Janmastami das: My years in India with Radhanath Swami

Radhanath Swami AKA Richard Slavin - paid money to have Sulocana Prabhu murdered

TRAVELS WITH RADHANATH SWAMI, PART 1
Witness account by Janmastami das – John Sinkowski
liberated_yogi@yahoo.com – Tuesday, April 12, 2011

MY YEARS IN INDIA WITH RADHANATH SWAMI
MAJOR DETOURS ON RADHANATH ROAD

Synonyms: NVC= New Vrindavan, k swa / kswa=Kirtanananda,

Recent factory made laudations of Radhanath’s self serving autobiography have piqued an interest in many as to “what happens next?” As surely as there is a sequel in the works, be equally as sure there is some unauthorized version of events, most often more closely resembling the Truth than the “sanitized for publication” rendition of the events. We propose that this volume may serve that purpose, and although undertaken with no ill will or intent to harm any devotee, the thought that many are suffering under the deluded misconception that some they serve are pure has prompted this attempt.   This is an attempt to shed enough light on some subject matters such that they give all thoughtful persons with concern for such things some food for thought.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and ISKCON remains “guilty!”, at least on appearances, of failing to take a decisive stand on what Sulocan’s assassination should teach us as devotees of Lord KRSNA. We all do desperately wish to hear the absolute policy on this and any incidents of a similar nature that may arise in the future. Threats and murder are known facts throughout the ISKCON world. Who doesn’t know at least a couple of “gurus” who have been accused of a murder or two? In this essay we look at the behaviour of some of modern day ISKCON’s key players, many of them expelled for past mutiny and the following of a bogus leader, and yet they now have set themselves up as not only the gatekeepers to all the mandirs and assets, they have for the most part all been so impudent as to declare their own “purity of self” and what they believe that such purity of theirs empowers them to do. These key players, most notably Radhanath himself, posed themselves as siksha guru to so many devotees for so long that their list of offenses against devotees must bring some untold joy to Srila Prabhupada. Let us here ask that this effort please His Divine Grace, since we know that there is no access to the spiritual realm, no lasting access that is, unless and until one has fulfilled all those important instructions of their own spiritual master, whomsoever he may be. With the instruction of the spiritual master also goes the ability to carry out those instructions, so we await the empowerment to please His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami.

This view of the events, albeit the view of only an underling, offers a fly on the wall perspective so that many may decide for themselves as to the motivation and the mindset behind some of modern day ISKCON’s greatest spiritual mentors. If these individuals are now so much above the modes of material nature, if they are in fact truly “eternally liberated” souls, then what is the mystery that involves them in all of the “intique of the Palace” that surrounded both New Vrindaban (henceforth to be NVC) and the upwards of over 800 devotees from ISKCON? This ISKCON, our Srila Prabhupada’s own body, the house in which the whole world can live, that same ISKCON….it expelled over 800 members in one piece of legislation, with no recourse for reinstatement save and except bringing a piggy bank full of quarters to the table with you. All of our requests, several times over life member that I am of the real ISKCON, to these leaders of the day that repeat the same mistakes their predecessors have made, only with a different cast of characters, these folks are under the deluded impression that they have made enough spiritual advancement that their own salvation assured, they now wish to assist others. We may not wish to “go with them” in that regard. When asked in 1969, the year of the guru declared by time magazine, where all these other gurus were taking their disciples, Srila Prabhupada said, “I cannot say, but know for a fact that you do not want to go with them!” That is exactly how many have come to feel, and to act out sometimes, in many ISKCON theatres and venues.

Actually the devotees have no “theatres and venues”, everything is the property of the devotees because they are properly returning things to the hands of the Lord. In this way, all are to be benefited from the accumulated karma that material objects carry with them (witness the failure to use leather), because it is cleansed from all karma, or at least that’s a commonly held ISKCON belief. One would be very hard pressed to find one who both “claimed to be a Srila Prabhupada disciple” and did not claim that “Srila Prabhupada is taking all my karma”. Such devotee would likely not exist in a temple and the current caretakers, sannyasis, gurus, GBCs and their appointed minions have usurped the most basic right of the donor, the right to see the recipient personally. Also they avoid the need to be found guilty of embezzling, should such things ever occur. As we remember and retell these events for the purposes of a more accurate history, we will spare no names for any reason that we can foresee. How far these writings will spread, only time it will tell. But as my final telling of the events rapidly approaches, we want to be sure the record is seen from as many angles of vision as possible. We hold that no one position is “right” and all the other views are therefore wrong. This is bad logic, expanded to the point of absurdity, yet none are willing to admit these absurdities they see before almost everyday throughout the organization worldwide. If anyone feels that they have been somehow or other unfairly or inaccurately portrayed, forget your foolish threats of reprisals and slander lawsuits and set the record straight by giving the entire listening ISKCON world the benefit of your angle of vision.

