"excuse me sir, i'm gonna have to cite you for your offense.", said
the stout black man as he stepped from between two parked cars.
    "are you a cop?" said the nervous white man as he tried to secure 
his wallet.
    "no, but i was going to ask you for some money.", came the response.
   "go ahead! take my wallet. take anything i have, just don't kill me!",
pleaded the desparate football fan at washington,d c's RFK stadium 
parking lot.  the highest murder rate in the country didn't stop people 
from going on with their lives, but everyone was always edgy about 
getting robbed. the best thing to do was to just go along with whatever 
the robber told you to do.  that's what the public service announcement 
said.  with a startling uniformity, people all across the country would
respond in a like manner when confronted with a similar life threatening 
situation. and they would certainly be relieved and grateful if they got 
through that situation.
    this was a tactic developed and refined into a science by the 
pickers of NV at skamkirtan university, the rookie training camp held
at new vrndaban to teach people how to be better beggars.  in india where 
begging and homelessness is a birthright, no police would ever consider 
the possibility of successfully stopping such activity. in the west, the
mall and event security guards were not nearly as enlightened.  the mall 
is a sterile environment, not unlike a hospital operating theater. even 
a cigarette butt on the floor was "out of place" and an army of under
educated, underpaid janitors chased them all day with tin dust pans and
brooms.  on a rainy tuesday morning, a van load of devotees with stickers 
would stick out like a flatulent explosion in a confined space.  this 
problem spawned as many late morning starts as it did alternative 
schemes. one such scheme was "beat the phone booth". in the classic NV,
"top of the line, we're number one" approach to everything, NV SKP
devotees only wore the best clothing. never wanting to look homeless or 
idle in the mall was important,  nothing to alert the mall security.
next, one recorded the phone numbers off a four sided phone kiosk.  the 
trap now being set, the SKP devotee would spend mornings at the mall or 
the airport collecting credit card and phone card information from 
another phone kiosk.
    as soon as anyone used the phone without depositing coins, the 
devotee would take as much of the digets as possible, visibly.  then,
immediately after the person hung up the phone , the devotee would call 
back the number of the payphone the dupe used and pretend to be the 
long distance operator. "excuse me, we need to confirm your phone
number again. could you please repeat it one more time." how often and
how dutifully most people complied.  unknowing devotional service. you
could also ask for their credit card munber and the expiration date if 
you felt you had a real fish on the line.
    malaysia became dev swa's international scamkirtan university, good
old "Scam U." as it was known by it's graduates.  this meld of mr
scam's american style of "rip and run", coupled with dev swa's 
appreciation for the spiritual simplicity of the 3rd world people had
an enormous windfall profit effect for the relatively downsized new
vrndaban former elites.  like blood in the water draws sharks, the 
chinese triads smelled the money being collected and this led to an 
alliance of sorts between the chinese criminal element and dev swa's
new kids on the block.  a number of the abused youth from the new 
vrndaban disaster were run through this operation until they realized
that little or none of their collections was still making it's way 
back to the west.  dev swa had begun feathering his nest for future 
rainy days that he was now expecting with a certainty. when this scam
fell apart, a number of these individuals would return to the states
and become the basis of the lawsuit that has recently been the focus
of much of ISKCON's attentions.
    the fact that many of the "kids" of the ashram were already full
grown was lost on those that had molested them.  their thoughts of 
the youth as eternal victims was now turning out to be more a myth than
reality. they had been told they were the foot soldiers in the war on 
maya and dev swa was the general. dev swa had songs written about him and 
his glorious role as the leader of k swa's troops in asia, his spiritual
warriors. that gyanasham(BTS) would later exploit the phrase from k swa's 
earlier work of the same name shows his affection for his sanyass guru.
