chapter 17

                dividing the faith

    "confrontational politics puts the opponent up against the wall
and forces him to define himself.  he has to make a choice.  
radicalization of the individual means that he must commit himself to
the struggle to change the society as well as share the radical view of
what is wrong with the society."
                    
                            --- mark rudd, columbia university, 1968


    in the devastating aftermath of the behavior of their replacement
guru army, ISKCON had produced it's own abu grahib type prison scandal.
ISKCON had had a "Prabhupada's disciples" meeting at NV in the 

mid-1980's to discuss "the problems in our movement".  the conclusions
and the solutions of this meeting were not released to the general mass 

of devotees as anything other than a stilted ISKCON policy statement.
these decisions, being handed down from on high as we are led to believe 

they have been, were to be regarded as having the papal seal of 

infallibility.  the only thing missing was the opportunity for the 
peasants to wait in line to be able to kiss the pope's ring.  at NV,
even that opportunity was available.
    jayadwaita had become the leading spokesperson for the movement's 

faction that sought to remove the crown that k swa had put on Srila 

Prabhupada's head.  he also sought to remove k swa from new vrndaban,
nay, ALL OF ISKCON, by any means necessary.  k swa had put a crown on 

Srila Prabhupada, first in the Palace, and now he'd erected a 35 foot
high murti in homage to Srila Prabhupada on the back lawn of the Palace.
JAS had approached several groups to destroy the murti before the cement 

was even cured. had he discussed the sexual abuse his compatriot 

dhanadar was the overseer of, instead of trying to incite the gurukulis
to destroy the murti many of them had just helped to build, perhaps he 

would have been more warmly received. he didn't and he wasn't.  his 

offer to "buy hammers so you and all of your friends can tear that thing 

down", was just looked at as some more of the adult lunacy that many of 

the second generation of Swami maharaj, Srila Prabhupada's disciples
have come to expect out of most of the first generationists. what a 

bunch of loons!  
    the supposed reason for the destruction of the murti that he had 
nothing to do with but envy was "because there is no cover over Srila
Prabhupada and the pigeons can pass stool on his head", which it was 

further explained was a serious breech of "Prabhupada said"isms.
jayadwaita spent two years trying to get that icon, that idol,
destroyed and he finally found a cohort in the old grave digger from
the taru rubout, kasyapa. kasyapa was living it fast and loose since
the k swa removal. he had left NV and his sanyass guru when the
homo/hetero thing became an issue, but not before taking the name,
varsana swami, as if the behavior was within his puny power.  this
debauche has seduced women for decades and will still take their money 

as a sanyassi. this was first introduced by lord indra to impede a horse
sacrifice but now it serves more as an endless source of funding for the
spiritually overconfident.  this over confidence, just as it did to k 

swa, will "Trickle down" on their spiritual creepers like acid on 

cotton.
   the bird poop story didn't convince the gurukulis at NV, but they 
weren't even on as much drugs as the swamis at NV.  these dudes were 

hooked up. kasyapa had been on pain pills since loooong before he took 
his stick in his hand.  all the devotees in the movement were either 

considered sudras or they were in the bad back club. "i'd like to help 

you with that prabhu, but i have a bad back,", was the mantra they
would chant whenever it appeared that things might get more practical 

than theoretical.  these were your "hand in a bead bag all day" guys.
so were half the urchins rounded up off the streets of india, but in 

india, that was a requirement for getting two meals per day, two dhotis,
and a secure place to sleep at night.  in the US, that would start to 

get you cash donations after a number of years, and many availed 

themselves of the new found, and now very comfortably accepted, 

financial success.
    like thieves in the night, these two bogus sanyassis made it their 

goal to destroy the Prabhupada murti, and destroy it they did.
kasyapa, who started drinking wine on the order of his sanyass guru, k 

swa, and now was doing hard liquor and balling anything that rolled up 

to his cabin, and roll up they did and still do.  to see this rogue 
worshiped by ISKCON as "in good standing", is a testament to how far 

your intelligence can be lost by Guru aparadha. the cheaters and the 

cheated.  ISKCONners deserve the "gurus" they are given.  if you are 

sincere, you will have a sincere guru.  as some of you may guess, this 

is written by a number of different folks.  different ages, different
angles of vision of events, different writing styles, but we get a 

broader perspective that way. also, no one person gets rubbed out
anymore. in the words of sulocan prabhu, "it's gone way beyond that 

now!".
    like an embattled white house press corps, the public relations
department was on full alert.  the challenges to their credibility
were generally just sniping at NV's successes from disgruntled former 

residents, or at least that was the NV party line.  many of the k swa
innovations that were implemented during the ISKCON expusion were
incorporated with it back into ISKCON when NV was readmitted.  some of
the more magnificent of these blunders are the worship of these persons 