We are available at: liberated_yogi@yahoo.com and the “sampradaya sun” has also agreed to air any ones contributions, first party testimonies only please, to these ISKCON shaking events that transpired between 1985 until NVC returned in the mid 1990’s.

John Sinkowski, aka Janmastami das
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In a soon to be released volume we will examine from a front line devotee’s point of view just what transpired, post Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi until the ISKCON reunion with the defectors from Kirtanananda’s (henceforth kswa *** no sanyass value accorded, just conservation of type) breakaway effort. In this effort we will consider a much smaller portion within this time frame, that is from the attack on kswa at NVC until January of 1989.

The decision where to end this primary volume and how to tie it all together remains a mystery as we watch it unfold, but we ask for the assistance, the mercy and the forgiveness of all those devotees that we may have offended throughout the years. As Jaya Narayan once said at a feast he bought, prepared and served out himself, “if you guys hadn’t whacked Sulocan we wouldn’t be in this mess’, and while I agree with that mostly, there were already existent problems that finally escalated to some blowing point. From different perspectives, there were making “breaking points”, but the Sulocan assassination remains the most heinous and also the most hidden. reasons here are varied but suffice to say, there are some sinister and ulterior motivations at work there that need some serious considerations. we could have chosen to end this a few months later, when we had our last personal contact with Radhanath, but for now we choose to end with our leaving India and his personal association over there. The remaining few meetings that we had with him after we were back in the states were highly jaded, very stilted, and with him always requiring at least one bodyguard with him. Once after arranging a meeting he had put off for two weeks, my wife and I had to wait until the body guard arrived. We joked that he should get a backup” because she alone could take the person, one “rabbi” by name, they were scurrying to get as “a body guard”. Makes you feel all kinds of welcome. We only had one more meeting after that, after the grand jury, and that went badly. But that’s in the sequel. For now, kswa’s attack until 1 Jan 1989. do you see any pure devotees?

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING

I arrived back into Washington DC on the greyhound bus after a buying trip for winter sales paraphernalia and was met by Jai Sri Krsna das who told us that kswa had been attacked at NVC. The initial reports were as confused as they were ominous, but it was clear that life as we knew it as “inmates of NVC” was over. A new era had been inaugurated and clearly there was no plan for succession in such a case. There already was a hierarchy in place, a pecking order, a two headed leadership that evolved under Kuladri and Radhanath but that was limited to six months in Radhanath’s case before he did escape and evasion to India.

Early attempts to add cultural elements from Christianity into Krishna Consciousness. c. Christmas 1980: Prabhupada's crown is installed. Darshan with Bhaktipada: "There is no restriction in worship." 1983 Mayapura GBC meetings: ISKCON devotees outraged at "Prabhupada Rex." April 1983: Prabhupada's crown is removed because of pressure from IKSCON. October 1985: Prabhupada's crown goes back on Bhaktipada's crown: an expression of love from a devoted disciple. http://henrydoktorski.com/nv/grandplans.html

Go there and hide out till all this blows over!” kswa said, trying to create an aura of bravado where none should have existed. But the absurd claims didn’t stop there. “Tirtha will walk on this! (the murder charge)” “no sinful reaction for killing Sulocan”, “I can take the karma for those who did this to protect me!”, statements like this were standard fare and even long after it made any sense to pursue following k swa, the likes of Radhanath, BT, Dasarath, Kuladri continued to do so. What better sense could come from “the underlings” if the more advanced devotees were so bewildered and mislead? What were the rest of us to do? GBC’s came to do bedside vigils with kswa, at least until they felt they knew enough to tell the other GBC’s, but “kswa hatred” many had was put aside, at leasted checked at the boot room, until they left.

