In relation to Costa Rica farm

With folded hands and a straw in my mouth I beg Guru Prasad Swami and
associates to renounce the management of the Costa Rica farm and let
other devotees take care and try develop the farm.

Please Maharaj, give up your intent and please please do what you
surely know how to do best, to reclaim the lost souls back to the Lord
by harinam sankirtan and straight preaching.

A saintly vaishnava sannyasi cannot possibly be meshed in such
political actions with duplicitous statements, lies and legal
manoeuvres, not even “for Krishna”.

With the same spirit I beg the farm devotees to start developing the
farm in such a way that results will speak louder than arguments and
quarrel.

your servant,

Jagannatha Mishra das

update on email

Prabhu, Please excuse me. Sorry to bother you again.

I was referring to the Higher Truth perceived by truly awakened souls (and not those who witness and have knowledge of atrocities masquerading as religion, or look away from the suffering of others) along with the Vedic aphorism tarko-pratistanat, that is, by argument one cannot force others to reach any real conclusion because of the inevitable affront caused by reactive false ego(pratistha).

At this point of Kali-yuga hardly anyone claiming to debate or argue a point is able to do so without vehemence or acrimony, although pratistha prevents the participants from perceiving this as all degenerates into ever exacerbating quarrels. Thusly, so-called philosophical debates or arguments are unfortunately usually in reality nothing more than quarrelsome clashes of ego often resulting in less than affectionate feelings and dealings between participants.

The Wise do not contend. Therefore no can contend with Them.Personally, I have not been involved in any type of religious society for many decades, although I now live in a house that I dreamed of Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur singing  Hare Krishna in before I ever saw it. In my previous residence I had one of my many dreams of Srila Prabhupada wherein he was very disturbed and he asked me for help. My thoughts, realization and consciousness are the only assistance I can give His Divine Grace in this regard, with Faith as my only asset.However, in this life, I have no institutional position, nor will I ever. Nonetheless, I have a great wish to restore that which was lost. In honor of Srila Prabhupada’s personal request to me.

This includes considering the rectifiable Krishna Consciousness of those who have acted badly because of poor understanding. Towards this end I have endeavored to address the ultimate causes of cruelty and corruption in a universally applicable religious context on the pages of Sampradaya Sun.  Hopefully with dignity and delicacy. And without pointing any fingers. Although possibly I must accept that I have failed at this difficult task. Rather than being opposed to misconceivers, my fight is against misconception or misunderstanding which is the core ideological problem(after at first stringently applying such tenets towards myself, which is the real battle).

Otherwise, what is there to stop the same from happening again even if false leaders are replaced in disgrace with supposedly superior candidates for the hopeful proper beneficial administration of a society? Or good leaders from becoming bad? My feeling is to try and consider the suffering and real benefit of all, including the perpetrators of various religious aberrations, because they are also souls. And I know their Gurudev Loved them nonetheless. Therefore, so must I. And my critical observations must follow a delicate balance of always considering everything, if possible simultaneously, without dishonoring even ecclesiastical criminals.Please consider that Mahaprabhu’s Teaching is to always give honor to others, regardless. And that to give dishonor, honors no one. If I cannot honor Mahaprabhu’s essential Teachings as expressed in His Third Beautiful Precept, how may I properly consider myself as His follower? If you can see the mood which I learned from my Teachers, possibly you might see that if They were directly manifest before us that they would not fit into any of the five categories you mention. Yet, They are most assured healers of the highest caliber who would Absolutely extend Merciful Correctiveness for the benefit of all souls suffering in bewilderment in this world. I am humbly trying to follow that line, but I am a poor learner and the worst of Their students, so it’s no surprise for miscommunication and misunderstanding to arise because of my personal subjective difficulty in imbibing and expressing Their Ideals.

Must everything always be quantified and confined within a category in order to define our opinions? Or must anyone who doesn’t agree with my particular viewpoint be discounted or marginalized as non-essential to presumed reformation or real progress?

I must apologize to you for the misunderstanding conveyed by my unanswered earlier question to your Grace. Once again words seem to fail in effectively conveying what some might consider overly abstruse or a subtle philosophical abstraction. Also, I am no cheerleader for any type of official status quo. False or otherwise.

