing for followers and are contrary to the restrictions imposed on you recently by the EC.”

(HH Indradyumna Swami to JPS) 2004: JPS declares himself a divine associate
JPS’ website biography states the following:

“HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja was glad to see that his name – Gordan John (Gour Dhan Jan) – already suggested what Srila Prabhuapda confirmed, that he and two other devotees were formerly associates of Lord Caitanya and that they had taken their birth in the west to facilitate spreading Krishna consciousness around the world.”

(www.jpsoffice.com/biography.html, archived August 2006)

2004: ISKCON guru calls JPS a “sick, obsessed, duplicitous liar”

SIVARAMA SWAMI

JPS is “a sick person” and “obsessed” who “makes lying or duplicitous behaviour fully reconcilable with service to Prabhupada.”

(HH Sivarama Swami on JPS) 2006: “Miracle cure” wears off 

JPS’s biography also states:

“When Jayapataka Maharaja was eleven years old, at the suggestion of his grandfather he cured himself of a skin disease by calling on the name of God.”
Given the above miraculous cure, it is surprising that according to his guru Godbrother, HH Bhanu Swami, JPS is suffering skin diseases today, along with a host of other ailments:

“overweight, BP, urinary problems, skin rashes and allergy, and you will have a shortened life span […] I have noticed that all the diets he has followed for the last ten years have not reduced his body weight by 1 kg. A real program will get the weight down 20 kg. in 5 months.”

Perhaps JPS needs to follow the GBC’s recommendations from its 1998 “guru appraisals” and “call on the name of God” more often.

2006: JPS “diksa guru forever”

The following is taken from the official initiation oath form for those who wish to take initiation from JPS:

“1. […]I HEREBY SOLEMNLY MAKE THE FOLLOWING VOWS:

I accept Srila Jayapataka Swami to be my initiating (diksa) and instructing (siksa) spiritual master (Guru) forever, even life after life.”

(“Initiation Acceptance Oath”, archived August 2006)

Please note that nowhere in Srila Prabhupada’s instructions is it stated that “His Divine Grace Srila Jayapataka Swami” is authorised to be an initiating spiritual master even in this life, not to speak of “forever”.

The GBC cannot even accept Srila Prabhupada as the diksa Guru in ISKCON for anyone for even ONE DAY - “Unfortunately for all of us, he (Srila Prabhupada) is not physically present and so is no longer giving diksa to anyone”

(GBC’s Sastric Advisory Council, March 18th, 2003)

- yet they are more than happy to grant diksa guru status to Jayapataka Swami for ETERNITY! Jai Srila Prabhupada
ISKCON TRUTH. COM

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Someone sent me this and they said:

The lady in the middle of these guys is like PADA.

The guys are like the GBC.

Not a comforting place to be!

No kidding!

Hee hee! 

Guru's Stroke / Gopal Das Departs / Rupanuga Continued 07 19 26

PADA SAVED FROM THE HEAVY LIFTING?

PADA: Thanks prabhu. Yes I really don't have to put much heavy lifting effort into exposing these guys. The GBC folks say they are defending their stinking dirty laundry guru system, while the HKC Jaipur guys say I am wrong to oppose their stinky smelly stools guru system. Voila! Job done. 

They are telling us what they are defending all by themselves. My job is to agree with them. Yep, you guys said your gurus are stinky and smelly manure. I do not need to add much of anything to their own description of themselves. 

Yep. PADA should not oppose their promothing worshiping stinky smelly poops. OK then, you guys said it -- not us! You are right, Mathura Pati says he is angry with PADA. He is angry that I agree with him, he is defending his stinky poops acharya's program? You cannot even agree with them and make them happy! This is why Chanakhya Pandit says, there is no pleasing the un-pleaseable! Hee hee! I agree with these guys 110%, they should be happy! 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com 

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HH Bhakti Anugraha Janardan Swami Maharaj Stroke Update

Hare Krishna, I'm here with Maharaj at the CHUM hospital in Montreal. Maharaj had a stroke affecting the right side of his body, causing weakness, which is much improved after receiving treatment. He is alert and answering questions. His strength is much improved. I'm here with Liv Prabhu, and we will be going to the neurology ward shortly from the ER. 

The main thing now is prayers for a smooth neurological recovery. He had an excellent chance, given how fast treatment was administered and the rush to the hospital. Maharaj, as you may know, was walking outside the temple when it occurred.
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Dear Devotees,
Our Dear HH Bhakti Anugraha Janardan Swami Maharaj got a stroke in Montreal, 3 hours back. He is conscious but not able to talk. Please pray intensely for Maharaj's full recovery.

PADA: I was telling Bhakti Swarupa Damodar that we neophytes cannot absorb karma, but he thought he was another Jesus and he could absorb karma. Then he had a stroke and had partial paralysis on half his body, just like this case. I am sorry to have to report this to these guys, but they are not another Jesus. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com 

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*His Grace Gopal Prabhu, (ACBSP) departed from this world, on a very auspicious occasion of Lord Jagannath, Baladev, Subhadra Maharani's Ratha Yatra, around 04:30 PM yesterday. He was staying in MVT for the last few years. He served in Srila Prabhupada's movement in a very very dedicated way and set an example for all of us. In 1971 & 72 after Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami Maharaj acquired the land of Sri Dham Mayapur, Gopal Prabhu was serving along with Srila Jayapataka Swami Maharaj in Mayapur and one time police came to arrest someone and both Maharaj & Gopal Prabhu were there. 

