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| WORLD December 1, 1998 VNN2586 See Related VNN Stories Response From Jayasheela Rao BY JAYASHEEL RAO AND PADMAJA RAO BANGALORE, INDIA, Dec 1 (VNN) — Dear Madhu Pandit Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. We are quite disturbed by a letter that has been sent by a few congregation to the GBC members in which our name appears. We are writing this so that there is no misunderstanding between temple and our family. The letter baselessly purports to say that you had devised ways and means to push us against our wish to take initiation from His Holiness Jayapataka Swami. This type of falsehood against the temple leader is least expected of these senior congregation devotees whom you have trusted all along. We are ready to testify that you nor any temple devotees have not forced us in that direction. Our Guru Maharaj Srila Bhakti Caru Maharaj also knows the details of this situation. I am also surprised that why they are talking about something that happened four years back. On the contrary it is Narahari Chaitanya Prabhu , who is one of the signers in the above letter has told me in a cell programme that I should take initiation from His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaj. We replied that we have already decided to take initiation from Bhakti Charu Maharaj. Since this rebellion of a few congregation against the temple authority, I would also like to disclose that even a year and half back Subuddhi Prabhu's wife had told my wife that they were planning to have another ISKCON centre in Bangalore because there was too many rules and regulations here. I did not take it so seriously at that time. Later another senior congregation devotee whose name also appear in this letter asked me which temple I would go regularly if there was another temple. We are very pained to see that such splits are being created in the congregation. We are praying to Sri Sri Krishna Balaram that all these confusions are cleared and once again love and trust is established between all the devotees in Bangalore. Your servant Jayasheel Rao and Padmaja Rao See Related VNN Stories This story URL: http://vaishnava-news-network.org/world/WD9812/WD01-2586.html |
