chapter 14; this place is moded out!


     kuladri had seen what radhanath was offered in mumbai and he
laid out his list of demands. if kuladri was going to have to 
stay on the lam in india, there was a certain lifestyle standard 
that would have to be met. k swa knew what kuladri's level of 
sense gratification was and he was prepared to meet it to protect all
that remained of his crumbling empire. the billionaire, kedia, had
just purchased a new honda acura and he had complained that with
bribes and all, the import cost was over $ 100,000 US. kuladri
demanded, "i need a car exactly like that!". k swa agreed. "my
wife would have to live here with me!". k swa agreed. "she would
have to have FULL FACILITY to do her service!", kuladri demanded.
k swa agreed, this, knowing that if "my wife" lives in india, she has 
maids and servants to wait hand and foot on her, just like those 
who get the political patronage jobs for swearing their loyalty 
to gopal krsna.
     k swa had concluded that in the very short time since he had
been acting as a replacement for Srila Prabhupada, his accomplishments
far exceeded his own spiritual masters behavior. he spoke on the issue
a number of times always putting his activities as more noteworthy than
those of his own so-called spiritual master. a collection of these 
witticisms of k swa was compiled and printed by dev swa under the
title Bhaktipada Bullets and the compulsory purchase by every devotee
was another of the seemingly endless loyalty tests the residents were 
expected to take and pass on a daily basis. k swa continued to offer 
his pity to those souls who were not attending his jazzed up programs
and he demanded that the congregation pray for the souls of these poor
fallen individuals, who in many cases, had stopped coming because they
were aware of his activities. letters started coming in on a daily
basis from his Godbrothers and sisters who cared for his welfare,
but could no longer, in good consciousness, continue to support him
in his endeavors, knowing what they now did about him. many more
didn't even bother to write, they just left. one of the inquisitioners 
who was always conducting loyalty tests was dev swa. his surrender, 
and not radhanath's, was the gold club standard for anyone wanting to 
claim they were a dyed in the wool k swa supporter.
    tapah punja was no less demanding on the new vrndaban treasury. his
monthly need for cash transfusions was one of the issues raised at
the racketeering trial. who could imagine a real sankirtan devotee who
could not exist in an international atmosphere. his outlandish purchases
were topped only by his incompetence. the one who had so badly bungled
the sulocan hit was now bungling, equally badly, his third escape 
attempt. suddenly everything had started to unravel for the now
sexually active sanyassi. he tried to buy indian rupees on the black 
market and he was swindled out of $ 10,000 US in one fell swoop. he
bought a volleyball set to the tikli outback and the villagers tried
to kill him. he was arrested on his arrival in mathura, for the first 
time, and it took all of nathji's money and influence to buy his 
freedom, but not before the indian government listed this person as 
"a social evil". how uncannily perceptive are the natural born residents
of The Holy Dham!
     it had seemed for so long like the top of the world and now, 
suddenly, nothing could go right. hayagriva was hiding out in spain
and he said that madrid was the most expensive place on the planet.
he stayed only in madrid until k swa rounded up the gang in asia.
      k swa was going through money so fast that he kept it in a
suitcase under his bed. one of those american tourister, berber
carpetbags with the two straps sewed on like belts so the case won't
burst open if you happen to overstuff it with, let's say, one
hundred dollar bills. a thief who sold hand grenades to new vrndaban
came to k swa to sell him a case. the agreed price was fifty dollars
each, twenty four to a case, twelve hundred dollars. the thief was
armed and thought desperately of some way that he could rob k swa
but he knew that he would never get off the ridge alive. he settled 
for one pound of pot instead because he knew that he could sell that
for more than $ 1200 and k swa was just as happy because he knew 
that it didn't cost him that much.
     swami maharaj had long told his disciples to set up a barter 
system. as a vaisya community, new vrndaban was said to be a working 
scale model of how the other farm communities were supposed to develop
and flourish. the mistaken notion that capitalistic goals of economic
success were to be any kind of a standard for a devotional community
were as much the problem as they were the glue that kept many hanging
around. cheap rent, easy life and in most cases, at least some free
food. this was in the era before it was considered financially non-
productive to feed the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. this
corrupt selfish mentality crept into the movement like mold manifests,
a little bit at a time. again, this was not exclusive to new vrndaban,
rather NV was just a working scale model of what could happen if one
were careless in their sadhana. for a long time the farms had been
told their success lie in their being able to duplicate the performance
of new vrndaban and now that advice had become as outdated as a jaya
sacinandana bhajan tape.
