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WORLD   Prominent Hindu Leader Alarmed By GBC Cover-Up BY SHYAMASUNDARA DASA USA, Mar 15 (VNN) — Prominent Hindu Leader Alarmed that GBC "Intentionally Contradicts" Available Evidence Evidence suggesting the deliberate poisoning of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is intentionally contradicted by the GBC in their official stance. Further, "the GBC leaves the great majority of devotees and life-members either uninformed or misinformed about this very grave matter". So says Mr. Bhailal Patel, President of the National Federation of Indian American Associations, NFIA, representing more than one million Indian Americans. Mr. Patel has no qualms about letting his feelings being known far and wide. His letter below is for the information of one and all... Letter: Subject: My opinion on the investigation being done by the November 14th Commission regarding Srila Prabhupada's statements about being poisoned. Dear **** Hare Krishna. Thank you for hosting me in ******* recently. It was nice to visit you and your family. I am sorry that Ambarisa Prabhu was out of town, but he was attending an important meeting with leaders of the Indian Community in New York which I was also supposed to go to. I trust he was happy with that meeting and I look forward to seeing him at another time soon. I wanted to write to you about my opinion on the investigation being done by the November 14th Commission regarding Srila Prabhupada's statements about being poisoned. I have been kept informed about this for over a year now since you came to visit me in Chicago in late 2000. In the middle of 2001 you informed me of an initiative you are undertaking along with many other devotees to more fully understand the circumstances under which His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada left this world. During the days immediately preceding his divine disappearance, he raised several times the topic of his being poisoned. It is clear to me, by hearing the available tapes of the room conversations of the time, that His Divine Grace referred to the said poisoning as a deliberate act of somebody poisoning him, not in the sense of some toxic side effects of medicines. When we met in Alachua in August 2001, along with several devotees including Guru Prasad Swami, Sesa Prabhu, Dhira Govinda Prabhu, Ambarisa Prabhu, Balavanta Prabhu, Gupta Prabhu (the lawyer), Jahnavi Prabhu and many others, nobody present had any different understanding after hearing the tapes and seeing the translations, than that Srila Prabhupada was raising the topic of somebody intentionally poisoning him. The reports that you presented from three different forensic experts with very high credentials clearly pointed to evidence from the tapes about whispers that are very incriminating. I have all the documents and tapes with me and the whispers seem to confirm an act of deliberate poisoning. All three experts found and confirmed - "Its going down, the poison's going down" - just at the time when Prabhupada was being given milk to drink, which he then is drinking. These experts therefore have recommended that an investigation for homicide be undertaken. The medical reports that were presented certainly did not prove any absence of evidence; on the contrary the statements indicated symptoms that were consistent with chronic poisoning. Further, it also seems clear to me, from these tapes, that all present with Srila Prabhupada at the time in November 1977, namely Tamal Krishna Goswami, Bhakti Caru Swami, Bhavananda dasa and the hindi-speaking Kaviraja, all understood and confirmed that Prabhupada was thinking that he had been poisoned. Nevertheless, it is my great disappointment that the GBC presently do not accept even this much in their official stand, and further, the book "Not That I Am Poisoned", that they have published intentionally contradicts the recorded statements and the available evidence on this matter. Thus it is highly misleading to the vast majority of innocent devotees and life-members who have not taken the time to study all the direct raw evidence themselves, including the recorded statements of Srila Prabhupada. Therefore, since these persons rely on the honesty and truthfulness of the GBC on all matters, this action by the GBC leaves the great majority of devotees and life-members either uninformed or misinformed about this very grave matter. In this connection, I have read with great appreciation, the statement of Ambarisa Prabhu and fully share the thoughts expressed by him therein. I hope you will share that letter with others. Thus, as one of the leaders of the Indian Community in North America, (presently President of the National Federation of Indian American Associations, NFIA, representing more than one million Indian Americans), I find myself compelled to lend support to any effort that aims to make the movement and its supporters as a whole thoughtfully arrive at the truthful conclusion about this matter of the poisoning of His Divine Grace. I am for first establishing that the truth on this matter is clearly understood by all the followers and supporters of Iskcon, and resolving this matter internally and peacefully. As I have told you, I am also co-leading the efforts to organise cooperative action on many issues of the more than 20 million international Indian NRI's this coming December in New Delhi. You also know that in the past I was involved with a major effort to discover the truth about a former Prime Minister of India and we spent more than a million dollars and worked with the highest ranking officials on this matter. Prabhupada is no less important to us. He is India's greatest Spiritual Ambassador in recent times, and we are prepared to find out the truth regarding this matter, and resolve it in a way that is most beneficial for him and his followers. Within these understandings, I have expressed willingness to serve in any advisory capacity as a Commissioner for the November 14th Commission as well as an Executive Officer of the same. I also invite all Iskcon Life members worldwide and former Iskcon Foundation Trustees, of which I was a Founding Trustee as well as a Vice Chairman, to join in this effort. We are for serving and helping Prabhupada and Krishna and Iskcon, and are Iskcon's best allies, as Prabhupada himself said. Thank you Hare Krishna ! Yours Sincerely, Bhailal Patel Related VNN Stories Contact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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