As SKP devotees, we were ordered to stay “on the road”. This was after all the Christmas season, the season for giving and taking, and the devotees were “old school expelled” from most temples, at least at NVC that was the policy, so they could participate in the “taking” part of the experience. So many little Jewish boys and girls were getting to experience the “true joy” that had been entirely the Christians domain heretofore. Such things were often curb side gossip in NVC. The “gramya katha”, “the village talk”, while not long the media outlet for most sages and Sadhus, has played significant roles in the Lord’s appearances and pastimes throughout the millennia. Witness village talk on Sita’s chastity that sent Her into the fire to test Her purity. Are there any GBC’s that would willingly enter into the fire of destruction to prove they strict adherence to their vows since having taken them? Are there any willing to do so? they have left most of the real ACBSP devotees with no other real options. You had either joined their “old boys (and now with two token women added) club” or you were “put off the reservation”, therefore ineligible for any more “tribal benefits”, which when now shared amongst a smaller number of interests, had become quite lucrative for those whose chose to “take to The Chair”.

From this point in time forward, the kswa assault and the subsequent murderous response, the views and opinions of ISKCON shifted into a new era of consciousness. This era is marked by two differing schools of thought. In one of those schools of thought, there was to be a measured response due, after a rational assessment of all the facts by the sages and Sadhus. The other school of thought, vacant of all “men of action” as Bhisma liked to call them, was a much more “I’m an Avadhuta” approach. “It’s all KRSNA’s mercy prabhu!”, or at least “it’s all His mercy!” until you get hungry and then “prasadam” is somehow or other “your right”. Now, the “school of action” theory did not hold that all must take up arms against such an aggressor, which Sulocan was now reported to be, unless that was your “true nature”. Here’s where we get into the realm of “ISKCON mythology”. “ISKCON mythology”, like “ISKrit”, the language you create when you try to teach these English speaking mlecchas something about culture, of which they seem totally devoid, ISKCON mythology may appear quite ‘bona fide” from a neophytes perspective because he hasn’t heard the scam before. It is said” you can fool all of the people, some of the time; some of the people, all of the time, but you just can’t fool all the people, all of the time“. it just doesn’t work quite like that. I lived at the gurukula in NVC for 5 years and fixed what I could see wrong. I’m still trying to do that. Thus, this volume.

I have just had the first contact with my own children since their kidnapping by their mother as she fled in terror from the ring of thieves that she found herself immersed in. The anxiety of a parent who sent their children off to the gurukula system is a scant shadow of the ogre in the closet these children, devotee children, had thrust upon them. I have not had any contact with them, my children, in 15 years. Not so much as a phone call. Court ordered, restraining order enforced, isolation from their upbringing, a direct violation of the promise to raise them in a KRSNA conscious environ, and the failure of the present day temples to satisfy any ones real thirst for KRSNA consciousness, and with the full blessings of their face posted guru “swami Bhaktipada”, whatever am I to do? what is any real KRSNA conscious parent in the US to do anyway? The drug trade pervades the largest three bastions of KRSNA community in the US, NVC, Alachua and LA, and is the occupation of choice for the principle yield of the ISKCON gurukula system. How could it not be? It was the “money is the honey” philosophy they were raised with, in a gurukula building build with drug money and all the sinful reactions that entails, all this as their “training”.

Given the erroneous set of choices ISKCON has offered post 1977, those they themselves amend and correct yearly now, what can any gurukula alumnus expect? This is what they can expect, and what they will very soon receive. They can expect that any amount that they signed their release for will be reduced. after the Robin George case, ISKCON developed it’s “Robin George strategy” for future litigation and the child abuse lawsuit it’s first “put into practice” test run. It worked quite well. Kuladri was well rewarded for subverting the financial interests of the plaintiffs, something he has been expert in doing for the 40 years that he has sought to laud it over devotees for. I know that he has many friends, sincere devotees, both “in” and “out” of ISKCON that would defend his behaviour, but we are not here to quibble with them after whether we will go to hell for devotee aparadha. we are not trying for that, but if it occurs, we will not fear it. we are simply trying to report, truthfully, and as accurately as possible, the events as we saw them from our own unique vantage point.

During the time period that we consider in this essay, 1986-1989, kswa promised he would spend half his time in India and half in states and as “his association” was the highest spiritual platform on this planet, as both Radhanath and Kuladri so actively preached, this was elating news for all. Kswa’s fall from grace, and the scurried exodus of those financially bound sycophants, were our first clue as to the similarities to the Kuruksetra type situation that seemed to be developing. Then there were more. Then they became abundant. Tthen it became apparent. It will be a great war! the whole world will come! Where will that war be held? Will it be a philosophical war? Will it be a metaphysical war? Will it actually be a nuclear radiation event world war? is it a war on the environment as some ISKCON sources now so boldly proclaim? is it a war on material attachments that each of us harbours? If so, are we winning that war? Individually and collectively? We think not, despite the protestations of “growth” by both the book distribution prevaricators, and England’s Krypamoya, and we find these signs bode ominous for the planet.