Please know that I am really sorry for your institutional ordeal which you and many others have had to endure over the last thirty years. Because of Srila Prabhupada’s personal request to me I am doing everything I can to help him to the best of my limited capacity.  I hope this is some clarification of the actual mood or ideological context of my earlier question to your Grace.

Humbly,

___________________________

My response,

Dear suchandsuch das,

I do not believe in retrieving myself in fear of not being a pure representative, that is taking humility to a level that does more harm than good to me and to others.

The facts that had happened are so base and lowly that is not to be categorized as “normal” residues of us conditioned souls playing the part of managers of a spiritual movement, but a complete havoc affecting most importantly our ability to bring these message to society.

I am sure your “Master” (I do not know who is, I suppose Srila Prabhupada) would try to actively implement a change. I also see what he had done, do the right thing apart from the mainstream maya affected Gaudiya Math.

I agree that the most powerful change driver is to situate oneself in proper action, and that IS not difficult nor impossible.

I am also not talking from idleness, I am actively distributing Srila prabhupada books and other services, so am certainly not speaking from my armchair.

The Movement Srila Prabhupada envisioned is one of independent units temples with self empowered congregations monks and temple presidents, not the Church that was created just after his departure and is increasingly moving away from our basic tenets all in the name of practicality and a so called absolute authority nowadays GBC crew.

If you really wish to please your Master, then engage in practical things to ameliorate the state of affairs in his vision, more books going out, mass prasadam distribution and Hare Krishna chanting being heard and followed by millions.

My whole point here is that to follow His order we need to be active, bold and daring, impersonal spiritualism and nice words of humility will not do, real humility is to please the spiritual master and if nice words are killing that end they are most violent.

I agree with you that Tamo guna is the real culprit, please do not think I am personally against of any of the rascals thriving in ISKCON nowadays. I am sure they think they are doing their best, and it is true , they are doing their best, buried in the lower modes of nature understanding and perspective.

So I am not promoting fight, quarrel or anything like that. But to tell the truth, to denounce the mistakes is essential, specially because we have a responsibility with the ones that are coming next, the new blood of ISKCON so that things do not repeat themselves and most importantly they stop occurring altogether. If the rascals get disturb by those actions and reasonings, we are very sorry.

I advocate education above fight, because that is the only means to achieve what everyone including the failing managers want: happiness and peace in KC. But education is an active work and many times implies argument and debate.

Strangely, (please do not take this personally) when I read your email, reminded me of the “humble” impersonalists arguments of “peace” and inaction. Their words are missing their own philosophy as if their goal was that, if they honoured their own philosophy, how in the world they even speak or write an email with an argument? If those persons are in fact so transcendental, let them pass through without writing a letter, speaking a word or making themselves available to discuss.

Wishing you a nice Krishna conscious day…

“No see, no hear, no talk” = transcendental or rascal?

responding to my article:

http://jaganat.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/a-new-light-for-iskcon/

from undisclosed sender:

Please excuse me. Sorry to bother you. Are there not also those who are able to
perceive the Truth but do not wish to quarrel/argue/debate?

______________

My response:

Dear suchandsuch Dasa,

>Please excuse me. Sorry to bother you

Always a pleasure to have vaishnava association.

What do you mean by “those who are able to perceive the Truth but do
not wish to quarrel/argue/debate”, the self realized souls uttma
adhikaris that see all in relation to Krishna and so make no
distinctions? (you put the word Truh in caps so I guess so) or those
who see the truth about our social problems and choose not to speak?

For your information those persons are the real responsible for all
the mistakes, abuse, cover-ups and mismanagement… because they see
but they look the other way, all in the name of “spiritual” vision.
They are the real ones that perpetuate the wrong, allowing the rascals
to thrive.

Nowhere in my post I use the word quarrel or synonyms.

I do not know why you equate debate and argument with quarrel, that
could be a symptom of a person in the mode of “whatever happens, no
see no hear no talk”.