Gopal Prabhu said that Srila Jayapataka Swami Maharaj's presence in Mayapur is more important and requested police to arrest him, in that way he volunteered. He got arrested and put in solitary confinement in jail for six months. Then when he was finally released, again they arrested him for overstaying his visa while he was in jail, and put him in jail again. Gopal Prabhu himself mentioned this story. We offer our humble obeisances at the lotus feet of Srila Gopal Prabhu and request his blessings.*

*Today the legal formalities will be done and we hope that we will do the cremation mostly tomorrow. We will keep you informed.*

*His Grace Gopal Prabhu ki jay !

PADA: He was hanging out with the GBC guys, and that is why I could not explain what he was doing all this time when people asked. No one heard about this guy because he had to go along to get along to be with the GBC guys. Very sad. "I had to live in the Kingdom of Satan to have a place in his palace." 

It is sad that some devotees think "I will die in the dham and that will erase my connection to the GBC guru system." No, it won't. Vrndavana is not a place on a map, it is a state of consciousness. Dying in a place where homosexual pedophiles are being buried in samadhis is not as auspicious as they think it is. 

Of course there is some benefit to dying in the dham, but at the same time, offense in the dham is magnified a thousand times. This is why Srila Prabhupada told us we should not spend much time there, we could entangle ourselves in offense, it will be worse for us 

In any case, I wish him well. ys pd 

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RUPANUGA CONTINUED

The Ritvik Idea is false.

Host: Right.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: So you cannot initiate anybody to him.

PADA: But Rupanuga says the books are giving initiation and thus there is no need for the institution. So we can initiate people, and cannot -- all at the same time. Telling people they cannot connect with a pure devotee is one of the reasons the temples are empty. 

Why bother with a religion if there is no connection to Krishna? And telling people they cannot connect to Krishna causes depression, which is one reason so many children and even adults commit suicide. And some still are. One can never connect to God is basic atheistic nihilism, and it leads to depression, and as we see -- suicide. But it is spiritual suicide in any case.

Host: I think that understanding is very clear from “disciple of my disciple,” “grand disciple,” etc. Prabhupāda said ritvik because it is not the etiquette to initiate while the spiritual master is still present. And then he appointed men, eleven. 

PADA: The etiquette does not change whether Jesus is present or not present, he is the guru for the Christians all the time. Srila Prabhupada said worship of the guru, like Jesus, is an eternal principle. 

Of course these GBC guys do not like the Christians because their police, courts and media helped me fight Rupanugas's pedophile guru process. We cannot worship a pure devotee, but we can worship homosexuals and pedophiles as acharyas. Rupanuga never understood the process. 

As Hṛdayānanda Mahārāja points out, they were all managers. It was not like he picked brāhmaṇas. They were just people to— It was convenient at that time. They were representing different parts of the world.

And now we see that it is more organic. For instance, Kalakāṇṭha here, who preaches at the Krishna House at the University of Florida, has encouraged somebody who is very prominent and very spiritually mature to also take on initiations and give shelter to people.

PADA: Oh great. So all of these gurus were taking karma and then falling down left and right, so let us load up more people to take karma as diksha gurus. A neophyte cannot take karma, that is what Srila Prabhupada told us over and over, do not even let people touch your feet, you will be taking karma, and you will get sick, fall down, or both -- [or die prematurely.] 

Why does Rupanuga think we should make neophytes into another Jesus and load them up with sins, so they will have to suffer? Most of the original Rupanuga gurus took karma and then got sick, fell down, blooped and died prematurely. And Rupanuga wants that process to expand, so he can make more sickness, fall downs, and death, and no small amount of child molesting that follows these gurus everywhere.

    

Lord Narasimgh is not happy with the

founder father of

Auschwitz for kids. 

And I see that as appropriate. That is in line with Prabhupāda’s instructions.

PADA: Yep, Kalakantha is a big promoter of the GBC's illicit sex with men, women, children -- and wait for it -- cats -- guru process, and Rupanuga says that Kalakantha's illicit sex guru process, which bans, beats, molests, sues and kills Vaishnavas, is in line with Srila Prabhupada. 

Umm, there are many of us who think this is in line with Beelzebub. The main ISKCON Florida program promotes Jayapataka, who is the founder father of Auschwitz for kids in Mayapur. How is this following Prabhupada? I just posted a note from one of the ex-gurukula teachers there, who said Jayapataka was informed of the child abuse and HE DID NOTHING, which means he protected and enabled it. And this is following Krishna? 

RUPANUGA: And there may be people, as you say, beyond the purview, or who may have lost faith in the institution and the system, who may just take shelter directly from Śrīla Prabhupāda as a śikṣā-guru, but not — as the ritviks say — as a direct initiate.

PADA: Rupanuga says that Srila Prabhupada's books do not give divyam jnanam that destroys sins (diksha). I know, instead he has a pocketful of his homosexual and pedophile pals to do that function, and so does his hero Kalakantha. 

