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NEWSLETTER No.36 |
Message from Adridharana Dasa, Temple President ISKCON Calcutta
- Indian Press Glorifies New York IRM
- Jayapataka Swami's Passport Copy Sent To IRM
- Newsletters Now Available in Spanish
- Gurukula Court Case Update
- Bhakti Caru's Anger At Lack of Worship
1. Indian Press Glorifies New York
IRM
The following article was printed on the front page of the Calcutta
edition of one of the leading national English Language Newspapers in
India - The Hindustan Times. The story speaks for itself and just
demonstrates how in less than a year since its formation, the ISKCON
Revival Movement (IRM) has made waves around the globe. Its work has
provided a positive alternative to the "dis-integration"
which the GBC Chairman himself has described is currently going on in
ISKCON.
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ISKCON Tree of
Religion in Big Apple |
2. Jayapataka Swami's (JPS) Passport Copy Sent To IRM
The JPS 'fugitive' saga has
witnessed some explosive developments in this last week. Since the release
of our newsletters, a whole whirlwind has been unleashed throughout
ISKCON, as devotees of all philosophical persuasions and camps have now
combined to bring this fugitive to justice, and those leading the charge
are his own disciples closest to him, who have now become totally
disillusioned with JPS's lying and cheating:
a) Blow No. 1 - A devotee who is one of the closest to JPS
sent us color copies of his current passport and US Green Card. One can
only imagine how close the source in question must have been to have had
access to these documents. These documents are now available for viewing
on the IRM website and they can be reached by clicking on this link below
now:
http://farsight.members.beeb.net/guru_on_the_run.htm
If this link does not work then just go to the IRM home-page as normal and
one can reach it that way: http://come.to/irm
The receipt of these documents is a major breakthrough in the hunt for JPS
and they have already been forwarded onto the appropriate
authorities. Please stay tuned to future newsletters to hear of the
consequences that will now definitely ensue following this important
discovery.
b) Blow 2 - After our report in the last newsletter that JPS
would be arriving in London at 5 AM in the morning on Wednesday 4th
October, JPS has been playing an amazing game of hide and seek. This week
he had been at the Atlanta Temple. However his programs and plans kept
changing, as he tried to throw everyone off the scent. One minute he was
due to leave at a certain time. Then suddenly he is not leaving. Then he
is supposed to have left for the airport, but he has 'missed' the
flight he was supposed to have caught.
Then when he does arrive in London, a hush hush operation is put into
place to not let it be known that he is passing through. His disciples
were given strict instructions to not inform anyone that he is arriving.
He also refuses to come out of the airport to meet with his disciples,
even though he had the time to do so and they had made all the
arrangements to do so. Finally his 'no-show' has one disciple in
tears, and he is forced to console her by speaking to her for half an hour
on the phone. Then he flies onto Moscow, with the plan is that he is due
to come back to London next week.
None of this is the behaviour of someone who is on a 'normal'
preaching tour. It is clear that our revelations are forcing JPS to become
increasingly hemmed in, as he becomes more and more paranoid. This is
understandable since as it can be seen from the revelations in the IRM
newsletter, that the leaks coming from his camp indicate it contains more
holes than Swiss Cheese, and that he cannot actually trust anyone. As soon
as he makes any travel plans, we know of it in seconds.
c) Blow 3 - Our revelations last week that he has actually
been lying to everyone when he stated that he was not on the run and that
he was actually just doing his 'normal preaching tour', has thrown
his disciples into disarray. Thus a Goloka Chandra Das, who we assume is
one of his disciples, posts a story on CHAKRA that:
| "He is not on the
run. As a sannyasi, he is travelling and preaching as he has always
been doing all these years on the direct order of his spiritual
master, His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila
Prabhupada." (Goloka Chandra Das, CHAKRA, 27/9/00) |
Later however we have another one of his disciples, a Sumithra Krishna Das from Madras, admitting on com that he WAS lying, but that it is OK since even the Pandavas lied and cheated!!!:
| "Even the Pandavas
had to lie and cheat on the Kurukshetra war because their enemies
were so adharmic. What to do! So is that a blow to anyone that the
Pandavas did all that?" (Sumithra Krishna, 03-Oct-00 03:08, COM Text:3593026) |
So that's ok then. The supposedly Bona Fide
spiritual master can 'lie and cheat' because the Pandavas did it!
