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From: pada@neteze.com (Puranjana)
Date: Oct. 26, 2003

In the "Hare Krishna" movement (sometimes known as "ISKCON") over one thousand children were sexually molested in the society's schools, mostly boys. Most of these molestations occurred just after the passing away of the founder of the Krishna movement, A.C Bhaktivedanta swami (Prabhupada) on November 14, 1977. Of interest, a separate investigation is now being made into why Prabhupada had complained of being poisoned just before he departed. It now appears that there was a "criminal takeover" of the Krishna movement which would explain why so many criminal activities -- including the molesting of children -- flourished within the institution after 1977. Therefore, although some of the leaders knew about "the poison complaint" just as they knew about "the child molesting problem" most of them kept silent to protect their positions of power. Some of the innocent laymen followers also knew about the poison complaint and later about the child molesting problem, but they were simply too afraid to mention these topics in public. This fact was also verified by some of their videotaped testimony, they were afraid of repression from the leaders. It would seem that the main reason "nothing was done" regarding the "troubles" was that a small cadre of insiders were benefiting financially from the whole process. They systematically repressed victims, eye witnesses and concerned members of the movement and this covered up various crimes and allowed crimes to continue.

In 1997 almost exactly twenty years after the poison complaint was made, I was given four audio tapes which are now called "the poison tapes," recorded at the time of Prabhupada's departure and providing audio evidence of the leader clique of 1977's "poison plot" against Prabhupada. Of course this begs the question, "Why were these tapes hidden for twenty years"? And, "Why was the person who gave me the tapes afraid for his life"? On the audio tapes where Prabhupada is complaining of being poisoned it has subsequently been discovered that there are background "whisper" conversations amongst some of the leaders. These "secret" conversations have been verified by several professional audio forensic experts such as Jack Mitchell of Computer Audio Engineering. He and similar other audio experts verify there are recorded background (whispering) conversations amongst the leaders discussing "the poisoning of Prabhupada" just days prior to his departure. For example, one of the whispers that was verified by audio experts was that of Tamal's (Thomas Herzig's) who says, "It's going down ... the poison is going down." Of course, Prabhupada himself was well aware that the leaders were always whispering around him. He would thus complain from time to time, "Why this 'phish, phish' whispering"? The chronic whispering of the leaders was all the more annoying since Prabhupada apparently understood that they were plotting against him. This is perhaps why Prabhupada warned his leaders, "Do not kill guru: to become guru."

Indeed Prabhupada seemed to be quite aware of the leader's plot against him as he indicated for example on November 3, 1977, "I have only one request, do not torture me and put me to death." Prabhupada also complained to his doctor on November 8th, 1977 about being poisoned. The doctor asked, "Who is saying that you are being poisoned"? And Prabhupada replied, "All these friends." Apparently this was Prabhupada's sardonic way of saying, "My leaders, my so-called friends, they are discussing poisoning me." In other words, Prabhupada complained that he was being poisoned and that "some friends said (whispered?) that I am being poisoned." It is quite reasonable to assume that he was hearing the leader's (his alleged "friends") whispering about poisoning him -- as in fact -- they were. The doctor then said, "Whoever is giving you poison is a demon." It is thus clear that Prabhupada was saying "someone" was giving him poison and it is also clear that the doctor understood the poisoner(s) had malefic intentions.

Tamal (the main suspect) confirms Prabhupada's poison complaint in his own diary, "Prabhupada was thinking he was being poisoned." Tamal also admits on the audio tape in November, 1977 that he and other leaders (such as Jayapataka) were engaged in discussing the topic of: gurus being killed -- with poison, broken glass and so on. This seems to be quite a coincidence? The leaders were discussing "the process of poisoning and killing gurus" just at the same exact time that Prabhupada, their guru, was complaining of being poisoned? Thus "murder of gurus by feeding them poison or broken glass" was being discussed by the leaders. The leaders also discussed how a Calcutta lawyer had murdered his wife with poison. Thus "murder by poison" was also being discussed. Oddly, one of the leaders named Bhavananda (Charles Bacis) can be heard chuckling on the tape about the "lawyer poisoning his wife" conversation and joking about it. Why then is everyone talking about "poison of gurus," "poison - murder cases," "keeping Prabhupada's food under watch so it cannot be poisoned," and simultaneously Prabhupada says -- he is being poisoned? Some of the eye witnesses who saw the leaders outside of Prabhupada's room in November of 1977 were startled and alarmed at how these leaders were joking and laughing while Prabhupada was inside -- complaining that he was being poisoned. Similarly, a former student who was then a young boy in 1977 testifies that he saw the leader "Bhavananda" sprinkling a white colored watery substance on Prabhupada's food just before it was being given to him. Powdered arsenic can be made into a liquid. Also amazing is that when Prabhupada was once talking about poison in the late 1960s, he said, "There is one poison called a ....," and Tamal very enthusiastically finishes the sentence, "It's called arsenic"!