Perhaps you can comment on that.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: Yes, I said it before. Śrīla Prabhupāda said, “Anyone who reads my books is initiated.” That is the feeling I have. I do not believe any conditioned soul— Śrīla Prabhupāda was not a conditioned soul, but his disciples are.

And I do not know any of his disciples whom I can verify is not a conditioned soul. So I am put on the spot. I cannot say. I know I am a conditioned soul, and I would not accept a disciple. So I do not trust myself. So I am not condemning anyone else. But I do not think it is necessary to take this initiation anymore.

Host: Interesting.

Rūpānuga Dāsa: I think initiation is taken by one’s faith in Śrīla Prabhupāda, as demonstrated by one’s belief in and understanding of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books.
I do not think it is required. I do not think it is required. And I think if everyone understood that, the movement would expand exponentially — so far bigger than any present religion — because it is so nonsectarian.

PADA: This makes no sense whatsoever. We have to worship Rupanuga's illicit sex with men, women and children false pure devotee acharyas, or get banned, beaten, sued or killed, because that is the non-secatarian process. 

Sorry, forcing people to worship Rupanuga's homosexuals and pedophiles acharyas is about as sectarian as it gets. And no, the movement did not expand exponentially, it became a ghost town and still is a ghost town. 

Meanwhile now Rupanuga is saying all of us are conditioned souls, and he cannot name one of us who is not. But that is not what he supported in 1978. His program then said the 11 ARE PURE DEVOTEES, and anyone who does not accept is to be DRIVEN OUT OF ISKCON, and beaten with shoes on the way out. And then -- maybe hunted to be killed.

So many contradictions here, reading the books is initiation, but no one can give a person a book to initiate them. Then in 1978 -- the 11 are pure devotees, but now -- I cannot think of anyone who is. The 11 are not pure now, but they were pure when they were appointed in 1977. But pure devotees are not appointed as pure, they are pure because Krishna has empowered them to be pure. 

Sorry, what has expanded exponentially is -- banning, beating, molesting, suing and killing, and suicides, and cancer, and changed books, and ISKCON having horrible public image, and thousands of alienated kids, and worse -- ISKCON turning into a non-veg Hindu hodge podge, ad infinitum. That is all that has expanded under Rupanuga's idea of making worship of Srila Prabhupada a bogus ritvik deviation. ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com    

Vaishnavi Gurus / JPS / Stinky Guru Sampradaya / Obscuring Sun

UPDATE ON THE GLOBAL VAISHNAVI DIKSHA GURU COMMITTEE
15 July, 2026

Hare Krishna Devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Global Vaishnavi Diksha Guru (VDG) Committee held its inaugural meeting on 14 July 2026 under the chairmanship of Govardhana Dasa, First Vice-Chairman of the GBC Executive Committee. The committee has been established by the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC) to facilitate dialogue and consultation on the subject of Vaishnavi Diksha Gurus and to prepare a proposal for consideration by the GBC at its 2026 Midterm Meeting.

The committee includes representatives nominated by the Africa Regional Governing Body, Euro Regional Governing Body, India Bureau, Latin America Regional Governing Body, North American Regional Governing Body, Singapore & Far East, and Middle East. Invitations were also extended to the Chinese Council and Russian Governing Council, both of which chose not to nominate representatives for the committee.

Its mandate is to study the relevant GBC resolutions and supporting submissions, engage in respectful dialogue and consultation, and prepare a proposal for consideration by the GBC.

During its first meeting, the committee:

- approved its Terms of Reference and meeting schedule;

- reviewed the relevant GBC resolutions that forms the basis of its work;

- heard introductory perspectives from regional representatives; and

- agreed on the process and agenda for future meetings.

The committee will continue meeting through October 2026, with structured presentations, discussions, and consultation forming part of its deliberations.
As part of its work, the committee also intends to invite senior Vaishnavas to share their perspectives during future meetings. Regular updates on the committee's work will be shared with the ISKCON community as the deliberations progress.

- Issued by GBC Communications

PADA Heh heh heh. A woman sent me this and she said -- great, after all the ISKCON women are already alienated out, fried out, burnt out, removed, dead, gone, blooped, or they hate ISKCON, or want to sue ISKCON, or they are in the hospital with cancer, now all of a sudden they might be made into gurus. 

No! There is no one left to make into a guru, they are all gone. The GBC are running out the clock. But no sane woman would even want to be a fellow GBC member in their assembly anyway, these men are way too creepy. Even if they make some token women gurus, it is too late, the women a done with them. 

Well yup! 

ys pd 

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JAYAPATAKA SUPPORTED THE ABUSERS

RD: Hooley Dooley, that is one hell of a post. I believe it all unfortunately. During my time in the Mayapur as a gurukula teacher I just couldn't understand Jayapataka's indifference and reluctance to deal with and correct all the disgusting goings on within the institution. I was young and naive and that was the beginning of the end for me. I've tried to not criticize unnecessarily over the years but it's hard to ignore the facts. His support of Anirdesya Vapu and others was terrible.

