When Purity becomes a farce!

[Paramananda das]

When Purity becomes a farce!
Guru Purnima
This is written to remind you ,that not all Gurus are bonafide.I recall in 1981 Harikesa made a statement , that all you Sankirtana devotees are working so hard day after day year after year distributing Srila Prahbupadas books.SO I have decided we should have apartments for devotees so that when they are 60 and plus they can go to Mayapure and retire in the holy Dham .Can you all keep distributing Srila Prahbupadas books until then ? It was a false promise but a promise non the less. It should have been kept and actually it would be something ISKCON should do for those devotees that spend their whole life distributing Srila Prabhupadas books.However most do not last more than 5 years on Sankirtana then they are all toast.But actually ISKCON should first of all have Srila Prabhupadas own books distributed not changed ones and Sankirtana devotees should be protected in ISKCON , not abused as it now the case, which is why there is so few left.This service should be encouraged not discouraged .Sankirtana devotees mostly live with NON Sankirtana devotees, that often hate going out on book distribution many look at the bookdistributors with envy ,because they can not and will not distribute Srila Prabhupadas books .Even among the GBC's and Sannyasis , and TP's they often envy Sankirtana devotees.In 1995 I was asked to leave ISKCON Potomac because I brought to the Temple boards attention that the Demigod worship and Satya Narayana Pujas in the culture hall was attracting congregation to attend this nonsense functions.One Mayavadi also spoke there ,they had rented the place, and Jayadvaja then Swami from Argentina went to see what they spoke, and they said many anti ISKCON things, such as like in this temple they worship stones ,but you might as well worship a mountain.It was Mayavadis.So the temple board decided I was an "offender:
for speaking out about their money scheme(the TP was paid a salary ,substantial amount )and was only interested in money .The previous months I had ordered books from the BBT ,I was distributing 100 to 200 medium books a day the TP,Sasthivara das said we have no money to buy BBT books,I said What ? I am collecting 100 to 200 dollars daily and the temple gets eveyrthing and you tell me there is no moeny for BBT books ? So the temple was corrupt, and it is to this day , I challenge the BBT and GBC to hear me out and I can prove it .But back then I am sure was worse .
So I left the temple I was number one in bookdistribution in USA that month and the month before I left the temple ,or rather forced to leave the temple never had a single bookdistributor after and i curse them at the lotusfeet of Lord Narasimha they will never have one for the next 10.000 years unless and until they change their offensive mentality . Ravindra Svarupa das came to me in Mayapure in 1996 as I was going to bath in Ganga and told me I do not want to ever see you in my zone again.I later wrote him a heavy letter.
My dear "Ravana Svarupa " personification of Ravana, I am going to come back to Washington DC in 1997 and will distribute tons of books I refuse to live in ISKCON Potomac or any temple where you will be the GBC as your support corruption.The GBC in 1996 added laws against demigod worship and Satya Narayana Pujas and use of culture halls etc .That time many temples all over USA had started doing all this Demigod stuff and things to make money rent the temple grounds to Mayavadis etc. That stopped after my complain to the GBC.1997 I came back and was invited to come back to ISKCON Potomac , I said NO THANK YOU! I was not goiing to collect money for the next TP, Trikalajna das..Because I know many times collection you make in ISKCON goes into the personal pockets of the GBC' there and or TP's .I had enough I sold lots of books for the next 3 years and was among the first 3 book distributors in US ,But 2000 Sura das send me an extra 3000 dollars' worth of book on top of my order of 4500 $ worth.I then realized maybe Svavasa Prabhu in ISKCON LA is giving him commission for sending me this much extra books ..and then I stopped distributing BBT books .I ordered again few times ,but mostly got my books from KBI and other places ,Srila Prahbupada did not agree with BBT workers getting a Salary but it is prominent now in ISKCON.Brahma Muhurta das in Sweden still lives a fat life of BBT money .So much so I know 20 sankirtana devotees in Denmark that now live outside of the temple distributing books and they say we do not trust Brahma Muhurta das plus we want Srila Prahbupadas original BBT books .I recall when I was Sankirtana leader in ISKCON LA there was a lot of gossip that Svavasa drives a BMW, and gets paid a lot, it was all over the ISKCON LA community that time.Instead of going on bookdistribution devotees were gossping about it.SO i put it to rest one day in Bhagavatam class, and i just directly told my mind that devotees complain about Svavasa Prabhu I think he is a great TP and if he has a BMW it does not bother me I am Brahmacari, I have no interest in material things, but some of you devotees that are materialistic and refuse to go on bookdistribution,to you it matters and you gossip all over ISKCON LA, please stop these rumors. Svavasa Prabhu was embarrassed, I apologized, but it was a real treat to the peace in the community .In the Brabhacari asrama there was also rumors that many Grhasthas in ISKCON LA were using condoms and buying is from local stores as one store owner had told 3 brahmacaries that some of the married men come to the store and buys condoms .This time I took this to the temple board, and told Svavasa and Sura ,the one Brahmacari that was spreading these rumors the most was Prabhupadacarya a disciple of Virabahu Prabhu ,Sura grapped him by the neck and told him to leave the temple and never ever come back to ISKCON LA again.Then I thought ,vow why is Sura das so angry , it is liek he has been caught red handed otherwise why is he so angry to hte point of wanting to almost kill Prabhupadacarya das ? Hrdayananda Maharaja however took the side with Prahbupadacarya, and said well if any grhasthas are using condoms in the ISKCON LA community it shoudl be investigated,You can not fough him up and traten to beat him and make him look like a total demon, that seems ot me an admittance of guilt.I ended up leaving ISKCON LA after that and when I told Harikesa my then Guru, he said do not go back to ISKCON LA it is not a place for a Brahmacari obviously
SO all these things came to my mind I want to share them for the better of ISKCON .
Srila Prahbupada used to say Purity is the force
But if purity becomes a Farce then what do we have?
Gaura Govinda Swami said in ISKCON Potomac in 1995 on Srila Madhavendra Puris disapperanceday: SOMETIMES the TP thinks he is Krsna and he kicks out good Vaisnavas from the temple you and you and you ..get out ...Srila Gaura Govinda Swami knew about the deviations with many of his Godbrothers ,that is why Harikesa and others banned him from their socalled ZONE. Bhakti Caru Swami was also banned by Ramabhadra from visiting ISKCON Brooklyn for many years, Ramabhadra banned hundreds of devotees ,I was also banned, then unbanned and banned again , because the last time i was banned I suggested to stop an illegal Bingo hall at the temple.Ramabhadra ,though with such an auspicious names given by Srila Prabhupada was like an inauspicious comet in Srila Prahbupadas movement.When I was first in ISKCON New York in 1989 -90 there was 30 Sankirtana devotees going out daily distrbuting Srila Prahbupadas books when the GBC finally kicked him out due to his trying to sell the building .There was not a single Sankirtana devotee left..Purity was a farce, and IRS closed the Bingo hall ,it was an illegal operation