Tamal also warned that Prabhupada's food and medicine must be given to him only by trusted people, the problem being that Prabhupada clearly is saying: he does not trust his "friends"? Prabhupada was upset to know his medicine were being locked up and Tamal was the only one with a key? Prabhupada was asked why he was feeling "mental distress" and he replied, because he is being given poison. Again, at this time the leaders present in the room confirmed that he was complaining of being poisoned. Indeed, "Someone gave him poison here" is a direct recorded statement from one of the leaders named Bhakti Caru. Thus it is clear Prabhupada was saying "someone" was poisoning him, this was not a complaint of some coincidental bad medicine. A few days later, Prabhupada confirmed his poison complaint even further by saying he was going to be killed by a "Ravana" (demoniac) person, and that this person was now present in his room: "Ravana will kill me if I stay in this room." According to more recent testimony, doctors in India at the time also thought Prabhupada was being poisoned to death, but they were afraid to speak up, lest they or their families meet the same fate? Prabhupada also sent an urgent message for "all of my disciples" to immediately come to India, perhaps some of them might have helped him with his poison situation, but the leaders discounted, suppressed and hid that order -- and his disciples never arrived.

In addition, unusually high levels of arsenic were found in a hair sample taken from Prabhupada, as was discovered by Dr. J. Stephen Morris of Columbia University in Missouri. That this level of arsenic could be fatal was confirmed by Dr. Richard T. Callery of the Delaware Forensic Science Laboratory. Meanwhile a number of medical professionals confirm that Prabhupada had the symptoms of a person being poisoned. Prabhupada himself was qualified as an apothecary pharmacist, and he also said that he had "the symptoms" of a person who is being poisoned. Prabhupada said that his astrology chart explains his poison complaint. And in the chart it says that he would live for six more years, provided he can survive the next six months, but there is extreme danger from "juniors and subordinates" (the leaders). The butler, the subordinates, did it? At the same time it was evident that Prabhupada had many doubts about these leaders. He often expressed that they were motivated, ambitious, simply interested in pounds, shillings and pence and importantly: they want to be gurus but they are not qualified to be gurus, and so on. This is another reason some of the leaders may have wanted to eliminate Prabhupada, he was constantly revealing that they were not qualified to be gurus, and they had ambitions to be worshipped as gurus.

On yet another audio tape spoken in December of 1977 Tamal says that Prabhupada had asked, "Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine that will make me disappear." In other words, according to Tamal, Prabhupada wanted to be poisoned to death. Yet there is no evidence Prabhupada ever asked to be poisoned to death, rather the evidence is that he had said, "Do not torture me and put me to death."

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In addition, Prabhupada's sister (Pisima) later confirmed that Prabhupada had wanted her to buy food at the market and cook it for him, since he thought he was being poisoned. In sum, there is no evidence that Prabhupada had asked to be killed, rather the evidence is that he was making some effort to remedy his situation. Then in 1998 I was interviewed by Jaya Narayana Singh on the "Hindu Meditation Hour" radio program in Houston and he was at once convinced that Prabhupada had been poisoned, and we played the audio "poison tapes" on the air. This show was heard by seventy thousand Hindu listeners. This event really upset Tamal since Houston was his "zone." Tamal then exhorted other leaders to combat the poison case with "a writing campaign." Unfortunately, their book "Not That I Am Poisoned" was filled with many flawed statements, outright lies and misrepresentation. For example, their alleged "audio forensics expert" cited in their book was actually the former owner of a bankrupted rock and roll recording studio, with absolutely no credentials or background to conduct any audio forensics. Their "expert" then signed a letter admitting to us that he had been coerced by the leaders to make these false statements.

Another of the leaders who heard the complaint directly in Prabhupada's room in 1977 was Adridharana dasa (Calcutta). He initially agreed with us in 1997 that the poison complaint was "very alarming" to him in 1977 when he heard it from Prabhupada directly. He encouraged me to "investigate the issue" although he flatly refused to help us. However, as soon as he saw we were making great headway with thousands of people being convinced, he suddenly began to support the statements of the main suspects who were in the room and he attacked the poison complaint as a fabrication. This has back fired on him miserably. It has merely convinced many people that he and other leaders "knew all along" and they are merely cover up "yes men." In other words, many people are gradually realizing that most of these dire events were known to many leaders all along, but the leaders and their entourage covered things up. An effort is currently underway to try establish legal homicide charges regarding the poisoning of Prabhupada. As one would expect those of us who brought forward evidence of "the poisoning of Prabhupada," or the child molesting or any other similar issue, have had our lives threatened by the false guru clique or their followers. For example, at this year's Rathayatra festival (2003) one of the leaders named Trivrikrama swami said to me, "The most amazing thing is, that you are still alive -- when so many people want to kill you." Other evidence of Prabhupada's being poisoned has emerged and is documented in several books and web sites on this topic.

