SHOULD POISONERS AND MURDERERS BE FORGIVEN?

SHOULD POISONERS AND MURDERERS BE FORGIVEN?
How should we be forgiving?

By: Nityananda Das

Someone made a comment on my last post about Tamal and his claims that Srila Prabhupada asked him many times for “medicine to die now,” and it caught my eye in particular. Here it is:

“So firstly, I don’t see 100 per cent proof that Tamal Krishna Goswami can be found guilty of this crime. I have read some of Tamal Krishna’s writing…in which he shows love for Srila Prabhupada. I know that he served Srila Prabhupada for many years. I know that Srila Prabhupada loved him. I’ll stay on the side where Tamal showed his light. I won’t judge him. Only Krishna can judge him. The duty of a brāhmaṇa is to culture the quality of forgiveness, which is illuminating like the sun. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is pleased with those who are forgiving. (SB 9:15:40 purport)”

In the book available for free download from www.killgurubecomeguru.org we included 17 long chapters in Part Seven: The Real Tamal As Evidence, wherein Tamal’s true nature and colors are distilled and clarified. He may have had love for Srila Prabhupada or not; but that is not the issue at hand. What has been established is that he was the mastermind of the hijacking of Srila Prabhupada’s mission and of Srila Prabhupada’s poisoning with heavy metals. The evidence is overwhelming and cannot be ignored simply by being sentimental or impressed that Tamal spoke high praise of Srila Prabhupada, even if he sincerely meant it. Judas also loved Jesus Christ but his love of silver coins overwhelmed him and he betrayed his master. Similarly, an in-depth look at Tamal’s history and activities clearly shows a man possessed by material ambition, pride, and the desire to be the next Acharya in ISKCON. He almost certainly (not 100% for sure, but maybe 95+% for sure) spearheaded a group of senior disciples, some of whom are still in the topmost ranks of ISKCON leadership today, in the cadmium and arsenic poisoning of Srila Prabhupada.

In the YouTube film in question, titled Tamal: The Mercy Killer, Tamal makes extremely weird and incriminating statements that only magnify the other evidence that he was NOT the loving senior disciple he often portrayed himself as or others portray him as. He was a very conflicted person. He loved Srila Prabhupada and also envied and resented him (e.g., “Prabhupada has ruined my life.”) We see this all so often in the material world where a man will love his wife, but end up killing her due to conflicted emotions. What is so hard to understand about this? Even if he loved Prabhupada, that does not negate what he did to try to kill his body and mission.

The difficulty arises with the widespread intimidation and propaganda campaign by the ISKCON leadership of the last 40 years– namely that we regular devotees should never question the policies, decisions, acts, and stature of those disciples who were so “intimately” serving Srila Prabhupada. Mad elephant offense! Bhaktisiddhanta Thakur was also very merciful to his senior-most manager disciple- the one who contributed greatly to the breakup of the Gaudiya Math. So Srila Prabhupada’s mercy and love of Tamal should not be taken as an endorsement of whatever Tamal would do in the future… anymore so than for Jayatirtha, Bhavananda, Kirtanananda and many others. Prabhupada’s mercy should not be seen as an approval of Tamal’s post-1977 actions.

Our purpose is not in condemnation of Tamal. It is to understand, discover, and rectify what has been done to Srila Prabhupada’s mission by Tamal and others. It is about discovering TRUTH. It is not about wallowing in hatred or faultfinding unnecessarily as many are wont to do. We must hate the sin but not the sinner. It is not for us to forgive Tamal for what he has done, neither for us to punish or reward him. We are looking to the future of the movement by studying the course of the past and how it has brought us to the present. And in this manner, after studying Tamal’s actions and words, we have no hesitation in giving our deeply considered opinion and evaluation- he was the worst thing that happened to ISKCON. A careful, patient listen to this film about him will quickly dispel any sentimental delusions. He almost surely poisoned Srila Prabhupada with a group of supporters, who still control the movement today on its deviant track into sahajiyaism, impersonalism, materialism, Hinduization, social welfare-ism, and all sorts of other horrendous areas of disobedience to the real Acharya, Srila Prabhupada.

May Tamal rest in peace but may what he did be uncovered, known, and UNDONE to preserve the Divine Mission of Srila Prabhupada.

http://www.iskcon-truth.com/poison/prabhupada-suicide.html
http://www.iskcon-truth.com/poison/nityananda/Tamals-mercy-killing.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddztd0ruzhU