jay a potatoe swami


Originally posted on Istagosthi Forum
http://istagosthi.org/ posted May 15, 2004


From Tony: Recently I was viewing some photos of Iskcon temples in India and in many I could see the old Jayapotatoe Swami has had too many potatoes!
jay a potatoe swami

My only experience with him was back in "80" when I was in India at GourPurnima.

He was running around micro managing everything, he even yelled at me for something that 5 years later he yelled at my close friend for too! He did not seem like the "Pure Devotee" he was portrayed as but he still is going strong as "guru" and leader of Iskcon. He has a zillion disciples and though some scare me because they are young and stupid, he does try to make sure that they are all following Prabhupada's instructions and are knowledgable about Prabhupada's teachings.

I do really hope that he is representing Prabhupada in his big big posistion and that he does not fall like the others.

[Note: Jayapatakas various nick names, such as: JayaPotatoe-Swami, jai_a_potatoe, jacket-potatoe Jayapatka-Potatoe etc. come from Him beeing so fatt like a Potatoe.]
jay a potatoe


posted August 16, 2004

Jayapataka is simply a fat gorilla like Dvivida who has hijacked and almost destroyed the mission of His Divine Grace, along with his ten other cohorts and various add-ons.

Once upon a time he was an empowered vaisnava and a potent preacher which is why Prabhupada listed him in his July 9th letter. All these men were dedicated, very pure and talented disciples.

But because of their offences to Prabhupada (stepping into his shoes) they have lost their souls, lost the plot, and turned ISKCON into a nasty cult.

Their loss is our loss and a victory for maya. Just see the consequences of stepping into the shoes of the Founder Acarya! [cheap imitators - not followers]

Just because JPS can still put on a preaching show and atract 'disciples' doesn't mean he is successor acarya, and this is the whole problem. As soon as the world wakes up to the problem, only then can maya be driven into a retreat. For now she's having a good time thankyou very much.

posted May 15, 2004

I also had a funny encounter with JPS when he sized me up at the beginning of a big Kirtan.

The day before I had traveled accross the Ganga to get some Kirtan musical instuments. One was my new favorite set of Kirtana musical instrument.

They were very large perfectly hand made WHOMPERS! and if anyone knows JPS loved and perhaps still loves big WHOMPERS! When i brought them out he looked over and sized up my VERY LARGE SHINY WHOMPERS!

Don't some teddy bears come with whompers, like the kind in that battery commercial on TV? He looks so cute and loveable, don't you think?

Chanahari: I think that the cases of these sinful pseudo-gurus can't be firmly separated form each other. All of them stems from the same root, and - as a rule of thumb -, we can say that they supported each other, whenever they could, as long as one of them didn't endanger the others' influence, wealth or position.

Jayapataka kept protecting Bhavananda until his homosexual and pedophile runaways grew unhiddable, throwing mud to the prestige of all other gurus, including JP himself.

Kirtanananda could run his "women's sankirtan parties", could kill whomever he wanted to kill, could racketeer, smuggle, have himself massaged by boychildren etc., until he rejected the GBC's jurisdiction (on Christian-style preaching, and not the above things he did) - and then he was kicked out of iskCON.

The same goes now in iskcon, except that nowadays, there are not 11 "gurus", but more than 100 - all are so called "pure devotees", most of them closely knowing each other, and protecting, covering each other if one of them does some "stupidity" - as long as it doesn't endanger the others' plights.

All of them are interested in covering up any "falldowns" in their ranks, cause all "guru falldown" is an indictment against all of them, who announced each other "pure devotees".

Jayapataka is only the most infuential amongst them, the last "old school appointed acharya" as Hridayananda isn't so active anymore.

Lalita: The problem is that too many devotees are allowing themselves to be misled and are not employing their own common sense. Until those devotees are really prepared to soul-search and be honest with themselves, they will be lost causes because if it wasn't fraudulent gurus it would be something else.

If everyone boycotted these guys, they'd still have their money but they wouldn't have any disciples. And if they didn't have any disciples they can no longer be "gurus".

Many devotees have been strong enough to let of their dependence in exchange for a real relationship with God and themselves, so hopefully many more can follow...