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endorse all the letters we get from others. Nor can we independently verify
each and every statement found in letters to PADA. And sometimes -- we
write spoof for comic relief. Let us know if you do not wish to receive
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1) ISKCON VS LIVING GURUS
2) DEVOTEE DEPARTURES
3) GBC RESOLUTIONS 2007 (Kapila Kuli)
4) KAVICHANDRA EXPOSED
5) TRIPURARI UPDATE
6) PADA Editorial:
7) Property Protection Considerations BY: MRIGENDRA DAS ADHIKARI
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* Star TV show "Poison case" DVD are available now! Please contact b-i-f.com
* PADA's new hippity hoppity song "Milky Way" is on
myspace.com/trancelooper. Hope ya like it!
* Tripurari's son wrote us a nice letter. He is a cool guy and I hope more
of you will write and encourage him: Bhakti Beaudry/ PSVP D-Gym 108M/ POB
8504 Coalinga, CA 93210. PLEASE SEND HIM A STAMP if you want a reply.
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zici1uo6juw (Kirtan at Chinese New Year)
* http://groups.myspace.com/KrishnaKatha (Lakshmi Priya devi dasi)
* Please visit Prabhupadanugas' Press at http://www.prabhupadanugaspress. com/
* Here is your chance to call Svavasa's home phone, and tell him his
buggery guru lineage is bogus: (310) 204-5635. Heee Heee.
* POISON CASE VIDEO: http://www.krishnatube.com/
* Way Cool Indian dancers:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8712184842607043296&pr=goog-sl
* Tripurari's son photo:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/02/12/MNGT0O34OO1.DTL&o=1
* (New) harekrishnatemple.com
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YucAG06TLLc
* Govindam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9foQOoekzQ (song by Prapanam dasa)
* Prabhupada's letters: http://sangalog.blogspot.com/
* http://www.iskconbangalore.org/ (Food Distribution In India etc.)
A Few Devotee Contacts (please let us know if you want to be added, changed
or deleted):
01. California, Berkeley: ccr2k@yahoo.com (Gadhadhara dasa)
02. California, Lancaster: krishnaislife@yahoo.com (Mahatma dasa)
03. California, Los Angeles: zakheim@earthlink.net (Naranarayan dasa)
04. California, Monterey: james_rocanella@yahoo.com (Jagganatha Swami dasa)
05. California, San Francisco: pada@neteze.com (PADA)
06. Florida, Alachua: naveen.khurana@att.net (Naveen Krishna dasa)
07. Florida, Alachua: Nalinikant@aol.com (Nalinikantha)
08. Florida, Tampa: Gita434@aol.com
09. Mississippi: Carriere (near New Talavan - Mahasrnga_dasa@yahoo.com)
11. New York (Angelica, Upstate Near Buffalo) gadaidasa@yahoo.com (Gadai Dasa)
12. New York, Long Island: iskcontoday.com (Nimai Pandit dasa)
13. New York City: LFELDA@aol.com (Locananda dasa)
14. North Carolina - Prabhupada Village, Sandy Ridge (336) 593-8108
festivalofindia.org (Madhua dasa)
15. Tennesee: pss108@juno.com (Kapindra swami)
16. Texas (Dallas): gordhan_goyani@yahoo.com (Gadhadhara dasa)
17. Texas (San Antonio): info@iskconsanantonio.com
18. Washington, Seattle, dasdasdas@aol.com 360-856-5411 (Dhamaghosa dasa)
19. Asia: kamsahanta@hotmail.com (Kamsahanta dasa)
20. Canada, Montreal: n_allard@videotron.ca
21. Canada, Montreal: www.radhadamodara.net
22. Canada: http://www.prabhupadaconnect.com/
23. Canada, Toronto: hasti90@hotmail.com (Hasti Gopal dasa)
24. Canada, Vancouver area: aryaandvijeta@yahoo.com,
25. England, Manchester: mahesh_agtsp@yahoo.co.uk (Mahesha raja dasa)
26. Germany: Biker@mootoo.de
27. India, Bangalore: manjunath36@iskconbangalore.org
28. Australia: sakshi@aapt.net.au. (Shaksi Gopal dasa)
29. Australia: tulsi@planet1.info (Mandapa dasa)
30. South America: pariksit2000@yahoo.com
31. Trinidad: sudar@tstt.net.tt (Sudarsan dasa)
32. Gita Distribution Plans: recordguymatthew@hotmail.com
* Rise and fall of Kirtanananda "Holy Cow Swami": dancingoutlaw.com
* BANGALORE and the poison case. A devotee says that because Bangalore did
not help us with the poison case, they are going to be audited by the
government. We dunno.
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1) ISKCON VS LIVING GURUS
Dear Bhakta Charles, Thanks for your letter regarding the difference
between the followers of "living gurus" vs Prabhupadanugas or "ritviks."
Srila Prabhupada said from the beginning of his starting ISKCON that after
he departed there would be a "Governing Body Commission" (GBC) and they
would continue his worship after his departure (the "ritvik" idea). And he
furthermore said that some of the Governing Body administration members
would conduct "initiation ceremonies" "on my behalf" after he departed.
In sum Srila Prabhupada said the ISKCON society itself, and the
initiations, would be conducted by persons acting as his agents "on his
behalf" or at best as the ISKCON society's priests (ritviks.) This is not
at all unlike many other religions that have a "Governing Board" and
priests, and one of the main duties of various religion's "governing board"
is to moderate and regulate the priests of the religion. Yet after 1977
some folks like the bogus GBC/ Sridhara - Narayana - Gaura Govinda - BV
Puri - BP Puri Maharajas / Rocana / Kailasha chandra / Kundali et al.
deviated from Srila Prabhupada's order and they decided that we did not
need to follow the detailed instructions of Srila Prabhupada to make a
"Governing Body," or a coherent ISKCON institution with a regulated system
of administration and priests.
