chapter 12; when devotional service costs
          KRSNA $ 50,000 per year
  

     just as the FBI was setting up both sulocan and new vrndaban, so
also was radhanath setting up both k swa and ISKCON. it only seemed
fitting that KRSNA would reward all of radhanath's "pure devotional
service" of whacking sulocan with full exoneration of any of the 
wrong doings, or so it seemed to radhanath. it was "KRSNA's protection"
that radhanath was able to buy his non-involvement through a chicago
FBI office that had an open door policy for certain select individuals.
slavin, sr. was one of those individuals.
     homeland security has been created to clear up some of the over-
lapping duties of the various domestic surveillance operations in the US.
new vrndaban had been the victim of many of these overlapping police
actions but the FBI was now in the position to realize the goal of their
many years of covert actions against the new vrndaban commune. the 
changing of the guard on new vrndaban did not occur until the janet reno
justice department came into being. with the clinton administration
came "aunt janet", as she would come to be known to the west virginia
state troopers, and her niece, amy hobson. amy infiltrated new vrndaban
just like the US military infiltrated iraq. she slept her way all the way
up to being the spokesperson for the new vrndaban community at the very 
time that the child abuse allegations were being investigated by a new 
vrndaban justice department internal investigation.
     new vrndaban was expert at conducting bogus investigations aimed at
proving whatever k swa wanted proven at the time. the decision was made
and then there would be an investigation aimed at proving pre-approved
k swa decisions. the child abuse and rape investigations were conducted 
by new vrndaban's current  secretary, carlos ordinez(nityo dita das,
nityo dita swami, nityo). the same old, same old that had been the case
since the taru killing and coverup was the best new vrndaban was going
to offer. if anyone didn't like it, they could just "go away!" and they 
were now doing that in record numbers. not since the aftermath of the 
palace opening of 1979 had the new vrndaban population changed so 
radically. this time it was an exodus and not an influx.
    just as the on-going government investigations continue to overlap,
just as the overlapping wiretaps produce static and feedback on
telephone conversations, and just as bogus sanyass gurus produce
bogus sanyass disciples, so, also, the presence of soooo many "jagat-
gurus", capable of delivering whole universes, all in one place at
the same time must be significant and obvious to all
     "what did the two opposing hostile forces do, having come to the 
Holy Place?" amazing how the same question needs to be asked over and
over again at regulated time intervals. and more amazing yet even is that 
the answer is still that eternal truth. so many of the observers of the
caitanya mahaprabhu phenomenon will quote scripture to support the
forgiveness of offenses, but they blindly refuse to read the verses that
delineate the proper punishment for the true aparadhis. kamsa preached
"you are not your body" philosophy after killing so many of devaki's
children. the current kamsa-like mini-me's preach the same "filth as
philosophy" in the form of "it's their karma" and "they had it coming"
philosophies supposed to justify the total inaction on the part of all
of the so-called men in the ISKCON society to the aggregious offenses
against these least defended of KRSNA's devotees.
     once upon a time, in 1986 in vrndaban, ISKCON's "greatest minds
of the time", came together to decide if killing was acceptable, in
defense of the spiritual master. just like the sages at naimisrayana
forest, all they got was a little bit of black smoke. or, maybe it
was blue smoke. blue smoke and mirrors. after the sulocan hit, the GBC,
in their finite wisdom, wanted a uniform policy and approach to the 
event and the circumstances surrounding it. ravindra, prthu, and
jayadwaita were pushing for total co-operation with any and all police 
investigations. this was a far cry from the ISKCON that they joined 
which had made a policy of shuttling devotees from temple to temple,
or, as in the case of acyutananda, from country to country, in order
to avoid prosecution. after these meetings, the ISKCON philosophy
had morphed into something that would have had arjuna going to the 
forest, afterall.
    the conclusion, that the Gita was "dated material" that no longer
applied since the time of Lord Caitanya, was and still is held by
many in the power seats of the remnants of the ISKCON of Srila 
Prabhupada's guruship. these Sri Gita aparadhas are the single
largest cause of difficulties in the movement today. the claim
that since "in this age they are all jagais and madhais", therefore,
"the appropriate action at this time is inaction", is herein rejected
as heretical to the true teachings of Sri Gita. it, nonetheless,
represents the pseudo-spirituality that currently masquerades as
FRSNA conscious philosophy on both sides of the ritvik debate.
