‘JUDGE FOR YOURSELF’

PART 2 CHAPTERS 1-3

PART TWO

CHAPTER ONE

BHAVANANDA DAS (a.k.a Charles Bacis): EXPOSED CHILD ABUSER NOW SUSPECT IN POISONING

Part Two of our report, deals with "testimonies" offered by suspects and their supporters in the GBC publication: "Not That I am Poisoned"  (NTIP). 

SUMMARY

With the death of Tamal Krsna (a.k.a Thomas Herzig), Bhavananda Das becomes the next living prime suspect in the poisoning of His Divine Grace, A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).  Bhavananda and Tamal Krsna are the two " whisperers" forensically identified on audio-tapes (T/44/45) "in several instances" discussing poison at Srila Prabhupada's deathbed.  Even His Divine Grace was aware of the "whispers."  When asked just prior to his demise who had informed him about his poisoning, he said, "Ye saab friends"  (All these friends).  Since not a single "friend" has been identified (or come forward) as Prabhupada's informant, we believe the  "whisperers" to be the unintentional informants.  Recent audio-forensic enhancement of the bedside-recordings has proved this to be true.

Before proceeding further, it is important to understand the difference between a "statement" and a "testimony."  Testimony = "A statement or affirmation of a fact, as before a court."  Statement = "The act of stating," or "that which is stated."  Nothing more than saying what is best for the occasion.  In a legal context, designated officers of the law attest to statements; a whole different ball game in which what is quested and noted is pointed and cannot be easily misunderstood or retracted; a Statutory Declaration.  So, although statements of suspects and supporters have been published under the heading: "Testimonies and Statements" (NTIP 143 p), there are in fact not testimonials as such.  Not a single statement has been made or challenged legally.

REPORT

Part Two, Chapter One, takes a look at the statement made by Bhavananda das (a.k.a Charles Bacis).  The statement was published on VNN Vaisnava News Network, and has since been immortalised in the GBC endorsed publication: "Not That I am Poisoned" (NTIP).  Although hailed by the GBC as "conclusive," the 'statement' (as does the book itself ) demands catechism.  In this review we highlight the areas needing clarification (which is basically all of it) by presenting contradiction with documented fact.

Point One:  Bhavananda's statement follows a similar pattern to that of the other suspects: a pretentious apathy to address the allegations of murder.  This is a planned deception, as we will show.

Point Two:  Bhavananda attempts to stifle queries by labelling it a disturbance to "innocent devotees".  We will give a brief history on Bhavananda.  His disregard for "innocence" will show his concerns to be totally false.

Point Three:  Bhavananda says he did not poison Srila Prabhupada, he was not involved in a conspiracy to poison Srila Prabhupada, his godbrothers did not poison Srila Prabhupada, and that the entire poison issue is ludicrous and beyond absurd.  We will show from transcripts made of the bedside-audio tapes (T-44/45/46), that everyone at Prabhupada's bedside agreed with the poisoning allegation.  NO ONE, not Bhavananda, Tamal Krsna, Bhakticaru, the doctor et al, made any such denial when Srila Prabhupada said (a) he was being poisoned, (b) he had heard that he was being poisoned, (c) he had the symptoms of someone who was being poisoned, (d) he was educated in the symptoms of poisoning.

Point Four:  Bhavananda states that prior to Srila Prabhupada passing he was accessible to everyone, thereby implying that a murder and concealment thereof was not possible.  We will show this to be a false ‘statement’.

Point Five:  Bhavananda claims that every attempt both material and spiritual was made in an effort to keep Srila Prabhupada alive as long as possible.  This fabrication will be dealt with in depth, in the third chapter of this section. 

The following statement by Bacis, entitled: "Statement by Bhavananda das" can be found on page 135 of the book NTIP.  His 'statement' is in red italics with our comments below.