These deviated folks telescoped the title of Governing Body member to the
titles of: full fledged guru, "Radha's servants," parampara member and
messiahs, and in short "the administrators" all of a sudden became those
who are "absorbing the sins of their followers like Jesus" (diksha gurus).
In effect these "living gurus" dismantled the Governing Body process,
because now there are independent maverick "living gurus" who may or may
not answer to ISKCON or its alleged administration board. Needless to say
by giving these ISKCON leaders the title of "self realized soul gurus,"
there was no longer any need for any Governing Body or Managerial Body
since the "gurus" were allegedly "receiving dictation directly from the
Lord." The managers would now be -- opposed to the guru who was getting his
orders dictated directly from God.
There are so many big contradictions in their process since their gurus are
not acting like persons "directly in touch with God." For example recently
there was (yet another) "directive for the guru," a 2007 Mayapura GBC
report "ISKCON order" for their bogus "gurus" to "submit financial
reports." And that means since 1977 many of their bogus gurus have not done
so. And furthermore no one explains how they will enforce "making" a guru
submit any of his finance documents anyway, or whether those documents will
be factual since there is no system of "auditing the guru"? The only good
news is that this is yet another attempt for the bogus GBC gurus to try --
through the back door -- to re-desginate their gurus as priests (ritviks)
by claiming that their gurus need to submit reports or face censure,
correction, rectification, dismissal, or sometimes criminal investigations
-- which would apply to errant priests and not gurus. Indirectly they admit
their gurus are only priests or administrators thereby.
Meanwhile the bogus GBC has said that their child beater messiah named
Dhanurdhara is a child beater, who causes ex-children to commit suicide
just by seeing his sinful face, and as such he is not qualified to have any
post in ISKCON -- and yet -- he is still the messiah guru for ISKCON.
Hence, when one is not even qualified to be a temple treasurer or a temple
toilet cleaner, one is still qualified to be the next Jesus. (?) With items
like this it simply makes us joyous since it makes them look like the fools
they are. Notice the main condtradiction, (a) the guru is pure and
independent and he only takes orders from "chaitya guru" or "the Lord in
the heart," at the same time (b) he is subordinated to a governing council
full of fools and may face censure and criminal investigations.
Needless to say Srila Prabhupada had always said that these folks are not
qualified to act as "pure devotee parampara members," or independent gurus
and messiahs. And thus their whole bogus guru process has begun a downward
tail-spin into all kinds of scandals of alleged messiah-like "pure
devotees," where this deteriorating process continues to the present time
(see article below on Kavichandra swami). Hence all of this is causing the
dis-integration of ISKCON as the independent "gurus" spin off their own
independent guru franchises -- which may or may not be loyal to the whole
of ISKCON. For example we see that quite often, as one of their "gurus"
officially leaves ISKCON, they often take with them ISKCON's money,
manpower and assets since these assets are no longer seen as the property
of ISKCON, but as the property of the independent "living guru's."
And in fact we know of no legal action that has ever been taken to recover
sometimes millions of dollars, other assets, expensive vehicles, and
sometimes hundreds of followers, all of which are taken away by "the guru"
when he leaves. So the leaders of ISKCON are encouraging its
dis-integration as long as they can keep their piece of the stolen pie.
Therefore the purpose of ISKCON is no longer to support the worship of a
central acharya like Srila Prabhupada, but ISKCON has been cut into smaller
and smaller pieces of independent "zonal" guru cults. The core of their
deviants idea is: one can no longer worship Srila Prabhupada, or even to be
loyal to ISKCON because "one needs to reject worship of Srila Prabhupada,
and even reject ISKCON itself and find oneself another guru some place
else, ... so go ahead, leave ISKCON and go find a living guru somewhere
else."
What that has meant for ISKCON is that one has to worship one of their
deviant gurus, who is still in doubt by their own 2007 ISKCON messiah's
standards because -- he refuses to submit finances. So one has to worship
as messiah a person who might be embezzling funds, according to the ISKCON
leaders themselves. In short, one has to worship a dubious person as one's
messiah within a "zonal" piece of the "divided and conquered" if not
dismantled ISKCON, and that is fine because "living" is the new
qualification of guru and not "purity." In other words the ISKCON leaders
give us the ONLY option of worshipping perhaps a criminal, a thug, a mad
man, a drug addict, or a child molester etc., but on no account can we
worship a pure devotee like Srila Prabhupada. This causes ISKCON to
dis-integrate, and that is their real objective.
Or we can worship another set of bogus GBC guru wanna-be's, "living"
persons like Rocana, Kailash, Kundali or similar others who are also
claiming to be the exclusive living authority, and they too have no
interest in re-integrating ISKCON to worship the acharya. They all agree
that those of us who promote the acharya are "ritvik deviants" -- so they
can be their own little cult of independent maverick authorities and siphon
off from ISKCON a few adherents and followers of their own. This further
erodes ISKCON because most people will simply leave if the only option of
worship is -- to worship one of these deviant messiahs, or similar people
who are harassing the worship of the acharya such as Rocana and Kailasha
Chandra. So this produces a connundrum: one has to have a living guru: yet
the only pool of pure devotee "gurus" that they have available are -- fools
or deviants, or people who have supported fools and deviants as gurus like
Narayana Maharaja.
There are messiahs under censure like Dhanurdara, other deviants who have
dubious financial reports / embezzling according to their own documents,
and / or GBC guru siddhanta advocates like Rocana, Kailash, Kundali et al.
who decry the worship of the acharya since they are the new "living saints"
of the universe. In short the only option is to worship a deviant or leave
ISKCON, hence almost all the citizens leave ISKCON. One is thus forced into
exile to leave not only Srila Prabhupada's worship, and /or leave ISKCON
altogether but to leave and go off to other institutions. Hence many
ex-followers of ISKCON subsequently left ISKCON and went off to find "a
better living guru" within the Gaudiya Matha. Indeed, Tamal Krishna started
all this by his constantly going to visit the Gaudiya Matha's leaders and
claim they are ISKCON's "living authority".