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THE STINKY DIRTY LAUNDRY GURU SAMPRADAYA

@rajeshtejwani6552

Hats off to you sir, for the tremendous amount of energy you are putting into a controversy that's best left alone. Why do you not shudder at the thought of hurting Srila Prabhupada? Why don't you both parties leave each other alone and stop washing this dirty and stinking linen in public?

PADA: Swell. We should allow the GBC's intoxicated womanizer // dirty stinky laundry guru parampara to represent themselves as Krishna's guru successors. Why do some people think we should make dirty stinky laundry // intoxicated womanizers into Krishna's guru successors -- in the first place? Even our mleccha culture knows -- dirty stinky laundry // intoxicated womanizers are not, were not, could have been -- God's guru successors.

But this is amazing, now they are saying Krishna's guru successors parampara is full of dirty stinky laundry. How do God's guru successors become dirty stinky laundry?

Worse, saying God's successors are NOT ONLY dirty stinky laundry, but the stinky acharyas should be allowed and not challenged. We should allow Krishna's successors to be designated as dirty stinky laundry, and not challenge that. Why is anyone promoting dirty stinky laundry as God's successors -- in the first place? Hello! 

Sorry, God is pure and His successors are pure, and the idea that God's successors are oftentimes dirty stinky laundry and fallen is -- false. Krishna and dirty stinky laundry should never be juxtaposed and combined together, that is simple common sense. "All glories to the GBC's dirty stinky laundry guru parampara" is never found in Vedic shastra, or even mleccha shastra. 

Not to be outdone, the HKC Jaipur / Mathura Pati / Prabhupadanugas EU / Prahlad das / Bhakta Peter / Kamsahanta / Bhakta das group says that PADA should not criticize their "smelly stinky stools" guru sampradaya. Why should anyone stop people from worshiping their smelly stinky stools guru program, that also molests kids? Sulochana had them all figured out, he says they promote worshiping "sex with stools." 

So yeah, the defenders of stinky dirty laundry and / or stinky stools sampradayas are never happy when their program is exposed. People ask me this, why do these guys -- like HKC Jaipur -- defend their smelly stinky stools guru program, that molests kids, and they promote the defenders, and they are angry we are stopping people from worshiping their stinky stool sampradaya? 

Right! These folks don't even know that their smelly stinky stools program is not Krishna's guru successors. And thus they defend worshiping stinky stools. WTF! And that is why Srila Prabhupada had to tell us DO NOT MAKE IT A STOOL SOCIETY. He knew what these people could do. And they did. 

And worse, even after all this, they still defend their stinky smelly guru process. The good news is, more people are agreeing with PADA, these people are dangerous deviants. But hey this is Kali Yuga, and worshiping deviants will become prominent, and opposing will be dangerous, it is a given.  

ys pd

SHEESH PILGRIMS -- THE DIRTY STINKY LAUNDRY GURU SUCCESSION!

TOLD YA!

MMD: Never thought I would end up agreeing with GBC and HKC Jaipur. Yes in dee dee, they have a stinky poops guru sampradaya. 

Only disagreement? We should not criticize their stinky poops guru sampradaya. That makes us enablers. We have to criticize ... or be counted as one of their sheeples. 

Amazing ... Gaudiya Matha Keshava Maharaja also says "we have stuck our hands into poop and everyone can smell it." Now ISKCON has the same poops smell. That is what happens ... when history repeats. We made the same mistake ... only difference? 

We were told AND repeatedly ... not to make this same mistake. That means it is not mistake ... conscious deviation. Where was Rupanuga when they went to the Gaudiya Math for advice? Prabhupada told him to steer us away from them, he drove us to their doorstep.

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JAGGANATH PURI AND RACISM

Let's kick the wasps nest. Sanātana Dharma or "Hinduism" is full of racism and body consciousness. With the shrinking representation of Westerners joining ISKCON and the larger Hindu diaspora taking over temples, we now see this in ISKCON as well. We are taught that we are not these bodies. 

But that is apparently not the case. If you are born as a Westerner or not in the "correct" family you are completely and absolutely discriminated against. If you are a "brahmana" that eats non-veg you are given the red carpet. If you are a Westerner that is completely sattvic in nature and a sadhaka, you get kicked out the back door into the alley.

Enough is enough already. Srila Prabhupada gave us this beautiful Krishna Consciousness movement to transcend social economic barriers and serve Sri Sri Radha-Krishna together. I applaud all those that have really taken to heart that we are truly Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. We will not progress as a society until we come to that realization. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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THE RECIPE FOR "WORLD WAR THREE" IS COOKED UP BY KRISHNA AND SERVED INDIRECTLY BY HIS VARIOUS AGENTS:

(Excerpt from Purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 1.11.34)

Puffed up by such a false sense of becoming God, the deluded living being increases his material strength by so many activities and thus becomes the burden of the earth, so much so that the earth becomes completely uninhabitable by the sane. This state of affairs is called dharmasya glāṇi, or misuse of the energy of the human being. When such misuse of human energy is prominent, the saner living beings become perturbed by the awkward situation created by the vicious administrators, who are simply burdens of the earth, and the Lord appears by His internal potency just to save the saner section of humanity and to alleviate the burden due to the earthly administrators in different parts of the world. 