It is a well known fact that criminal actions have been suppressed, and anyone who brings these crimes out does so -- at his peril. No doubt the poison clique members were counting on their "threats of death" mood to keep the poison case from being opened up at all, forever. Yet some of us persevered not caring for their threats. They apparently had not figured this possibility into their original plan. Thus, the poison case was designed to suppress everyone, starting with Prabhupada himself. As such, immediately after Prabhupada departed eleven leaders declared that they were Prabhupada's "appointed guru successors." The leaders simultaneously hid the poison tapes as well as many other tapes, hid all of Prabhupada's letters, hid Prabhupada's "last will and testament" and many other related documents, and they even hid the alleged evidence of their so-called guru appointment. For example, I personally had to dig into a guru's safe in 1985 to get a copy of the will. As you would expect, the evidence of their so-called guru appointment never existed.

They also suppressed "dissenters" who knew that the leaders had not been "appointed as gurus" with threats of excommunication -- and violence. In short, the leaders failed to produce any clear evidence -- that Prabhupada had appointed any of them as his "guru successors." As no small coincidence "the eleven gurus" included some of the very same individuals who were recorded "whispering" about their involvement in Prabhupada's being poisoned. It thus seems that there is a link between: (a) Prabhupada's apparent "untimely departure," (b) the false "appointed guru" claim and, (c) crimes including the subsequent "child molesting." The main suspects in the poison complaint also orchestrated the "eleven gurus" imbroglio and subsequent child molesting regime. Indeed, some Krishna dissenters refer to the "eleven guru's" regime as "the enforced cult ritualistic worship of homosexual pedophiles." Clearly the "eleven gurus" started a sort of anti-women, children and family atmosphere, which instead endorsed opulent lifestyles for a few elite leaders. As Krishna sympathizer and Berkeley Theological University scholar Dr. J. Stillson Judah said, "They (the guru clique) disregarded the law, they took the law into their own hands, this is called antinomianism." Indeed, Prabhupada himself was complaining that he was a victim of criminal action from the same clique?

And now, since the poison case has emerged many Krishna followers assume that the same leaders who orchestrated the molesting: also poisoned Prabhupada. Prabhupada had said all along that these leaders were merely going to be administrators, but some of them evidently wanted to be his "eternally worshipped guru successors." The desire to be worshipped and to live opulently with fancy exotic cars, nice houses, unlimited travel expense accounts, silk clothing, costly jewellery, many servants, and sometimes unlimited sex with followers and so on and so forth was and is a clear "motive" for why Prabhupada said he was being poisoned. "It was all about taking over the money and assets of the society" is what many now believe. Prabhupada himself often said that deviant followers sometimes artificially attempt to become their guru's successor in order to take over the mission and its assets.

This also explains why some leaders did not "investigate or intervene" in "the troubles" generated by other leaders, including the child molesting. Apparently, members of the takeover clique held an axe over each other's heads knowing the inner workings of the plot, and they did not want to jeopardize their stolen piece of the pie. This was confirmed for example in a conversation between Hansadutta (Hans Kary) and Tamal (Thomas Herzig) in December of 1980. Both of them admitted that they had only been appointed as administrators, not gurus. Tamal also admits that many people believed he had somehow killed Prabhupada. Hansadutta similarly admitted that many people thought he also wanted Prabhupada to die, so he could sit in Prabhupada's "guru seat." Indeed in 1976 Tamal told me that I was "waiting for Prabhupada to die -- so I could sit in Prabhupada's seat." Thus, the idea that Prabhupada was "in the way" of the motivated leaders, and maybe it would be better for them if he was "dead and gone," was already known even while he was physically present. And thus Prabhupada himself sometimes asks the leaders, "Have I become a burden"? Read: Am I in the way of your takeover plot?

That wide scale molestation incidents occurred has been corroborated in various American newspaper articles, televised documentaries and other documents, such as documents filed in a recent Dallas, Texas court procedure filed by the law firm of "Windle Turley." This law firm represented a fraction of the victims, only ninety seven of the former students. The Windle Turley lawsuit claims that "widespread" molestation occurred in the society's schools. This fact has not been disputed by the leaders of the false Krishna movement. Rather, the leaders first of all tried to avoid paying the requested four hundred million dollars by declaring themselves bankrupt. Then, as the movement's leaders saw that their bankruptcy "avoidance technique" was not going to be accepted by the Dallas courts they "settled the case" by agreeing to pay the victims a large sum. The actual amount to be paid to victims has not yet been determined by the Dallas courts. In other words, the leaders of the false Krishna movement directly or de facto agreed that mass molestations occurred under their negligent management and they did not want to attempt to dispute that fact in court.

