“I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You” Mayavada is “Selling the Brooklyn Bridge”
“Here is a golden opportunity for you …”
A disciple of Shrila Prabhupada has written, “Radhanatha is probably the biggest ‘guru’ in ISKCON now—in that he has the wealthiest and the most famous followers. Is that success? Maharshi Mahesh Yogi had lots of big famous rich folllowers, too. Did that qualify him as guru? How he is always promoting himself through his books, his websites, etc, is so alien to the examples of all the Goswamis and acharyas that it has become surreal. And how the leaders of ISKCON just love it, and how they are all trying to follow his example, makes us wonder what they have been hearing for the last fifty years and/or what actual vijnana they have acquired?”
Corrupt demons who propagate Mayavada, such as the flock of bogus “gurus” glorified in The Journey Home, were savvy in ways how to seduce their listeners into thinking that “becoming One with God” is a very attractive idea. After all, God is the Supreme Enjoyer, so why not sell this privilege of become God to a foolish, gullible public, get rich and have plenty of sex while doing it?
A con artist is one who takes another into his confidence and cheats him outright. The rapist and drug-possessed Mayavadis in The Journey Home are the most despicable form of con artists because after they cheat some some fool, he will be forced to join these fraudulent yogis in hell. As they say in America, this con business is “selling the Brooklyn Bridge.” The Swamis and Maharishis of The Journey Home are even less than any con man who has ever sold the Brooklyn Bridge—they are simply crooked and sly businessmen who were out to rip you off.
We find this description of con men who actually sold New York’s Brooklyn Bridge in Wikipedia:
“References to ‘selling the Brooklyn Bridge’ abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity …George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists. The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon ‘Bowery Bugs’ (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hvogd) is also a joking reference to Bugs ‘selling’ a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naive tourist.”
“Blessings on you, my son”
Wiki writes: “George C. Parker (1860–1936) was an American con man best known for his surprisingly successful attempts to ‘sell’ the Brooklyn Bridge. He made his living conducting illegal sales of property he did not own, often New York's public landmarks, to unwary immigrants. The Brooklyn Bridge was the subject of several of his transactions, predicated on the notion of the buyer controlling access to the bridge. Police removed several of his victims from the bridge as they tried to erect toll booths …
“Parker was convicted of fraud three times. After one arrest, around 1908, he escaped the courthouse by calmly walking out after donning a sheriff's hat and coat that had been set down by a sheriff who had walked in from the cold outdoors. After his third conviction on December 17, 1928, he was sentenced to a mandatory life term at Sing Sing Prison by Judge Alonzo G. McLaughlin in the Kings County Court. He spent the last eight years of his life incarcerated there and was popular among guards and fellow inmates who enjoyed hearing of his exploits. Parker is remembered as one of the most successful con men in the history of the United States, as well as one of history's most talented hoaxers. His methods have passed into popular culture, giving rise to phrases such as ‘and if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you,’ a popular way of expressing a belief that someone is gullible.”
“William McCloundy (born 1859 or 1860), also known as I.O.U. O'Brien, was an early 20th-century confidence trickster, from Asbury Park, New Jersey, who served a two-and-a-half-year prison term in Sing Sing for selling the Brooklyn Bridge to a tourist in 1901.”
Mayavadi yogi con artists who sell the dubious privilege of “beoming God” are nothing more than cheaters, rascals and demons—just as Shrila Prabhupada taught. His Divine Grace never minced words when describing these repulsive scoundrels. Rapists and con artist yogis who are glorified in The Journey Home have no place in a book that is sold at the temples founded by the current Vaishnava acharya Shrila Prabhupada, whose example was always spotless and praiseworthy. Therefore the words of Shrila Prabhupada’s disciple at the start of this article about a blind and ignorant GBC that allows Mayavadi filth to proliferate in the holy abode of Shrila Prabhupada bear repeating: “It makes us wonder what (the GBC) has been hearing for the last fifty years, and what actual vijnana they have acquired?”
