ISKCON HISTORY ACCOUNT

The (11) eleven original cheater Gurus from Left to Right:
celebrating simultanious Guru-Puja equal to Prabhupada – the greatest offense

1. Harikesa Swami (mad-guru) 2. Jayatirtha dasa Adhikari (dead) 3. Hansadutta Swami (drunkard) 4. Hridayananda Gosvami (tits-guru) 5. Ramesvara Swami (girls-guru) 6. Bhagavan dasa Adhikari (nazi militant)

7. Kirtanananda Swami (dead) 8. Tamala Krsna Gosvami (dead) 9. Satsvarupa dasa Gosvami (insane-guru) 10. Bhavananda Gosvami (homo-sex) 11. Jayapataka Swami (mad militant)

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History of GBC Gurus according to ISKCON

[PADA: Even the official GBC history version agrees, they are saying — Krishna’s guru successors are: appointed, nominated, censured, monitored for deviations, 2/3 show of hands voted in, suspended, removed, excommunicated, and — are sometimes engaged in illicit sex, drugs and crimes and etc. Even the GBC agrees this is the state of their “acharyas”! Wow! ys pd] 

Comment: The GBC Was the “Enemy” of Srila Prabhupada from 1970 Until Today

TRUE ACCOUNT OF ISKCON’S HISTORY

http://www.harekrsna.org/pada/themes/ihistbig.htm

PART1 1976-1985 – Tama-Krishna, Hansadutta, Rohini-Kumar, Berkeley-temple, guru shooting
PART2 1985-1986 – SULOCHANA: David attacks Goliath, Kirtanananda, New Vrindavana, faggot gurus
PART3 1986 – Iskcon worships homosexual gurus, Sulocana murdered, Kirtanananda massaged by small boys

ISKCON HISTORY ACCOUNT

PART 1 – 1976-1985 – Tama-Krishna, Hansadutta, Rohini-Kumar, Berkeley-temple, guru shooting

History update (ref: history 101, pada, 31. Mar. 2000)
1) In the mid 1970s, some of the leaders were trying to promote very bizare deviations from Srila Prabhupada’s instructions. Tamal Krishna Goswami, one of the big leaders at that time, had a “travelling bus program” which he called “Radha Damodara.” Most of the members of his program were young unmarried men who were called “brahmacharis.” Unfortunately, when the “Radha Damodar” bus program would visit Srila Prabhupada’s temples, the visitors would try to convince the temple’s unmarried men to leave, and to join Tamal’s traveling bus program. This started to severely subvert the management scheme of Srila Prabhupada by draining away needed manpower from his temples.

The basic physical infrastructure of ISKCON at that time was the temples. And the temples were starting to face severe difficulties due to the “manpower draining war” that they were constantly engaged in with Tamal’s program. The situation became very intense with temple presidents and other managers comparing Tamal’s program to raiding pirates who were “stealing” the manpower.

Many of the temples at that time were managed by married men called “householders” or “grihasthas.” One of the arguments presented by Tamal and his party was that the unmarried men should not “associate” with either married men, or the ladies who were living in the temples. This was alleged to be “maya” or the path to illusion. In other words, it was supposed to be more “spiritually advanced” for the unmarried males to travel with Tamal and his party. Oddly, this criticism of Srila Prabhupada’s temple program was the same argument given by some of his deviated God brothers from the 1936 era in India: there should not be any married men or any women living in the temples. Some speculate that there was collusion between Tamal and some of these deviants even in the early 1970s.

Simultaneously, Tamal’s group started to say that the “housholders” are sort of second class citizens, and they should all be sent somewhere like Australia to live on farms. Of course, this prospect would apparently leave no one at the temples in the USA? Most of the unmarried males would be out on the road on Tamal’s bus program. Then, most of the “householders,” who were really the temple’s managers, would be packed off to live in a remote part of the world, perhaps in the Australian outback? And this new “householder farm” program would also be of Tamal’s design and perhaps he would be in control of this as well?

In short it seems under Tamal’s plan there would gradually be no temples, or at best very stunted and deteriorated temples in the USA. Instead, there would a pack of traveling buses, which coincidentally, would all under his control? This was apparently designed to shift control of the manpower, money, and assets away from Srila Prabhupada’s hands and over to Tamal’s? And Tamal’s plan was working quite effectively. Indeed, it was paralyzing Srila Prabhupada’s whole mission. Temples were gradually losing key personl such as priests, treasurers, preachers, cooks, mechanics, carpenters and other needed members. Meanwhile, Tamal’s “Radha Damodar” bus program was growing by leaps and bounds.

This came to a head at the March, 1976 Mayapura meetings. The temple presidents held their own meeting separate from the “Governing Body Commission” (GBC) members and they determined that Tamal’s program was going to eventually destroy Srila Prabhupada’s temples. Srila Prabhupada agreed with the temple presidents and he declared that Tamal should be sent to China to preach. Tamal reacted by angrily opposing the plan to go to China (as reported in the book by Hari Sauri)… to be continued

History 1976.2 (ref: pada 02. Apr. 2000a)

…This came to a head at the March, 1976 Mayapura meetings. The temple presidents held their own meeting separate from the “Governing Body Commission” (GBC) members and they determined that Tamal’s program was going to eventually destroy Srila Prabhupada’s temples. Srila Prabhupada agreed with the temple presidents and he declared that Tamal should be sent to China to preach.

Tamal reacted by angrily opposing Srila Prabhupada’s plan to go to China (as was also reported in a book by Hari Sauri). He was reputed to have said that the “Radha Damodar” bus program was “his” program and that it could not be taken away by Srila Prabhupada. Tamal was reported to have expressed a lot of anger towards Srila Prabhupada at this time. In other words, it looked to some of us that Srila Prabhupada had “caught” Tamal in a plan to subvert the movement away from his control by various tricks, and Tamal was angry because he had been caught. Of course other “big leaders” and GBC men had also argued with Srila Prabhupada as well, yet oddly this was not taken too seriously at the time. In short, Srila Prabhupada had to constantly “keep in check” the overly ambitious plotting of some of his “top leaders.” And the plots were sometimes thinly veiled takeover attempts, if not plots to replace Srila Prabhupada.

This phenomena was very strange to some of us. Srila Prabhupada was supposed to be the guru and yet some of the “leaders” would openly argue with him as we had witnessed on a number of occaisions. The problem, it seems, is that some of the leaders had the attitude that Srila Prabhupada could not manage properly, that they knew better than he did, or worse that Srila Prabhupada was “in the way” of their plans. Perhaps this is why Srila Prabhupada made so many complaints directed towards his leaders, for example he said repeatedly that the GBC could not manage. And he even had to ask rather bluntly, “Has the GBC become more than guru maharaja”? In 1977, Srila Prabhupada would even say, “Have I become a burden”? Thus, when it was finally reported that Srila Prabhupada had complained that he was bing given poison, it made sense that this type of action was possible.

One of our personal favorite devotees in those days was Vishnujana swami. He had a travelling bus program of a different type than Tamal’s. He would go to college campuses or similar locations with his musical “band.” Then he would lecture on Krishna’s philosophy and hand out “Krishna prasadam” or food offered to God. Vishnujana was actually making many devotees for the ISKCON society with his program. Yet he was always being criticized behind his back by Tamal’s group.

Tamal would complain that Vishnujana’s program was not strict, that it was not distributing enough books, that is was a diversion from the real program, namely his “Radha Damadora” bus program. The worst complaint was that Vishnujana was not bringing in enough “laxmi” or money. Tamal’s party also invented some other complaints towards Vishnujana’s program, almost making it sound like it was a travelling orgy. Naturally this dicouraged and depressed Vishnujana swami. And later on, by hook and crook, Tamal was able to become the de facto “new manager” of Vishnujana’s bus program.

Some say this is why Vishnujana decided to leave his bus program altogether and get married (he had taken vows of celibacy as a sannyasa). We may never know what really happened though, since Vishnujana swami suddenly “disappeared” and was said to have commited suicide in India. Tamal was one of the last persons ever seen talking to him. Later on, the sannyasi Gopi janaballabha also commited suicide in a St. Louis pond, and how did you guess, he did this just after talking to Tamal. And yes, yet another devotee tried to commit suicide by beating himself on the head with a hammer, just after talking to Tamal, and who knows how many other victims there are?

With the departure of Vishnujana swami and the rising up of Tamal, this started a very mechanical, impersonal and greedy era of “preaching.” Some “sannyasis” started to alter the book distribution process at that time into a sort of cheating business. In fact, a video was made showing the devotees how to “short change” book sales customers and engage in vartious cheating tactics to “increase the pick” (i.e. the amount of money one could extract from a book sales customer). This was creating a very bad reaction from the public since word was spreading that the Hare Krishnas are a bunch of cheaters.

I decided to try to change this downhill momentum by starting the traditional sankirtana process in Hollywood, a sort of revival of the Vishnujana spirit. I got a few devotees together and we would go out every day dressed in the traditional devotional garb, and we would do “harinama samkirtana” or the actual “chanting, singing and dancing” that Lord Chaitanya’s movement is supposed to be based upon. This was viewed with extreme suspicion by the big sannyasis at the time, who wanted to increase the “money changers” program and not the traditional samkirtana.

At this time, Srila Prabhupada’s books about Lord Chaitanya’s life had come out and so we also started to read these books in a class with our samkirtana group. This was something that the “sannyasis” decided they had to halt, just like they had to halt Vishnujana. And so one day Tamal told Srila Prabhupada that there was a group of men in Los Angeles that was smoking pot, dressing in saris, and they were performing illicit activities. Moreover this group had accepted another guru and they were linked to the deviant Nitai dasa. There was even a rumor that I had made some woman pregnant in the meetings? Evidentally, some people were very envious of us.

Of course, this was not what our group was doing, Tamal’s party had just made up some rumors to try to discredit our program. Revatinandana dasa called me aside at that time and said, “You guys aren’t smoking pot and wearing saris are you”? I said, “No, why”? Revatinandana replied, “Well, Tamal just told Srila Prabhupada this morning that you are doing that, and that your new guru is Nitai’s. Tamal is also making up things about me so I am leaving ISKCON.”

A short time later Tamal arranged a sort of “meeting” with Srila Prabhupada, me, Sulochana and his group of sannyasis. Seeing that they were making up things about us, and that the whole sannyasi clique was there –versus– the few of us, we decided not to challenge them in the meeting and start an ugly accusations shouting match in Srila Prabhupada’s presence. Rather I’d write a letter to Srila Prabhupada explaining the situation. I then wrote him a letter saying that I had not been engaging in these illicit things and that I was not working with Nitai and accepting another guru and so on.

Pusta Krishna swami then came up to me a few days later and said, “Wow, how did you like that nice letter of reply that you got back from Srila Prabhupada”? I said, “What letter”? Pusta Krishna look startled and replied, “Well Srila Prabhupada dictated and signed a nice reply to your letter, you mean you never got it?” Then I realized that either Tamal or members of his group were hiding Srila Prabhupada’s personal letters. As a side note, another point often overlooked by Tamal and his colleagues is that a devotee may also have a somewhat internal relationship with his spiritual master. One can try to short change the external situation, but a devotee can be aware of his spiritual master on another level and be connected on a level that can not be penetrated with exteral tricks.

When Tamal spotted me in the temple a few days later he came up and said, “I know you Puranjana, you are just waiting for Srila Prabhupada to die so you can sit in his seat.” I left the temple and was outside, looking a little depressed probably, so a devotee came up and he said, “What is wrong”? I said, “Tamal just said that I am wating for Srila Prabhupada to die so I can sit in his seat.” The devotee replied, “Don’t let it get to you, he says that all the time to everybody.” Then I realized, maybe this is how Tamal gets people to commit suicide? Of course, Tamal was obsessed with thinking about “who” was going to be sitting in Srila Prabhupada’s seat after his departure, and about a year later, it was Tamal who was sitting in his seat. His ambition to sit in Srila Prabhupada’s seat was so powerful, he had to project it on others so he could rationalize it within himself. As no small surprise at the current date, twenty-four years later, Tamal’s clique are the prime suspects surrounding the poisoning of Srila Prabhupada.

In any event, Srila Prabhupada wrote another letter shortly thereafter, which he had sent to all of the temples, telling them that they had to stop the “short changing” program instituted by some of these leaders. Also in 1976, Tamal’s “friend” Bhavananda “swami” had been caught in homosexual acts in Mayapura. Tamal tried to discredit the eye-witness and suppress the whole incident, just to protect his friend. The eye-witness was seen later in South India complaining that he had been drummed out of Mayapura because he had complained of the homsexuality of a sannyasi there. So the pattern of homosexuals being covered-up by Tamal’s sannyasi clique was being established.

There were also reports that Bhavananda would “bloop” and go back to his homosexual friends, and he would “party” with people like Andy Warhol, and that Tamal would drive to those places to bring his friend back to ISKCON. So, on the one hand there was a drive to get rid of people who were actually preaching like Vishnujana, or to drive out people like me who were trying to re-establish the traditional samkirtana. And on the other hand, there was a rise in the money changers and the homosexuals, and this element were being given a boost mainly due to the influence of Tamal’s sannyasi clique.