     "to establish a place of pilgrimage in the west where The Lord's
Pastimes can be enjoyed".... one of Swami maharaj's stated goals and
one of the reasons for the foundation of the Society and now ISKCON 
was divorcing themselves from the new vrndaban crowd and the place
of pilgrimage. it seems that transcendental depends on whose in
charge more than anything else. the place of pilgrimage had come to
be off limits to the devotees. it's said The Lord moves in mysterious 
ways and His Actions here were most mysterious. clearly, battle lines
were being drawn.
      it's said that there are none more sanctimonious than a reformed
whore and there were lots of those around. what formerly had been 
silenced as fault finding was now a fair topic of conversation during
the japa/prajalpa hour preceeding mangal arti. the GBC had demanded
full ISKCON co-operation with any and all police investigations. this
edict would only stand against new vrndaban and it would only last 
until the child abuse issue became an undeniable outrage to all 
sensible people. like bhisma, ISKCON now finds itself forced to defend 
the most horrendous types of behavior as the actions of "a devotee".
to admit culpability would, just like bhisma, endanger the structure
of the life support systems that so many of them had attached 
themselves to. rather than stand up to injustice, many prefer to talk 
in hushed tones, if at all, about such events. the purpose of the
gag order on all the signers of the lawsuit settlement is the 
impediment of flow of information on this matter. under the guise of 
"what must be spoken, must be spoken nicely", many are silenced or
misguided by less than accurate renditions of events involving
devotees, be they mixed, pure, neophyte or senior.
     sri galima had been sent to india by dev swa when kanka had
returned to the left coast complaining that her son had been
molested. she was estranged from swarup and he wasn't going to
do anything about it. the word spread around the white horse inn in
three rivers faster than a free round of drinks when kuladri and 
radhanath sent tirtha out to LA to find and kill sulocan. swarup
might not like it but he couldn't stop it, so he was just staying 
out of it. a former Golden Associate, the new vrndaban umbrella
corporation that did things like buy the equipment all the illegal
hats and stickers were printed on, he had been driven out by the
overly intrusive nature of k swa's new vrndaban. sri g was from
a wealthy san antonio cattle baron family and had never held a real 
job in his entire life. he would later use his family's ill gotten
gains to buy himself a pass in the first child abuse trial to
involve new vrndaban inmates, which wound up sending sri g's first
victim to prison for six months.
     sri g had befriended a yound boy who came to new vrndaban who
spoke no english. since sri g spoke fluent spanish, the youth was 
put under his direct care and supervision. after six years of being 
trained by sri g, the assistant started to have his own similar
kinds of relationships. when the duo was arrested, the youth had just 
turned eighteen and was charged as an adult offender. the adult 
pedophile, gary gardiner(sri galima) was able to make all the charges 
against him go away in a sealed plea agreement that cost him $ 60,000. 
the "fee" was paid to west virginia state supreme court justice klackley
for making the entire thing go away for sri g without even one days 
incarceration. his minor aged assistant was tried as an adult and
served a six month sentence. sri g had been protected throughout
the period by his exile to india and then to malaysia after word
got around india that he was another one of k swa's foreign legion
and not just a spiritual seeker.
     needing money to maintain his family which had been secreted to 
india by dev swa and the NV team, sri g sought some type of sankirtan
paraphernalia. in north india, gopal krsna's sankirtan paraphernalia
warehouse, his godown, was located in the bottom floor of the 
vrndaban gurukula. sri g made his way to KRSNA-Balarama mandir quite
often but how he was greeted often depended on who was there when he
arrived. no one ever knew how they were being seen, being from new 
vrndaban and all.
     there was a rumor that went around KRSNA-Balaram temple and it
went something like this: in the mornings when he was in vrndaban,
gopal would come out of the guesthouse where he stayed and walk toward
the incomplete samadhi. as people would notice his arrival, they would 
pay some form of obesiances. the first rule was "full dandavat 
obeisances". none of the touching the beadbag to the head or the 
bending at the waist routine. the second rule was to hit the deck at a
distance and to stay down until after he had past by. the guaranteed
benediction for this austerity was a warm greeting. if, however, one
failed to bow in a proper manner, a summary chastisement always
followed. "where have you been?" or "what is you service?" or some
other type begging the question argument would be leveled against the 
insubordinate miscreants. being expert at this manipulation of the
false ego, radhanath and sri g were able to talk the godown in-charge
into turning over the entire inventory of sankirtan paraphenalia over
to them for their own purposes.
     the SKP leader for all of gopal's temples was his disciple that
gopal had given the name caitanya dev. he was very much upset by the 
invasion of mayavadi philosophy into the Gita with the added purports.
Caitanya had spoken to gopal on this matter several times and each 
time they spoke, the opinion of gopal slipped until the man had no 
other choice then to reject gopal as his spiritual master. sri g and 
radhanath cited the example of bali maharaj who was known for his
surrender to vamanadev over the objections of his spiritual master.
