Bogus retired Sannyasi/Guru needs male nurses for his old age retreat

Mukunda Sannyasi/Guru needs male nurses for his old age retreat

Where is the IskCon old-age-retirement plan for
the thousands of kicked-out Prabhupada disciples? –
– Well, at least Mukunda does not desire “female nurses” –

Bogus retired Sannyasi/Guru needs male nurses for his old age retreat

Mukunda Goswami: “I am 70-years-old on 10 April 2012, a member of the sannyasa order. My body is fragile and frail. I am subject to many diseases. I am not very adept at living alone. The house I live in has a “guest room” and a total of 2 full bathrooms (each with a toilet and shower). My servant has to be almost a male nurse. Therefore, as far as initiation goes, I will give preferential treatment to male devotees who live with me in this house and who personally serve me for two weeks continuously minimum. This may seem a bit unfair to females and males who can’t reside here for the 2-week minimum period (my dwelling is in northern New South Wales, Australia). But life in this material world is ITSELF unfair (“nasty, brutish and short,” wrote famous social contract theorist, Thomas Hobbes [1588–1679]). Also, it would be required that any devotee in this servant category to whom I would consider giving diksha or shiksha, must also be taking shelter of and instruction from others to whom I’ve given formal diksha or shiksha initiation.” (http://mukundagoswami.org/moratorium-statement,2482/)

Male nurses of Mukunda have to nurse and worship him in his house in order to get initiation
GREAT – just imagine Srila Prabhupada would do this?

Please Note: If Mukunda will die, gradually his worship and so-called disciples will fade. Srila Prabhupada is living forever through his books, and his disciples through His Ritvik-Initiation-System.

Bogus gurus and their followers go to Hell

Srila Prabhupada: Unless one is perfectly anxious to inquire about the way of perfection, there is no necessity of approaching a Spiritual Master. A Spiritual Master is not a kind of decoration for a householder. Generally a fashionable materialist engages a so-called Spiritual Master without any profit. The pseudo Spiritual Master flatters the so-called disciple, and thereby both the master and his ward go to hell without a doubt. – Srimad Bhagavatam, Purport, 1.19.37

Srila Prabhupada: 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 is on that platform he should not attempt it. Then both of them will to go to hell, like blind men leading the blind. – Srila Prabhupada in a letter to Tusta Krishna, December 14, 1972

Srila Prabhupada: Leaders who have fallen into ignorance and who mislead people by directing them to the path of destruction [as described in the previous verse] are, in effect, boarding a stone boat, and so too are those who blindly follow them. A stone boat would be unable to float and would sink in the water with its passengers. Similarly, those who mislead people go to hell, and their followers go with them. – Srimad Bhagavatam, Purport, 6.7.14

They who are NOT sincere will get a Cheater. Srila Prabhupada will be denied to them.
Srila Prabhupada: “If you are a cheater, Krsna will give you such intelligence, you’ll forget Krsna forever.

Srila Prabhupada: “The GBC should all be the instructor gurus. I am the initiator guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am teaching and doing what I am doing.”

Srila Prabhupada Letter of July 9th: The newly initiated devotees are disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, the above eleven senior devotees acting as His representative. After the Temple President receives a letter from these representatives giving the spiritual name or the thread, he can perform the fire yajna in the temple as was being done before. The name of a newly initiated disciple should be sent by the representative who has acceted him or her to Srila Prabhupada, to be included in His Divine Grace’s “Initiated Disciples” book.

“UNCULTURED MEN WILL ACCEPT CHARITY ON BEHALF OF THE LORD AND WILL EARN THEIR LIVELIHOOD BY MAKING A SHOW OF AUSTERITY AND WEARING A MENDICANT’S DRESS. THOSE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT RELIGION WILL MOUNT A HIGH SEAT AND PRESUME TO SPEAK ON RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES.” (Srimad Bhagavatam 12.3.38)

Mukunda (left) with his friend Radhanath (right) the slayer swami

From Paperback Writers: Although he (Mukunda Goswami) has stayed more in the background than many of our prominent godbrothers, Mukunda’s book has been endorsed by the ‘big Swami’ Radhanath, and Ravindra Swarup, a GBC who’s known as a literary personality. They endorse Mukunda’s book in the same way you’d endorse a popular best-seller… ‘it’s a real page-turner’… ‘a got-to-read’… ‘don’t put it down’… ‘a great contribution’… and so on. But in my mind, the authors of such books are a few notches below the professional Bhagavatam reciters, who are at least talking straight from the sastra.