How did such a large number of molestations occur in such a small organization, and in such a short period of time? First of all, it has been reported that some of the "gurus" were molesting minors themselves. Thus, they sought out like minded deviants as their supporters, administrators, and school teachers. In sum, the molesting went on under a sort of umbrella of protection from the overall infrastructure of the eleven gurus. Each guru acted more or less like an independent tyrannical despot, and thus they resisted being investigated by anyone, or by each other. It must also be noted that after 1977 there were many "guru crises" (usually sex and drugs) which were coupled with criminal activities and this was creating a smoke screen for the molesting problem. And some of these "crises and crimes" incidents were reported in Newspapers in America. The "shift of assets to the guru clique" would also explain why the children in the schools were severely starved, beaten and molested. The "gurus" lived like millionaires while the children in their schools often had to eat old scraps and wear rags. The false guru clique's "plan" was and still is very clear: to shift almost the entire financial asset of the movement into their hands, and to live like millionaire kings, and to neglect everyone else including the children.

These "crises and crimes" were in fact synchronized with the increase in the society's molestation. Thus, due to numerous "more publicized" crises and criminal activities, the increase of cases of child molestations evolved "under the radar" as the other crises and crimes became the primary focus of the media, and the false Krishna movement's leadership. For example, in 1979 Berkeley police discovered that the Northern California "guru" had an illegal machine gun in the trunk of his car. That guru's farm was subsequently raided by the Sheriff's department. As suspected, stolen credit cards, illegal weapons and explosives were found at the site. During that same year a "temple" drug business in the Southern California guru's "zone" was uncovered by Police in Laguna Beach. In 1980, the entire Krishna society lost a big lawsuit in Syracuse, New York, since the court said the Krishna's "engaged in a widespread and systematic scheme of accosting, deceit, misrepresentation and fraud on the public," according to Federal Judge Howard G. Munson.

Simultaneously, the guru for Los Angeles "Ramesvara" was doubting the entire guru program and he wanted to resign. He had been faulted for "dating" a minor aged female student. Simultaneously, the guru for England "Jayatirtha" was taking LSD, smoking marijuana and he was having illicit sex with followers. Simultaneously, the guru "Hansadutta" was having troubles with Federal authorities who raided his farm. Simultaneously a woman named "Jadurani" (Judy Koslofsky) was beaten nearly to death for protesting the false gurus at "Kirtanananda's" farm in West Virginia. Simultaneously the guru Tamal was saying he was the best of all the eleven, and a move was afoot to remove him from the guru clique. There were thus a number of simultaneous public instances of various guru crises coupled with outright crimes, as well as incidents that were simply kept hidden from the general public but were known to certain members within the society. Thus the child molestation issue was barely even noticed especially by the leaders and many members of the hijacked Krishna movement itself, due to the leader's "smoke screen" of diverting attention to these other "crises and crimes," as well as their mood of extreme oppression towards anyone who tried to resolve such issues.

One of the biggest problems was that at least two of the alleged eleven post-1977 "gurus" were themselves homosexual pedophiles according to many reports, and their expanding molesting regimes were vociferously supported by most of the other leaders. Thus, once these homosexual pedophiles became "worshipped as Jesus-like gurus" it became very difficult for any "dissenters" to expose the molestation problem, or any other problem, since a dissenter was "challenging God's living guru successor." In sum, "dissenters" to the worship of deviants as "Jesus-like gurus" were banned, beaten and threatened with death even early on. For example, in 1980 when I opposed the guru for England "Jayatirtha" (James Immel) for his illicit sex and drug problems, four of the leaders of the renegade Krishna movement ordered that I was to be banned from the society. Jayatirtha then said to me, "Watch your back" since he implied they would perhaps orchestrate my murder if I continued to "dissent." As it turns out, the leaders did eventually orchestrate the murder of my writing associate Sulochana dasa (Steve Bryant) and I was also on their "hit list" according to Berkely Police Officer Joeseph Sanchez. Generally, only when events attract the notice of the police and media do "the gurus" have another one of their fire brigade "emergency meetings" to try to resolve the crisis. Otherwise, the whole effort is to preserve the "status quo" of their opulent lifestyles.

Also, important apologists and advocates for the eleven gurus emerged. These persons were very similar to the official "Papal apologists" of the medieval Catholic Church in that they gave important contrived ecclesiastical doctrinal credibility to the false gurus. Perhaps the most important apologist and protagonist was the false guru's 1978 "advisor" named Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Maharaja of Navadvip (West Bengal) India. In early 1978 Sridhara first of all insisted that the eleven were "gurus" fit to be worshipped as "Vishnupadas" or essentially "equal to Jesus - gurus." He said that these gurus must be viewed as "absolute" (fully as pure as Jesus) by their followers and that "none should protest." This set up a fanatical scenario where "the gurus" had violent followers and "protesting" was dangerous, even deadly. Sridhara vociferously aided the idea that dissenters were unacceptable, a sort of updated version of burning witches and heretics.