Could be that you equal any attempt to fix things as a direct attack
on the status quo with negative consequences?

Whistle blowers are an asset to our movement and to any organization,
they keep the leadership sanitized and alert. Those leaders that are
sincere, they will welcome denounce, if they are rascals they will try
to stop the flow of information about their behaviour and character by
any means, including character assassination and appeal to “higher”
principles.

Those rascals and their henchmen would love that all critics will fall
in those categories: biased, maddened, bitter, but….

There is a “fifth class” of devotees, and they are the ones that can
heal our movement, as opposed to the “good standing and politically
correct cheer leaders” that help very efficiently perpetuate the
bluff.

Wishing you all the best, spiritual and material,

your servant,

Jagannatha Mishra das

A new light for ISKCON

In relation to the article by Kula Pavana Prabhu,

http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/03-08/editorials2741.htm

There is a fifth category of devotees nowadays:

The ones that see the impeding problems in ISKCON but are not ritviks, not GBC yesmen nor Gaudiya Math switchers.

They are outside and inside ISKCON structure.

These fifth is the group that believes in ISKCON as Srila Prabhupada taught without so many changes, corporate style meetings and seminars, abandon of the books, harinam and direct preaching in general, conscious depopulation of temples and progressive hinduization model.

Those are loyal to ISKCON, the internal ISKCON, but not to the corporate GBC ISKCON trying to become a religion for want of a better choice in their minds.

This devotees are non partisans of a group, they do not hold particular grudges making them biased or have a hidden agenda but to please Prabhupada and wish ISKCON would be what is meant to be, with some failures amongst huge success, not some success among throughout debacle.

Seems like this group has not yet being able to organize themselves, but if they could, they would revolutionize the face of ISKCON, not destroying or going against the GBC for the sake of it, but denouncing the big mistakes for the benefit of all and doing themselves the right thing.

The leaders that have been for so many years there, have shown that they failed, better to give new blood to the GBC by starting to implement the DOM elections, for a more sanitized and logical management system.

We need a revolution from the grassroots, every devotee asking for a more simple and straighforward answer to the problems and make the leaders answerable for what they do. If the temple presidents are dynamic and independent preachers, then the GBC can become truly powerful.

Stop making excuses to change step by step what Srila Prabhupada gave us, stop now listening to corporate style “devotees”, leave them to themselves and see if they can make even a living teaching that in the outside world.

If we can go back to temple president and temple members empowerment as Srila Prabhupada intended and just do the simple program, we can become a bright, self effulgent spiritual movement as we are meant to be, and we the preachers can again announce with pride that we belong to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

If someone is interested in organizing such a thing, please contact me at jaganat@mail.com

First Eleven are Srila Prabhupada Disciples

BY: KURMA DASA

Mar 13, AUSTRALIA (SUN) —

It is time for ISKCON’s GBC and leaders to at least acknowledge that devotees who were initiated by any of the first eleven who were empowered to do this on Srila Prabhupada’s behalf are, in fact, disciples of Srila Prabhupada.Devotees who joined ISKCON after this letter was sent out were surely well intentioned. Just because these Representatives of Srila Prabhupada ignored this instruction, this does not interfere with the disciple’s connection to Srila Prabhupada.If the devotees who were initiated can understand that they were, in fact, disciples of Srila Prabhupada and even now follow their rightful Spiritual Master, then how could their connection be void?

The problem wasn’t Srila Prabhupada’s, nor was it the devotees who joined ISKCON with good intentions. The problem and any adjustments and apologies to be made must be made by the representatives and those GBC who ignored Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in this matter. This includes all the senior members of ISKCON at the time who are now big boys within the movement. They to are not exempt because they assisted with this lie and cheated us. They know exactly who they are, and they also know what they have done. Should we have to name and shame them? Where is THEIR humility? You people helped perpetuate the lies and cheating so you are just as guilty as those who led the way!

