Doyaram offers NO evidence

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Home Base: Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Navadwip Dham, Nadia, WB, INDIA

Camp: ISKCON Mumbai

 

Without prejudice...

 

To whom it may concern:

 

Adri is back to his old tricks again. Find out some detail in an argument

and then tear it down with hair splitting arguments until everyone gets so

tired that they don't even read the texts anymore. The whole scam is to

smokescreen the real issues.

 

What the real issues are to my understanding:

 

1) A donor was told that if he contributed to buying a property an ISKCON

Temple would be constructed there. As far as he and anyone else involved in

the matter knew he had pledged to pay for the entire land purchase and paid

the amount pledged. In that sense he was the sole donor for the initial

land purchase. However, whether he is the sole donor or others also

contributed isn't the core issue. Adri is making it the core issue just

like Sankaracarya made tatvamasi the core mantra rather than pranava omkara.

(This is the standard ritvik trick, but I won't elaborate on that point here

as it would distract us from the core issues.)

2) After many years and possibly over ten crores of rupees were generated by

this property through wedding business still no temple is in sight.

3) Therefore he has misrepresented ISKCON and for all practical purposes

cheated the donor. All the donor wants is that an ISKCON temple be

constructed there in fulfilment of his original desires and assurances given

to him.

 

Apart from the above core issue other important issues which have come up

subsequently are:

 

4) The temple President has rebelled against the GBC and declared his temple

outside of the authorized system of ISKCON temples. To preserve his

position he is fighting litigations in the high court against the GBC,

ISKCON, and others reportedly spending money left and right on lawyers.

5) The Temple President has not given any proof that he is not funding these

court cases from the money from the weedings.

6) The TP is flying internationally attending Ritvik rallies and spending

money on his unauthorized activities. What proof is there that this money

isn't coming from the income of the property above.

7) Huge amounts of money were generated from this property by all

calculations. Money that cannot be accounted for fully for various reasons.

With the income of this property already a huge Radha Govinda Temple could

be constructed, but nothing is there to show for it. Naturally the donors

will be upset and the devotees will be doubtful.

8) Since so many questions exist around this property I, as a GBC, property

trustee and Zonal Secretary, have asked that the whole matter be

investigated and that Adri Dharan dasa also give me a report. I am still

waiting for the responses to my request.

 

> 1) He offers no evidence to back up his claims.

> 2) Neither does he even attempt to dispute the 5 different sources of

> evidence I originally gave.[ For reference please note that these were:

>

> The person who sold the property - Mr Vijay Thakkar and his wife.

> The person who bought the property - Myself

> Many prominent industrialists - the donors themselves

> The GBC - Hari Vilasa - who conducted a whole investigation into the

> affair And the actions of Radhapada Dasa and his family. ]

 

I don't want to get into all the nit-picky argumentatives that Adri dasa and

the ritviks have become so infamous for. Let us just KEEP IT SIMPLE SADHU

(KISS).

 

I was the Zonal Secretary during the purchase of this property. I was

closely related to Vijay Thakkar and found him a wonderful dedicated person

who has done a lot to help ISKCON. He discussed with me about this property

and told me that for tactical reasons he would negotiate the property

purchase since as a property developer no one would consider it unusual. He

also told me that Radhapada dasa had pledged to finance the purchase of the

property. For all practical purposes everyone knew that RAdhapada dasa was

contributing the funds for the land. This is what I knew also. It seems Adri

dasa accepted it as he put up a plaque commemorating it. Whether he paid

51% or 99% or 100% at this point in time is simply wasting energy in

discussing. It isn't the real issue.

 

Apart from the property purchase I know that Adri dasa worked very hard to

get tenants off the property. I don't know if he is considering them

contributors also, but they came after the fact that we purchased the

property. Since in Calcutta there is a communist tradition it is hard to

get tenants out so they are almost like share holders. Are these the

additional contributors that Adri is referring to? It is all nit-picky.

Even if they or other industrialists gave any additional money, everyone who

contributed knew it was for a temple purpose. What else does ISKCON do?

Otherwise why would they contribute? Let Adri prove that they gave for some

other purpose.

 

The core issue is that the property should be used for constructing an

ISKCON Temple as was promised. That the TP Adri dasa should account for the

many crores of Rupees that were generated from this property and prove that

it was all used for genuine approved ISKCON expenses is another core issue.

Dayaram dasa is in his rights to ask for this. All ISKCON leaders have a

right to ask about this.

 

Adri dasa has been telling people that every leader in ISKCON has incomes

which they can't account for. So why single him out? Everywhere in ISKCON

India we see lands being purchased and large temples coming up or already

built. Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Guwahati, Silchar, Bhubaneswara, and even

Bangalore to mention a few places all have temples to show for their income.

But after years together Calcutta still remains in a shambles and no

significant development has taken place in comparison with the income that

has been received. This causes one to ask questions. Questions Adri dasa

doesn't seem to want to answer. Maybe he can't answer. I am waiting for the

answers.

 

I am not satisfied if instead he would rather argue over some tatvamasi

point and try to defeat his opponent in some side issue avoiding the core

questions. How long can he think he will fool people? As is commonly said

in the USA: you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't

fool all of the people all of the time.