USA (VNN) - by Pariksit das VNN - WORLD 08/06/98 - 1977
Dear disciples of Harikesh,
I am writing this letter to you out of great concern for your spiritual wellbeing.

Please do not become disturbed by the present activities of your fallen guru. This great spectacle about your guru is certainly arranged by higher authorities to test your faith in Krishna and Srila Prabhupada, who is the only real guru for all disciples in Iskcon. At the present time of confusion and chaos you should solely take shelter at Srila Prabhupada's feet where you will find solace and refuge. If you do so you will not become bewildered. Harikesha's fall down is not because of to much devotional service, as some idiot GBC might tell you, but due to countless offences Harikesha has committed to Srila Prabhupada, Krishna and the devotees in general.

The greatest offence is, of course, cheating you, his own disciples, by posing as an appointed Prabhupad successor acarya, when in fact Srila Prabhupada never appointed him to such a position.

This was confirmed by Tamal Krishna on 30 December, l980. Tamal Krishna said:" Actually, Prabhupada never appointed any gurus. He didn't appoint eleven gurus. He appointed eleven ritviks. He never appointed them gurus. Myself and the other GBC's have done the greatest dis-service to this movement the last three years (21 now!) because we interpreted the appointment of ritviks as the appointment of gurus".

The above statement was made in the presence of many witnesses, and was also recorded on tape which are known as the Topanga Canyon conversations. Harikesha has tried stealing you away from Srila Prabhupada's feet, by preaching bogus philosophy to you, telling you that you need him as a living guru, thus denying you any relationship with the dead guru Prabhupad. This "current link" philosophy preached by Harikesha and others, is totally bogus. Srila Prabhupada himself said that those reason ill who think that vaisnava acaryas die.

Since Harikesha has never been authorised to be guru and accept own disciples, he is nothing but a conditioned soul only; by imitating Srila Prabhupada his fall down was foreseeable, a question of time only. To worship and adore a conditioned soul on the same level as Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krsna is a grave offence.

Now Krishna has given you such a good opportunity to re-establish your relationship with Srila Prabhupada who is the sampradaya-acarya for all Iskcon devotees. I beg you to take shelter at his feet and allow him to enter your heart. He is not dead but capable of relating to you directly via his vani. This will also help reliving the burden you are posing for Harikesa. You need not worship a fallen sanyasi who wants to marry his Karmi massage therapist. You also should stop addressing Harikesha das with the tile of "Visnupada" and remove his pictures from the temples altars. The title "Visnupada" refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is reserved for the Vaisnava Acarya, the Jagat Guru, who represents the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna, not for conditioned souls or fallen sanyasis.

The second great offence of Harikesh is his court case against a Prabhupada appointed BBT-Trusty, thus dragging Srila Prabhupada into the disgusting realm of karmi courts, strip him naked of all dignity, and operate on his heart in open public, misusing Prabhupada's own money, just to sue a life long trustee (Hansadutta) to the original BBT, because he printed and distributed Prabhupada's books, as ordered by his guru, without Harikesh's permission. Harikesha has set up a counterfeit bogus BBT-I Inc., trying to contest Prabhupadas own originally created BBT in court, trying to degrade Srila Prabhupada to a mere scribbling of Iskcon and a hired servant of the BBT-I Inc., suing Prabhupada's lifelong appointed trusties, changing Prabhupadas original books, and publishing Bhagavad Gita as it is not. Besides setting up a perverted "living guru" system and preaching bogus philosophy, Harikesh is also responsible for tens of hundreds of devotees being thrown out of Prabhupad's Society for Krishna Consciousness, thus committing serious vaishnava-aparadhas.

Since Harikesha has never been a bonafide guru, you were never his disciples either. I therefore like to urge all of you to take initiation from Srila Prabhupada through the ritvik-system, as explained in the letter of 9. July 77. Don't let the other self-appointed gurus fool you to take re-initiation from them. This is unbonafide. Srila Prabhupada says: "It is always forbidden to take more then one initiating spiritual master". So please take proper initiation from Srila Prabhupada through the ritvik-system, which Prabhupada ordered us to do, and which is already performed by different Prabhupad disciples world wide.

Lastly I like to request all of you, not to follow your so called guru into insanity, by disguising his fall downs as the Lila of Radha and Krishna, or bring up any other nonsense excuses to cover up Harikesa's madness. You should face the truth of his fallen condition and not concoct something else. His having fallen from sannyasa and putting up faith in a karmi woman is definitely not divine but very materialistic, having to do with mundane sex life. In his lectures Harikesha told that it was a trend in Iskcon that sannyasis changed to gihasta asrama, and then again sannyas, and again grihastas and so on, comparing it to vomit. Why is he eating his own vomit now? What has it to do with Krishna Consciousness?

Please Padmanabha and Gurusakti stop your nonsense explanation that Harikesha's meeting with Monika is seen by him as the arrangement of Srimati Radharani. Are you nuts? How can a mere Karmi lady, whom you Iskcon-machos and woman-hater despise in your lectures, give Harikesha the power to remain in his body and stay with us. I thought Krishna is the controller. Please stop your nonsense philosophy of comparing the feelings of Krishna to his devotees with the feelings of a karmi woman to a fallen sanyasi, attracted to sex life. -stop it - you all must be insane to talk like this. Immediately stop your misrepresentation of our spotless philosophy. You need not totally bent, twist and drag our divine philosophy to the mundane realms, just trying to inappropriately protect your fallen so called guru.

Further you state that Kasiraja, by shaking the body of Harikesh, brought him back to life, after he had already left his body.

In the several days after his death, he was sometimes in the body, sometimes not. Sometimes having spiritual visions, sometimes dealing with his intense physical pain. During this time he made statements and did things which were very confusing to those around him".

Please note that this situation has nothing to do with a Bhagavatam pastime. Harikesha is heavily possessed by ghosts going in and out of his body thus causing his mental derangement. Every one can understand these symptoms. His ghostly possession, known to many devotees all over the word, is a reaction of all the voodoo-doodoo-shit he did to other devotees. Madness and insanity is always associated with ghosts and is the result of misusing ones power and position. Hey, Padmanabha and Gurusakti, don't interpret this to suit your means.

You can fool all people sometimes and some people all times, but not all people all the time. Harikesh has to pay back now, for all the sinful activities he committed in the name of Guru and Krishna . What is the problem to understand ? The only thing which can save him now is a public apology, asking the devotees for forgiveness for all the offences he committed.

Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada
Pariksit das (ACBSP)