THE KALI-CHELĀ INFILTRATION OF ISKCON

THE KALI-CHELĀ INFILTRATION OF ISKCON

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “There are many jealous people in the dress of Vaishnavas in this Krishna Consciousness movement, and they should be completely neglected. A false ācārya may try to override a vaishnava by a high-court decision, (2/3 hand vote) but Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says that he is nothing but a disciple of Kali-yuga.”

“If one thinks that there are many pseudo devotees or nondevotees in the Krishna Consciousness Society, one can keep direct company with the spiritual master, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master. However, unless one follows the spiritual master’s instructions and the regulative principles governing chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord, one cannot become a pure devotee. By one’s mental concoctions, one falls down. By associating with nondevotees, one breaks the regulative principles and is thereby lost.” (CC Mad 19.157 Purport)

Revised/ adulterated edition: “Even if one thinks there are many pseudo devotees or nondevotees in the Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Movement, still one should stick to the Society; if one thinks the Society’s members are not pure devotees, one can keep direct company with the spiritual master, and if there is any doubt, one should consult the spiritual master. However, unless…” (COMMENT: Amazing changes by the BBT to the meaning !)

HAS ISKCON BEEN INFILTRATED BY KALI-CHELAS

Has Iskcon Been Infiltrated By Kali-Chelas? The concept of ISKCON being infiltrated is outlined by Śrīla Prabhupāda Himself. Śrīla Prabhupāda has said that “ISKCON can only be destroyed from within” and that “It is a fact however that the great sinister movement is within our Society.”

INFILTRATORS TO DESTROY ISKCON FROM WITHIN

Infiltrators get new people to take over for them to maintain control and continue skewing things, like editing books, etc. They don’t just fade away and die. Infiltrators are not ‘lone wolves’. They are agents of a much larger conspiracy. That group does not go away.

Of course, many devotees will not be able to process the idea of ‘infiltrators’ due to their cognitive dissonance and lack of understanding about how the world really works behind the scenes. But there is valid evidence to suggest that there were infiltrators at the top in ISKCON. Just consider these facts:

If you wanted to destroy a movement like ISKCON from within after Śrīla Prabhupāda left, what would you do? There’s no way you could turn Śrīla Prabhupada’s disciples against him or get them to destroy the movement in any way. So what do you do? You’d get rid of them – 90% – one way or another, by making it so intolerable that they leave in disgust or are unceremoniously kicked out, which is precisely what happened.

You exalt 11 pretenders as ‘pure devotees’ on the level of Śrīla Prabhupāda, and tell Śrīla Prabhupada’s disciples that they now have to go through them to get to him. Are you kidding me??? B**LLSH*T! What gall. What arrogance. What ignorance. What Vaiṣṇava aparādha. Does that sound like loyal loving disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda? After all the instruction Śrīla Prabhupāda gave us (and them), do you think Śrīla Prabhupāda would approve of them saying such offensive garbage and distorting the philosophy?

Then you fill up ISKCON with your disciples who treat you just like Śrīla Prabhupāda and obey your every command like mindless zombies. And you don’t give them much deep philosophy. Just enough to make them feel ‘spiritual’ and ‘loyal to the cause’. That way, you control everything with no fellow disciples to interfere with your dirty work.

Then you wait for the 11 to fall from grace, which is inevitable, since they were barely above being kaniṣṭhāś. The top leader gurus all fall down in various modes of disgraceful behavior and the whole thing crumbles from the top down. The new disciples lose faith in bhakti and their gurus and the whole thing is a big mess. You also allow pedophilia to run rampant and cover it up and protect the perpetrators, just like the elite do in the world today.

That was the plan, and it was a good plan, and it almost worked, but Kṛṣṇa didn’t allow ISKCON to fail completely. But it’s still a stinking mess underneath with a nice smiling chanting facade. I’m not doubting the sincerity of the rank and file and even some of the leaders, but that’s how these bastards do things. It only takes a small handful of people at that top to orchestrate things.

Look at how they are centralizing management, which is directly against Śrīla Prabhupada’s instructions. The GBC is now an independent West Bengal corporation, which conveniently shelters them from any law suits against ISKCON, thus protecting their personal finances, etc.