Ravindra Swarupa proudly proclaimed on his website that the world war that Srila Prabhupada warned of had been averted by the “sincere efforts of the devotees” and their outstanding preaching efforts. What balderdash from the septic tank of allens lane! Biggest septic problem in the building. Always has been. Everyone knows that!

In India, Radhanath developed a new persona from his last incarnation. in his new book, he tells us the “old Jewish storyteller“, ghost-written fluff piece version of his life. He leaves out “unlimited expense account, all fully paid, gold master card, the way the spiritual master is supposed to be treated” start, which may have contributed to his trying for the golden ticket of “jagat guruship” after he saw kswa try for and miss at it, but this is only the start. He is the consistent boy wonder throughout his fable, but true history shows us the morphing into another entity throughout. At that time, we were not seeing enough to question as we now can do, and therefore the investigation continues. Let the word go out to all those still drawing a farthing from ISKCON coffers, this “I can bring you to Srila Prabhupada!” bullshit that has run it’s full course and just like the “11 successors” theory was cast into the dust bin, they’ll produce a new theory each time you successfully prove their last theory as bogus. We refuse to descend into their circle of mundane quibbling over such topics, but will point out that their “infallible authority” has been countermanded by their own later edicts. Such lunacy cannot pass for “leadership”, at least not amongst the sane class of men.

In the states Radhanath had been the “brahmachari ashram stay behind guy”, rarely venturing as far as Bahulaban, and then scurrying back up the mountain to Vrndaban farm, the first land acquired by Hayagriva and kswa. After top buffoon demanded sanyass in 1983, it became fashionable to “apply for sanyass”, hoping to remain celibate the entire year until you got initiated. If he can do it, anyone can do it. Unfortunately for all, this sanyass was about as long as Adi Keshava’s, fully erect, and that was not long. Deformed bodily features plagued his earlier sexual years, then the short stint as brahmachari, and then his “sanyass the world” effort, while simultaneously trying to impregnate the female half of the Asian world.. kind of like “Brahmananda in Africa” on steroids.

Top buffoon rampaged through Asia, after Radhanath had him exorcised from India and his list of female contacts would impress a lothario. His business dealings were not quite as successful, not in India nor anywhere else on this planet for that matter, and so he retreated back to NVC to steal everything he could get his greedy little hands on. “for Srila Prabhupada!”, of course, that is the only reason they do any thing that they do. It is the only reason that they get up in the morning. It is the only reason that they chant their rounds, it is the only reason that they take prasadam. It is the only reason they boink brahmacharinis. Oh, wait! No it isn’t. But some accept all this nonsense saying “don’t be offensive prabhu! you’re not doing anything! don’t criticize!” and to that we might say this “you lying, thieving sacks of dung have done enough harm to the movement from the beginning, always lousing things up with your own fur brained understanding of how things are meant to be in this universe. Even before Srila Prabhupada left, you disobeyed nearly every instruction that he gave you. You changed his books and many of you sat idle. Some others opposed such changes but later “came on board” with the idea that was sinking the boat the good captain had already left. To do nothing would be better than to mislead the people in general, to fleece them financially on a personal level, and then to shame every aspect of devotee with your regretful, rapid disappearance from appropriate behaviour.”

After the ashram stint, a new Radhanth emerged. no longer “charcoal covered”, replaced by Chandramauli as Vrndaban cook, Radhanath polished up quite nicely for his incarnation as both “the rainbow swami” and the full package college preaching programs at the outstanding rate of as much as 5 and six programs per week. The shakti was there and it was flowing. There was no doubt about it. This was “empowerment by KRSNA” and all but the spiritually dead could feel it. Still, it is just that, “empowerment by KRSNA” and it does not make one the sole representative of KRSNA in any one area.