It is very clear that JPS's attempts to evade justice are not at all
proceeding smoothly, while his increasingly demoralised disciples can only
look on in bewilderment! Please keep the reports of his travel plans
and sightings coming in. We need to be ready and waiting for him if he
ever attempts to sneak back into India. Please never forget what we are
dealing with here. An innocent devotee is dead.
Thank You.
3. Newsletters Now Available in Spanish
A Spanish speaking disciple of JPS has become so disillusioned with the
activities of JPS that she has began the service of translating the
newsletters into Spanish to reach out to her Spanish speaking Godbrothers
and Godsisters who may not have heard of the latest escapades of their 'Guru
Maharaja'. The first one available is newsletter
no. 33 where we first broke the news of the conspiracy from the JPS
camp that cooked up a false rape case. She is also working on the
translation of subsequent newsletters as we speak. These newsletters are
available on our website at: http://come.to/irm
, or one can contact us here at the newsletter and we will be happy to
send them on. In the past we have had many Spanish speaking devotees
writing to us in Spanish, saying there was no use sending them the
newsletter as they could not understand them. Hopefully this problem is
now rectified. Please pass this message on to the Spanish speaking
devotees. Thank you.
4. Gurukula Court Case Update
We stated in our newsletter No 30. "Gurukula
Lawsuit Special - The Facts" - that the Gurukula lawsuit
completely depended on the utterly outrageous and horrible claim that
Srila Prabhupada was the 'Godfather' of a criminal child-molesting cult.
This was because the whole case was based around invoking the civil 'RICO'
statutes, and on alleging that Srila Prabhupada actually founded a
criminal 'racketeering' organisation.
Consequently the GBC have now filed a motion to dismiss the Gurukula
lawsuit based on Turley's misuse of the RICO statutes. This aggressive
motion to have the whole case dismissed also puts paid to the rumours that
the GBC would 'settle'. The case on behalf of the GBC was filed
jointly by a Texas law firm that has experience in Civil RICO claims and
Gupta Das (Fedorowsky). That's correct, this is the same Gupta Das who
took the BBT to the cleaners in the Hamsaduta case. It now seems that he
and the GBC are happy to work with each other. The Texan attorneys are R.
Brent Cooper and Susan B. Heygood (both members of the Texas Bar). There
are many reasons given by the motion to dismiss as to why the Civil RICO
statutes cannot be used in this case, but by far the most powerful
argument is based upon the elements of a civil RICO claim which must be
present, as established by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (which
oversees the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas):
To state a civil RICO claim under section 1962 a plaintiff must allege:
(1) the conduct
(2) of an enterprise
(3) through a pattern
(4) of racketeering activity.
As a preliminary matter, however, a plaintiff must establish that he has
standing to sue. The standing provision of civil RICO provides that '[a]ny
person injured in his business or property by reason of a violation of
section 1962 of this chapter may sue therefore...'. Thus, RICO plaintiff
must satisfy two elements - injury and causation.
In simple terms this means that in order for the Plaintiff to even have
the ABILITY to sue, regardless of the merits of the case, they need
to at least establish that their 'business or property' was injured
by the 'racket', and further also that the 'racket' DIRECTLY
caused the injury. Both elements must be satisified. According to the
complaint filed by Turley, there are NO allegations made that
property or business was damaged - these were only personal injury claims.
Further it is ADMITTED that individual abusers, not the "racket",
were the direct causes of the plaintiffs injuries.
Turley will now be invited to file his response, and the Judge is expected
to hand down his judgement in about 2-3 months. If he agrees with the
motion to dismiss, the case will be over and done with. If he does not
grant it then we can expect that the GBC will appeal the decision.
Thus it could be years before the case even gets to trial (if it gets
to trial at all), and then there will be many more years of appeals if
the GBC lose the actual trial. Please remember that it is usually cheaper
to keep appealing and prolonging the case rather than making an immediate
multi-million dollar settlement, and this is exactly what the GBC did in
the Robin George case, where it was
*** 19 *** years before Robin
George received a single cent.
Independent lawyers who have seen the motion to dismiss, and who know the
Judge's track record, feel that the motion to dismiss stands a good chance
of being granted. However we will have to simply wait and see if indeed
that is the case. Thus there is a chance that the abused children could be
denied their much needed justice because of a trial 'strategy' that
portrays Srila Prabhupada as the founder and nourisher of a Criminal Child
Molesting Cult. This is yet another reason why such a horrible legal
strategy should never have been made in the first place. We will
keep you posted on developments.
