About the former Nitaidasa

[Guest guest]

Here is what Srila Prabhupada said about Neal Delmonico (was a/k/a

Nitai), who runs the bhajankutir website. As far as I know, Delmonico has

the dubious distinction of being the only ex-disciple Srila Prabhupada

banned from ISKCON, because one day Nitai came and aked his guru Srila

Prabhupada for his "blessings" that he could find a real guru. The

following, later conversation, was recorded in Vrndavana, 10/26/76:

 

 

Hari-sauri: Newsletter to the GBC.

 

Prabhupada: What is that newsletter?

 

Hari-sauri: You said, 'Please be informed that Nitai has become a venomous

serpent.'

 

Prabhupada: So this has been sent? (laughs)

 

Hari-sauri: Yes, to the GBC.

 

Devotee: Yogananda asked how many pages, when he heard about the

newsletter. He thought that you spoke so long about that. And I just said,

"Just two lines." But they never asked me what the letter said.

 

Prabhupada: Yes, two lines is sufficient.

 

Dhananjaya: Punar musaka bhava. Punar musaka bhava.

 

Prabhupada: Yes. This is exactly the same case. Punar musaka bhava, you

know the whole story? A musaka, a mouse, was made a tiger, and the tiger

wanted to eat the saintly person who made him. First of all he was mouse.

So he came to the saintly person. 'Sir, I am troubled. Give me some

benediction.' What do you want? 'Now, the cat always chases.' 'All right,

you become cat so that you'll not be attacked.' Then after some time he

came. 'I am being chased by the dog.' 'All right, you become a dog.' From

cat to dog, from mouse to... Then again he came. 'Still, they are chasing

me.' Fox. And then in this way, and ultimately he made a tiger. And after

becoming a tiger, he began to look, staring on the... 'What do you mean by

this?' 'I shall eat you.' 'Oh? You become again a mouse.' (laughter) Again

he became mouse. That's all.

 

Hari-sauri: The perfect example.

 

Devotee: Now he looks like dirty. You know, like brown. The dhoti's not

white. Its like brownish.

 

Prabhupada: He harassed. 'He has not increased my...' Hearing and hearing,

he wants to go. So why not, if he found some real disciplic succession, some

babaji, why he did not remain there? He is criticizing that our is not in

the proper succession. So why he did not remain where he found the proper

succession? Why he's sometimes in Vrndavana, sometimes Delhi, sometimes

here. Why he is loitering? Crazy. Unfortunate. Unnecessarily picking out some

trouble.

 

Hari-sauri: Faultfinding.

 

Prabhupada: The babajis, they are against anything preaching. They are

very, very much against preaching. So I am preaching. Babajis, the

Mayavadi sannyasis, and all of them, their idea is that I am ruining this

bhajana and Hindu dharma. This is the propaganda. What I am writing, they

are all wrong. And they are making... And they try to poison my disciples

as far as possible so that the whole institution may be poisoned and break.

This is their propaganda.

 

Hari-sauri: That was one thing that Nitai put in his letter, that the

teachings of ISKCON are completely opposite or contradictory to what is

actually in the sastra.

 

Prabhupada: Now he has become tiger. He wants to kill that philosophy.

When he did not know anything he came to us. Now he has become learned, he

wants to criticize. The same philosophy. 'You have made me tiger, now I

can see you are my eatable.' (laughs) He could not find out any other

eatable. 'I shall eat you.' The rascal. What can be done?

 

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