PADA NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE - 2005 -


January 2005

Jan. 15. 2005 - Visoka/ NSS 1-15
1) VISOKA says: "here is your new guru -- better "hope" -- he is not a devaint, but do not 'fight' if he is." 2) From: "BIF" govinda@b-i-f.com 3) B.T. Swami prepares for imminent departure 4) A letter of apology by Raktambara das 5) DEAR NSS

Jan. 20. 2005
- SDG/ Sri Ram/ Patrik/ 1-20
1) SATSVARUPA DECLARES: Pure devotees (acharyas like Jesus) are "abominable." 2) BHAVANANDA is back! 3) RAM'S EMPIRE v. GBC. 4) ANOTHER BIG meeting! Write them at: (sspt@spiritualstrategicplanningteam.com) * Can ISKCON Really Change? A Partial List of ISKCON's Problems By Narottama Dasa Jan 19, 2005 5) Dear Patrikananda (Patick Hogan) 6) NARYANA MAHARAJA 7) Dear Puranjana (RE: Gay and lesbians issue)

Jan. 26. 2005 - IRM/ Puripada 1-26
* Was Srila Prabhupada -- FORCED -- to leave! 1) GITA NAGARI EX-KULI SPEAKS 2) Another EX-KULI LAUGHED AT after being approached by BHAVANANDA ... 3) FROM JANARDANA DASA 4) BHAVANANDA'S DEFENDERS 5) SATSVARUPA COMPROMISES WITH MOLESTER GURUS ... 6) DHANANJAYA JOINS: Ronald Mc Donald aka Puripada? 7) Dear Dasanudasa prabhu, 8) You're Looking for an Easy Fix From Joshua Hawley Posted Dec. 21, 2004 9) I married a gay devotee 10) Court releases devotee on bail 11) TAMAL'S LEATHER COWBOY HAT

February 2005

Feb. 10. 2005 - IRM's "caw caw" reply 2-10
1) Dear Rasananda prabhu re (SPL 3/19/74), 2) JAYATIRTHA REVIVAL? 3) WHERE ARE THEIR TEMPLES? 4) URMILA WRITES WRONGS UPDATE 5) Haribol Puranjana prabhu (re Mahatma dasa), 6) Krishna Kant Desai (KK) writes caw caw (BIF)

Feb. 20. 2005 - Sridhara/ IRM/ Turley case 2-20
1) Newsbytes: * DEAR BHAKTIN JAIMIE:/ * Let's play GOLF!/ * AIDS:/ * NAMBLA:/ * TALIBAN/ * Beating Children/ * IRM/ * Gita Nagari Book burning/ 2) Dear Puranjana. Pamho agt Srila Prabhupada re Sridhara Maharaja. 3) SRIDHARA MAHARAJA'S "Form v substance." 4) PADA EDITORIAL -- IRM now recommends "bribing judges" (?) 5) A letter of goodbye to everyone by Dhanistha dasi Posted February 8, 2005 6) Subject: More Kaw Kaw Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 The IRM (Krishna Kant?) writes: 7) Love for devotees by Harimohan das 8) (denied by Mahaksa; with all the evidence; wonder why???). Of course, there was a conspiracy to murder Prabhupad. 9) Posted February 15, 2005 ISKCON Chapter 11 Disclosure Statement Approved

March 2005

March 05. 2005 - Class action/ WW III/ 3-6-05
* CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT * WW III * Dristadyumnas Narayana Maharaja festival. * ASHLAND PROGRESS * Originally Posted by Yaduraja (IRM). 1) Subject: Srila Prabhupada Reel to Reel Original Tapes Available (Jitendriya dasa) 2) SIMPLE LIVING (Dhamaghosa) 3) MACHO MEN? (pada) 4) THE GLORIES OF BHAVANANDA (Nimai Pandit dasa) 5) GAUDIYA MATHA'S "GURU APPOINTMENT" Hoax (pada) 6) An Alternative Petition for Women's rights in ISKCON (Sita Dasi) 7) Some gurukulas inflicted permanent harm (by Julie Gibbs) 8) A voice for the children (Bhakta Jerry) 9) Please inform people of Baltimore Iskcon's situation. 10) $1,000 bounty for location of any NAMBLA members.