Srila Prabhupada himself was saying at this time that he did not agree with the managers, and indeed the managers were refusing to go to China when he ordered them to do so. And so he would say that he is too old to drop everything and focus on managing. He wanted to see his books printed mainly, because he knew that would be his lasting contribution. He had hoped that all of his followers would at least read the books and that this would be the actual basis upon which his society would develop. Srila Prabhupada’s plan was very simple. The leaders would not be able to go too far astray since the edcuated mass of devotees would not allow that. Evidentally, as it would turn out, not many of his followers actually read his books?

OFF TO BERKELEY, August 1984 (ref: History 1984, pada 02. Apr. 2000b)

It was winter in Mount Shasta and there was maybe a foot of snow on the ground. I was out shopping in my old Ford truck when I saw a classic Mercedes car parked on the side of the road. This car looked familiar. Was this (the “guru”) Hansadutta’s car? I parked behind the car and after some time Hansadutta “swami” and his faithful servant Chakravarti dasa emerged from a store. We greeted each other and Hansadutta invited me to come over to visit him at another devotee’s house in Mount Shasta.

When I arrived the next day Hansadutta was resting and Chakravarti explained that Hansadutta’s condition was that of being “overdosed” on several drugs and alcohol. This was creating a toxic condition whereby he was sleeping most of the day, and in fact he was only awake about one hour a day. In other words, Hansadutta was close to dying. The Berkeley temple was spending several thousand dollars per week on a professional “detoxification center” near Golden Gate Park for their “guru,” but it was not working. I asked, “Why is he taking so much intoxication”? And Chakravarti said, “It is those constant chronic migraines. He just can’t take them anymore. And that is why we came to Mount Shasta, for the health spas.”

A short while later Hansadutta emerged from his rest and we all sat around a large table. “I think I should just die and get it over,” said Hansadutta. I said, “No! You cannot just die right now, you will leave behind so many confused people, especially your followers. You have to set them straight.” “I can’t,” said Hansadutta, “I’ve tried to tell them that I am not their guru, that their guru is really Srila Prabhupada, but they will not listen. They insist on continuing to worship me.” Of course I was not convinced that he had really tried to convince them effectively.

“We have to start by dismantling the bogus guru appointment,” I said. “This is the first level of illusion that needs to be corrected, the GBC’s saying that they were ‘appointed’ by Srila Prabhupada as his guru successors.” Hansadutta agreed and he added, “That is right. The eleven of us held secret meetings after Srila Prabhupada departed where we hammered out this whole bogus appointment thing. Ramesvara and Kirtanananda wanted to leave the meeting right away, saying that they already had tons of people waiting in line for initiation. But Satsvarupa said, ‘Wait, you cannot go yet. We have to make sure we all give the same answers to the same questions, or this appointment thing will fall apart in two weeks.’ So, Satsvarupa played ‘Devil’s advocate’ and he mock debated us until we all got this whole appointment idea worked out solidly. It is all a big scam.”

I further told Hansadutta that the cause of his headaches was probably from taking the karma of disciples. Srila Prabhupada had told us not to even let people touch our feet casually, or we would get some karma. And we would get sick and have to suffer. Yet your GBC’s gurus have hundreds of people washing their feet? Moreover, sitting in the seat of the pure devotee is very offensive, so you will all get a negative reaction for that as well. All considered, constant chronic migraines is probably just a warning for the reactions that you will get if you do not stop this now. Hansadutta shook his head knowingly and said, “Yes, this is probably all true.”

So then I detailed a plan of action. We would have to stop all forms of his being worshipped and re-establish the worship of Srila Prabhupada. He seemed to be very happy and relived at this prospect and he said, “OK, let us do it. We can start in the Berkeley temple.” He said he would give me a facility to stay there, and a plan was made for me to go there in the near future.

A short while later our little family landed on the Berkeley temple’s doorstep. Hansadutta was there at the time, but he seemed very surprised that we had actually finally made it as agreed. Most of his followers were very stiff and tense, since he had apparently not told them that we were coming. I already had a reputation for “challenging the gurus,” “being an offender to the eleven appointed pure devotees,” and so on, thus some of his followers looked a little grim. He held an emergency meeting right then, but I was not invited. I am not sure what he told his followers but he at least told them to be polite, and perhaps, not to beat us up, which was the fate that some dissidents met there.

Our presence there was of course quite a shock to his followers since I would walk around and say, “Oh these gurus were never appointed, Hansadutta admits that they all lied.” Many of them were very angry, yet they were forcibly restrained from taking steps to silence me due to Hansadutta’s order. Meanwhile, all this was turning out to be too much for Hansadutta himself. Our presence was reminding him of the whole bogus platform of his “guru” post. So after a few days I heard him shouting in the temple foyer, “Tell a lie so big no one will believe that it could be a lie,” and he was saying this repeatedly. A few of his followers finally came to his rescue and they had to lead him away to his room.

He was having a sort of nervous breakdown …due to my presence probably? This culminated exactly one week, to the day, later. Hansadutta went out in his Toyota Jeep with four loaded guns and he shot out the Cadillac dealer’s plate-glass windows, and then he shot out the windows of Ledger’s Liquor store. Both buildings were occupied at the time and the patrons “hit the deck.” A policeman stopped Hansadutta’s Jeep shortly thereafter. And officer Joe Sanchez told me later, “That officer shit his pants when he saw four guns in the front of that Jeep. He thought this guy in the Jeep is whacked and he has another gun hidden somewhere and he is going to use it on me.” A bottle of liquor was found on the floor of the Jeep, and Hansadutta was carrying nearly eight thousand dollars cash on his person. Hansadutta was arrested for firing a gun at occupied buildings. And that was our introduction to the Berkeley temple! –to be continued–

HISTORY 1985 (ref: 1985 and news, 03. Apr. 2000)

VOODOO HEXED GURUS?

Hansadutta was arrested for shooting at an occupied building. Immediately after the “shooting of buildings incident,” Rohini Kumar swami started to organize a big “fire sacrifice” behind the Berkeley temple. He was an original disciple of Srila Prabhupada but had somehow strayed into becomming Hansadutta’s cheif apologist. I asked Rohini Kumar what the sacrifice was all about and he said that he had to counteract “demoniac curses” that had been placed upon Hansadutta by the other GBC gurus. Haripada dasa also told me that he had been in Mayapura recently and he had heard that two other GBC gurus had hired “black magic tantrics” to curse Hansadutta, and these curses were the cause of Hansadutta’s strange behavior.

We were still very new to the Berkeley scene so we could not ask the rather obvious questions: “Why would Hansadutta’s ten other Jesus-like co-appointed colleagues curse him in the first place? Why would one Jesus-like saint –curse– another one to act like a devil? And would a bona fide Jesus-like saint be influenced by the black magic voodoo of a hired tantric ghost exorcist: at all”?, and so on ad infinitum.

Yet I have to admit that it was simply amazing to see firsthand the lengths that these people would take to keep up the illusion that they were still, somehow or other, gurus and pure devotees and that all of the problems they were experiencing were not due to lack of purity but some kind of voodoo hexes. In sum, layers, upon layers, upon layers, upon layers, of lies, more lies, and so on and so forth. Of course even I could see that when you have to say that “the Devil made me do it” you are running out of rabbits to pull out of your hat. So the scene was actually hopeful since it appeared to be getting near the endgame. It was.

DID YOU SEE OUR GURU SHOOTING?

The next problem for Hansadutta’s people was actually a legal one. Hansadutta was seen by a number of eye-witnesses shooting at buildings. So, a few of his thugs went around to intimidate some of the witnesses. “Did you see our guru shooting at any buildings, and by the way we know where you live, and we are just like our guru.” And the probable reply, “Who me? Well, I did not see anything”! This seems to have helped his case, that and the fact that the temple hired from among the best lawyers in the Bay Area to handle the case, spending what one devotee estimates was “at least $100,000 for the lawyers, $25,000 for court costs, and $10,000 for damages.”

Then, a few weeks after the shooting, Hansadutta lost another $12,000 cash he was carrying in a bag. It becomes painfully obvious here why the gurukulis were being starved, beaten and molested. These leaders were spending money like water on themselves while they really seem to have had no idea whatsoever what was happening to the citizens of ISKCON? And nevermind that the temple had also been spending thousands per week for detoxification, percodans, and then there were the guru’s vehicles, buildings, gun collections and who knows what else. Even millionaires do not spend money on themselves like this?

As a side note, I noticed a piece of mail one day in the temple foyer, it was a colorful postcard from a Reno gambling hall: “To our valued customer” and it was made out in the legal name of Hansadutta. By the way, Hansadutta eventually lost his case, and he pleaded “guilty by reason of insanity.” He asked the judge, “If you have all kinds of drugs, alcohol and women, won’t you go crazy too”? And so he was left with some kind of probation. A lot of devotees agreed, unless he had spent a small fortune on his case, he would have gone to jail.

COMMUNICATION WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD

I needed a break to help crack the door open and sure enough Krishna sent one along right away. Hansadutta’s girlfriend, actually the wife of another devotee, brought her favorite book to be sold at the temple’s book shop. The title was something like “Communication With the Spirit World,” and it was a fantastic blend of ghost stories, weird speculations, and an apparent account of how Jesus is influenced by Satanic influences. Even our worst opponents at the temple could not help but break out laughing at some of the crazy passages.

So, I got one copy and walked around the building with my finger in between a few pages, and then I’d open it up and say, “Hey, did you see this page yet”? It was literally a God send since even my opponents would slap their knees and start laughing. His followers would say, “Yes, what a bunch of crap that book is, must be that Hansadutta is trying to please his new lady friend.” So, this kind of helped break the ice for me, and it allowed me to go into more elaborate discussions. For example, what kind of guru reads this trash? Then yet another dedicated follower of Hansadutta’s told everyone that under the cover of Hansadutta’s “Bhagavad Gita” was the book “The Tibetan Book Of the Dead.” This caused yet another wave of doubts. That the emporer had no clothes on was getting more obvious.

ROHINI KUMAR FINALLY CRACKS

Rohini Kumar swami was really trying hard to avoid me. For the fist six months he would barely talk to me. Yet one day he invited me into his room and asked me what the basic problem is. I said that there was never any appointment of eleven gurus, even Hansadutta agreed. So we went over and over the May 28th transcript. We had at that time a more complete version than the one I got in 1980, but it was not as complete as the one that was released in 1990. The more we studied it together the more he had to conclude that it did not appoint any gurus. He finally had a complete breakdown one day and he said, “OK fine, you are right, Srila Prabhupada never appointed any gurus.” And then he wrote a little paper explaining that the GBC had misrepresented the idea of guru. This helped me a lot since he was quite respected there at the time.

As we talked further it turned out that he had access to Srila Prabhupada’s will, the Topanga talks transcript (where Tamal admits there was no guru appointment) and maybe other documents, yet this was locked in the temple’s safe. So I got him to sneak in one day, open the safe, and pull these documents out. I then photo-copied the will and began to circulate copies of it. Who knows if the current copies now in circulation are copies from the one that we got at that time? It was never openly distributed by the GBC, at least not that we know of. “The will” cast more doubt on the appointment issue, since it specifies that Srila Prabhupada wanted his initiated disciples to manage his properties indefinately –after his departure.

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PART 2 – 1985-1986 – SULOCHANA: David attacks Goliath, Kirtanananda, New Vrindavana, faggot gurus

1985 SULOCHANA: David attacks Goliath (ref: 1985 Sulocana, 04. Apr. 2000)
Sulochana (Steve Bryant) called me in Berkeley from Texas to tell me had made his final break with “New Vrindavana,” the ISKCON West Virginia community that was being run by Kirtanananda swami (Keith Ham). Sulochana explained that Kirtanananda swami had taken away his wife (Jane Bryant) by “initiating” her as his disciple and then ordering her to leave. Sulochana said that this had happened because he had started to disagree with the swami –but the swami wanted absolute allegience.

Sulochana also noted that Kirtanananda had a pattern. He would “break up the marriage” of a dissenter using the ploy that the dissenter was “not surrendered to Krishna.” This was a tool he used discourage others from dissenting. Indeed, Jane Wallace of CBS news said later that she could not help but notice that many of the women at New Vridnavana looked like they had children from several different fathers. In short, it looked like Kirtanananda had de facto encouraged some of the women there to have sex with one man and then another by various means. Sulochana summarized this tactic, “Take away a man’s nookie (sex) to control him. And later this man would crawl back to surrender to Kirtanananda, knowing that Kirtanananda would give this man yet another woman as a reward for cooperation.” Apparently, this tactic has been successfully used in other fanatical cults like Jim Jones, David Koresh and others.

The “temple managers” at New Vrindavana had helped Sulochana’s wife file for a divorce and she was simultaneously provided with “a new husband” who was loyal to Kirtanananda. Sulochana further explained that when he had tried to leave the compound with his children the New Vrindavana “enforcers” caught up with him in their vehicles and they forced him to give back his children –at gun point. Unfortunately, the temple had also hired a lawyer and helped Jane obtain temporary legal custody of the children, so Sulochana could not get help from the police. And just before Sulochana phoned me he had phoned Kirtanananda swami, only to be told “we will fight (for the children)” by the swami.

