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GBC Was Warned About HKS 8 Months Ago

USA (VNN) - Pratyatosa Dasa

The following is a portion of a text which was sent to each andevery GBC man over 8 months ago!

From:

http://www.com.org/hb/temp2/GBC_Investigations.htm

http://www.com.org/hb/WWW-COM_users_only/GBC_Investigations.htm

Suggestions For Future GBC InvestigationsÏBy Pratyatosa Dasa (ACBSP), December 11, 1997

[...]

DEVIATIONS?

12. Harikesa Swami

a. Does he regularly attend the morning program?

[I was there at his headquarters in Sweden for two visits, plushe visited the temple in Hillerød, Denmark when I was there, andI can personally testify that he never went to any part of themorning program!]

b. Does he chant 16 rounds?

[Who knows? He just stays in his private apartment all day! He'srented special video phone lines connected to all of the templesin his zone, so that he can micro-manage everything withouthaving leave his apartment!]

c. Is he guilty of making important official ISKCON decisionswhimsically, without consulting with fellow BBT trustees or GBCgodbrothers?

[Related questions: Where hundreds of thousands of dollarswasted in Mayapur because of mistakes made due to whimsical,rushed decisions? Was the Sony copyright case settled out ofcourt without proper consultation?]

d. Does he regard the Northern European BBT funds his own, to dowith as he pleases?

e. Did he threaten to leave ISKCON and take the BBT copyrightswith him at the New Vrindaban emergency GBC meetings in 1986?

[Comment: Could this threat be carried out in the future?]

f. Are some of the temples in his zone (such as the one inHillerød, Denmark) distributing music CDs to the exclusion ofSrila Prabhupada's books?

[I was there in Denmark for 4 1/2 months. The answer is yes!]

g. Are some of the music tapes and/or CDs (under the BBT logo)an embarrassment to the BBT?

[Two prominent ISKCON leaders told me that the answer to this isalso yes!]

h. Is he illegally blocking private email without the permissionof either the sender or the receiver? (See "Human RightsViolations" below.)

i. Is he preaching that the grihasthas in his zone should try toput off having children?

[Comment: When I told one temple president that this was goingon, his immediate reaction was, "This is demoniac!" Is thispolicy encouraging sinful activities?]

j. Are a large percentage of children in his zone, in karmischool?

[I personally witnessed that even one of the devotees who wasone of three board members running the temple in Hillerød (therewas no temple president), and who was being maintained 100% outof the sankirtan collections, had her son in karmi school!]

k. Are illegal activities going on at his headquarters inSweden?

[When I told one temple president about the computer softwarebootlegging that is going on there, including illegally copyingcommercial CD-ROMs, he said, "That's nothing compared to some ofthe other illegal things that are going on there!"]

l. Why are there two kinds of devotees in his zone--the prabhus(men) and the matajis (women)?

[In Hillerød, the devotee telephone directory, lists everyone as"Prabhu" or "Mataji" instead of "Dasa" or "Devi Dasi". Is thisweird or what?]

m. Why do the devotees in his zone think that it's okay to washtheir metal prasadam plates, cups and spoons in the stool room?

n. In Harikesa Swami's zone, I heard a lecture given by SuhotraSwami wherein he stated over and over again that "All words inall languages come directly from the spiritual world." Is this aconcoction, or what?

[Also, in Suhotra Swami's book entitled "Substance and Shadow:The Vedic Method of Knowledge", he states that "The Wrightbrothers flew a plane called the Kitty Hawk."! In the glossary,the definitions for "relativity" and "quantum mechanics" arehopelessly confused and confusing. I checked with a PhD devoteescientist, and he 100% agreed with my prognosis!]

[...]

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS?

21. Is Harikesa Maharaj Misusing His Authority in His ControlOver COM/WWW-COM?

a. Should control be transferred to the BBT Trustees or to theGBC body?

[Comment: On 11 Oct 1997, Badrinarayan Dasa wrote:

> Thank you for your note. As for their rules on how they monitorÏ> the system...best to ask them or Harikesa Maharaj...as theyÏ> set it up and maintain it.Ï> Dear Badrinarayan Prabhu,

PAMHO. AGTSP!

The intelligent, mature way to run COM, would be to have amoderator for each conference, that intercepts each message tothe conference for which he is responsible. He then has thechoice of either posting it on the conference, or returning itto the sender along with the reason that it is being rejected.Messages should only be rejected based on content, not on thepast reputation of the person sending them. Does this not seemreasonable?

I, for one, would like to have my messages blocked, if they areactually inappropriate or offensive. This will help to keep mefrom making a fool of myself, or even worse, committing vaisnavaaparada. The blocking of my email has, on the other hand, hadnothing to do with content, but was purely indiscriminate, andseemingly vengeful, and politically motivated. I was never givenany warning, notice, reason, or "length of sentence". Does thisseem fair?]

b. Are karmi laws being violated by the blocking of privateemail messages without the permission of either the sender orthe receiver?

c. Is the "United Nations Declaration of Human Rights" beingviolated by the blocking of private email messages without thepermission of either the sender or the receiver?

See: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

"The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

"Article 12

"No one shall be subject to arbitrary interference with hisprivacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon hishonour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protectionof the law against such interference or attacks."

d. Is the blocking of private email messages without thepermission of either the sender or the receiver ungentlemanly,unethical, unvaisnava, or offensive?

In light of the above, why was this man made chairman of the GBCExecutive Committee for a 3 year term?