Indeed the ISKCON leaders want this because their false gurus have promoted
these Gaudiya Matha "shiksha guru" leaders as ISKCON's de facto "living
gurus." This creates a huge exodus of thousands of people being siphoned
away from ISKCON who go off to follow ISKCON's "living shiksha advisors"
from the Gaudiya Matha and other institutions. So the current corrupt
leaders of ISKCON are actually preaching that one does not need Srila
Prabhupada, since he is dead and irrelevant, nor does one need ISKCON, it
is useless because ISKCON worships deviants, or at best they might worship
"the dead guru" Srila Prabhupada. So the de facto order is to leave ISKCON
and go elsewhere find another guru, perhaps go to the Gaudiya Matha or
elsewhere and find another guru. This is because the ISKCON leaders are
instructing people to not bother worshipping Srila Prabhupada but to find
"a new guru" (not Srila Prabhupada).
For example Jayadvaita swami, a big GBC guru supporter, even told us that
you might have to go to the Andes Mountains, Antartica, Peru, Tibet, or
anywhere in the world in search of your "living guru." So we cannot worship
Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON has no purpose, abandon ISKCON and go somewhere
else to find you new living guru. In other words the leaders of ISKCON say:
go ahead and leave ISKCON and start to travel around the whole world
looking for another spiritual process, abandon ISKCON, you no longer
require Srila Prabhupada or ISKCON. And their preaching has worked pretty
good, most of the temples are now pretty much emptied out and the Gaudiya
Matha has grown substantially by the ISKCON leaders encouraging people to
quit ISKCON and "go find another guru."
There is a method to their madness. Once the temples are empty, their real
goal, then they can get the Hindus to come over and the false gurus get
money from a "showing the deity business," which is what happened in the
Gaudiya Matha. Thanks pd
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2) DEVOTEE DEPARTURES
There seems to be another wave of "devotee departures" recently. Suhotra
swami just passed away, apparently from a heart attack. Of course other
"gurus" like Gaura Govinda Swami, Svarupa Damodar swami and others had the
same recent heart attacks and they have passed away as well. There are
those who think the number of "recent heart attacks" are not normal and
maybe someone is causing this by adding some things to people's food? Who
knows? The fact that some suspect this means the bogus GBC gurus are not
trusted widely and this is why some folks are not inclined to go to
Mayapura. Notice that Suhotra and Kavichandra swami (see article below)
were both "sleeping in the boy's gurukula ashram" in Mayapura. Is this a
good idea considering everything nowadays?
Then our good friend Radha Kunda prabhu passed away in Vrindavana, and he
was a good advocate for the PADA agenda: www.radhakunda.com
www.freewebs.com/radhakunda. Needless to say he had almost no money and
support, which shows how the bogus guru process is making it hard for the
devotees to "leave their bodies in Vrndavana."
And now Puru dasa just passed away. Puru dasa is a sort of mixed-up case.
First of all Puru was one of the biggest defenders of Kirtanananda and the
bogus GBC's "gurus." Puru used to send PADA nasty letters complaining that
we were not following the Gaudiya Matha idea of worshipping a nice living
guru, ummm a nice molester like Kirtanananda? And so we sent messages to
Puru -- for years and years -- and finally convinced Puru that Kirtanananda
was a goof and not a guru. Then Puru ran off to support Narayana Maharaja
and the Gaudiya Matha. For example on Puru's web site he glorifies many of
the Gaudiya Matha "gurus" including seriously deviated people like "Bon
Maharaja." However Srila Prabhupada said -- many times -- that Bon Maharaja
is a deviant and that Bon "was rejected by his guru maharaja" and he is not
qualified to be a guru. Indeed Srila Prabhupada called Bon "a cockroach guru."
Of course Narayana Maharaja has also supported all of these false Gaudiya
Matha "gurus" as well. In particular, in 1990 Narayana Maharaja glorified:
(a) Madhava Maharaja (who objected to Srila Prabhupada using his title),
(b) Sridhara Maharaja (Srila Prabhupada says Sridhara supports false gurus
and as such he is not authorized), and Bon Maharaja (Srila Prabhupada says
he is "a black snake" and so on). In other words there is a lot of sympathy
for false gurus in the Narayana Maharaja and Puru camp. And so Puru used to
get very upset with us at PADA because we would cite (and hence expose)
Narayana Maharaja's "Guru Tattva" booklet which says "there is nothing
wrong" with worshipping homosexuals as messiah gurus. "There is nothing
wrong" with juxtaposing acharyas like Jesus and criminals and child
molesters?
Even an ordinary five year old child could defeat these big pundits,
because a child knows that criminals, molesters and deviants are not EVER
to be equated with "pure messiahs from heaven," sheeshpers! Of course if we
want to worship Krishna's pure devotee aka Srila Prabhupada, then these
folks really get aggressive and they will jack boot our faces in saying
that only "ritvik deviants" do not worship their criminals and pedophiles
as Krishna's pure guru representations. Yet the same time, to his credit:
Puru helped us gather evidence for the poison case. In fact Puru defied
Narayana Maharaja who had been opposed to the poison case in order to help
us. So this is why Puru will get some credit for helping Srila Prabhupada,
but he has accrued a huge dis-credit for his promoting the juxtaposing /
lumping in of "Krishna guru successors" with criminals and molesters.
Srila Prabhupada says that by this insulting of the acharyas, indeed by
lumping in acharyas in with criminals and molesters, all of these deviants
are very sinfully implicated. That includes Narayana Maharaja, the false
gurus that he has been promoting, as well as their followers and
sympathizers like Puru. They "will not be excused by the Lord or any agents
of the Lord." No one is allowed to attack the messiahs by saying that
Krishna's pure devotee gurus, God's messiahs from the spiritual kingdom,
and in sum people who are "like Jesus" are criminals and child molesters
etc., and it really does not matter if one wears a tidy nice orange robe
like Narayana and his cohorts have done either.