Sulochana was calling me from the highway and he was heading to Los Angeles. I told him to keep in touch since his “falling out” with Kirtanananda incident might be useful to expose, overall, the whole “eleven bogus gurus” project. A few months later Sulochana called to tell me that he was now on the highway again and he was heading towards San Francisco from Los Angeles, and he planned to meet with me. He rented a tiny room in a motel on University Avenue in Berkeley, and we started to discuss possible ideas of how he could recover his children.

Sulochana was also very excited because just before he had left Los Angeles he had purchased a “pirated microfiche copy” of all of Srila Prabhupada’s letters. He said, “We are going to bring the GBC’s gurus down with these letters.” That is because the letters offer a stark view of how Srila Prabhupada had wanted the GBC to manage; How he distrusted some key GBC members who were now allegedly gurus; How he did not want the GBC to consult with the Gaudiya Matha’s homosexual guru project, and so on and so forth. When we read some of the letters it was very much evident why the GBC had wanted them to be suppressed and hidden.

A few days later Sulochana informed me, “Ramesvara found out where I am staying and he called me to threaten me. He wants me to return the letter’s microfiche and not publish any of these letters –or else.” “Or else what”?, I asked. “Or else I will be dead meat on the hook,” Sulochana replied. We looked at each other and started to laugh hysterically for five minutes. We knew immediately that these letters must therefore be very, very important and they must contain information that the GBC is trying to hide.

And we also knew that we were going to publish the letters anyway. We just could not stop laughing for quite awhile either. We both agreed, the GBCs must have lost their minds if they thought that they “owned” Srila Prabhupada, and that they could hide his light under their dark cloud. In short, the GBC was making it a law, “It is forbidden to quote from Srila Prabhupada –or else you will be dead meat.” Of course, if you want to quote from the GBC’s homosexual pedophile gurus, that is fine! And the GBC says further that these homosexuals are gurus who are as pure as God. And they have some violent ex-convicts who will beat your head in with an aluminum baseball bat if you disagree with their homosexual worship project. That is what we were going up against and we joked about it.
Sulochana had a cheap little computer that was an odd discontinued style made by Commodore, but it seemed to work fine. In other words he was severely “under funded” to go after a multi-million dollar worldwide bogus guru cult. He said that he had purchased the computer to write his book, which he wanted to call “The Guru Business.” Mostly, he intended to use quotes from the letters to make an expose of how Srila Prabhupada doubted the GBC and therefore it is impossible that he would have appointed any of these GBCs as his and Krishna’s “pure devotee successors.”

At the same time we were both very aware that these GBC and so-called gurus could be very dangerous and that we could be killed at any second by exposing them. I explained to Sulochana that the work I was doing in Berkeley, going after Hansadutta’s empire, was very risky. Perhaps the risk was lesser due to the fact that Hansadutta had a reputation as a burnt out, womanizing, beer drinking drug addict. Exposing him was relatively easy at least compared to some of the other GBC’s gurus. And besides a lot of his followers already knew he was on his way out. Yet Hansadutta still had some loyal “violent criminal types” who could cause me untold mayhem at any time.

In fact, officer Joe Sanchez had made 73 felony arrests at the Berkeley temple in a few years because Hansadutta had a tendency to attract the violent criminal and felon type of follower. There was a large poster hanging in different places all over the temple “Guru Means Heavy,” with a picture of Hansadutta wearing mirrored sun glasses and a hooded sweater. It looked exactly like the mug shot of the uni-bomber that was later found in the post office. This photo had been in the 1980 San Francisco newspapers with the caption “The Machine Gun Swami,” after Hansadutta had been arrested with a machine gun in the trunk of his car.

Hansadutta was also selling his musical album in the temple at the time I met with Sulochana: “Guru, guru on the wall, who is the heaviest of them all? Whose disciples are the worst? Who could I give my last shirt? –I once saw a guru, a fantastic dancer, Holy gangster, carefree prankster,” and so on. At the start of this song is the unmistakable sound of machine gun fire. In other words “Guru means heavy” really means: he has some heavy gangster or ex-convict followers, and if you disagree with “guru,” you can end up being beaten or killed. That was not only the message of 1985, indeed that –still is– the de facto message even now in the year 2000 from the hard core sector of the GBC’s gurus. People are still getting threats of violence and so on, although it has diminished substantially thanks mainly to Sulochana exposing it so widely. Of course, it could be said today, now that it seems evident that members of the GBC party poisoned Srila Prabhupada, we can readily understand why this party hates his followers as well.

Kirtanananda was an even more risky target than Hansadutta. He was highly respected in ISKCON at that time and he was one of the biggest leaders of the GBC. He had a lot more power and no small amount of potentially violent fanatical followers. I told Sulochana that our biggest local problem was that if we attacked Kirtanananda from Berkeley, then Hansadutta might be asked to help suppress us by Kirtanananda. And Hansadutta might be convinced by Kirtanananda to move against both of us since he had not cut his sympathy for the GBC’s bogus guru project. That could be a problem. As it turned out, it was a major problem later on.

We noted that both Hansadutta and Kirtanananda had a lot in common. They had both put their pictures on Srila Prabhupada’s altars in the mid 1970s and had tried to establish their own worship. This had completely disgusted Srila Prabhupada, making him say that at least in the 1936 Gaudiya Matha they waited until their guru was actually departed before the envious imitator sector rushed in to sit in their guru’s seat.

And of course Hansadutta and Kirtanananda had other common traits. They both had reputed homosexuals, violent ex-criminals, and child molesters in their camps. They both had a reputation for orchestrating violence on dissenters. They were both volatile mavericks. They both had farms where people were alleged to have disappeared. They both had followers who had many guns. They were both alleged to be engaged in illicit sex with followers. They were both preaching that an apocolypse or WW III would happen soon. They both had delusions of being as good as Jesus. They both were writing their own books which were displacing Srila Prabhupada’s books. They were both making alleged homosexuals into sannyasis. They were both dressing their followers in the same style of hooded sweater tops. They both had their own tape ministries, as if their words were as good as Srila Prabhupada’s, and so on and so forth. Thus, me and Sulochana realized we were fighting the same type of characteristics, so why not combine our efforts? Of course, this would probably cause Hansadutta and Kirtanananda to combine their efforts, which could be deadly for us. Oddly, we almost predicted the near future alliance that Hansadutta would make with Kirtanananda to combat us, just by going through their character traits, since they were actually very similar in psychological make-up, modus operandi and so on.

In short, this was going to be a battle royal in any event and we both knew it. We discussed how it was possible that one or both of us could end up dead. “I just hope they don’t slowly tear me into little pieces and put the pieces into a meat grinder and feed me to the New Vrindavana dogs while I’m still alive,” Sulochana would say. Then I would say, “I just hope they use a large caliber gun on me like a .44 magnum, I just hate those little .22 bird banger guns.” And so we would sort of joke about the prospects of danger, but of course we knew all along that this danger was a very real possibility.

Meanwhile, I was working on my own paper called “Our Living Guru.” I had been circulating earlier copies of it in 1984, and was still in the process of refining it. I had tried to make it somewhat subdued in tone, whereas Sulochana’s writings were a bit strident, to say the least. He would just blurt out things like: “Kirtanananda is not a guru but a demon who needs to be corrected with violence.” I tried to say that this was not going to be effective writing, could we please use “Our Living Guru’s” style of commentary?, but he always refused. He wanted his hard copy to be as hard as nails, and it was. We have been pleasantly surprised to discover, later on, that most of the key quotes used in “Our Living Guru” were subsequently used by other Krishna dissidents in their writings, and that the key letters quoted by Sulochana in his “Guru Business” were also used in these later documents.

Meanwhile, Suochana had been in touch with the “ISKCON justices department,” devotees like Rupanuga dasa and Mukunda swami. They listened patiently to Sulochana’s complaints and they agreed that having his children kidnapped was a serious offense on the part of Kirtanananda. Yet, they were also sypathetic to supporting the worship of Kirtanananda’s homosexual guru regime. Therefore the “ISKCON justices” made a very muddled decree, Sulochana had some good points, on the other hand, he is offending a great devotee like Kirtanananda. Of course they mainly sympathized with Kirtanananda, they were just trying to get the persistent Sulochana off their backs. Indeed, a short while later the “ISKCON reformers” officially excommunicated Sulochana for his attacks on Kirtanananda.

1985 Sulochana part two (ref: 1985 part 2, 05. Apr. 2000)

By the middle of 1985 Hansadutta was getting very nervous about my preaching work in the Berkeley temple. It was gaining ground very rapidly, and we were convincing “one person after the next” to become “disciples of Srila Prabhupada.” We had convinced maybe 40 people in the temple and maybe another 40 or 50 people from the visiting congregation by this time. As a side note, most of these people have kept the idea intact that they are still disciples of Srila Prabhupada, even to the present day. When some of them see me they give me the “thumbs up sign.”

Simultaneously, Sulochana started hanging around Berkeley with me and he could give a very powerful presentation of quotes from Srila Prabhupada’s letters to support our view that the GBC’s gurus are bogus. Although Hansadutta had retreated to the Hopland farm, he kept hearing reports that we were gathering momentum. We also heard reports that Hansadutta was simultaneously personally deteriorating in various ways. He was alleged to have had problems such as: Getting very upset and shooting at his pile of beer cans in front of his house; Almost starting the farm on fire by driving around in a tractor with burning rags behind it; A male disciple allegedly wanted to kill him when he discovered that Hansadutta was having sex with his wife, and so on and so forth.

That we were making progress while he was slipping had become intolerable for him. So I was not too suprised to hear the big announcement one day that Hansadutta was going to visit New Vrindavana to “take shelter” of Kirtanananda swami. That means that he and Kirtanananda had decided to try to put a halt to our preaching that Srila Prabhupada is the guru for ISKCON and thus: to squash me and Sulochana. Hansadutta started to say that Kirtanananda is the only pure devotee in ISKCON, and the Berkeley followers should join him in taking shelter there.

Of course Hansadutta was well aware that Kirtanananda was not pure at all, but a highly dubious person at best. He had tried to take-over ISKCON in the early days, and he had defied Srila Prabhupada in so many ways. And he was alleged to have defied Srila Prabhupada once to run back to his homosexual friends, which had upset Srila Prabhupada. And Hansadutta must have known this because he too was an early devotee. In short, Hansadutta knew that Kirtanananda held a grudge against Srila Prabhupada and so to him, that was pure? This was what I would sometimes call “The Homosexual Guru Pharisee’s Club.” And of course Srila Prabhupada refers to the “sinister movement being within our movement,” as early as 1970, which refers to these take-over minded fools.

In short, it seems that Hansadutta wanted to make the maverick homosexual guru Kirtanananda into an ally and eventually bring him back to Berkeley, and then fully establish their homosexual pedophile worshipping cult there as a means of driving us out. And as it turned out, that was the plan. Yet we had made enough allies in Berkeley by this time to thwart Hansadutta’s plan, including the then GBC for San Francisco, Atreya Rsi. Atreya hired a lawyer to stop Kirtanananda’s people from getting their names on the legal papers of the temple. As such, Atreya Rsi saved the building from being a homosexual pedophile cult worshipping project, which it would have been to this day. As a matter of interest, Berkeley is still one of the few temples in the world which allows and encourages Prabhupadanugas to visit at the present time. You could say that we tried to liberate it?

Of course all this occured at the height of child molestation in ISKCON and New Vrindavana as well, and it was also very PUBLICLY evident that Kirtanananda was a homosexual pedophile at that time. He was always driving around with a boy on his lap, he was covered with the hands of maybe fifty boys in his public worship, and there were small boys jumping in and out of his cottage all day long –with the adults ordered to stay away. There were also many other alleged homosexuals living at New Vrindavana at the time. There were also other alleged homosexuals there such as a school teacher named Sri Galim. Sulochana said at the time that New Vrindavana was “crawling with homosexuals.” So this was the place Hansadutta wanted people to “take shelter of”?

Worse, Hansadutta knew all about the violent kidnapping of Sulochana’s boys and other horrors going on there. Yet, when cult leaders become desperate they will stoop to almost anything, even if it means supporting a homosexual’s being worshipped as good as God. Of course, Hansadutta was also made into a Krishna devotee in the later 1960s, so he probably knew all about the “Mott Street Boys” alleged gay house that Kirtanananda had come from. Sulochana used to call Kirtanananda and his allies like Hansadutta, “Faggot-pada and his boot lickers.”

So I told this all to Sulochana and we had quite a good laugh over it. Sulochana said, “Well at least Hansadutta now admits he would rather see people worship a homosexual than Srila Prabhupada.” I replied, “Well not only that, but most GBC would rather see people worship a bucket of dog stools than worship Srila Prabhupada.” Sulochana argued immediately, “What? You kidding me? The GBC would never recommend the worship of a bucket of stools! Can a bucket of stools kill any devotees? Nope! Can it molest followers? Nope. A bucket of stools is WAY too advanced, WAY too high class, for them. It is WAY out of their league prabhu, it is WAY! …too pure.” And then we would slap our knees and laugh for five minutes.

