Mayapura Bengali Revolt against Foreigners (?)
From Pratyatosa: Dear Prabhus, the Annual Mayapur GBC meetings were supposed to have started 3 days ago. However, I’ve heard on Facebook that Sadbhuja and Bhavananda were physically attacked, that Praghosa, the GBC chairman, was forced to leave Mayapur under threat of physical attack, and that this is all part of a plan by the Bengali workers to kick all Westerners out of ISKCON Mayapur! Ys, Ptd
Re: 2016 ISKCON GBC Mayapur Meetings –
From: Malati Devi Dasi (GBC) Hare Krishna. Point of information: The meetings are not three days late to begin. The slated start date for the meetings since long time back has been Feb. 22nd.
There was disruption last night. Some persons did evacuate due to threats. Praghosa has long been under threat due to revealing criminal activities within ISKCON Mayapur and exposing those involved. Ring leaders are largely former employees/devotees who were released from employment due to these reasons.
Opportunistic persons/devotees are taking advantage of this unrest to make grabs for power. There are threats of violence/even death. It’s not a healthy situation so prayers are requested that a harmonic convergence descends upon all devotees and a peaceful resolution is invoked.
Update on Mayapura Imbroglio 2/19/16
From: Mahasrnga dasa
Hare Krsna Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisance’s. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The following is the most accurate information about Mayapur that I’ve encountered on the net. The sender wishes to remain anonymous but this is quite factual since I know most of the ‘players’ involved.
Bhavananda and Pragosh were trying to kick out all the Bengali managers and so there was a fight. Bhavananda kicked out Radha Jivan as he opposed him and the GBC’s ideas, as do many India Leaders.
It seems that Bhavananda, Hansarupa and Pragosh left Mayapur but Braja Sevaki DD was going to Radha Jivan in her angry mood and ladies were positioned at the door to stop her but she never reached and it seems some Bengali devotee men roughed her up a bit.
Bengali Shyamasundar told me the Bengali devotees from outside, from management and brahmacaris are against the new management, not all westerners. New management are getting salaries of 60,000 to 75,000 rupees per month will all expenses including overseas trips paid and they are on tourist visas. No investigation from Hansarupa, who by the way told the IIAC body that he and Pragosh Prabhu decide who to investigate and who not to.
No doubt there are problems with devotees conflict of interest, and profiteering for themselves. But it is a long history and in the old days they were encouraged by Harikesh and others to do just that. The Ethical Standards Compliance Office under Pragosh and Hansarupa are using their position and power to get out devotees they see as an obstruction to their plans.
In fact when we were doing the investigation into conflict of interest against Naru Gopal Hansarupa told us that he was just a small fry and their real target was B P Swami, Dayaram and JPS. So another side to the story: In our estimation Naru Gopal and these others like Aloy Govinda, Nitai Naresh are not criminals but they are devotees and there is a conflict to interest which needs to be dealt with as devotees but this high handed mentality that ESCO has is causing huge pressure between foreigners and Indians.
Their idea is just kick them out of ISKCON.
ESCO said that Aloy Govinda is illegal alien from Bangladesh, is a thief and so many claims but Aloy Govinda is no fool so he fought back. In the end Pragosh and Hansarupa had to apologize as it was all found untrue. Aloy has made a lot of money building apartments and no doubt got land cheap from the land department but he did a lot of service.
When Bhavananda and Ambarish went to the Tourism Minister with their proposal for development, the Chief Minister got upset that they did not approach directly and sent government men to Mayapur to find out if we are breaking the land ceiling. In that there were many cases vested against ISKCON and it was only Aloy Govinda who went to the court everyday on our behalf and got all those vesting’s cancelled and saved our land, even while ESCO were calling him a criminal.
So as Badrinarayan Swami says maybe Lord Caitanya is cleaning up Mayapur for the 50th anniversary and maybe some of those who need to be cleaned up are from both sides, we shall watch and see. What Radhanath Swami says is; Mayapur should be managed by a joint team of GBC and India Leaders and let’s hope they discuss something like this.
More as it develops but rest assured this is Srila Prabhupda’s Iskcon and he along with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu will do the needful to make it last for the next 10,000 years. Your servant in service to Srila Prabhupada.
Mahasrnga dasa
Lord Nityananda’s Appearance day
February 20, 2016
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