Where will Pragosh das stop now that he has wormed his way into the upper echelon of the Shadow ISKCON, FISKCON? Pragosh has grown from a simple grihasta devotee (entrepreneur/restaurateur) to a GBC member in very short time indeed. The GBC noticed his qualities and ambitious nature and soon promoted him to the GBC attack dog pack.
Pragosh then set about to do his magic in Europe and successfully alienated more of Srila Prabhupada’s followers, as he did his utmost to sell off and take over as many temples and farms as he could manage. By working with Sivarama Swami to gain control of all the European franchise temples and projects, he proved himself worthy of attack dog status within the ranks of the GBC, and the path was clear for him to be given more responsibility.
Pragosh’s latest task was to gain control of Mayapur by fraudulently gaining the position of Director of Mayapur, now that Jayapataka Swami is incapacitated. (Pragosh das knows well how that happened.) Knowing that this task would be impossible by fair means for such an envious and heavy personality as he, he resorted to typical FISKCON tactics.
One thing that looks good in the history books is to have the support of a community when getting appointed to any senior position in the community. Pragosh das, being intelligent enough to understand that he had made few friends amongst the devotional community, decided to compose a fraudulent letter stating that he has the support of the whole community in Mayapur. Pragosh das also knew that the GBC would give him the position even though he pretended to pass around an invisible letter to his superiors in the GBC, but there needed to be some record of this on paper.
Anyway, the community got wind of the fraud and cried foul.
Has the GBC no shame? What do they care about the devotional community, to have such a person in charge of such an important preaching and residential community in ISKCON?
Moves like this only prove that the GBC have no interest in the well being of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON.
Are we again watching FISKCON work its magic while we sit there and do nothing?
Crookedness in Devotional Service ;
” Due to the presence of many offenses, the Lord does not accept service from the crooked, even if they offer him many valuable items. This was seen when Krishna went to the capital of Duryodhan as a messenger on behalf of the Pandavas. Although Duryodhan tried to win Krishna over with a royal reception and great opulence, Krishna rejected Duryodhana’s hospitality because of Duryodhana’s offensive attitude towards Krishna’s devotees. At present, there are many people who make a show of devotion and who, in spite of having studied the scriptures, maintain an offensive mentality which causes them to disrespect the Lord, the spiritual master, and other devotees. The external worship offered by such persons is nothing but crookedness. ”
Therefore, sästra describes that even foolish people who are nonetheless free from crookedness attain perfection even by a semblance of bhakti, whereas the crooked cannot even practice bhakti. This is evidenced in a statement by the great sage Parashar
from the Skanda-Puräna:
na hy apuëyavatäà loke müòhänäà kuöilätmanäm
bhaktir bhavati govinde kértanaà smaraëaà tathä
In this world, impious, foolish and crooked people do not attain devotion to Lord Govinda, and they cannot chant about or remember the Lord. In consideration of this, the Viñëu-dharma states:
satyaà çatena vighnänäà sahasreëa tathä tapaù
vighnäyutena govinde nèëäà bhaktir niväryate
The attempt of such crooked people to become truthful is obstructed by a hundred impediments, whereas their attempts to perform penances is obstructed by a thousand and their attempts to perform loving devotional service to Lord Govinda is obstructed by ten thousand impediments.
Hari BOL.
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.