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NEWSLETTER No.38 |
Message from Adridharana Dasa, Temple President ISKCON Calcutta
1. All Ports Alert For Jayapataka To
Be Issued
2. ISKCON Leaders Losing Faith in ISKCON
3. Classic Quotes
| 1. All Ports Alert For Jayapataka To Be Issued |
As we have reported in previous weeks, Jayapataka Swami (JPS) is on the run from the Indian legal system. We have even produced evidence where JPS has admitted this fact. As reported, JPS is fleeing since he has been charged with abetting the suicide of Suresvara Das, a devotee against whom the JPS camp filed false rape charges. Now, however, in a sensational development solicitors acting for the family of the deceased have decided to take international action to bring this fugitive to justice.
The solicitors have put together a package
of material which will allow the immigration authorities of all countries
to take the appropriate action.
The package consists of a cover letter which sets out all the material
enclosed. This cover letter, and a solicitor's letter which is the
first item in the package, are reproduced below:
| Dear
Sirs,
The enclosed materials give evidence pertaining to an Indian Citizen who we believe will make attempts to enter your country sometime in the future. He is currently on the run following the Indian Police having filed a case against him for abetment to suicide. This is a serious crime which carries a prison term of 7 years in our country. His name is Jayapataka Swami. Though he is one of 8 similarly charged, he is the only one who has fled the country. The enclosed materials are as follows:
Unfortunately he had the presence of mind to abscond around the time the case was filed, and before the court order was procured. The court order was hand-written by the Judge, which is still quite common in the Calcutta High Court. The Court seal is clearly visible. A typed version has also been provided. We have also included a copy of relevant newspaper articles which state the same.
We urge that you may enter this
information on your airport computer systems, as we are unable to
specify in advance exactly when he may seek to enter your country,
as he is continually moving from country to country. He particularly
uses countries as transit ports as he moves from one side of the
globe to the other. We hope this information will be of interest to
you, and that you will be minded to not facilitate this person's
current evasion of the due process of Justice. Yours faithfully, Sandersons & Morgans |
The following is a copy of item No. 1 of the package as stated in cover letter above:
| Dear
Sir, This is to inform you that a criminal case has been started against eight accused persons. They are as follows :- 1. Jayapataka Swami 2. Satadhanya Dasa 3. Dayaram Dasa 4. Bhadra Charu Dasa 5. Birchandra Dasa 6. Krishna Lata Dasi 7. Basanti Devi Dasi 8. Subhabrata Dasa The case being started on
03.08.2000 by the Hastings Police Station being Hastings Police
Station case no. 293/2000 corresponding to the G.R. Case No.
2588/2000 under section 120B/306 of the Indian Penal Code in
criminal conspiracy with each other in abetting in commission of
suicide of Sureswara Dasa. |
We are seeking the help of the international devotee community to assist us in contacting their appropriate immigration authorities and presenting the above package of material to them. Many devotees had earlier contacted us asking how they could help after having been shocked by the needless death of Suresvara Das, and desiring to see justice served on behalf of an i nnocent Vaisanava.
If you wish to assist in this way then please send us your mailing address, and the full package mentioned above will be couriered immediately to yourselves. We especially seek the assistance of devotees who already have contact or connection with the appropriate authorities in their countries.
Our IRM contacts in different countries are
already beginning to get the ball rolling but we wish to cover as many
countries as possible, so please contact us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you very much.
| 2. ISKCON Leaders Losing Faith in ISKCON |
We have already reported on how even the GBC chairman has stated that the ISKCON society is 'disintegrating' (please see issue No. 21 - "GBC Special Issue - GBC Chairman Admits ISKCON 'Disintegrating' "). Now we have the following shocking statement from Abhirama Dasa. Abhirama Dasa is acting as the Managing Director of the S.M.D.P. (Sri Mayapur Development Project) which is the single most important and expensive project in the history of ISKCON. He is also a Regional Secretary for ISKCON South India, the Chairman of the M.V.T. (Mayapur Vrindavana Trust), and was/is on the board of the ISKCON Foundation.
However this is what he said recently in a confidential e-mail sent to a co-Temple President of an ISKCON Temple in South India under his charge:
| "I
am not a fanatical ISKCON man. Actually, I am no longer sure that
the institution is a useful preaching tool. In many ways it has
become a burden to the preaching of Gauranga's message. It was a
sharp sword in the hands of Srila Prabhupada, but has become a dull
blunt instrument in the hands of very incompetent and sometimes
foolish hands. It is also a focus of envy for many people who are
themselves failures and insincere. My interest is not to protect
ISKCON at any cost, but to see how to increase people's love for
Hari kirtan, and to have faith in Srila Prabhupada. This has meant
promoting ISKCON, in the past, because it represented these goals.
Nowadays, the actions of some people are gradually separating the
mission of Srila Prabhupada from the mission of ISKCON. I am shocked
that I should say this, because I never thought it would come to
this, but I must now say it." (Abhirama Das, 15/10/00) |
Yet this is the person who has been entrusted with the biggest project in ISKCON's history, and has also been given a whole chunk of India and a lot more besides to look after. Clearly he is just following in his Chairman's footsteps. The malaise therefore obviously runs deep, beginning right at the top and running through all the sections of ISKCON's leadership. Recently His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami (BCS) also stated the following:
| "I
don't hesitate to say that things are a mess in our society." (Bhakti Caru Swami giving Srimad Bhagavatam Class on October 5th in Vrindavana) |
So we have a disintegrating society in a
mess, which is nothing but a dull and blunt instrument in the hands of
very incompetent and sometimes foolish hands, and which is nothing but a
burden on the preaching. And this is what ISKCONs' OWN leaders are saying
- not us! You would think that with this state of affairs there would be
some humility in their attitude towards others.