"I have been most apprehensive about becoming involved in what I saw to be an "endless debate" on the internet over the poison issue." (NTIP pg. 135)

This appears to be the public stand adopted by all the suspects.  Here's an excerpt from Bhakticaru's 'statement':  (quote ) "I considered it to be so absurd that I did not think it deserved any response." (unquote) (NTIP pg. 121).  And here's one from Tamal Krsna's (TK) : (quote) " I also did not want to be drawn into endless debate....." (unquote) (NTIP pg. 145)

Okay, from the above excerpts it would appear that the 'poison issue' is so absurd to these gentlemen, that it doesn't merit clarification.  However, intercepted COM messages by the senior of this group (Tamal Krsna (TK)) to his subordinates tell a very different story.  What the COM texts betray, is a marshalling of the minions; a covert attempt to squash (by using the keyboards of 'senior men' and cyber posted propaganda) any concerns or concerned parties in the 'poison issue.'  Here are some segments, judge for yourself. (Note: COM is now a defunct Iskcon internal communications link-up).

TK (13/12/97): "Thank you for your assurance that CHAKRA will start spinning by Tuesday" (Note: CHAKRA is a website that claimed, until exposed, to be "independent" of ISKCON)

TK (6/6/99): " I am still of the opinion that we would benefit by two websites, a suggestion I made a week or so ago. I am even more convinced of this after reading Krishna Dharma's various statements. Chakra's mission statement is becoming clarified. Its mood is feisty and confident and clearly partisan, which is fine. But I would recommend a second web site, which is more news oriented and apparently neutral, something like VNN. We will be much stronger if we come to the bargaining table with two arms, rather than one. One can be the "heavy" the other apparently "sweet"- a chutney. I would propose Umapati Swami as the editor for CHAKRA, Krishna Dharma as the editor for the other, with Vipramukhya Swami facilitating both. Is this too ambitious a project"

(6/6/99): "I'm not much of a strategist, but I'd like to join WSTRAT as a passive listener. Is that possible. Ys GdG"

TK (6/6/99): " Why a passive listener? Writing is the best cure for all diseases (besides Hari Nama, of course). Please request HH Gunagrahi Maharaja to contribute. If he wishes to be anonymous, he can always use a pseudonym."

TK (16/12/97): "The supposed witness is the author of the article, Nara Narayan das. And please note, that since his version has not been discredited, it has become part of Bhagvat das' article. Syamasundar must be contacted to discredit this false allegation."

TK (16/12/97): "How is it possible for our main writer and editor, HH Umapati Maharaja, to do his work if he cannot access VNN?" (Note VNN was the website posting details of the poison investigation)

TK (20/12/97): "The main thing I have to find out is how these tapes (poison whispers) differ from the archive versions, and why. Can you give me a report of the proceedings of the investigation so I can keep a running account on the web page? Ravindra Prabhu, you seemingly have not answered whether we can give a running report of the investigation. That could certainly be news worthy."

TK (18/12/97): " As mentioned I believe on GBC Discussions or perhaps here, there is urgent need for an evaluation of Bhagavat's statement and its bearing on seeing Prabhupada as a martyr. Who will do it? I also feel that someone must write a comment on Bhagavat's statement where he indicates that he is not strictly following. In other words, what is the real proof of loving Prabhupada? Persons who have been strictly following are accused of hating Prabhupada, poisoning His Divine Grace, and subverting his movement by those who don't strictly follow but who truly love him. Does it sound right? An article like this would be appreciated by all ISKCON temple devotee readers and would help to draw the line between the opposing sides. Again, who will write it? I would think lots of persons,- any senior ISKCON devotee should be able......". (Please note the language used to a) muster allegiance b) use allies to build a proxy defence c) discredit revelations, cult style d) create insecurity by pointing at phantom opposition, thereby provoking a group-committed-defence.

TK (20/12/97): "May I suggest that you post your need for various types of help--web literates, writers, researchers, etc.,--on a wide forum. You may just get many volunteers. Who knows how many would like to help, but have not been asked?"

Vipramukhya responds: "I agree with Nikilananda that we need to prioritize our work of attack. We also need to increase our team of writers. I also would appreciate help from some computer/web page literates who might be able to do some of the work behind the scenes to handle all this stuff." (Note: Vipramukhya was joint editor of the CHAKRA website)

TK (20/12/97) Is Madhusudhani (CHAKRA editor) working on this? Why not post a letter to all ISKCON gurus requesting that they send us the names of any senior literate disciples who can write for us? Better yet, post such an appeal to all Temple Presidents, since they have a COM forum. Also, we have GBC Delegates. Ask them to write and suggest names of others. Madhusudhani Radha, I request you to please do this. At the present, most articles are from Umapati Swami. We need variety. Writers! Writers! Writers! I suggest that Vipramukhya Maharaja or Umapati Maharaja write personally to a number of sannyasis and senior men and women known to be articulate and propose specific topics. They may agree."