Maitreya refused Vidura saying “there is one more qualified than I”. ISKCON’s multi acarya hydra that they have created is attacking and devouring devotees, and these repeated attacks erode the foundation, book distribution, also under attack from the termites of alteration and word juggling. We as devotees must be troubled by so much nefarious activity on the part of ashram dwellers we may have once shared roof with. Their negative effects makes the movement seem unworthy of support of any kind be it financial, in kind, or with seva. They don’t want your “seva” (but tolerate at feast time to get bigger donations from the crowd. it’s been proven. it works), that’s why the cash alternative is always offered right there alongside. They’ll take your bhoga, but the mountain of rotten produce that forced the sale of the potomac property, much to the financial windfall of Ravindra and allens laners, may prove to be the fate of such offerings. Srimad Bahavatam reminds “Laxmi will come where food grains are nicely stored” and if the Deity kitchen looks like no one cares, then reciprocally, no ONE cares about you, in kind. Solutions to all problems we encounter are right there in the revealed scripture.

When Sulocan was successfully hunted down and killed, by Tirtha, on Radhanath’s orders, the college preaching program came to a screeching halt in the parking lot of a small bank in Ohio one morning. Randall Gorby, who had been working with the FBI and local police officials concerning manipulating the KRSNAs to kill Sulocan, was anxious to avenge the rape of his daughter by Paul Ferry (Param Brahmah, PB for short) while Gorby consulted on some brick factory construction. as an agent provocateur, working with the government to subvert a duly organized religious organization, this was not Randall Gorby‘s first boat ride. he had worked with the government before, when the miners were organizing, and then again when the Krsna’s had some trouble with some thugs.

With two separate ISKCON entities having been specifically targeted by Edwin Meese‘s white house for extermination, intervention was not an option, it was a necessity. Meetings were held, notes were taken, records were filed. Records that could now provide ISKCON with massive sources of income were the paper work properly filed. “There you go ISKCON.” I’ve given you one. A multi million dollar lawsuit AGAINST the US government that you could win. Will you file it? Let’s see???? NO!!!! “Why is that?” We might then ask and have and the response is always less than clear. From our side, we see and know “why not?”. It is because this whole ball of wax that ISKCON has become is still stuck together with the glue of things that kswa started into motion.

From the Australian lofts, to the Chowpatty temple, from new age to interfaith, from all the “bhakti” sanyassis he gave, all the first and second initiations he gave, all this Radhanath inherited when he went for the keys to the palace. keys the FBI agreed to place in his hands only after he initiated Janet Reno’s niece, Amy Hobson, as his disciple. that’s the subject of a later volume, so for focus here, Radhanath’s arrival in India was unplanned, unscripted, Desai financed, and for the purpose of avoiding incarceration for his direct involvement in arranging for the killing of Sulocan. Proof is, the college preaching program was abandoned after that very shortly. Radhanath never returned. There were grand jury subpoenas issued. Radhanath was named. In a criminal court, that may not be enough for a conviction, but I remind that OJ Simpson was not convicted in a criminal court, but the “51% think he looks guilty” standard of civil court cut a hole in the bottom of OJ’s penny purse that he was never able to close, and that lack of funds put OJ into jail. The strategy is in place to purify the movement worldwide and as we first generationists leave the planet in rapidly increasing numbers, we should turn our remaining days to cleaning up the house in which the whole world can live starts opening it’s doors again.

[ Escaping Justice at New Vrindaban ]

CONSIDERING YOUR SPECIFIC NATURE AS A KSATRIYA….

“Considering your specific nature as a ksatriya” Arjuna was told by KRSNA, and similarly Radhanath had presented his disciplic succession solution, assassination, as the “required course of action” if you were a ksatriya, which he, as a brahmin, had determined me to be. when Tirtha and I spoke at the trade winds motel in LA, he said that Radhanath had called him first todo the deed” because he was known to be “qualifiedto whack someone. He had also talked to Terry Sheldon (AKA Tapah Punja Swami, top buffoon, TP) who had also been similarly instructed. It seems with them all sitting back at NVC, with all the other devotees on Christmas marathon, there was little else they could speak about. That and how to eat all that maha.

If it was Christmas marathon, what was TP doing sitting in the office at NVC? It seems he was trying to subcontract out his portion of “the surveillance” to Jeff Cornia (AKA Yudhisthir das, San Diego) because he was known on the “gramya katha circuit” of ISKCON info as a drug dealer and a hit man. It was further assumed that because Yudhishir das (Cornia’s initiated name) was in the LA area, and since LA was “Ramesvara’s zone” and since further “Ramesvara had issued a Fatah on Sulocan”, therefore it was safely assumed that Jeff Cornia would not give you up, would agree to “do it”, and that he would have the devotee contacts enough to keep things discreet and efficient. Efficient?? Devotees? Which temple are you serving at? Half of ours can’t find the prasadam room and the other half won’t leave it.

