April 3, 1999   VNN3503   See Related VNN Stories

RealAudio Version Of Vrindavan Conversation

USA, Apr 3 (VNN) — VNN has published an audio clip of a taped conversation between Tamal Krishna Goswami and Satsvarupa Goswami recorded in Vrindavan, India in 11/77. The following RealAudio clip gives a better and more complete section of the conversation in question. (Notice: The first minute of the clip does not have the audio quality of the remaining 9 minutes due to the varying audio quality of the original recording)

RealAudio files of Vrindavan conversation (10 min - 28.8 streaming audio)

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The original VNN article:
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 and give him that medicine or let him stop eating... fast 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."

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.