He does not favor either of the unwanted administrators, but by His potential power He creates hostility between such unwanted administrators, as the air creates fire in the forest by the friction of the bamboos. The fire in the forest takes place automatically by the force of the air, and similarly the hostility between different groups of politicians takes place by the unseen design of the Lord. The unwanted administrators, puffed up by false power and military strength, thus become engaged in fighting amongst themselves over ideological conflicts and so exhaust themselves of all powers. The history of the world reflects this factual will of the Lord, and it will continue to be enacted until the living beings are attached to the service of the Lord.

PADA: Someone was complaining I am not giving credit to Krishna and the demigods for making all these troubles in the world. I am blaming Russia, MAGA, politicians, bogus ISKCON leaders and so on and so forth. Well yes and no. 

Sure! Krishna is in charge of everything that happens, down to the smallest atomic particle, and that is a fact. The demigods are second in command. At the same time, when Krishna is advising Arjuna to fight the Kauravas, He is not saying -- what is the use -- the material energy, Maya, the demigods, forces of nature etc. are causing all this. 

Nope, Krishna says these are evil people doing evil things and they need to be held to account. That does not mean that Krishna and the demigods are not involved. They are, but they are simply facilitating the fighting, they are not the Russian, Ukraine, USA, Iran etc. soldiers and warriors, they are the facilitating agents. 

Krishna owns the boxing match hall, but He is not one of the boxers, nor are the demigods. We are! At the same time, Maya makes people do things they would rather not do. "I murdered my wife -- but I don't know what happened or why etc." OK also true. 

So in some ways we are also controlled by Maya, but we originally surrendered to the control of Maya in the first place, so we are still the main efficient cause. After we surrendered to Maya, we lost our freedom powers and can then be controlled by the modes, other citizens of Maya, the modes of passion and ignorance and etc. Also true. But we originated the cause of being controlled by the modes.

It is however -- also a fact -- that Krishna arranges the belligerent parties to fight each other, to cancel one another out. So He is sort of helping that mutual destruction along. But the parties who are belligerent -- again -- created their own destruction, Krishna just facilitated it. 

They wanted a fight, they got one. But later on, they may not have been happy with the outcome, because they did not understand there is a limit to their material powers. We murdered someone, thinking this is a good idea, then -- we got arrested. OK not a good idea after all. 

The modes made this and that happen, or maybe not happen, but we still go to jail and take a suffering next birth. We are still considered as the main creators of our own situation, and blaming Satan for making us sin, won't work. If we signed up to serve Maya, we are the original root cause of the ensuing reactions. ys pd  

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The GBC: Obscuring the Sampradaya Sun

Sattvic Dāsa – Calcutta: When we speak of the Sampradaya Sun we speak of he who is enlightening human society with transcendental knowledge or he who is the pride of the Sampradaya and I am sure the GBC accepts His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as the person who enlightens all the devotees. Others, (Gaudiya Math) may refer to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami and still others may refer to their own Guru.

I am concerned With Srila Prabhupada.

What I cannot accept is why the GBC are so adamant in maintaining that the ritviks are wrong to the point that they don’t even want to discuss this solution in their proposals for change?

I am making an attempt to analyze this discrepancy.

The Sampradaya is the chain of disciplic succession. There are four Vaisnava Sampradays. Ours is the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya coming down from Lord Brahma to the present day. Srila Prabhupada is the “current link”. Has he ceased to be the link after his physical departure? Not to my knowledge.
There are many gaps between one Acharya and the next sometime thousands of years or more. We have Srila Vyasadeva and then immediately the next one is Madhvacharya. How many years in between the two great souls? So what exactly is the link? It is the transcendental knowledge. Such Knowledge remains intact in its principle but may differ in some detail according to time, place and circumstance. As such Acharyas may differ somewhat in the application of the principles by adopting means that are suitable for preaching Krishna consciousness to the people of that particular time.

As long as the teachings of the current link remain valid we can conclude that he remains the Acharya. One of the objections to the ritvik system is how will the disciplic succession go on? How can it stop with Srila Prabhupada? We need a living guru to connect us to the sampradaya etc.etc. This argument is by nature a faulty one.

First of all, no one can alter, add or subtract from Srila Prabhupada’s teachings. No GBC no sannyasi, no one for as long as Sri Krishna decides. Why – Because the continuation of the Sampradaya is in His hands. Not in the hands of conditioned souls in the way of continuing a business or family or a dynasty of kings. These are all mundane considerations that have no place in Vaisnava culture.
How is the GBC obscuring the Sun of the Sampradaya – Srila Prabhupada?

It’s plain and simple. They are, by denying Srila Prabhupada’s position as the initiator spiritual master for his society, leaving the door open for ambitious people that somehow there is some chance to become a guru. Otherwise why is there such an animosity to a direct order of the Acharya? After all if Srila Prabhupada cannot initiate (posthumously as they insultingly call it) then someone has to take up that very important service.

Furthermore, so many godbrothers attempted to play the role of Guru with the mandate of the GBC and fell short in delivering the goods. So who is left? Others are still there hanging by the skin of their teeth.

