Hansadutta Dasa, born as Hans Kary; May 27, 1941, Braunschweig,
Germany – Left this world on April 25, 2020, in California
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Hansadutta Photos from the 70s — Hansadutta Songs from the 70s
“Hansadutta Prabhu was singing for Srila Prabhupada when he left his body. Now Srila Prabhupada is singing for Hansadutta (in form of audio tape-recordings) while he is leaving his body. His three children are with him and doing kirtan along with Srila Prabhupada audio tapes.”
Now he has passed and leaves behind his sister Heidi Marie, his former wife Lakshmi Kary-Rana and their three children. Hansadutta was one of the earliest and leading disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada), Founder-Acharya of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). »More here«
Announcing the passing of Hansadutta das
With great sorrow we report that Hansadutta das has left his mortal shell, as of today, 25 April 2020, California. In recent months he had been suffering from acute pancreatitis, but in late March it was discovered that he had advanced cancer of the pancreas. Hansadutta, who would have been 80 in May, spent his final days chanting and sometimes singing the holy names alternating with listening to Srila Prabhupada’s lectures.
Das Dasanudas devi dasi (Diane Marie Chan): I am sad to tell you that Hansadutta has passed. He left his body earlier today — well it was about 6:30 pm in California, on 25 April 2020. He had not been well for some time, and in late March was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He knew almost a year ago that he had one year left … I don’t know how he knew. When he mentioned it I dismissed it. Anyway, his family brought him back to their place and looked after him, stayed by his side day and night till the end. In his last days he alternated between wakefulness and semi-sleeping condition, but was always conscious, and even when it seemed that he was sleeping, he was murmuring the holy name or trying to sing. His family played recordings of Srila Prabhupada’s lectures or bhajans right through. Hansadutta couldn’t eat at all, but he wasn’t in pain, so he refused all pain medication. Gradually … rather quickly, he became extremely weak, and his voice became a barely audible whisper. Now he is silent.
Srila Prabhupada bids farewell to the devotees with
Hansadutta das at the Frankfurt airport before departure, 1974
In Memory of Hansadutta das (1941-2020)
Hansadutta das (Hans Kary) has passed and leaves behind his sister Heidi Marie, his former wife Lakshmi Kary-Rana and their three children. Hansadutta was one of the earliest and leading disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami (Srila Prabhupada), Founder-Acharya of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). »More here«
Hansadutta Das | May 1941 – April 2020
https://vimeo.com/411962686
Hansadutta was famous for his Kirtans and Bhajans and also for his “Hansadutta-World-Travelling-Sankirtan-Party” which was much appreciated by Srila Prabhupada. Hansadutta will always be remembered by all those who love him.
“Hansadutta-World-Travelling-Sankirtan-Party”
Srila Prabhupada wrote a series of letters to Hansadutta in the late 60’s detailing his vision for the
“World Sankirtan Party”, a kirtan group consisting of two harmoniums, two mrdangas and six cartals,
that would travel the world performing kirtan concerts in halls.
INSIDE NAMAHATTA
In Memory of Hansadutta das (1941-2020)
THE BHAKTIVEDANTAS
In memory of Hansadutta das (1941-2020)
Atmavidya Prabhu’s obituary
https://www.facebook.com/atmavidya.das
Hansadutta’s apology letter to devotees
http://www.iskcon-truth.com/Hansadutta-apology.html
http://harekrishnamalaysia.com/
Gauridasa Pandita: We will miss HH Hansadutta Prabhu who left his body today. Today is Akshay Tritiya a most auspicious day to pass. He was the one that I associated with most at the Berkeley Temple. He came regularly and always talked about Srila Prabhupada. His singing was celestial and Srila Prabhupada liked it a lot. He was a great preacher and always gave interesting classes. Hansadutta Prabhu is now with Srila Prabhupada and is finally free from this miserable world.
Hansadutta and German Devotees on Harinam Sankirtan in Sweden
Memories of Srila Prabhupada by Hansadutta
Dear Readers,
Does some body has the reply to the following letter of Vishnujana from Late Shri Hansadutta dasa ?
Does some body know why Hansadutta dasa was silent about the poisoning issue of Srila Prabhupada ?
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Vishnujana says:
May 17, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Hansadutta please accept my humble obeisances as a older Godbrother. I would like to talk to you about the ritvik system and where do you stand with post 1977 ISKCON. I would also like to know if you yourself know about the poisoning of our Spiritual Master A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada by your Godbrothers (perhaps you were aware but did not do anything) as well as your Godbrothers and the heinous acts they have done such as kirtananda and bhakti thirtha and many others. Please write back to me as soon as possible. If you truly following Srila Prabhupada you would allow for us to start a conversation to help this poor lost soul find some happiness. You are one of the last Ritvik Representative of Srila Prabhupada who was chosen by HIM. do not let this go to waste. Rise up Hansadutta and fight for Srila Prabhupada if you are sincere. Do not become clouded by illusion like arjuna at the battle of kurusetra with his family members. Just because they are your Godbrothers does not make it right to let them destroy Prabhupada ISKCON and take so many to hell with them. there are many scattered sects of the ritvik camp around the world with some truly devoted to Prabhupada and others for some materialistic purposes. Are we to let our faith become like the christian faith which is scattered from protestant to catholic to coptic orthodox to Pentecostal? Why do you sit and do nothing? Become a true ritvik and defend Prabhupada order and stop this second poisoning which is being done to Prabhupada Books. They are new devotees that are coming in this movement and many are lost because of the so many ritvik camps as well that they do not want to associate with ISKCON example my self and few friends. All I ask of you from my self is to write back to me so we may talk with my friends on your place and what we can do. Hare Krsna Jai Prabhupada.