Sridhara's first proposal in 1978 was that the "Governing Body Commission" system established by Prabhupada had to be dismantled since "this idea is not found in our tradition." Prabhupada had wanted that the society be managed by an oversight committee, something like a Church Council. Instead, Sridhara replaced the "managerial oversight system" with his idea, the society needs to worship false and motivated "living gurus." Sridhara said, the former managers have to be viewed as equal to Jesus "gurus" and no longer as mere "managers." Sridhara never bothered to explain how the practical management of the society, and its schools, was to be conducted after he essentially disbanded the managerial body and turned it into eleven maverick guru cults. Sridhara dismantled the management body and this is one of the reasons the schools deteriorated into an imbroglio of molestation because very simply, no one was "managing" anymore because the managing system is "not found in the tradition." Without important apologists like Sridhara the false eleven gurus would not have survived their numerous "crises" for much time. Instead, almost every time the numerous "crises and crimes" emerged within the false guru clique, the apologists (sometimes by their own admission) "pleaded on behalf" of the false guru clique, especially when their deviations and failures emerged as a public or legal embarrassment. Sridhara constantly said, we have to support the false maverick gurus and forget all about following a system of management and oversight. Lawless. So he is the architect of the antinomianism "a lawless society in the name of religion." And because there was a lawless society children were the first to became his victims because: they have no defense.

Sridhara had also been informed that there was "no evidence" that the gurus had ever been appointed by Prabhupada, yet he never asked to see the evidence that they were appointed as gurus. Indeed Prabhupada said that in 1936 Sridhara did the same thing, he participated in a "kill guru and become guru" project where he appointed a guru "without authority." Sridhara tried to replace Prabhupada's guru with a deviant who was also a homosexual. Worse, after 1977 there were all sorts of well known deviations amongst those false gurus such as drugs and illicit sex, problems which Sridhara again simply shrugged off as not very significant. Sridhara merely waved his hands in the air and said, "We must keep these eleven gurus in their posts." Apparently, he did the same thing in 1936 when people were getting beaten and murdered for objecting to his false gurus at that time. He simply walked away and left the victims getting beaten and killed without taking any steps to remedy the situation. "No monitoring oversight is required, simply worship false gurus and if you get beaten or killed for objecting, who cares"?

Sridhara also helped the false gurus write "position papers" explaining -- why gurus worshipped like Jesus fail and become deviants. He supported the idea that gurus are sometimes engaged in illicit sex with men, women and children, and they are orchestrating the beatings and murders of dissenters. Yet Prabhupada had given members of his Krishna society stern warnings: avoid "taking advice" from Sridhara. Prabhupada had said that Sridhara was the main architect of a 1936 homosexual guru imbroglio in India which destroyed his guru's mission, and had resulted in beatings and murders of dissenters, bad publicity, financial ruin of the mission and so on. Prabhupada said that Sridhara had also dismantled the "Governing Body" or oversight committee within the 1936 Gaudiya Matha and replaced that with his violent false guru cults. Again, this simply aided the idea that no one could investigate the crimes of "the gurus." There was no overall monitoring, oversight, watch dog or managerial board which Prabhupada had originally ordered, just eleven self-styled "equal to Jesus gurus." Moreover the whole idea of an ecclesiastical body which is monitoring thing like embezzlement, molesting, crimes, even murders and so on "is not found in the scriptures." Instead, renegade violent guru cults is "what is found in the scriptures"? This is why Prabhupada said Sridhara's ideas are "severe offenses."

Sridhara thus destroyed Prabhupada's whole 1970s idea of a unified and jointly controlled and monitored effort for the Krishna mission. Instead, using Sridhara's model, each "guru" became a self-governing autonomous dogmatic dictator. Sridhara said that the eleven gurus can use titles like "Vishnupada" (as pure as God: a person equal to Jesus) and yet he knew full well these same people were having illicit sex and drug problems, and he knew this since 1967. Sridhara was also asked, "How should we deal with the crimes and crises of people being worshipped as if they are as pure as Jesus"? In other words, as more and more people were getting excommunicated, beaten and molested, and sometimes assassinated, Sridhara was asked: what are we to do? Sridhara simply kept repeating his mantra, "None should complain, do not try to solve the crisis, wait and see. There is no such thing as monitoring oversight committees." Later, he finally said the gurus should have a "reform." Yet his idea of a reform was: to create a "guru vote system" so the false gurus could "vote in many more gurus," as if homosexual pedophiles are qualified to rubber stamp "more gurus." Sridhara was even asked, what are we to do with persons who are "envious" of the eleven false gurus? And Sridhara replied, the envious should be voted in -- as the next wave of gurus! Of course Sridhara's self appointed star pupil, Tripurari swami (Tom Beaudry) of Philo California was the first one standing in line to get voted in by the homosexual pedophiles as their anointed "guru."

