33 years in ISKCON part 5

[Paramananda das]

I was selling painting for helping the worship of Gaura Nitai in Copenhagen, after all installing Gaura Nitai in Denmark was a very special occasion also.However I was not allowed to keep distributing books , but Harikesa and Devamrta Swami wanted to pressure me to keep selling these karmi paintings.I had enough and it created a clash.I moved outside the temple in april of 1984, kept buying books from the temple and kept distributing them.All the older devotees there got married and stopped bookdistribution long ago.It was very envious and jealous behavior towards me.And a certain Adi deva das was also very very envious of me.I lived in an apartment outside, this would properly had been a good time to leave ISKCON.

However I had a mission.Harikesa called me an animal for wanting to distribute Srila Prabhupadas books and not sell paintings.At the end of the

day ,he was not a sankirtana devotee, lived in comfort in the temple and never even attended mongal artik.From that time on I rejected Harikesa,

I knew he was asat, I was the first devotee in ISKCON that knew he was bogus.Not long after that I only chanted Srila Prabhupadas pranam mantra.I basically also had not much faith in Prabhupadas discipels,they would comfort and never go on sankirtana and Harinama except for few exceptions.

Harikesa and Devamrta Swami had kicked out all senior devotees in Sweden starting with Vegavan Prabhu and Ajit Prabhu and others,all Prabhupada disciples that where actually KC.Only the yes men  remained, ISKCON was turning into a cult.Harikesa and gang had a stockpile of

weapons in  Austria or somewhere, that was discovered by the police. Suhotra then Swami fell down that year with a married disciple of Harikesa, a mataji from Bolivia. But the fraud continued.

Anyhow I was in Austria for a while with Maha Rama das, the famous or infamous bookdistributor from Germany that used to get in fist fights

on occasions on sankirtana.Harikesa made him in charge of Austria with Guru Gauranga Prabhu as regional secretary for Austria and Switzerland.

Maha Rama das gave Guru Gauranga a massage and then smelled his feet like a karmi smells a cigar ."UMMMMM lotus feet", he proclaimed.

He wanted to show me how to massage a senior devotee, I had given him a shoulder massage one day because of tense muscles .

Obviously he was crazy.  One day on the way to Graz , for a big rock concert where devotees distributed prasadam and books, we went in Taxi to the train station ,Maharama  das flatly at first refused to pay the taxi drivers with the 2 caps, and caused a big commotion, then he angrily gave the money and chastised them :" You are all Sudras" All dressed in Dhoti and matajis in Saris it was really bad.I was really disturbed about this and talked with one devotee about it.He reported it to Maharama das (the Fuhrer) and Maharama got agry with me in the van from the festival,

he shouted :You think I am in maya! 

I said I do not agree with your  behavior with those taxi drivers the other day in Vienna it was not necessary , he stopped the Van and simply kicked me out hundreds of kilometers to Vienna in the middle of the evening I had some laxmi in my pocket from doing sankirtana.

With that I managed to get a hotel , for the night with no extra money for even prasadam. The hotel owner gave me  some bread etc they where very kind.I hitchhiked back to Vienna the next day , arriving in the afternoon.This is all true and nothing is manufactured Krsna is my witness.

[Paramananda das]

actually I collected several thousand dollars for this purpose...of helping install Gaura Nitai ..I did my part and sacrified so much

[Paramananda das]

to be denied this service of bookdistribution and living in the temple was simply demoniac!