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March 31, 1999 VNN3469
Srila Prabhupada: 'Please Give Me Medicine - I Want To
Die'
USA, Mar 31 (VNN) This
according to Tamal Krishna Goswami recorded in Vrindavan 11/77. VNN has obtained a
recently discovered audio tape, recorded 11/77 in Vrindavan India, in which Tamal Krishna
Goswami claims that Srila Prabhupada requested "medicine to help him die".
On the tape Tamal Krishna Goswami makes the following statement:
"A number of time he (Srila Prabhupada) would say:
'Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine. That will allow me to disappear
now...'
And other times... 'I want most now to disappear... I want to die... peacefully... let me
die peacefully.'
Now on one hand we could take it... give him that medicine or let him stop eating... to
death... until death, we could have done that.
And yet it seemed... off course we could not... do that out of our love for him and he
seemed to respond so beautifully to that... our loving requests... that he would not
leave... that he... he stay with us longer."
Listen to the audio (WAV) file: "Please give me medicine" download file (683kb WAV)
VNN has verified the authenticity of the audio tape carefully. The discovery of this audio
tape may shed new light on the ongoing poison investigation.
The statement "we could take it... give him that medicine... we could have done
that" made on the tape could be considered proof that at least at one point the
option to poison Srila Prabhupada with 'medicine' was under consideration and possibly
discussed by some of his leading disciples, which they have until now completely denied.
VNN will shortly publish a more complete transcription of this tape as well as more of the
latest developments in this ongoing investigation.
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please also see following story:
TAMAL KRISHNA SAYS TO SRILA PRABHUPADA:
NOW YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE WHICH SUICIDE
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