as if they were more significant than the bottom of a devotees shoe.
they are not. not dev swa. not radhanath. not kasyapa, or whatever he
calls himself now.  not jaya murari swami.  not nityo dita swami. not
malati swami. not all the k swa breeding stock that can't advance beyond 

their sanyass guru. and definitely not with top buffoon swami and his 

consort and the land swindle the community signed with them.
  the silencing of sulocan was supposed to be the final nail in the 

coffin of a dissenter.  the monkey on a stick that was supposed to 

silence all the other monkeys from chattering about what was really 

going on. just like the kent state killings had silenced the anti-war 

movement of the 70's, so too the monkey on a stick was supposed to put
an end, once and for all, to any insurgency, vocal or otherwise, within
or without of the ISKCON ranks. now, like an ISKCON version of che 

guevara, just the opposite of what had been expected was the result of 
the assassination. like a rigid member behind a sanyassis front pleats,
many moved to hide things in order to protect the status quo.
    "what did you know and when did you know it?" had been howard 

baker's repetitive refrain to all the witnesses in the watergate breakin 

trial of the early 70's.  the demigods charged with conducting an 

investigation into the ISKCON collapse, asking the same line of 

questioning would equally devastate ISKCON's leadership as the watergate 

trials did to the nixon administration. many who now hoist the 
american flag to show their loyalty would claim that jesus or Srila 

Prabhupada had said not to challenge the powers that be.  this is as 

perverse a perversion as one might ever expect to see, and nothing could 

be further from the truth.  the radical, revolutionary movement of Sri 

Caitanya Mahaprabhu had brought the kirtan to the kazi's door, not 

slaughtered a goat for mangal arti, as the modern day quislings suggest 

we do.
  the debate raged around the world on the ISKCON gossip network, now 

speeded up by technological advances. now, not only those allowed to use 

the phone at the temple could compare notes with other devotees.  like 

so many icons in public parks, the once high and mighty shining leaders 

had become tarnished and covered with poop. there were four primary 

categories that everyone in the movement fell into in the turmoil
of the ISKCON meltdown.  these four groups were;
                1.  THE UNINFORMED
                2.  THE LOYALISTS
                3.  THE MOVERS
                4.  THE UNINFORMERS
    the rank and file devotees of the movement worldwide had little or
no association with their own spiritual master.  many even feel they 

were somehow "cheated", in this regard.  this is not the case.
    the loyal potwashers and cooks, the pujaris and the book 

distributors who were so fully engaged that they didn't know what was 

going on are not at fault.
   the parents who dutifully sent their children off to Swami maharaj's
gurukulas, be they dallas, vrndaban, new vrndaban, or mayapur or one of 

the local ones were not wrong.
    Lord Ramachandra reminds us that it is not a sin to have a criminal 

act done to you.  it is, however, a sin to have done the act.  there is 

an absurd notion going about that the abused children have somehow 

committed heinous acts and they are simply reaping the karmic reaction 

for some past horrendous sinful behavior.  this preposterous 

hallucination allows the under achievers, ISKCON"s version of nerds, to 

fulfill their desire to be smug with those they have no right to be smug
with.
    the universal dilemma arose. the battle between good and evil was 

joined.  when The Lord incarnates, He does so to exhibit His Fighting
Propensity.  He is worshiped in awe and reverence in Vaikuntha.  He
has no such needs in this atmosphere.  still, He is eternally the Object 

of our worship.  He is the self sufficient philosopher from time, 

immemorial.  thus, these are the Pastimes of The Lord and all serious
devotionally inclined individuals would know such.
   fools and rascals deride My Human descent, KRSNA has warned us in His 

Gita.  a quasi-elite band of merchants, under the auspices of some
non-exist and uniform ISKCON policy have manipulated the movement for 

their purposes for far too long now.  all these verbose pontificators
have managed to propagate are their own propensities to propagate.  this 

class of "devotees" have appeared to un-inform people on the subject 

matters deemed too highly sensitive or too offensive.  so offensive that 

it can only be talked about behind closed doors by the elite,  it has 

been decided for the devotees that certain subject matters are taboo.  

