PADA: The problem with current ISKCON guru tattva …

From: Lal Kakani
Date: November 23, 2010 2:18:13 PM PST

Dear Shastra-krit Prabhu,

Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I received your message forwarded to me by Ram Parashar Prabhu last week and have noted the contents carefully and am appalled by your tone.

For years I have been coming to New Dwaraka for Srila Prabhupada disappearance festival. This year due to some prior commitments I could not.

As you may know, I have been preaching Srila Prabhupada’s message in the Indian community here in the LA area for the last 17 years. Also I am the ex-chairman of the Radha Raman temple board.

I have learnt that HH Devamrita Maharaja is coming to New Dwaraka later in the month. Since he is a very learned and scholarly, and since he might know some answers which I have been searching for some time, I asked Ram Prabhu to give you a sealed envelope containing some documents to be forwarded to Maharaja on my behalf.

I enclosed in the envelope the following:

1. Back to Prabhupada magazine, special issue #1, Published by IRM, the ISKCON Revival Movement, giving six strong arguments how Srila Prabhupada is STILL the real guru for everyone in ISKCON, all based on the authority of guru, sadhu, and shastra.

2. Guru or Gunda? article by ISKCON Bangalore temple president, HG Madhu Pandit Das.

3. The Illustrious career of HH Devamrita Swami, by IRM.

I have been here in America for over forty years. I have watched with pride the glorious rise of the Hare Krishna movement here in America and the world during the presence of Srila Prabhupada, and its sad, painful and disastrous decline in America after Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance in 1977.

Since 1994 I have accepted Srila Prabhupada as my spiritual master and trying to distribute his message mainly through his book (Svavasa Prabhu knows me and also that there is no one who distributes Srila Prabhupada’s books in the Indian community in the LA area more enthusiastically than me). It has been a big puzzle then why even educated and pious people are giving so much resistance in accepting centuries old Lord Krishna’s divine message. These articles finally explain what is the real problem in ISKCON the and real solution also.

I received BTP in September 2010 in the mail. After reading it I was totally convinced of the six strong arguments presented in it based on Guru, Sadhu and Shastra, how Srila Prabhupada is still the real Diksha Guru for everyone in ISKCON. I have been to ISKCON Bangalore and am a contributor to their world famous Akshaya Patra food distribution program which now feeds prasadam to 1.5 million poor kids in India everyday. That is more than all the Hare Krishna Food for Life programs put together! The spectacular success of ISKCON Bangalore is obvious to anyone who visits or even reads about it. It is run by a team of highly educated young devotees which is so rare in our Hare Krishna movement.

Recently I heard about Devamrita Maharaja’s up coming trip to LA area. I have also seen the rise and fall of New Vrindavan and how the demons there turned it into “New Lanka”! By ISKCON’s own acknowledgement there is none who has done more damage to the Hare Krishna Movement than Kirtanananda Maharaja and his cronies by their nefarious activities over there for more than two decades.

Srila Prabhupada wanted NV to be the model of simple living and high thinking for the whole world. He never wanted a palace over there for himself or to be built after his departure. Somehow after his disappearance Kirtanananda Maharaja unauthorizedly turned it into a Golden Palace project for his own aggrandizement and turned it in to a model of “demoniac thinking and demoniac living” with massive drug dealings, prostitution, sexual molestation of innocent and helpless second generation kids and to top it all even murders.

In fact New Vrindavan became worse than Lanka as there is no description of sexual abuse of children in Lanka. Even the demons were not hypocrites as to calling someone MATAJI during the day and Sexually abusing them at night!

As you might know the area I am active in is the Radha Raman temple in Placentia. It was started by a sincere Prabhupada disciple HG Haripada prabhu as a Hare Krishna temple about thirty years ago. In the meantime in mid 80’s Rameshvar Maharaja, who was the GBC/Guru here at that time, while sitting and controlling New Dwaraka, was shamelessly having sex with teenage gurukuli girl and orchestrated killing of Sulochan Prabhu in 1986 (for the “offense” of writing his paper – The Guru Business, exposing the garbage that was taking place in the movement and particularly in NV), not too far from the New Dwaraka temple.

