Prague, Czech Republic, Manidhara destroys devotees and temples

Who is Manidhara das? Manidhara is a German Iskcon knucklehead devotee who, although distributing books for the last 30 years, does not know the philosophy of those books, namely not to worship false gurus. He was one of the biggest supporters of bogus guru Harikesh (who destroyed the German Yatra) and still believes in appointed "successor acharyas" and sends Harikesha donations, cash, to Florida. Manidhara worships Iskcons paedophile, homosex, faggot gurus and preaches bogus philosophy for the last 30 years.

Manidhara destroys Sweden Devotee Yatra
by Bhakta ******, Sweden - Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000

Original message to Adridharana Prabhu:

Please note that I understand you have much more important things on your priority list than what I would like to share with you here. So it is not very urgent relatively speaking, but I still feel I have to confide my situation to someone since certain older things bother me again, and even more in the light of what is going on in Iskcon today. If you feel that my story below is of any relevance to the mission of IRM, then you are welcome to email me for further detailed info etc.

My name is Bhakta ******, I live in Sweden, and I have associated with Iskcon in Sweden since 1988. I am not an official member anymore (congregational or other), nor have I surrendered to any Iskcon spiritual master apart from Srila Prabhupada + one particular devotee whom I personally cannot consider as Iskcon (although others may see him as such. More info on this below).

I write you this to seek personal guidance regarding my spiritual life from someone who doesn´t support the activities of Iskcon, and whom I therefore can consider trustworthy. Of course, as bad as the situation is today it is practically impossible to trust Anyone within the realms of Iskcon - inside our outside - so I must admit that I write to you also in an ambivalent mood. I hope you can excuse me for this, but I think you agree also that is is most understandable, especially for someone like me who is nowadays in a very remote position as far as Iskcon and Iskcon-devotees are concerned. Today I can only judge from what I read and hear, but considering the devastating personal interactions that I have experienced years ago, it still makes sense to write you this.

My personal troubles and experiences of rascal-Iskcon began in 1990. I had only been trying to become a devotee for two years, mostly on my own but also by regularly visiting the temples in Stockholm. So because I was neophyte I was also a bit fanatical about the idea that this movement must be flawless and perfect in all aspects. I had discovered something wonderful in my life, so for me it was disastrous when I came to hear about the things that had happened only a few years earlier (the falls of Bhagavan, Jayatirtha, Hamsaduta, Kirtanananda etc). I was given this information from sources outside Iskcon of course, so it felt natural for me to inquire more about that with people Inside Iskcon. But very soon, to my big surprise, I realized that this was the last thing I should have done, at least if I was the least interested in my well-being as a devotee!

As it happened, in the summer of 1990, I joined the Sunday feasts on a regular basis, and on one particular Sunday a new devotee I hadn´t seen there before joined me for prasadam. As it turned out, we continued feasting and discussing every Sunday for weeks to come, and I was very happy with his association (he was a new bhakta also, but more dedicated than me; already living in the temple and having taken shelter under Harikesa Swami, whom he worshipped and spoke very dearly of.
This Sunday bhakta of mine (I call him Bhakta D from now on) was a great inspiration for me, and also the only devotee at the temple that I felt easy with.

So when the bad reports about previous misdealings, crimes etc within Iskcon reached me around this time, I naturally turned to Bhakta D to confide. So I wrote him a personal letter and sent it to the big temple where he lived outside of Stockholm.

While waiting for a reply from him, I visited another Sunday feast at the Stockholm temple (for some reason Bhakta D was not there on that Sunday), and after the lecture (given by a Swedish devotee), I delievered a controversial question in front of the whole congregation of devotees and guests. The lecture had explained that a devotee of Krishna is faultless and cannot fall down. So this invoked my bold question that "Then why is it that many Iskcon devotees have fallen down and committed crimes?"
The temple room became very silent for a few seconds, and within a minute another Swedish devotee (of higher rank) rushed in and rescued the one who had given the lecture, saying to me that no such things had happened at all and that I was completely misinformed. The strange thing was, that while I took prasadam after the questions&answers were completed, the very same devotee approached me and asked if I wanted to do any practical service in the temple. I found this very odd since he had been so furious with me only minutes before.

