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Jakob Smahl – Hungary:<\/span><\/strong> After reading the disturbing expose on inappropriate behavior of a popular ISKCON \u201cswami\u201d namely Indradyumna and his girls<\/a>,<\/span> and subsequent request from a large numbers of devotees asking the We have to ask our self\u2019s; how can an individual like \u015aivar\u0101ma \u2018correct\u2019 his deviated godbrother if he himself is guilty of a pretence; that he is a Sanny\u0101s\u012b?<\/p>\n Sure he may internally speak out against his behaviour and recommend that he be sanctioned, but they will be light sanctions nowhere near what he deserves. If Sivarama is in fact a true friend then he would know how many years Indradyumna has been off the rails of his devotional life and would have stopped him. After all Sivarama is the senior of the two and more experienced.<\/p>\n But he does no such thing for Sivarama is just guilty in other ways and he knows it. They both know that they are disgracing their sanny\u0101s\u012b vows of renunciation. They both know they are disgracing \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da and Vaisnavaism yet for some ungodly reason they push on with their disgraceful behaviour.<\/p>\n This is pointed out in my article below (REVISED AUGUST 2011)<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami\u2019s Kingdom \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami\u2019s privately owned corporation has its own charter that has nothing to do with ISKCON. In fact, all of his pet projects (New Brajadham Farm) and others in Hungary are independent projects which have been incorporated in their own right, and have nothing legally to do with ISKCON.<\/p>\n This begs the question \u2013 who are the devotees who serve in these projects, anyway? Are they members of ISKCON, or are they \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami\u2019s private volunteers? If a person is recruited, trained up and serves in independent projects can they be deemed members of ISKCON, or are they members of these independent projects?<\/p>\n If ISKCON applied their new laws and profiles of what is an ISKCON devotee to them, how would they fare? Of course this they would never do.<\/p>\n What is more, if you come to Krishna consciousness via these private projects and the \u2018preaching\u2019 of corporatized gurus such as \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami and Radhanath Swami, are you really a member of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s ISKCON? All that they have to do is \u2018say\u2019 that their volunteers are ISKCON devotees to the GBC and they are accepted as such, even though legally and technically speaking they are not?<\/p>\n Why do these people fear incorporating their projects under the banner of the ISKCON they have recreated and now own? What drives them to establish these separatist, individually owned private projects if they themselves own and control ISKCON itself?<\/p>\n It makes me wonder about other private entities as outlined in the Samprad\u0101ya Sun\u2019s \u2018Corporate ISKCON\u2019 series. I would love to see the bank accounts that are linked to these entities to know where all the money is, and then we will know who is controlling the money.<\/p>\n ISKCON GBC and Guru, \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami stated that his private project in Hungary is the \u2018real Vrindavana\u2018. That apparently Vrindavana (India) that we know and which has been pointed out by our Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava \u0100c\u0101ryas is Furthermore, by the use of a mirror, a map and a GPS system he can \u2018see\u2019 or \u2018divine\u2019 the precise spots where the Holy places that were once in \u015ar\u012b Vrindavana Dham are now situated in \u2018his\u2018 private Vrindavan \u2013 New Brajadham. Places like R\u0101dh\u0101 Kund, Govardhana Hill, Nandagram and Var\u1e63\u0101\u1e47\u0101, etc\u2026<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami even wrote a book about this. This allegedly divinely inspired claptrap can be purchased for a staggering $350 USD.<\/p>\n Perhaps those unfortunate souls who presently reside in the Holy Dham of Vrindavana (India) should now relocate, as did the Holy sites, to Hungary and \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami\u2019s private fabulous spiritual fairyland?<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami has also written many books on the intimate pastimes of the Divine Couple. As with so many other people who write on these very high subject matters, they make additions to the past \u0100c\u0101ryas\u2019 work in an attempt to make readers believe that they have direct access to these pastimes. \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami goes to the length of claiming that he uses \u2018artistic license\u2019 to help embellish these works.<\/p>\n One would have to wonder why he would believe that artistic license is appropriate when writing about these intimate pastimes, when it is only his own speculative concoctions. If someone is actually realized in Krishna Consciousness, then surely they would have direct access to these pastimes and not have to resort to artistic license? Why write at all when the works of the \u0100c\u0101ryas are already published, except for fame and glory?<\/p>\n Perhaps he should write books on his own realizations, and be truthful and honest.<\/p>\n One really has to wonder at what drives this man and makes him believe that his speculative ideas and concoctions are required and are on par with the Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava \u0100c\u0101ryas?<\/p>\n What is more, one must really wonder at the intellectual capacity of his disciples and others who have been taken in by the speculations of this individual.<\/p>\n We also have to address his double standards when it comes to taking \u015bik\u1e63\u0101 outside of ISKCON. \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami has a penchant for taking \u015bik\u1e63\u0101 outside of ISKCON himself, yet he wrote a book wherein he states http:\/\/www.harekrsna.org\/gbc\/themes\/gopimania.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t do as I do \u2013 Do as I say!! \u2013 appears to be his modus operandi, as it is with many other Corporate ISKCON duplicitous leaders and gurus.