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Letter COM:2864765 (61 lines) [W1]

Shyamasundara (das) ACBSP (Sylva, NC - USA)

17-Dec-99 10:08

Bhakti Caru Swami [17716]

Bhakti Raghava Swami [6642] (forwarded: 17-Dec-99 10:20)

Bhakti Vikasa Swami [20905]

Bir Krishna das Goswami [19150]

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Trivikrama Swami [7585]

Basu Ghosh (das) ACBSP (Baroda - IN) [19766]

Hari Sauri (das) ACBSP [21411]

Madhu Sevita (das) ACBSP (GBC) (I) [8832]

Prithu (das) ACBSP [20923] (received: 17-Dec-99 10:37)

Svavasa (das) ACBSP (NA-BBT) [6164] (forwarded: 17-Dec-99 10:20)

Amrta Gaurangi (dd) JPS (Mayapur - IN) [3875]

Basu Ghosh Dasa <basughosh.das (AT) lwbdq (DOT) lwbbs.net> (sent: 17-Dec-99

10:14)

Brahma Muhurta Das (NE BBT) [73147]

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17-Dec-99 10:20)

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Cc: Naveen Krishna (das) ACBSP (ISKCON Foundation) [4516]

Cc: Rohini Suta (das) ACBSP (GBC) [20298]

Cc: Vedavyasa (das) ACBSP (BBT Spain) [1814] (forwarded: 17-Dec-99

Cc: Basu Ghosh <bg_das (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> (sent: 17-Dec-99 10:14)

Cc: Praghosha Prabhu <praghosa (AT) datastar (DOT) net> (sent: 17-Dec-99 10:14)

For: Jayapataka Swami (GBC)

Reference: Text COM:2862910 by Bir Krishna das Goswami

Reply to Bharata Srestha and members of VAST

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Hari Sauri said:

 

>> ·>By all means help people who need help. And by all means prevent them

> from spreading their lack of sraddha to hundreds or thousands of

> innocent persons through a mass media vehicle like COM. We cannot take

> this criticism of Srila Prabhupada so lightly, that in the name of being

> heavy with one or two persons who are having difficulty, we have to

> allow them to contaminate the consciousness of hundreds. Limit them and

> deal personally with them about their problems. People with severe

>>doubts should be dealt with in isolation.

>

 

Bir Krsna said:

 

> That is exactly what was done immediately and confidentially. I have been

> speaking to Madhusudani and JPS has been.

>

> But this screaming, yelling, demonising and demanding blood on the

> internet is not the proper procedure. I will have nothing to do with it.

> It is not proper.

 

 

I agree with you Maharaja, except that I note that you are very selective in

your application of this dictum. You only apply it to your friend and long

time supporter MRdd (we know that you are a leading proponent of feminism in

ISKCON) but exclude others. This is a decided conflict of interest. No

wonder nothing is happening on this issue. It has been almost 2 months and

nothing has been done.

 

Last year at this time you and the rest of your feminist crew (Sudharma dd,

and Anuttama) wasted no time to condemn GHQ, without even attempting to

contact anyone involved to find out their side of the story. Your

publication of a NA GBC EC censure of GHQ on CHAKRA (run by MRdd) threw fuel

on an already hateful situation created by "Ardhabuddhi Dasa."

 

Why is that none of us got any telephone calls from you? Why didn't we get

any hand holding? Rather you added to the "screaming, yelling, demonizing

and demanding blood" of GHQ members by your endorsement of the rot that

"Ardhabuddhi" wrote. This is the last word in hypocrisy.

 

You should resign from this situation because of a conflict of interest.

Recently in the UK there was a much publicized case of the arrest of General

Pinochet. The 3 man panel of Law Lords decided he could be extradited to

Spain. When it was discoved that one of the Law Lords had a connection to

Amnesty International, a group that had been after Pinochet, the judgement

was called in question and for the frst time in hundreds of years the Law

Lords went into session to decide again, this time excluding the one with an

apparent conflict of interest and expanding the panel to 5 instead of 3. It

was determined that it was unlikely that the lawlord who had connection to

Amnesty International did anything wrong but they wnet to this great length

anyway. The reason was explained thusly by a spokeman for the govenment "not

only must justice be done --- it must also appear to be done ---there can

be no doubt in the mind of the public of any impropriety."

 

>From your behavior it seems that ISKCON has got a very long way to go before

justice will be done. Until then we will simply take solace in the law of

karma and the unerring judgement of Lord Yamaraja. For as Chanakya pandita

says: "just as a calf can find its mother in a herd of 10,000 cows, in the

same way your actions will find you."

 

Hare Krsna!

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