Well, I continued visiting the temple almost on a daily basis, mostly purchasing tons of books etc from the temple shop (as I had done for the last two years). I was very inspired with reading and completing my Iskcon library. So one day when I was in the shop looking at books as usual, all of a sudden I was practically "kidnapped" - well, at least that´s how it felt when the temple president Manidhara dasa together with the angry devotee from the Sunday feast rushed into the shop and ordered me to follow them to the office. In that office I experienced harrassment that I thought a Krishna devotee uncapable of.

The temple president (Manidhara dasa, disciple of Srila Prabhupada) was so furious that his eyes were glowing and steam could be sensed filling his presence in the room. He yelled at me at the top of his lungs for at least half an hour, giving me hardly any chance to respond (although I kept mild and as humble as possible). In this half of an hour, he "explained" to me that I was a demon, that I was worse a demon than a deprogrammer, that I could consider my spiritual life to be exterminated, that I was banned from "all Iskcon temples all over the world", and much more I don´t want to mention here. The other devotee supported him completely, although in a more passive way. I tried to explain my case as constructively as possible, but I was told that all I could produce was lying! In fact, according to Manidhara dasa I had never even associated with Bhakta D at any Sunday feast, less discussed anything with him!!! (of course, I couldn´t prove that I had because I had been foolish enough not to attach any hidden microphones or cameras to my body at those happy prasadam conversations!)
So I was thrown out because of a letter and a question at a Sunday lecture.

In order for you to understand all the complications involved, I must explain also my relation to Vegavan Prabhu. Vegavan (disciple of Srila Prabhupada, and one of the devotees who established Iskcon in Sweden in 1973) had himself experienced severe conflicts in the mid-80´s. He had been temple president for many years, chairman of Swedish Iskcon, and very popular and well-respected in general. But when he expressed opinions about the zonal acarya system, he and his family soon found themselves thrown out on the street by Harikesa Swami. So Vegavan formed a branch called The Bhaktivedanta Society and established a temple in Stockholm together with some other Iskcon devotees who also left Iskcon during this mid-80´s tumult. Vegavan kept preaching from his own radio station etc, and that is how I discovered him in 1989 and finally accepted him (in my heart) as my spiritual master.

I was very happy with my relationship to Vegavan Prabhu up until this Manidhara episode occured. I will not dare to speculate about Vegavan´s attitude towards Iskcon at the time (nor of today as we have very little contact nowadays), but it seemed to me he was forced into a conflict of interest since he apparently tried to make peace with Iskcon. So in that process of his I guess it was not very good for him to support me officially. He continued to welcome me to his temple, but he also chastised me for having written that letter to Bhakta D etc. From Manidhara´s point of view at the time, Vegavan didn´t support me at all, rather "Vegavan almost had to puke when he heard about you!" [quote Manidhara in the office room].

I can also quote from a letter he sent me in this connection: "Regarding your comment about Vegavan Prabhus appreciation of your activities, it shows that you still didn´t understand anything. I would like to request you not to bring this subject matter up during your presence at Hare Krishna center, since it seems that you like to perceive some controversy between Hare Krishna Center and Vegavan Prabhus temple. Even there would be such a differences of oppinions I can assure you that you have no brain to understand them, neither is it beneficcial for your spiritual life to absorb yourself in such an analytical studies. These things have nothing to do with Krsna-consciousness and if you are realy serious to BECOME a devotee of Krsna (it seems that you act like if you already BECAME one) then I would request you to dedicated your energy fully to the service of Vegavan Prabhu instead of using his good name to prove other vaisnavas wrong." (letter from Manidhara dasa November 27, 1990)

So I found myself in a very awkward situation; I was a neophyte devotee who had just been informed that he had committed the most severe of offenses, that against Vaisnavas (which I was well-read enough to understand as the end of my spiritual life.) I continued serving Vegavan Prabhu by doing translation work for years to come, but I could never again feel or even hope for the spiritual bliss that I had indeed experienced before the bad things happened, and I blamed myself for this of course.
Nevertheless I have never given up in my struggles to become a devotee, and I must admit that I can feel a litle relief today when I see that what I did in 1990 was not so wrong after all, because nowadays its seems that almost everyone is doing it, and it has almost become a virtue also. But I have lost many years of association with devotees due to the fact that I was "destroyed instead of being saved" [by Manidhara and others].