March 13. 2005 - Ides of March pada news
1) PRISON MINISTER WRITES PADA 2) Volunteer bus and truck drivers needed for Youth Summer Festival 3) HARIVILAS's Restaurant in Seattle. 4) WOMEN right's Defense Teams. 5) TULASI plants sold for TEA! 6) Urgent message to all devotees! Nitai Chand is back! 7) Tantrik ghostbuster Citeswar Das 8) ISKCON SANNYASA BIR KRIHSNA DAS IS MARRIED TO WOMAN FROM UK 9) IRM WRITES MORE HORSE WHACKY 10) RE: BV Narayana Maharaja. Dear Bhakta Gregory 11) Praise and criticism can both create entanglement (BV Narayana Maharaja) 12) HAS VNN DIED?

March 19. 2005 - More child abuse/ pada news 3/19
1) TAMAL'S MILLIONS VANISH! 2) ANOTHER BREAK THROUGH 3) THE IRM/ IRG/ Adridharana/ Madhu Pandit/ LONDON etc. 4) A letter about child abuse from the mother of a victim 5) Meeting attendees were child abusers, says gurukuli 6) GBC Proposal Resolution number 8 by Vivasvan dasa (an ISKCON temple president in Florida) 7) From Sankarshan Das Adhikari - We must destroy the ritviks! Oh fer sure dude! 8) DOUBTS ABOUT ADRIDHARANA DASA 9) A few citations from Srila Prabhupada: 10) Renewal process itself is flawed by Niscala d.d. Posted March 4, 2005 11) re; Bhakti Brnga Govinda Swami

April 2005

April 09. 2005 - PADA/ Depressed gopis/ 4/9
A few Newzbytes 1) TAMPA, Florida: WHAT UP? 2) Food, they say, is God http://spirituality.indiatimes.com/...how/1026667.cms (ISKCON becomes: another food for the poor project?) 3) "Clinically Depressed" -- Gopis? 4) Another 19th Nervous Breakdown (Kuladri)! 5) IRM Attacks Srila Prabhupada's Quotes as "Ranting" Update 6) PADAFILES! Damodar Das damodar@swbell.net wrote: 7) Compassion; response to "Meeting Attendees were child abusers" by Urmila dd 8) The Fate of ISKCON in Our Hands: Vaikuntha or Free Hotel? Paradheya dasa 9) Subject: Bhakti Tirtha Swami's health update 10) Dear Puranjana Prabhu/ Sankarsana is right in defeating 11) Lessons in ISKCON Denial 12) Personal witness account of Jayapatakas character (from his female disciple) 13) Pratyatosa looking for Bir Krishna follower

April 16. 2005 - Garuda/ Siddha 4/16 pada
1) GARUDA DASA: DALLAS MEETING UPDATE. 2) When is enough is enough! (Nimai pandit dasa) 3) SIDDHASWARUPA PREACHING ABOUT JESUS? 4) SUHOTRA UPDATE: 5) IRM SNAFU (BIF and PADA) 6) THANKS MAHAKSA DASA. 7) WANTED: FEMALE SLAVE (Sign me up)! 8) Of Devastation and Dichotomy (Paradheya dasa) [PADA: We love this guy's titles!] 9) VNN has tried to amalgamate all the Gaudiya Matha camps, (PADA) 10) WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE/ GBC OR GURU? 11) Alachua Gaura-Purnima and Ping Pong and Golf Tournament Posted April 11, 2005 [Expert ping - pong warriors needed. Spare me dude!] 12) from shiva GURU BIPOLAR DISORDERS

April 24. 2005 - Brisbane/ NNV/ SDG 4-24
1) Hari Bol Puranjana/ what are the devotee names of the following persons: 2) Dear Puranjana, What is the BBT/ BBTI 3) Dear Phalini/ Haripada dasa ACBS 4) DEAR PADA, So about the poison case, 5) Update on Iskcon's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy case 6) NOTICE: TO ISKCON MANAGEMENT (BRISBANE) 7) jumbo777 Location: mauritius/ RE: bangalore temple/ Haribolo! 8) Naranarayan Visvakarma dasa says... 9) SATSVARUPA AND TRIPURARI SWAMIS UNITE (Gay guru lovers club leaders)

May 2005

May 07. 2005 - NM/ Bhakta 5/7 news
1) Regarding your Chakra request... http://www.chakra.org/announcements/DevadsMay05_05.html (Wants November poison tapes?) 2) DEAR *****, RE: Windle Turley and the Anarchists 3) Gurukula alumni begrudgingly vote for reorganization plan 4) Narayana Maharaja's dead guru project. 5) A FEW LEGAL NAMES 6) Why Make Prabhupada Cry? 7) Bhakta das=FBI's Most Wanted!