The poor logic aside, the lack of any weapons training or any type of discipline aside, there was still the question of philosophical correctness. The reasoning here also appeared to be as equally poorly planned as the specious “you are a ksatriyarecruitment speech deliver by ISKCON’s current “in good standing” guru. The philosophical 180 degree turns both ISKCON and the k swa renegades who rejoined ISKCON have taken over the 25 year period, 1986 -2011 are enough to put the “eternally liberated” claim to the real test. There is a story that Srila Prabhupada was told about the killing of a snake as His reason for appearing here, and as ISKCON mythology goes, it’s as good as any. With most Of ISKCON’s current guru offerings, there’s not a lot of reason to believe “karma free”, and even less reason to believe that they could take their own karma, much less that of others. a new lower standard of “guru” has become acceptable in ISKCON, it has even become common place. This is not the fault of those accepting such things from ISKCON, rather it is ISKCON that has lowered the standard with the revolving choices of cadre that will fail down the road shortly. Having had a similar bad experience, we can see a service to Srila Prabhupada that might not encourage individuals to join the ISKCON force of today.

At the time, ISKCON held a series of behind closed doors meetings do decide the ferocity of some of the claims made to support the NVC involvement in the Sulocan murder. Another topic of discussion was the “Arjuna/Gita” argument, and whether such killing, on the orders of scripture, was bona fide, either this time or ever. GBC records of these events not available for public consumption, but the policy they established is policy to this day, expressed or implied, and some conclusions are of dubious scriptural proof. That, “since the time of Lord Caitanya, the stringent methods required at the time of Kuruksetra no longer applied”. This deviant philosophy became the basis of a “co-operate with the police” strategy that became quite foreign to those who had secreted young runaways and draft resistors from temple to temple for years. For those still protecting the misdeeds of a huge list of ISKCON paedophiles, “co-operate with the police” were frightening words. as ISKCON came under scrutiny of the child abuse that was festering under the surface and starting to emerge as a legal issue ONLY after the repeated alienation and disaffection of these second generation gems that ISKCON has cast to the winds.

In India, after Radhanath and I started settling in, a stream of NVC related personalities with chequered legal pasts started showing up to start the NVC East operation that became kswa’s swan song prior to incarceration. From there, all of kswa’s key generals and captains morphed into their own version of “reconciliation” with ISKCON, with many feeling that their record of “positive performance” must surely outweigh the damage claimed by these second generation whiners and complainers. What right have they to complain about being sodomized in the gurukula, it was their karma, wasn’t it? Didn’t matter all that much anyway, did it? wasn’t important if they weren’t following and living in the temple any more. They had no rights, in the temple or out of it. We who were driven from the temples, not those who left of their desires, but rather those expelled from “a house in which the whole world can live”, we are bereft of redress of all our grievances. Oh yeah, there is always the fraudulent ISKCON resolve, ISKCON’s own version of the public pretender /legal aid system one finds in the contemporary society. Like a bizarre world version of reality, one wastes their valuable time being scammed by experts, which in our cases turned out to be the very person who sold us our first life membership, Romapada, now a swami and a guru.

Radhanath settled in immediately in Narendra Desai‘s (AKA Nathji das, hereafter “Nathji”) Mumbai luxury condo complex, sea face park, in the breech candy district of Mumbai. the Beverly hills of India, surrounded by the British navy and the only American troops on Indian soil, the area has quite a cosmopolitan feel to it, complete with ice cream shops that were as frequented by Hayagriva as the codine suppliers. It was one area of India where English speakers could get by. kind of like Goa without all the drugs. When the mott street boys were in India, Goa was a destination. But this was different. this was KRSNA consciousness on the run. Like preaching in an old school communist country, this was “KRSNA conscious” only as long as we were KRSNA conscious and those were the obligations we felt compelled to comply with. we were, after all, representing Srila Prabhuada at a time when ISKCON was no longer doing that. they were deviating, while we, the disciples from NVC, led by these then and now, “ISKCON superstars” had willingly left ISKCON protesting these deviations. Like defiant little children holding their breath, it was only a matter of time until the rapidly dwindling kswa army each relented. Some blooped altogether. Some rejoined ISKCON. Some went the gaudiya math route. Some fell off into their interfaith preaching venues. But as NVC complains about decreased membership, they are the ones who put the entrance turn style on “eject” mode when your bank balance falls below four digits.

