There may also be the element of envy where some of the Indian devotees see
western devotees on laptops and cell phones all day while they are working hard.
….. western devotees serving receive larger pay than Indian bodied devotees.
THE MAYAPUR MANAGEMENT SPEAKS OUT ON THE ONGOING SAGA
Dear Vaisnava Community, The Mayapur Management would like to report to the community regarding the recent disturbances. As you are aware, tension has been building up over the past number of weeks and boiled over on the evening of the 18th February, Ekadasi.
…….. At this point a [GBC] devotee arrived and stepped in to protect the lady, and was set upon by the crowd. Both were eventually shuffled away to safety. The overall mood was aggressive and tense and a fair size crowd congregated in front of the Conch Building. Our temple security, the head of security, and a number of cool-headed devotees stood firm and held back the angry crowd while protecting other senior devotees present, and sending them to safety as well. Bhavananda prabhu was confronted with great agitation. He was pushed and jostled about but not injured nor hit. We also request you to please refrain from spreading rumours without first confirming the authenticity of any information. [complete article here]
Comments by different Devotees:
PADA: There is no rumor, the Mayapura management is responsible for creating a homosexual and child abuse situation under Jayapataka‘s, Hari Sauri‘s and Bhavananda‘s regime, and they refuse to get rid of these guys despite they are upsetting so many people, and they continue to do so. (Hari Sauri Re-writes History)
Well there you have it, Bhavananda is once again the root source of troubles over there. Yep I know, we need to keep him so “the money flows in.” This is the entire problem, the whole place is compromised with money. Meanwhile, Dayarama blew allegedly $20,000,000 suing Bangalore, so they are tossing money down the manure pit by the bucket load on a daily basis, meanwhile, crying they have no money?
From Pratyatosa: A majority of those on the ISKCON GBC do not have college degrees, were born and raised in meat-eating families, fried their brains with LSD and other mind-altering drugs, and have been extremely offensive to their guru, to their godsiblings, and to the 2nd generation. The LSD, etc. that they used/abused has caused them to suffer permanent brain damage. This brain damage is currently being manifested as abnormal paranoia, abnormal enviousness, delusions of grandeur, and the tendency to be control freaks. Not only that, but these deluded rascals are running around thinking, “I am a guru! Bow down and worship me!” Knowing these things, even a karmi child can understand that things are not going to go very well for ISKCON as long as these defective rascals are running things.
From Pavamana das: Mayapur is not safe. Don’t come to Mayapur. Bengalis were hanging the Italian GBC over the second floor balcony at the guesthouse threatening to throw him over.
PADA: Thanks prabhu, but if a GBC was hung upside down by his ankles from a three story building with threats to drop him off, that does not sound especially safe to me? And, you say — they have not even removed the people who were doing this? So how is this protecting the program, I don’t get it?
Sorry, you cannot place homosexuals and deviants into Vyasasana seats, and claim these deviants are the successors to Lord Chaitanya, and then create untold worldwide chaos including molesting and murders by doing that, then chant the holy names to cover up your offenses. It does not work that way.
From Joe Guarino I’m confirming it now anyone says any different it’s a lie. ISKCON is an International Crime Cartel out paced only by the Vatican and the Mormans. Print that. Fools!
And It is not the fault of the Bengalis or Bangladeshis. It is the fault of the GBCs and other ISKCON Temple Presidents and other politicians that has perpetuated ” a culture” of mistreatment of my God brothers, their wives and children. I have a 100 % “clean” record in ISKCON. Just ask Badrinarayan Swami, who is here now. Almost 30 years in San Diego providing health care for the devotees as a Primary Care Physician. Before, Brooklynn, NYC, Port Royal PA, Brazil and Puerto Rico as acting Temple president. Always left broken hearted and in pieces after working hard for Srila Prabhupada and Krsna.
The B &` B are a symptom they are not the disease. Bhakti Vidya Purna roams free like a king here in Mayapur. His history of “caning” gurukula boys until they bled and other SEXUAL DEVIATIONS have magically disappeared.
It’s a tragedy really. Most devoties are and have not been capable of “critical/discriminative thinking” without falling into the trap of thinking, “oh my, this is vaishnava aparadha.” There is and never has been, opportunity for dissent. Without being labeled as “independent minded” or being just in Maya.
There is no process for judicial or executive oversite. The leaders of all gotten rich. And left a “trail of devotee bodies”. Millions of dollars are missing here in Mayapur. It’s time for devoties to wipe those idiotic smiles off their faces and pull their ‘heads out of their a$$es. Hoever, unfortunately I think it’s to late.
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Sattvic Das: THIS IS WHY I THINK THEY ARE PLAYING IT DOWN Mahabhuj prabhu. “Unless Kṛṣṇa saves, who can? So I had the experience of riot in Calcutta in my childhood.” ~ January 3, Bombay 1977, Srila Prabhupada.
“The local Bengali agitators at the Maypur Candrodoya Temple are planning a huge disruptive action for Monday. We should know what comes of it by Tuesday, but the GBC must involve the police for protection this coming Monday.”
The Bengali agitators have allegedly bribed all of the Police to evict the western devotees so that they can take over their offices.
What’s Going On? There’s A Riot Goin’ On!
When Marvin Gaye wrote his song, a few months later Sly Stone responded with his, and now some disgruntled Mayapur residents are responding with theirs.
“Unless Kṛṣṇa saves, who can? So I had the experience of riot in Calcutta in my childhood.” ~ January 3, Bombay 1977.
