email to Dhira Prabhu about past dirty mind

[Paramananda das]

dear Dhira Prabhu
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
I recall on instance the other day I never confronted you about .
In 1992 at Toronto Ratha Yatra you made some nasty comments, I was preaching to this young Indian Mataji, and you chastised both her and me for talking. The fact you do not know is I had helped her get to 16 rounds daily and she was becoming a good devotee. I was her mentor and older than her. Nothing was going on between us except for in your impure mind.
I had often similar experiences I recall in 1980 Devamrta then Brahmacari was objecting to us preaching to a young girl who was 16, and she had chanted 16 rounds daily for a while mother Kesava Priya and I were preaching to her. One day Devamrta made some nasty comment as I was preaching to her, devotees had been going in and out of the temple room .So he thought it was wrong to preach to her, next day he told her why are you coming to this temple you are so young your mother knows you are here, or are you rebelling against her? Yes her mother knew and condoned her interest in Krsna consciousness and giving up eating meat, etc she thought ISKCON was a good influence. After this nasty treatment and immature treatment, she stopped coming. I think her only fault was she externally was pretty but for Krsna's sake, she was a kid and only 16 years old. I met her once on Sankirtana a few months later, she told me lost interest in ISKCON after Devamrta berated her, her mother had written an article in a local newspaper after Devamrtas mistreatment, warning not to allow your minor kids around ISKCON . This article was read all over Copenhagen and it was shameful what Devamrta did. So sometimes in the name of being a senior devotee, you Prabhus cause big harm to the preaching movement. I have spent most of my life distributing Srila Prabhupada's books since I was 19 but I often do not like the immaturity I have seen among many of Srila Prabhupada's disciples. This said I do not want to be a faultfinder, but when you have so-called senior devotees that follow the footsteps of Ramachandra Puri, then how anyone will be inspired?
your servant
Paramananda das
PS this said I have always liked you because all my other dealings with you were not like that . I just remembered how I use to go to Young street even in the Winter when no one else would go and distribute books and I was the only one distributing in minus degrees with serious wind . I was never a comfort rider in ISKCON,so today I wanted to get this off my chest .I guess it is my Karma ? I recall before I became a devotee there was one young girl that her parents had left at home for several days and she was really sad being at home by herself ,one day in my town she walked with me to take me home and asked if she and her puppy dog can spend the night? I said I have only one bed, and I have to go to classes tomorrow, what will people think ? She said I am so lonely my family taken of and you are a friend only that cares.I said you take my bed I will sleep on the floor, on a mattress.Next day I told her give me your parents number and I called them ,why are you out of town leaving you daughter alone ,she came and stayed with me last night she was not happy being a lone at home for many days.So you either come home now and take care of your daughter or I will call child welfare and report you for your neglect..she later thanked me and said , you know what you are really a good friend...But my dad called me and asked me why did you have a girl with you last night ? I told him why , and he said you did the right thing..people have dirty minds ..I can understand it ...thus I chant 64 rounds daily and have chanted for many years , at least I always chanted not less than 32 rounds, the time you met me in Toronto I was a super strict Brahmacari and worshipped Ugra Narasimha Salagrama Sila Daily and Govardhana sila daily ,I placed sacred waters daily on my head from Ganges in Mayapure, Yamuna in Vrindavana ,Radha Kunda Shyama Kunda.and other holy tirthas in Vrindavana ..a lot more can be said I am not trying to sound defensive, but I needed to share this with you as you are my old friend