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Each of the Eleven and more Iskcon Gurus had their glory days, and one should measure and weigh in according to the amounts of mitigating favorable factors and the still present today aggravating factors of disrupting the Sankirtan movement, and the many devotee sufferings they underwent by the activities of these personalities. In Yamaraya’s court, the Vishnudutas and the Yamadutas were deliberating the various actions of Ajamila, and after considering the self-inflicted nature of Ajamila’s sins, in comparison to the effects of inoffensive chanting of the Holy Names, the Vishynudutas had the upper hand my the merits of Ajamila’s chanting in anxiety, which is favorable when getting atonement from sinful acts. Devotees should take into consideration those favorable and unfavorable elements before they express themselves. During their time, and now, these persons were and are “the most dangerous elements in human society”, and the suffering undergone by many Vaishnavas can not be underestimated.
Hansadutta dasa
Public Apology to the Devotees
20 September 1993
The following letter written to a friend most correctly expresses my sincere, heartfelt regrets. I publish it herewith as a humble attempt to address and offer my sincere and humble apology to all the devotees worldwide. – Hansadutta dasa
Dear Urdhvaga Prabhu: Please accept my most humble obeisances. I received your letter dated 22 March 1993. I did not write, because before doing so, I wanted to fathom the actual depth and cause of my complete degradation and disgraceful behaviour after the disappearance of Srila Prabhupada, especially in connection with illegal assumption of the initiating zonal Guru Acharya activities in which I played such a destructive role.
Although I see everything in a sane, sober and proper perspective now, it has taken me more than 10 years of painful, anguished and repentant soul searching to understand my problem-a problem which to you and many sincere disciples of Prabhupada was obvious from the moment (and even before that) Prabhupada left this mortal world in 1977. Being completely overwhelmed with the fever of pratistha (desire for name and fame), obsessed with the ambition to be a guru, in short to be the lord and master of the devotees, I consequently became completely blind to the order of Srila Prabhupada, which he clearly expressed in his letter to the GBC and Temple Presidents, dated July 9,1977. In that letter he named 11 devotees and made it clear that they are to act as his rittvik representatives (deputies) for initiating new disciples on behalf of the Founder Acharya A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada never sent any other directive, newsletter or written document thereafter indicating that any one of his disciples should be an acharya or guru in any way. His letter of July 9, 1977, naming 11 senior disciples or rittvik representatives stands alone as the only order Prabhupada ever issued before his disappearance (four months later) in November of that year, 1977.
For years since, falling down from the standard of devotional service, I have suffered grievously, knowing I caused the spiritual ruin of hundreds and thousands of sincere, aspiring devotees, whom I stole away (kidnapped) from Srila Prabhupada (the Founder Acharya) by presenting myself as a bona fide acharya, spiritual master, when in fact I was not even able to control my senses any more than an ordinary karmi.
Why has it taken me so long to write this frank and honest letter? Because the hankering and ravenous hunger for honour and prestige as a guru, acharya and holy man is so strong in my heart it is only in the last year that by the grace of Prabhupada and the attentive chanting of the Holy Name that the fever of pratistha has subsided to the point where I can clearly see and express myself in this regard honestly.
I am humbly prostrating myself before you, Urdhvaga, and all the devotees everywhere, especially those who were subjected to the unhappy relationship of accepting me as their Guru and thereby being completely broken in their faith and enthusiasm to perform devotional service.
I know that simply writing a letter of apology is not enough. I shall spend the rest of my life doing everything I can to re-establish Srila Prabhupada as the Founder Acharya and modern-day Vyasadeva of the Brahma Gauidya Vaishnava Sampradaya, as expressed in the enclosed paper, “Prabhupada, His Movement and You.”
I suggest that those new devotees who have been erroneously initiated by ISKCON Gurus who like myself have fallen down or who present themselves as anything more than rittvik representatives of the Founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada, can be properly initiated once and for all simply by accepting Srila Prabhupada as their guru and sampradaya acharya by sitting in on a rittvik initiation performed by a devotee who is properly situated in the order of Srila Prabhupada, as per his July 9, 1977 letter authorising rittvik representatives to initiate on his behalf.
The bottom line is simply this: The senior disciples should have continued to do after the disappearance of Srila Prabhupada what they were already doing for years while Prabhupada was present-act as Srila Prabhupada’s menial servants in the matter of initiations. They were rittviks while he was present, and they should have continued to be rittviks in his absence. Anything more than this is nothing more than the ambition to be guru, which is one of the two last traps of maya-the other being the desire to be Krishna.
That you have written me such a heartfelt, sincere and honest letter has helped me so much. Meanwhile, I have made connection with Yashodanandan, along with a number of other devotees who have helped me very much in my fallen condition. Their association gives me hope and strength that I may be able to do some service in the future to help rectify the deteriorated condition of Prabhupada’s movement.
I know you are always my true friend, and I am very sorry that I hurt you so much over so many years. Please forgive me. I hope we will meet again soon and begin a new chapter of our friendship in the service of Prabhupada. Please forgive me. It has taken so long for me to come back down to earth.
Your humble servant and friend,
Hansadutta dasa