The actual reason why I am writing you this, is because I would like you to be aware of the existence of Manidhara dasa. I was not the only one destroyed by him. He has terrorised the Stockholm temples for many years, he was notorious for this, and many sad things happened under his leadership, among those a devotee dead in the toilet of the Stockholm temple after a drug overdose. To the great relief of many devotees who had been terrorised by him, Manidhara finally had to leave Sweden a couple of years ago, and he went back to his home-country the Czech Republic. And he left as his usual self; I heard reports that he expressed lethal threats against devotees who wouldn´t support him in his attempts to take all the temple money with him etc.

You may already be familiar with Manidhara, or you can read his 2000 Vyasa-puja offering to Srila Prabhupada and just see how he hates people in general. I just hope he isn´t continuing his terror in Czech Republic at this very minute. Knowing what he has done in the past, and considering also that he was a close buddy to Harikesa, I felt it nessecary to make you familiar with him, and also lighten the burden of my heart as well. I can tell you much more, but of course I have no real reason to at the moment. It´s just a little profylactic info I am sending you, as you know that we can expect just about anything from Iskcon devotees these days, and who knows - maybe Manidhara is still up to things and will cause some real disturbance someday... (he certainly has the character for it).

(by the way - Manidhara was also in charge of stopping my preaching activities in 1996. I was then living in a small town far away from any Iskcon temple, and I had finally regained spiritual strength and inspiration to do some preaching. So I asked Vegavan Prabhu if he agreed that I arranged for a small temple in my home where I would invite people for prasadam and discussions etc. Vegavan welcomed my idea, so I immediately started to launch the project. Of course, as soon as this came to the knowledge of Iskcon in Stockholm, I had to spend my time corresponding with Manidhara instead. The only result achieved was that the Swedish National Board refused me to use Srila Prabhupada´s books in any kind of preaching. They also informed Back To Godhead, and when BTG informed me that I could not be listed anymore even in the harmless Gatherings section, I had to give the whole project up.)
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I have one personal question also, which I put forward to you because you are trying to revive Iskcon, because you are stressing the ritvik system etc. What is your opinion on a situation such as mine regarding the guru issue? I agree completely that Srila Prabhupada must be the center of Iskcon. As for the technical truth of Srila Prabhupada´s orders concerning future initiations, I don´t have the energy to study all the interpretations, as you may well understand. I would like to be able to maintain a simple understanding of what guru is, not indulge in a lot of speculation depending on the words of devotees fighting against each other. Since I accepted Vegavan Prabhu [in my heart] as my personal guru, I have never had any trouble with such a comprehension. And since Vegavan indeed is an Iskcon authorized diksa spiritual master, and since he never rejected me as an aspiring disciple (although he told me in 1996 that he wanted to take an amount of years off from the duty of guru), I still consider him as such.

But considering the points you are stressing in the name of IRM, I write you this in a confused state again...not knowing what is the absolute truth in these matters, or who is in possession of it... Because if I would follow the standards presented by you, I could no longer expect to ever be a disciple of Vegavan Prabhu. Not that I would not like to become Srila Prabhupada´s disciple, but I think you understand my dilemma (since Vegavan Prabhu is not [yet] among those rascal gurus, and since an aspiring disciple will always defend his gurudeva of course! --- this may be my ignorance at present time, so this is where I ask your guidance.

I hope I haven´t wasted your time completely. I wish you good luck in your efforts of reviving Iskcon, and if there is anything I can do in this regard, do not hesitate to contact me.

yours, Bhakta ******, Sweden

Supplementary data 26. February 2002

"The issue of Manidhara is an important one, not just because I have been a victim myself of his terror and psychological abuse, but because I do know that many others in the past have also been demolished by his tyranny, probably to a greater extent than myself, and I suppose one cannot expect him to have changed that much nowadays but that he simply moved his dictatorship to another geographical region.