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
    k swa's incarceration back in the US was not allowed to put a damper 
on the collection efforts in asia.  the fact that many were turning on k 
swa was not allowed to put a damper on the collection efforts, nothing
was allowed to put a damper on the collection efforts, because, after all,
collecting funds and turning them in to your bonafide authority was still
the goal of life.  YOUR life. dev swa's role was to receive the worship
of the lesser devotees.  radhanath's role was still to receive the 
service of those needing to be engaged in the Lord's service.  and for
those who still didn't get it, k swa's role was to receive the worship
of those needing to do devotional service.  so many receivers, so few 
collectors.
    one of dev swa's henchmen was a known criminal of the initiated name 
sadhu sanga.  this parasitic outgrowth on Srila Prabhupada's movement
came to new vrndaban to see what he could steal.  when he found out that 
the gold on the Palace was gold leaf and painted on, he settled with a 
salagram sila from the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha Vrndaban Chandra.
knowing as well as dev swa of k swa's transgressions, there was no 
loyalty on anyones part toward anyone else.  there was only economic 
opportunity. new vrndaban was being looted much the same as a 
brahmachari's personal effects if he were to move in or out of a temple.
k swa was going down shortly, or on shorties, or whatever, but cash was 
flowing in asia.  dev swa made his move. like Krsna was the center of
the strings of pearls which were the cowherd boys or the gopis, so,
conversely, dev swa headed up a cesspool of human waste.
    free from the eyes of any one government, from their malaysian 
hideouts( now two with the addition of 'the property') this gang of
international terrorists was able to coopt the remnants of what k swa
couldn't liquidate or transfer into his towelboy's name. from these 
undisclosed locations they plotted and executed the ststematic pilfering 
of every country in asia for as long as they could. new volunteers
arrived daily from states as the SKP scores in that part of the world fell 
flat.  from this point on, the ISKCON centers in the US would depend on 
the goodwill of the indian expatriate community for their sustenance, and
yet for the most part the term "crows" is still used in the inner circles
to describe many of those they willing collect donations from.
    from his undisclosed remote location dev swa was able to take the 
k swa "easy jouney to other zones " philosophy to the next level.  he
could stay in one country and plot cross border raids into other.  he
had raised k swa's other zones to other countries. he was running asia
just as dhar had  run the malls back in the states.  he had maps OF 
EVERY MALL IN THE US.  it's a small world after all. every town and 
village and no one even knows that you were a devotee. no KRSNA.  no 
devotee. no books. no trace. just "RIP" and "RUN"! dev swa benefited
from, but no longer had to pay any financial renumerations to, his new
guru who had just re-initiated him as a k swa disciple, because, afterall,
you had to have "a living guru".   his swiss bank accounts turned this 
henry street reject, this otherwise crippled non-mover into a player of
the highest order.  always claiming to be "ivy league", this ivy turned 
out to be poisonous.
    when the scams and heat in asia brought japanese retaliation, Srila
Prabhupada had ordered the devotees to leave there immediately.  "these
people are not yet ready to participate in KRSNA consciousness", Swami 
maharaj had said and that settled it.  for many years these fertile but 
fallow fields were an "untapped resource" and if dev swa's ISKCON 
training had taught him one thing, it was how to tap a resource.
    chandra explained that the asian people were very simple and very 
pious.  the more wealthy asians also speak english as one of their 
languages.  this opportunity was exploited but it was dev swa who set 
the standard. like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs or
cutting down the maple tree to get all the syrup, dev swa was putting a 
potentially supportive long term base at risk for the "all you can get,
NOW" mood of the gangsta clan that they had become. dev swa was able to
go from khadhi monks robes back to silk dhotis with out a hint of
hypocracy. yeah, right.
    brawls erupted in the airports and on the streets, rival gangs of
alleged Hare KRSNA monks fought a turf war over selected collection
spots.  ramananda, being a survivalist street thug, always prevailed,
but now with k swa admitting to his sins, ramananda was lost for 
spiritual guidance. dev swa, radhanath and punj filled that void in
ramananda's life well enough that he felt some improvement. plus
radhanath and punj were killers like he was.  he could relate to that.
it was a much smaller group of humans, only those who have killed another 
human, and they three were all in that circle.
