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"SWAMI" TITLE GONE TO KAPINDRA'S HEAD "QUARTERS" ?
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Dear
Prabhu's please accept my humble obeisances.
All Glories
to Srila Prabhupada.
I am writing
this letter to expose some unconstitutional behavior by
Kapindra swami which violates the teachings of Srila Prabhupada.
After
hearing the blasphemous charges made by the windle turley law
firm and their plaintiffs i compiled various artiles in defense
of Srila Prabhupada's honor.
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All of these
articles are completely in line with Srila Prabhupada's
teachings and their content is 90% Prabhupada quotations.
Kapindra
swami actually never took the time to read these articles but
acted on the fanatical rhetoric he had heard from certain
individuals. This in itself is completely whimsical to say the
least. Here is his public letter.
Mukunda das officially rejected by Prabhupada Sankirtan Society Dear
Prabhu's, all glories to Srila Prabhupada. In regards to his rejection, he would first of all need to carefully read what i have compiled then he should try to follow Srila Prabhupada's guidance if he considered there was some fault in my articles: Yes. You have the right attitude towards disturbing comments of fellow devotees.. Lord Caitanya has advised us to always remain more humble than the grasses and more tolerant than the tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to offer respects to all persons. It is not our policy to reject someone on any personal grounds. Rather it is our duty to encourage him on the common platform of devotional service to Krsna. (S.P. Letter to: Satsvarupa Bombay, 25 November, 1970)
We can reject anyone, that is very easy, but to reform him that requires great skill and tact and if you can reform him there by kind words and dealings, that is best. (S.P. Letter to: Madhudvisa, Amogha , Los Angeles, 24 August, 1972)
To create a devotee takes much labor and to reject him in a minute is not to our credit so please try to do the needful in this regard. Consult the other GBC men there, then make a proposal to Hayagriva and if still he is incorrigible then you take the necessary steps (S.P. Letter to: Karandhara, Auckland, 21 February, 1973)
In regards to his statement "Therefore we are no longer affiliated with Mukunda Prabhu or his temple in Oldham England" Here he is actually saying that he is banning our Oldham Temple from the Prabhupada Sankirtana Society. If we look at Srila Prabhupada's 1970 Direction of Management we can note the following: Removal of a Temple president by the GBC requires support by the local Temple members. (Direction of Management 1970)
N.B. Regarding replacing Abhirama and Damodara I refer to the "Direction of Management" as follows: "Removal of a Temple President by GBC requires support by the local Temple members." Therefore you should take a vote of the Temple members and do the needful. A. C. B.S. (S.P. Letter to: Rupanuga, Bombay, 7 November, 1974)
Regarding the agitation to remove Tejas: No, Tejas must not be removed. Stop this. This is a clique. I don't want this. Why has Subala Maharaja gone there. He is an outsider, why are they interfering. Subala left India now why has he returned without permission? This removal of the president is very unconstitutional. The devotees who do not like to work with Tejas should immediately go away from the temple. But he may not. Those who feel against him can go away. Devotees come from the outside and interfere. No, they cannot change the president. Who sent Janmanjoya there? Why is he taking to politics? (S.P. Letter to: Tamala Krsna, Los Angeles, 11 January, 1974) So for the GBC to remove a Temple president from his position without the support by the local Temple members is unconstitutional, so what to speak of whimsically trying to remove a whole temple from an organisation ! Srila Prabhupada guidance on how temples should function in his society are as follows:
As
far as possible the centers should act freely, but conjointly.
They must look forward to the common development. That should
be the principle.
(S.P.
Letter to: Tamala Krsna Tittenhurst 13 October, 1969)
Do
not centralize anything. Each temple must remain
independent and self-sufficient.
That was my plan from the very beginning, why you are thinking
otherwise? Once before you wanted to do something centralizing
with your GBC meeting, and if I did not interfere the whole
thing would have been killed. Do not think in this way of big
corporation, big credits, centralization--these are all
nonsense proposals. Only thing I wanted was that books
printing and distribution should be centralized, therefore I
appointed you and Bali Mardan to do it. Otherwise, management,
everything, should be done locally by local men. Accounts must
be kept, things must be in order and lawfully done, but that
should be each temple's concern, not yours. Krishna
Consciousness Movement is for training men to be independently
thoughtful and competent in all types of departments of
knowledge and action, not for making bureaucracy. Once there
is bureaucracy the whole thing will be spoiled. There must be
always individual striving and work and responsibility,
competitive spirit, not that one shall dominate and
distribute benefits to the others and they do nothing but beg
from you and you provide. No. Never mind there may be
botheration to register each centre, take tax certificate
each, become separate corporations in each state. That will
train men how to do these things, and they shall develop
reliability and responsibility, that is the point. I am little
observing now, especially in your country, that our men are
losing their enthusiasm for spreading on our programmes of
Krishna Consciousness movement.
(S.P.
Letter to: Karandhara Bombay 22 December, 1972)
Regarding
incorporation of our ISKCON centers, we want to run all our
centers as nonprofit religious organizations; that is the main
point. Keeping this point in view too much official control is
not good in spiritual life. The centers should
remain spiritually fit and independent. Some
control must be there as is now. Too much control means so
many vouchers. Gradually it will become a mundane institution.
All our managers should be spiritually advanced simple and
honest in carrying out the orders of the spiritual master and
Krsna. That will be a nice standard. Democracy in spiritual
affairs is not at all good but breeds power politics. We
should be careful about power politics. Our only aim should be
that each and every devotee is full dedicated to Krsna, then
things will go on nicely.
(S.P.
Letter to: Karandhara 19th July, 1973)
So
Kapindra's behaviour is POWER POLITICS and that ONE SHALL
DOMINATE, and if you don't follow me you are rejected. Srila
Prabhupada instructs us to avoid this mentality.
After he
"banned" our center from Prabhupada Sankirtana
Society he started to advertise his New York center in
various web sites and newsletters as follows:
* NEW
YORK "Prabhupada Sankirtana Society,"
Headquarters 48 Ave. B NY, NY
10009 (212) 674-0680, PSS108@juno.com
Did
Srila Prabhupada every sanction his followers calling their
particular temple the Headquaters of ISKCON ??? It does
appear that the tamul disease has poisoned so many souls.
CONCLUSION:
1.
Kapindra swami should first carefully read the articles or
letters of other devotees if he believes his role is
that of some spiritual leader. Simply hearing the fanatical
rhetoric of others is mental speculation and acting on that
is simply nonsensical.
2. After
careful study of that devotees articles etc. if he finds any
philosophical discrepencies he should try to reform that
devotee by kind words and dealings and of course present the
correct conclusion to him from Srila Prabhupada's teachings.
. It is not Srila Prabhupada's policy to reject
someone on any personal grounds.
3.
Kapindra Swami should clearly understand that he has no
authority to ban or reject anyone (what to speak of a whole
temple) from Srila Prabhupada's Sankirtana movement. That
idea is simply rascaldom coming from the false ego
platform that one shall dominate. All devotees have
been throughly disgusted by this type of treatment from the
tamul sinister movement.
4.
Kapindra swami should clearly understand that all temples
are indepentant and that none is the head rather all are the
instrumental humble servants of Srila Prabhupada's desire to
spread the Holy Name in ever town and village.
Your
servant Mukunda dasa.
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