Unfortunately not! Whilst freely admitting that their leadership has
brought ISKCON to the brink of collapse, they still tried to expel the IRM
-TWICE - just because we did not wish to surrender to this morally and
spiritually bankrupt leadership!
Another example of this double standard can be seen in the same Bhagavatam
lecture of BCS quoted above. In this he also says:
| "When
Srila Prabhupada was here, the spirit was so high; the preaching was
going on so strongly. All the temples were full of devotees and so
many individuals were just rushing to join this movement. And that
is the Sankirtana spirit. We should revive that spirit. When Srila
Prabhupada was here, individuals took so much risk; they risked
their lives to go to different corners of the world and spread this
movement. But unfortunately, we are missing that spirit today. Young
devotees, 2 or 3 months in the movement, went out to spread and
establish this movement all over the world. Now when we look back and think, we can say, "what are we doing? Where is that spirit?" what to speak of going out and opening new temples, many of the temples that Srila Prabhupada gave us are empty today. Why? We have to consider this. [...] So let us try to revive that spirit of Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtana movement. Let us revive the spirit of ISKCON once again. [...] I'll take the liberty of being very frank and I'll say that our first mistake was in our initiation system after Srila Prabhupada's disappearance. The mistake was that when Srila Prabhupada left the planet, some individuals took up the responsibility of becoming gurus, and they more or less assumed that to become a guru means to become like Srila Prabhupada; to be a guru means to have the same position as Srila Prabhupada. In doing so, consciously or unconsciously, we obscured Srila Prabhupada's position; we obscured Srila Prabhupada's greatness. And since then, it is a history of losses in our society." (Bhakti Caru Swami giving Srimad Bhagavatam Class on October 5th in Vrindavana) |
Here BCS states that:
Now, there is a group that wishes to REVIVE ISKCON back to how things were in 1977 on the principle of No Change. This group also states that we made a mistake in 1977 in our initiation system, and that this has led to Srila Prabhupada's position being obscured and that we must therefore simply promote Srila Prabhupada's greatness to solve this problem. This group is called the ISKCON Revival Movement (IRM).
You would therefore think that Maharaja
would have some sympathy with this group - since they are simply trying to
the best of their ability to put Srila Prabhupada in the center as he
keeps saying we must. Unfortunately no! BCS's response has been simply to
support their expulsion - twice! Which again raises the question of just WHO
BCS REALLY wants in the center. Because as soon as a group actually DOES
try and put Srila Prabhupada in the center they are expelled for doing so.
Even if we are putting Srila Prabhupada TOO MUCH in the center, at
least we have the same goal in mind, which should bring some support and
sympathy - not expulsion. And in any case how is it even possible to put
Srila Prabhupada TOO MUCH in the center in his OWN society?
This again exposes BCS's pontification regarding the obscuring of Srila
Prabhupada's position as being nothing more than double-talk to try and
obscure his OWN worship.
| 3. Classic Quotes |
In this regular column we shall be
highlighting the bizarre and contradictory world of our GBC and 'Gurus',
who have occupied Srila Prabhupada's position on the pretext of being able
to guide us out of darkness and back to Godhead.
However as this column will show over the coming weeks, these
personalities would be better advised coming into the light themselves,
and to move out of the way from blocking the clear and transcendental
light which is emanating directly from Srila Prabhupada. Physician heal
thyself!
| Classic Quote No. 6 |
*Bhakti Caru Contradicts Sastric Injunctions*
| "We
can consider: what is the use of diksa without siksa? Therefore what
is more important, diksa or siksa? Siksa!" (Bhakti Caru Swami giving Srimad Bhagavatam Class on October 5th in Vrindavana) |
Here BCS states that Siksa is more important than Diksa. Yet Srila Prabhupada states that the sastric injunctions declare that there is *no difference* between the siksa and diksa Gurus:
"According to sastric injunctions, there is no difference between siksa-guru and diksa-guru, and generally the siksa-guru later on becomes the diksa-guru"
(S:B, 4:12:32 Purport)
If there is *no difference* between the diksa and siksa gurus then how can siksa be *more important* than diksa?
| Classic Quote No. 7 |
*Bhakti Caru Obscures Srila Prabhupada's Position*
| "The
diksa guru obviously gives siksa. The diksa is based on siksa. [...]
Not only that, but since we are not putting the importance on siksa,
Srila Prabhupada's position as the pre-eminent siksa guru of this
movement for all the devotees for all time has been minimized." (Bhakti Caru Swami giving Srimad Bhagavatam Class on October 5th in Vrindavana) |
The word pre-eminent means 'surpassing all others'. Thus BCS agrees that Srila Prabhupada's siksa surpasses any other siksa. Thus if Diksa is based on siksa then:
"A devotee must have only one initiating spiritual master because in the scriptures acceptance of more than one is always forbidden."
(CC, Adi:1:35)
Yet even after admitting all this, BCS
decides to steal all of Srila Prabhupada's disciples and worship for HIMSELF,
thus obscuring Srila Prabhupada's true position, and thus doing the very
thing he claims he is trying to combat.
Srila Prabhupada - ISKCON's pre-eminent Diksa Guru - accept no
substitutes!
A hard copy of our main position paper 'The
Final Order' is available on request.
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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
No 36. Indian Press Glorifies New York IRM
No 37. ISKCON Temple In Bangladesh Joins
IRM
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Your
Servant,
Adridharan das