March 31, 1999   VNN3469   See Related VNN Stories

Srila Prabhupada: 'Please Give Me Medicine - I Want To Die'

USA, Mar 31 (VNN) — This according to Tamal Krishna Goswami recorded in Vrindavan 11/77. VNN has obtained a recently discovered audio tape, recorded 11/77 in Vrindavan India, in which Tamal Krishna Goswami claims that Srila Prabhupada requested "medicine to help him die".

On the tape Tamal Krishna Goswami makes the following statement:

"A number of time he (Srila Prabhupada) would say:

'Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine. That will allow me to disappear now...'

And other times... 'I want most now to disappear... I want to die... peacefully... let me die peacefully.'

Now on one hand we could take it... give him that medicine or let him stop eating... to death... until death, we could have done that.

And yet it seemed... off course we could not... do that out of our love for him and he seemed to respond so beautifully to that... our loving requests... that he would not leave... that he... he stay with us longer."

Listen to the audio (WAV) file: "Please give me medicine" (683kb WAV)

VNN has verified the authenticity of the audio tape carefully. The discovery of this audio tape may shed new light on the ongoing poison investigation.

The statement "we could take it... give him that medicine... we could have done that" made on the tape could be considered proof that at least at one point the option to poison Srila Prabhupada with 'medicine' was under consideration and possibly discussed by some of his leading disciples, which they have until now completely denied.

VNN will shortly publish a more complete transcription of this tape as well as more of the latest developments in this ongoing investigation.

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