The only thing we can say for sure is that not all of these people will
attain the same destination. Certainly people like Narayana Maharaja who
prints books saying there is nothing wrong with juxtaposting the levels of
Jesus and homosexuals and / or pedophiles will not not make much spiritual
progress. The bogus GBC gurus meanwhile are not allowing "new gurus" and so
they will simply be a few old men in a few empty temples, with Hindus
supporting a "show of deity" program, as occured in the Gaudiya Matha.
Thanks pd
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2) GBC RESOLUTIONS 2007 (Kapila Kuli)
Part B. Clarification of the Term "Positions of Leadership" [Statement]
RESOLVED:
1. Whenever the ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection rules that an
offense is such as to restrict a person from serving in ISKCON in
"positions of leadership" (including but not limited to offices of GBC,
minister, zonal secretary or temple officer), the restriction must include
the position of initiating guru. This restriction shall apply to all
previous and future decisions of the Central Office of Child Protection.
KK: This clarification unambiguously outlines Dhanurdhar's restriction on
being an initiating guru. Of course, there are many ways in which the GBC
will be faulted from various perspectives. Whatever the merits of these
criticisms, I would like to see a general encouragement of their action in
this matter. In fairness, this matter has required a delicate balancing act
which their introduction addresses.
[PADA: What are the "delicate issues" here? A person who is "a parampara
guru," "shaksat hari tvena," and "is as pure as God," is not a child
abuser. Hello! Why are we saying that we should "delicately" juggle child
abusers and Krishna's pure successor gurus? Why not just admit that child
abusers are -- not -- gurus? Also notice: up till now a devaint person CAN
NOT serve as a "zonal secretary." That is forbidden! Yet a deviant CAN
still be the messiah of the jagat! Why is it that "guru" is the last post
to be removed from the list of things deviants are NOT qualified for? "A
deviant cannot be the temple president, but he can be the guru of the
universe and the sum total of the demigods." Why is this a good resolution?]
KK: It must be accepted scripturally and religiously that sincere chanting
of the holy name is liberating. A fair society must also leave room for
punishment, forgiveness, and rehabilitation. Balanced against such
principles of rehabilitation and transformation must be the overall
reputation, function, and well being of the wider society.
[PADA: How is it that the "pure devotee guru" needs "punishment,
forgiveness and rehabilitation"?]
KK: It is indisputable that Dhanurdar was responsible for many physical
atrocities against the children in his care, scars that are still
resonating for a number of individuals. It is also quite simple that it was
always up to Krsna's youth who suffered abuse to find the space and desire
to forgive Dhanurdhar, and no others can do this. However, ISKCON as a
spiritual movement must always attempt to offer shelter, encouragement and
guidance to those seeking a spiritual path. Therefore I also support their
letter of apology to him (although equally they could apologise to those
victims of his abuse who have also had to suffer ISKCON's indecision in
this matter), and I also see their invitation to him to remain inside
ISKCON as one with merit.
[PADA: We have to "forgive and give shelter" to people who claim they are
messiahs when they are child beaters?]
Sincerely, Kapila Kuli
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Gurukuli proofreader comments: We also see that one member of the second
generation, Kapila, has already responded on some forums. However, he has
assumed that Dhanurdhara has actually been removed from his ISKCON guru
status. But as the language currently stands, that is not the case.
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3) KAVICHANDRA EXPOSED
HARE KRISHNA NAMHATA PREACHING CENTER
SRI RADHA GOVINDA TEMPLE
Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
(ISKCON)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
154/4, 5 Soi Putho Osoth, New Road Opp. K. Building, Suriwongse, Bangkok
Thailand Phone: 02-235-7132-33, Mobile: 06-988-6513
Attention: All GBC
A report about Kavichandra Maharaja by Damodar Dasa, who is preaching in
Bangkok, Thailand
Background
I and my entire family are devotees initiated by Srila Prabhupada, and I am
a member in good standing of Iskcon. I entered Mayapura gurukula school in
1972 when I was 4 years old and completed my education in gurukula in
1981-82. I traveled to other countries before I came to Bangkok such as
Africa and America. I have been preaching in Bangkok, Thailand, for a total
of 17 years since December 1989 under the approval of His Holiness
Jayapataka Maharaja. When I first came to Thailand, I had no intention to
stay, as I was just visiting. At that time Lilaraja prabhu from America and
Isvaku prabhu from South America, disciples of His Holiness Jayapataka
Maharja, were the temple presidents. Overall, they were very good devotees,
but they were both desperate to leave this country, and talked to Maharaja
to convince me to stay here to take care of the preaching center. At that
time the two devotees were living in a 2-storey house on Sukhumvit Road Soi
65. His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja used to give them Laxmi when he
traveled to Bangkok, because the situation was very difficult to distribute
books and collect donations among the Thai population. It was nice of
Maharaja to provide support to them; I personally never asked for any
support. One reason His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja favored me was because
I was very hard working, and as I had saved some Laxmi for use in preaching
from when I sold paintings in America.
I saw Thailand as a good place to fulfill the order of my spiritual master,
Srila Prabhupada, to preach. I struggled here for a few years with a lack
of help and little association. I was gradually able to develop a
congregation of members until 2005. I was somehow able to get by, and there
were always devotees passing through Bangkok staying with me.
Since I am an Iskcon devotee, I have always advertised that the temple is a
Hare Krsna namhatta preaching center under His Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and affiliated with Iskcon. We currently
hold simple morning programs, and noon and evening arati, weekly Sunday
evening programs always attended by a loyal gathering, and special programs
during the year for all the important vaishnava holidays, which are
attended by many. In all, there is a large congregation from the Indian
community numbering almost 500, and there are some Thais, as well.