Although Mukunda Goswami seems to have little to say in his new book that hasn’t been said before, the reader should take particular care in noting how he philosophically presents Srila Prabhupada. One should also consider the history of Mukunda’s service over the years since Srila Prabhupada’s departure. Personally, I find it somewhat embarrassing that he’s been a Swami all these years, and we’ve heard so little preaching from him.

In 1999, Mukunda resigned from his position as a GBC, as did Hrdayananda. That same year, the GBC gave “Emeritus” status to these three devotees, along with Satsvarupa. At the same time that he resigned from the GBC, Mukunda was put on the GBC committee responsible for GBC restructuring and writing a constitution (which to this day has not been completed).

The “Emeritus” title bestowed upon Mukunda Goswami by the GBC essentially refers to the fact that from 1999 onwards, the Swami has retired to private life. Although Mukunda and Satsvarupa das Goswami Emeritus, author of Lilamrta, are very fond of emphasizing the fact that Srila Prabhupada came to America in his seventies, ‘alone, penniless, and in poor health’, they apparently do not see the contradiction in terms — that they have retired from active preaching life at such a young age – the opposite of the example set by their Spiritual Master.

Of course, such depictions of Srila Prabhupada are completely incorrect philosophically. The notion of Srila Prabhupada being ‘penniless’ is a ridiculous philosophical conception, considering that Sri Krsna Caitanya sent him to America, and was always protecting him. The fact that he displayed a pastime wherein he appeared to be penniless is not unlike Sri Krsna appearing as a cowherd boy, and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu as the son of a Brahman. To call Srila Prabhupada “lonely” or “penniless” is philosophically inaccurate, and untrue.

Of course, ISKCON’s retired ‘Emeritus’ Swamis are not living a penniless life. They’re living a comfortable, reclusive lifestyle that goes against the mandate Srila Prabhupada set down for his sannyasa preachers. They aren’t often seen engaged in direct preaching activities, beyond writing their books and going from festival to temple, talking about their association with Srila Prabhupada, and sharing their perceptions according to their immature minds back then, when they were young and reckless. Srila Prabhupada provided them an opportunity to dovetail some of their talents in Krsna’s service. But nowadays, although they have far more opportunity from a material point of view, they are not actively preaching. They don’t capture the mood of Srila Prabhupada, they don’t know how to philosophically present him. They’re living off the results of their past participation. Because of their friendly relationship with the GBC they’ve been allowed to initiate. They write a few little articles, a memoir book or two, and wait for the invitations and airline tickets to arrive, with the promise of nice accommodations when they come to say a few words at some event about their reminiscences of Srila Prabhupada.

Few seem to notice that nearly all of them are at a younger age than Srila Prabhupada was when he first arrived here, working tirelessly on Sri Krsna Caitanya’s behalf. Our Emeritus Swamis have totally given up the preaching mood, and are basically living off their past glories, like old rock stars collecting their royalty checks, and doing a few gigs each year at the casino. They’re capitalizing on their past, and living a comfortable life as a result of it. Selling their book is just another cash flow stream for them, another way to glorify themselves. It’s not really glorifying Srila Prabhupada, and is not, therefore, a great contribution to the Vaisnava literature. In fact, nowhere in our Vaisnava Sampradaya literatures do we find such novels, biographies and memoirs. Srila Prabhupada did not recommend us to do that with Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati or Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur. Many books that had already been written were not recommended by Srila Prabhupada, even though they were far more philosophical and bona fide than those we see proliferating in ISKCON today.

But this is the new mood in ISKCON. We have all these untrained disciples and followers who are supposedly ordered by the Gurus and Sannyasis to read Srila Prabhupada’s books daily and follow his sadhana program, but the leaders themselves aren’t preaching actively or following that program. Instead, they claim they’re getting old at 68 or 70, and have some health problems… but how does that compare to Srila Prabhupada? As mentioned in a recent article by Aviram das, “Leaving Sannyasa“, Srila Prabhupada commented on the Gajendra pastime, saying that he gave out sannyasa to young people because Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa at a young age, and so did his Spiritual Master, for preaching purposes. But it you don’t get totally absorbed in preaching and you’ve taken sannyasa, then you’re in a dangerous situation. Under such circumstances, perhaps it would be a more honorable thing to give up sannyasa. Of course, after many years of getting used to this particular status in life and enjoying the many material benefits that it provides, you become accustomed, conditioned. Your ego includes being a sannyasa, even though so many sannyasis have been outed, exposed as womanizers, money lenders, etc. Yet they cannot give up sannyasa. Satsvarupa and Hridayananda are two good examples. While their lifestyles aren’t remotely inline with the sastric mandates for sannyasa, their false ego includes being seen as a sannyasi. It’s a trouble-free life for them, in many ways, and they just don’t want to give that up. They’re attached.