Speculation is very dangerous. Replacing a conditioned souls with another conditioned soul thinking that maybe (keep your finger crossed) he will not fall down is an utterly foolish proposition. And I don’t leave it at that. Fall down does not only mean having sex. Disobeying the order of the spiritual master is also a fall down. By definition the all gamut of hypocrites who are now occupying (by force) positions within Srila Prabhupada’s Institution are fallen.

I don’t want to make this article a long one. My concern is that devotees who are still believing the gross lies of the GBC are taken for a ride. Different degrees of ignorance is still ignorance.

The GBC is, has and will continue to obscure Srila Prabhupada by imposing speculations. There is a need for proper, honest distribution of information to safeguard the spiritual interest of countless souls who want shelter of Krishna. The mercy of Krishna cannot be obtained unless we take refuge at the lotus feet of a Bona-fide spiritual master. That Spiritual master is Srila Prabhupada not any self-deluded conditioned soul.

The Sampradaya will continue with Srila Prabhupada as long as the Lord allows it. He will then make arrangements as He has done since time immemorial. We have to stop committing the sin of presumption thinking that we are more intelligent than our spiritual master.

I had only one morning walk with Srila Prabhupada. It was in 1976 in Mayapur, a pleasant January morning. We were only three of us and His Divine grace. It was Bhavananda, Tamal Krishna and me. Srila Prabhupada stopped in front of the main gate and stuck his cane on the ground. He looked in the sky and said with a very grave voice. “You cannot step over the head of the Spiritual Master”. He kept walking and said no more for the duration of the walk.

How many more times do we have to witness devotees stepping over the head of Srila Prabhupada? Tamal and Bhavananda went on doing just that and met with disaster both spiritual and material. The GBC have to stop committing this mistake and come to their senses otherwise their fate is sealed. Arrogance and over intelligence are not qualities of those who claim to be followers of Srila Prabhupada.

Let the GBC shine with the true teachings of Srila Prabhupada. He is the light of Iskcon and the eternal guide of any sincere seeker of transcendence. Give up this animosity to his order and bow down to his will.
Your servant
Sattvic Dāsa

ISKCON History / PADA's Taxi / Gaura Govinda / Ritviks / JND / 07 17 26

Jai Jagganath Swami! 

Krishna Ebook : Volume 1 | KCS

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Jatayu: THE 180 DEGREE INVERSION OF HISTORY:

So many audio tapes and documents are missing from the later months of Srila Prabhupada's life. In the screenshot below, we find memoirs of Yasoda nanda of Tamal's obscurantism accompanying the destruction of records around this time.

Tamal and the others who were operating as a clandestine clique within the movement, did their very best to cover up Srila Prabhupada's instructions on many matters, such as continuing the process of initiations as it had been going on, via the formal appointment of representatives.

Instead, these conspirators announced to the society after Srila Prabhupada's physical departure, that these eleven representatives listed by Srila Prabhupada in the July 9th directive, had instead been appointed as successor acharyas with zonal jurisdictions.

Even today, those who are advocating for the reinstatement of the original system of initiations face stigma, exclusion and even physical harm, for doing so. For example, when the Calcutta temple attempted to reinstate this system, Jayapataka sent his goons to go and beat the devotees, with injuries including broken bones. They also set fire to part of the building.

Mainstream ISKCON devotees however, have been indoctrinated into believing that advocates of the representative system are worse than the devil himself. Why? Because the revelation of this fraud, as well as other adjacent matters, would bring the house of cards of those who hijacked the institution, tumbling down.

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PADA's TAXI update:

HKC JAIPUR ARE MAYAPUR AGENTS 

PADA: Thanks prabhu. The Jayapataka followers just now said to you PADA is a bogus taxi driver. Yep, this all started when the HKC Jaipur / Mathura Pati / Prabhupadanugas EU group started complaining that PADA is doing the same job as Jayananda, driving a taxi in San Francisco. And therefore he (and Jayananda) are engaged in sinful low class activity of moving around pizzas, prostitutes and drunks. Wow prabhus, Jayananda is one of the worst deviants in ISKCON, driving a taxi no less! Who knew! 

So yeah, they are demonizing a saint like Jayananda never mind PADA. What this means? Simple, they want to allow children to be raped, beaten and abused -- and not have us bogus taxi drivers protesting their actual child abuse agenda. Good question prabhu! Does that mean the HKC Jaipur and Mayapur guys are working together. Well yep it looks that way. They are certainly colluding together and parroting one another for sure.

The Mayapur and HKC folks also BOTH say -- me and Sulochana are (drunks and) sahajiyas, citing Hari Sauri. Yep -- same thing the Jayapataka Mayapur people say. Bhavananda's bucket boy is the writer / authority for both teams. People who support oral sex with taxi driver's Vishnupada acharyas are always in full agreement! 

And Sulochana said these people (like Hari Sauri / Mayapur / HKC Jaipur) are demonizing us as sahajiyas -- to make us targets for assassination. Sulochana says, they want to get us assassinated -- and they did get one of us assassinated. And the HKC people are proud they support the group that wanted us  assassinated, and did get Sulochana taken out? 

