A letter to HG Bhima das Adhikary by Shankabrith dasa, Apr 24 2009, INDIA: H.G.Bhima das Adhikary Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances at your feet, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.
It was nice talking to you in the last few days, in continuation of the conversations regarding the peace process between ISKCON-Mumbai and ISKCON-Bangalore, as we had discussed let us first forget and forgive each other and begin a new chapter, this is my desire, because I am convinced that will please Srila Prabhupada more than any thing else, let us all work together and show our love towards him, that was his order to all of us. In order to do that, we all should be prepared to sacrifice our personal likes and dislikes on so many issues, individuals and groups. I am not having any mandate from any one of you to undertake this task, yet I have undertaken it, why? Because in 1978, I was instrumental in founding the ISKCON-Karnataka to serve our beloved spiritual master and expand his mission further in south India.
What is that history? The world should know now, for too long the truth was kept under cold storage and mislead by the zonal acharya in charge of south India who propagated me as demon, and unfortunately that story has been going on till date, what can I do? But now everything is getting exposed and the real truth will soon be known to the world. What is that real truth? It is a fact that Srila Prabhupada was pleased with me and blessed me with the seva to preach his mission in south India, but soon after his departure the zonal acaryas tried to impose their authority on me, I resented them, the first one was Sriman Hansadutta Prabhu ( earlier swami). I some how survived him, all this things are there in letters even to this day with me. He was so disturbed that he resigned because I caught one of the communication of his follower who was writing to him for some gun and bullets to kill Sriman Mahamsa, H.H. Tamal Krishna Maharaj knew this and appreciated me how I handled this case.
The next year in 1978-79 Mayapur meeting H.H. Jayapataka Swami became my GBC, in the very first visit he told me that Bhavananda told him that you have to be careful with Shankabrith das, he is too intelligent, when Jayapataka Swami told me I told him and showed him a letter from Srila Prabhupada to me wherein His Divine Grace is stating that “I was waiting for young and intelligent Indian boys like you to come forward and take leadership of Krsna consciousness movement in India”. Sriman Abhirama typed that letter to me, he knows this personally. So I told Jayapataka Swami, why are you worried about my intelligence, when Srila Prabhupada is pleased. He did not like this, from there on he tried to remove me from my service which was personally given to me by our Gurudeva, I resented him but of no vain because he had the political clout that I was lacking within ISKCON, so I left to Hyderabad in 1979.
I was the regional secretary of AP for a year, and then went on to Tirupati to start preaching on my own, because I knew that was Srila Prabhupada’s manobhistam, I was personally present in the room when Srila Prabhupada discussed with the endowment minister Sri Sagi Suryanarayana Raju in 1976. From then on I was trying to fulfill the desire of Srila Prabhupada for working together with TTD, later in 1980-81 I went on my own to Tirupati, and then I wanted H.H. Tamal Krishna goswami as my GBC, (because we always had a very good relationship) but he advised me to take Swarupdamodar Maharaj who needed some help for his BI. The BI in Mumbai was under attack by H.H. Sridhar Swami and others, so I invited H.H.BSD Swami and opened my area (Tirupati) he was not a GBC for South India at all, it was because of me and the help of TKG that he was made as full GBC for Tirupati and co-GBC for AP. This is the real history, the rest is known to all of you.
Finally why I left ISKCON is another long story, which I do not want to get into it now, therefore coming back to ISKCON-Karnataka story, I am not blindly supporting Sriman Madhupandit Prabhu, on the contrary first I gave my support to you all, but from day one you all utterly neglected me, continuously harassed me in Tirupati, and continue to harass me even to this day. Yet why am I talking of peace, because I am always Srila Prabhupada’s man and not an enemy of his ISKCON. Over the last few months I have understood Madhu Pandit dasa and his plight, I understood Sriman Dayaram’s criminal strategy to put Madhu Pandit dasa in prison, why this vengeance? Do you think Srila Prabhupada would like or approve it? Madhu Pandit dasa might have committed some wrong, but is there no way to discuss it or at least fight it in a decent way in the court? Why manipulate evidence for criminal cases? Why spend crores of Krsna Money on bribes? Both sides are not doing the right thing? Therefore, I decided to withdraw my support to you all, and after detailed discussions with Madhu Pandit dasa regarding the peace process that may happen some day, I decided to support him on those issue only.
Now honestly speaking we both have established a very good Krsna conscious relationship and discuss as to how we can follow Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON unitedly, this is the foremost thought at this end, and if you all trust and cooperate there is every chance to end this unnecessary fight. How to do it? Or how to implement so many other things should be discussed within our family, not in the court halls. Through the court halls ISKCON-Mumbai will lose it very disgracefully all the way up to the supreme court, that much I can tell you with full confidence, because we also have some very expert legal brains and I know the real case, we have with us enough documents to defeat you all in the court. This is as sure as death. I am not making any threats, but speaking the plain truth, even a thousand Dyarams can not help you all.
We are not puffed up with this, still we are looking forward for you all to open the room for talks, hold cease fire, work out a time frame for final settlement and continue to preach unitedly under one ISKCON banner as desired by Srila Prabhupada. What more you expect us to do?
As far as possible I have put forward the real truth, without any prejudice, I was the first and worst victim of the zonal acarya in south India, yet I am talking of peace in the best interest of one and all, one last thing I would like to mention, that all this combinations of my coming to Madhu Pandit dasa and the court orders are not my plans, or Madhu Pandit’s plans or expertise, there is a higher energy working above all of us, and Sri Krsna is completely directing every move only to teach all of us to learn lessons, it is Krsna’s desire to revive Srila Prabhupada’s glorious days so that for the next ten thousand years his vani has to guide the world for which we all can be instrumental now, otherwise the future generations will be blindly fighting and that is not the desire of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Thanking you,
Your Servant,
Sbdasa anu dasa
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