Public apology from Gargamuni and Brahmananda

March 23, 2002

Public apology from Gargamuni and Brahmananda.

11-March, 2002

Dear Vaisnavas,

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

The following is an open letter of apology to the entire Vaisnava

community within

ISKCON. We would like to very sincerely and humbly request the forgiveness

from

all of you for some serious mistakes we have made by our recent actions.

We request that you please understand our motivations. Although we were

wrong to pirate Tapes, CD’s and the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase from the

Bhaktivedanta Archives, VCD’s from ISKCON Television and BBT material, our

motives were not purely financial. We sincerely wanted to see Srila

Prabhupada’s teachings distributed as widely as possible. In the course of

coming to

an agreement in this matter we have been informed that Bhaktivedanta

Archives and ISKCON Television are now making efforts to distribute media of

Srila Prabhupada more widely. We welcome this development.

We realize that the methodology we used to accomplish this desire was

wrong and apologize to the devotees whose services have been hindered by our

careless actions, and we agree to reimburse them for losses they have

incurred, per already agreed upon amounts.

We humbly beg the forgiveness of all those devotees who have been

adversely affected by our improper activities. We understand that Srila

Prabhupada

is not pleased with our actions.

We encourage all devotees to respect the copyrights of other devotees and

to not pirate anyone’s copyrighted work.

We have carefully read and fully agree to meet the terms of resolving this

wrong action of ours.

Your humble servants,

Brahmananda dasa

Gargamuni dasa

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