My personal privilege is that as an non-official member of Iskcon, I am not dependant either upon him nor upon the system of hierarchy in which he would feel he could do me some potential harm. That is why I can speak freely. But for official members and temple devotees who are under his direct or indirect jurisdiction at present time, it must be a very difficult situation to even consider criticizing his behaviour [if indeed his behaviour is the same today as it has been before; this I do not know by personal experience `cause I have had no pratyaksa of him since 1996.]

Every honest devotee is afraid of vaisnava-aparadha, to a much greater extent than required unfortunately, and tyrants like Manidhara are materially very intelligent and know exactly how to utilize this fear so that they can make the most of their abuse of other people. And this is dangerous, because if a person like that is not stopped in due time, there may be no end to what he can do in the future, because as we all know, greed is endless, just like weeds if not properly rooted out.

Ultimately, the conclusion of someone like Manidhara still being situated on a fixed position within the movement, is a symptom of a defective system of management as a whole, and that should be the main focus of Iskcon reform."

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Manidhara destroys Czech Devotee Yatra

Prague, Czech Republic
26th of September 2000
Homepage: http://krsna.wz.cz/hlavni.htm

Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, PAMHO. AGTSP.

Today we, a part of devotees in Czech republic named later on, would like to express, after a long time of considering the whole matter, our grievancess and complaints against the leadership here in the Czech yatra,

particulary devotees named below, for years longing manipulations and misuse of their positions, for misconduct, misinterpretation of sastra, dishonesty, discrepances between pracar and acar, blesphemy, spreading of rumors and lies about others with certain aims and threatening those unwilling to unconditionaly surrender to them.

We have formulated this petition with an aim to stop this years lasting 'ruleship' of harsh and rude treatment from their side which has lead many people in the past to leave ISKCON and many times process of devotional service altogether. Which has lead to misunderstanding of what heritage Srila Prabhupada gave us, which has made many people unhappy, which has made many people to cry in a sorrow mood.

We have formulated this petition with an aim to stop a misinterpretation of sastra and its use with manipulative motivation, as well as, that ISKCON laws are not only maintained, but also that devotees in general should know about their existence as such. The same it is with every years resolutions of the GBC.

We are all very much concerned about how this matter is dealt with, and are ready to go with our grievances quite far, viz part 'suggestions' by the end of our petition.

We guess we should start herein to built our complaints on some solid basement of evidence; it is devided into couple of parts:

1) Grievances and complaints by devotees personaly, ie. they present their own 'case' and what they eventually witnessed happened to others or what else misconduct they witnessed.

2) Examples of manipulation of philosophy or its misinterpretation.

3) List of ISKCON Laws we found applicable and also on their strenght we make our charges.

4) List of hearsays, for some of the exmembers of ISKCON are not possible to contact, or they don't want to have anything to do with this organisation any more, in no capacity, yet, how they were mistreated is still in the memory of others.

Herein is the list of complying devotees, in alphabetical order:

bhakta Karel bhakta Martin 1
bhakta Martin 2
bhakta Zbynek
bhaktin Pavla
bhaktin Veronika
Cit Sakti das
Dvaraka-isvara das
Janaka Gauranga das
Krsnavalli dd
Lalita-Priya dd
Laxminath das
Laxmivan das
Paramanayaka das
Pavitravani das
Radhesa das
Tattva darsi das
Vardhana Priya das
Yogamaya dd
(and we will send you those who will come more)

And what follows is a list of devotees to be charged, in alphabetical order:

Asvahari das
Dharma Rupa das
Lomancita das
Manidhara das
Narakriti das
Nila Madhava das
Raghunatha Priya das
Trilokatma das
Varnasrama das

We complain on:

Asvahari das for strong abusive aproach towards devotees in general, being vulgar and harsh in his dealings, for physicaly assaulting at least 3 devotees during his years in ISKCON (bhakta Jan Pipal, bhakta Martin and Krsnavalli dd), for misinterpreting sastra and for his misconduct in dealings.

Dharma Rupa das for his non Vaisnava aproach in the matter of accusation of his misuse of funds in Govinda's restaurant (Na Hrazi), for wilful removal of two devotees from their service, for wilful forbading of other devotees to come to 'his' restaurant.

