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11/17/97

Haribol.

I am totally shocked at this moment at recent revelations and evidence which points to a real conspiracy amongst Prabhupada's primary care-givers whoever they may be.

I just learned from VNN, that it is suggested that certain individuals such as Tamala and others are requested to have their bank accounts frozen, their travel stopped and other criminal measures until an investigation can be done.

I think this may be the straw that breaks the back of the false guru-successionists, and possibly murder charges for ISKCON guru(s).

Such is the gratefulness of some of Prabhupada's "direct, senior" disciples. Let us all learn to separate fact from superficialities. I look at myself as being much to blame also, since I always have given the so-called senior, direct disciples of Prabhupada all benefit of doubt.

I can now understand what Srila Prabhupada meant when he said that his guru-maharaja was so disgusted that he left this world earlier. Srila Prabhupada must have also felt this similar disgust, yet somehow, it appears that he felt resigned to the sinister care he was enduring.

As I downloaded the audio clip from VNN where a microphone picked up a whisper of somebody mentioning "poison," I became overwhelmed with fear; that someone in Prabhupada's close circle had such dark and evil intentions and I was shortly going to be taken, via audio clip, to that conspiratorial moment in time where two conspirators were executing their plan.

In the time to follow, it looks as if we Krsna devotees are in for more demoralization ("the Vaisnava movement is demoralized") while it may become well-known that the leaders of the movement had killed their own spiritual teacher. But it should become more obvious that the false policies of the GBC since 1977 should seriously and without political considerations be rectified as far as sincerely possible. None of us - either on the inside or outside of the Society - should think that we have any competence or ability to adjust siddhanta or to make any changes to what Prabhupada and Krsna have established as yuga-dharma.

Let us also become sober enough to realize that conspiracies have and will exist in our movement. Let us not cast a blind or affectionate eye towards anyone in the movement due to superficial reasons alone. I firmly believe that Prabhupada had tried to avoid his disciples from associating with his contemporaries, and yet it appears that a lot of them have crossed-over and neglected to appreciate what Prabhupada had warned against. There should be no reason to doubt that if a pure devotee of the Lord is conspired against, it may very possibly happen to those who are following in his footsteps. I personally have not realized the depravity of such disciples, yet I have witnessed this phenomena for about 12 years now and realize also that this phenomena not only goes back to Bhaktisiddhanta, but to Jesus, Haridas Thakura, Prahlada Maharaja, etc. It is a bittersweet price that pure devotees pay, it seems.

It has been coincidentally twenty years to the date since this alleged poisoning was going on. For twenty years, someone has gotten away with a murder so notorious that its history will live for thousands of years. I don't know if I'm exaggurating or if I'm just affected by the disgusting nature of it all. This poisoning is just so sinister it is a wonder how anyone could have submerged these dark secrets under his demeanor for so long without a great contempt for Srila Prabhupada. What's also very shocking is that perhaps Prabhupada did not feel he could have trusted anyone and so he became resigned?

If I may venture to speculate on a last thought in this strange and dark episode in the beginning of this kali-yuga, the similarities between Srila Prabhupada and his eleven successors remind me of Christ and his apostles who all forsook Christ and left him at the mercy of his executioners. Why are these two stories so similar, so tragic and condemning of the close associates of the representatives of the Lord? If history does in fact repeat itself, then let's bring on the institutionalization of Vaisnavism, the Crusades, the karmi-hunts, and more of the dark-ages.

Vaishnava Das