my angry letter to BTS

[Guest guest]

I have been warned that my angry letter to BTS will cause spiritual suicide.

But I have reason to be angry.

 

Many devotees around the world are being spiritually murdered by believing

BTS's bizarre assertations (in his widely distributed book Spiritual Warrior

I), for instance about "motherships" coming from "the fallen continents of

Atlantis and Mu"; Skull and Bones society controlling the world by

conducting human sacrifices; that the world was formerly ruled from Africa

(not, as sastra and Srila Prabhupada state, from India), etc.

 

Last year I complained to the GBC EC about Spiritual Warrior I, and was

directed to have a mediation with BTS. I explained to BTS my objections to

his making highly misleading statements, but he is now doing the same thing

again, juggling around quotes about eunuchs and homosexuals to try to

establish that homosexuals are acceptable in Vedic culture. Hence my strong

protest.

 

Last time I was in USA a GBC told me that BTS was preaching at a Sunday

class in NYC that the world was coming to an end soon so everyone should go

to Gita Nagari and get saved.

 

Many ISKCON devotees who left after their gurus fell down have expressed

that they felt cheated by ISKCON leaders who knew even years before of their

gurus' aberrations but tried to cover them up or pretend that those

deviations were actually an expression of Krishna consciousness.

 

A few years ago I asked the then GBC chairman that, considering that several

of the deviations that have sapped the life of ISKCON have been introduced

by GBC members, why the GBC body (which is supposed to be the watchdog to

keep out philosophical anomolies) is so reticent to discipline those of its

members who propagate dangerous speculations. He replied that there is a

kind of "collegiate spirit" that prevents individual members from

criticising others.

 

As the GBC cannot be expected to take needed action to stop deviations

before they become disasters, it seems the only recourse for responsible

members of ISKCON is to take the matter to gutter level, i.e. the internet.

Painful and undignified as such public laundrywashing may be, it might at

least create an awareness of deviations and warn devotees not to get

sidelined into weird cults going on in the name of ISKCON.