We also said -- Srila Prabhupada complains of poison, and they are trying to discredit us on that issue as well. We are known by our association. For the record, all the politicians, tech bros, drug dealers, drunks and prostitutes I was driving around San Francisco would ALL agree with me, child abuse needs to be contained. That means the average -- Joe six pack -- is more elevated than almost this entire ISKCON lot.

Meanwhile, the Jayapata / Mayapur people wrote to me to complain that our helping various lawsuits (including Bangalore's) has cost them over $100,000,000 -- more than the entire TOVP building. Right. So where does Srila Prabhupada order them to spend $100,000,000 -- fighting with a bogus prostitute and pizza driving taxi walla? Does this make any sense? We have to spend $100,000,000 of ISKCON money -- fighting -- with a bogus taxi walla driver? Where was this ordered in shastra? 

And the HKC Jaipur hero Krishna Kanta said the lawsuit "would make us lose our buildings." OK they admit they own the buildings where their pedophile messiahs are worshiped as acharyas. Kamsahanta said the same thing, we will lose our (pedophile worship) program buildings. Boo hoo! We will lose our wonderful and glorious pedophile worship program, oh gimme a kleenex so I can cry here! 

But none of them ever answers the first questions, why are us bogus drunken sahajiyas / alleged vodka drinking / prostitute driving / taxi driving fools -- the main -- if not only folks protesting child abuse, and they are not? 

So yeah, the Mayapur people and the HKC Jaipur are both criticizing Jayananada as a low class deviant; they are both opposing us for exposing their child abuse agenda; they both cite Hari Sauri as their authority; they both cite Radhanath supporters; they both cite or support the Auschwitz for kids cheer leaders etc. And so yeah, it looks like they are one and the same on the main issues.   

Even the Berkeley police said -- discrediting us enables, empowers and allows mass child abuse, and assorted banning, beating, molesting, suing and -- killing. The real reason they don't approve of PADA? We are exposing them, and their evil child abuse agenda, and such people hate to be exposed. 

Yeah, they talk alike, act alike, think alike, speak alike, and something is really wrong with their opposing mass child abuse. And yep, that is explains why there has been so much rampant abuse, these types of people encouraged and enabled the Auschwitz regime. Anyway yeah, they are both on the same page, which is why Sulochana says -- birds of a feather flop together. 

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com

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GAURA GOVINDA MAHARAJA FOLKS PROTEST PADA

PADA: Sorry George Joannides: Yep, that is what the Gaura Govinda people said when I said there is a MASS child mistreatment program. "This PD guy is an aparadhi," OK because he does not support our worship of GGM's child predators acharyas. That is why we had to sue Gaura Govinda's guru program for $3M and later for $400M. 

GGM was always hanging out with Dhanurdar, Bhavananda, Bhakti Vidhya Purna, Radhanath, Jayapataka, Dayaram, and the whole Auschwitz for kids ki jaya folks ... so we all know whom GGM prefers to exclusively associate with, and whom and what he supports. The good news is: the Dallas courts ruled in favor of us, twice. Yup. Anyone who defends children is an aparadhi in the GGM scheme, we know all about it, so does the police, so does the children, so does the courts, so does the media. 

Gaura Govinda Maharaja has no authority to promote his homosexual and pedophile guru regime, period. And he was STILL in their company in Mayapur when he left his body, because he wanted to be with -- them -- and he avoided us, and we all know the reason. ys pd

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DEAN BALARAM

ISKCON Is Already Doing "Ritvik Initiations"

This was inspired by a great question from Guillermo Alberto Lopez Quintero:

"I have started with Paramadviti Maharaj. Am I a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, or do I need a new initiation?"

Reply:

I was travelling in a caravan from London to India in 1994 and started associating with Srila Prabhupada through his book The Science of Self-Realization. I had never heard or seen anything about Indian culture up to that point, and I come from a Muslim background.

Still, Srila Prabhupada preached to me. Prabhupada convinced me to try bhakti-yoga. Prabhupada convinced me to chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Prabhupada convinced me to follow the four regulative principles. Prabhupada convinced me to come and join the temple. Prabhupada convinced me to give my life to Krishna, surrender to Krishna, and serve this transcendental mission.
So Srila Prabhupada was already my diksha-guru in my heart when I came to ISKCON in Vrindavan in 1995. 

Sadly, I was told that I needed "a living diksha-guru," when actually I already had one—a very rare and special one—Srila Prabhupada, an intimate eternal friend of Vrindavan Krishna.

So I received formal initiation on Gaura Purnima in Mayapur-dhama in 1997. My department head sent my recommendation letter to Harikesa Swami. Harikesa Swami chanted on my beads and chose a spiritual name for me.

A Mayapur temple brahmana conducted the fire yajna. Everything was done according to the July 9th Directive concerning how to perform initiations after Srila Prabhupada's physical departure.

The Illusion and the Solution

1. The newly initiated disciple is influenced to mistakenly think that the "ritvik" is his diksha-guru.

Solution: To understand and realize that throughout his spiritual life, Srila Prabhupada has actually been his diksha and siksha-guru.

