Time to Ban The Journey Home from All ISKCON Centers in your Zone

Open Letter to Mother Dina Sharana, GB

https://gbc.iskcon.org/dina-sharana-devi-dasi/

My dear Shrimati Dina Sharana devi,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Shrila Prabhupada and the Gaudiya sampradaya. I am writing to you today because of my concern that Mayavada is being proliferated throughout ISKCON much in part due to the influence of Radhanatha’s book The Journey Home. Although the sheepish somnambulists within ISKCON—which unfortunately includes many so-called “leaders”—are celebrating this book, in fact it is nothing less than poison. It is a killer of the Society’s aggregate creeper of devotion in the garden of Shrila Prabhupada’s temples. We are asking that you see to it that this book must no longer be sold within your zone which, according to the official ISKCON website, includes Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein.

Not only does this book severely minimize the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON—His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada—but it openly glorifies enemies of devotion who Shrila Prabhupada referred to over and over again as “rascals, miscreants, bogus imitators of yoga and demons.” 

A number of these demons that The Journey Home speaks highly of were accused of serial rape many, many times over. Since men—in their “superior wisdom and intelligence”—generally do not understand the severe trauma of forced sexual abuse, I have tried to alert in this ongoing series two ladies who are considered leaders of ISKCON. I have expressed my concern in open letters to Mother Malati (Part Fifty-three: “Open Letter to Mother Malati—You Know Better”), and Shrimati Urmila Devi (Part Thirty-Seven: Does the GBC Know Shastra? “Open Letter to Urmila Dasi, SAC”). Neither letter received a reply. 

I have also written, again without reply, to HH Prahladananda Swami, ISKCON Minister of Sannyasa, (Part Thirty-Nine: Open Letter to Prahladananda Swami—Re: A Dangerous Trend among ISKCON Sannyasis) to question why a book that violates the rules of sannyasa—e.g., bragging about one’s past—is being promulgated as a very bad example for any other would-be glory-seeking, self-promoting sannyasis who might still be hanging around ISKCON. Again, no reply despite the fact that I have pointed out in Part Seventeen “Mayavadi Literature Gives Impetus to Illicit Sex Life—“Sex and the Swami” that Radhanatha as a sannyasi describes an act of failed allurement wherein a lusty woman attempted to seduce him. 

The following articles discuss the so-called “yogis” who were accused of serial rape along with articles by reputed journalists and statements by violated members of their respective shadowy organizations. Keep in mind each one of these storefront yogis figure prominently into The Journey Home.

1, The Journey Home is The Worst Form of Guru Aparadha—Swami Muktananda (Part One)

2, The Journey Home: Destruction by Design—From Krishna-loka to Yogaville—Swami Satchidananda (Part Twenty-two)

3, Another Sexy Swami: Yogi Radhanatha Meets Swami Rama (Part Twenty-seven)

Additionally Dr Richard Alpert, America’s 60’s “LSD guru,” who was largely responsible for that era’s horrific LSD epidemic, is not only featured prominently in the book, but his review appears on the outside rear cover. We have discussed him in Part Fourteen “It isn’t Gay and it’s Not Not-Gay” Part Fourteen: “The LSD Baba.” The title of that particular article refers to this “Baba Ram Dass” openly claims that his “awareness” has given him the license for sex with anyone he likes, male or female. Again, the references to these statements are given in the article and we request you to see them there.

This Baba Ram Dass is a “disciple” of the Mayavadi so-called “guru” who lived in Vrindavana, Neem Karoli Baba. Please see our article on him in this series:: “The Oneness of Ignorance—‘Ek, Ek, Ek’” (Part Nine) This Neem Karoli Baba is the guru of the singer Krishna dasa whose so-called “bhajans” have been invading Shrila Prabhupada’s temples since the publication of The Journey Home. To get an idea of how offensive this Krishna dasa is to genuine bhakti, have a look at what this avowed Mayavadi follower of Neem Karoli Baba is capable of in this Sun article http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/editorials/01-15/editorials12492.htm

Photo: https://iskconnews.org/iskcon-sannyasis-gurus-gbcs-and-bbt-leaders-meet-in-india,6868/
ISKCON’s leaders make a show of dancing and chanting before the Shri Murti of the Founder Acharya, But together they have conspired to support the translation and distribution of a non-devotional book which is destroying his movement from the very roots.

The Journey Home is basically Mayavadi garbage that not only minimizes Shrila Prabhupada, who your fellow GBC Radhanatha claims as his guru, but it is openly offensive to the pure devotee and to his teaching. For example, Shrila Prabhupada described the so-called Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as “rascal number one” many, many times as you may read in Parts Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen of this series. In fact, your fellow GBC members will do really well to read those and other parts of this series, too, because apparently the GBC men are way behind the times in their blind attempts to appear ahead of the times. In short, the lot of you GBC people needs some catching up to do before the train you are driving goes off the track for good.

