To the members of the GBC and devotees of ISKCON,
Dear Maharajas and prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!
It is with deep regret that I wish to inform you that I have resigned from all positions of leadership within ISKCON, including GBC member, sannyas, and initiating guru. This is because in recent times I have not been able to maintain the required spiritual standards for those who hold such positions.
I have become physically and mentally exhausted due to constant travel and managerial pressures. It has been especially draining for me to try to solve disputes amongst devotees, as I am by nature a non-conflictive type of person.
I have travelled almost constantly throughout my life since childhood and now I feel the need to settle in one place where I find the climate and culture to be agreeable my physical and mental nature. I am considering staying in Thailand as I find it to be such a place, and as I have also developed some affection for a person there who is decent, kind-hearted, diligent and humble. If that works out for me then I certainly hope to render some service to ISKCON there. If not, then I would hope to try and live in an ISKCON temple or community, perhaps in South India.
I am very sorry to have let you all down. I have never asked to be put in any of these positions of leadership, but by Krsna’s arrangement they have been conferred upon me. I have tried my best, but somehow I no longer feel able to continue in such capacity. Nevertheless, I have always been very happy in ISKCON from the moment I joined till the present. It has been a great honour for me to have had the opportunity to render some service to Srila Prabhupad’s movement, and to have had all of your association. I hope to be able to continue to maintain contact with devotees, visit ISKCON temples from time to time and render service to ISKCON in the future.
Once again my deepest apologies to you all. Kindly forgive any mistakes that I have made or any offences that I may have committed to any of you.
I hope this finds you in good health and Krsna conscious mood,
Your unqualified servant,
Prabhavisnu das.
Wow… He has a lot of disciples in ex USSR countries. What will they do? Will see. PrabhaVishnu prabhu hasn’t been giving initiations since beginning of 2000`s. I saw him personally. He`s very humble devotee.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada and all prabhupadanugas !
how can you call a person posing as a pure devotee guru “humble” seems he fooled you too.
Thankyou so much for sharing. But sometimes I also feel, we should follow the scriptures and the writings of the bonafied teachers but we should also think. We must not follow everything blindly. Like in the case of Prabhu Prabhavisnu Das he is genuinely feeling the need to break free. How can anyone connect with Krishna in so much pressure. No one will benefit in such a pressure. ISKCON and all the other similar organizations are made for spiritual guidance but we should never force people to stay. Like in some other religions people are forced to pray. Its wrong!!! God comes in free heart. Yes, its a demotivation for devotees who are not sure still of their own belief. But the devotees who knows about Krishna, and who also understand Krishna is within us, leaving an organization is not leaving Krishna, this will not affect them. Everyone should be free to choose what is good for their well being. This is spiritual happiness!!
I am very happy to know about an honest devotee of Almighty!!!
Your compassion is misplaced. He is a cheater of the worst kind. He has accepted donations and worship while creating an exit strategy. He admits to creating his relationship over a period of time while being silent to his “dear disciples” that he cares so much about. He wasn’t caring about them too much while in bed with the prostitute, only while they were handing over him his retirement cash. Oh, why are people allowing themselves to be cheated in this way? All these GBC’s are guilty of allowing him to collect donations and be worshipped while living such a low standard, even by karmi standards.
Jiv Jago
Dear Mukunda prabhu,
While living in ISKCON temples I noticed that even the WCs the devotees attend do not smell heartsick bad. As once said George Harrison, if tme comes when I have to make my choice, I certainly will be with devotees. I hope it is very easy to follow my thread of the development of ideas.
And it is not so hard to understand Prabhavishnu. Life shows that actually there two gods, namely the Lord Supreme,and the individuals personal perception of life and amazingly the individum is highly keen to lend an ear to the smallest of them. In true spiritual realm no body can take back from you whatever he has given you already. So if Prabhavishnu has succeeded to give anything to somebody, then he can keep that gift with him and len Prabhavishnu alone. Even just a smallest particle of hate can disqualify you from perceiving the beauty of being.
I truely hope that you pick up my words in the context of opinion exchange.
This is stupid and riddiculus. Sages like Visvamitra fell down in Satva-yuga, he was just an ISKCON guru in kaliyuga. Dont forget his services for Prabhupada. stupids like u finds it very easy in writing in such manners, sitting in a well-decorated AC room with a laptop. have u ever been in Bangladesh? he preached in those villages where there is no electricity even. only a pure devotee is protected there by Krishna, otherwise, crazy muslims there would have slain his head and play football with that.
Recognise his services, you might avoid vaisnava-aparadh.
PAMHO.
Sujoy gour, BD
as simple as that? how bout the disciples? why do they push someone 2 be a guru when a person doesnt want to? ridiculuous