Prabhupada's Last Heroic Attempt at the DOM

Dear Prabhus,

PAMHO, AGTSP!

After meditating on the chronology of SP's repeated attempts to introduce to DOM for our own good fortune and the good fortune of our six billion fellow humans for the duration of the Golden Age of Kali, one would have to be cold as ice not to feel absotutely stricken and heartbroken to read this letter which is obviously a close to last heroic attempt by Srila Prabhupada to get past the GBC's Absolute Unwillingness to accept the DOM.

By explanation, my reading of the the first part of the letter brings me to the thought that SP wanted this letter to be the pivotal lever to bring the DOM to our Iskcon Society either at the time of His writing it, or a later time...(Such as now). He included the first part of the letter (line item #1) quite certain that his "beloved disciples" would implement it immediately. This turned out to be true. I was present when every card, menu, letterhead, sign, book, brochure etc was manically examined and then rectified if it did not comply with the required language of line item #1.

The second paragraph of line item #1 was a matter of urgent need at the time, important enough, it would seem to be added to all of the legal papers of Iskcon everywhere).....(The Oahu Hawa'ai Temple had been sold by Gaurasundhara without consulting Srila Prabhpada on the matter.)

I am certain that Srila Prabhupada inserted line item #1 so that History would Witness that line item #2 had been completely disobeyed.....I do not think that He considered it likely that line item#2 would be obeyed, and He used line item #1 (which He was certain WOULD be obeyed) as a "marker:" to prove that the letter was received by the GBC, circulated and read. No one can now say that the GBC did not get or read this letter, as line item #1 was literally followed to the letter. If He had not done that and sent out a letter ONLY about the DOM, we, here in the year 2006 could easily argue that without dispute, the letter was WRITTEN by SP, but where is the proof that it was READ by all of the GBC members?

Because of line item #1, we have quite adequate proof that the letter was received and that half of it was scrupulously followed, while the second was not followed at all.

We must remember that in the mid to late 1990's, Sridham prabhu,(now deceased) was the GBC for Education, and put the DOM on the GBC agenda for consideration. At that meeting, there was considerable hopeful discussion, and support for the DOM until Taml goswami and Jayapataka goswami angrily denounced the DOM as a paper that Srila Prabhupada had rejected, and that he had clearly changed His mind by the end. All further discussion was squashed, and the "word on the street" from that time onward was that the DOM had no place in the world of current day Iskcon.

After some deeper research, I think that I can represent that their words spoken at that meeting were not and never had been true. Much later, I learned that the GBC headed by my good friend and godbrother Bhadri Narayan, Romapada swami as well as Hridayananda Swami all testified on the risk of perjury that the DOM was indeed the founding document of the GBC and in fact, everyone in Iskcon was well aware of it!

I regret any appearance of "conspiracy theory" that my writing may trigger in the reader....It really sounds bad, and I know it. I know that it also sounds accusatory, and I regret the accusatory tone.

While conducting research in the Veda Base, it became abundantly clear in a way that I never suspected at the time, that there were, in fact, two Iskcons....The Iskcon of the "Bright Faced Devotees" and the Iskcon of (as Srila Prabhupada put it by saying) "There is a sinister movement within our Society".

It is this second, misguided (or perhaps "sinister") iskcon that keeps on appearing and re-appearing in the pages of my research. Based on the facts as they emerge, it would appear that while encouraging and Blessing the "Brighnt Faced Devotees", he simultaneously was fighting a silent, un-noticed , battle with the other Iskcon.

The repeated and chronic pattern of planned and stubborn disobedience by this second Iskcon appears in 2006 in a much more sinister and scarier light than it did in 197O, 1971, 1972 and 1973. That is what began to come to view as facts became assembled from those years.

So, I apologize to one and all. I did not start out be become the bearer of bad news, or tragic, heartbreaking, drama carried out behind the scenes. I started out to bring to all of you, and the World itself, the fabulous GIFT of the Iskcon Srila Prabhupada WANTED (AND STILL WANTS!) FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US! The Iskcon that He created, is centered within the DOM. The Iskcon that we created after "amputating" the DOM from Srila Prabhupada's Iskcon, is all to well known to all of us.....non-elected often criminal leaders triggering lawsuits and scandal paid for by the rank and file devotees who never suspected that they had a right to vote, and to experience voluntary free will as the basis of Spiritual Advancement rather than the morbidity of the ever present leaders who were more inclined to cover up the molestations, embezzlements, murders, frauds and other crimes than to protect the temples that they were supposedly created to preserve.

Fortunately, forty years is a small fraction of the Ten Thousand Year of the Golden Age Of kali.

I we all roll up our sleeves and "get to work" we will be living in the Iskcon that Srila Prabhupada intended for us before we, ourselves, leave these bodies that are aging fast.

Please let's do that!....I vow my unswerving support and aid every step of the way.

Your eternal servant,

Nara Narayan Vishwakarma das