TK (20/12/97).......The ICNA and ICE who are responsible for dealing with the media should receive a distinct and loud alarm call. We cannot simply stand by and watch this happen. If we know what Puranjana wrote and to whom, ICNA should contact the same sources and send them a short info on Puranjana and his madness, as well as answer or rather deny the accusations in his letter...........If they consider publishing news about Puranjana's message. I would say this is strictly a matter of ICNA and not of this forum which deals with internet defamation directly."

So, we can see clearly how the private action contradicts the public 'statements'. Devotees are being asked to draw a line between ‘opposing sides.’  While not wanting 'an endless debate’, arrangements are being made for writers, editors, literate and 'senior men' to wage a propaganda war.  Sannyasis, gurus and their disciples are being compromised by Tamal Krsna into defending him, thereby, protecting Bhavananda as well.

The final text (below) shows why Bhavananda need not make any more than one statement for the record.  It also shows why Bhakticaru feels it does not deserve any response.  The text will show Tamal Krsna as ISKCON's director/puppet-master, making all the statements and responses necessary via lackey keyboards.  Most importantly, it uncovers Tamal Krsna as the ghostwriter for the title and theme (if not the script) of the book: "Not That I am Poisoned" (NTIP). Furthermore, when we understand that the publisher of the book is Tamal Krsna’s disciple (a temple president), and that its author (Hooper) works directly under the publisher…. Here’s the text: (Please note how Tamal Krsna uses the pronouns 'we' and 'us' to embroil subordinates in a war to defend him)

Tamal Krsna: "I have already read the draft statement. I'm not sure about the statement since it argues at cross-purposes--I'm not going to jump into the fray and respond to individual messages vs. I am jumping into the fray and discrediting all critics. I would be ducking mud balls and slinging mud balls and I don't think that will get us too far.....[.....]....But I just don't think that this counterattack is ultimately going to get us very far. I appreciate that this may have to be done by some, to win the "war of words," but I doubt that I should be one of those who do it........[.....].....Maybe that will convince devotees but it sure doesn't work for outsiders and it doesn't resolve the conflict. So I doubt this statement coming from me will do us much good......[.....]......Before the appearance of CHAKRA, our side was not scoring very well at all. It was a capital mistake to publish the exchange in which most of the critical comments are in Hindi and we offered no translation. In fact, we need to include the Hindi and the translations (as Vivek did in his piece). Otherwise, we simply look foolish. Second, we need to get past the notion that citing Scripture is the main way to argue this matter. (I know it belongs to our tradition and it may work theologically, but it's not going to work in the same way here.) We need to give extended textual materials in which sentences like the one we claim "proves" that Prabhupada was not poisoned (the "not that I'm poisoned" comment) occurs (Note: and Tamal’s minions obliged by presenting in his defence the book, titled by this very text: 'Not That I am Poisoned*)...[......].....I could deny what Nara Narayan has said, and I am certain that Shyamasundar das (to whom I supposedly spoke what Nara N. says he heard) I will also reject Nara Narayan's statement. That will be enough for our supporters, but such denials will not convince our opponents. That is to be expected. But what we really need is to convince the 'middle', the vast number of uncommitted. If we cannot convince the 'middle' then we are lost."  (Please read carefully into Tamal Krsna’s last sentence: it identifies him as the source of propaganda used to convince the uninformed.  It also shows his dependency on propaganda over truth, otherwise, why would he write: If we cannot convince the 'middle' then we are lost?

        NOTE: Here are Tamal Krsna’s own words, admitting quite plainly that Srila Prabhupada said he was poisoned.  Tamal Krsna: "We asked Srila Prabhupada later what was the cause of his mental disturbance. Prabhupada disclosed his thoughts that someone had poisoned him." (TKG's Diary, 340 p).

Back to the Bhavananda statement:

"When Hari Sauri prabhu made the point that many innocent devotees were becoming bewildered by all this I felt duty bound to make a statement - and one statement only - for the record."

