Open letter to Bhagavan……these are my feelings
By Mohini Murti Devi Dasi
Occasionally I defended his name based in the fatuous an unreal splendor during his time in Iskcon. But now I realize that his “return” is involved in the same false and glittering cellophane paper. How is it that after so many mistakes, he is able to organize “such a set up” to attract a mount of naive insects, that can… Ver más only see the shining of his artificial light?
What has progressed in all these years? Is still the same, involved in his bubble of power and predominance, in short , he continues as arrogant and spiteful. You just reigned based in the disloyal rivalry and waste. Your glory was based in simply stimulating the lowest characteristics of the living entity. You used the noble ideals of a big group of youth that had unbreakable faith in the truth that Prabhupada came to teach in the West, but we had no spiritual or material maturity.
We surrender to the experience of the captivating moment but it was not profound, we even fought between us, just to get one of your “pleased glances”. Like crazys, we left to the streets day and nigth … with no sleep if it was necessary, just to accomplish your material “quotas”.
We did no work the relationship between spiritual brothers and sisters, we did not read Prabhupada’s books, just slightly … to hardly survive, we did not cultivate our insight… there was no time just a crazy lack of control to leave you as the “victorious of the zone” and help that way you humiliate yours brothers.
The proof that all was a false magnificience, was the distruction that followed your falling, the proof was our forever broken and bloody heart, our loneliness, our restleness, our disarmony … so many clark things, lots of lies, so many false concepts….
But Srila Prabhupada, Krishna and his sincere devotees were good tutors and even wounded and dazed, for his mercy we were able to survive so much pain and falseness.
Iskcon is Srila Prabhupada, Iskcon is holy as his Lotus Feet, Iskcon is his soul, his hope, his standard, Iskcon is filled with his Sacred Presence, Iskcon is that group of humble and
sincere servants to his Precious Cause.
Krishna took you away due to having offended Iskcon and you still go on with the same arrogance and the same modus operandi. What right do you have to question the sincere devotion of these souls that, along so many years, have been working with no stop or relax to serve Prabhupada? Without Iskcon, even his detractors would be NOTHING. So pack your new “theatrical farce” full of smiles of American plastic, leave the marketing, give up leading Narayana Maharaja so he get all the profit and start working on this verse … Trinad api sunicena, taror api sahisnuna … And the most important thing, leave alone those good and innocent souls that as naive insects can be attracted by your evil shine.
¡Good luck!
Hare Krsna. Here is the thing, we have to read Srila Prabhupadas Books, not listen to lesser qualified devotees, Kanishtas or Madhyamas, to understand the real dynamics of Spiritual Life.
With this in mind i quote Srila Prabhupada from The Teachings of Lord Chaitanya, The Supreme Perfection pp319(soft bound), “Ones position should be established by personal qualifications and not by birth.” contd-pp320 as follows “There are many injunctions in the Padma Purana which state that a highly elevated spiritually advanced Vaisnava (devotee) is always a first class devotee and is therefore a Spiritual Master, but a highly elevated person born in a brahmana family cannot be a spiritual master unless he is a devotee of the Lord.”
Evaluating the quote from Cc 23.14-15 concerning the technical path from kanishta through to Uttama there are ten stages. Number five is technically called Anarth-Nivrtti, gradual diminishing of gross and subtle unwanted desires, almost to nil-the clearing stage. This stage is important because it clears the way for the practising devotee to reach the stage of Nistha, where irrevocable devotional service takes place ie, the brahma-bhuta platform, liberated from the material platform.
Why we must bear all this in mind in our evaluation of Vaisnavas is so we can properly evaluate their advancement in devotional service for our own good. As we have seen devotees like Bhagavan and his similar godbrothers have become easily subject to the material energy in the form of wealth and fame. Its their problem but they try to control and pressurise through their material energy.
So unless Bhagavan has undertook many years of purification, psychological therapy and a dose of humility there has been no chance of his advancement in devotional service since the day he left Iskcon back in the 1980s. Its pretty common knowledge what he has been doin or should that be rephrased to who he has been doing.
For Bhagavan and his contempories in the guru stakes he remains in the technical stage of Kanishta-adhikari with many years of Sadhu-sanga to apply to his life and the 16rounds of chanting to manage daily whilst adhering to the 4regulative principles. Otherwise there is no chance of advancement and his authority in iskcon remains low.
Srila Rupa Goswami instructs us to evaluate other Vaisnavas not judge them, by being intelligent and observing their personal activities and situations. Our best barometer to evaluate who is and who is not an advanced Vaisnava ie an Uttama Adhikari is to compare them to Srila Prabhupada as the perfect example and we can see, even a blind man can see that Bhagavan and his contempories are all 3rd class at best and thats a merciful view.
Having personally observed Bhagavan from 1982-198? and been a first hand witness at some of the rather nefarious activities that he committed our best way forward is to respect him as a neophyte Vaisnava from as big a distance that you can be. Why search out his association when you can have Srila Prabhupada?
His authority was forfeited by his own activity and desires long ago. He may have the “gift of the gab” but thats all it amounts to, the big empty vessels make the most noise and the noise he has made for the last 20years has been decidedly materialstic.
Luckily the Vaisnavas nowadays are way more clued in than some of the so called leaders, we can see through Bhagavan like we can see through glass. Just ignore him and he will go away again. Iskcon does not need this type of Vaisnava because he is autocratic dictator not a team person as in Community dynamics. he can only do harm not unite under Srila Prabhupada.