Thus, many of Sridhara's ideas are contradictions. Gurus are pure (as Jesus), simultaneously gurus are voted in and appointed by the impure. Gurus are to be worshipped as if they are on the level of Jesus, simultaneously gurus are sometimes deviants. Gurus are to be seen as confidential lovers of God, simultaneously gurus are sometimes child molesters. Gurus are supposed to save the whole world, simultaneously gurus have small geographical zones. Gurus do not deviate, simultaneously deviations of gurus have to be tolerated and overlooked, and so on and so forth. Gurus are absolute, and there is no such thing as a monitoring oversight committee in religion. Lawless. Thus, these ideas are pillars to the child molesting problem since due to his ideas dangerous and fanatical "guru cults" were allowed to grow, and everyone else had to sit back, tolerate, wait and see, and "none should protest." And there should be no system of oversight, since this is against scriptures. Lawless tyrants posing as gurus is -- found in scriptures, and that is what Sridhara and his team supported.

Oddly, Sridhara never seemed to ask about the welfare of the victims of the guru regime he endorsed? Again, according to Prabhupada, Sridhara had also backed another homosexual guru cult in 1936 which resulted in "dissenters" being banned, beaten, and killed by being beaten with bricks. The ten year old child of the guru Sridhara appointed was poisoned with arsenic in order to continue the false guru program, and so on. And yet when Sridhara was asked why he had created such a malefic regime, he said, "So what, killing is found in God's holy scriptures." In sum, Sridhara tries to blame God for the troubles he has generated. No remorse. Later, one of the main "gurus" that Sridhara backed after 1977, Jayatirtha, had his head chopped off with a knife due to his illicit sexual affairs with a married disciple. This was reported in the headlines of the British Press "Guru's Head Hacked Off." Again, Sridhara never issued any apology to either the molested children, the families of murdered dissenters, or to the people shocked by his anointed guru's murder and so on, apparently he went to his grave thinking that he was authorized to promote wife stealing, homosexual, child molester and murder of dissenter's -- guru cults.

After some time even Sridhara finally realized that his false gurus were acting horrendously and they were destroying many people's lives. He concluded that the guru clique was "acting like insensitive computers and army tanks driving over their own troops," although he never clarified that he was wrong to have supported these false gurus, or that God's successors are not deviants and so on. And so the guru clique eventually rejected Sridhara, but they kept all of his statements and documents intact which supported the false gurus. The remnants of one of the Sridhara cults is currently residing in Philo, in Mendocino county California, headed up by his so-called successor, Tripurari swami (Tom Beaudry). Tripurari distributes Sridhara's books explaining that God's successor gurus (acharyas aka as pure as Jesus) are sometimes "mad after money, women and followers." Apparently gurus like Jesus are such mad fools that they molest children as well as orchestrate the murder of dissenters, at least according to their books.

Tripurari was upset with 1990 ritvik meeting -- reform of molester gurus bad idea --
- wanted to get voted in as guru by Kirtanananda
- says we are demons for not accepting GBC pedophile guru system
- pal guru Sudhir blooped
- his follower says it is "offense" to challenge pedophile guru lineage
- endorses pedophile lineage leaders as gurus, knowing they are or were voted in by pedophiles
- says worship of Jesus is bogus ritviks
- Glorified Tamal after his departure
- hangs with Virabhau who says "you get the same experience" (pedophile sex) as if meeting a bona fide guru (equal to Jesus)
- says he was chanting while the molesting was going on and he knew nothing of it, no he wanted to get voted in and he said we are demons for protesting
- considers himself "equal to Jesus" pure devotee guru since he went along with pedophile regime and wanted to get voted in to it
- selling T-shirts/ Danavir says Tripurari is engaged in false charity collections (help us out then Danavir)
- buying real estate with t-shirt money
- claims to be a charity
- Selling bogus books saying gurus go mad
- Rejected by Sridhara's named successor Govinda maharaja as "a revolter."
Sridhara: "For those that have got no sraddha [faith], they may go away. They may not accept (Govinda is my successor). I do not care. I don't accept them. If anyone has no recognition of this opinion of mine, I do not want them to live in the Mission. I drag them out."