The more the GBC try to ignore this, the more deviant they will be deemed by the growing worldwide voice that is ever gaining momentum.This is the first step that must be taken toward any reconciliation. Then and then only will we be able to deal with the current cheating system that says a bona fide Spiritual Master can be given his position by votes. This concoction is also unfair to the genuine people who have recently joined the movement and who may be guided to the movement in the future by Srila Prabhupada’s books.Hansadutta has admitted to the above mistake and apologized to the devotee community, and for this he must be forgiven and given credit.Will the others follow this example?Kurma das (not the chef)

The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Editorials - March 2008

The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Editorials - March 2008

First Eleven are Srila Prabhupada DisciplesBY: KURMA DASAMar 13, AUSTRALIA (SUN) — It is time for ISKCON’s GBC and leaders to at least acknowledge that devotees who were initiated by any of the first eleven who were empowered to do this on Srila Prabhupada’s behalf are, in fact, disciples of Srila Prabhupada.Devotees who joined ISKCON after this letter was sent out were surely well intentioned. Just because these Representatives of Srila Prabhupada ignored this instruction, this does not interfere with the disciple’s connection to Srila Prabhupada.If the devotees who were initiated can understand that they were, in fact, disciples of Srila Prabhupada and even now follow their rightful Spiritual Master, then how could their connection be void?The problem wasn’t Srila Prabhupada’s, nor was it the devotees who joined ISKCON with good intentions. The problem and any adjustments and apologies to be made must be made by the representatives and those GBC who ignored Srila Prabhupada’s instructions in this matter. This includes all the senior members of ISKCON at the time who are now big boys within the movement. They to are not exempt because they assisted with this lie and cheated us. They know exactly who they are, and they also know what they have done. Should we have to name and shame them? Where is THEIR humility? You people helped perpetuate the lies and cheating so you are just as guilty as those who led the way!The more the GBC try to ignore this, the more deviant they will be deemed by the growing worldwide voice that is ever gaining momentum.This is the first step that must be taken toward any reconciliation. Then and then only will we be able to deal with the current cheating system that says a bona fide Spiritual Master can be given his position by votes. This concoction is also unfair to the genuine people who have recently joined the movement and who may be guided to the movement in the future by Srila Prabhupada’s books.Hansadutta has admitted to the above mistake and apologized to the devotee community, and for this he must be forgiven and given credit.Will the others follow this example?Kurma das (not the chef)

The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Editorials - March 2008

Social: Are the present “Gurus” Uttama Adhikari?”

some interesting conversation in pariprashnena.com:

http://www.pariprashnena.com/discussion/556/1/are-the-present-gurus-uttama-adhikari/

BBT International Book Sales up or Down?

BY: KRSNA DASA

Mar 1, CANADA (SUN) — The recent GBC report about a 28% increase in BBT book sales seems to be an attempt to cover the real situation of worldwide book sales going down. First we should note that 76% of all book sales took place in India, which probably means all of the book increases occurred in the big Indian temples. The BBTs in India really have no connection with BBT International, who is responsible for book publication in the western world. In fact the BBTs in India are run mostly by local temples. For example, the Kanada BBT is run by the Bangalore Ritvik temple, the Tamil BBT is officially ran by the Chennai temple (but is actually leased out to a private printer for his personal profit). the Malayalam BBT is run by the Coimbatore temple, the Oriya BBT is run by the Bhubaneswar temple, etc. All of these successful BBTs are completely independent from the BBT International, the people making this report of “increased worldwide book sales”.

What the BBT International is trying to do is hide behind the success of these independent and hard working Indian temples, who print and distribute their own books. 76% of the worldwide book distribution has absolutely nothing to do with BBT International. It is the hard work of independent teams of devotees in India. BBT International wants to take credit for their work to cover their own failing record in the west.

If we removed this 76% of book sales from the BBT International’s report, we would be left with news of worldwide drops in book distribution in key countries like the United States. Thus the BBT International’s real record for 2007 is that book sales continue to decline, while they waste their time in lawsuits chasing “easy money”.