Meanwhile, the GBC was having other troubles with the so-called “50 man committee to reform ISKCON.” This was basically a group of lower echelon leaders who wanted to be “voted in as gurus” by the first wave of deviants. For example one of the leaders of the “50 man committee” was Trivrikrama swami. He said, “You guys had your chance (to be the worshipped saints of ISKCON) and now its our turn.” This is kind of like seeing that the driver of your bus has had one too many drinks, and then grabbing the wheel from him and taking over the bus. The idea almost sounds good, except that, how could you get certified as a “good driver” by the drunk driver? How could a totally bogus guru, if not a child molester, certify “the next wave” of pure devotees? This has never been explained ever, by the “50 man committee” folks? This idea will not even work for a mundane bus driver’s post, and this is certainly not how you “take over” the post of being a pure devotee guru like Jesus?

So there was a very vicious fight going on between the “old guard,” mainly the eleven original “appointed gurus,” and the upstart “50 man committee of reformers” who wanted to be certified as gurus –by the old guard. A devotee named Sri Kanta said at the time, “The guru disease has now become an epidemic.” There was a meeting held in New Vrindavana in October, 1985, to try to sort out a compromise between the gurus and the guru wanna-be sector. Sulochana went to nearby Wheeling, West Virginia, with hopes to make some impact for his case, but instead he got temporarily arrested when New Vrindavana inmates reported that “a violent man” was in town. He was released, but the whole episode was a let down for him because he could see that many of his God brothers, especially those who had attended that meeting, did not care much that a homosexual was sitting in Srila Prabhupada’s seat. Indeed all that most of them wanted was for themselves to sit in Srila Prabhupada’s seat in another location, and to get a guru rubber stamp from the deviants if not homosexuals. Of course, meanwhile none of them seem to be worried about the position of the women, children, cows and other citizens who were being victimized by the whole program?

One of the supporters of the idea that many more gurus should be certified was named Triyogi dasa: Michael Shockman. He wanted to become the next guru for the state of Ohio, sort of replacing Kirtanananda. Yet Kirtanananda was very much opposed to the whole reform program, and he wanted no new gurus in his “zone.” Oddly, Kirtanananda was also quoting some of the same arguments we gave; The guru is not made by rubber stamps, votes, temple president’s consensus, a show of hands of GBC quorum, and so on. The guru is “self-effulgent.” And so Kirtanananda was seen as a major obstacle to “the reform of ISKCON,” i.e. rubber stamping another fifty people as the next wave of imitations of Srila Prabhupada.

Of course once again this was fodder for me and Sulochana to make countless jokes. “Oh, have you got your GBC guru certificate in the mail yet Puranjana? You have to mail in three boxtops from a pack of condoms to get one. I just got mine and it has some sticky goo on it? Do you think I need to handle it with rubber gloves”?

Around this time, Ravindra Swarupa and Radhanatha swami came to visit Berkeley to try to deal with the crisis there. I thought, “Here is an odd couple? Radhanatha is Kirtanananda’s right hand man, and he thinks that his swami is as pure as Jesus? Whereas Ravindra Swarupa does not like Kirtanananda at all because he is trying to impeded the vote to make some of the 50 man committee into more mini-Prabhupadas”? We then had a meeting and Ravindra started by saying, “In this room are the most moderate and intelligent devotees in the movement.” Huh? We all knew that I was considered as a total “Prabhupada fanatic” and not a so-called moderate. Radhanatha was also considered to be a Kirtanananda fanatic. So right away I got the impression that Ravindra was a liar and a politician, in sum, just the kind of guy whom the GBC would vote in as a guru. And later on they did, when they simultaneously recoronated another one of their homosexual pedophile gurus, Bhavananada, in March of 1986.

As the meeting progressed Ravindra hinted about his plan to save ISKCON be having another wave of leaders certified as Srila Prabhupada’s next wave of gurus. He called this his “guru reform.” I thought, “Oh good, he is going to have gurus who are coming from reform schools and jails, really good plan.” Ravindra said that these newer gurus were going to be the “better gurus” because their worship was not going to be so elaborate. Right away I thought, “Why should we have gurus that we cannot worship? The whole Vedic process is to worship the guru as good as God? Does this mean that sometimes God is reduced, and so we have reduced ‘as good as God’ worship? So why not worship an old shoe then? And old shoe is a ‘reduced’ part of God? I still don’t get their idea? Something is as good as God, therefore it has to be –reduced in stature? Are we not supposed to –emphasize– something that is as good as God? Why reduce? This one hundred dollar bill will only purchase one dollar of goods. All right, so it is counterfeit?

“This man is making no sense at all? They are going to be gurus, but they are not going to be worshipped as gurus? They are really janitors, and they will be performing brain surgery, but yet they are not really brain surgeons either? Who will accept this? Srila Prabhupada says you always have to worship the guru as good as God, but we GBC say we sometimes have to worship him as good as –Fred the trash collector. Huh”?

Ravindra has never made any sense to me since then either, except he did write a paper later saying that since most of the devotees were taking drugs and having illicit sex in the 1970s, they would continue these activities when they became gurus. Yes, the reason we have to burn people at the stake is that the Pope is now Jesus’ living spokesman, but he still has not given up his old habits from before he became Jesus’ spokesman? Of course I would then ask, “How is he Jesus’ spokesman if he has still not given up his old habits”? No one has ever answered these types of questions for a simple reason, there is no good answer. Ravindra kept flashing his Cheshire cat grin during the meeting while deflecting various questions and in sum he appeared to be a cheezy politician.

Radhanatha on the other hand was a lot more subdued and serious. He knew that this Sulochana problem could blow up in their faces and so he kept asking me what he could do to pacify Sulochana. I told him that he had to move the children to a neutral location and give Sulochana access, bare minimum, and without that there would be no basis for further talks. He promised he would try to do that, while simultaneously he gave me a sort of warning at the end, “I do consider Kirtanananda to be a great devotee and I think it is a mistake for Sulochana to challenge him like this.”

Meanwhile, Triyogi was getting very angry at Kirtanananda for “holding up his guru certification.” Apparently word got around that the GBC was going to “cave in” to the “50 man committee” and give anywhere from 20 to 40 new guru certificates at the 1986 Mayapura meeting, but one had to get permission and recommendation from the local guru first. Kirtanananda just was not going to give in. So Triyogi and Kirtanananda got into a big argument one day. Triyogi demanded that Kirtanananda give him his guru recommendation. When Kirtanananda refused once again, Triyogi picked up a large, heavy piece of pipe and bashed Kirtanananda over the head, almost killing him.

After Kirtanananda was assaulted, the GBC tried to make it appear that a great saint had been attacked just like Jesus was crucified. Leaders from all over poured into New Vrindavana to offer support and condolences. Of course, this was a good opportunity for them to blame Sulochana for the attack and perhaps spawn an attack on him. So the rumor was started that Sulochana was good friends with Triyogi and that they had planned the attack. This made no sense to the intelligent observer however. Triyogi wanted to get “voted in as a guru” and Sulochana, well, he hated the idea that a guru could be rubber stamped. Sulochana also said that if a person got a guru rubber stamp from Kirtanananda he would be, “A certified faggot, not just a regular faggot.”

And Sulochana also thought that Triyogi was “a jerk” and not a person who was qualified to be voted in as a guru. Similarly, Triyogi disagreed with our idea that guru voting is foolish and bogus. Also, if the attack had been “planned,” why did Triyogi attack in the open in front of eye-witnesses, and especially when there were a number of Kirtanananda’s followers nearby –who could have killed him in retaliation? This was not a planned attack, this was a spontaneous outburst of extreme anger. If Triyogi was so attached to our idea, why did he not contact us then or since?

Anyway, by December 1985, Hansadutta officially backed Kirtanananda and moved to New Vrindavana. Then he made an effort to totally black-ball and scuttle the Berkeley temple by telling everyone there that they should move to New Vrindavana, and essentially abandon the Berkeley temple. Sink the ship after we pirates have pillaged and raped it –that was the policy. And if the temple was totally incapacitated, then Hansadutta and Kirtanananda could come back later and attack it more easily, as they actually tried to do later on.

This is of course very typical of some of the GBC management thinking. Will there be anyone left to care for the deities? Who cares, we only care that there will be enough people around to care for the “guru.” The people in the temple are not Krishna’s servants, they are Hansadutta’s servants. And worse, Hansaduutta de facto said that all of you should quit serving Krishna and start serving –a homosexual pedophile posing as Krishna’s successor? That is the superior method of service? Quit serving Krishna so you can start serving a violent pedophile worshipping cult’s leader –who thinks he is as pure as Krishna? This was the type of insanity that we faced in the year of 1985 with the “pure as Jesus leaders” of the Krishna movement.

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PART 3 – 1986 – Iskcon worships homosexual gurus, Sulocana murdered, Kirtanananda massaged by small boys

History 1986.1 (ref: 1986.1, 06. Apr. 2000)
As 1986 started the GBC’s gurus were under fire from a variety of sources. Ramesvara was alleged to be dating a minor aged female student and this was causing friction in Los Angeles. Bhagavan was under scrutiny in Europe for allegedly spending time on the French Riviera. Bhavananda was under investigation for homosexuality. And of course Kirtanananda was facing a stiff expose from Sulochana. Meanwhile, although it was not a major problem, my presence in Berkeley was duly noted as a source of aggravation for the GBC’s hard core big gurus. And there were many other troubles.

The fact that Kirtanananda was going to embrace Hansadutta and welcome him into his zone was not a cause of joy for the GBC camp either. Here were two volatile mavericks joining together, perhaps, to plot some schemes against the other GBC gurus. And it was well known at that time that neither of them cared a fig for the other GBC’s authority. Indeed, neither of them care for GBC’s directives even up to the present time. Meanwhile, the fifty man committee was pushing to get voted in as the next wave of mini-Prabhupadas and they were causing a lot of friction. So there was a lot of pressure to get many of these things resolved at the 1986 Mayapura meeting.

I met with Vipramukhya swami at the then San Francisco temple near Golden Gate Park and he assured me that this year at Mayapura they were going to finally put a lid on the GBC’s guru “Bhavananda,” and finally take firm action on his homosexuality problem. Vipramukhya told me he was part of the official GBC “investigation team” that had found that Bhavananda was indeed going to gay bars and so on and so forth. This was going to be presented to the GBC and tough action against Bhavananda was expected. I told Vipramukhya that having homosexuals worshipped as Srila Prabhupada’s successors was so disgusting I had no idea it would ever come to this state, and I was hoping it would be fixed and soon.

I said that in my experience as a Bay Area taxi-cab driver, driving all over the city of San Francisco, I had picked up many homosexual patrons, and none of them thought that they should worship another homosexual as if he was like Jesus? Even they had some higher standards than the GBC it seemed? I had even picked up one homosexual man who was constantly kissing his huge dog, but he had spoken respectfully about Jesus. Why couldn’t the GBC do the same?

The January 1986 “Back To Godhead” magazine contained the article “A Tribute To A Pure Devotee” which glorified Kirtanananda’s “pipe on the head attack” as something similar to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The article said that Kirtanananda was attacked just like Jesus Christ, Haridasa Thakura and Prahlad had been. For me and Sulochana this article looked like a method of getting us attacked, perhaps even killed. We were both saying that Kirtanananda is a homosexual, he is a deviant, and he is certainly not a guru.

Meanwhile, the GBC was saying: here is a person like Jesus? That was easily interpreted as: me and Sulochana are envious blasphemers of Jesus, or someone equal to Jesus? Sulochana said, “Puranjana, did you see this? This article by Satsvarupa, it paints a big bull’s eye target on my back. He is making it look like I am criticizing Jesus, Haridasa Thakura and Prahlad.” So we discussed this and began to call this article, “Our Death Certificate.” It was the GBC’s way of fanning fanatical action against us, and it could be severe.

Satsvarupa had also wrote in his public “Journals” that someone (we all know it was Sulochana) was “a poison pen who was attacking ISKCON” and so on. So the GBC rhetoric against us at this time was getting more venemous, strident and public. “You know those guys Sulochana and Puranjana, well did you hear the news, they hate Kirtanananda, and he is like Jesus”? Of course in reality, Kirtanananda was molesting boys in his motorhome at this point in time. I reminded Sulochana that Satsvarupa is the main liar who had masterminded the bogus guru appointment, so he might get desperate and write even worse things.

Clearly, the homosexual guru worshipping party was aligning to check our idea that Srila Prabhupada should be worshipped instead. Whether it was Kirtanananda, Hansadutta, Satsvarupa, the fifty man committee, or even the so-called local San Francisco area self advertised “moderates,” many disliked our idea and many of them all ended up directly or indirectly in support of, or at least compromised with, with the worship of homosexuals as “the pure devotee guru sucessors to God Almighty. Krishna.” Yet when I tried to point out the defects of Satsvarupa’s article to some of my “moderate” brothers, they said “Oh, you are not going to blaspheme Satsvarupa again are you”? Satvarupa was sort of a sacred cow at this point, even though everyone knew he was supporting the homosexual guru sabha. Not many people cared for the truth, it was “which political party do you support”?