May 28. 2005 - 5/28 PADA news
1) NEWzBITES 2) Violent rape story "over blown" (?) 3) UPDATE FROM DELHI REGARDING POISON INVESTIGATION 4) Narayana Maharaja update 5) ISKCON LONG ISLAND UPDATE 6) Submitted by Naranarayana dasa: From the Great Favor, a Harmonist article, by Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada:

June 2005

June 04. 2005 / 6-4 NEWS
1) THE KORAN 2) Sridhara's Successor in Trouble (again) 3) If you were a leader of the Christian church say, 4) TONY and NARAYAN MAHARAJA attack Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura (updates) 5) BHAGAVAT DASA ENDORSES PEDOPHILE WORSHIP PROJECT

June 13. 2005 - NM responds to PADA
* Paramadvaita swami (Sridhara Maharaja's successor in South America) re-writes history. 1) PRITHU'S LEGACY (Rocana dasa) 2) ISKCON Leaders to Apologize to Gurukula Alumni at New York Ratha-yatra by Manu das Posted June 9, 2005 3) PRABHUPADA MAKES MISTAKES UPDATE 4) RE: WINDLE TURLEY CASE Wow! Lots of responses to PADA's Narayana Maharaja letters .... 5) WHY DOESN'T Narayana Maharaja Give Up His Anger? 6) "FOCUS" ON HOMOSEXUAL GURUS: 7) Narayana Maharaja already SURRENDERED to PADA's view? 8) Yet other of NM's followers wrote to tell PADA "this is all lies." 9) Narayana Maharaja is a "poacher" not a "preacher." 10) DANAVIR Writes: (Narayana Maharaja's statements on the internet provoke a response from H.H. Danavir Goswami) 11) Subject: Re: IRM--A BOGUS GROUP BASED ON A BOGUS PAPER...

June 19. 2005 - PADA news 6-19
1) SANAT/ Mukunda RE-JOIN GBC 2) Question from Jojo. Why does Narayana Maharaja say that the worship of Srila Prabhupada is bogus? 3) RE: SRIDHARA MAHARAJA From STAR LIGHT 4) EX-Guru PRITHU DASA "without friends, without money and sick." 5) HARIKESHA "Existential crises" 6) TONY APOLOGIZES TO PADA 7) THE SRIDHARA MAHARAJA ISSUE 8) CHATUR BAHU'S MURDER 9) LORD NRSINGHA SCARES -- Radha and Krishna away? (More idyoot preaching from Narayana Maharaja) 10) ANOTHER NAME FOR THE RASCAL GURU LIST 11) --- Dinanath das (NM disciple) wrote: 12) FROM JENNIFER RE: Narayana Maharaja. 13) NO RIGHTS IN ISKCON 14) By Starlight. Srila Prabhupada's Godbrothers DISOBEYED Srila Gurudeva.

July 2005

July 07. 2005
/ Srutirupa's report
* Bhakta dasa update: Court closes poppy priest case 1) HINDUISM IN ISKCON 2) Narayana Maharaja vs AMMA 3) Poison Issue: SRUTIRUPA'S REPORT. (BIF) 4) SANKARSANA SUPPORTS TAMAL 5) ISKCON WANTS TO BE SUED FOR MORE MOLESTING 6) BHAKTI TIRTHA SWAMI requests child molester's kirtan (from Tony) 7) NARYANA MAHARAJA FOLLOWER WRITES 8) PROCEEDINGS UPDATE 9) re: Vakresvara Pandit Dear Pandu das.