As we write this, gas and oil are being sucked out of the earth at enormous rates. In marshal county, there is one primary source of all the drilling. That source is the NVC and all their related real estate swindles. The massive size of the NVC, Srila Prabhupada and Lord KRSNA”S personal resting places, and the fact that Srila Prabhupada was very, very specific outlining the crimes against nature that must be avoided if the NVC scheme was to be successful, these things coupled with this current drilling operations certainly bodes ill for the planet. Only a fool, like the global warming deniers out there, would ignore the obvious direct relationship between what these materialistic earth raping criminals are currently doing and how mother earth is responding. How would you react if mosquito was bothering you? this rape of The Deities Personal Space, by a handful of n’er do wellers that have usurped the power at NVC (or they have been directly appointed by Radhanath or his self appointed henchwoman, one of kswa’s “AIDS army” sanyassinis, Malati Swami devi dasi) has now become the 800 pound gorilla in the room that none are ready to talk about.

That, plus the other 800 pound gorilla, the abuse lawsuit, are about to consume the ISKCON organization and leave hundreds of disillusioned devotees in their wake who are trying to understand what it is that just happened to them. The “powers that be“, seeing this disaster coming (they have been through so many of them) know the proper course of action in these circumstances and the rule book for handling these situations has come to be a “ISKCON’s rules of order”, a handbook for dealing with extremists and dissenters within modern day ISKCON, and the modern day solutions to some of these problems. formerly approved solutions such as the whacking of dissidents are no longer viable, at least not in the west. This book is in limited edition and it is only available as Devamrta Swami so often says “on a need to know basis”. Don’t look for it in books stores anytime soon. If you are not “in with the in crowd”, you will be informed later of all it is that you are required to know. Now go on doing your manual labour mandir seva while ISKCON works on getting you your green card. Are you married? These two issues, land swindles and import marriages will be coming soon in another volume so we return our focus to India, circa 1986-1989.

The FBI had hit the pinata of outcasts at NVC and been really surprised at the nature of what had emerged. those old hippies had gone down that road singing, built a big building, killed a few people, run a few good businesses, run a few good businesses into the ground, spawned a few outlaws, like that….nothing every other West Virginia town and village hasn’t done once or twice in it’s time, and many West Virginians see things from just such a viewpoint. There are however some very rude “other persons” who are not so kind in their “acceptance”. These people have to be dealt with in some fashion and who does that and how have come to be so far removed from the lives of the ordinary devotee in the temple that this society bears no semblance of anything that would want to call itself Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON.

After the 1986 incidents, precedents were set throughout the ISKCON world that are still in place today that are very much at variance with anything that Srila Prabhupada ever said that he wanted. there are mental concoctions that have entered into the ISKCON process that need removed lest we see a shia /sunni type split in the organization this early. Any later attempts at “reconciliation”, much like the concept of “guru reform“, imply the need to legislate some kind of loyalty amongst the troops. Hitler had much the same thing going, but it never worked out well for him. “Mr. Hitler, he was a gentleman”-AC Bhaktivedanta swami with the outpouring of the criminal element from NVC, there would be hell to pay some where. Initially, that hell flew every where on the planet. Top buffoon went to England. I went to India. top buffoon went to Ireland. Radhanath went to India. Top buffoon went to Australia. Sri Galima went to India. Top buffoon went to the New Zealand farm. Hayagriva went to Spain. Top buffoon went to Singapore. Frankie Lyons (AKA Priyavrata) went to India. The Prins‘ (AKA a lot of things, in both worlds, but “the Sacis”, Saci pita, Saci mata replaced their former cult name. Maybe a new name by Radhanath on their re-initiation.) went to Asia. Top buffoon finally was ordered to India. Hayagriva was also. kswa was making his move.

OM JAI SRI JAPA NAMAH

END OF PART 1

Who is Who in New Vrindavan?
Kirtanananda History

Comments

  1. The “letter from the GBC you will never read” is a fantastic read, a masterpiece. Removed from the site here. It can still be read at; http://puredevoteeseva.ning.com/
    Its in the forum /discussions ; title under which it is placed; GBC Statement from Anonymous. A Satire. Prabhupadanugas EU
    Except for the one lapse re; calling ritivk “hollow”, I think it the best synposis of GBC history ever written. Bravo! to the anonymous writer.