<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami is also not shy about his luxurious lifestyle. He quite possibly is the topmost member of the \u2018lifestyles of the rich and famous\u2019 ISKCON sanny\u0101s\u012b\/guru club. He is well renowned for his regular secret getaway retreats and holidays in top-shelf luxurious hotels and resorts, whose three and four figures per night price rate (US) is no bar to his budget.<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami has a very opulent expense account that receives funding from many sources. One is the farming community that he boasts of is self-sufficient, in proclamation only, for it is maintained by five donation collection teams based throughout Europe who have huge mandatory quotas. These teams are sanctioned by Pragosh, the GBC of these regions.<\/p>\n If we observe the (industrialist) opulent lifestyle that \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami is living, we can understand that he has no idea what self-sufficiency is. So any claims of the success of this project are false, if it requires volunteers to hit the streets to raise money for it by begging. This is truly a false economy and any claim to self-sufficiency is an outright lie.<\/p>\n He has a group of his volunteers go to various prestigious universities in Europe to promote his so-called self-sufficient farming community, with remarkable success. These volunteers claim that their project is the only self-sufficient farming community in Europe. The problem with this is that they are not self-sufficient at all. Self-sufficiency means precisely that \u2014 self-sufficiency. You cannot make a claim of self-sufficiency when you need funding in order to maintain the project and you need to buy outside agriculture.<\/p>\n Self-sufficiency refers to the state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or interaction for survival; it is Therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. The term \u2018self-sufficiency\u2019 is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals.<\/p>\n These claims of self-sufficiency are nothing but propaganda and lies. Either you are self-sufficient or you are not. They are not.<\/p>\n It is unknown just how many secret homes \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami owns. We know that he has a private home in the now redundant (by his self-proclamation) V\u1e5bnd\u0101van, India. Much of this affluent sanny\u0101s\u012b guru\u2019s life is private and secretive. I am sure that this is not the life of a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava sanny\u0101s\u012b or an ISKCON guru following the instruction that \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da has given us for the sanny\u0101sa \u0101\u015brama.<\/p>\n He appears to come in the line of the affluent ISKCON guru\/sanny\u0101s\u012bs like R\u0101dh\u0101natha Swami, who is infamous for his fat wad of hundred dollar bills that he always carries with him wherever he goes.<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami\u2019s proposal for defining who is and who is not a member of ISKCON needs to be seen for what it is. It is either the empty words of an aging man who has lost his way and knows no better, or it can be taken seriously as an attempt to systematically profile who is a volunteer of ISKCON and who is not, according to his desired standards and not the standards of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da.<\/p>\n In this way the institution can legally define who they want as a devotee of the Corporate ISKCON, and it is looking like anyone who is not an adherent of the neo-corporatized gurus or an apologist of the new ISKCON will be pushed out.<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami knows which side of his bread is buttered. He has the bucks, position, lifestyle and image of a Hollywood guru and his followers have to unquestionably do what they are told, or leave. It is either his way or the highway.<\/p>\n This is the same with R\u0101dh\u0101natha Swami\u2019s independently incorporated Chowpatty temple, as well. Either you meekly follow his rules and regulations (regardless how contrary to \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s they may be), or leave. They do not follow \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da, but it is mandatory for their volunteers to incontestably follow their immediate authority.<\/p>\n No one can question or challenge these affluent ISKCON gurus without being severely reprimanded or kicked out of their private projects.<\/p>\n It is abundantly clear to us what \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami is setting up, with his new protocols of who is and is not an ISKCON devotee. Yet he leads a very affluent and luxurious lifestyle. He is also part of the latest sanny\u0101s\u012b trend of keeping female servants and female secretaries, like many of his sanny\u0101s\u012b peers.<\/p>\n Jealous? Envious? Me!? Well in some ways I am. Sure, I would love the fame, the fawning followers, the money they shower upon me, the flowered garlands they layer me with, the sumptuous food they feed me, the dedication, the gifts they adorn me with and the many houses and apartments\/cars and computers and all the modern cons that they have in possession (perhaps even a \u2018gravity free chair\u2019). Sure, I would love being an affluent ISKCON guru sanny\u0101s\u012b. Sure I would love it\u2026 but I prefer remaining a simple follower of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da much more.<\/p>\n Then again, maybe ISKCON spokesman Basu Ghosh prabhu, who is one of the institution\u2019s pandits, can answer\\comment if the present gurus\/sanny\u0101s\u012bs (\u015aivar\u0101ma Swami and others alike) with their affluent high-flying luxurious lifestyles and their speculative activities meet the \u015b\u0101stric requirements of a Vedic\/Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava Sanny\u0101s\u012b in our line? (I don\u2019t know Basu Ghosh personally, but I was told that he is a Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava scholar-pandit and would appreciate his comments.)<\/p>\n If living this lifestyle is simple living and high thinking, then where do I sign up?