And moreover now they are openly saying that these homosexual pedophiles are “people like Jesus”? I thought, “I have never seen such an assemblage of absolutely deviant, sick, perverts in my entire existence. I have never even read or heard about such people who were vastly worse than the Satanists? They will militantly force teeny innocent children to worship homosexual pedophiles as good as God? So it is a great honor for me to be fighting against them.” On some spontaneous fun, I had my Tarot card reading done while walking down the weekly street fair in Berkely. The woman said, “Very unusual, you are a lone knight in the center. The death card is very near the center.”

Meanwhile, a female devotee (GD) arrived in Berkeley from Texas. She immediately began to tell me her tales of woe in dealing with Tamal in Dallas. It seems that her two boys were molested at the Oklahoma farm run by Tamal, yet Tamal did not help her curb that problem. Instead, he got very angry at her. Eventually, she was so disgusted and also worried for the welfare of her boys that she gave Tamal an ultimatum to help her out. Instead, Tamal kicked her and her boys out on the street and he ordered his followers “don’t give her a penny” after she had given Tamal hundreds of thousands of dollars. I advised her to get a good lawyer and sue Tamal for damages, which she did. Tamal was alleged to have had a nervous breakdown from her case. She won the case, and it shows that if more people had her kind of courage, the molestation problem could have been reigned in more substantially by external means, since there does not seem to be much of an internal checks and balances.

Just before the 1986 Mayapura meeting, I visited the then GBC Atreya Rsi to see what he felt about the upcoming meeting. Atreya was more inclined to help the fifty man committe who wanted to get voted in as the next wave of gurus, while he viewed me and Sulochana as extremists. “It is not black and white,” he was fond of telling me. Of course I would then argue, “OK, tell me one white thing about worshipping homosexuals”? Atreya’s other devotee associates felt the same way. They would say, “Oh, oh, here he comes, it is Puranjana, the homosexual guru fighter. Hey, hey, hey.” They did not think this was a serious problem.

I also felt that Atreya made a mistake going to visit Kirtanananda after his pipe attack. We should not support or show solidarity with these homosexual gurus, that was always my point. On the topic of Bhavananda, Atreya agreed there was no room to compromise. He had to go. “One thing I always notice,” said Atreya looking very stern, “as soon as we (GBC) go after Bhavananda, Tamal steps in and protects him. Well that is not going to happen this time! Bhavananda is out! And if Tamal stands up to protect him (and then Atreya made a gesture like he was pulling two six guns out of holsters on his hips) then he gets it! Bang, bang, bang”! I said, “If they keep Bhavananda in as Srila Prabhupada’s successor guru, you have to resign Atreya. Let us make this place independent. No homosexual worship pooja.” Anyway, there was a lot of jockeying for position, all kinds of cross purpose agendas, a lot of anger, resentment, attachment, lamentation, and general chaos in the mood of the upcoming March, 1986 Mayapura meeting. The cult meltdown was happening and they did not even know it.

Of course, I thought the whole Mayapura program this year was going to be a big waste of time and money. They were not going to address the original deviation, that Srila Prabhupada had never ordered folks like Kirtanananda, Bhavananda, Tamal and similar others, to be worshipped as “Krishna’s pure devotee successors.” To be Krishna’s successor is not some joke that can be undertaken by a person who is barely able to withdraw from being a disciple of Andy Warhol and Timothy Leary. So the whole meeting had to me the mood of re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Useless.

It did not take us long to find out that at the GBC meeting they had re-instated Bhavananda as a full-fledged guru. He was being worshipped as “Vishnupada”: “one whose feet are as pure as God’s.” This proved they were either atheists or incredible perverts. A sexual attacker of children is equal to God? And they knew he was a homosexual, they had reports that he is a homosexual, and then they re-instated him knowingly –to be worshipped as good as God? Vishnu’s padas? And Prithu, Bir Krishna, Ravindra swarupa and others were also voted in as God’s successors at the same meeting? And wasn’t Bhavananda bringing in many other homosexuals into posts of authority in ISKCON? And weren’t some of them taking up post as teachers of small boys? And wasn’t this an alarming trend? Nope. We just want to be voted in as gurus, we don’t care about our society’s boys, or anyone else. We just see the other vultures having a feast eating Srila Prabhupada’s body, ISKCON, and we are going to elbow our way into their party.

Once again it showed how desperate things had become. People were willing to compromise the truth in any way required so that they could swoop in and join the other vultures who were exploiting Srila Prabhupada’s society and eating up his children alive by mass starving, beating and molestation. Here were people who were worse than any blood sucking zombie’s movies you had seen, since they were doing their evil deeds in the name of “Vishnupada” whereas regular zombies at least have no connection to God or they openly serve Satan. So the whole mood was very greedy, very behind the scenes deal making and so on, with the molester’s guru project emerging as saints. And the molester guru sabha was now joining forces with the so-called “reformers” to officially declare that sexual rapers of children are equal to God.

And no doubt a new “purge of doubters” was in the works. So me and Sulochana were now joking, “The zombies are coming”! Of course we also knew that those who compromised with this would get the karma of supporting the worship of known homosexuals as good as God. So we really did not care if we would be killed or not, we had been spared from the worst thing already, going along to get along with pervert worship, the worst thing one can do humanly possible.

And at the same time I felt that this was all for the best, this was the darkest hour of the movement and it could only start to improve from this point onwards. And this has proven to be correct. It is sort of like: an alcoholic has to reach rock bottom before he realizes he has to go back up. Of course, I also knew that this did not mean either me, Sulochana, or both of us, would be spared from potentially getting murdered. There was a mad cult frenzy of envious jockeying for new positions in the air, and it was going to take a while for it to subside.

At the time the GBC announced that they had reinstated Bhavananda, according to Makhanal, there was a sudden burst of high winds followed by black storm clouds. The wind picked up inside a hut where someone was cooking and the hut started on fire. The the dogs started barking, the cows were mooing forlornly. It was known that the reinstatement of a known homosexual to be worshipped by children was the most severe sin, and it was not approved of by the higher authorities. Yet everyone was just silent as the wind passed over, they knew it was a dark sign. Yet they were thinking about getting back to their zones to start their own worship so they overlooked the obvious.

Meanwhile, Kirtanananda’s party was very dipleased by the whole spectrum of events. Kirtanananda was not going to become the next rising moon of ISKCON as they had planned. There were fresh new faces at the vulture’s table. Sulochana was tearing Kirtanananda’s reputation down. Puranjana was in Berkeley creating a storm over the whole homosexual guru issue. The new fifty man committe’s gurus wanted to start invading the existing zones.

It was time for the empire to strike back. First they would kill Sulochana, and then shortly thereafter, Puranjana. That would be a good start to re-assert their power. Yes, this would be a wake up call for all sides to get off Kirtanananda’s tail and to recognize who the real boss of ISKCON was. Besides, Kirtanananda was now strengthened with a new ally who had a host of criminals in his camp, Hansadutta. Now was the time to show the whole world who the real guru was, and besides the GBC had just said he was Jesus? Of course, nevermind that he was molesting boys in his motorhome.

History 1986.2 (ref: 1986.2, 09. Apr. 2000)

Would the other GBC and their new gurus help me and Sulochana? As for the “new wave of gurus,” the wave that had been voted in at the 1986 Mayapura meeting, they had already voted to excommunicate Sulochana in 1985. In other words, the new self advertised “reformed” gurus were much more inclined to support the Kirtanananda and Hansadutta alliance than Sulochana. The new wave of “gurus” also wanted to distance themselves from Sulochana’s anti-homosexual guru stance, since they had been “certified as guru” at the recoronation of a known homosexual guru in March, 1986. The whole idea was to make it appear that Sulochana, or anyone else, who objected to the worship of homosexuals “as good as God” was an isolated crank, a nut-case, an extremist, an offender, if not: a blasphemer against “God’s living spokesmen gurus.”

It was just too quiet after the March meeting? There had been a lot of shouting matches, screaming matches, threats of resignation from various GBC, and so on and so forth, but just after the meeting it was all of a sudden silent. I thought, “This is not a good sign. They must be plotting something.” They were. As we found out later, two men claiming to represent “the New Vridavana heirarchy” had tried to get a devotee named Vipra (Vassilievich) to assassinate Sulochana. He refused, and in fact he had already been arrested for possession of a machine gun that had been found by police in Hansadutta’s car in 1980. Vipra told me that the machine gun was not his, he had “taken the rap” for Hansadutta. So we can also see how the “Kirtanananda and Hansadutta alliance” was already working in early 1986. Kirtanananda’s “heirarchy” needed a “hit man” and so they approached one of Hansadutta’s men.

We also heard a rumor that the people who had “voted” to reinstate the known homosexual guru at the March, 1986 meeting were Hrdayananada, Jayapataka, Harikesha and in sum, “the orignal 1977 corrupt core.” So, the “reform” had not changed those who were still sitting in the driver’s seat of ISKCON. Around this time a devotee came up to me and said, “No one is minding the store, otherwise why would all of this be going on”? I said, “Wrong! The store is not only being minded, it is being militantly run with an iron dictator’s fist. Nothing happens without the approval of the original eleven core. They are running things exactly as they want them to be run. And the new wave of gurus are just their puppet government.”

Sulochana himself had finally decided that fighting the corrupt group of eleven with their twenty “new and reformed” guru allies was just over his head. He called me and said that he had a new girlfriend. His plan was to marry her, get a stable residence, and then attack New Vridnavana with a custody lawsuit so that he could have access to his children. He was going to back-pedal his direct assault approach. I told him that this could be real dangerous. If they thought he had become an anonymous person who was slipping through the cracks, then they might attack him thinking no one would notice.

Sulochana then came to visit me in Berkeley. We talked as usual but as he was getting ready to leave he said, “I have the sudden feeling that I am not going to ever see you again Puranjana.” I said, “I have the same feeling. Something is up. You could be in big trouble. Please do not go to Los Angeles, we have a lot of sympathy here, and the police like us here in Berkeley. Do not go back to Los Angeles, this is dangerous.” Sulochana said, “No, it is better if we split up. That way if they get one of us, the survivor can help the police and the FBI.” He also said that he was not going to live “on the run” and “if they want to kill me, they will kill me anywhere I go. It does not matter if I am here or there.” We put our arms on each other’s shoulders and said good-bye. A few days later, I was informed by a Berkeley devotee, “Sulochana was assassinated, his body was found in his van, it was full of bullets.” I was shocked, saddened, but not really too surprised. I also knew that I was next on their list.

The day after the murder a devotee named Uvati dasi went to the Los Angeles police and reported to them that Sulochana had been murdered by a New Vrindavana devotee named Tirtha (Thomas Drescher) according to her sources within the New Vrindavana community. The West Virginia police picked him up within days. A New Vrindavana neighbor named Randal Gorby was then suspected of “snitching to the police.” A few days after Tirtha was arrested, Randal Gorby’s house blew up and he sustained severe burns over much of his body. He survived but had to undergo many painful skin-graft surgeries and so on. Seems that someone had screwed the valve out of a natural gas fixture, causing gas to leak into his house. When Randal had tried to light up a cigarette, the house blew up. The police were unable to determine who had tampered with the valve.

Shortly after that, officer Joe Sanchez came to meet me at the Berkeley temple. He said that the FBI had discovered that Tirtha was planning to assassinate me next. “You are next on their list, they found a note in Tirtha’s pocket with a description of your truck. They are doing surveillance on you…,” he said. He wanted me to move away, under a witness protection program perhaps, but I told him that this would be too complicated since the Krishna devotees find out where other Krishna devotees are …real soon. So I had to call Joe Sanchez every day at a random time so he could check on my welfare. Meanwhile, three “goons” came from New Vrindavana to beat me up. They were chasing me down the street when officer Joe Sanchez came screeching around the corner in his patrol car with the lights on and the siren blaring. He got out and placed handcuffs on all three. One of them was Hansadutta’s goon by the way. And he told them all to go back to West Vriginia and stay out of Berkeley.

As it turns out, Kirtanananda’s people were worried about “pulling off a murder” on their own. So they apparently enlisted the help of the then “guru” for Los Angeles, Ramesvara swami. Two of Ramesvara’s ex-defense forces members subsequently admitted to me that Ramesvara was very interested in taking Sulochana out of the picture. Evidence of this conspiracy also surfaced in the subsequent “murder of Sulochana” trial held in Orange County in Southern California. Of course they apparently tried to get Hansadutta to help as well, and perhaps that is why they were able to detect one of his men named Vipra who was living in San Francisco at the time. Meanwhile Satsvarupa was helping by writing inflamed rhetoric against us, and the rest of the GBC was helping by circulating Satvarupa’s writings.

One of the ex-defense men from Los Angeles told me that Ramesvara had said “Sulochana needs to get a new body,” and another said that he was called in to more or less help direct the final “hit.” Apparently, in a court hearing held in Orange county regarding the murder of Sulochana two of Ramesvara’s defense forces men admitted they were at the scene of the murder, but they claimed that they were not the shooters.

History 1986.3 (ref: 1986.3, 10. Apr. 2000)

RAMESVARA A SUSPECT

Some devotees suspected that “the pure as Jesus guru,” Ramesvara, was involved in the murder of Sulochana for a number of reasons. The main reason was that he had a lot to hide. For example, he was dating a young, actually minor-aged girl named Rukmini. He would go to the Santa Monica high school and pick her up after school for “dates.” He was alleged to be taking her to the cinema, Italian restaurants, the mall, and so on, for these “dates.”

