Thursday, February 23, 2012

ISKCON Mumbai grappling with serious frauds

Bharatarshabha Dasa,
ISKCON Bangalore
Srila Prabhupada founded the Mayapur Vrindavan Trust in 1971. Excerpts from the incorporation documents are given below:
This Trust Fund is created and shall be operated exclusively for the regular maintenance of two Temples at Mayapur and Vrindaban (India) of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, incorporated by me, and qualified as a tax-exempt religious organization both in the U.S.A. and India under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. The income from this Trust Fund will be specifically spent for regular seva puja (temple worship) of the two Temples at Mayapur and Vrindaban set forth in particular. This trust shall exist independently of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Mayapur trust fund agreement July 1971).
Srila Prabhupada setup this Trust (MVT) for the specific purpose of maintaining the deity worship of ISKCON temples in Mayapur and Vrindavan, but unfortunately if one goes by the email exchange between Doyaram, Gopal Krishna Maharaj and Bhima Dasa it looks like all is not going on well with the MVT.
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 ISKCON Mumbai seems to be grappling with serious issues of misappropriation of funds and serious case of moral turpitude by one of its trustees. Gopal Krishna Maharaj, a guru fraudster himself seems to have propped up Abhirama as the trustee of MVT inspite of being in knowledge of his deviations.
In the text of email of Doyaram, one of the members of ISKCON Mumbai and a very ardent supporter of Guru Fraudsters of ISKCON alleges the following:
  1. Whether 1 million dollars that Srila Prabhupada left behind in the trust has been misused?
  2. He alleges that Abhirama dasa
    1. was involved in misappropriation of 1.3million dollars
    2. was caught with a woman and glass of wine in a hotel in Los Angeles
    3. had face embarrassing questions from a lady Melissa
    4. was appointed as a trustee by Gopal Krishna Maharaj inspite of being aware of all these facts
    5. is yet to resign inspite of all kinds of malpractices
It is not at all surprising that these kind serious questions about malpractices are bothering ISKCON Mumbai. ISKCON Mumbai is in the grip of guru fraudsters like Jayapataka Swami, Bhakti Caru Swami, Gopal Krishna Maharaja and others. Over ambitious guru fraudsters want to sit on the seat of the guru and be honored like Srila Prabhupada, without authorization and are busy disregarding various instructions of Srila Prabhupada. When the gurus themselves are unauthorized and continue to sit in those positions without authorization, it is not surprising that there are allegations of malpractices about their sub-ordinates. When the leaders themselves are deviants what can you expect from middle level management in the second rung of ISKCON to do?
The bigger question is does Doyaram himself have moral right to raise all these allegations when he himself has failed to answer the questions raised against him as to how he got funds  for the business which he runs under the banner of Janardhan Nirman Pvt Ltd. (http://iskcontruth.in/2012/01/where-did-dayaram-dasa-get-one-crore.html)
It is highly unfortunate that a great institution set up by Srila Prabhupad is ridden with controversies one after the other largely due to mismanagement by unauthorized leaders. The God only knows how many more skeletons are going tumble out of ISKCON Mumbai’s cupboard.
Also if the GBC continues to keep Abhirama Dasa as a trustee will Doyarama Dasa file litigations and fight for justice? Only time will tell.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Worshiping shiva in ISKCON?

Prabhupada said we should not worship demigod but ISKCON now worships shiva. International society of Krishna Conscious (ISKCON) has become International society of Shiva Conscious (ISSCON)....

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

ISKCON Bangalore vs ISKCON Mumbai: News From Newpapers

Deccan Chronicle: While the civil court declared the Bengaluru society as a separate entity entitled to control all Iskcon properties in Karnataka in an order of 2001, the Karnataka high court set it aside in its verdict in 2009 stating that the Bengaluru Iskcon society had “failed” to prove its “title” over the properties in Karnataka.
And thus the legal battle finally shifted to the Supreme Court in 2011 with the Bengaluru society challenging the HC verdict with its counsel pointing out at least 10 alleged legal and factual “flaws” in the HC judgment. The SC while admitting the appeal last year, had passed an order for maintaining the status quo, which means that the Bengaluru society would continue to look after the day-to-day affairs of Iskcon temple in Bengaluru and its various other welfare projects. The major “flaw” pointed out in the appeal by Iskcon’s Karnataka chapter was that since both Mumbai and Bengaluru societies were registered as separate entities then how could the former have control over the latter.
The Bengaluru Development Authority records clearly showed that it had signed the land transfer deed for the temple and other related buildings with the Bengaluru Iskcon trust and Mumbai is nowhere in the picture.
Bombay trust’s claim was that the Bengaluru Iskcon society was only an extension of the movement, which set its feet in the land of the birth of Lord Krishna in 1971 with the aim to spread its activities in the country to make aware of the “Krishna consciousness”, therefore, any society registered in a particular state could not claim itself to be “independent” entity.

The Asian Age: Two factions of the India chapter of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) are locked in an intense legal battle in the Supreme Court over the control of its Bengaluru temple, with the Karnataka society claiming total “independence” from the Mumbai Iskcon trust, the first to be established in India.
The matter was listed before a bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and S.S. Nijjar last week, but could not be put up for final arguments. A large number of Krishna devotees had flocked to the court anticipating an order.
While Iskcon’s Mumbai chapter was registered as a trust in 1971, the Bengaluru chapter was registered only in 1978.
As certain theological differences arose among Iskcon followers worldwide, it also led to a split in India. The Mumbai and Bengaluru societies have been engaged in a protracted legal battle over control of the Karnataka chapter. A suit was filed in a Bengaluru court accusing the Mumbai trust of taking possession of the Karnataka property “forcibly”.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Demigod Worship in ISKCON Continues

We have shown photographic evidence of the continuing influence of demigod worship in ISKCON. The New Raman Reti, ISKCON Alachua Celebrated Shiva Ratri Festival Today.






Above, we provide yet more photographic evidence of the growing influence of demigod worship in ISKCON, this time at the New Raman Reti, ISKCON Alachua, where deity of  Lord Shiva (Shiva-lingam) were brought in procession into the temple. The temple authorities have justified the worship of these demigods by claiming that they are worshiping them as persons who can help them in their Krishna consciousness

But Srila Prabhupada has not sanctioned the worship of demigods in ISKCON temples, regardless of the reason for worshiping them. 
"[…] this Krsna consciousness movement simply advocates worship of Krsna to the exclusion of the demigods."
(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.31.14 purport)
"The greatest danger to our movement will come when we manufacture and create our own process for worshiping the deities."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 4/1/73)

"But if everyone says that "I can manufacture my own way of worshiping the Deity," then what will be the condition? It will be simply pandemonium. "
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, 22/6/72)

"The Deity worship should be done just in the way it was carried out in my presence."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, 13/11/70)

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