In our series we point out that this Mayavadi poison is not merely coming from the bogus yogis and imitation swamis who are extolled in The Journey Home. Radhanatha himself has the temerity to write that when he read the Bhagavad-gita at Kurukshetra it was as though Krishna had come to speak to him directly. You can see this for yourself in Part Four The Radhanatha Gita: With the American Swami on the Battlefield of Life—“Kurukshetra and Bhagavad-gita As It Isn’t” Is this how a supposed disciple of a pure devotee spiritual master should write? This is unadulterated Mayavada pure and simple. There is no need for Shri Guru when one can directly go to Krishna. Correct me if I am wrong, Mataji, but you might have seen this in Shrila Prabhupada’s Shri Chaitanya Charitamrita (Madhya 11.28). These are the words of Lord Shri Krishna—the Supreme Personality of Godhead—as He spoke them to His disciple Arjuna. (Krishna spoke the Gita to Arjuna and not to Radhanatha, by the way):

ye me bhakta-janāḥ pārtha na me bhaktāś ca te janāḥ
mad-bhaktānāṁ ca ye bhaktās te me bhakta-tamā matāḥ

Lord Kṛṣṇa told Arjuna, “Those who are My direct devotees are actually not My devotees, but those who are the devotees of My servant are factually My devotees.”

BHAKTIVEDANTA PURPORT: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu quotes this verse from the Ādi Purāṇa. The verse is also included in the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta (2.6). end of purport.

Furthermore, this series of articles proves how the glorification of envious and long gone Mayavadis has also opened the door to today’s present generation of Mayavadi bogus gurus. You can see how the seeds of poison have sprouted and are choking the collective flowering vine of ISKCON in Part Sixteen “Reviewing Bad Association—“The Company We Keep” And what will be the effect on the GBC if this Mayavadi rubbish is allowed to continue in Lord Krishna’s temples? That you can read in Part Twenty-three: The Journey Home Or Journey to Hell?—“A GBC that Promotes Mayavada Dooms Itself”

Yet, to make things even worse, this dubious “autobiography of an American swami” has a Brijabasi print of our beloved Lord Gopala Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the book next to a picture of a pile of skulls. Yes, that is a fact and you can read about this in Part Seven “The Journey Home: Has it  Caused Mass Hysteria in ISKCON?—Get the Picture”

In the history of aparadhas, demonic offenses caused by asuras like Hiranyakashipu and Ravana, has there ever been a greater offense? And yet this is the book that you and your fellow GBC cronies are enthusiastically publicizing and have already overseen its translation into over a dozen languages. This is the very book that you so-called “leaders” of ISKCON have set aside separate tables for selling at ISKCON events. Are you not ashamed of this hypocrisy, Mataji? Is it not shameful when leaders of a Society that worships Krishna as the Supreme Lord has put the Supreme Deity next to an impious pile of skulls? How could you allow this to happen? This is the question that many of us rank and file members of ISKCON have for you. In case you and your fellow GBC members have forgotten who factually is God, you may review this verse once again and jog your memory:

ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam
indrāri-vyākulaṁ lokaṁ mṛḍayanti yuge yuge

“All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead submitted herewith are either plenary expansions or parts of the plenary expansions of the Supreme Godhead, but Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.” (SB. 1.3.28)

Since when did Shrila Prabhupada establish his International Society for Krishna Consciousness in order that a few self-anointed “privileged members” could use the Acharya’s sacrifices and hard work for their own aggrandizement? Would you want your own “Dina Sharana Fan Blog” that supports Positive Thinking (whatever that means)?

http://www.radhanath-swami.net/

Is the not the same sort of ego-trip that almost destroyed ISKCON during the ostentatious days of the “Zonal Acharyas”? Mataji, what will it take for you and your GBC chums to come to your senses before your (lack of) guidance destroys the movement with this egregious infiltration of Mayavada that is seeping in under the door during your watch? 

In the official GBC website https://gbc.iskcon.org/dina-sharana-devi-dasi/ there are some nice positive-sounding but empty words of praise about you: “Dina Sarana Devi Dasi’s primary goal as a GBC member is to do whatever she can to help ISKCON Germany’s present and future leaders reach their full potential.”

Why is it important that everyone should become a leader? Did Shrila Prabhupada ever state that his goal was to become a leader in the movement of his spiritual master? Or was his example one of service to the lotus feet of his Shri Guru Maharaja—and with every breath? This “leadership disease” that you GBC’s have is another nonsense Mayavadi infection and under the leadership of you and the other GBCs we can see that the entire society is on a journey to hell in a hand basket. Shrila Prabhupada gives the definition of leadership:

“’He is servant of Kṛṣṇa; therefore he is my prabhu.’ This is Vaiṣṇava mentality. Gopī-bhartur pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsa. One who wants to become servant of the servant of the servant of the servant, he is actually prabhu [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. If falsely one thinks that ‘I am prabhu,’ then his life is spoiled. So this word we use amongst ourself, prabhu, means that ‘I am your servant, you are my master." But that should be practically exhibited. That is called tapasya, to learn all these things.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Vrindavana lecture 23 Oct 76)

I therefore fall at your feet and beg you to do your job in a way that will be pleasing to the Founder-Acharya Shrila Prabhupada who gave you initiation in 1974. Forget the fancy motivational talk that now infects a Mayavadi-saturated ISKCON and return to the basics. Some may object, but Shrila Prabhupada will be very, very pleased with you.

Thank you very much for reading this and for going over all the chapters mentioned in this letter. It is very important. I might mention that you will do well to also read the entire series. May Shri Guru and Krishna guide you to do the right thing for their pleasure.

Your humble servant in Prabhupada,

Kaliya Mardana dasa Brahmachary