    Janmastami dasa always is interesting to read. I look forward to your insider’s stories, as it helps to know the past. Pamho, prabhu. AGTSP.

  2. Prasannatma das says:

    God knows what you guys are trying to achieve. Some may have got into nonsense in the past but we all are, to some extent. But being critical is not the solution. You guys have been criticizing over the years and these devotees have been achieving something. That’s the difference!!

  3. Gopi devi dasi says:

    Prasannatma das folks have never explained, when people like me were criticizing Jayatirtha who was having illicit sex with his own disciples and he was taking drugs, Prasannatma’s GBC said “none should criticize” and so thousands of us were kicked out for criticizing. Later Jayatirtha had his head chopped off for having sex with the wife of a follower. Why does Prasannatma think that people who are having sex with other’s wives and they are taking drugs, are acharyas? And Prasannatma says no one should criticize this imitation of acharya? As soon as someone says dogs are acharyas, Prasannatma says that is wonderful and correct, and no one should criticize, that means Prasannatma is keeping dogs in the seat of Vyasa. Why does Prasannatma disrespect the acaryas by saying they are full of illicit sex and drugs? Even any 10 year old child in America knows that people who are debauchees are not God’s successsors, only Prasannatma does not know this?

  4. @Prasannatma prabhu

    I agree with you. But just see what reaction has come from your statement! There are enough articles like this on the internet aren’t there? There is nothing ‘new’ here, so what is the point of this piece except for inspiring bitterness? It seems Gopi devi is also infused with this spirit.

    What is interesting is the timing of all this ‘anti-Radhanatha’ propaganda… Radhanatha Maharaja wrote his autobiography at the request of his godbrother Bhakti Tirtha Swami, and naturally a lot of media attention naturally followed. Prabhupada wanted his disciples to meet with presidents (Obama), big businessmen (Apple), etc. This is what Radhanatha Swami is doing. I guess I don’t have to spell out why all these articles are appearing now. His achievements will only increase (you can count on it), and so very many people will come forward and deride his personality – it is the way of this world.

    The article fails to mention that Radhanatha Swami’s room is no larger than a standard small bedroom. Except for the Vaisnava articles and a 5 meter long picture of Govardhana hill, there isn’t anything materially remarkable about the living quarters he spends 5 months a year in. But I guess no one cares to hear about that.

  5. Giridhari das says:

    Nimai, Radhanatha will be happy you are following his instruction to do prescribed hours of web seva to help his image…

  6. Sri Mukunda dasa says:

    What’s more disgusting than a bogus guru? His disciple.

  7. trnad api su-nicena taror iva sahisnuna amanina mana-dena kirtaniyah sada harih

    [“One who thinks himself lower than the grass, who is more tolerant than a tree, and who does not expect personal honor yet is always prepared to give all respect to others can very easily always chant the holy name of the Lord.” (Adi-lila 17.31)]

  8. Sri Mukunda dasa says:

    “Therefore tad vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet [MU 1.2.12], if you want to learn about that then you must find out a guru. What kind of guru? Just like Kapiladeva, Kṛṣṇa, or His representative. Not a bogus guru. (Radhanatha types) Then you will be cheated. Andhā yathāndair upanīyamānāḥ. The so-called rascal guru, (Radhanatha types) he does not know also what is the aim of life, and if he makes some disciples (Radhanatha disciple types) then śāstra says, andhā yathāndair upanīyamānāḥ, one blind man is trying to guide many other blind men. So what is the benefit? There is no benefit…”

    Lectures : Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.28 — Bombay, November 28, 1974

  9. Giridhanri das says:

    “If the spiritual master does not know what is actually to be done, what is actually not to be done, and he acts against the rules and regulations of the sastra, then such spiritual master may be given up.”Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.36,
    Tokyo, January 30, 1974

    applies to Radhanath`s religious syncretism/ mayavad/sahajiya preaching method. (Murdering a Vaisnava)

    72-12-14.Letter: Tusta Krsna
    As for your next question, can only a few pure devotees deliver others, anyone, if he is a pure devotee he can deliver others, he can become spiritual master. But unless he on that platform he should not attempt it. Then both of them will to go to hell, like blind men leading the blind.

    Nitai keep going on blind, def and dumb…

  10. Sri Mukunda dasa says:

    Gopi devi dasi is Puranjana. check out his writing style. it is identical. and his vocabulary. He fools no one.

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