A devotee named Vadiraja also noted that while he was waiting for three hours to talk to Ramesvara, all of the temple’s young girls were going in and out of his office to speak with “their guru.” He said that Ramesvara had a .45 caliber gun right next to his seat, hidden from view, but that Vadiraja had seen it once when Ramesvara was off guard. Why would a guru keep a gun right next to him in his office? Ramesvara was also allegedly participating in the local gym club’s “aerobic dance class” in the morning, mostly filled with young ladies dressed in skin-hugging exercise tights. Some devotees joked that this was his morning “jiggling meditation.”

For his “dating a young girl” Ramesvara had apparently become a de facto pedophile, and he was compared to Kirtanananda. Ramesvara had also allegedly been taking money from the sales of drugs and drug related items, which he did not want to have investigated as Sulochana wanted to. Ramesvara was living like a millionaire business executive which means he was actually siphoning off the society’s funds for himself. In other word, Ramesvara had a lot to hide and he was not pleased with the expose style of Sulochana. If Kirtanananda was exposed, there might be a domino effect, more gurus could be investigated. Even Hansadutta’s siphoning the society’s funds for his extravaganzas could be investigated, and that is why he backed Kirtanananda. So, they all had something to hide, and therefore Sulochana was their common enemy.

Exactly like Hansadutta, Kirtanananda, Jayapataka, Harikesha and others, Ramesvara also had a crew of mean looking, violent “enforcers.” His “enforcers” would “patrol” the Los Angeles temple neighborhood where they were brow-beating, harassing, intimidating, threatening, if not beating dissenters. He simply could not let one of these dissenters “get away with” as much as Sulochana was. Perhaps the other dissenters would get more bold if Sulochana was not checked?

Ramesvara’s thugs would do things like –go to a “dissenter’s” door in the middle of the night to pound on it with aluminum baseball bats, to scare dissenters into “absolute submission to the guru.” Even teeny babies and small children were terrorized by this tactic. Yet, who cared as long as the guru was able to continue dating his young female student? “The purity must be preserved at all costs”! There were a host of other diabolical tactics that Ramesvara’s violent thugs used to keep dissenters in line such as slashing the tires on their cars, placing sugar in their gas tanks, breaking the windows on their cars, and just creating a violent, malevolent, malefic, death threatening atmosphere around the temples to keep the “doubters” in check.

A couple of Ramesvara’s men had huge muscles and tattoos, and they looked like they had just got out of San Quentin prison. I recall that later, in 1998, one of these same muscle bound tattoo thugs came up and yelled at me for playing a harmonium in the temple, but by this time their spell had been more or less broken. One little devotee came up and chased away the muscle man with a broom. Being so much exasperated at the humiliation, he left the community. So their powers are dwindling now, but in 1986, they were at their peak.

Of course, by encouraging these criminal moods and actions, this naturally attracted a class of violent, perverse, if not demented criminals who enjoyed indulging in these odious behaviors. To sum, good people were being scared away and bad people were being welcomed and then given “posts of authority” such as “temple commander, temple enforcer” and so on. Therefore, in addition to criminal thug types, a wave of homosexuals; child molesters; women beaters and abusers; psychotic, mentally disturbed types; and similar other low-life characters began to emerge as a more prominent class amongst “Ramesvara’s loyal devotees” and ISKCON members in general.

Even in 1998 the remnants of Ramesvara’s temple thugs slashed all of the tires and broke out the windows of a “dissenter’s” car as I personally witnessed. In sum, there is still, to this day (the year 2000) a constant patrol of violent looking, angry, sneering, scowling, vulture staring “enforcers” in the front of the Los Angeles temple, since Ramesvara’s trained-up remnant clones are still in charge there today. When I would come out on the street they would do “the coyote walk” around me. That means three or four of them would start to circle me in a menacing way. Even the Los Angeles police picked up on this. They saw me on my bike one day and said, “Hey you, get around the corner. Get out of here! Can’t you see that these people want to clobber you? We are going to watch until you are around the corner.”

Anyway, in 1986 Ramesvara had a vested interest in keeping dissenters under control. Another reason he had to help check Sulochana is that he had to be loyal to the other violent thugs, perverts and molesters posing as gurus. If he did not help them curb Sulochana, they might not help him cover up his “dating of Rukmini” problem. The deviant “gurus” had to stick together. They were under attack, and thus even bringing Hansadutta back in some capacity, reinstating the pedophile Bhavananda, and whatever else it took, was acceptable. The crooks had to show solidarity now. The homosexual pedophile guru brotherhood had to show the world that they were still in charge.

NEW VRINDAVANA’S FIRST POLICE RAID

Yet things kept collapsing, although they were too blind to see it. The West Virginia police finally came to the conclusion that there may be “bodies buried in the hills of New Vrindavana,” as had been rumored for years. They were also investigating a previous murder that had been allegedly commited by Tirtha. So the West Virginia police came to New Vridavana with a back-hoe tractor to start, well, digging for bodies. They found some. At one point when they were digging, a group of “devotee vehicles” went by and the police allegedly “shit their pants” thinking, oh my God, they are coming after us –to maybe kill us– and we are out numbered.

In sum, the fact that the GBC’s “living gurus” were not gurus but leaders of a very violent and dangerous cult was apparent to almost everyone, except the people inside the cult. Sulochana had also told me that while living in New Vrindavana he had heard that some devotees had been killed dismembered, and their body parts had been put through a meat grinder, and the pieces fed to dogs. If that was the case, the police would not find as many bodies as there might actually be. After some buried bodies were found the police investigations continued. Yet Kirtanananda kept living in his cottage with little boys jumping in and out the windows and the community did not think anything was too much amiss.

As a show of solidarity with Kirtanananda, Umapati started a program of carrying Kirtanananda around the temple property in a palanquin, while he was dressed in glistening silks, with a golden crown. Then, there were the ever present boys to massage the swami. Meanwhile, some of the rank-and-file devotees outside New Vrindavana were gradually getting more and more disgusted that Kirtanananda was always accompanied by two large German shepherd dogs. I found it ironic that some of these devotees did not seem to show much emotion or concern for Sulochana’s fate, but they were reacting with a lot of anger and concern over reports that “Kirtanananda’s dogs are licking the offering plates.” Nor did these same devotees seem to care much that Kirtanananda was covered with the hands of little boys? They seemed to be more worried about some foolish dogs than devotees or even small children?

SULOCHANA’S SON DROWNS

Sulochana had said that his children were not safe at New Vrindavana. This was proven to be fully correct when one of his boys was found floating face down in a pond at New Vrindavana months after Sulochana was murdered. The police said there was no evidence of foul play, but how the child got there was not clear. Kirtanananda later said, “The boy is from a bad seed.” This caused a of people, especially Sulochana’s father, to feel a lot of disgust towards Kirtanananda’s insensitivity. Meanwhile, some of us could not but help think there may have been foul play.

JANE WALLACE INTERVIEW

Around this time I was contacted by a representative of the CBS television news broadcast called “West 57th Street.” This show was basically another version of the top rated “60 Minutes” show. When I met Jane Wallace she seemed like the very intelligent and resourceful type, and no wonder since she takes after her father, Mike Wallace, a top reporter for CBS news. She said that before she talked to me she wanted to show me filmed footage from New Vrindavana. There was Kirtanananda, covered, or really smothered, by the hands of little boys who were all massaging him simultaneously while he sat in his sacred (?) seat. Jane asked me rather bluntly, “He’s a homosexual, am I right”? I replied, “Yes, Kirtanananada is a homosexual. He keeps a lot of these boys in his cottage, and he has one boy riding on his lap all day long in his Jeep. There has been a story circulating for years that he has one of these boys in his sleeping bag at night. He likes little boys…”

Jane then said, “Thank God, I am so glad that I met you. All the other ‘Krishna’s’ that I’ve met so far kept telling me that Kirtanananda is a pure devotee, and he is their guru. It seems like the whole purpose of your movement is to worship homosexuals? So it is good to hear that this is not what the movement was supposed to be about. And I can say this much, that if some homosexual sat himself in some big chair in the front of my Church, the way this one is sitting in your Church, I would go up there myself and personally pull that man off of that chair. And I would not care what happened to me, I would never tolerate this for two seconds in my Church. Why are your people allowing this”?

So I had to explain how many of the devotees were divided. (1) One group has been brainwashed into worshipping homosexuals, because the leaders encourage and enforce that. Jane, perhaps you can see now that people who disagree might die? (2) Another sector has left and they just do not care. Many of them are smoking pot and so on. (3) Another sector call themselves the moderates of the movement, maybe they do not smoke pot, but they always criticize us for attacking Kirtanananda. Basically, they are more aligned with the homosexual’s worship than with us. (4) Another sector has ran off to join the founder of yet another homosexual deviant cult from 1936. (5) Most of the rest do not even want to discuss the issue, period. And we call this “silence means acceptance.” Sulochana’s printing of Prabhupada’s letters prove that many of the old timers in the movement knew all about Kirtanananda’s being a renegade snake in the grass all along, yet they are the most silent of all? Frankly, they are compromised too.

She wanted me to sum it up, “OK, how many people can you name who are helping you directly in opposing these fellows”? I said, “I only know of a few, maybe not even five.” Jane said, “That is what I thought. When we ask your people to speak up, few of them will. They are compromised with the homosexual worshipping group?” I said, “Well, you got it, that about sums it up.” She then asked, “Can you give me the names of other people who would be useful to interview about this”? I said, “Not right now.” Her footage of Kirtanananda being massaged by a pack of boys was then viewed by 23 million people on CBS news and its affiliates in America, and then in various places all over the world.

 

WORSHIP OF CHILD MOLESTERS as JESUS-LIKE GURUS
From: angel108b@yahoo.com (Puranjana)
Date: Oct. 26, 2003

In the “Hare Krishna” movement (sometimes known as “ISKCON”) over one thousand children were sexually molested in the society’s schools, mostly boys. Most of these molestations occurred just after the passing away of the founder of the Krishna movement, A.C Bhaktivedanta swami (Prabhupada) on November 14, 1977. Of interest, a separate investigation is now being made into why Prabhupada had complained of being poisoned just before he departed. It now appears that there was a “criminal takeover” of the Krishna movement which would explain why so many criminal activities — including the molesting of children — flourished within the institution after 1977. Therefore, although some of the leaders knew about “the poison complaint” just as they knew about “the child molesting problem” most of them kept silent to protect their positions of power. Some of the innocent laymen followers also knew about the poison complaint and later about the child molesting problem, but they were simply too afraid to mention these topics in public. This fact was also verified by some of their videotaped testimony, they were afraid of repression from the leaders. It would seem that the main reason “nothing was done” regarding the “troubles” was that a small cadre of insiders were benefiting financially from the whole process. They systematically repressed victims, eye witnesses and concerned members of the movement and this covered up various crimes and allowed crimes to continue.

In 1997 almost exactly twenty years after the poison complaint was made, I was given four audio tapes which are now called “the poison tapes,” recorded at the time of Prabhupada’s departure and providing audio evidence of the leader clique of 1977’s “poison plot” against Prabhupada. Of course this begs the question, “Why were these tapes hidden for twenty years”? And, “Why was the person who gave me the tapes afraid for his life”? On the audio tapes where Prabhupada is complaining of being poisoned it has subsequently been discovered that there are background “whisper” conversations amongst some of the leaders. These “secret” conversations have been verified by several professional audio forensic experts such as Jack Mitchell of Computer Audio Engineering. He and similar other audio experts verify there are recorded background (whispering) conversations amongst the leaders discussing “the poisoning of Prabhupada” just days prior to his departure. For example, one of the whispers that was verified by audio experts was that of Tamal’s (Thomas Herzig’s) who says, “It’s going down … the poison is going down.” Of course, Prabhupada himself was well aware that the leaders were always whispering around him. He would thus complain from time to time, “Why this ‘phish, phish’ whispering”? The chronic whispering of the leaders was all the more annoying since Prabhupada apparently understood that they were plotting against him. This is perhaps why Prabhupada warned his leaders, “Do not kill guru: to become guru.”

Indeed Prabhupada seemed to be quite aware of the leader’s plot against him as he indicated for example on November 3, 1977, “I have only one request, do not torture me and put me to death.” Prabhupada also complained to his doctor on November 8th, 1977 about being poisoned. The doctor asked, “Who is saying that you are being poisoned”? And Prabhupada replied, “All these friends.” Apparently this was Prabhupada’s sardonic way of saying, “My leaders, my so-called friends, they are discussing poisoning me.” In other words, Prabhupada complained that he was being poisoned and that “some friends said (whispered?) that I am being poisoned.” It is quite reasonable to assume that he was hearing the leader’s (his alleged “friends”) whispering about poisoning him — as in fact — they were. The doctor then said, “Whoever is giving you poison is a demon.” It is thus clear that Prabhupada was saying “someone” was giving him poison and it is also clear that the doctor understood the poisoner(s) had malefic intentions.