INFILTRATION BY DEMONS

rākṣasaḥ kaliṁ ashritya
jāyante brahma-yonishu

“In the Kali-yuga demons take birth in the families of brahmins.” (Varāha Purāṇa)

This idea of beings from other realms taking birth on Earth with agendas is not unheard of. In the tenth canto of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Śrī Vishnu instructed the demigods to take birth ahead of Śrī Kṛṣṇa in order to assist Him in His pastimes.

The other way around, however, it seems that asuras (demons) also either take birth as residents of Bharat, or that they express their influence through earthly beings, as we can see in the case of Duryodhana and other evil kings.

“Rakshasa means almost man-eater. For their self satisfaction they can eat even their own sons. They’re called rākṣasas. No sense. My sense gratification should be satisfied, never mind, you go to hell. This is the age. We create a machine that everyone comes and becomes smashed in that machine and my sense satisfaction is there. Although I’ll never be happy by such sense satisfaction. This is going on. You can know that this world is now managed by the rākṣasas. They don’t mind what is happening. They’re prepared to sacrifice everything for fulfilling their whimsical nonsense. They’re called rākṣasas. They are very much enamored by this material civilization. They cannot understand and they will never try to understand because they are rākṣasas.” (SPL 66-036)

DEMONS DISGUISED AS DEVOTEES – ISK’CON KILLER GURUS

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “There are many jealous people in the dress of Vaiṣṇavas in this Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement, and they should be completely neglected. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says, Kali-celā. He indicates that there are other Vaiṣṇavas, pseudo-Vaiṣṇavas, with tilaka on their nose and kuntī beads around their neck. Such a pseudo-Vaiṣṇava associates with money and women and is jealous of successful Vaiṣṇavas.” (CC.Madhy.,Ch.1, Text 218 / 220, purport)

A new type of devotee had surfaced within ISKCON. The pseudo-devote. These pseudo- devotees feigned attraction to Kṛṣṇa and Śrīla Prabhupāda and pretended to be following the process of devotional service, however, they were not working for Śrīla Prabhupāda and Kṛṣṇa. They had their own agendas and personal goals for fame, wealth, followers, money and sex life.

The spiritual Master, his books, śāstra and our own realizations and experiences tell us that many kali-chela-miscreants in the garb of sannyāsīs and gurus are causing grief and hardships to countless devotees. They are intimidating and threatening the devotees to keep quiet and not to criticize them or they will throw you out and excommunicate you. Thereby heinously using twisted philosophy to put fear and doubts into your hearts.

“There are many pretenders who refuse to work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness but make a show of meditation, while actually dwelling within the mind upon sense enjoyment. Such pretenders may also speak on dry philosophy in order to bluff sophisticated followers, but according to this verse these are the greatest cheaters. For sense enjoyment one can act in any capacity of the social order, but if one follows the rules and regulations of his particular status, he can make gradual progress in purifying his existence. But he who makes a show of being a yogi, while actually searching for the objects of sense gratification, must be called the greatest cheater, even though he sometimes speaks of philosophy. His knowledge has no value because the effects of such a sinful man’s knowledge are taken away by the illusory energy of the Lord. Such a pretenders mind is always impure, and therefore his show of yogic meditation has no value whatsoever.” (Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 3.6 purport)

Because the pretenders did not seriously take to the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they were not purified of mundane desires and could therefore never taste the ecstasy and spiritual bliss experienced by sincere devotees. Instead they became envious of the sincere devotees, envious of Śrīla Prabhupāda and envious of Kṛṣṇa. These so-called devotees actually worked against Śrīla Prabhupāda and his attempts to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness from within the movement. This was one of the symptoms of the Māyāvāda contamination which had been administered to ISKCON.