that those "in good standing" can not be reported as miscreants or the 
whistleblower is the one who is committing the offense by reporting the 

nefarious acts of these rascals.  some of the more notorious of the 

mis-informers of ISKCON's recent past include kuladri, annutama, amy 

hobson, gupta, nityo dita swami, laxmimoni, dhira govinda, tamohara and
the entire florida based "child protective office/children of krsna"
scam.
    kuladri, as the then general manager of NV had to carry the cross
of telling the national public radio audience that NV wanted any of 

those having complaints against the community to please come forward.
this court ordered edict was not the result of some backlash of guilt 

that kuladri and company felt.  it was not the outpouring of positive 
energy aimed at rebuilding the community.  it was a requirement of the
federal court in order to investigate these matters. judge friend in 

wheeling asked kuladrt, "how big can this thing get?","it started out 
with 92 in dallas, now there are 34 more in LA and more than that here 

in west virginia.  are you sure this is the end of this?". ISKCON's 

lawyers assured the judge that it was and that they had seen the very 

last of the complainers. that list had since grown to over 620, with all
but 6 of those individuals signing a release and freeing ISKCON and many 

of it's parts and parcels from any culpability for their acts.  are the
yamaduttas satisfied?  and what of those six?  or the hundreds of others 

still in the closet about what they were forced to endure in the name of
spiritual training? what about the return of "jagat guru" bhavananda?
or the continuing abuse in mayapur, even to this day? or about the loss
of all the records of the abuse, by tamohara, and the CPO in 2006?
   kuladri is a convicted felon who draws over $ 70,000 per year to 

defend NV in court.  he and muni inherit six real estate holding 

companies created at the turn of the millennium in an attempt to conceal 

the assets of new vrndaban, less they fall into the hands of the 

younger, more qualified 2nd generation.  charged with abuse by one of 

his own daughters, this father of 5 has been indiscreet with any number
of women at NV's expense.
    anuttama das, public relations director for ISKCON, has never met 
a crisis that he saw coming.  ever the optimist, this spin doctor tries 
to keep the indian community of the belief that the management are
"Prabhupada's men", which many of them will admit, although a standard
they may aspire to, is one that few, if any have achieved.  the fact 

that there are so many factions of ISKCON, many of whom are openly 

hostile to one another, they hold to be a good thing rather than an 

incrimination.
    amy hobson is an initiated disciple of radhanath.  she is the niece 

of the former attorney general of the US and she was used by the US 

justice department to sleep her way to the top of the NV food chain in
1992 when her aunt took over ed meese's ongoing campaign against the 

KRSNA compound.  the republican ouster from national politics put the
anti-cult operation in the hands of janet reno and her niece was used 
as an operative to infiltrate the WV compound.  amy slyly approached 

through adwaita's NY anti-ISKCON manhattan avenue project.  her attempts
to sleep with nityo dita swami were unsuccessful but she did manage to 

bed down and control his number 2 man, a NY street urchin called rabbi.  

rabbi's weekly trips to NV and back were amy's way in and out, 

undetected.  everyone knew they were intimate so it only follows that 

they would be together.  plus, in the post 1986 aftermath there were as 

many FBI agents as serious bhaktas and many were undetected.  amy was 

one of those by the time the child abuse case surfaced.  as abusees 
started gathering info, amy made sure they were denied access to 

assembly areas and they were kept from the investigating authorities.
amy made it known at a sunday feast, that no one was to cooperate with
the state police investigation and that anyone who did would have to 

leave NV.  at that point, the investigation was focused on saci pita
and the two years of rapes on toddlers and infants left in their care by 

the weekend skamkirtan mothers.  radhanath hooked up his disciple, saci,
with the proper channels for the maximum bang for your buck. 3 months
in minimum security for more than 600 rapes was allegedly further proof 

of "KRSNA's Protection of his devotee".  this type of newspeak mentality
has crept through the woodpile, now to even include some of the top 

knotheads of the pile.  amy had left rabbi for firmer grounds at NV.
she had tried a couple of status climbing moves before her conquest of
david waterman(garga rsi das), the Palace manager.  the Palace treasury
became amy's once she outed rsi's latest concubine as the queen of his 

bed. rsi had gone so far as to sell the art work off the Palace walls 

for the sake of the bimbos he was having his ways with.  puskar's six
foot rupa and sanatan goswami was sold for under $ 1,000. complaints
about the sale have since brought the work back to the walls of the 

Palace.  amy elevated herself to the position of spokesperson for the
community and exiled anyone trying to assist in the bringing to justice 

the perpetrators of the evils of the gurukula.  when the troopers who 

were conducting the investigation came to work one day, they were told 

that the investigation was over, the case was closed.  they were stopped 

by the FBI on the orders of the attorney general herself.  amy had "aunt
janet's" personal beeper number and they spoke several times per week.
amy left new vrndaban in jan 2001 with the arrival of the republicans in
washington, DC, taking with her 26 prime acres of real estate that had 

been transferred into her name for minimal cash consideration.  amy 

later sold this land for a profit to deer hunters, now a NV sanctioned 

event.  few knew that the ISKCOWPLOP donation bin supports the new NV 

policy of exterminating those residents of The Holy Dham in those deer 

bodies.  this mistress of misinformation never admitted her link to
DC, not even to rsi.
    david fedorsky(gupta das. www.gupta.com) orchestrated the settlement 

of the gang rape of a 14 year old girl by four radhanath disciples at
NV in 2005.  the settlement had this girl move to the front of the line,
receiving her settlement payment check before anyone else so that she 