Tamal (the main suspect) confirms Prabhupada’s poison complaint in his own diary, “Prabhupada was thinking he was being poisoned.” Tamal also admits on the audio tape in November, 1977 that he and other leaders (such as Jayapataka) were engaged in discussing the topic of: gurus being killed — with poison, broken glass and so on. This seems to be quite a coincidence? The leaders were discussing “the process of poisoning and killing gurus” just at the same exact time that Prabhupada, their guru, was complaining of being poisoned? Thus “murder of gurus by feeding them poison or broken glass” was being discussed by the leaders. The leaders also discussed how a Calcutta lawyer had murdered his wife with poison. Thus “murder by poison” was also being discussed. Oddly, one of the leaders named Bhavananda (Charles Bacis) can be heard chuckling on the tape about the “lawyer poisoning his wife” conversation and joking about it. Why then is everyone talking about “poison of gurus,” “poison – murder cases,” “keeping Prabhupada’s food under watch so it cannot be poisoned,” and simultaneously Prabhupada says — he is being poisoned? Some of the eye witnesses who saw the leaders outside of Prabhupada’s room in November of 1977 were startled and alarmed at how these leaders were joking and laughing while Prabhupada was inside — complaining that he was being poisoned. Similarly, a former student who was then a young boy in 1977 testifies that he saw the leader “Bhavananda” sprinkling a white colored watery substance on Prabhupada’s food just before it was being given to him. Powdered arsenic can be made into a liquid. Also amazing is that when Prabhupada was once talking about poison in the late 1960s, he said, “There is one poison called a ….,” and Tamal very enthusiastically finishes the sentence, “It’s called arsenic”!

Tamal also warned that Prabhupada’s food and medicine must be given to him only by trusted people, the problem being that Prabhupada clearly is saying: he does not trust his “friends”? Prabhupada was upset to know his medicine were being locked up and Tamal was the only one with a key? Prabhupada was asked why he was feeling “mental distress” and he replied, because he is being given poison. Again, at this time the leaders present in the room confirmed that he was complaining of being poisoned. Indeed, “Someone gave him poison here” is a direct recorded statement from one of the leaders named Bhakti Caru. Thus it is clear Prabhupada was saying “someone” was poisoning him, this was not a complaint of some coincidental bad medicine. A few days later, Prabhupada confirmed his poison complaint even further by saying he was going to be killed by a “Ravana” (demoniac) person, and that this person was now present in his room: “Ravana will kill me if I stay in this room.” According to more recent testimony, doctors in India at the time also thought Prabhupada was being poisoned to death, but they were afraid to speak up, lest they or their families meet the same fate? Prabhupada also sent an urgent message for “all of my disciples” to immediately come to India, perhaps some of them might have helped him with his poison situation, but the leaders discounted, suppressed and hid that order — and his disciples never arrived.

In addition, unusually high levels of arsenic were found in a hair sample taken from Prabhupada, as was discovered by Dr. J. Stephen Morris of Columbia University in Missouri. That this level of arsenic could be fatal was confirmed by Dr. Richard T. Callery of the Delaware Forensic Science Laboratory. Meanwhile a number of medical professionals confirm that Prabhupada had the symptoms of a person being poisoned. Prabhupada himself was qualified as an apothecary pharmacist, and he also said that he had “the symptoms” of a person who is being poisoned. Prabhupada said that his astrology chart explains his poison complaint. And in the chart it says that he would live for six more years, provided he can survive the next six months, but there is extreme danger from “juniors and subordinates” (the leaders). The butler, the subordinates, did it? At the same time it was evident that Prabhupada had many doubts about these leaders. He often expressed that they were motivated, ambitious, simply interested in pounds, shillings and pence and importantly: they want to be gurus but they are not qualified to be gurus, and so on. This is another reason some of the leaders may have wanted to eliminate Prabhupada, he was constantly revealing that they were not qualified to be gurus, and they had ambitions to be worshipped as gurus.

On yet another audio tape spoken in December of 1977 Tamal says that Prabhupada had asked, “Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine that will make me disappear.” In other words, according to Tamal, Prabhupada wanted to be poisoned to death. Yet there is no evidence Prabhupada ever asked to be poisoned to death, rather the evidence is that he had said, “Do not torture me and put me to death.”

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In addition, Prabhupada’s sister (Pisima) later confirmed that Prabhupada had wanted her to buy food at the market and cook it for him, since he thought he was being poisoned. In sum, there is no evidence that Prabhupada had asked to be killed, rather the evidence is that he was making some effort to remedy his situation. Then in 1998 I was interviewed by Jaya Narayana Singh on the “Hindu Meditation Hour” radio program in Houston and he was at once convinced that Prabhupada had been poisoned, and we played the audio “poison tapes” on the air. This show was heard by seventy thousand Hindu listeners. This event really upset Tamal since Houston was his “zone.” Tamal then exhorted other leaders to combat the poison case with “a writing campaign.” Unfortunately, their book “Not That I Am Poisoned” was filled with many flawed statements, outright lies and misrepresentation. For example, their alleged “audio forensics expert” cited in their book was actually the former owner of a bankrupted rock and roll recording studio, with absolutely no credentials or background to conduct any audio forensics. Their “expert” then signed a letter admitting to us that he had been coerced by the leaders to make these false statements.

Another of the leaders who heard the complaint directly in Prabhupada’s room in 1977 was Adridharana dasa (Calcutta). He initially agreed with us in 1997 that the poison complaint was “very alarming” to him in 1977 when he heard it from Prabhupada directly. He encouraged me to “investigate the issue” although he flatly refused to help us. However, as soon as he saw we were making great headway with thousands of people being convinced, he suddenly began to support the statements of the main suspects who were in the room and he attacked the poison complaint as a fabrication. This has back fired on him miserably. It has merely convinced many people that he and other leaders “knew all along” and they are merely cover up “yes men.” In other words, many people are gradually realizing that most of these dire events were known to many leaders all along, but the leaders and their entourage covered things up. An effort is currently underway to try establish legal homicide charges regarding the poisoning of Prabhupada. As one would expect those of us who brought forward evidence of “the poisoning of Prabhupada,” or the child molesting or any other similar issue, have had our lives threatened by the false guru clique or their followers. For example, at this year’s Rathayatra festival (2003) one of the leaders named Trivrikrama swami said to me, “The most amazing thing is, that you are still alive — when so many people want to kill you.” Other evidence of Prabhupada’s being poisoned has emerged and is documented in several books and web sites on this topic.

It is a well known fact that criminal actions have been suppressed, and anyone who brings these crimes out does so — at his peril. No doubt the poison clique members were counting on their “threats of death” mood to keep the poison case from being opened up at all, forever. Yet some of us persevered not caring for their threats. They apparently had not figured this possibility into their original plan. Thus, the poison case was designed to suppress everyone, starting with Prabhupada himself. As such, immediately after Prabhupada departed eleven leaders declared that they were Prabhupada’s “appointed guru successors.” The leaders simultaneously hid the poison tapes as well as many other tapes, hid all of Prabhupada’s letters, hid Prabhupada’s “last will and testament” and many other related documents, and they even hid the alleged evidence of their so-called guru appointment. For example, I personally had to dig into a guru’s safe in 1985 to get a copy of the will. As you would expect, the evidence of their so-called guru appointment never existed.

They also suppressed “dissenters” who knew that the leaders had not been “appointed as gurus” with threats of excommunication — and violence. In short, the leaders failed to produce any clear evidence — that Prabhupada had appointed any of them as his “guru successors.” As no small coincidence “the eleven gurus” included some of the very same individuals who were recorded “whispering” about their involvement in Prabhupada’s being poisoned. It thus seems that there is a link between: (a) Prabhupada’s apparent “untimely departure,” (b) the false “appointed guru” claim and, (c) crimes including the subsequent “child molesting.” The main suspects in the poison complaint also orchestrated the “eleven gurus” imbroglio and subsequent child molesting regime. Indeed, some Krishna dissenters refer to the “eleven guru’s” regime as “the enforced cult ritualistic worship of homosexual pedophiles.” Clearly the “eleven gurus” started a sort of anti-women, children and family atmosphere, which instead endorsed opulent lifestyles for a few elite leaders. As Krishna sympathizer and Berkeley Theological University scholar Dr. J. Stillson Judah said, “They (the guru clique) disregarded the law, they took the law into their own hands, this is called antinomianism.” Indeed, Prabhupada himself was complaining that he was a victim of criminal action from the same clique?

And now, since the poison case has emerged many Krishna followers assume that the same leaders who orchestrated the molesting: also poisoned Prabhupada. Prabhupada had said all along that these leaders were merely going to be administrators, but some of them evidently wanted to be his “eternally worshipped guru successors.” The desire to be worshipped and to live opulently with fancy exotic cars, nice houses, unlimited travel expense accounts, silk clothing, costly jewellery, many servants, and sometimes unlimited sex with followers and so on and so forth was and is a clear “motive” for why Prabhupada said he was being poisoned. “It was all about taking over the money and assets of the society” is what many now believe. Prabhupada himself often said that deviant followers sometimes artificially attempt to become their guru’s successor in order to take over the mission and its assets.

This also explains why some leaders did not “investigate or intervene” in “the troubles” generated by other leaders, including the child molesting. Apparently, members of the takeover clique held an axe over each other’s heads knowing the inner workings of the plot, and they did not want to jeopardize their stolen piece of the pie. This was confirmed for example in a conversation between Hansadutta (Hans Kary) and Tamal (Thomas Herzig) in December of 1980. Both of them admitted that they had only been appointed as administrators, not gurus. Tamal also admits that many people believed he had somehow killed Prabhupada. Hansadutta similarly admitted that many people thought he also wanted Prabhupada to die, so he could sit in Prabhupada’s “guru seat.” Indeed in 1976 Tamal told me that I was “waiting for Prabhupada to die — so I could sit in Prabhupada’s seat.” Thus, the idea that Prabhupada was “in the way” of the motivated leaders, and maybe it would be better for them if he was “dead and gone,” was already known even while he was physically present. And thus Prabhupada himself sometimes asks the leaders, “Have I become a burden”? Read: Am I in the way of your takeover plot?

That wide scale molestation incidents occurred has been corroborated in various American newspaper articles, televised documentaries and other documents, such as documents filed in a recent Dallas, Texas court procedure filed by the law firm of “Windle Turley.” This law firm represented a fraction of the victims, only ninety seven of the former students. The Windle Turley lawsuit claims that “widespread” molestation occurred in the society’s schools. This fact has not been disputed by the leaders of the false Krishna movement. Rather, the leaders first of all tried to avoid paying the requested four hundred million dollars by declaring themselves bankrupt. Then, as the movement’s leaders saw that their bankruptcy “avoidance technique” was not going to be accepted by the Dallas courts they “settled the case” by agreeing to pay the victims a large sum. The actual amount to be paid to victims has not yet been determined by the Dallas courts. In other words, the leaders of the false Krishna movement directly or de facto agreed that mass molestations occurred under their negligent management and they did not want to attempt to dispute that fact in court.

How did such a large number of molestations occur in such a small organization, and in such a short period of time? First of all, it has been reported that some of the “gurus” were molesting minors themselves. Thus, they sought out like minded deviants as their supporters, administrators, and school teachers. In sum, the molesting went on under a sort of umbrella of protection from the overall infrastructure of the eleven gurus. Each guru acted more or less like an independent tyrannical despot, and thus they resisted being investigated by anyone, or by each other. It must also be noted that after 1977 there were many “guru crises” (usually sex and drugs) which were coupled with criminal activities and this was creating a smoke screen for the molesting problem. And some of these “crises and crimes” incidents were reported in Newspapers in America. The “shift of assets to the guru clique” would also explain why the children in the schools were severely starved, beaten and molested. The “gurus” lived like millionaires while the children in their schools often had to eat old scraps and wear rags. The false guru clique’s “plan” was and still is very clear: to shift almost the entire financial asset of the movement into their hands, and to live like millionaire kings, and to neglect everyone else including the children.

These “crises and crimes” were in fact synchronized with the increase in the society’s molestation. Thus, due to numerous “more publicized” crises and criminal activities, the increase of cases of child molestations evolved “under the radar” as the other crises and crimes became the primary focus of the media, and the false Krishna movement’s leadership. For example, in 1979 Berkeley police discovered that the Northern California “guru” had an illegal machine gun in the trunk of his car. That guru’s farm was subsequently raided by the Sheriff’s department. As suspected, stolen credit cards, illegal weapons and explosives were found at the site. During that same year a “temple” drug business in the Southern California guru’s “zone” was uncovered by Police in Laguna Beach. In 1980, the entire Krishna society lost a big lawsuit in Syracuse, New York, since the court said the Krishna’s “engaged in a widespread and systematic scheme of accosting, deceit, misrepresentation and fraud on the public,” according to Federal Judge Howard G. Munson.