"when your spiritual master becomes shown as a pounds, shillings, 
pence person, he is fit to be rejected. gopal is nothing but a 
pounds, shillings, pence man!", radhanath would offer his opinion to
one he saw about ready to change loyalties. "the man clearly doesn't 
know what's going on around him." was the reason given to "liberate"
the SKP paraphernalia for all of india. well, not exactly ALL of it.
they neatly left two stacks of "the deluxe version" of the Gita
with all the misplaced modifiers.
     cabload by cabload for two months they stole all of gopal's
SKP paraphernalia for all of india. sri g moved his family and all the 
booty he looted to jaipur and tried to stay off gopals radar. this
information will still come as news to gopal, because they were
fairly accurate in their understanding of gopal's perceptual skills.
rarely had one with such ineptitude been given so much responsibility.
the man, clearly, does not know what is going on around him and he
is treated accordingly by many of his Godbrothers. radhanath would
later exploit this flaw in gopal's vision on numerous occasions to
re-establish himself back in the ISKCON hierarchy above gopal's 
position. crores and crores of rupees above gopal's position.
     dev swa looked in on this operation but for right now, he had
no reason to vacate his lofty position as new vrndaban's # 2. kuladri
was leaving new vrndaban to propagate korean oil paintings at some
undisclosed locations. dharmatma had been the fall guy for the
bootleg SKP paraphernalia. it would all have been legal if only he'd
paid the royalties on the hats to the NFL and the NCAA. that would
have raised his cost per unit from eighty three cents to one
dollar and five cents and dhar refused to pay it. on a container lot
of 300,000 hats, his cost would go up $ 65,000 and he could buy five 
brand new vans for that kind of money. suddenly, ethical questions 
needed to be asked and moral compasses were lost in a typhoon of
material economic opportunity.
     when tapah punja found that the doors to nathji's mansion were 
open to radhanath but not to him, envy and anger seethed in him
like the envy of duryodhon for draupadi. true, he had moved into one 
of nathji's offices and he lived in AC-bottled drinks comfort, but
it wasn't the same level of comfort that radhanath was getting. one
of the reasons that nathji was dissing the one that was now being 
called the "top buffoon" was that this swami had been intimate with
any number of females since his having taken sanyass initiation from 
k swa only three years earlier. at least radhanath was, as far as 
anyone knew, still honoring the vow of celibacy he had taken. punja
found this second class treatment he was receiving to be unacceptable
and he started seeking another location for his hideout. on the advice
and with the help of chandra, punja had decided to move his operation
to malaysia since the material standard of living is so much higher
than it is in india, in some cases, malaysia has a higher standard of
living than in the USA. this proved to be the case for the one the
new vrndaban accounting department had now started to call the top 
sponge.
     punja left india, supposedly to renew his visa, but just like 
kuladri before him, he knew that he would never return. malaysia
had many of the same things that india had, but in malaysia they 
were generally up to western standards. english was spoken as often 
as not and the rest of people displayed an uncanny knack for finding
things the westerners wanted, even without the benefits of a common
spoken language. lacking any real plan, other than not getting caught,
punja called on an old new vrdaban friend for help and association.
sri g had spent the entire vrndaban SKP godown and he needed a new 
financial source. jaipur had been good to him for a while. gopal
had basically left him alone, but now it was time to move on. his
son had almost died from contaminated well water, so sri g had sent 
the new wife and kids back to the states. yogini, or"mrs sri g" as
she was called, had gotten herself deep in the middle of something she
didn't understand. she had come to new vrndaban from her native south
america and almost on her arrival, she was told to marry so that she 
would get her green card. sri g needed a wife for the same reason
michael jackson married lisa marie presley. it conveyed a heterosexual 
image that would be helpful if this ever came before a jury. the
mentality was that women were only toilets that you did your business
in and then walked away from. dev swa was very fond os saying so.
     sri g had been accused of inappropriate touching of some of the
gurukulis and the iskcon plan had been to exile the students and to 
cover up for the teacher/abuser. this was exactly what had been done
in dallas. the only difference in dallas was that the abusers, sri
g, raghunath, manihar and naragadev, had to relocate. they found
a receptive, sympathetic set of circumstances when sri g drifted into
new vrndaban and was promoted to headmaster immediately. satsvarup
knew, jagadish knew, tamal krsna knew, k swa knew but they would do 
nothing but reinstate the perpetrators back in positions of authority
in the school. "why not?", they reasoned; these were experienced
gurukula teachers.
     so many knew but nothing would get done to stop the repeat of
such events because, as we can all see now, there were still a lot
of latent tendencies that they hadn't really gotten past. they hadn't 
done anything in dallas but close the schools. sri g had moved to NV
and was raised to the rank of headmaster, ironically. his uncanny 
ability to recite verses from scripture just like a tape recorder
made him a very valuable asset at the he-man woman haters club. since
the last headmaster was mastering the art of head, sri g's arrival in 
NV was greatly heralded as a solution rather than the foundation of
an even greater future problem. once sri g was established as an
authority at NV, he called his old pal, raghunath from dallas, to 
come and work under him. this was as much literal as it was figurative.
the scene for even more gurukula disaster was now set. with the
recruitment of manihar and naragedev to reopen the varnashram college
scam, k swa had shown the whole movement that he felt he was above any
authority other than his own bad judgment and his recurring sexual
longings.