5. Who is Really In The Center?
The GBC Gurus have been continually trying to portray the illusion that
they are always endeavouring to put "Srila Prabhupada in the
center", and that they themselves are simply nothing but assistants
in this most noble task. Bhakti Caru Swami more than anyone specialises in
this technique. He will go out of his way to try and show how he is always
concerned that Srila Prabhupada be in the center rather than himself. This
charade is used no doubt to deflect attention from the real picture, which
is that they have replaced Srila Prabhupada, stolen his disciples, and are
busy enjoying the result of this disobedient activity. But do not take our
word for it.
Please read the following accounts of the 'pastimes' of Bhakti Caru Swami,
including the recent 'Vyasa-Puja' celebrations of Bhakti Caru Swami, and
please decide for yourself just who it is that is really in the 'center'
here:
| "The next morning,
at 6:30, Guru Maharaja went to Mayapur by car, accompanied by
another vehicle. [...] Then the kirtan kept going and Guru Maharaja
circumnambulated the main deities three times, sometimes dancing
lightly with his hands held in the air. Finally, he went upstairs to
his quarters, again accompanied by a huge trail of devotees all
running up the stairs one after another. When Guru Maharaja came in
and sat down on his Vyasasana (the regular one that always stays in
the front darsan room), a Guru Puja was started. As the many
devotees sang and danced, Guru Maharaja distributed 3 types of
cookies to the small children first and then to the rest of the
devotees, as they came to him and offered a flower at his lotus
feet. At the end of the Guru Puja, Guru Maharaja gave the following
talk. [...] On Vyasa Puja day, Guru Maharaja was in the temple for
Mangala aroti. [...] After that, Guru Maharaja went to Srila Prabhupada's Vyasasana to be the one to offer the more than 60 preparations that had been offered for the occasion, including an enormously long cake (it took 8 devotees to carry it). [...] Then, there was supposed to be readings of Vyasa Puja offerings to Guru Maharaja in the GBC conference room at 4:30. At 5:15 Guru Maharaja went up there, sat down on the same Vysasana as the previous night, but he noticed that there were hardly anyone there! Indeed, only about 30 devotees were sitting there. Guru Maharaja got a little upset with Ganga Narayana das, the organizer of the event. He grimaced, got up and left. As he walked away, he said, "I didn't even want to do this! There is practically no one here, so what is the use?" [...] After some time, Guru Maharaja came out of his room and sat on the Vyasasana, his anger completely gone. Then, for 3 hours, so many devotees stood up and read their offerings to Guru Maharaja. At the end, Guru Maharaja said a few words again in glorification of Srila Prabhupada and of the need in our society to put all emphasis on him." (The above is taken from the BCS Istaghosti conference on com) |
Please Note:
- He receives regular Guru-Pujas as he sits on his Vyasasana, with flowers offered to his 'lotus feet', and he hands out cookies to Children.
- He has a lavish Vyasa-puja celebration with 60 preps and a cake so huge it needs 8 devotees to carry it.
- He is overcome with 'anger', 'grimaces' and walks out in a huff because there were 'only' 30 disciples waiting to read Vyasa-Puja offerings to him.
- As soon as there are enough disciples gathered to glorify him, so that the offerings last for a full 3 hours, he is happy to sit on his Vyasasana and listen. He had claimed that he did not even want to listen to these offerings, yet he gets angry when something he claims he does even want to do does NOT happen but appears fine when it does happen!
- Then after having spent 100% of his time
ensuring that the emphasis was
100% on only him, he has the cheek to pontificate to everyone else that the society needs to 'put all the emphasis' on Srila Prabhupada!!! This has to be the height of hypocrisy.
The charade detailed above epitomises perfectly his technique of receiving massive adulation and glorification for hours on end, and then simply SAYING that actually we should all emphasise Srila Prabhupada. This technique serves two purposes:
- It distracts everyone's attention from the massive 'Srila Prabhupada imitation' that has just gone on.
- It makes Bhakti Caru Swami less guilty for having just engaged in an orgy of self-glorification.
