Sadhu Swami and the Brahmacarya Conference

[Guest guest]

Dear Respected Members of the Brahmacarya Conference,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Back in August Sadhu Swami made some comments that disturbed some members of

this conference, and they suggested that I suspend him. One reason given

for suspending him was that he took sannyasa from a non-ISKCON sannyasi and

the other was that his comments were offensive.

 

At the time, I was traveling with Indradyumna Swami's Polish Festival Tour

and did I not want to spend my time at Poland's Internet cafes researching

the character and activities of Sadhu Swami. I also did not want the

Brahmacarya members minds disturbed by controversial statements and

refutations. Thus I suspended him temporarily 'until I could sort out the

situation', for which he was a bit offended. Now he wants to know my

decision on the matter.

 

If we decide to make it a rule for this conference that persons with

non-ISKCON affiliations cannot be a part of this conference, then of course

the question is solved. Then to be fair we would also have to remove other

people in a similar situation. I do not know how many other people this

will affect. At any rate, I do not feel myself to be more than one

insignificant member of the conference and do not wish to force my opinion

on this on everyone else. Perhaps we could have some discussion about it.

After deciding this point, we can worry about the particulars of Sadhu

Swami's case.

 

your servant,

Krishna-kripa das

moderator of Brahmacarya