     "in this age, they are all jagais and madhais; you would have
to kill them all..." jayadwaita whined in his deeply resonant nasal 
tones, as the air rifle cracked it's retort from the roof of the
vrndaban gurukula. was kesidaman taking potshots at jayadwaita?
as it turned out, it was only a brahmachari taking shots at the
vultures that had begun nesting in the unfinished samadhi. the 
treasury having been looted by bhagavan, then bhavananda, the samadhi
fund was the investment capital for surabhi's precious metals and
precious jewels businesses and the rest paid a 2,000 rupees per
month lassi bill at the snack shop next to KRSNA-Balarama mandir.
work had stopped over a year ago and the little cash that did make
it to the samadhi site was quickly spent for purposes other than
construction. hotel bills, restaurant bills, full time live-in
maids, and full laundry services were all paid before anyone even
thought about completing the samadhi that was nearly 10 years past the
point of separation between the master and the disciples.
     the bi-lingual Gita classes put even the staunchest student
to sleep even if he was standing up. the purpose of bi-lingual classes 
was so that those with some knowledge of hindi could show off and
try to impress others with their vast comprehension of the language.
rarely was anyone impressed other than the speaker. the entrance
to the gurukula was marked with the warning signs of the disaster in
the making. muslims are known for their refusal to accept any money
from any illicit source. they fear the effects that "haram" money
can have. ISKCON took it's chances and the testimonial to this
funding source is an engraved marble slab, thanking gurukripa for
his kind donation of $ 2.5 million US dollars. the current, belated
ISKCON lamentations that none of the devotees have bona-fide
business accumen are the sad result of a policy of fast-easy money
that still pervades certain aspects of this movement. the results we 
see in these lawsuits which are satisfactory to neither side.
     the questions facing the assembled enclave of devotees are
always answered before the devotees assemble. who, then, is it really 
who makes these monumental decisions on behalf of an entire "Society"?
in political terms, such a group would be called "a steering committee".
in ISKCON, these direction-givers are more often called the GBC, or, in
the words of bush, jr.,"the deciders". what may be offered as a meeting
to decide an issue or to discuss topics rarely amounts to anything more
than a "formal handing down" to the peasants in ISKCON, from the
reigning powers that were, presumably in much the same way as we are led
to believe they receive these same directions directly from KRSNA,
HimSelf.
     this devastating "no right to a rebuttal" attitude found in the
first generation of "successor guru frauds" was creeping into the
emerging 2nd line of pretenders. one of the early Radha Damodara bus
devotees, dravinaksa das said,"this is absurd. these same people who 
are talking for all these days wouldn't have done anything if Srila
Prabhupada was still with us and he was threatened. all they ever do
is talk. if someone had threatened Srila Prabhupada, they would have 
died! that's how it was. there is no need for all this absurd debate.
maybe jayadwaita wouldn't kill someone for attacking his spiritual 
master but there are plenty of others of us who would have."
     still, this was not an open debate, it was a "mission statement"
for a post-sulocan ISKCON. opinions weren't being solicited, they were
being dispensed. at this point you either stood with k swa or you stood
against him. his ever dwindling cadre of credible senior supporters was
limited to the modern day bhismas who took their inspiration, their
sanyass and often their food and lodging from k swa.
     the distance the passage of time may have put between certain
individuals and their pasts does not mean that some very poor
spiritual life style choices weren't made. they were. in most cases,
those making those exceptionally poor spiritual choices have now come
to a point of claiming papal infallibility and the poor innocents in
the spiritual marketplace are being sold glowbugs and told they are
"as brilliant as the sun". in most cases, they are not even brilliant 
enough to not get caught.
     several of these devotees have started proclaiming themselves as 
"pure devotees", incapable of making human miscalculations. a careful 
recent history lesson would prove them to be serious liars and as such, 
much less likely to receive the large cash contributions of bygone days.
from the moment he ordered the sulocan hit until the present moment,
radhanath has spent more time in india than he did in the US to avoid the
possibility of prosecution. when he ordered the murder, he was denounced
by ISKCON as "a pedophiles puppet" and an international thug. now,
returned to ISKCON's good standing, the same activities have been
upgraded to "a world-wide preaching tour" and not "international
flight to avoid prosecution". one wonders if it cost more to fix the
FBI debacle or the ISKCON snafu.
     after the FBI raid at new vrndaban, north american skamkirtan
was on hold. the indian community became the only source of income for 
many of the temples and that was seriously affected by the negative 
publicity after the dial om for murder article appeared. always the 
innovators, new vrndaban just took skamkirtan to the next level.