    "return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear", the lone
ranger offered us for 50 years or more. many devotees, new and old, 
longed for just such a KRSNA conscious sensation.  those "thrilling 
days of old" had, for many, become a "golograha", a burden, A VERY BIG
BURDEN. having to wake up for The Deity, having to cook for The Deity,
having to change The Deities Clothes, all this botherment.  out of love,
one might go on. when the terms were simply a business arrangement, if
this is no pay, there will be no more work.  of the four kinds of
individuals who surrender unto The Lord, three of those kinds go away.
some of those who "go away" don't really "go away", they just lose
their taste for what they should do.  physically, some stay.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati had this same problem. simply communal food
arrangements which he called "joint mess".  at least there was a
common unifying force in such circumstances.  lately, there was getting 
to be none amongst the new vrndaban expatriates.
   sri g had gone back to the states in a very sweet deal that his
father and radhanath had worked out.  from his malaysian hideout, he
had hired a lawyer to negotiate on his behalf.  his "lawyer" was a
WVU law professor named klackley.  the lawyer was a black WV state
supreme court justice.  he was the chief justice of the west virginia 
state supreme court. AND he was in private practice. and for the 
incredibly reasonable legal fee of $60,000 US dollars all of this
was reduced to signing a paper and walking out of the courthouse a 
free man.  legally free, maybe, but karma-free, well let's just say,
there's more chance of having a snowball fight in hell.
   like hansadutta, k swa had created a string of unauthorized
sanyassis but he had gone even further than hansadutta, he made women 
into sanyassis.  now i'm not sure exactly how many times Srila
Prabhupada said that a women had to be protected in all stages of her
life but i know he said it a lot. i had the tape ministry tapes in their
entirety and never listened to any one less than five times before i 
passed them on. Srila Prabhpada said these things over and over for 
emphasis. still, when the crown-walla spoke, his faithful servants
complied to the best of their ability.  isn't that what a servant is 
supposed to do?
 familiarity breeds contempt.  everyone knows this.  Swami maharaj
himself had warned everyone on numerous occasions of the potential
threat. still many fell victim to the ill. no one felt they were
being contemptous though. they were just "correcting errors" that their
guru had made. they were simply fixing the hundreds of mistakes they
found in the wake of their gurus demise. like duryodhon, they were
simply pointing out strengths and weaknesses to the guru.
   the contradictions seemed to be virtually insurmountable.  sri g had
been ordered by Srila Prabhupada to work in the gurukula for the rest of
his life and that wasn't going to happen.  k swa had been ordered not to 
travel but to stay at and develop new vrndaban and that wasn't going to 
happen. kuladri had personal instruction to stay with and assist k swa
and that wasn't going to happen.
   KRSNA consciousness now appeared to have more holes than substance,
for many, and, for some, more breaks than continuity.  more cheaters,
more "wanna be bonafide"s made things worse and not better.  if you
can't explain how 11 can fall, you can't explain how 80 could fall, even 
better than that.  ISKCON was now "hoist on their own petard", to
quote shakespeare.  if the primary 11 jagat guru wanna be's were
unqualified by lack of bonafide authorization from guru, then any 
johnny-come-lately, third string replacement will have even less chance
to successfully disobey their own guru's instructions.  when asked to
produce autorization from their guru for their behavior, none can. about
the same number don't feel obligated to try and the rest usually mutter 
something blaming Lord Caitanya for their egotistical attempts that were 
doomed to, and therefore had to, end in disaster. now the congregations
are expected to welcome their returns with something less than a severe 
thrashing.  these folks have obviously been reading the post 1983 Gita.
ours says, in the fourth chapter, text two, that when they change the
books, LOrd finds it neccessary to come,HimSelf, to put a stop to it.
expect The Incarnation. all the terms delineated in Gita 4:7-8 have
been met.  the color rotation of Incarnations says the next one will be 
white. be on the lookout for a white Incarnation who may have appeared
at new vrndaban, thus making The Holy Dham non-different than vrndaban.