Lomancita das for his manipulative and abusive behavior, for his interfering in the relationship of guru and disciple, for constatnt spreading of rumors and lies about other devotees, for open lying to the devotees about others, for misusing of trust of the devotees and for making constant politics and blesphemy as well as for his misuse of the sastra for justifying above mentioned misdeads, for wilifuly forbading the devotees with whom they can meet and speak or not, for wiliful forbading of coming of some devotees to the restaurant (Soukenicka), for demands to be served by other devotees, for his deviations in the name of devotional service which he wants to implement into the lives of other devotees.

Manidhara das for his endless manipulations of the devotees, for misusing of their trust, for spreading of rumors and politics, for threats to the devotees, misinterpretation of the sastra, for his aggresions in the dealings with the devotees, for his interefering in the relationship of the guru and disciple.

Narakriti das for his strongly abusive and manipulative behavior, for his threatening to the devotees, for physical assault to at least one devotee, for his misconduct and misuse of his position, for reading private mail of the devotees, for hidding the facts devotees should know (such as GBC resolutions, ISKCON Laws etc), for his wiliful acts such as removing devotee from the temple or threatening by it, for blesphemy of devotees and spiritual autority, for negligence of his duties as TP, for his demands for personal servitorship.

Nila Madhava das for his aggresive behavior, for misuse of the sastra, for manipulation in the dealings with the devotees, for his making traveling sankirtana for many devotees extremely unpleasant, for misconduct and causing devotees to deviate from the path of devotional service in the name of devotional service.

Raghunatha Priya das for his misuse of position, disabling performance of devotional service to a non temple dependent ISKCON member.

Trilokatma das for his repeated loose of temper which caused lots of havoc in life of many devotees, for his demanded respect which brought many devotees out of ISKCON.

Varnasrama das for his negligence in his position of an authority.

We would like to see that our petition is taken seriously as charges are of a serious nature. We hope that we can solve these problems out within ISKCON jurisdical system, including that one of misusing of the funds.

With respects,
Hare Krsna,
remaining your servants, as listed above
Homepage: http://krsna.wz.cz/hlavni.htm

Suhotra and Bhaktivaibhava
alias Avinas Chandra German

Krishna Kshetra
German Knucklehead

Manidhara
German Knucklehead

Manidhara and his money scam of the Mercedes-Benc cars
BY: PADA 24. Feb. 2000

MANIDHARA ALSO KNOWN AS MONEYDARA

..Big cash, indeed, that only Manidhara had his hands on, for quite some years. - Once Manidhara 'imported' illegally 2 expensive Mercedes-Benc cars from Germany, but he got busted by Swedish customs which confiscated smuggled cars; Money-dara tried to cover it up, claiming that "restaurant had lost some great money" but this false story "was okey" since "untouchable legend" Moneydhara - managed it all perfectly - by himself. No one dared to call him a stupid fool because of that big blunder, but when others did some tiny little mistakes in the restaurant, Moneydara was to immediately jump up their necks and call them ill names, killing out their enthusiasm for 'questioning higher authorities' - like anything.

- Moneydara's "standard" of preaching was to speak derogative about people around him, finally concluding that anyone who served "his restaurant" was "only wonderful person". That was succesful scheme for keeping the flow of laxmi into his own pockets. One-man management. No controlling entitites. Nevermind many persons were mentally hurt by his ways of causing heavy social pressure upon his subordinates.

- He forbade any communication of restaurant devotees with the guests - more than simple "yes" or "no" was 'not allowed', since Money-dara lived in constant fear that sincere preaching may turn away the guests, and thus - harm his fat income.

-When asked one time why he couldn't be friendly in his behaviour, Moneydara expressed: 'I can only serve in an agressive mood'. (???). So, he was ruling by the factor of fear: love and trust didn't exist at his "kingdom".

- Although he's done some very nice service in the past, usurped power, money and frantic controlling position have crippled him way too bad, so he became unable to do any retrospection and to rectify his very non-devotional attitudes.

- Also, he oftenly expressed rasistic views about other nationalities, and people on the street as well devotees couldn't stand his uncurbed nazi-like talks while on book-distribution or in his lectures. One lady we met said she "hates the leader of the Iskcon restaurant who always spoke, to her understanding - very nazistic!".