“Get the Hell Out of My Life”

Umapati Swami tries to rewrite his history

source: http://iskconreview.blogspot.com/2006/12/umapati-swamis-request-get-hell-out-of.html

 

In Umapati Swami’s recent reply we hear the same song that all of Kirtanananda’s henchmen have sung for years. Each one tries to pretend he was an ostrich with his head in the sand, not seeing a thing that went on around him. The fact is, these henchmen weren’t just common you and me devotees, they were Kirtanananda’s right hand men, his enforcers, and his philosophical propounders. They were the one’s who actually propped Kirtanananda up and made all devotees accept him as equal to God. As Rochan prabhu pointed out in a previous article, it was the “saintly philosophers” who really gave Kirtanananda the power to control the masses.At present, practically every former Kirtanananda leader has oozed back into a position of power in ISKCON, completely sweeping their past under the carpet. It wouldn’t be too far off to say Kirtanananda is actually running ISKCON by remote control even today. His deviant philosophies and practices have silently seeped into every corner of ISKCON through his faithful “disciples”, now all ISKCON GBC and Gurus.It is a fact that Kirtanananda was a homosexual, and he attempted to install homosexual leadership throughout ISKCON. He did this primarily by awarding sannyasa (a position that was highly respected throughout the movement) to his homosexual disciples and godbrothers.

The chances were if you were one of Bhaktipada’s close men, or trusted leaders, you were a homosexual. He knew the more sannyasi’s you had, the more control you had over ISKCON. So he gave sannyasa to all of them, and then used them to wrestle control of ISKCON.Bhavananda did a similar thing on the other side of the world in Mayapur. He also installed homosexuals and pedophiles in all positions of authority within his zone, to make it easier for them to abuse and exploit in a very systematic manner. Both Bhavananda and Kirtanananda plotted and executed a plan of systematic exploitation, abuse and molestation in ISKCON.Umapati Swami wants us to forget his past, and just accept that he was the right hand man of Kirtanananda all by some unfortunate accident. He had no idea what Kirtanananda was up to or what kind of person he was. In his letter he states:

“I did not see any evidence of sexual misconduct on the part of Kirtanananda while I lived at New Vrindaban. The stories of Kirtanananda’s sexual misconduct came out long after I left New Vrindaban.”and”I have never in my life been part of any homosexual-freedom movement. I don’t know where you got that one from.”  

Let me remind the readers that prior to joining ISKCON, Umapati shared an apartment with two other notorious homosexuals, Keith (later to be known as Kirtanananda) and Howard (later to be known as Hayagriva). At that time he was known as Wally, and anyone with a little knowledge of the history knows what Keith, Howard and Wally were into at those times. Umapati tries to pretend he had no idea what type of person Kirtanananda was, but the truth is, he grew up with Keith and he lived with Keith. It wasn’t random chance that they lived together either. Birds of a feather flock together, as they say. If anyone knew what type of a deviant Kirtanananda was it was Umapati. All these years of intimate friendship and association between Wally, Keith and Howard, but he can’t figure out a thing? He just didn’t know what type of a deviant person Kirtanananda was, at least that’s what Umapati wants us to believe.I think everyone can see on these first two points it is clear Umapati Swami is lying, and anyone who studies it objectively (without the guru goggles on) will likely agree.In his letter he goes on to say:

“When he started deviating philosophically, I opposed him in front of everyone there.”  

Umapati claims he opposed Kirtanananda’s deviations from the very “start”, presenting as though he was the stalwart defender of Prabhupada’s pure teachings in New Vrindavan. But I would have to say Umapati must have really misunderstood when those deviations “started”, because the history shows he was a happy participator. Not only was he wearing the Franscican robes, as he admits in his letter, but he and Hayagriva (his old homosexual buddy Howard) where the master poets who rewrote all the songs and prayers into English poetry. He didn’t just participate, he led the way. Every single song from the Vaishnava song book was thrown out and rewritten into English poetry (including the mahamantra), primarily by Umapati and Hayagriva. That doesn’t sound like he “opposed Kirtanananda’s deviations from the very start”. So again, we find Umapati Swami is lying and trying to rewrite the history just like all the Kirtanananda henchmen do.Next, Umapati Swami tries to escape the charge that he gave sannyasa to notorious murderer Tirtha Das. He states:

“It was Kirtanananda who awarded sannyasa to Tirtha, although I performed the ceremony.”  

