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[Guest guest]

Dear Balabhadra and Chaya prabhus,

 

Dandavad. Prabhupada kijaya!

 

REgarding New Gokula, I want to express my deep regret that I have not yet

posted my report on my interview with the devotee in charge of the cow and

agriculture program there, Ananta prabhu, as well as my personal visit to

the farm last September.

 

In the posting on this conference and to all COM users you said:

 

"New Gokula, Australia – The Ministry has received allegations of flagrant

neglect of animal's health and even violent treatment of animals. The New

Gokula GBC has submitted no cow protection reports."

 

I assume you are referring to the reports made by NIscala mataji on this

conference. As I mentioned in my text to you last August:

 

"I did a lengthy interview with Ananta prabhu regarding the complaints of

Niscala concerning New Gokula. I will type it up when I get a chance. My

conclusion was that NIscala's observations were incomplete and that given

the full picture, Ananta appears to have done a relatively good job with an

unfortunate situation."

 

As soon as I return to Mayapur I will not procrastinate anymore in writing

up this interview. But to summarize, I want to go on record as saying that I

found no evidence of " flagrant neglect of animal's health and even violent

treatment of animals". Ananta prabhu gave a very detailed description of the

entire espisode and I could see how Niscala may have come to a different

conclusion based on seeing only parts of the picture. But, when I received

the whole story it appeared to me that Ananta prabhu did a good job.

 

During my visit to the farm I spoke with Ananta's wife who looks after all

the milking cows and I was impressed by her dedication and personal

relationship with the cows.

 

I agree that the GBC has failed in getting the cow reports done and there is

really no legitimate excuse for this.

 

But here again, I must express my own regret that I have not done more.

While I visited the farm, I spoke to Kaliya Krishna prabhu who resides there

and who agreed to work on getting the reports done. I was supposed to send

him the format. But when Atmarama prabhu (the TP of Sydney and the farm)

asked me to email it to him and he would give it to Kaliya Krishna, I put

this off because of slow Mayapur connections and it never got done.

 

I just wanted to say this because I believe that the New Gokula program is

running relatively well. I am sorry that such serious doubts have now been

raised around the world. Perhaps, if I had been more conscientious in typing

up my report at least this chapter could have been closed.

 

Your servant,

Pancaratna das