- But, in fact, it's truth that most of the Iskcon/GBC/BBT-I leaders from Sweden and Germany are glorifying this very same nazistic "preaching" style, "we are better than anyone else", making naive devotees think it to be something of spiritual value, and thus artificially enforcing fanatic, 'no-questions-asked' book and CD-distribution in Europe and abroad, while all of the profits are exclusively shared between these (mis)managers and their actual order-givers (GBC).

- Due course of time, swedish devotees came to know about Moneydara's ongoing financial frauds, so he temporarily 'went back' to Czech republic. Many got relieved at the time, nevermind Money-dara drove off with his car full of expensive equipment that belonged to the local preaching center's radio-station, falsely claiming "yes, it belongs to him and his wife" (?)

- While leaving in rush, he fabricated another cheap "farewell money-wash story" how some rich relative of him has died, so poor Moneydhara suddenly inherited huge amounts of money, blah, blah, blah...

- Now, he is back to Sweden again, but he wont stay there for long, since he made many enemies out there. He left on time though to remove "his" money collected and secretly stashed over years (ie, the funds stolen from its real proprietor, Srila Prabhupada's) from a swedish bank to unknown foreign bank, so nobodie could get the police quick enough to check out his secret accounts and eventually arrest him.

- Manidhara and his close pals, Iskcon gbc and BBT-I members, proudly presented themselves as some kind of "ubermensh" - and all others - including simple devotees - to be low-class creatures which the "uber" ones have rights to unlimitedly exploit for their own private (read: financial) benefits.

- Manidhara is also expert in spreading false rumors about others without checking the actual facts, and this way he enjoyed causing pains to others due to his sadistic nature. In other words, he has 'disease' called P-D-D ("pure devotee disease"), thinking all his thoughts and actions must be always perfect - no matter what.

In reality, these guys, judging by their scandalous activities, were never the leaders really working for pleasure of the mankind and Srila Prabhupada, but they almost exclusively sat on the top just for their own name, fame, prestige and glory.

Gradually, many north-european devotees are getting disturbed by the fact that only a very few "chosen" BBT-I/GBCs/their "gurus" are in charge of the global financial situation, without any external checkups, and these crooks arrange for themselves amazingly nice houses in Europe and India, cars, motorhomes, salaries, travels, etc - all these things too expensive even for the above-mid karmi class, what to speak of Prabhupada never authorizing nor recommending luxury to his practicing disciples.

It occured further that some of those who were disappointed or cheated by BBT-I and tried to publicly complain about Iskcon mis-managers - were swiftly given nice bribes in form of well-paid jobs, but only to those who "fully surrendered to new-developed Iskcon (cast)-system" which Prabhupada was so against. In this "new cast-system", words of post 1977 "managers" had way more importance and weight than the words of Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupadanugas were kicked out.

There are many instances where sankirtana devotees complained 'that huge amonts of hard-earned street-sankirtana money were given to the farm-authorities, for purpose of farm-development, but no one ever saw any of these farms substantially grow or develope', - despite these regular collections, given month after month, year after year. After unanswered complaints, some succesful collectors had left Iskcon, most probably having impression they collected for some greedy grhastas.

Meanwhile, managers who handled these enormous donations and promised using them 100% for developing 'Krishna conscious Vedic economically independent farm-projects', suddenly were seen in new, fancy cars and out of blue spending on expensive housing. Farms remained - undeveloped, though. And whenever so-called GBC leader or Iskcon/BBT-I manager suspected for stealing Prabhupada's properties left the Iskcon overnight - there was a same old story going around: 'it's because some close relative has died and they (mis-managers) inherited the whole fortune - overnight'. Gradually, it became a secret 'runaway mantra' with one meaning for all involved participants: yes, I'm stealing, but you're doing the same, so better shut up your mouth, otherwise I'll expose you too, so we both go to the jail...

The real truth is that Srila Prabhupada wanted his managing disciples to have official, open records, regularly paid taxes, and bonafide book-keeping of all funds - for all other senior devotees to see, but due course of time this order had been violated under the false exuse "of avoiding unecessary taxes which are funding dirty activities of the karmis", and this 'no-tax-mantra' tinged up eyes of naive devotees while Prabhupada's laxmi went right into many private pockets.

