another guru in trouble

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> Another Guru Bites the Dust

> By Radha Krsna dasa

> Mexico City

>

> Lately the country of Costa Rica has been immersed in turmoil over the

> falldown of local regional secretary, sannyasi and guru Bhakti Abhay Charan

> Swami. Originally from Spain, Bhakti Abhay Charan is a Srila Prabhupada

> disciple who lived in South America since the late 1970's. He then moved to

> Costa Rica, the Switzerland of Latin America, just in time to cash in on

> the Multiple Acarya Succession System established by the GBC in the mid

> 1980's. According to various reports, for years his clique of submissive

> followers endured his neurotic behaviour and illusions of grandeaur as he

> sought to establish himself as supreme authority, big papa, and reservoir

> of all qualities and benedictions. He wrote various books of poetry and

> diaries that (predictably) spoke of his alleged realizations and

> transcendental separation from Krsna...

 

 

 

 

I hope that others are tired of this kind cheap shot commentary on the lives

of other people on COM. I never met this Swami and I have no particular reason

doubt the details this account of his life and falldown.

 

However the presentation is nothing but demagoguery. That's second time I've

written that word in the past week, and probably the third time in my life.

Maine, Mexico, it's everywhere.

 

In this case, instead of sensationalism to give false sense of personal power

and righteousness, we have emotional pandering to promote an illicit

philosophy. Rather than a presentation of a situation for the purpose of

informing and preparing the public, we have a loaded, sarcastic and

blasphemous spit of words.

 

COM is becoming a haven for the philosophically and emotional disturbed to

spout venom from their spinning heads. (Hey! How am I am I doing? Just trying

to fit in here!)

 

We don't want our children abused, our women beaten or our cows killed, but

our faith? Oh, well that's fair game. Beat it to the ground, screw it, then

kill it if you can. I mean ALL devotees in ISKCON were abused by ALL leaders

and ALL temples. ALL kids were diddled, ALL cows and ALL women mistreated and

of course ALL gurus are fools or worse right? Might as well be straight

forward about it.

 

Or could it be that the only devotees still foolish enough to read and write

to COM conferences actually THINK like that? Oh? Could it be we have a skewed

crowd here? I sure hope so. Otherwise it IS hopeless.

 

 

On 17 Nov 1999, Radha Krsna dasa wrote:

 

 

>The important revelation of Bhakti Abhay Charan's affair

>is, again, the complete lack of qualification of the

>gurus under the current system.

 

You may be speaking your own guru, from your words it sounds like it's

possible. But you aren't speaking of mine. It does seem to reveal the lack of

qualification of this Swami and the lack of an appropriate oversight mechanism

within our society.

 

Could you please not post your anti-ISKCON, anti-GBC, anti-Guru views to COM?

Somehow we need to clean up this neighborhood. COM is becoming an unfit place

to visit. Discussion is one thing, pumping apa-sampradaya visciousness is

another.