Chapter 9 Chapter 9 "i know The Guru, and confidentially, you're no A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami!" when bush senior ran for president he had one hapless chap for a running mate named dan quayle. in their vice presidential debates, quayle had compared himself to a young and enthusiastic john kennedy, to which his opponent, lloyd benson shot back," i knew jack kennedy. i worked with him in the senate. you, sir, are no john kennedy!". the egotistical urge to compare himself to another individual of obvious greatness had backfired in his face and it cost him the debate. the self same situation exists on this planet today. as vituperious toads croak of their own spiritual prowess, they invite the black snake of death in the form of profit, adoration and distinction. every one who knows anything of ISKCON has known at least one person who took sanyass initiation so that more people would know who they were. the desire for distinction, while certainly an acceptable part of the nature of a ksatriya, is not the primary qualification for one to be successful in the sanyass ashram. rather, just the opposite is most often the case, owing to the subtitles of karma and the imperfections in performance of motivated individuals. for this reason, one should hear, so far as possible, from the lips of a pure devotee. current attempts to "replace", "fill in for" or "improve upon" previous acaryas are all doomed to disaster since each lack the requisite vani to insure their successful completion. it is said that pride comes before a fall. as the proud USA now stands with the zionist pirates, their mutuals fates are sealed. so, too, with these spiritual pirates. all that any of us have, we have stolen from he Lord indirectly and from someone else even more directly than that. in many cases, these individuals have absconded with entire treasuries and having squandered all that away, they now return like stray animals, once fed. this behavior should not be allowed to pass for "spiritual life", lest others come to some errant conclusions based on the less than perfect examples of so- called "infalliblists". such obvious shows of spiritual chicanery can do no good for the hearer nor the speaker. one of the mystic potencies of yoga is it's uncanny ability to return ones sense of balance that had been lost during their descent to these regions. "why have we all descended to these fallen conditions?", have been asked by demigods for millenia, but it does not mean that such questioning of God was actually questioning of His Authority. whenever and wherever The Supreme Lord descends, He brings with Him all His parts and parcels with their own individual natures, which are known to Him at all times, regardless any charades the jiva might perform. one who sees all this as part of The Supreme Lord's elaborate scheme to show victory of goodness over evil, sees things as they are. one who does this is a vaishnav, a lover of God. those who fail to so are of two kinds, the innocent who have not yet faced the question, and those who have decided that there is no one superior to them. hence, the eternal battle between good and evil for the hearts and minds of the innocent. the jagat guru, as The Supreme Lord's bonafide representative, always has the best interests of all living entities as his goal. he is not "self-motivated", in the modern hedonistic sense of the term. he is not subject to the four human defects. this title was properly placed on His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami maharaj. since november of 1977, the title of "jagat-guru" has come to have almost as many definitions as there are opinions on the subject. in the somewhat "mad scramble" to properly represent Swami maharaj, any number of neophyte spiritual aspirants overstepped the limits of proper behavioral norms, in the style befitting the sahajiyas. Swami maharaj addressed these traits in a morning walk lecture entitled "sahajiya tendency". imagine the confusion in the mind of radhanath. he had ordered the killing of sulocan in retaliation for the attack on his spiritual mentor, k swa. now, he knew that all the allegations were true, and there was more out there than anyone person knew. the speech that radhanath gave had become well rehearsed by the time he and kuladri allowed anyone to return to the farm. the "stay- at-homeys", he, kuladri and top buffoon were at NV when k swa took the triyogi attempt at justice. an attack on k swa was an attack on them, and to make sure that the terrorists didn't win, they demanded that everyone who was out on the christmas marathon stay out and continue to collect until k swa died, they came to power, or christmas came, which ever came first. the new year had come and there were no clear answers to the complex questions that the events had dictated. people wanted to know what had happened and why and the details had to be left out or everyone would know what the new vrndaban lieutenants knew, that k swa was pursuing some of the bad old habits of his pre-devotee days. still, radhanath had to leave out the cold hard facts that were known to the upper levels of management, lest the skamkirtan machine would come to a grinding halt. with all the sincerity he could muster, radhanath had to urge for everyone's continued co-operation, at least until he could come up with an alternative to the mess they were in. "the fate of Srila Prabhupada's movement lies with K swa!". radhanath started off. "this sulocan must be stopped!. he is the real culprit here. triyogi is only the latest person to be incited by this demon. he has threatened kuladri's life, too. someone must send sulocan to his next body!", the refrain had become old news by the time the new year rolled in and the skamkirtanners rolled home. still, radhanath took certain select individuals that he thought might act to his personal van for the lecture on assassination. this was not the sunday feast lecture and it was not meant for everyone. "money is the honey",...everyone knew it. it would do no good for anyone to sit at k swa's bedside and wring their hands in anxiety, so the elite would do that. everyone else should stay out to collect as much laxmi as possible. the karmis would foolishly throw money at gross material objects, as if the objects were a source of pleasure. this tendency was all the more enhanced at the christmas season, which NV started marathoning for before halloween. christmas sales season started earlier and earlier each year for the NV skamkirtan team, and this year was no exception. everyone had been sent from the farm who was capable of soliciting before triyogi struck down k swa in late october. the stay at homeys had two months to try their best to correct a situation that had gotten way beyond any of their controls. top buffoon had tried to sub-contract out his instructions from radhanath. he had repeatedly called people in the southern kalifornia area that he knew that he felt might be sympathetic to the NV program. sulocan had far more detractors than supporters in the ranks of the ISKCON temple devotees and many recommended that NV contact jeff cornia(yudhisthir das)from san diego, since he was known to be a drug dealer who was reputed to have killed in the past. top buffoon flew to kalifornia to arrange for the action to take place. kuladri had sought the help of any of the temple presidents who felt threatened by sulocan and the anti-11 gurus messages that he carried. NV had just hosted the "Prabhupada's disciples" meeting in september and at that gathering, the opinions of many of the more influential members of the movement were made clearer, if not to the devotees in general, at least kuladri was clear on who wanted to be rid of the likes of sulocan. he got on the phone with LA, san diego, and berkely, as sulocan was known to frequent those temples whenever he was on the west coast. radhanath and tirtha ran the college programs and maintained the preaching centers as best they could and still be there to watch k swa's hospital moniters. tirtha kept a center to himself and radhanath and kuladri kept the bedside vigil. tirtha had often said he would do anything to please k swa and this would be his chance to prove those claims. tirtha was the first and foremost in a long line of attacks dogs that k swa's guruing would spawn.