Among those crooks who perfected art of stealing brahmana's properties (ie: building and the restaurant in Lund, Sweden) and breaking 4 regs, there's a guy called Louis Loreiron, 'famous' for having sex with other devotee's wives while their husbands were on sankirtana. Well known, he also had sex with some naive sankirtana ladies, making them think sex is a noble prize and "payment" for their collection-services, and cash - given to Loreiron.

How much money he has withdrawn from these ladies - nobody really knows, because ladies are still damn affraid to talk. On the top of such sex-motivated laxmi-extortion, Louis Loreiron has destroyed his own family due to illicit relationships. His daughter had a nervous breakdown upon witnessing how her "devotee" father pays much more attention to child conceived with another woman, while openly denying his interest for his two 'regular' daughters and his own wife. Loreiron had to spend around $40.000,- on medical treatments for his poor daughter, but not 'out of love' (as he claimed) but because his wife seemingly wanted to start talking about his years long mismanagement and cheating. He was never removed though from his crucial sankirtana-management position, because he knows lot of details about many underhanded "financial secrets in Iskcon", and keeps some of other iskcon suspects in fear of revelation of their crimes. Some say that Louis has even threatened and perhaps blackmailed some of crooked Iskcon leaders with public exposition of their misdeeds by affidavit, the same tactics used by one former mismanager.

There is another bitter story where scumbag called Louis Loreiron took an advantage of Iskcon to fill in his private accounts. There was a fire which caused smoke-damage to many (unauthorized, changed BBT-I editions of) Prabhupada's books, and insurance company has paid for these damaged books - under one condition: that these damaged books cannot be used for sale, but must be recycled or burned away. What happened was that from then on sankirtana devotees were ordered to distribute, only and only, these damaged books, until the last one was gone from the storehouse. It may sound reasonable to the devotees, not to destroy spiritual literature, but, the catch was: where did the unexpected profits gone to...? BBT-I price was paid long time ago, and full price was also reimbursed by the insurance company, plus some extras... Still, sankirtana devotees were forced not only to distribute those written-off books, but they've been asked to pay double BBT (!!) price for them, and after distributing them (by hook or by crook?) they've been ordered to 'give the whole profit to the temple', although all this money went right into - Loreiron's pockets.

So, nicely cashed insurance-fraud...? Yes... Let's see: there was about 50.000 books, worth minimum 1 million of krones (125.000,- dollars), completely 'tax-free', ie - unexisting...Soon after all of the books were sold, the whole fraudulently generated profit has misteriously - disappeared... Little bit later, 'mantra' came through the grapewine: that Mr. Louis Loreiron, 'had suddenly inherited 1 million krones from his departed mother-in-law', and for that money he immediately bought a house for his wife... Right after that, on everyone's surprise, he kicked out his wife, from her own (???) house... Everything looked like a cheap TV soap-opera...Catch was that supposedly 'rich mother in law' was actually very poor old woman, who came once to visit an iskcon farm, and had not even enough money to pay for her staying there overnight...what to speak of alleged 'one million of savings'... Unfortunately, stupid (former) wife of Mr. Loreiron doesn't dare to reveal the whole truth about her ex-husband's financial machinations, after she's been violently kicked out by him, but she still hope she'll go back to Godhead. Nevermind she helped stealing 1 million from the pure brahmana, Srila Prabhupada...

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Prague, Czech Republic
26th of September 2000

http://www.krsna.wz.cz/sug_a.htm
We request Manidhara das to appologize for his misuse of honored status as Srila Prabhupada's disciple and for his interfering in the guru-disciple relationship.

http://www.krsna.wz.cz/law_a.htm
In regards of behavior, would be nice to have a society of gentlemen as Srila Prabhupada suggests ISKCON should be, in the examples of the Czech leaders we can find very little of the qualities of a gentleman, regarding regulative principles, it should be seen how rigid a leaders should be as he is an example of other devotees - therefore Manidhara dasa's liking of black tea and drinks containing some percentage of alcohol or Lomancita coffeine tablets are not examplary as per ISKCON regulations, confirmed either by them personaly or seen at Manidhara's residence, 2. attendence is seldom in cases of Lomancita, Manidhara, Narakriti dasas, 3.,4. as per testimonies vividly transgressed, 5. by their dealings they show little loyality to ISKCON, they stress their positions, but they are strong only because of ISKCON structure, as per testimonies, and by their one sided preaching, as per 'Where can...' with obvious shallow understanding and/or therefore use of sastra with manipulative aims they fail to report their own diviations from ISKCON in this term, 6. is solely applicable for Lomancita and Manidhara dasas in regards of their depart from Stockholm comunity, testimonies could be given by Stockholm devotees, who brought their comlaint to the GBC already in 1998 as per their testimony.

