The Dead Guru
BY: HARINAMANANDA DAS
Oct 27, USA (SUN) — Some of those who have been reading the recent posts about Hridayananda may think that the main theme of this whole thing has been denouncing a sannyasi who is not following the principles of his asrama and doesn't represent properly the role of guru within ISKCON. We all saw the photographs of him in his materialistic garb, environment and consciousness, evident to everyone except those followers of his that never tire of making excuses on his behalf. But in fact, this is not a simple case of a fallen devotee. There is much more to it, and if you continue reading you will understand what I am talking about, and the reason why this article is entitled "The Dead Guru."
I hope that by now you have read Payonidhi Prabhu's article, "Correspondence on Hridayananda das" that appeared right here in the Sampradaya Sun. In his article there is a link to a Google video. If you see the video you will become shocked, angry and stunned, as Payonidhi himself says, from listening to how Hridayananda tries to contradict Srila Prabhupada.
This rascal—as Srila Prabhupada would have called him if present—systematically engages in discrediting the purports in Srila Prabhupada's books. This rascal has declared that Srila Prabhupada overstepped his boundaries by making remarks in the fields of modern Psychology and Sociology. He says that the irrefutable, verified and scientific truths of these fields of knowledge contradict the teaching in the purports in Srila Prabhupada's books.
So this tiny and insignificant conditioned soul pretends to be more intelligent than Srila Prabhupada. He has found "mistakes" in Srila Prabhupada's books and he now intends to contradict him with his mundane understanding and that of his scientist friends—the same ones who defeated and indoctrinated him philosophically when he attended college. All Srila Prabhupada disciples and followers that follow the authority of the Guru Sampradaya should assist in denouncing this impostor.
When a godbrother falls from the position of guru, he harms his disciples and even our Gurudeva's mission. But Hridayananda's offensive and deviant attitude is not only harming his disciples, it is also contaminating them and is hurting the whole of Srila Prabhupada's institution and legacy.
Where are those arrogant GBC's who were supposed to be "guardian dogs" of our Gurudeva's mission? By keeping silent they all prove their complicity in this abhorrent crime. Are they afraid of this toothless tiger? My godbrothers and sisters, it is your duty to extricate this malignant tumor that is trying to destroy Srila Prabhupada's mission from within. So, dear GBC, please wake up!!!
Let's go now to the subject of The Dead Guru. When I visited Alachua in late 2008, I went to see Hridayananda at his Gainesville home to discuss the situation of the New Goloka Vrindavan farm in Costa Rica. At that time I was able to personally witness the degraded condition in which Hridayananda had fallen since the last time I had seen him. There wasn't any altar at his home. He never carried a japamala. He was almost always surrounded by young women, playing with them and making them laugh. He even took two of them to his room and they stayed there for more than one hour together, behind closed doors.
At one point Hridayananda invited me to sit with him by the keyboard. I said to myself: "Finally, we will now have some bhajan." But no, this guy only played karmi music the whole time. We can agree that this is not the appropriate attitude for a real sannyasi. Well, hold onto your seats, because what I am going to tell you now is still more serious, and something that I had never mentioned to anyone until now.
We sat in the living room and had a discussion about the situation of the farm in Costa Rica. At one point, a certain controversial subject was discussed and I made reference to Srila Prabhupada. This produced a reaction from Hridayananda who, completely out of control, told me directly to my face, referring to Srila Prabhupada: "THAT IS A DEAD GURU!!!" Please note that this rascal couldn't even utter Srila Prabhupada's name, referring to him only in an impersonal and derisive fashion.
I was petrified, gasping for air. I inhaled deeply trying to control my impulse to smash him in the face. Instead of that I challenged him: "NO, SRILA PRABHUPADA IS ALIVE!!!
Hridayananda das, if someone is dead, it is you. Yes, you. You are The Dead Guru. Srila Prabhupada "died" to live eternally in his books, his purports, his letters and his instructions. You, on the other hand, you live to die, as you have lost your faith in Srila Prabhupada. You know this and we all know this. But your arrogance and legendary false ego won't allow you to see this fact until it is too late. Please don't forget what happened to your other ten "acarya" cohorts.
You went to college, but you ended up going there to learn and not to teach, and now you are trying to teach the community of devotees what you learned in college. Due to your attitude we know that you have become a byproduct of those mundane teachings. You are now trying to introduce these "new" conceptions in our beloved Gurudeva's mission. You are a RASCAL, and that is what Srila Prabhupada would call you.
We are not interested in your mundane psychology and sociology. You are unable to understand Srila Prabhupada, you don't follow his teachings, and you manipulate everything in relation to him. This automatically makes you a false disciple, because you don't have an elementary faith in your Spiritual Master.
Your so-called education is just word jugglery. Lord Krishna has taken away your intelligence, your understanding, and now you are on your way down. That is the price you have to pay for your offenses at Srila Prabhupada's lotus feet. If one engages in sinful acts, that person will have to accept the reactions, but won't necessarily lose his or her Krishna Consciousness. But offenders like you will be deprived of the most precious treasure that we have inherited from our guru: Krishna Consciousness.
You will never succeed at infiltrating the Krishna Consciousness movement with your mundane concepts, nor will you be able to manipulate it with your "irrefutable" materialistic philosophy. You have become influenced by these material teachings; that is why Srila Prabhupada would warn us that materialistic learning institutions are slaughterhouses for the soul. YOU WON'T SUCCEED. But you will succeed at becoming the Judas Iscariot that betrayed Srila Prabhupada. That will be your glory, the glory of a traitor.
I personally want to encourage all sincere devotees that have admiration and loyalty to Srila Prabhupada, and who know about the murky activities of this rascal Hridayananda, to come out and denounce this pretender. This guy is not my friend, nor anyone's friend. He is a hopeless agent of Kali, a kali-chela, and we have to distance him and his mundane conceptions from Srila Prabhupada's mission so that he won't try to contaminate it.
Your servant
Harinamananda das
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