Simultaneously, the guru for Los Angeles “Ramesvara” was doubting the entire guru program and he wanted to resign. He had been faulted for “dating” a minor aged female student. Simultaneously, the guru for England “Jayatirtha” was taking LSD, smoking marijuana and he was having illicit sex with followers. Simultaneously, the guru “Hansadutta” was having troubles with Federal authorities who raided his farm. Simultaneously a woman named “Jadurani” (Judy Koslofsky) was beaten nearly to death for protesting the false gurus at “Kirtanananda’s” farm in West Virginia. Simultaneously the guru Tamal was saying he was the best of all the eleven, and a move was afoot to remove him from the guru clique. There were thus a number of simultaneous public instances of various guru crises coupled with outright crimes, as well as incidents that were simply kept hidden from the general public but were known to certain members within the society. Thus the child molestation issue was barely even noticed especially by the leaders and many members of the hijacked Krishna movement itself, due to the leader’s “smoke screen” of diverting attention to these other “crises and crimes,” as well as their mood of extreme oppression towards anyone who tried to resolve such issues.

One of the biggest problems was that at least two of the alleged eleven post-1977 “gurus” were themselves homosexual pedophiles according to many reports, and their expanding molesting regimes were vociferously supported by most of the other leaders. Thus, once these homosexual pedophiles became “worshipped as Jesus-like gurus” it became very difficult for any “dissenters” to expose the molestation problem, or any other problem, since a dissenter was “challenging God’s living guru successor.” In sum, “dissenters” to the worship of deviants as “Jesus-like gurus” were banned, beaten and threatened with death even early on. For example, in 1980 when I opposed the guru for England “Jayatirtha” (James Immel) for his illicit sex and drug problems, four of the leaders of the renegade Krishna movement ordered that I was to be banned from the society. Jayatirtha then said to me, “Watch your back” since he implied they would perhaps orchestrate my murder if I continued to “dissent.” As it turns out, the leaders did eventually orchestrate the murder of my writing associate Sulochana dasa (Steve Bryant) and I was also on their “hit list” according to Berkely Police Officer Joeseph Sanchez. Generally, only when events attract the notice of the police and media do “the gurus” have another one of their fire brigade “emergency meetings” to try to resolve the crisis. Otherwise, the whole effort is to preserve the “status quo” of their opulent lifestyles.

Also, important apologists and advocates for the eleven gurus emerged. These persons were very similar to the official “Papal apologists” of the medieval Catholic Church in that they gave important contrived ecclesiastical doctrinal credibility to the false gurus. Perhaps the most important apologist and protagonist was the false guru’s 1978 “advisor” named Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Maharaja of Navadvip (West Bengal) India. In early 1978 Sridhara first of all insisted that the eleven were “gurus” fit to be worshipped as “Vishnupadas” or essentially “equal to Jesus – gurus.” He said that these gurus must be viewed as “absolute” (fully as pure as Jesus) by their followers and that “none should protest.” This set up a fanatical scenario where “the gurus” had violent followers and “protesting” was dangerous, even deadly. Sridhara vociferously aided the idea that dissenters were unacceptable, a sort of updated version of burning witches and heretics.

Sridhara’s first proposal in 1978 was that the “Governing Body Commission” system established by Prabhupada had to be dismantled since “this idea is not found in our tradition.” Prabhupada had wanted that the society be managed by an oversight committee, something like a Church Council. Instead, Sridhara replaced the “managerial oversight system” with his idea, the society needs to worship false and motivated “living gurus.” Sridhara said, the former managers have to be viewed as equal to Jesus “gurus” and no longer as mere “managers.” Sridhara never bothered to explain how the practical management of the society, and its schools, was to be conducted after he essentially disbanded the managerial body and turned it into eleven maverick guru cults. Sridhara dismantled the management body and this is one of the reasons the schools deteriorated into an imbroglio of molestation because very simply, no one was “managing” anymore because the managing system is “not found in the tradition.” Without important apologists like Sridhara the false eleven gurus would not have survived their numerous “crises” for much time. Instead, almost every time the numerous “crises and crimes” emerged within the false guru clique, the apologists (sometimes by their own admission) “pleaded on behalf” of the false guru clique, especially when their deviations and failures emerged as a public or legal embarrassment. Sridhara constantly said, we have to support the false maverick gurus and forget all about following a system of management and oversight. Lawless. So he is the architect of the antinomianism “a lawless society in the name of religion.” And because there was a lawless society children were the first to became his victims because: they have no defense.

Sridhara had also been informed that there was “no evidence” that the gurus had ever been appointed by Prabhupada, yet he never asked to see the evidence that they were appointed as gurus. Indeed Prabhupada said that in 1936 Sridhara did the same thing, he participated in a “kill guru and become guru” project where he appointed a guru “without authority.” Sridhara tried to replace Prabhupada’s guru with a deviant who was also a homosexual. Worse, after 1977 there were all sorts of well known deviations amongst those false gurus such as drugs and illicit sex, problems which Sridhara again simply shrugged off as not very significant. Sridhara merely waved his hands in the air and said, “We must keep these eleven gurus in their posts.” Apparently, he did the same thing in 1936 when people were getting beaten and murdered for objecting to his false gurus at that time. He simply walked away and left the victims getting beaten and killed without taking any steps to remedy the situation. “No monitoring oversight is required, simply worship false gurus and if you get beaten or killed for objecting, who cares”?

Sridhara also helped the false gurus write “position papers” explaining — why gurus worshipped like Jesus fail and become deviants. He supported the idea that gurus are sometimes engaged in illicit sex with men, women and children, and they are orchestrating the beatings and murders of dissenters. Yet Prabhupada had given members of his Krishna society stern warnings: avoid “taking advice” from Sridhara. Prabhupada had said that Sridhara was the main architect of a 1936 homosexual guru imbroglio in India which destroyed his guru’s mission, and had resulted in beatings and murders of dissenters, bad publicity, financial ruin of the mission and so on. Prabhupada said that Sridhara had also dismantled the “Governing Body” or oversight committee within the 1936 Gaudiya Matha and replaced that with his violent false guru cults. Again, this simply aided the idea that no one could investigate the crimes of “the gurus.” There was no overall monitoring, oversight, watch dog or managerial board which Prabhupada had originally ordered, just eleven self-styled “equal to Jesus gurus.” Moreover the whole idea of an ecclesiastical body which is monitoring thing like embezzlement, molesting, crimes, even murders and so on “is not found in the scriptures.” Instead, renegade violent guru cults is “what is found in the scriptures”? This is why Prabhupada said Sridhara’s ideas are “severe offenses.”

Sridhara thus destroyed Prabhupada’s whole 1970s idea of a unified and jointly controlled and monitored effort for the Krishna mission. Instead, using Sridhara’s model, each “guru” became a self-governing autonomous dogmatic dictator. Sridhara said that the eleven gurus can use titles like “Vishnupada” (as pure as God: a person equal to Jesus) and yet he knew full well these same people were having illicit sex and drug problems, and he knew this since 1967. Sridhara was also asked, “How should we deal with the crimes and crises of people being worshipped as if they are as pure as Jesus”? In other words, as more and more people were getting excommunicated, beaten and molested, and sometimes assassinated, Sridhara was asked: what are we to do? Sridhara simply kept repeating his mantra, “None should complain, do not try to solve the crisis, wait and see. There is no such thing as monitoring oversight committees.” Later, he finally said the gurus should have a “reform.” Yet his idea of a reform was: to create a “guru vote system” so the false gurus could “vote in many more gurus,” as if homosexual pedophiles are qualified to rubber stamp “more gurus.” Sridhara was even asked, what are we to do with persons who are “envious” of the eleven false gurus? And Sridhara replied, the envious should be voted in — as the next wave of gurus! Of course Sridhara’s self appointed star pupil, Tripurari swami (Tom Beaudry) of Philo California was the first one standing in line to get voted in by the homosexual pedophiles as their anointed “guru.”

Thus, many of Sridhara’s ideas are contradictions. Gurus are pure (as Jesus), simultaneously gurus are voted in and appointed by the impure. Gurus are to be worshipped as if they are on the level of Jesus, simultaneously gurus are sometimes deviants. Gurus are to be seen as confidential lovers of God, simultaneously gurus are sometimes child molesters. Gurus are supposed to save the whole world, simultaneously gurus have small geographical zones. Gurus do not deviate, simultaneously deviations of gurus have to be tolerated and overlooked, and so on and so forth. Gurus are absolute, and there is no such thing as a monitoring oversight committee in religion. Lawless. Thus, these ideas are pillars to the child molesting problem since due to his ideas dangerous and fanatical “guru cults” were allowed to grow, and everyone else had to sit back, tolerate, wait and see, and “none should protest.” And there should be no system of oversight, since this is against scriptures. Lawless tyrants posing as gurus is — found in scriptures, and that is what Sridhara and his team supported.

Oddly, Sridhara never seemed to ask about the welfare of the victims of the guru regime he endorsed? Again, according to Prabhupada, Sridhara had also backed another homosexual guru cult in 1936 which resulted in “dissenters” being banned, beaten, and killed by being beaten with bricks. The ten year old child of the guru Sridhara appointed was poisoned with arsenic in order to continue the false guru program, and so on. And yet when Sridhara was asked why he had created such a malefic regime, he said, “So what, killing is found in God’s holy scriptures.” In sum, Sridhara tries to blame God for the troubles he has generated. No remorse. Later, one of the main “gurus” that Sridhara backed after 1977, Jayatirtha, had his head chopped off with a knife due to his illicit sexual affairs with a married disciple. This was reported in the headlines of the British Press “Guru’s Head Hacked Off.” Again, Sridhara never issued any apology to either the molested children, the families of murdered dissenters, or to the people shocked by his anointed guru’s murder and so on, apparently he went to his grave thinking that he was authorized to promote wife stealing, homosexual, child molester and murder of dissenter’s — guru cults.

After some time even Sridhara finally realized that his false gurus were acting horrendously and they were destroying many people’s lives. He concluded that the guru clique was “acting like insensitive computers and army tanks driving over their own troops,” although he never clarified that he was wrong to have supported these false gurus, or that God’s successors are not deviants and so on. And so the guru clique eventually rejected Sridhara, but they kept all of his statements and documents intact which supported the false gurus. The remnants of one of the Sridhara cults is currently residing in Philo, in Mendocino county California, headed up by his so-called successor, Tripurari swami (Tom Beaudry). Tripurari distributes Sridhara’s books explaining that God’s successor gurus (acharyas aka as pure as Jesus) are sometimes “mad after money, women and followers.” Apparently gurus like Jesus are such mad fools that they molest children as well as orchestrate the murder of dissenters, at least according to their books.

Tripurari was upset with 1990 ritvik meeting — reform of molester gurus bad idea —
– wanted to get voted in as guru by Kirtanananda
– says we are demons for not accepting GBC pedophile guru system
– pal guru Sudhir blooped
– his follower says it is “offense” to challenge pedophile guru lineage
– endorses pedophile lineage leaders as gurus, knowing they are or were voted in by pedophiles
– says worship of Jesus is bogus ritviks
– Glorified Tamal after his departure
– hangs with Virabhau who says “you get the same experience” (pedophile sex) as if meeting a bona fide guru (equal to Jesus)
– says he was chanting while the molesting was going on and he knew nothing of it, no he wanted to get voted in and he said we are demons for protesting
– considers himself “equal to Jesus” pure devotee guru since he went along with pedophile regime and wanted to get voted in to it
– selling T-shirts/ Danavir says Tripurari is engaged in false charity collections (help us out then Danavir)
– buying real estate with t-shirt money
– claims to be a charity
– Selling bogus books saying gurus go mad
– Rejected by Sridhara’s named successor Govinda maharaja as “a revolter.”
Sridhara: “For those that have got no sraddha [faith], they may go away. They may not accept (Govinda is my successor). I do not care. I don’t accept them. If anyone has no recognition of this opinion of mine, I do not want them to live in the Mission. I drag them out.”

Around 1986 the guru clique adopted another big apologist and “advisor” named Narayana Maharaja, of Mathura UP, India. He became prominent just about the same time the eleven gurus recoronated one of their biggest homosexual pedophile gurus, the molesting was going on all over the society, and they were being investigated by the FBI for orchestrating some well publicized murders. At this time, Narayana Maharaja emerged as the new “darling” of the false gurus and he said they were uniquely qualified to talk about “conjugal love with God” (while in fact they were orchestrating mass molesting of children and murdering dissenters to that molesting process). Oddly, Narayana Maharaja also said that the guru clique still had to accept that Sridhara is “a bona fide (pure as Jesus) guru.” And he furthermore cited that “there was nothing wrong” with Sridhara’s establishing a homosexual as a guru in 1936. In other words, Narayana Maharaja directly endorsed the guru clique’s voted in gurus, appointing gurus, reinstating homosexual pedophiles gurus and so on, and he basically endorsed all of Sridhara’s rhetoric saying in 1990 that Sridhara is a pure devotee (acharya) and his ideas are all bona fide. Narayana Maharaja in short agrees with Sridhara that the oversight management committee idea is not found in the scriptures, and so he supported the lawless guru (antinomiansm) process and he was known for about ten years as Tamal’s close associate.

What we see here is that the SM, Narayana Maharaja and BP and BV Puri Maharaja sector created the false theology under which these “rotten” gurus operated.

History of ISKCON videos:
Hare Krishna history on youtube

pt.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKzh1FwdHw
pt.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WvcT5wmykU
pt.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MStIkmbtcj0
pt.4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS0k9dCpVVo

http://www.harekrsna.org/history.htm
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