Bacis' was one of the eleven who claimed to be "guru" after Srila Prabhupada passed away.  Within a few years his sexual perversions had him stripped of his ‘guru’ title and kicked out of ISKCON.  After his exposure and flight to Australia many innocent devotees became bewildered and abandoned their vows; they left ISKCON and never returned.

We present for your information excerpts from within and without the ISKCON institution, exposing only what is known of the Bhavananda escapades.  As in the alleged murder of His Divine Grace, no disclosures have been made to secular authority about Bhavananda (Charles Bacis), hence, no official criminal investigation has been carried out.  Nevertheless, we would like to point out that Bhavananda has never challenged the revelations below, which we present in three parts- 1) Official- 2) Internet postings-3) Unattested.

Official:

“ The (Iskcon Office) has received several testimonies of alleged child abuse perpetrated by Bhavananda dasa. The (Iskcon Office) has received an email letter; dated November 19, 1999, from a representative of the (Iskcon Office), reporting on a conversation he had with Bhavananda dasa. During that interview Bhavananda responded to some of the accusations of child abuse that he allegedly perpetrated. Bhavananda has not responded to other attempts of the (Iskcon Office) to contact him concerning the investigation of this case.

Bhavananda got angry with the children about something. He had all the children come downstairs to the basement and expose their bottoms. He started to whack them indiscriminately

Bhavananda made a child eat raisins till the child vomited.

Bhavananda, practically every day, would punch the child’s arms. His arms had black and blue bruises due to this. This routine continued for about a year. The child reported that he told two leading ISKCON authorities about these arm-punching incidents, but they just laughed and didn’t take it seriously. This witness also related that Bhavananda would whack children on the head with a gong stick during kirtana. The witness further stated that on occasion Bhavananda would come to the gurukula and start abusing children, grabbing them to get them out of bed, pushing them, and yelling at them.

Witness 5, during a phone interview with a representative from the (Iskcon office), stated that 5 times, in the late 1970s or early 1980s, Bhavananda made him, when he was a teenager, masturbate Bhavananda, and Bhavananda passed semen.

”When Bhavananda read the allegations from witness 5, he shook his head in denial and said something about it being "some kind of madness", or some words to that effect, indicating that the accusation is absurd.

Bhavananda did not reply to attempts by the (Iskcon Office) to obtain from him a written statement concerning the allegations of witness 5.”

And here is the conclusion of the (Iskcon Office) findings:

This panel herein acknowledges the many years of service that Bhavananda dasa has devoted to Srila Prabhupada's movement, and appreciates his expressed willingness to atone for the mistakes he made that caused suffering for children in Srila Prabhupada’s movement. The panel accepts the testimonies of witnesses 1, 2, 3, and 4. Concerning witness 5, there is some uncertainty as to whether witness 5 was a minor at the time of the alleged incidents. Thus it is not clear whether the allegations of witness 5 fall under the jurisdiction of the (Iskcon Office), and therefore this panel will not adjudicate those allegations.

Based on the evidence and descriptions above, this panel has determined the following:

Bhavananda dasa physically and psychologically abused several children, thus causing pain and suffering for these young devotees.

Comment: We can’t help but notice that while other offences are serious, the allegations made by witness 5 are most alarming.  Yet, it was never reported to the civil jurisdiction where it belongs.  Instead, we are told: there is some uncertainty as to whether witness 5 was a minor at the time of the alleged incidents. Whether there is uncertainty or not, these matters should be thoroughly investigated by accredited officials for the protection of ALL children and; never under an umbrella of conflicting interests.

Internet Postings:

Internal Report presented to the GBC in 1986 (http://mitglied.lycos.de/pada/)

"First of all Bhavananda (Charles Bacis) was caught having anal sex with a young boy in Mayapura. (Tamal Krishna aka Thomas Herzig, covered up this incident according to Yasodanandana dasa).  Bhavananda's history is alleged to include his being present when the underground pornographic movie 'Chelsea Girls' was filmed, in which the 'girls' are actually homosexuals. This movie is full of grotesque homosexual relations like oral sex, anal sex, etc. The notorious Andy Warhol worked on it, and Bhavananda is said to be his friend.

"The next known case was in 1983, the one with the taxi driver (a chauffeur hired by the Vrindavana temple). This taxi driver also admitted he was having homosexual relations with Bhavananda's appointed temple president for the Vrindavana temple as well.