     in k swa's phamphlet easy journet to other zones, he described
how one should see skamkirtan. his skamkirtan primer explained that
if it was to suddenly become too hot in one area, you should simply
relocate to a new area of operations. in this case, the area that had 
become "arrest hot" was all of north america and while that posed a 
challenge for the weekenders, it was nothing that k swa was not willing 
to throw human labor at. the person responsible for printing the
k swa SKP primer was none other than the illustrious, once GBC
chairman, devamrta swami. this wonderous thesis on thievery was put
into practice all through out asia at the request of a k swa disciple,
choi wang hung(chandra das, chinese chandra). 
     chandra had recruited a malaysian thug and his prostitute consort
to k swa's cause. k swa gave them the initiated names ramananda das
and chitra dasi. ramananda immediately started a land takeover attempt.
the k swa/ISKCON showdown came to a head in the penang airport when
two groups in saffron robes started a riot. at the time, ISKCON had 
come to confront k swa and to ask him what his intentions in malaysia
were. chandra made it quite clear that k swa's intents were openly
hostile and far less than honorable. new vrndaban emptied the bench 
on the asian pick. k swa still uses a number of variations for fund
raising.
     one country after the next opened their doors, their hearts 
and their wallets to the shaved headed(no sikha) buddhist monks, only
to find out six months later that the entire operation was a country 
by country scam run from k swa's penang headquarters. all proceeds
made there way back to NV, tax evaded, by way of radhanath, dev
swa, bill crockett(bhaktisiddhanta das, bhaktisiddhanta swami),
chandrashekar swami, holy nane swami, eternal love swami and an
entire host of malaysian towel boys, too numerous for even k swa 
to remember. it was one of these towel boys that k swa was caught
working out in the back of the winnebago with. in the recent past,
this boy is still apt to admit freely his physical contacts with
k swa and only the forgiving or the seriously underinformed ignore it.
     this kind of behavior had been going on for a number of years now
and while dev swa was just getting brought up to speed, radhanath and
kuladri had known from the earliest days with bhava, long before
chris walker(chaitanya mangala das, chaits) went public. radhanath
plotted his ascent to power on the strenght of the deep pockets of the
former k swa disciples, who had, one by one, been won over to 
radhanath's position by none other than himself.
     dev swa, unlike radhanath who never got into the robes, was
k swa's number one poster boy for any and all of k swa's indulgences.
dev swa wore blindfolds and earplugs so as not to be distracted
from his own silent meditation. he was the head cheerleader for the
women'sanyass, in spite of Srila Prabhupada's instructions to the 
contrary. he was of the belief that k swa was the only bona-fide
guru on the planet, or so he stated for several years, knowing
that k swa had molested several young men and even two females in
his recent past. protecting ones own financial interests came
to be the primary concern for the gang of international gangsters
that had come to be the league of devotees of penang.
     the crumbling gurukula system in ISKCON had about come to an 
abrupt halt with new vrndaban's withdrawal of all their children from
the vrndaban, india gurukula. now with four of new vrndaban's
teachers on the run to india to avoid molestation charges, the 
new vrndaban school had closed. the children once reported to be light 
years ahead of the karmi schoolkids were now showing themselves to
be, in many cases, functionally illiterate. some day, someone
would have to face the facts, but for now, continuing to propagate
the myth kept the balance of the ISKCON congregation pacified.
     while the rest of ISKCON was trying to merge with karmi schools,
k swa sent his charges into the asian skamkirtan pool. in this way,
he solved two problems at once. he ridded himself of the recently
molested ashram full of potential newsleaks and he made each of them 
pay for their own groceries and send him any profit over and above
individual food costs. in asia, to find children begging in the street
is not uncommon and k swa, dev swa, radhanath and company knew this
and made it work to their advantage. no longer were they stuck with 
teenage mouths to feed. the abuse charges that were becoming harder
and harder to hide were now swept well out of most peoples sight.
these youth were used to collect money that would be used as a legal 
defense fund for the very individuals that had abused them earlier.
those in positions of power knew that legal defense would devastate 
the once mighty new vrndaban SKP war chest. like something from a
dicken's novel, the very children that had been abused were now
being forced to go to asia to collect the legal defense fund for
the individuals that had abused them. ISKCON now seems to be 
following the same k swa playbook with the fraud being passed off
as the lawsuit settlement.