All At Risk. But all this is at a risk of being destroyed by one person:
Kavichandra Maharaja. He is using one of his followers, an Indian student
here, and others to try to discredit me and to even threaten me. This
person, on the instruction of Kavichandra, is posting negative and
offensive things about me and the preaching mission here on a local Indian
website forum here, thaindian.com, claiming I am not in any way related to
Iskcon.
Kavichandra wrote a letter on official GBC letterhead in January this year
to his follower saying I am not affiliated with Iskcon, and instructed the
follower to spread the letter throughout the Indian community saying that
the Hare Krsna Namhatta Center is not affiliated with Iskcon (see Iskcon
Bangkok Notice). His other followers are also posting negative remarks on
the forum website, creating a negative environment that is threatening my
service here. No sensible sadhu, devotee or sannyasi would make such
comments on a public website.
This follower, on the instruction of Kavichandra, is also suggesting some
threat to me personally, even though he has never met me. On one of this
person's postings to the forum, he wrote: "it is because of the humble and
kind gurus like Jayapataka Swami that he {Damodar} is not yet forced to
leave his body." Action?
I would have thought that the GBC would have taken appropriate action to
deal with Kavichandra in response to the letter written by His Grace Gaura
Mandala Bhumi prabhu in 1998 entitled "I tried to serve you" (please see
attachment 2). But this was apparently not the case. He is still engaging
in actions unbecoming an Iskcon sannyasi and guru as shown by his attempts
to discredit my activities here, and he is possibly continuing to engage in
conduct unbecoming a sannyasi still (please see attachment "Kavichandra
Rectify Yourself").
What happened. I do not mean to bring up old subjects, but it has come time
for me to break my silence and fully explain some references about
Kavichandra that were made in the letter by Gaura Mandala Bhumi. If I
speak now, perhaps finally some action may be taken to deal with this
recidivist. In his letter, Gaura Mandala Bhumi said "there have been a few
rumors of Kavichandra being alone in a room with a mataji in Bangkok in
1995 (not proven)." Please note that the year was actually 1993, in March.
What happened was that in 1993 after the Mayapur festival, Kavichandra came
to Bankgok and stayed in the temple here which I had been managing under
the direction of he and His Holiness Jayapaka Maharaja since 1989. One
morning right after Tulasi arati, Kavichandra called for his female
disciple, Krsna dasi, from Finland, who was traveling with him, to discuss
something, whereupon they both went to the back of the temple. I observed
them both, unnoticed, go into the bathroom. After 20 minutes, Kavichandra
quickly exited the bathroom and ran upstairs to his sannyasi room, and the
female disciple left the bathroom a few seconds after. She saw me standing
nearby watching, and she appeared very distressed that I had seen what had
just occurred.
I do not understand why Gaura Mandala Bhumi said this incident was not
proven, after all, the female disciple telephoned me at the temple in April
1993 after their visit and confessed to me, but she also spoke and
confessed the same to Gaura Mandala Bhumi, who was visiting me at the
Bangkok temple with his wife. The female disciple confessed that she had
been in the bathroom with her guru, Kavichandra, and in his quarters
"serving him, massaging him," etc., because "he was sick." After hearing
this, Gaura Mandala Bhumi chastised her as to how she could do such a
thing. This was not just one incident: Kavichandra came to Bangkok many
times with this female disciple, and I saw her enter his room every night
where she remained until very late, or perhaps the entire night, as I took
rest around 11 p.m. Actually, the female disciple had phoned me many times
after their visit to tell me to keep quiet about what I had seen, because,
in her words, "no one would believe me since Kavichandra was a guru."
I can also confirm what Gaura Mandala Bhumi said in his letter about
Kavichandrda staying in the bathroom for hours, which I saw many times. At
that time, I did not understand, but now I realize that Kavichandra is
mentally and physically a sick man. On another one of his visits to the
temple here, I saw women's bras and underwear in his bag one day. I could
not believe my eyes that he had such undergarments in his bag, so I asked
him to explain. Kavichandra told me the items were for his wife and
daughter, who were staying in Los Angeles at the time. He went to the post
office the same day to mail the items to them.
Strangely, whenever Kavichandra would travel to Bangkok, he would first
stay in a hotel for two or three days before coming to the temple. On one
such trip here, he called me to meet him in an expensive suite at the
Bangkok Airport Hotel to bring him something. I learned from him that he
had already been in Bangkok for three days before he contacted me. What I
saw was something very unusual for a sannyasi: he was alone in the room
with two Thai girls.
On another time, he came into the temple kitchen and began eating out of
the pot used to cook for the deities while complaining, "this is too spicy,
this is not good," but continued eating. In 1996, I was told by the temple
president in the Honolulu, Hawaii, temple when I visited there that
Kavichandra was kicked out of the temple two days before I had arrived
because he was talking all nonsense and manipulating devotees, and
basically engaging in activities that caused a disturbance to others in the
temple. A few days after, Kavichandra telephoned to talk to the temple
president. When he learned that I was there, Kavichandra ranted and raved,
saying many negative things about me. The president told me, however, that
he didn't believe anything Kavichandra said, because he knew his background.
Since the incidents in Bangkok, especially the one in 1993, he has
continuously tried to discredit me. He created such a situation in Mayapur
in 1996 during the festival. Temple management told me that Kavichandra
complained about me and said he felt "uncomfortable" as long as I was
there, and so management asked me to please leave for the time being. I
know the reason that he did not want me to be there was that he was afraid
I might tell someone about his activities in the Bangkok temple that I
witnessed between he and his female disciple. Of course, I complied and
left Mayapur, but after he left, I was welcomed to return.