The GBC should start thinking about it. Even Bugs Bunny could do better.
“Here is a golden opportunity for you …”
A disciple of Shrila Prabhupada has written, “Radhanatha is probably the biggest ‘guru’ in ISKCON now—in that he has the wealthiest and the most famous followers. Is that success? Maharshi Mahesh Yogi had lots of big famous rich folllowers, too. Did that qualify him as guru? How he is always promoting himself through his books, his websites, etc, is so alien to the examples of all the Goswamis and acharyas that it has become surreal. And how the leaders of ISKCON just love it, and how they are all trying to follow his example, makes us wonder what they have been hearing for the last fifty years and/or what actual vijnana they have acquired?”
Corrupt demons who propagate Mayavada, such as the flock of bogus “gurus” glorified in The Journey Home, were savvy in ways how to seduce their listeners into thinking that “becoming One with God” is a very attractive idea. After all, God is the Supreme Enjoyer, so why not sell this privilege of become God to a foolish, gullible public, get rich and have plenty of sex while doing it?
A con artist is one who takes another into his confidence and cheats him outright. The rapist and drug-possessed Mayavadis in The Journey Home are the most despicable form of con artists because after they cheat some some fool, he will be forced to join these fraudulent yogis in hell. As they say in America, this con business is “selling the Brooklyn Bridge.” The Swamis and Maharishis of The Journey Home are even less than any con man who has ever sold the Brooklyn Bridge—they are simply crooked and sly businessmen who were out to rip you off.
We find this description of con men who actually sold New York’s Brooklyn Bridge in Wikipedia:
“References to ‘selling the Brooklyn Bridge’ abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity …George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists. The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon ‘Bowery Bugs’ (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hvogd) is also a joking reference to Bugs ‘selling’ a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naive tourist.”
“Blessings on you, my son”
Wiki writes: “George C. Parker (1860–1936) was an American con man best known for his surprisingly successful attempts to ‘sell’ the Brooklyn Bridge. He made his living conducting illegal sales of property he did not own, often New York's public landmarks, to unwary immigrants. The Brooklyn Bridge was the subject of several of his transactions, predicated on the notion of the buyer controlling access to the bridge. Police removed several of his victims from the bridge as they tried to erect toll booths …
“Parker was convicted of fraud three times. After one arrest, around 1908, he escaped the courthouse by calmly walking out after donning a sheriff's hat and coat that had been set down by a sheriff who had walked in from the cold outdoors. After his third conviction on December 17, 1928, he was sentenced to a mandatory life term at Sing Sing Prison by Judge Alonzo G. McLaughlin in the Kings County Court. He spent the last eight years of his life incarcerated there and was popular among guards and fellow inmates who enjoyed hearing of his exploits. Parker is remembered as one of the most successful con men in the history of the United States, as well as one of history's most talented hoaxers. His methods have passed into popular culture, giving rise to phrases such as ‘and if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you,’ a popular way of expressing a belief that someone is gullible.”
“William McCloundy (born 1859 or 1860), also known as I.O.U. O'Brien, was an early 20th-century confidence trickster, from Asbury Park, New Jersey, who served a two-and-a-half-year prison term in Sing Sing for selling the Brooklyn Bridge to a tourist in 1901.”
Mayavadi yogi con artists who sell the dubious privilege of “beoming God” are nothing more than cheaters, rascals and demons—just as Shrila Prabhupada taught. His Divine Grace never minced words when describing these repulsive scoundrels. Rapists and con artist yogis who are glorified in The Journey Home have no place in a book that is sold at the temples founded by the current Vaishnava acharya Shrila Prabhupada, whose example was always spotless and praiseworthy. Therefore the words of Shrila Prabhupada’s disciple at the start of this article about a blind and ignorant GBC that allows Mayavadi filth to proliferate in the holy abode of Shrila Prabhupada bear repeating: “It makes us wonder what (the GBC) has been hearing for the last fifty years, and what actual vijnana they have acquired?”
The GBC should start thinking about it. Even Bugs Bunny could do better.