Then Haripada Prabhu left. The Radha Raman temple was taken over by the Hindu congregation and was turned into a Hindu temple. We are still cleaning up the mess here created by the unauthorized Guru business of ISKCON.

It is a known to everyone that Rameshvar Maharaja and Kirtanananda Maharaja were the two key people involved in Sulochan’s murder. Also equally known to everyone is that Devamrita Maharaja was one of the key assistants of Kirtanananda Maharaja.

While Kirtanananda Maharaja has moved to Mumbai and Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja has taken Samadhi, Devamrita Maharaja is one of the few leaders who know the real truth about New Vrindavan. He was the leading supporter of Kirtanananda Maharaja for over a decade.

I have been to New Vrindavan many times when I was living on the east coast. There are some serious and valid questions many people including me ask about New Vrindavan and Devamrita Maharaja’s role there. Here are some:

1. Wasn’t he aware of what was happening in NV and if so why he happily participated and supported Kirtanananda Maharaja for over a decade?

2. Has he ever confessed and offered any public apology for his role in destruction of Prabhupada’s New Vrindavan?

3. What atonement has he gone through for his grievous sins committed over there.

4. The illustrious career of HH Devamrita Swami by IRM asks Maharaja some serious and valid questions about his post NV activities. Has Maharaja replied to those questions in writing?

5. Our whole parampara beginning from Lord Krishna to Srila Prabhupada, till 1977 consists of either the Lord or His Pure devotees. How is that post 1977 we have gurus who are known drug dealers, gays, child molesters, and even murderers etc. Where is the shastric reference for all that?

Our local GBC Badrinarayan Prabhu lost all his credibility and made himself a laughing stock for the world wide Vaishnava Community in 1998 when Harikesh Maharaja blooped. As the then GBC chairman and fully knowing Harikesh’s problems for a decade, even up to the verge of his blooping with his female massage therapist and with millions of dollars in cash, Badrinarayan prabhu had the nerves to try to cover everything up by comparing Harikesh with Maha Bhagavatas of our pure parampara, who really are aloof from bodily consciousness. How insulting and disgusting!

Srila Prabhupada wanted people to adore us for our honesty but now our own people, the devotees and the Indian community, are laughing at the constant shameless and silly coverups by the GBC for over 30 years. Ultimately Lord Krishna knows the truth – we can only cheat and fool ourselves.

I am shocked by your false accusation that Ram Parashar Prabhu was distributing this in the temple room. To my knowledge he just gave one sealed envelop to you only. Is that called distribution? Aren’t devotees suppose to be honest? And that too in front of the Lord in the temple room? What are you learning? Is this your training as a brahmachari? In Kaliyuga the last leg of religion is truthfulness and you are arrogantly breaking even that!

Ram Parashar Prabhu is one of the most sincere and honest servant of Srila Prabhupada I have come across. I have known him for over 17 years. He sacrificed his prestigious post of National PR Director of ISKCON India to stand up for Srila Prabhupada and truth, 20 years ago, and came to LA. Here also in 1998 he had to pay a very heavy price – sacrifice his son – to continue fighting for Srila Prabhupada instead of compromising, which most of people do.

Moreover, his sister-in-law, Satya was molested by Lokanath Swami (!) over 20 years ago. Since then, he has neither sincerely apologized nor the GBC has taken any serious action against him. She is still mad at him. We may recite the story of Durbasa Muni and Ambarisha Maharaja like a parrot, cover up our actions, but the fact is that even Lord Krishna will not forgive us till the devotee we have offended forgives us.

You have titled your message Hati Mata – mad elephant, implying that you consider the papers given to you be given to your Guru, offensive. How much more offensive is when Srila Prabhupada, the founder of Hare Krishna movement is being offended left and right by blatantly disobeying him and destroying his dear movement. This is real hati mata or for that matter MAHA HATI MATA!