"Bhavananda was riding in the taxi and he grabbed the driver's genital and began working it. Being a pimp, the driver just smiled and kept driving. Later Bhavananda paid this driver 300 rupees to let him suck the driver's genital. They went on to Delhi and he did it again and Bhavananda gave the taxi driver another 200 rupees.

 Posted by an ex student on http://mitglied.lycos.de/gbc/black/childabu.htm:

 Many of these boys who were Bhavananda's disciples were known to be having sex with each other and molesting other younger children.  Bhavananda and Dhanurdar would insist on inspections of us children during his visits. We were to line up with only a loincloth, and then he would go through the showers while we were naked in the shower. He then, with a corn scrubber in hand, would look at our bodies and arbitrarily scrub some 'dirt' off.

Unattested:

        PADA (1/9/2000),

"When Bhakta J and Ray got together later, they discussed Bhav's (Bhavananda) attachment for Bhakta Jeremiah. It was then that Ray dropped the bombshell. On a weekday, when all the others had gone on 'sankirtan,' Bhakta Ray (was late) dashed into the temple toilet for a wee. He noticed one of the cubicle doors were closed (there are only two cubicles), so he entered the one with the door ajar. Voices in the adjoining cubicle caused Ray's ears to cock up. He could hear them clearly, it was Bhavananda and Bhakta Jeremiah moaning and groaning.

Comment: They were having sex.  But according to ISKCON’s GBC, we should not feel disgusted by this because, unlike doubts concerning witness 5 (there is some uncertainty as to whether witness 5 was a minor at the time), both parties were past the age of consent.

Back to the Bhavananda statement.

"I did not poison Srila Prabhupada nor was I involved in a conspiracy to poison Srila Prabhupada. Absolutely none of my Godbrothers poisoned Srila Prabhupada. The entire poison issue is ludicrous and beyond absurd."

Someone certainly poisoned Srila Prabhupada.  Everyone there, including His Divine Grace, believed it.  Forensic analyses have revealed audio whispers of poison being discussed at Srila Prabhupada's bedside Mr. Jack Mitchell discovered the ‘poison whispers’ which was later endorsed by Dr. Helen McCaffery.  Mr. Tom Owen (Owl Investigations) also detected the same ‘poison whispers’ confirming Mr. Mitchell’s findings.  Then, Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) conducted by Dr. J. Stephen Morris, found arsenic in Srila Prabhupada’s hair clippings that was twenty times higher than normal.  Dr. Callery (Chief Medical Examiner. National Medical Services. US) informed us that these readings would be expected to be a significant contributing condition to his death." (Appendixes 1, 2, 4 & 5)

 We have also been told:

"After a week, Jack Mitchell called Mahabuddhi and advised that we should be arranging for legal counsel, as it appeared that what he was analysing was a poison conspiracy, judging from what he had already found on the tape."

So, when Bhavananda writes with such firm conviction: "The entire poison issue is ludicrous and beyond absurd," he is a liar, and twenty-four years too late.  He should have tried convincing Srila Prabhupada, the kaviraja, Bhakticaru and Tamal Krsna back in 1977.  Bhavananda, along with the others, agreed that Srila Prabhupada had been poisoned.  Not a single word was raised in protest when Srila Prabhupada said what he did.  Nowhere on the 'Conversation Tapes' can we hear Bhavananda (or anyone else) say, "This is ludicrous and beyond absurd Srila Prabhupada, that you believe you are poisoned."  

Here is what Bhavananda actually heard and said in 1977.  Excerpts taken from ISKCON BBT publication: "Conversations with Srila Prabhupada." Volume 36. Hindi translations by this author.

Bhavananda: Prabhupada was complaining of mental distress this morning also. (pg-367 , line 19) 

Kaviraja: "Yeh Maharaja, yeh kotha aap kaise bola aaj ki koi bola hi ki poison diya hai?"

Translation: Maharaji, You know how you said that someone has given you poison? ..... (pg-354, line 23)

Kaviraja:  Dekhye, bat hi hai, ki koi rakshas ne diyo ho."....

Translation: Look, this is the understanding, some rakshasa may have given him poison. (pg-367, line 29)

Bhakticaru: " He says SOMEONE GAVE HIM POISON ." (Mixed in with kaviraja statement: pg-367, line 29)

Bhakticaru: "Someone gave him poison here!"  (Pg-367, line 30)

Tamal Krsna:  "Prabhupada was thinking that someone had poisoned him?” 