Śrīla Prabhupāda always stressed that success in spiritual life depends on pleasing Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa is pleased if His representative, the spiritual master is pleased. Unfortunately these pseudo-devotees had other ideas…

“One should have unflinching faith in Kṛṣṇa and similarly in the spiritual master. That is the way of understanding the secret of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Unfortunately, an attempt has been made lately to shake this formula. This mischievous attempt has done great harm, but if you, the members of the GBC can rectify this mischievous attempt, then there is still hope of making our progress uninterruptedly. I hope Kṛṣṇa will help us… The GBC’s duty is therefore to see that every member is following the rules and regulations and chanting 16 rounds regularly on their beads. I hope that the GBC in cooperation with the sannyāsīs in their touring program will be able to keep vigilance systematically in order to keep the society as pure as possible.” (to Bali Mardan Aug 25, 1970)

Conditioned soul simultaneous guru-puja as equal to Srila Prabhupada – the greatest offence

DEMONS IN THE GUISE OF DEVOTEES

False Gurus, Institutions, and the Holy Name.
A śāstric look at the problem of false gurus and
materialistic persons donning the dress of devotees.

All spiritual traditions are plagued by pretenders. Their unsavory presence is an inherent factor on the spiritual path. This article examines the tradition within Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism for dealing with this phenomenan. A positive discussion full of hope. Criticism and politicking are part of the problem and are never the solution. The answer is complete faith and dependence on guru, śāstra and Kṛṣṇa.

In his Śrī Caitanya-śīkṣāmṛta (3.2), Śrīla Bhaktivinode Thakur has warned that devotees should be careful of such persons:

“The devotee should give up the association of the devotee-pretender, understanding him to be a materialist. Towards those who are sincere, the devotee should offer service and respect. Meeting a true vaiṣṇava, the devotee should associate with him and serve him with his heart; to the ordinary vaiṣṇava-inclined people he should show respect. This respect is an external service. These vaiṣṇava-like people are of three types: those who fully accept the vaiṣṇava conclusions but are not practicing themselves; those who take up the vaiṣṇava signs and appearance, but are not real vaiṣṇavas, though they have respect for the vaiṣṇavas; those who are born in the families of great vaiṣṇavas, and wear the signs of a vaiṣṇava but are not real vaiṣṇavas.

A true vaiṣṇava is measured by the degree of purity and depth of devotion, and his capacity to inspire others. A person attains the status of a real vaiṣṇava as soon as a little pure devotion appears in his heart. If a person respects and takes association of the non-vaiṣṇava in the same way that he respects the true vaiṣṇava or the ordinary vaiṣṇava, then his devotion will decrease. Thus, amongst those who wear the vaiṣṇava marks and appear to be vaiṣṇavas, certain ones should be avoided. These people should be satisfied with the respect due to all human beings, which is part of the secondary rules, but they should not be accepted or respected as real vaiṣṇavas. If they happen to become pure devotees, then they are also qualified for association with other pure devotees. False vaiṣṇavas are those who wear the vaiṣṇava marks for the purpose of cheating, those who identify themselves as followers of the vaiṣṇava ācāryas for the purpose of introducing advaita philosophy to the vaiṣṇavas, and those who advertise themselves as vaiṣṇavas to gain money, position or some other material enjoyment.”

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupāda as well as Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda were not blind to such pseudo spiritualists, yet they welcomed everyone into the ranks of their movement. One may wonder why they did so. Upon contemplation, one can see that these powerful preachers took shelter of two “secret” weapons to overcome the demoniac tendencies of such dharma-dhvajī followers — the holy name and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. They were both well aware of the supreme potency of these two items in purifying wrongs and establishing truth.

BHAKTIVINODA THAKUR WROTE THIS HEAVY QUOTE:
“After the time of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, those faithful to Him kept apart from non devotees, to avoid contamination. Seeing this, the personality of Kali sent his representatives in disguise to pollute the Vaiṣṇava sampradāya. Posing as Vaiṣṇavas, they spread their wicked doctrines, and appeared so intelligent and devoted that only pure devotees could detect their real identity. Most devotees – not only the most neophyte – were enchanted by their tricks. In this way Kali’s agents expertly introduced karma, jñāna, and anyābhilāṣa in the Vaiṣṇava sampradāya and caused śuddha-bhakti to vanish from the world.”

Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura sings that “He’s dressed like a bābājī. He has shaven his head, and has got tilaka and kaṇṭhi. But he has got at least half a dozen women, and that is his bhajana.” So not that… That is not mahātmā. That is durātmā, a cheating… Of course, in this Kali-yuga… Therefore Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says, eita eka kalir celā. Kalir celā means the disciple of Kali. Dressed like a sādhu, or Vaiṣṇava, but within, all rubbish things. That will not help us. He must be mahātmā, real mahātmā. We want guru like that. Then it will be a… We must be also qualified, and guru also qualified. Therefore it is said in the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa that one year should be taken to study one another, the guru and the disciple. The guru also will see whether the person is fit to become a disciple, and the disciple also will see “Whether this gentleman can become my guru.”

UNLESS YOU DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DEMONS AND DEVOTEES,
YOU CANNOT PROGRESS IN KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “Unless you distinguish between demons and devotees, you cannot progress in Krishna consciousness.”

Every morning, a different devotee comes up to Paradisio to visit Swamiji for a day. Although there is no formal initiation ritual or fire sacrifice, Swamiji chants on the initiates’ beads and bestows spiritual names: Aniruddha, Uddhava, Murāri, Devānanda. One day, when Jānakī visits, she takes exception to the painting of Lord Nrishingadev tearing out the entrails of the demon Hiranyakashipu. ‘It’s really ghastly, Swamiji, she says, making a face.’ ‘For the devotees, it is beautiful,’ he says. ‘The devotee praises Lord Nrishingadev: dalita hiranyakashipu tanu bhringam. “With the nails of Your beautiful hands, you have torn apart this wasp-like demon.” Hiranyakashipu was such a great demon that he even tried to kill his small son, Prahlad Maharaj, just because he was a devotee. So the Lord killed Hiranyakashipu to protect His devotee and liberate the demon.’ ‘But there are no such demons now, Swamiji,’ Jānakī says. ‘Oh yes,’ Swamiji says. ‘Demon means nondevotee.’ ‘Maybe we shouldn’t call them demons,’ Kīrtanānanda suggests. ‘People will never come if we call them demons.’ ‘But they are demons,’ Swamiji says. ‘If you are not a devotee, you’re a demon.’ ‘Aren’t most people somewhere in between?’ Kīrtanānanda persists. ‘“In between” means demon,’ Swamiji says. ‘But most people never heard of Krishna,’ Kīrtanānanda says. ‘How can they be called demons?’ ‘Everyone has heard of God,’ Swamiji says. ‘Krishna is God. Anyway, they may be innocent; therefore we are informing them. But actually, because they’re here in this material world, they are not really innocent. Somehow, they’ve chosen to forget Krishna, and are therefore demons.’ ‘I thought that in Krishna consciousness, you see Krishna in everyone,’ Kīrtanānanda says. ‘Yes,’ Swamiji says, ‘Krishna is also in the demon. But does this mean that we aspire to be demons? Unless you distinguish between demons and devotees, you cannot progress in Krishna consciousness.’” (From “The Hare Krishna Explosion” By Hayagrīva das)

CONCLUSION

1) Śrīla Prabhupāda stated even when he was on the planet that the Krishna consciousness movement contained “many” false Vaiṣṇavas, and such infestation has only massively increased since his departure, such that the whole movement is being led on a path of wholesale deviation. This is not an exaggeration, for not only have we copiously documented this conclusion over many years, but we have also documented ISKCON’s leaders agreeing with us!

2) There is a saying that, when the Devil comes, he will not come wearing horns, just as Rāvaṇa came disguised as a sannyāsī to kidnap Sītā-devī. Thus, the capacity of Kali-chelas to deviate and mislead is the most dangerous, because they come in the disguise of Vaiṣṇavas and, in this way, dupe devotees who otherwise would be on their guard and not be deceived.

3) However, the Prabhupadanugas stand in their way, and we will continue to expose such Kali-chelas and prevent them from deviating devotees from following Śrīla Prabhupāda and from the practice of true Krishna consciousness.

We cannot reform Iskcons demoniac elements, and we might not have the power to start a new mission, but we just have to work together to keep Śrīla Prabhupāda in the center as the Ācārya, and see to it that his original pre 1977 Books are printed and distributed.

Kill Guru Become Guru – Book I
Kill Guru Become Guru – Book II

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