In the case of Mukunda Goswami and his recent book, we can see that Mukunda is a sweetie-pie swami, a soft-spoken, gentle devotee who has managed to avoid scandal. He has not thrown his weight around as a GBC/Guru/Sannyasi, and therefore is seen as not being politically ambitious. And this was his nature from day one. Mukunda’s amiable nature made him the preferred favorite of George Harrison, and after a certain point, George would only associate with Mukunda. The devotees couldn’t contact or visit him unless it was through Mukunda. Once or twice a year, Mukunda would fly to the UK and arrange an appointment to go and see George Harrison. He would take along a few other devotees, some prasada and they’d have a little kirtan at his estate. I attended one of these get-togethers in the late 70’s, early 80’s, and frankly I was very unimpressed by the fact that Mukunda did not preach to him. It was obvious that George Harrison was taking all sorts of illegal substances, and that his main absorption was in racing cars and gardening. He was spending only one or two evenings a year with the devotees, who weren’t even preaching to him, and that was about the extent of it. » more here «

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Some of our ISKCON sannyasis have become the richest and most powerful personalities in the society. How they justify maintaining independent wealth is an interesting question. Their wealth gives them the ability to do whatever they feel like doing in terms of traveling or acquiring property and assets, and they apparently don’t have to justify any of that to the ISKCON Sannyasa Ministry or the GBC.

When asked by the rank and file devotees to justify their activities, many have the audacity to point to Srila Prabhupada and say well, Srila Prabhupada had some bank accounts and Srila Prabhupada controlled the movement, and Srila Prabhupada would fly first class on occasion, and when he stayed at the temples they gave him nice facility, and picked him up in a luxurious car. Of course what Srila Prabhupada did in his lila period as a Sampradaya Acarya, executing the mission given to him by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to spread Krsna Consciousness throughout the world, is a very different matter than how our ISKCON sannyasis should conduct themselves.

Srila Prabhupada was totally fixed in the concept of nirbandha krsna sambandhe, using everything in Krsna’s service. And the fact of the matter is, compared to most of the super-rich swamis of today, Srila Prabhupada’s lifestyle and his bank account, or whatever you want to point to in order to justify the present lifestyles, was very modest in comparison.

Srila Prabhupada would often state in his lectures that great personalities can do anything they want, whether it be Lord Shiva or some other transcendental personality, but our job is not to imitate them – our job is to follow them. If you’re not such a great advanced personality, then your business is to follow what they have to say, which is non-different than sastra. And many previous Acaryas have set the standard for sannyasa in this regard.

If we look at Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s lila, a number of the great personalities who participated, such as Rupa and Sanatana Goswami, Raghunatha das Goswami, and Ramananda Raya were multi-millionaires prior to joining Lord Caitanya’s lila. Some of them were wealthy beyond anyone’s comprehension. They had the opportunity to enjoy a life of complete luxury, yet they gave all this up to live as true mendicants and set the standard for those following in our sampradaya, especially in the renounced order.

Srila Prabhupada himself was a wealthy businessman at one point in his life, and he gave that up to become a sannyasi. He lived in the renounced order for years prior to coming to the West. And Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati lived a very austere life as a sannyasi, despite the fact that he was born into the family of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, who was a highly respected magistrate. For many years Srila Bhaktivinoda lived a comfortable lifestyle, which he also gave up.

But regardless of what the great Sampradaya Acaryas did, as individuals our business is not to imitate them, or to use their activities as an excuse to succumb to our own material desires for fame and fortune. Many of those who have taken sannyasa in ISKCON under Srila Prabhupada have demonstrated the opposite of the acaryas described above. Most of them were impoverished before they came to ISKCON, and that was their material standard prior to taking sannyasa. But upon accepting the renounced order, over time they became very wealthy, especially after Srila Prabhupada departed and they anointed themselves as great acaryas. They began to accumulate money and followers, and lived a lavish lifestyle. Enjoying the high life, they completely ignored the dictates of sastra and the preaching of Srila Prabhupada, and as a result, they have not only become contaminated by false prestige and wealth, they have also wasted untold millions in resources that should and could have been used in Krsna’s service, to further Srila Prabhupada’s mission.

The amount of money that has been squandered, wasted, and misappropriated by sannyasis over the last 30 years in ISKCON is just inconceivable. And we’re not simply talking about the most obvious examples of extravagance, like those demonstrated by the Zonal Acaryas. Most of them have now come and gone, and we have a new echelon of super-swami millionaires in their place. Even if we look at the second or third tier sannyasis, who are less obvious examples, we still find swamis who have accumulated large sums of money and then squandered it.

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