play with the concept, it grows on you. ask Him, Them, to show you 
Their Universal Form. if a large number ask at the same time, He will
reveal HimSelf, without a doubt.
     radhanath was picking up all the remnants of of k swa's crumbling
empire from among the mumbai elite, much to the chagrin of gopal krsna.
gopal had gotten a share of what k swa couldn't take with him but he had 
clearly, not fared any where near as well as radhanath had. radhanath
was so well situated with his mumbai connections that he didn't have 
much need of dev swa's asian follies. he would serve as a spiritual 
guide, but just like any other asian trekking guide, he expected 
renumerations for his efforts.  jai jagat guru.
   a stream of k swa's robe wallas kept the asian scam working for four
years or more(k swa still works variations of it), but the rising tide 
of copycats and the ever increasing pressure from the police crackdowns
kept the peneng triad busy. punj's illegal detention and abduction from
malaysia by the FBI was not under the protcol of any extradition treaty.
it was out and out thuggery. thuggery by the US government against it's
own citizens, in violation of their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
ravindra swarup had ordered full cooperation when sulocan was killed, 
certain that new vrndaban was at the heart of it. the FBI sent the 
message back through the grapevine to the NV contingent that "we know
where you are" and "we can gat you any time we want".  when the FBI
decided to get him, they took him down in his penang headquarters and
hustled him on to a plane at the airport without any customs clearance.
raised pistols and FBI badges hanging out.  we're the cowboy cops of the 
world. yahoo! when punj was airborn, in international airspace, then
the agents of the machine gave him as much of his civil liberties as 
they felt he deserved.
     king eddie had been arrested back in manhattan in his k swa funded 
breakaway temple.  eddie had been on the lam, running from NY to NV
and making the loop of radhanath's college town cooking classes.  all 
that came crashing down one day when the old drug charges that he had
skipped out on four years earlier came back to bite him.  suddenly, 
like the black cloud of death, prison sentences washed over a significant
number of players in the sulocan murder. new vrndaban had more than 
three quarters of it's management locked up, leaving NV, or under
indictment.  half it's gurukula staff were homosexual french canadians,
and following their leader gauranga, they were gone.
    narada muni das was the second biggest collector from the indian 
community in NV history.  he was surpassed only by veda vyasa priya
who specialized in life membership scams. muni's specialty was the 
vrndaban village estate time share cabins. he would rent people a cabin
for memorial day, july fourth, or labor day weekends. he would show you
the substandard facilities NV was offering, BUT if you wanted to pay
upwards of $ 2,000 per weekend, the cabin would be "yours for life".
"yours" and the other 50-60 people that they rented it to for those same
weekends. actually the 60 to 80 cabins that were required to fill those
commitments did not exist and never would exist but the same six cabins
that were already rented out, three times over, would be offered as bait.
"it serves those crows right!", muni would say as he spoke freely and 
derisively of his third world benefactors.  the plan had been in 
operation for about 5 years and the number of cabins barely increased.
the number of people under contract and expecting accomodations that
they had paid for was reaching a critical mass. muni needed hindi 
speaking helpers to calm down the indians when they arrived for their 
holiday vacation and come to find out they are expected to bed down in 
hay under a circus tent like some kind of a farm animal. still, muni
pushed the same scam until he could push it no longer.  kuladri had 
helped him out when muni's columbus temple was involved in the meth 
lab bust.  now, his buddy kuladri, was going to jail, even after leaving 
the farm, so muni took the only kosher solution available as he saw it,
retirement to florida.  he and his former golden assosciate, P.B., would
find a place they could profit from their expertise with NV SKP 
paraphenalia. they would sell to devotees in the south and make a profit
from the devotees, not from the karmis. the remnants of NV management, 
the old head of the planning department, P.B. had never been very far 
from the wheels of power.  at least he hadn't been close enough to get
indicted. and with randall gorby dead P.B. was safe from his reprials,
but staying at NV would be pushing his luck. muni's plan for florida
met all of P.B.'s needs. they cast their "see ya!"s at k swa and they 
left the sinking ship.