would not testify against her attackers, thereby putting a halt to the 

criminal proceedings.  the community then tried to forcibly expel the
young girl and her mother and even used the threats of violence against 

these defenseless women.  the crudballs who raped her were moved by 

their gurudev radhanath back to india, with the exception of the 

malaysian passport holding, chandra das.  he went to long island and was 

part of NV takeover attempt at the LI temple.
    the expansion plans have recently derailed with radhanath resigning
as GBC of NV.  miniraj radhanath has decided to travel less(not at all
to the US if possible) and to donate more time to his indian affairs.
his inner circle of handlers has started a bureau of indian affairs, 

much like the corrupt US government agency of the same name.
    nityo has an arrest record six computer pages long.  as the 

secretary of the cathedral of healing, he was one of the supporters of
the k swa world domination plan and rose to the highest ranks as a k swa 

supporter.  a convert to radhanathism, nityo is a charter member of the
heman woman haters club, but he has since renounced that renunciation to 

serve his trinidad disciples more completely. two years as personal 

servant to k swa inspired his autobiographical essay series "on tour
with bhaktipada", highlighting their jet set adventures. nityo conducted
the first prins rape investigations, found out some of those prins raped 
and then saw to it that the victims were exiled, in defense of prins who
left k swa to become a radhanath disciple. nityo then orchestrated the 

coverup attempt to defend prins, until the arranged plea bargain had 

prins pleading guilty to raping three adult women and three teenage 

girls.  all the assaults on the infants go unpunished, undocumented and 

unapologized.  nityo swami is currently working on nityo's palace of 

pleasure, a three story fornication facility that has cost more money
and taken more time to build than the original Palace.
    david wolf(dhira govinda das)provides more misinformation than most
as one of ISKCON's psychiatric counselors, alleging to be able to speak 

for constituents he less than fairly represnts.  long time exponent of
the wide variety of schemes that ISKCON has proposed to make the child
abuse scandal go away. developer of the "declare a victory" strategy
which has each ISKCON front organization(children of KRSNA, etc.)
declaring a victory at having captured the moral highground, from which
they can preach down to those found to be spiritually inferior by 

ISKCON's hierarchy.  
   tamohara will respond usually no more than once or twice before every
one trying to contact him with complaints is regarded as some kind of 

threat to the mothership.  "too hostile to work with." end of story.
and now proposing sanyass, with hopefully better results than with his 

tenure as head man at CPO. the fact that ISKCON lacks either a 

consistent or comprehensive policy on abusers is highlighted by the 

cases of flagrant disregard for decisions by the still insolent 

perpetrators. tamohara has complained that he has only been on the job 

for two years and therefore he hasn't had the time to implement any of 

his policy changes from the last management debacle.  what policy 

changes?
    laxmimoni 1 (800) phone service available for friends and relatives,
but complaints are forwarded to an over filled voice mail box which
wouldn't respond if you did get through. frequent travels to india cut 

the efficiency of this world wide known example of " how could one have 

been that high up in the gurukula for so long and not know what was 

going wrong?"
    individuals purporting to dispense knowledge should do just that.
repeating party line, "make you feel good" lies is useless.  "pie in the 

sky" prognostications as fact are both misleading and counter 

productive.   covering up the facts in the guise of "stopping fault 

finding" or "protecting Srila Prabhupada's movement" is both absurd and 

offensive.
   new vrndaban has pushed forward with a new frontier in the scam 

resume they have created for so many years.  this one is run from the
kuladri office in wheeling and is basically a shakedown of the indian 

expatriate community.  these telemarketers are hired to solicit donations 

as a "temple devotee" and the solicited funds are only marginally 

directed at the projects they were collected for.  the hired 

telemarketer collects a percentage of the gross but of late there have 

been problems with the safety of this method. the problem with 

subcontracting out a scam is that the scam trainee can, and has in many 

cases, just start using these lists and calling for themselves once they
have access to these mailing lists. (for sample lists of bilked indian 

donors, click here.)  these telemarketers can pick their own name or 

take one from the pre-approved list supplied by the scammers running 

this fraud of the indian community.  sucker and mail lists for sale are 

not the standard set by Swami maharaj's mission, or any other bonafide 

vaishnav organization.  do you really want to trust this organization 

with your personal data and/or your credit card information?  in better
times than these, with more reputable people at the helm, this policy 

proved disastrous for many.
    the life member community will now all get the same as they got 

prior to the reorganization, nothing.  the monthly milk sweets no longer 

exist.  BTG magazine, when printed, does not even print enough to send 

to all the life members they promised to.  life members information is
compromised as a marketable commodity by NV's telemarketing king, 

kuladri. many devotees have turned their hands up to the sky, asking 

GOD, "where will it all end?"