We would like to mention specificaly Lomancita das, Manidhara das and Narakriti das, as per testimonies, and in addition we have such a statements heard by above mentioned: "Bir Krishna he is just going around stealing devotees for his projects", "his liberal approach is not in the line of Srila Prabhupada", "Smita Krishna is not chanting his rounds for yrs",as per testimony of Dvaraka-isvara das who heard this from Lomancita das saying that he cites Manidhara das; "Smita Krishna Swami is not a suitable guru", "that means that Kavicandra Swami is a demon", "Bir Krishna Maharaja is stealing devotees as Kavicandra was doing in Sweden last year", "He (BKG) just wants a bigger zone", as per testimony of Cit Sakti das who heard this personaly from Lomancita das, "because of GBCs we will have to make a new Vyasasan, hydraulical one, so next year, when they change their resolutions we can just put again higher and then again lower....." as per testimony of Cit Sakti das who heard this from Manidhara das

In regards of changed rules of worship of the guru: maintaining elaborate guru-puja ceremony in the same manner as for Srila Prabhupada, keeping pictures of ISKCON gurus on the walls of ISKCON property through the whole year, till today, celebrating VP as before, instead of VP book printed was made CD ROM, this resolution was to the devotees in general not introduced by their authorities; 2. leaders, such as Narakriti and Manidhara were making unrelevant jokes about hydraulic Vyasasans, because this resolution might change again next year and gurus will be again seated high, moreover during prasadam this point was disccused by the leaders and GBC as such was vilified for such a implementation in the guru worship, so bhaktas were speaking among themselves about GBC men as being off-should be nooticed that it was not the only case and that Narakriti das displays this tendencies oftenly as per oral testimonies of different devotees of the temple, such as Laxmivan das; 4. as per most of the testimonies - most heavy cases are Narakriti das and Lomancita das; 5. as per testimonies and part of Where basic misunderstandings are; 6. as per testimonies, and more evidence can be supplied if needed.

Gaudiya Repercussions on Manidhara das
http://www.gaudiya-repercussions.com/index.php?showtopic=1939&st=80

Right now the rumor has it that Manidhara got kicked out from Czech Republic and is trying to move in to Almvik but some Almvikers won't let him in... Imagine Manidhara in Almvik?? Both he and his wife are BANNED from setting foot in any Czech temple, this is what I heard from his own mouth this summer. He went on to make a long tirade about how this happened, but, as usual, got on a tangent or 20 and didn't tell the story.
Poetic justice does exist, it seems. I personally (but from a distance) wellcome him to Almvik, Korsnäs or even better, to Helsinki-temple and wish him well. My only request is that someone gives me regular information of how things are going. Interesting. He once wrote to me, after my divorce, that; "From now on, your only service to the society will be to act as a bad example for all the devotees for all eternity and there will be only bad luck for you in the future". Nice, eh?
He's got a knack for flippancy as do all the great achargers.
Even after all these years, when one reads such a thing, the heart sinks and the mind stops running for a few seconds...and all it says is that this guy had the spiritual realization of a gnat to say such a thing, though I really feel bad about disrespecting gnats in such a way!
What makes this occasion sad is that even after all these years Iskcon framework is still so limited. They just do not have that many options what to do with people who do not fit the norm or do things differently, be it their own way or somebody elses way. Clueless!

Testimonies from the Czech Devotees
http://www.krsna.wz.cz/svedectvi_a.htm

Letters of concerned Czech Devotees
http://www.krsna.wz.cz/napsali_a.htm

Facts of Manidhara and others
http://facts.sweb.cz/man.htm

Manidhara Ordered No Prasadam For 20 Czech Devotees
http://www.vnn.org/europe/EU0201/EU21-7111.html