Around 1986 the guru clique adopted another big apologist and "advisor" named Narayana Maharaja, of Mathura UP, India. He became prominent just about the same time the eleven gurus recoronated one of their biggest homosexual pedophile gurus, the molesting was going on all over the society, and they were being investigated by the FBI for orchestrating some well publicized murders. At this time, Narayana Maharaja emerged as the new "darling" of the false gurus and he said they were uniquely qualified to talk about "conjugal love with God" (while in fact they were orchestrating mass molesting of children and murdering dissenters to that molesting process). Oddly, Narayana Maharaja also said that the guru clique still had to accept that Sridhara is "a bona fide (pure as Jesus) guru." And he furthermore cited that "there was nothing wrong" with Sridhara's establishing a homosexual as a guru in 1936. In other words, Narayana Maharaja directly endorsed the guru clique's voted in gurus, appointing gurus, reinstating homosexual pedophiles gurus and so on, and he basically endorsed all of Sridhara's rhetoric saying in 1990 that Sridhara is a pure devotee (acharya) and his ideas are all bona fide. Narayana Maharaja in short agrees with Sridhara that the oversight management committee idea is not found in the scriptures, and so he supported the lawless guru (antinomiansm) process and he was known for about ten years as Tamal's close associate.

What we see here is that the SM, Narayana Maharaja and BP and BV Puri Maharaja sector created the false theology under which these "rotten" gurus operated.

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Tripurari (Tom Beaudry) update (by pada)
From: pada@neteze.com Date: Nov. 09, 2003

This is an ongoing investigation into the Tripurari cult. The last time I actually talked to Tripurari in private he called me a demon because I refused to accept the validity of his child bugger guru project pals and I wondered why he was licking Kirtananda's booties tinged with his german shepherd dog's remnants. And why were their dog hairs on Tripurari's jacket? So Tripurari wants a public debate, and that is what he will get. I also have several hundred names and address in Philo to send the results of our investigation to, to gather yet more help in this investigation.

Seems like Tripurari swami started "dating" a teen-age girl named Vrindaranya some years ago, taking her out on dates (?) to the mall like his hero Ramesvara used to "date" Rukmini at the mall. Tripurari's other hero Sudhir also used to take his gal pal to the mall, etc. as well. At Ramesvara's time in ISKCON everyone said "Ramesvara is a dirty old man." And it seems "Tripurari associating with Vrndaranya" has been the topic of similar debates around the Sridhara group, not only amongst us independents. For example, one of our associates said they overheard Jagat Guru swami arguing with Tripurari some years ago about his excessive fawning over -- Vrndaranya. If anyone else has details of this situation please let us know. The bottom line is that there is something strange about a fifty year old man "hanging out at the mall" with a female half his age, or less, while he goes the next day and sits in a seat -- wearing orange as a renunciate. Bhaktinandana swami also told me that Govinda Maharaja had some "secret woman," and Bhaktinandana just got married himself after years of hiding his relationship. This seems to be the trend and tendency in the Sridhara cult. Srila Prabhupada says that when a sannyasi talks alone with a woman he is bogus, and Tripurari was alleged to be not only talking with, and dating at the mall, but getting massages from, Vrindaranya according to Papaharini and others. But who knows what is going on here, are they both celibates? Are they better than all of the sannyasis from the Gaudiya Matha and ISKCON who fell down? And is this why Tripurari wants women sannyasis, so his date can wear orange as well? Swell.

Why is Tripurari not being called upon the carpet for the same thing as Ramesvara and Sudhir and so on? See our "Rocana article" below to discover why. Maybe Vrindraranya is not a teen now but she is apparently still with Tripurari? What is her age now? What is his age now? How come she is still not married, or is she? Is she "a renunciate"? Why doesn't Tripurari get her married? Why is she still his servant? Of course, Jaggadish has taught us that even when these gurus get a woman married, the "guru" can still have an affair with the woman anyway. Why did Tripurari have to leave Eugene Oregon? Some say: it was due to the scandal of his association with Vrindaranya. For example Papaharini said she saw them together all the time in Eugene and this was creating a big stir in Tripurari's clan, as has been verified by ex-members of his cult. There is a rumor that he sold the house in Eugene and used the money for his new house, against the wishes of the followers, just like Ramesvara took off with money, Sudhir took off with a woman and money, etc. Prithu also complained heavily about Tripurari dating Vrindaranya too. Can we get the full story on this? A few more highlights of Tripurari:

