05/31/98 - 1838

Bhagavan Alleged to Take Side in BBT/BBTI Lawsuit

USA (VNN) - from COM, by Akruranath dasa

Bhima Prabhu asks what we think of Bhagavan's letter regarding the BBTI v. Hansadutta case.

You should all know that Hansadutta's lawyer, Gupta, is acting as Bhagavan's lawyer. Bhagavan signed a "supplemental cross-complaint" which Gupta now seeks to file in court.

This supplemental cross complaint alleges that Hansadutta, Diane Marie Chan (wife of the *other* Bhima dasa, Hansadutta's disciple from Malaysia), and Veda Guhya appointed Bhagavan as a trustee of their supposed "BBT" (i.e., the one with those four trustees) on Monday, May 18, 1998.

The cross-complaint further prays that ISKCON of California and BBT International pay to *their* trust all the monies received since 1988.

By joining Hansadutta's alleged trust and accepting Gupta as his lawyer and joining their side, Bhagavan has completely and irrevocably demonstrated his inability to act as a neutral "mediator". If he pretends not to understand this, he is lying, because he is not that stupid.

In my opinion, his claims to have been interested in mediating the dispute peacefully as a neutral disciple of Srila Prabhupada was a ploy to try to get information or evidence from BBT International and ISKCON of California, and that he has been a co-conspirator of Hansadutta and Gupta for quite some time.

The GBC resolutions this year clearly demonstrate the GBC's opinion that BBT International should be the owner of the copyrights. If Srila Prabhupada's money is being wasted in litigation, the reason is that Hansadutta et al. have hatched this diabolical scheme to take over the BBT copyrights and money, and to take the BBT outside of ISKCON.

Srila Prabhupada wanted the BBT to be independent from ISKCON legally so that creditors of ISKCON could not take over the copyrights and prevent the books from being published. However, he wanted the BBT to operate for the benefit of ISKCON, to provide books for the ISKCON temples to distribute and to provide funding for ISKCON projects like Mayapur.

Now, Hansadutta and Bhagavan are trying to take over the copyrights to use the funds for their own purposes (Hansadutta has been unable to cooperate within ISKCON for nearly 20 years). In my opinion, Hansadutta and Bhagavan make Robin George look like a "friend of Krishna".

Y.s., Akruranatha dasa