Krishna’s Dance on the Heads of Kaliya

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Shrila Prabhupada’s International Society for Krishna Consciousness is meant to be like a great lake of fresh water that anyone seeking immortal life and eternal bliss can drink from. Shrila Prabhupada’s established a society meant to encompass a genuine conception of the True Dharma or eternal loving service to Lord Shri Krishna, the Supreme personality of Godhead. The nectar-like waters of this great lake of bhakti is the fulfillment of the ultimate dreams of all persons who wish for freedom from the endless chains of samsara. Shrila Prabhupada has appeared as a water-bearer for mankind freely giving the liberating formula to quench the thirst of all seekers.

Yet now The Journey Home by Radhanatha Swami has appeared in the great lake of ISKCON as some multi-headed poisonous Kaliya serpent. Just as Kaliya’s noxious fumes floated high above the great river-lake and killed any birds that flew overhead, similarly those who read The Journey Home could easily succumb to the venomous vapors emanating from the Mayavadis glorified in this book of fables. As Shrila Prabhupada warded thousands of times, associating with impersonalist “swamis,” “babas,” ”bliss-saturated holy mothers,” and “yogis”—even through their literature—will only bring about the reader’s spiritual death.

Shri Krishna Dancing on the Hoods of Kaliya-naga

It is the eternal duty of the disciple to tread softly in his footsteps of the spiritual master. In setting up ISKCON as a place of relief and safety from the falsehoods and deception of lewd serpent-like demons who pose as gurus, Shrila Prabhupada was uncompromising and unflinching. His Divine Grace took on the wicked and twisted illogic of the impersonalist demons who could not fathom that the Supreme Lord is a person; He taught us how to defeat them by dancing on the allegorical cobra-like hoods and crushing their noxious speculations underfoot. As the Jagat Guru and current acharya, His Divine Grace expected nothing less of both those who follow him directly or in the generations to come.

ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission is saddled with lingering issues that are results of decades of seriously inept leadership. It is a historical fact that immediately after the disappearance of Shrila Prabhupada, the GBC implemented impersonal and uncaring dictatorial policies carried out by a chosen body of “zonal acharyas.” These conspiratorial imposters sat on thrones right in the temples of their spiritual master and demanded worship with flowers, incense and money from their own Godbrothers and -sisters. Very quickly the jaundiced ruse saw its very bottom fall out. One by one zonal fraudsters self-destructed in the corruption of their own presumed divinity and mental speculation and. Within a few years, practically every genuine devotee—who were the true avowed servants of the mission—threw in the towel and fled. They ran just as a man flees the effects of deadly fumes. The GBC itself was forced to investigate whether the Founder-Acharya himself had been poisoned by guru wannabes.

Soon with a preponderance of inept flatterers dressed as disciples of the new acharyas, ISKCON temples became emptied of genuine servants. The chorus of bhakti became infiltrated with the tunes sung by many a strange personality. Child molestation spread in ISKCON gurukulas resulting in gigantic lawsuits that threatened to cripple the mission. Money that had been collected by nickels and dimes would be paid out in millions of dollars to lawyers and to victims of molestations.

As this mischief was underway, the books of Shrila Prabhupada were being changed to the extent that the wise and wry voice of the Master was becoming squeezed out. Editorial changes were being made by unqualified personalities in total violation of all scholastic rules that govern posthumous editing. The BBT was morphed into a brand new entity called BBT-I. Leaders of the Movement began publishing their own books which not only did not emphasize Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead but also minimized the spiritual master. All the while, the GBC kept adding newer and newer members as if more heads would rectify the flaws the body would never admit to. New gurus encouraged break dance performances and stage diving at their yoga retreats. The golf-shirt wearing founder of the atheistic Krishna West movement, a one-time zonal himself now found himself gleefully reinstated to GBC status. Flattering the Hindus in exchange for their hard-earned engineering and shop-keeping dollars became the mainstay of ISKCON. And with Hindu money supporting the mission, the movement itself became Hindu-ized.

All the problems arose in ISKCON were created by egomaniacal and inept leaders. Throughout the turbulence of the two decades that followed the disappearance of the Founder-Acharya, not a single attempt was ever made to undo the damage that the GBC had caused to the exiled devotee servants of the mission. These who had been disdainfully referred to as “their rank and file” were now the orphans of ISKCON. In other words, with all this lingering bad karma burdening the governing body, with no attempt at rectification, they body is too encumbered to be effective. And this situation will prevail until the GBC looks in the mirror and cleans up its own act.

Conveniently, at such a period in time with the supposed leaders saddled by past activities and burdened by their own misdeeds, The Journey Home has appeared on the scene like a hundred-headed Kaliya serpent. As ISKCON’s sidewalk supervisors—the outcaste rank and file—have by now come to expect, there is no Krishna-spirited soul amongst them to tighten his belt and jump into the once-pure lake of ISKCON. There is not one brave preacher among the leaders who is willing to dance on the hundred hoods of Kaliya in the form of Muktananda, Maharishi, Baba Ramdass Neem Karoli Baba, J Krishnamurti, Chidadananda, Satchidananda, Ananda Mayi, Yogananda and the other poisonous influences. Rather than gasping out of grief for the dilemma of the contamination of a once-pure movement—like Krishna’s gopas and gopis who fainted on the Yamuna’s shore—the GBC is more like an philharmonic playing a symphony to celebrate The Journey Home as some sort of revelation in their midst. Like greedy heirs at a funeral they are celebrating the demise of the society that has given them everything. But what do cowards ever give in return?

When Lord Krishna danced upon his deadly hoods and crushed them underfoot, Kaliya Naga quickly became forced to surrender. The giant serpent agreed to be exiled, and he obediently swam with his Nagapatnis and his children down the  Yamuna and out to sea, never to return. Today where is the courage of the GBC to banish Mayavadi literature from a once-pure mission? The GBC has welcomed the hundred hoods of Kaliya Nag into its midst. Today this poisonous yarn called The Journey Home is sold in ISKCON temples all over the world and translated into various languages.

But what is certain is this—Shrila Prabhupada would today be very, very displeased with the GBC for their foolish celebration of everything that he stood in opposition to. This book must be banished from ISKCON.

**Instead of poisoning your devotional service by reading The Journey Home, read the sixteenth chapter of Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead entitled “Subduing Kaliya” here: https://prabhupadabooks.com/kb/1/16