Sentimentalism vs Sadhu's knife

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Dear Sraddha Didi,

 

I am truly sorry if I have offended you or disturbed your faith. Faith is a

very delicate and necessary commodity to advance in spiritual life. Thank you

for reminding me to be more sensitive. These are touchy issues, especially

since so much confusion abounds. However, since Harikesa Maharaja has fallen

from sannyasa and his post as acting Acarya, it is also necessary to be frank

about his present condition.

 

Not to say that Harikesa Prabhu is not an advanced soul. But his tenure of

"advancement" is in a state of limbo. As bonafide disciples, it behooves you

to take shelter of genuinely advanced souls for proper guidance during this

difficult period. This "taking shelter" has little to do with any

institutional rigamarole ("complex rules and rituals"). To dismiss HKS's

changed situation as not out of the ordinary is simply naive and foolish,

frankly speaking. It is an emergency!

 

If you cannot accept this fact, then there is hardly anything more I can say

to you beyond this except, "Please forgive me for disturbing your faith. Hare

Krsna."

 

If you are actually inquisitive, however, I will try address your points as

tactfully but as truthfully as I can.

 

You wrote on 07 Jul 1999 (in response to me):

 

> > The facts should be known that Harikesa Maharaja was responsible for

> > offending exalted souls like Srila BR Sridhara Maharaja and Narayan

> > Maharaja as well as inducing his disciples to do likewise. I had personal

experience of this while in HKS zone. At least in part, HKS fell down by the

reaction of sadhu-ninda from his own disciples against Gaudiya saints.

 

> How do you know this? I have been in his zone last 16 years and I didn't

have such an experience.

 

I think you must be unaware of the history. Most of the "fratricidal

cleansing" (deposing of godbrothers) and offenses happened before your time

(pre-1987). If you talk to Vegavan Prabhu there in Sweden, that should be a

story sufficent in itself, what to speak of the other godbrothers deposed just

in Sweden alone. Germany was an even larger "Daksa's arena" of offense.

Hungary was another disaster. The list goes on. During this time (pre-1987),

besides disenfranchising most of the godbrothers, HKS committed grave offenses

at the lotus feet of Srila BR Sridhara Maharaja.

 

I think the stories of the broken hearts of so many of his disciples will also

remain unsung.

 

 

> Giving a dog bad name and then hanging him is not exactly what sadhus are

supposed to do.

 

I am sorry, but this corresponds precisely to the modus operandi and offenses

HKS committed.

 

More recently, HKS made a public statement (before 2000+ devotees in Mayapur?)

that Narayan Maharaja was a "sahajiya." Then witness the sahajiya nonsense

HKS was forced to utter as a reaction during his madness (eg. about his

mistress being "Radharani," etc.). Don't think the two are unrelated. Nothing

happens to a devotee by "chance."

 

I am not trying to drag out the dirt, but you must know that your SM is in a

fallen condition, at least in part due to his grave offenses to his

godbrothers and senior Vaisnavas of the Gaudiya Math.

 

> Regarding the principles of ANIMALISM I would humble recomend to you to read

the book Animal farm from George Orwell. He is very nicely explaining how this

principles are working in an institution, regarding politics, twisting the

truth and exploiting the inocent and fullish.

 

Your guru maharaja played an instrumental part in the LEADERSHIP of the

bureaucracy, politics and exploitation of that institution (ISKCON). That he

now speaks so strongly against it but shows NO REMORSE FOR HIS OWN PART IN IT

indicates he is self-deluded. This is the hard fact of the matter.

 

Let us hear his sincere regrets for his past misdeeds, and I will offer my

most humble dandavats before him and my embarrassed apologies to everyone.

Until then, I pay my respects at a distance.

 

Please forgive me for any offenses.

 

Sincerely,

 

Srila dasa