Apart from these incidents, even though Gaura Mandala Bhumi wrote so many
things in his letter about Kavichandra, why was there no stern action taken
against him. Action needed. Considering that he is in the sannyasi ashram
and considering all the things mentioned in Gaura Mandala Bhumi's letter,
Kavichandra should not be allowed to wear the sannyasi robes, or else have
the rules of Iskcon changed where one can break the regulative principles
but have no action taken if one holds a high position in the society? I
have seen some sannyasis and gurus who have either stepped down or been
forced by the GBC to step down because they had broken the regulative
principles. So why was Kavichandra allowed to maintain his status?
Standing. The question is just where do I stand in all this? I have kept
quiet for all these years about Kavichandra's discretions here in Bangkok.
But I feel I have to speak out now because he is threatening our preaching
mission here as well as my own devotional service. As Gaura Mandala Bhumi
stated, if Kavichandra remains a GBC member and the GBC of Thailand, then
Iskcon stands to suffer losses. He will ruin the reputation of our movement
in Thailand and other regions, for example by his instructing non-devotees
and those outside of Iskcon in Bangkok to post negative, belligerent and
offensive comments about me and my preaching mission to the Indian
community's public forum website that is read by an estimated 1,000 people.
I therefore ask that the GBC take some action against Kavichandra before he
ruins everything here, as he has done in other places in the past.
As far as I understand, I have been under His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja,
who is a faultless sannyasi and guru worthy of all respect and honor. Even
if he does not provide me a letter of recommendation confirming that I am a
member of Iskcon, I will always be indebted to him for everything he has
done in the past for me and my parents. If 3 GBC members, namely, His
Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja, Bhanu Swami, and Bhakti Purusottama Swami,
issue a letter stating that I am not affiliated with Iskcon, then I will
humbly accept. Attached are letters and emails I have sent to His Holiness
Jayapataka Maharaja in seeking his help. I have had no reply as of yet.
I feel heavy hearted in writing this letter, as being of Indian birth and a
devotee trained in Iskcon since 4 years of age, I do not feel good being
critical of another vaishnava, especially a senior devotee, sannyasi, and
guru. I hope that I have not committed any offense, and if I have done so,
I beg forgiveness. However, I feel that the stakes are now so high that
inaction would be the worst for both Kavichandra, Iskcon's preaching
mission in Thailand, and my ability in carrying out the instruction of my
spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada.
Your servant,
Damodar dasa
Bangkok, Thailand
Friday, April 7, 2007
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4) TRIPURARI UPDATE
(PADA to Tripurari) Thanks Mr. Swami but the people who called PADA saying
they are going to kill us identified themselves as your followers. I am
sorry but we had to go to the police, and other agencies in Mendocino
county to report that two of your followers phoned in death threats to me
(Puranjana dasa). One of them is named Madhumangala dasa of New Orleans and
the other is Jivadhara Vaughn(?) at 530-917-1134. I also told the police
that you are orchestrating this because they are your followers. The police
say they are investigating, and they are working with other agencies that
have fielded threats to me over the years. I don't care if I die, I just
want them to pound on your door if I do. Hey, hey, hey, thanks pd
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RE: The Swami's Missing Son
Follow up to Anderson Valley News April 21, 2004 THE SWAMI'S VOLVO
The conflict between myself and the "Jagat Guru" (guru of the universe)
Swami BV Tipurari (aka Thomas Beaudry of Philo) seems to have erupted once
again. I had criticized the Swami after 1977 for his role in supporting the
false gurus of Hare Krishna / ISKCON. Swami BV Tripurari has always
maintained that "Tim Lee is a liar." Of course, shortly after 1977 many
unfavorable media exposes started being written about the odious smell
coming from the dark swamp of the Swami's co-messiahs.
These newspaper articles detailed such crimes as: mail fraud, copyright
fraud, ebezzling, printing unauthorized Pope and football team stickers,
drug selling, illegal gun dealing, using minors as drug mules, contrived
excommunications, forced divorces, forced marriages of minors, beatings of
women, child molesting and so on ad infinitum.
And when I complained all along Swami BV Tripurari was saying that "Tim Lee
is a demon" (because I do not worship criminals as messiahs). Needless to
say there were also media reports of orchestrated death threats,
unexplained "disappearances," a series of beatings and murders of
dissenters and so on. If you want to read up on some of this there is
plenty at my site: harekrsna.org. And these exposes were published in all
the major USA media such as: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, Fresno Bee, and so on and so forth.
Then we launched a 400 million dollar lawsuit in Dallas against the Swami's
co-messiah gurus for child molesting. We had to halt "the list of
victimized complaintants" at 500 since there was simply no more room on the
lawsuit for more, although another 500 victims were waiting to sign on to
the case. That number does not include the alleged similar number of
victims in India. Swami BV Tripurari's co-messiahs plead "no contest" in
the Dallas case, since they did not want to tangle with my testimony in
public court.
Then we launched yet another lawsuit in Allahabad, India. This suit
concerns the apparent "murder by posion" of the founder of the Hare Krishna
religion. And once again, how did you guess, the main suspects in that
murder investigation are Swami BV Tripurari's co-messiahs, who are claiming
to be as pure as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, messianic "gurus." We also
recently had yet another investigative reporting television show aired on
one of India's largest Television networks "STAR TV," detailing the essence
of the poison case. And this television show was given favorable reviews by
viewers and other media in India. We are currently putting together yet
another expose television show in India to further detail the "murder by
poison case" of the founder of the Hare Krishna religion (AC Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada).
Meanwhile, the San Francisco Chronicle recently published an article on
"prison overcrowding in California" and they placed the photo of
Tripurari's son (Nama Bhakti Beaudry -- who is in Coalinga prison) on the
front cover of their newspaper. Swami BV Tripurari had abandoned his son
when he was very little and then we heard that the ex-wife of the Swami was
so depressed at being abondoned, she died of a heroin overdose. Once it was
evident that the Swami's son was in trouble, I called upon the members of
the Krishna religion to help bail out the son: "Let us help the Swami's son
since the son is -- yet another -- child victim of the cult of Swami BV
Tripurari." Much to everyone else's surprise, but not mine, I started
getting death threats from the followers of Swami BV Tripurari for "making
the swami look bad, that he is heartless and he abandons children."
