RV: another guru in trouble

[Guest guest]

Dear Jiva Goswami Prabhu,

 

Please accept my respects. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I expected

replies like yours simply because we have different perspectives and

experiences which make us see things in a particular light. At the same

time I hope that you don't dismiss what I wrote without further

consideration.

 

Remember that many of the bad news in the Movement have been dismissed

originally as exagerations only to be proven later to be factual. It is

also a fact that many of the unpleasant news within the movement have been

denied unnecessarily by the authorities or the individuals involved, only

to acknowledge them later when confronted. In this particular case not only

me but a group of devotees here in Mexico and in Central America thought

that some sort of behind the scenes secret arrangement was been prepared to

preserve some status-quo and keep the facts from emerging. But because it

was Rathayatra Festival much information emerged in spite of the secrecy of

the affair. We consider that it is important that the whole Society knows

what is exactly happening internally every day. If you hear many bad news

it is because there are many bad news. Hopefully the Movement will move on

to develop a more competent organizational structure which will bring us

only good news on a daily basis.

 

Your servant

Radha Krsna dasa

Mexico City

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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.

 

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.