This is a serious matter and needs serious attention. Not just emotional or sentimental outburst. Our own future and future of the world depends upon honestly resolving these issues.

In fact for over thirty years any sincere questioning of the wrong doings by the leaders is silenced in the name of this so called Hati mata while ignoring the MAHA HATI MATA. Also, anyone who dared to ask questions was either beaten up, banned, expelled or even silenced by killing. Now thanks to the internet it is becoming increasingly clear to intelligent, educated and honest people world wide that Srila Prabhupada has been seriously betrayed by his own leading and trusted men and his pure Hare Krishna movement has been hijacked by his over ambitious followers posing themselves as the gurus, for their own labha, puja and pratistha.

Here are some of the serious issues to be resolved:

1. Alleged murder by poisoning of Srila Prabhupada. No full and honest GBC investigation in the matter has been done in the last 13 years since it became open in 1997.

2. Youth/Gurukuli second generation/ FUTURE HOPE of ISKCON destroyed. 95% of them are so disgusted that they don’t even want to do anything with the movement.

3. 95% of senior Prabhupada disciples were offended, got disenchanted and left.

4. Massive unauthorized book changes by the BBT.

The tone of your letter is angry. I urge you to direct your anger at the enemies of Prabhupada who have destroyed and are still destroying his movement. The only reason that the madness in Hare Krishna movement has gone on so far is because the whole Guru business is supported by blind and fanatic followers like you of these so called gurus. Prabhupada called this the the Kupa Manduka (frog in the well) mentality. Or the owl consciousness!

You have used the phrase “garbage ritvik”. Srila Prabhupada has used the word ritvik at several places in his books, letters, and the word has also come out of his lotus mouth in conversation, so can you please do the Vedabase search and show me the phrase “garbage ritvik”. How dare you offend Srila Prabhupada like that?. I urge you to immediately fall at his lotus feet and apologize for your grave offense.

Even after two weeks I am still waiting from your Guru or your GBC authorities a written response. I will consider a meeting only if there is a satisfactory written response. The vedic system is of shastrartha – either you defeat the arguments or will have to accept them.

Haribol!

Your’s in service to Srila Prabhupada

Lal Kakani

Ritvik Disciple of Srila Prabhupada since 1994

IBM Computer Engineer (Retired)

Chairman of Board (Retired), Radha Raman Temple, Placentia, CA

National Chairman (Retired), Maheshwari Mahasabha of North America

REFERENCE LINKS

1. ISKCON Revival Movement. Philosophically defeating ALL bogus gurus and their supporters

http://www.iskconirm.com/

2. Guru or Gunda. Eye opening message from Madhu Pandit Prabhu,

Also, read Struggle for Truth, and his Vyas Puja Offering

http://www.madhupanditdasa.info/2010/08/21/guru-or-gunda/

Post 1977 GBC/Gurus Blacklist.

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4. The Guru Business. The Truth for which Sulochan was murdered

http://www.harekrsna.org/pada/guru_biz.htm

5. Radhnath’s Role in Sulochan’s Murder. The other side a Saint!

http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=13909

6. Investigating Prabhupada’s Murder, the Bhaktivedanta Investigation Force and Judge for Youself book

http://www.b-i-f.com/

7. Massive Unauthorized Book Changes

http://bookchanges.com/

8. Report of Lokanath Swami’s Molestation of Satya

http://www.harekrsna.org/gbc/black/lokanath.htm

9. The illustrious Career of Devamrita Swami

http://www.iskconirm.com/docs/webpages/ds1.htm

10. New Vrindavan – The Black Sheep of ISKCON

http://www.henrydoktorski.com/newvrindaban.shtml

11. Badrinarayan’s Shameless coverup

http://www.iskconirm.com/docs/webpages/Million_dollar_Guru_coverup_exposed.htm

12. The Alternate Successful Communities

http://www.krishnaconsciousnessmovement.com