I have duly reported all this to the local police and have a complaint
number if anyone is interested. Perhaps this is all for the best, we can
now write to the son that in our attempt to soften the Swami's heart, we
got his lead jackboots in our face instead. At least no one can say we did
not try to help. Thanks, Timothy Lee (707-477-4102 pada@neteze.com)
PS: Tripurari's son photo:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/02/12/MNGT0O34OO1.DTL&o=1
In any event, PADA would like the help of our readers in identifying a few
of the sources of these threats: (karmi names and whatever else you can
give) of (1) Madhumangala dasa myspace# 167023785, and Jivadara (?) of
Redding California phone #530-917-1134.
Swami Tripurari. 22001 Panorama Way. Philco, CA 95466. Ph: 707 895 3052.
Tripurari: Tom Beaudry
Sudhir: Philip Murphy
Brahma: Robert Jancula (Tripurari's clone)
Brahma's wife: Lydia Mosk
Atreya Rsi: Marz Attar / Philo farm Property?
* Tripurari's property: Sky Ranch Association?
* Tripurari's web site: swami.org
* What is this? Philo Inn/ 22001 Panorama Way Philo CA 95466
* (Brahma dasa) Sangha Editor/ 5824-6 California St. San Francisco CA/
94121/ Helen Mosk Living Trust/ (Mosk John and Helen)
* (Brahma dasa) Anderson Valley Inn/ Robert A Jancula and Lydia Mosk/ 8480
Hwy 128 Philo CA 95466
* Chaitanya Saraswat Mandal 62 S. 13th st. San Jose CA 95112 (why is this
still listed as their address?)
* (Govinda Maharaja) Vaishnava Seva Society/ POB 8040/ Santa Cruz CA 95061
assets: $885,235
* Mandala Publishing/ 354 Bel Marin Keys #d/ Novato CA info@mandala.org
* (Brahma das) San Francisco Store? San Francisco Apartment building?
* Andersonvalley.net
* Anderson Valley Advertiser.
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PADA Editorial:
The PADA editor has just received yet another round of death threats from
the followers of the bogus guru "Swami BV Tripruari" aka Thomas Beaudry of
22001 Panorama Way, Philo CA 95466. What always amazes us at PADA is how
the followers of these false gurus are always ready to go out and "kill the
devotees of Srila Prabhupada," yet they are not advocating similar violence
against -- actually very sinful people. Indeed, one of the Tripurari
followers specifically asked, "Are you a disciple of Srila Prahbupada"?
Only after he was sure that he was going to be killing "a devotee of
Krishna and Srila Prabhupada" did he issue death threats. In short
Tripuari's cult wants to make sure they are only killing "the devotees of
Srila Prabhupada and not anyone else" as the other bogus "Krishna guru"
cults -- specifically target -- the devotees of Krishna for assassination.
Nothing new here, for that matter Kamsa wanted to kill the devotees of
Krishna in days of yore since these type of fellows have been around since
time immemorial.
Let us not forget that all this has erupted since we said that maybe
Tripurari should start looking after the welfare of his son who is in jail.
This really upset some of his followers who informed PADA we are "just
rying to make the swami look like he is negligent towards children." Now we
also know an ex-personal servant of Tripurari who says that Tripurari is
"the guru of the gays." Maybe some of the more mililant gays in his camp
are upset that we have requested a normal family thing to occur, that a
father should care for his son. The only good news here is that their "let
us kill the Krishna devotees" mentality is so transparent it is making it
more and more easy for us to convince yet another wave of people that their
bogus guru cult killed Srila Prabhupada since -- now they want to kill his
followers.
Meanwhile, PADA has yet a new group of policemen supporters at the local
police station, since they are not too keen on bogus gurus who want to kill
dissenters either, especially when Tripurari's whole idea all along is to
enforce his worship of homsexuals and pedophiles "messiahs" regime using
their threatening technique. All we have to do it point out, to one and
all, that we never find Tripurari's followers saying, "Oh let us go kill
the child molester gurus who orchestrated the molesting of so many
children." Nope, the child molester guru projects are Tripurari's pals and
the good people of the earth. Nor are the Tripurari folks threatening what
some of the violent Christian sects advocate: let us go kill the abortion
doctors. Nor are they advocating aggressing some of the animal torture
laboratories as some of the militant animal rights groups are doing etc.
No, these are all fine and wonderful projects.
Of course PADA does not advocate violence at all, but if we are going to go
out and start whacking people, why are Krishna's devotees at the top of
Tripurari's list of "people who must be whacked"? The devotees are the only
bad people on earth? Devotees are the only people we need to resist, indeed
the only people we must kill and eliminate from the face of the earth,
especially those who worship the pure devotee Srila Prabhupada. His worship
must be eradicated. Yep, Tripurari's cult says that the only enemy in the
universe are the worshippers of Srila Prabhupada. Kamsa had a similar idea,
"kill the devotees of Krishna exclusively." Both of the followers of
Tripurari who phoned us said the same thing, "You must be stopped, you will
be stopped." Sorry that we worship the pure, since if we were worshipping a
nice homosexual pedophile guru like Kirtanananda, who orchestrates murders,
we would "not" be stopped, and indeed Tripurari followers would then be
doing the happy dance seeing that we are supporting their deviants messiah
lineage process.
OK, more to the point this is a clearly pro-homosexual pedophile guru
agenda, all because Tripurari's cult wants to preserve the worship of his
devaint guru pals. Yes, worship of child molesters is NOT to be stopped,
only the worship of the pure devotee is to be stopped. OK, we do not want
to lump in Kamsa here, since even Kamsa was never as degraded as Saint
Tripurari. Kamsa would in fact stop the worhip of child molester messiahs,
since Kamsa has some thread of civility. Yet nowadays if someone wants to
worship child molesters, and/ or Jim Jones, Charles Manson, David Koresh,
Idid Amin, Pol Pot and anyone else like that, Tripurari has no problems
with that. But if one wants to worship someone pure, "You will be stopped."