Oh, I see. After Tirtha Das was convicted in a court of law for murdering devotees, Umapati Swami went and awarded him sannyasa in the prison – but only as a ritvik representative of Kirtanananda. Now that clears up everything, why would I have ever thought anything of such a small trivial thing?For the record, Kirtanananda was expelled from ISKCON in March of 1987, and Umapati Swami performed the sannyasa initiation ceremony for murderer Tirtha Das in August of 1987. So even after everyone in the world knew Kirtanananda was a criminal engaged in murder, child molestation and all sorts of crimes, still Umapati didn’t see anything. He obviously thought the ISKCON GBC were rascals, and he obviously thought the court that convicted Tirtha Das were fools, and so he felt it was just fine and dandy to act as Kirtanananda’s ritvik to personally give sannyasa to murderer Tirtha Das in prison. Again, it’s an obvious case of Umapati trying to rewrite his past. After all, now he is a guru who is supposed to be as good as God. He has to keep the image up or business won’t be good.Umapati goes on to say:

“After I left New Vrindaban, I openly repudiated Kirtanananda on more than one occasion.”  

Everyone repudiated Kirtanananda once they saw he wasn’t the winning party. For years you propped him up, and then when you saw the grass was greener on the other side of the fence you hopped over and repudiated him. Why did you do this repudiation “after you left New Vrindavan”? For so many years you went along with his deviations, and then once you got a better place to stay, you left and repudiated him. Is that supposed to impress all the children who go molested under your nose? Or were you simultaneously repudiating him while you wrote poetry in his glorification? “All glories to you, Bhaktipada, Lord Krishna’s servant dear, You worship at His feet and spread his message far and near.” Yes, that was one of your all time classic poetic compositions. Some how the history you try to present just doesn’t tally with your past actions.In his letter, Umapati then switches to a strawman argument, smashing a statement we never made:

“I never accepted Kirtanananda as God. I defy you to show me any statement I ever made accepting him as such.”  

Nowhere did we say Umapati Swami accepted Kirtanananda as God, so there is no point in him denying it. What we did say was that he worshipped Kirtanananda as “equal to God”. As everyone knows, in our Gaudiya philosophy the guru is respected as good as God. This was even more true during the times of the zonal acharyas, those same times that Umapati was propping up Kirtanananda as the purest devotee of Lord Krishna on the planet. When “saintly philosophers” such as Umapati and Radhanatha Swami were pushing everyone to surrender to the lotus feet of Kirtanananda, what could the innocent devotees do? It was the philosophers who really gave homosexual pedophile Kirtanananda the appearance of saintliness. And after growing up with him, and living with him for years, Umapati can’t pretend he didn’t know anything about him.Umapati continues his letter:

“Concerning the article about JonBenet, Srila Prabhupada wanted devotees to write Krishna-conscious comments on the news, and I intend to write more.”  

I will let the readers go through the article and decide for themselves if it is a source of Krishna consciousness. I also find it revealing that you had not updated your website since October 6th, but the day after I sent my letter pointing out your mundane articles, immediately you post an article on “The Mercy of Srimati Radharani”. An obvious attempt to make it appear as though your website had been focusing on high Gaudiya philosophy all along. Two and a half months without an update, and suddenly the next day you are covering your tracks with the topmost philosophical discussions in Gaudiya vaishnavism. Quite a jump from JonBenet Ramsey to the Mercy of Radharani.

“As far as my being a jet-setter with a credit card, well what is wrong with that? A sannyasi is supposed to travel, isn’t he?”  