<\/p>\n The idea that Bhakti C\u0101ru Swami has, that so long as a guru is rubber-stamped by this corporation then they are godly nitya-siddhas, is nothing but an apologist\u2019s highly speculative viewpoint, and is based on the fact that he himself is a multi-millionaire businessman\/sanny\u0101s\u012b.<\/p>\n It must be said that Bhakti C\u0101ru Swami personally owns businesses with an estimated value well in excess of $40 million dollars. How is it possible that an ISKCON Vai\u1e63\u1e47ava sanny\u0101s\u012b can own private (undisclosed) businesses and still be considered a sanny\u0101s\u012b?<\/p>\n But I think he has it around the wrong way. The reversal of God in Godly is dog. So perhaps they are Dogly and not Godly, as their activities are the polar opposite of Godly.<\/p>\n You can fool some people sometimes, but not all of the people at all times. If the GBC and these corporate gurus, with their ISKCON franchised businesses in the name of religiosity, commence profiling devotees in the manner in which they are presently attempting, devotees who are not volunteers in these businesses will rebel.<\/p>\n No true followers of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da will bend their knees to these Fascists with their protocols and persecution programs. If they push on, then we will see an even greater rift between the true followers of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da and these usurpers than is already in existence.<\/p>\n This may eventually prove to be their undoing. For the intelligent person coming to Krishna consciousness will clearly see the difference between the two and choose for themselves. Now they have no choice. You have a choice either to support the hypocritical sham that is now institutional Corporate ISKCON, or perish.<\/p>\n Even a blind man can see that every single thing they do only serves their purpose to completely and utterly undermine and\/or destroy \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s mission and convert it into one of their own making. It is a far cry from the once warm, beautiful, spiritual family that \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da established, to the cold impersonal and ruthless corporate entity that it is now.<\/p>\n You can tell that ISKCON is well on the way to becoming an impersonal corporate entity when they allow people like Greg Stein (aka Gopal Bha\u1e6d\u1e6da) to pay $500,000 USD towards the corporatization\/privatization process.<\/p>\n They know full well that he is a ruthless businessman whose spiritual standard is way below that which would be considered acceptable for an ISKCON member in \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami\u2019s new protocols. They know full well that he dreams of being appointed or anointed as the CEO of this Corporate ISKCON.<\/p>\n \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami himself can hardly be termed a s\u0101dhu by any stretch of the imagination. He too appears to be a shrewd, old money, businessman whose goal is to gain and enjoy as much wealth and power as he can.<\/p>\n When you listen to these people, see how many times they refer to their \u2018devotional\u2019 activities as a devotional career (the general progression of your working or professional life). To them this is a career, not sev\u0101. So who are these people, anyway? How do they demonstrate to us that they are actually devotees and not career orientated businessmen?<\/p>\n It is about time that devotees woke up to their tactics and their betrayal of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da. The present Corporate ISKCON that is claiming to represent \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da no longer even pretends to do so. They boldly change everything they can in a very systematic and thorough manner, and rarely if ever explain themselves. This demonstrates intention, their intention. So far as we can see, their intention is to usurp \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s ISKCON and dismantle his mission, replacing it with their own concoction.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t believe me about \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami, then find it out for yourself. If you don\u2019t know what people like him are doing to change, warp and twist \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s movement and our very philosophy, then do the research yourself!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jakob Smahl – Hungary: After reading the disturbing expose on inappropriate behavior of a popular ISKCON \u201cswami\u201d namely Indradyumna and his girls, and subsequent request from a large numbers of devotees asking the Sanny\u0101sa Ministry to correct this sahajiy\u0101 behavior, I looked who are the Members of the GBC Standing Sanny\u0101sa Committee that ought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
\nSanny\u0101sa Ministry to correct this sahajiy\u0101 behavior, I looked who are the Members of the GBC Standing Sanny\u0101sa Committee that ought to correct the misguided Indradyumna . Not surprisingly, one of the Indradyumna`s dear and intimate friends \u015aivar\u0101ma, is one such member.<\/p>\n
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\nSome time back there was a publication on ISKCON forums written by \u015aivar\u0101ma Swami, giving his divine idea of who may be considered a member of ISKCON, and therefore who is not. I found the Swami\u2019s proposal amusing. This is especially so since the \u2018Kingdom\u2019 that he is so pompously proud of in Hungary is not legally registered in the name of ISKCON, and is a privately incorporated project. ISKCON gurus and GBC\u2019s are beginning more frequently to privately incorporate their projects, however, they continue to use \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s ISKCON\u2019s
\nname, fame and systems in order to staff, fund and promote their activities.<\/p>\n
\nno more. It simply moved to Hungary.<\/p>\n
\nthat it is forbidden for rank and file devotees to go outside of ISKCON. In the past he was a senior member of the infamous Gop\u012b Bhava Club, who were taking \u015bik\u1e63\u0101 from N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47a Mah\u0101r\u0101ja, and at present he is known for taking \u015bik\u1e63\u0101 from a baba in Jagann\u0101tha Pur\u012b.<\/p>\n