It seems that Bhakti Caru's absorption in meditating on the pastimes of Srila Prabhupada in order to make his film of Srila Prabhupada's life, has simply resulted in him actually trying to ACT OUT these pastimes himself! Further, to judge the result of having substituted Srila Prabhupada from the center with himself, one only needs to read a snippet of the 'Vyasa-Puja' offerings which were made to him this year:
| "Due to Your direct
mercy we are progressing in our Krishna Conscious lives and we
cannot understand how much we have lost out in our lives. We
thank You for picking us up from the gutters and accepting us as
Your children; we pray that we live up to Your expectations. [...]
Please give us Your spiritual guidance, we need it to make our lives
successful and have an opportunity to go back home, back to
Godhead." "Dear Father, You have so very mercifully lifted us up from the gutters of material nescience and given us the wonderful opportunity to establish our lost relationship with the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna" |
Isn't it actually Srila Prabhupada who is
doing this? Is Bhakti Caru Swami really keeping Srila Prabhupada in the
center when he has trained his disciples to ascribe to him the
characteristics which are really actually only applicable to Srila
Prabhupada? And is it really keeping Srila Prabhupada in the center when
as he have just seen above he tries to imitate the position of Srila
Prabhupada?
Please re-read all the above and judge for yourselves.
One final note is that even some of Bhakti Caru Swami's disciples
themselves knew that his 'Vyasa-Puja' celebrations were an embarrassment
for someone who claims that he is concerned with 'keeping Srila Prabhupada
in the center'. That is why they put out the story that this was not
really a 'Vyasa-Puja' celebration but just a 'normal Birthday party'.
Besides the fact that the activities clearly prove it was a standard
Vyasa-Puja celebration, all we can say is - that was some birthday party
for a supposedly 'humble' sannyasi!
So the next time you hear Bhakti Caru or anyone else pontificate about how
they are keeping 'Srila Prabhupada in the center', please remember:
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
And we can see very clearly that the
actions do not match the hypocritical weasel words.
Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter, and please keep
your letters, and e-mail addresses of other devotees who should be added
to our list, flowing in. A hard copy of our main position paper 'The
Final Order' is available on request.
All other IRM papers can be accessed through the EDITORIAL SECTION of the
IRM website at http://farsight.members.beeb.net
or http://come.to/irm If
you would like to receive any of the back issues of the Newsletter please
let me know.
No 1. Invitation to Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa
Puja
No 2. GBC Lose First Round of Court Case
No 3. The Story VNN Refused to Publish
No 4. Poison Theorists Accuse Adri of
Complicity
No 5. Iskcon Continues to Promote Child
Abusers
No 6. Invitation to Malaysia
No 7. United World Body Formed
No 8. Does Srila Prabhupada Support Poisoning
Theory?
No 9. PADA Attacks IRM Position
No 10. PADA Continues to Present False
Evidence
No 11. GBC Funded Video says Ritvik
Spiritual
No 12. Child Rapist Selected by Gurus to Defend
their Legitimacy
No 13. GBC Facing Perjury Charge in Calcutta
High Court
No 14. Sahajiyism Makes a Comeback in Iskcon.
No 15. Govt. Minister Inaugurates Bangalore
Rathayatra
No 16. Iskcon Calcutta Triumphs Following Arson
Attack
No 17. Fighting Lies with Truth Not More Lies
No 18. GBC Resolutions Continue to Provide
Laughter
No 19. Indian Leaders Endorse IRM Position
That GBC Confused
No 20. Convicted Child Abuser Officially
'Returns' To Parampara
No 21. GBC Chairman Admits ISKCON
'Disintegrating'
No 22. Krishna Confirms ISKCON Re-Birth
No 23. Hare Krishna Explosion Begins In New
York as IRM Temple Opens
No 24. IRM Launches Media Campaign
to Defend Srila Prabhupada
No 25. GBC Teaches That 'Living Gurus' NOT
Required
No 26. BBT Admits Books Changed To Fit GBC
Philosophy
No 27. Big Breakthrough For Krishna In
Singapore
No 28. Bangalore Tops World Book
Distribution
No 29. City of New York to Honour Srila
Prabhupada
No 30. Gurukula Lawsuit Special - The Facts
No 31. BBC Glorifies Srila Prabhupada to
the World
No 32. Harinama Revived in World Famous Times
Square
No 33. ISKCON Guru on Run From Police -
Suicide Case Special
No 34. GBC Declare All Out War
No 35. GBC Fail Again in Second Expulsion
Attempt
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Your
Servant,
Adridharan das