How sannyasis are supposed to live is perhaps the subject of another article. But I find it further revealing that your idea and example of a sannyasi is someone who wears pants and shirts, has a full head of hair, works a regular 9 to 5 job like Mr. Smith, and lives outside the view of devotees or ISKCON temples. What you do with your personal life is of course your right, but this artificial show will only fool the ignorant.Someone may complain why we are asking such difficult questions to you. They feel it would be better if we all sit together in a room with balloons and pretend everything is really swell and dandy. But you are not just the average Joe, you were and still are a leader of ISKCON. When disaster occurs under your nose, you can’t just run over to the other side of the globe and start a new mess over there pretending nothing ever happened. Once the New Vrindavan mess became too much, you ran away to China to start creating new messes there. And once these new messes get big enough, you will again run away to some other place pretending none of it ever happened, and that you didn’t know anything at all. We have seen these patterns in ISKCON regularly. Pose yourself as a Guru, as Lord Krishna’s pure representative, create a mess, and then run pretending you never saw anything. You have a lot of experience with this yourself, as we can see from the complaints of Chinese devotees ( http://www.vnn.org/world/WD9812/WD07-2627.html). Already most of Tamal Krishna Goswami’s Chinese disciples have rejected him and have taken to the Ritvik system, all under the nose of your spiritual guidance. And now rumors from Narayana Maharaja’s people say all of your disciples in Hong Kong have rejected you and taken reinitiation from Narayana Maharaja this month. Can we really blame them? When you put on the Guru show, while trying to hide and cover up your past, it is only natural that the cover will eventually be blown.In closing let me put one more revealing question to you:We find from your history that you worshipped Kirtanananda as Krishna’s pure representative for many years, and you encouraged all others under you to do the same. While he was engaged in child molestation, murder and all sorts of criminal acts, you worshipped him as equal to Krishna. How is it that someone who was so foolish as to worship a homosexual pedophile is somehow qualified to act as a guru and deliver spiritual knowledge to their “disciples”? What spiritual knowledge can you deliver to them? You couldn’t even see the difference between a child molestor and a guru. How are you qualified to remove the spiritual ignorance of your disciples? This is just a case of blind leading the blind, and it is only a matter of time before your disciples find out your true history and reject you. Better for you to honestly turn your disciples over to Srila Prabhupada voluntarily, or they will end up leaving for Narayana Maharaj or some other Gaudiya Matha guru as they are starting to do already.You conclude your letter with the following:

“I do find it disgusting, though, that people like you delight in harping on Kirtanananda’s problems while conveniently ignoring all the help he gave to many devotees.”  

I find it really amazing, and I mean speechlessly amazing, how after everything you know about Kirtanananda, you still want to glorify him and “all the help he gave to many devotees”. He is a criminal who was never properly punished for his crimes. He has murdered devotees, molested countless devotee children, and destroyed hundreds of devotee families. He is single handedly responsible for destroying the devotional lives of thousands and thousands of devotees. Many gurukula children later committed suicide after the abuses they suffered under him. He has personally destroyed the good name of ISKCON throughout the world. There is absolutely nothing good about this demon. I know this is something you will never accept, you being his old buddy from when he was Keith. Keith, Wally and Howard could never go against each other. Just close your eyes, or look the other way so you don’t see anything. You’re still doing it after all these years, only now you’re posing as a guru and spiritual leader while you do it.

“I hope this answers your questions. Now please get the hell out of my life and stay out.”  

This is the usual response from the GBC Guru mess makers. After destroying the lives of countless people, they always turn to the victims and say “why are you bothering me, can’t you see I’m trying to enjoy my loot in peace? Get the hell out of my life and stay out.” But you should learn that the longer you try to avoid your past and rewrite history, the more this will come back to haunt you. The victims are real, and those of you who enjoyed as leaders under Kirtanananda were directly responsible for these crimes.

 

Costa Rica Farm - A Possible Settlement

BY: JAGANNATH MISHRA DASA 

Lets assume that all parties involved in the Costa Rica situation have a genuine desire for the best outcome for Srila Prabhupada’s mission. Why not give six months to a year to the devotees at the farm, led by Harinamananada, to try their plan as delineated here?

 If they accomplish what they propose in the last letters by Harinamananda Prabhu (business with Walmart, etc.), that will surely boost the local situation and will ensure the farm existence and preaching possibilities in the city too. <p>If not agreeing, the local GBC and the rest of the authorities will have to give sound arguments that might not have been expressed yet as to why the farm should be sold. Srila Prabhupada’s generic instructions on the matter are overwhelming and the ball is in the court of the ones who want to sell, not the ones who want to preserve it, even if the latter are not right.