And this is why we find that when Tripurari swami visits -- say for example
-- Los Angeles, he exclusively associates with the followers of the
homosexual guru cult and he avoids us. Tripurari's friends apparently are
only: the child molester guru cults; those who supported the worship of
child molester gurus; and /or those who are voted in as guru by the
molester guru cults. After all it was Tripuraris' mentor Sridhara Maharaja
who said that the child molester gurus (?) have to stay on as gurus, as
well as the supporters of the child molesters gurus, and both of these
deviant parties must "vote in" more gurus, and even Tripurari himself was
trying to get a pedophile guru lineage certificate from this ship of fools.
NOTICE! We never find Tripurari's followers out there making death threats
to these deviant guru folks? At least we do not know of any record of any
of the followers of Tripurari making death threats to the child molester
guru's cults like Kirtanananda's or his cult's members. Rather the policy
of Tripurari / Sridhara is that the worship of Srila Prabhupada "must be
stopped," and "the worship of deviants" is fine and acceptable and moreover
this is the direct policy of Sridhara Maharaja since 1936. So the Tripurari
team's policy all along has been very clear: if criminals pose as messiahs,
and claim to be equal to Jesus, and they are molesting children in ISKCON,
then those people are to be protected -- as Sridhara Maharaja says "none
should protest." However if someone opposes juxtaposing Jesus with
criminals and child molesters, that person should be "stopped and killed."
In short, Triprari swami has defended the enforced cult ritualistic worship
of homosexual pedophiles regime all along and he still does. Thanks pd
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Property Protection Considerations
BY: MRIGENDRA DAS ADHIKARI
Apr 19, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (SUN) — Several recent articles in the
Sampradaya Sun have referred to a draft of bylaws GBC Zonal Secretaries and
others are trying to convince U.S. and Canadian temples to adopt. It
appears from the published reactions, that many of these temples will not
be accepting those bylaws. Meanwhile, the GBC members have not fulfilled
their obligation to institute the method of property protection that Srila
Prabhupada had wanted. They should enforce the GBC resolution which can be
found on the official GBC website.
Resolution 11.2.2 on Page 71 reads "All ISKCON properties shall be
registered in such a way that the Property Trustees shall have, to the
maximum degree possible under local law, the actual authority to perform
the functions required of them under ISKCON Law".
At Resolution 11.1.5 the GBC have what they describe as "from Srila
Prabhupada's will", but they changed the last few words. The statement in
the ISKCON law book attributed to Srila Prabhupada is, "Properties outside
of India in principle should never be mortgaged, borrowed against, sold,
transferred, or in any way encumbered, disposed of, or alienated, but if
the need arises, they may be mortgaged, borrowed against, sold, etc. with
the unanimous consent of the Property Trustees."
You can look at Srila Prabhupada's will, which can be found here on the
official GBC site and see that the last sentence of the first page is
instead, "Properties outside of India in principle should never be
mortgaged, borrowed against, sold, transferred or in any way encumbered,
disposed of, or alienated, but if the need arises, they may be mortgaged,
borrowed against, sold, etc., with the consent of the GBC committee members
associated with the particular property."
I don't know who had the nerve to misquote Srila Prabhupada by adding
"unanimous" and by replacing "GBC Committee members" with "Property
Trustees", but I think it was done before the days of the Internet when few
people had access to paper copies of Srila Prabhupada's will.
Anyway, I worked on the property protection issue over 15 years ago when I
was retained by the ISKCON Foundation and my research and conclusions were
approved without any additions or deletions by Edward Gaffney, Professor of
Law who was, at that time, the Dean of the Valparaiso University School of
Law. Dean Gaffney is one of the leading experts in the United States in the
area of Church law and specifically in the area of Church property issues.
His Holiness Romapada Swami is quoted as stating that the new bylaws are
proposed for property protection, as if any accusations of overreaching on
the part of the GBC could be countered by his implying that there is no
better way to protect temple properties. In fact, those new bylaws in no
way protect the properties against the biggest problem that the U.S.
temples have had, which is liabilities because of intentional torts.
One of the plans that Dean Gaffney approved was a Trust form that I
developed that gives temples protection against tort or other liabilities
and also included the requirement of consent of the GBC committee members
for any sale or mortgage or other alienation of the temple's real estate.
So why don't the GBC Zonal Secretaries push the U.S. temples to adopt a
plan that the temples will agree to and also which would give a substantial
amount of property protection?
If the bylaws plan is a non-starter for the temple Board members, that does
not mean that the temple Boards and the GBC should not try to protect
temple real estate. The GBC does have the authority not only from Srila
Prabhupada for this, but also from their own laws, which Romapada Swami has
admitted can not be claimed for the new bylaws that he proposes.
Other relevant resolutions from the ISKCON Law Book:
11.2.6 Non-Adherence to Property Registration Regulations
That unless the Executors Committee grants a special temporary exemption,
those temples who do not adhere to the Property Trustee Principle may not
be considered as authorized ISKCON affiliates.
11.3 Property Trustees
11.3.1 Duties
1. To have their names included on ISKCON property titles or on holding
corporations for properties assigned to them
11.3.4 Regulations
Wherever legally possible, the names of the Property Trustees shall be
included on all new and existing titles to ISKCON properties or where
applicable as directors or trustees of the controlling Board of Directors
or Trustees of the "holding trust" of the property.
Mrigendra das Adhikari
aka Harvey Mechanic
Attorney At Law
Los Angeles
(member of New York Bar, not California bar)
hmechanic(at)excite.com [replace (at) with @]