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Dear Prabhuji Mr. Devamrit das ji,

With all due respect and honour, I am forwarding you a letter from my friend

Sanjib, who is also a life member of ISKCON. I request you to take immediate

action against the offenders and maintain law and order in your society. I am

sadly mentioning here that few months back, I too was very badly humiliated, in

front of twenty people, by the tall receptionist named Ramsevak. I had gone to

him to request for a change of bed-sheet. He refused a change over and when I

told him that the one which was already there was dirty, he verbally abused me

saying that dirty people like me come and make the beds dirty. When I told him

that I was an Income Tax officer he just laughed at me. Not only that my next

room was given for wrong purposes ( I don’t want to give details due to lack of

supportive proof now). I tried to meet Mr. Ganpati Das but I was refused a

hearing on the pretext that he was sick. . Somehow my wife pacified me saying

that we were in the holy place and we suffer

for our past misdeeds. We try to forget our profile and position and approach

the holy places with all humility, when we come to visit the Lord. However I am

taking the following steps to prevent such occurrences in future.

If you initiate no action within one week, within intimation to me, I shall

be forced to send this letter to the local press in Vrindavan and also to the

all-major newspapers in the country. Not only that, I shall give an appeal in

the National Newspapers, at my own cost, requesting all the life members of

ISKCON to come forward and register their complaints against such misbehaviour.

A separate forum shall be created on the Internet to bring together all the

life members of ISKCON. We are life members of ISKCON and we deserve some kind

of respect, which a normal human being expects. WE ARE NOT STREET DOGS. And I

am sure many more of the life members will take advantage of this forum and

come forward to register their grievances.

I have already collected the email addresses of all top ISKCON Management and

shall forward the copy of this mail.

Yours truly,

Niloy Mukharjee

Letter by Sanjib

Dear Prabhu,

First of all pls. accept my heartiest greetings and shower of blessings of

Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna.

Prabhu, I am going to share an incident happened with us in ISKCON,

Vrindavanon 4th May, 2006 which is beyond my imagination and immortality. We

are inconceivable too. Neither I have any expectation to acquire the thing we

lost nor it’s an allegation against anyone. But obviously I intend to deliver

a message to the higher authority of ISKCON through you firmly that they might

able to cull the culprits amid devotees of ISKCON and at the same time they can

protect life patrons and other devotees from such type of nuisance in future.

And this is my sincere request you to please forward this mail to higher

authority that they can take some appropriate steps upon it. Prabhu, I am

extremely sorry to say that we have been dejected by front office people (not

devotees) of ISKCON, Vrindavan while checking out on 4th May, 2006 in evening.

Let me reveal the incident in details :

Myself and my wife, we checked in Vrindavan Guesthouse by 3rd May, 2006 and

checked out on 4th May, 2006 at around 3 p.m. We kept out luggage (one V.I.P.

suitcase is locked and one small travel bag) in luggage room and my wife’s

‘ring’ was kept inside a small pocket of travel bag which was not locked and we

went out. We came back at around 7.30 p.m. and took out our luggage. My wife

unzipped the pocket of travel bag and ‘ring’ is found missing. We searched

everywhere and not found. She spoke to Mr. Ramsevak Yadav at reception who

advised to keep luggage there and strangely he didn’t bother to pay any

attention to her and simply ignored her. She got shock when another person

from front office namely Mr. Ashoke Kumar said, “What is the proof that you

kept your ring inside the travel bag?” And my wife became numb. We went up and

spoke to Ganapati Das Prabhu who is vice-President of Vrindavan. Now I got

shock when he started telling us the story about what happens to

people who goes to Police chowky to lodge a complaint. Further he said that

the police people starts from the basic like where the ring we got from? He was

not prepare to listen anything and nullified my wife’s claim. And he

pronounced that he has been served ISKCON more that last 26 years. Finally

when my wife said that ISKCON must appoint devotees at front desk instead

hiring people from outside, he became angry and started telling that by wearing

‘dhoti’ and adorning ‘tilaka’ no one becomes ‘bhakta’ (devotee). We got

another surprise and understood all went vain.

Prabhu, I don’t condemn anyone. That ring is priceless for me as it was the

wedding ring and that is the only reason she is upset. She is more upset that

the incident took place in the premises of ISKCON. We have visited Mayapur

several times and Prabhus whoever we met are so humble, helpful and

co-operative that I cannot describe in writing here. Prabhu, we are

emotionally attached with ISKCON and we are acute hurt by people of ISKCON

management, Vrindavan. Anyway it was Lord Krishna’s wish and happened we

believe.

I have observed certain things to be shared as my personal views as follows :

There is only one person Mr. Rakesh Yadav is engaged to carry luggage from

front office to luggage room and vice-versa. There were no more luggage in

luggage room on that day during that period. So, it was so simple to solve the

issue at the same point of time by asking the concern person.

What kind of attitude Mr. Ashoke Kumar has developed I don’t know. He must

know that he is serving a spiritual society called ISKCON. Simply he cannot

make the statement like what’s the proof we have? People are not fool. He

must be associated with the culture of ISKCON founded by Srila Prabhupada.

They must have dignity first. Moreover they must be humble, helpful and

co-operative as basic criteria to serve devotees by sitting at front office of

ISKCON.

Ganapati Prabhu must aware that theft is a crime regardless its value.

Person alike Ganapati Das Prabhu who has served ISKCON more than 26 years as it

is his own pronouncement has to be more humble, polite, helpful and more

co-operative above all. He has to has develop a skill called ‘patience’ to

listen people. He has to take control on anger. He must aware that nothing to

be won by nullifying complaints. He has missed an opportunity to prove his

administrator ship. The issue would have been solved by cross examine the

concern person and would have nip in the bud too. Ganapat Das Prabhu must be

knowing that people have less faith on police in our country. Will it be

accepted by ISKCON if devotees treats ‘Prabhus’ as police personnel tomorrow?

(people have less respect to police) How can he delivers an example which is

not demanded by situation at all. As a responsible Prabhu of ISKCON whatever

he delivers must be prophecy. I can understand that by adorning

‘tilaka’ only no one becomes devotee, but how can he delivers such a statement

where Srila Prabhupada said that devotees mush adorn ‘tilaka’. And for us how

we will recognize devotee? People are sitting at front office of ISKCON,

Vrindavan without ‘tilaka’, strange!

Anyway I am not much wise as Ganapati Das Prabhu is. May be he is right. But

then my next query is Srila Prabhupada is wrong?

I have kept my views in front of higher authority of ISKCON through you to

contemplate and verdict.

HARE KRISHNA!

Sanjib Kumar Basu,

Life Patron No. MPR 5687

 

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