"Diksa actually means initiating a disciple with transcendental knowledge by which he becomes freed from all material contamination."
(Madhya-lila 4.112, Purport)

2. The appointed "ritvik" mistakenly thinks that acting as a "ritvik" automatically makes him a diksha-guru.

Solution: To understand and realize that he is only acting as Srila Prabhupada's representative, acting on Prabhupada's behalf to choose a spiritual name and chant on beads and Gayatri threads.

"Temple Presidents may henceforward send recommendation for first and second initiation to whichever of these eleven representatives are nearest their temple. After considering the recommendation, these representatives may accept the devotee as an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada by giving a spiritual name, or in the case of second initiation, by chanting on the Gayatri thread, just as Srila Prabhupada has done. The newly initiated devotees are disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the above eleven senior devotees acting as His representative."
(July 9th Signed Directive)

So your "ritvik" initiation was already done by Prabhupada. You simply have to correct your consciousness, and the "ritvik"—in your case, Paramadviti Maharaj—also has to correct his consciousness.
Prabhupada:

"YES, I AM THE SPIRITUAL MASTER OF THIS INSTITUTION, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE MY DISCIPLES. They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are initiated by me spiritually."

https://vanisource.org/.../680312_-_Interview_-_San...

But if you feel your consciousness will be much better by going through a new formal initiation ceremony and receiving a new spiritual name, because it will help you completely disconnect from the person you thought was your diksha-guru for all these years and now focus much more on Srila Prabhupada, then please do go ahead and do that. There is nothing to lose and so much to gain.

Thank you for your wonderful question.

Jayaaaa Prabhupada!

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JND

Now let us us look at the specific complaint being raised by Puri Jagannatha temple regarding ISKCON holding Ratha Yatras around the world on dates that differ from the one in Puri.

They have made a claim that Ratha Yatra must be conducted only on Ashadha Shukla Dvitiya, and they state this is the only day specifically given in the Skanda Purana for conducting this festival. Is what they say true? Let us see what Lord Jagannatha actually says in Skanda Purana about the timings:

guṇḍicākhyāṃ mahāyātrāṃ prakurvīyāḥ kṣitīśvara
yasyāḥ saṃkīrtanād eva naraḥ pāpād vimucyate
māghamāsasya pañcamyām aṣṭamyāṃ caitraśuklake
ete kālāḥ praśastā hi guṇḍicākhyamahotsave
viśeṣān mokṣadāṣāḍha-dvitīyā puṣya-saṃyutā
ṛkṣābhāve tithau kāryā sadā sā prītaye mama

"O King, you should perform the great procession known as the Guṇḍicā-yātrā. Simply by chanting its glories, a person is freed from sin. The fifth day of the month of Māgha and the eighth day of the bright fortnight of Caitra are considered especially auspicious times for the festival known as the Guṇḍicā Mahotsava. 

Above all, the Āṣāḍha Śukla Dvitīyā, when joined with the Puṣya constellation, bestows liberation. If Puṣya is absent, it should still always be observed on the Dvitīyā tithi, for My pleasure." - Skanda Purana 2.29.30-32

Very clearly Lord Jagannatha gives a list of different timings which one may choose, of which the best is Ashadha Shukla Dvitiya. It is the best, but it is not the ONLY option. This is Lord Jagannatha's own instruction in the Skanda Purana to Maharaja Indradyumna.

The claim made by the Puri temple is false, and this has already been refuted by ISKCON, who has presented them with 90 pages of scriptural reference showing that the Ratha festival can be conducted on other dates as per the instructions of the scriptures.

Is this really a fight over scripture or "trademarks"?

We find from the following news article in the Indian Express (10 July, 2026) that the king of Puri has said other Ratha processions of Jagannatha can be done on other dates, but he just doesn't want them to use the name "Ratha Yatra". Is that what Skanda Purana told him?

"Gajapati Maharaj further mentioned that Puri temple committee has no objection to ISKCON performing additional 'Rath Processions' for the purpose of propagating Krishna Consciousness at different times of the year. "However, such events cannot be called or described as 'Shree Jagannath Rath Yatra'." - New Indian Express (10 July, 2026)

Is this a disagreement over scripture or over business trademarks? If they agree that the exact same chariot procession can be done on different dates as long as it uses a different branding name, then this is not a disagreement about scriptures.

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ADAM DE RITO

America doesn’t drift toward communism because young people suddenly stop believing in freedom. It drifts there when young people stop believing they have a future in capitalism.

For too long, we’ve expected the next generation to inherit the consequences of today’s decisions while denying them a meaningful seat at the table. Skyrocketing housing costs. Record national debt. Rising costs of living. Then we wonder why more young Americans are looking for radical alternatives.

If you believe in free markets, private property, and the American Dream, then the answer isn’t to cling to power forever. The answer is to renew our republic by passing the torch. This isn’t about disrespecting the generations who built America. It’s about ensuring the generations who inherit America still believe it’s worth preserving.

If we want to save American capitalism, we have to give young Americans a reason to believe in it. Read my latest op-ed and let me know where you stand.

PADA: Yep, the torch was not passed to the ISKCON gurukulis. Same issue, they see no future in that movement, so they left en masse. One gurukuli here blew out his brains under a bridge and left a note "I have no place in my own religion." Yep, no future. ys pd