JANMASTAMI DAS: Apr 07, WEST VIRGINIA, USA (SUN) — “Drill, baby, drill” is the recently coined right wing, capitalist catch phrase authorizing, at least in their small minds, the right to rape and pollute the planet in their reckless pursuit of their sense gratification. The recent mine collapse in West Virginia, and the deaths of so many expendable sudra laborers, shows us the factual basis for Srila Prabhupada’s critical analysis of the industry and the demons who would try to profit from the exploitation of The Lord’s nature and it’s opulences. This demoniac mentality has crept into the ISKCON hierarchy to the point where they willfully and for their own financial gain do a 180 degree reversal of Srila Prabhupada’s specific instructions on the exact subject.
“The New Vrndaban idea is that persons who live there will accept the bare necessities of life to maintain the body and soul together and the major part of the time should be engaged in development of KRSNA consciousness. The whole Vedic principle is to develop KRSNA consciousness, without creating much botheration for the program of sense gratification. Industrial development or mining industry in the neighboring places will mar the whole idea. Now you have to consider, yourself, looking forward to the future of the land, and then decide what to do. I do not like to have New Vrndaban with industrial or mining areas.”
(Letter to Hayagriva, 17 July, 1968)
“Even if the government does not acquire our land, if in our vicinity some such industry (coal or oil industry) is started, the whole idea of Vrindaban will fade away.”
(Letter to Hayagriva)
This should be enough to convince any sincere examiner of the ultimate folly of such a course, and thusly, a show of the stupidity of all those that refused to oppose this crime before it happened. Safer the miners in the ground than those who choose to exploit the resources of The Lord, in The Holy Dhama, no less…SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!!
Massey Energy and the demon who controls it, a chap by the name of Don Blankenship, had been cited for 127 safety violations at the mine in the last month alone, but last years re- negotiated fines paid to settle those death-causing violations came to only $168,000 US. That is less money than that company makes in one hour of operation. Not much incentive there to stop taking risks with the lives and health of the workers or the planet.
Still, ISKCON’s GBC, in lauding New Vrindaban Community’s sale of thousands of acres of the land’s mineral rights, is “guilty by association”, if not outright theft and fraud, by using these assets of Srila Prabhupada’s mission, specifically the natural resources in the ground at camp New Vrndaban, for the various proposals being bandied about as “uses for these much needed funds”. Radhanath’s billionaire disciples, many earning in excess of $25,000 per day, could quite easily maintain the compound, as they do the Chowpatty station, were Radhanath not fearful of reviving the ghosts of errors past. “What a tangled web we weave, when first we set out to deceive”….
“The Lord states that as soon as one reaches Him by devotional service — which is the one and only way to approach the Personality of Godhead — one attains complete freedom from the bondage of birth and death. In other words, the path of salvation from the material clutches fully depends on the principles of knowledge and detachment gained from serving the Lord. The pseudo religionists have neither knowledge nor detachment from material affairs, for most of them want to live in the golden shackles of material bondage under the shadow of philanthropic activities disguised as religious principles. By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities. In this way they pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. Such violators of religious principles have no respect for the authoritative acaryas, the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession. They ignore the Vedic injunction acaryopasana — “One must worship the acarya” — and Krsna’s statement in the Bhagavad-gita (4.2) evam parampara-praptam, “This supreme science of God is received through the disciplic succession.” Instead, to mislead the people in general they themselves become so-called acaryas, but they do not even follow the principles of the acaryas.
These rogues are the most dangerous elements in human society. Because there is no religious government, they escape punishment by the law of the state. They cannot, however, escape the law of the Supreme, who has clearly declared in the Bhagavad-gita that envious demons in the garb of religious propagandists shall be thrown into the darkest regions of hell (Bg. 16.19-20). Sri Isopanisad confirms that these pseudo religionists are heading toward the most obnoxious place in the universe after the completion of their spiritual master business, which they conduct simply for sense gratification.”
(Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 12)
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