Just as the GBC Meetings are beginning, the local Bengali agitators at the Sridhama Maypur Candrodoya Temple are planning a huge disruptive action for Monday. We should know what comes of it by Tuesday, but the GBC must involve the police for protection this coming Monday. The Bengali agitators have allegedly bribed all of the Police to evict the western devotees so that they can take over their offices.
One of the main leaders in Mayapur, Jayapataka Swami, who has thousands of disciples in Mayapur, is in New Delhi hospital on a respirator fighting to keep himself alive.
There are many factors that have contributed to the present riots that are going on in Mayapur which I will address later, such as the investigations that have gone on regarding criminal activities being performed there, those actvities being exposed and the retaliation of those engaged in those activites losing their positions seeking vengeance.
Hostility by the Bengali / Bengladeshi devotees is also said to be due to how the western devotees serving receive larger pay than Indian bodied devotees do for services performed. There may also be the element of envy where some of the Indian devotees see western devotees on laptops and cell phones all day while they are working hard.
Another consideration is the initiation of en masse thousands of Indian bodied devotees that do not receive proper training, or have any conception of accepting siksa from anyone other than their guru.
Another consideration is that western devotees are not always kind in how they deal with the Bengali devotees, or even know ow to relate to them, lacking empathy, thus inciting them to hit back.
Perhaps some of the lack of accountability and impersonalism that has contributed to the uproar at Radha Govinda’s Temple in New York is a factor.
These are some comments that have been shared with me from various godsiblings that know the situation in Mayapur:
“A group called Mayapur Vedic Development Sevaks Trust – MVDST – who are a group of Indian National land developers here in Mayapur. They started going door-to-door drumming up support after some of them or their supporters within Mayapur management were removed from their positions one by one for corruption or collusion or involvement in covering-up.
One of Mayapur’s GBC looked the other way for years so he was on suspension. The mood continued to build with Praghosa (SDG and Mayapur Chairman GBC) and Hansarup as their primary targets as they opened the office that investigated into their crimes or neglect.
Jayapataka Swami has asked his disciples to stand down until after the GBC Meetings but they didn’t listen to him. It has not been uncommon in meetings where he has ordered these same “devotees” to do one thing, he walks out, and they vote the other way!.
One god brother’s view is that “ Very few Westerners have learned a single word of Bengali. They treat these India citizens as servants. The western devotees get fat salaries….the Indians minimum money. This has been a long time coming. Western devotees in India do not embrace simple-living-high thinking.
I have spoken to a Bengali devotee. He says the Bengalis want to see the back of Pragosh the GBC Chairman…..this will most prob happen. Radha Jivan is not a refined person. In addition he is very Indian-body conscious.”
Another inside scoop: “Praghosa and Hansarupa created a department, ESCO – Ethics, Standards and Compliance Office – who job it was to address corruption within Management. They busted a lot of managers who just happened to be Bengali or Bangladeshi. That includes Naru Gopal, Bhakti Purushottama, Nitai Karuna and many more. These guys were also involved in allowing other managers, again generally Bengali and Bangladeshi, to do the same. Bhakti Purusottama Swami was the latest to go down after it came to light that he covered up a long history of homosexual abuses in Habibapur temple within the Brahmachari asharam that included dozens and dozens of young men, even young teenagers.
Eventually those who were removed from their positions came together, created a trust and along with other “businessmen/devotees” went around door knocking and involving other Bengalis who are very simple and believe anything you tell them. They were convinced that the foreigners were mistreating the Bengalis and treating them like their slaves, etc.Just last week Bhavananda mistreated, verbally – typical Bhavs – one of his Bengali staff and they are very sensitive to harsh words. So he skipped off and joined the B Team and one thing lead to another that ended in this incredible mob scene of over 150 Bengalis last night during Sandar artik where devotees were punched, etc and the GBC were actually hiding in their rooms particularly Praghosa and Bhavs.
Now they want revenge in a big way and more than that – they want the temple. ALL of it. They want the GBC removed and a new one with Naru as the GBC chair, (caught embezzling funds) and only Bengalis and JPS etc. But he is really” ~ END.
“What about the safety of the rest of the caucasian devotees there, as well as their children?.
I wrote to Ambarisa prabhu to make sure that he was safe, and he wrote back to me:
Prabhuji, PAMHO AGTSP.
No worries, Svaha and I are back in Gainesville. There is a war going on for the soul of Mayapur. Hopefully the combined efforts of the GBC and Bureau can restore sanity and international mission to Srila Prabhupada’s dear most project. Thank you for the offer of support. I hope all is well. ys ad.
Just in from Adikarta Das Das prabhu: “Hare Krishna dear devotees. We here in Alachua just spoke to Ambarish about this, and he said that the problem was caused because Radhajivan, the fund raiser for the TOVP, had an idea to build a block of apartments for selling to fund raise, but when he was told that the place he wanted to build on was not available he freaked out, and decided he wanted to get rid of Ambarisha, and be the big shot. [all this from someone who joined another camp for many years and who struggles to chant any japa} Then he incited a number of local devotees to get violent, they went after Bhavananda prabhu, because Radhajivan had some grudge against him, Bhav had to leave”.
From Gopal Cohen:
“Many of the western devotees’ offices are in non-ISKCON buildings, like their homes or even they run their departments from different parts of the world. IMHO, that’s one of the problems. Also, it looks like more and more Bengali devotees and locals are starting to support diverse devotees and are refusing to back their own countrymen under the influence of “skin disease.” It’s going to be an interesting week.”
If anyone has any current updates or other insights to the situation in Mayapur Dham, please keep us informed. many devotees are very concerned.”
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