1976 started the short change technique which ruined ISKCON's reputation and started the Syracuse lawsuit
1977 supported the child molester guru project (as did his current guru Sridhara Maharaja)
1980s trying to get voted into the child molester guru cult (Sridhara said child molesters can vote in more gurus like Tripurari)
- told GBC they should make him a guru or he would be Sridhara's guru (there is no difference in their siddhanta)
- Kirtanananda blocks Tripurari getting voted in as "pratistha."
- starts selling T-shirts under charities (would like to know the names of some of these charities)
- joins with Brahma and Sudhir who was selling records and T-shirts (would like to know the names of these charities)
- Disagrees with Sudhir
- Sudhir bloops allegedly taking some money and "woman disciple." (what was her name)
- Breaks with Govinda Maharaj for not accepting that he is successor to Sridhara
- Argues with Jagat Guru swami over "seeing Vrdaranya dasi." (we need her age/ karmi name) HE does not get along with the other Sridhara people!
- Buys house in Oregon (we need the address of this property)
- "Going to the mall" buying Vrndaranya ice cream and so on --
- Papaharini says he is seen out and about in Eugene with Vrndaranya all the time --
- allegations Tripruari "being massaged" by Vrindaranya - Argues with followers over "seeing Vrndaranya dasi." (would like to have the names of some of these followers)
- Hangs out with GBC gurus like Virabahu
- Lectures in ISKCON temples "living guru"
- Sells house in Oregon against followers wishes
- Uses money from Oregon house to buy property in Philo (Sky Ranch Association)? (need the address)
- Says he never knew there was anything wrong with the GBC gurus or the molesting, so when Kirtanananda had the hands of fifty boys all over him, Tripurari thought this was normal. And that is why Tripurari was licking Kirtananada's boots to get his guru certificate.
- adopted Sridhara-ism/ support of molester pooja
- Out at the mall eating ice cream with his date forced him to leave Oregon
- We need: Vrndaranya's karmi name

Tripurari: Tom Beaudry
Sudhir: Philip Murphy
Brahma: Robert Jancula (Tripurari's clone)
Brahma's wife: Lydia Mosk
Atreya Rsi: Marz Attar / Philo farm Property?

* Tripurari's property: Sky Ranch Association?
* Tripurari's web site: swami.org
* What is this? Philo Inn/ 22001 Panorama Way Philo CA 95466
* (Brahma dasa) Sangha Editor/ 5824-6 California St. San Francisco CA/ 94121/ Helen Mosk Living Trust/ (Mosk John and Helen)
* (Brahma dasa) Anderson Valley Inn/ Robert A Jancula and Lydia Mosk/ 8480 Hwy 128 Philo CA 95466
* Chaitanya Saraswat Mandal 62 S. 13th st. San Jose CA 95112 (why is this still listed as their address?)
* (Govinda Maharaja) Vaishnava Seva Society/ POB 8040/ Santa Cruz CA 95061 assets: $885,235
* Mandala Publishing/ 354 Bel Marin Keys #d/ Novato CA info@mandala.org
* (Brahma das) San Francisco Store? San Francisco Apartment building?
* (Tripurari's supporters) Govinda's Restaurant/ 2765 Yulupa Ave. Santa Rosa CA
* (Tripurari's shop) Global Groove/ 2058 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa CA
* Andersonvalley.net

Philo Methodist Church 8300 Hwy 128 Philo

(Tripurari's motel?) Philo Pottery Inn, 8550 Hwy 128, Philo California 895-3069
Tripurari's farm address, Philo California
Badger charity and school address

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Dear PADA:
You asked for information on the following. Here's what I know. Brahma dasa karmi name/ Tripurari's clone: He bought the Philo Inn a few years ago and last I heard runs it with his wife Lydia who took initiation from Tripurari. They bought the place so they could be closer to Tripurari's place up there and have a motel for all the people who come up there to visit him (I don't think they get many of those kinds of people - and I heard the place ain't much). He does most of the work on Tripurari's Sanga newsletter that VNN publishes a lot.

Tripurari: Tom Beaudry/ Sudhir: Philip Murphy/ The full address is: 22001 Panorama Way Philo CA 95466. It's about a 20 minute drive east from Philo on Greenwood Ridge just a mile from Atryea's old place. It's in a community called Sky Ranch and they are restricted from doing anything out of the ordinary. He used to have a website about what he was doing there but went completely silent about a year ago.

(Tripurari's shop) Global Groove 2058 Santa Rosa Plaza, Santa Rosa CA

Don't know anything about that shop. Agnideva (the old) has a Govinda's Restaurant in Santa Rosa but he owns and runs it himself with his wife but he is a long time supporter of Tripurari and he holds regular programs at his home for Tripurari and his group. Re: Sudhir Philip Murhphy. He hates Tripurari and thinks he's as bogus as you guys do but for different reasons. All of the Sridhara/Govinda Maharaja group reject him as much as Iskcon. Apart from Jagat Guru Swami and Alwarnatha Swami - who never spend any time with him - Tripurari is all alone. He left Eugene and started this place in Mendocino because his support in Eugene turned sour. He only has a few followers. He's a crap manager and whoever joins him leaves after awhile. He had that unsannyasi like relationship with that girl disciple for years which was the main reason people turned against him in Oregon. This woman still works with him and may be the reason he wants complete privacy.

for any questions please write to:
pada@neteze.com