August 2005

Aug. 03. 2005
/ PADA investigation/ LA Times
* PADA SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 1) PADA Editorial. 2) NEW YORK - Sexy Vegetarians by PETA. 3) More Trouble in River City -- Open Letter to the ISKCON Child Protection Office by Pandu das 4) Los Angeles Times/ Krishna's Closing The books On Abuse Scandal (Sunday June 26, 2005) by Hector Becerra/ Times Staff Writer 5) Direction Of Management (Long Island Temples Lawsuit Update) by Nimai Pandit Dasa.

Aug. 17. 2005
/ Ratha News 8-17
RE: LOKANATHA SWAMI 1) SAN FRANCISCO Rathayatra. 2) MY CARIBBEAN PARTY by Suhotra swami 3) THE DEAD POOL (pada) 4) Krishna Kanta Divides the Church, (BIF) 5) VRNDANVANA IMBROGLIO (BIF) 6) Death Threats From Pieter --- Thank you Mr. pada@neteze.com. We advise you to contact the Belgian police division responsible for this kind of cases: the Federal Computer Crime Unit (contact@fccu.be). 7) I attended the Court Ordered "apology" to the Gurukulies (NNV)

September 2005

Sep. 04. 2005 / Tripurari update 9/4
1) TRIPURARI SWAMI (Tom Beaudry) 2) from vimana/ Post subject: Temple Presidents in Iskcon spy on devotees 3) SRIDHARA MAHARAJA UPDATE (pada) 4) RE: BV NARAYANA MAHARAJA CAMP 5) Thanks Dasaratha dasa (Tucson Arizona) 6) RE: jo jo. Thanks for your question about "PADA's strategy." 7) Hare Krishna. Perhaps some of you have seen a letter or two that I had published regarding the a child protection issue 8) Sudama Brahmin And The Takeover BY RAMACANDRA DAS [PADA: An amazing account of how Satsvarupa Dasa was the master mind of the 1978 appointed guru lie, and then he became the darling of the Gaudiya Matha's Sridhara and Narayana.] 9) Even most abominable person: can be guru? 10) Taking delight in other's misery/ hurricane Katrina


Sep. 24. 2005 / BIF update 2
1) GENERAL AFFIDAVIT 2) Rocana and Bhakti Marg. 3) Dear Sirs, I wonder if you know the Krisna name of Mr. John Robert Simms 4) 'According to a report, Narayana Maharaja's top sannyasi "BV Aranya" has "run off with a Russian lady."' 5) Dear Linda, Thanks, I am sorry you think we are offending Sridhara Maharaja who is "a nice person." 6) Thanks Jo Jo. 7) From yogi: who was expecting an ISKCON settlement check this year?..... 8) DEAR PRABHUS, PAMHO, AGTSP! (NNV) 9) Ghostly gurus


October 2005

Oct. 29. 2005 / Brijabasis support PADA effort
A Whole Lotta Love! 1) MESSAGE FROM THE IRM! 2) Resolving the Swing Thing by Niscala dasi 3) Subject: A wolf in sheeps clothing?/reply 4) Dear Dharamatma dasa, Thanks for your concerns regarding your name being cited on PADA, 5) POISON CASE UPDATE / BIF 6) Mushroom siddhanta/ BIF/

November 2005

November 2005 / Special Report: All about CONDOM-PADA'S
Subject: The meaning of PADA, condom-padas, muff-padas, mafia-padas, anal sex padas etc.

December 2005

Dec. 25. 2005 / CNN/ IRM/ Dec 05
1) Thanks for the question Jo Jo. 2) BERKELEY California. It seems that Grantharaja dasa has quit, 3) BOMBAY: Apparently, some of Radhanatha's goondas got into a fight 4) MAYAPURA INDIA: Government officials are looking into ISKCON leaders buying property 5) MANCHESTER England. Mukunda dasa (Mark Whitley) has joined with the GBC's samkirtana newsletter 6) MIAMI USA: Apparently, the "temple president" mortgaged the property, 7) SAN DIEGO: Badrinarayan das has apologized to a few devotees 8) CNN TV Special 9) IRM -- R.I.P. update * Painting One's Self Into a Corner (courtesy siddhanta.com) 10) Sun Poll Results on "The Lilamrta"