Bhakticaru:  "Yes."  (pg-367, line 33)

Kaviraja: "Yeh bolte hai to isme kuch na kuch satya he. Isme koi sandeha nahin."....

Translation: If he's saying that he is being poisoned there must be some truth to it. There's no doubt.  (pg-367, line 37)

Bhakticaru:  "He (the kaviraja) said that when Srila Prabhupada was saying that (He was being poisoned) there must be some truth behind it." (Pg-367, line 38)

Tamala Krsna: Srila Prabhupada, Sastriji says that there must be some truth to it if you say that. So who is it that has poisoned? (Pg-368, line 1)

The above 'conversations' can be heard on T-45/B.  Bhavananda was in the room at the time, sniggering and whispering about poison. He never challenged the poisoning theory, not once.

Back to the Bhavananda statement:

"Anyone who was present in Vrindavana at that time could not deny that every attempt both material and spiritual was made in an effort to keep Srila Prabhupada with us all as long as possible. Srila Prabhupada departed by his own sweet will and by the desire of his beloved Lords, Krsna and Balarama."

Anyone who was present in Vrindavan at the time, was either independent of Iskcon or influential in its managerial circles. Even so, those who managed to get permission from corporate Iskcon to visit the dham, didn't necessarily have access to the inner circle. From our own investigations, we found that even old friends of His Divine Grace (from Vrindavan) who (after Prabhupada's complaint to Balaram Misra) were denied access by tight security.  Not wanting an excessively voluminous report, we will offer only two short interview (taped) as proof:

BIF:  Ghosh babu? When you were going to see Srila Prabhupada, they stopped you also?

Dr. Ghosh: Huh?  (What?)

BIF: : They stopped you.

Dr. Ghosh:  Yes.

BIF:  Why? You are an old friend.

Dr. Ghosh: They didn't know all that. They stopped (me) outside...saying, " No, no, no. Don't disturb him. After all he is..."

BIF : But he is...Prabhupada was your old friend. Why do you think they stopped you from going to see him?

Dr. Ghosh:  This not known to us.

BIF:  Prabhupada was still alive at that time...He called you with his hand like this.."Come. Come." Yet they stopped you from coming?

Dr. Ghosh: "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna." All beating the....cymbals and Hari ghanta (gong) and etc. And began to dance.

BIF:  But wouldn't let you come forward to see?.... Prabhupada wanted to talk with you?

Dr. Ghosh: : Yea.  But they could not....they always surround.

BIF:  How many people were with you at that time?  All Bengali?  Sob Bangali chelo? (were they all Bengali?)

Dr. Ghosh: Nrshmanandan Goswamiji, O.B.L. Kapoor, Bishvambar Goswami.

BIF: And they did not want you to......

Abhinandan das:  Bishvambar is Padmanabha's father.

Dr. Ghosh: : Right. Padmanabha's father.

BIF: And they did not want you to come near Srila Prabhupada, even though he had called you?

Dr. Ghosh: Yes.

Here is an excerpt from an interview (taped), with one of the 'security guards' used by Tamal Krsna to stop all unscreened intruders. (Bhaktisiddhanta Das is an American national currently residing in Vrindavan, India).

BIF: What do you mean by....you were the guy at the garden gate ?

Bhaktisiddhanta das (Bd):  I was the guard at the garden gate.

BIF:  What were your instructions ?

Bd :  My job was to stop anyone who tried to enter.

BIF: By anyone, you mean anyone who was not approved ?

Bd:  That's right........  I was there everyday.

BIF:  Are you telling me, you were one of Tamal's security force.

Bd: Yes.

As readers progress through these reports, they will find more evidence to support the fact that His Divine Grace was strategically isolated in his final days. 

Back to the statement:

"…every attempt both material and spiritual was made in an effort to keep Srila Prabhupada with us all as long as possible...”

All that His Divine Grace got in the way of material effort was an unknown Calcutta based ‘naturopath.’ Who was this 'doctor' anyway?  What were his credentials?  Which school of medicine did he graduate from?  What success did he have in the field of acute diabetes?  Who recommended the man?  Why was he recommended?  Is there a list of his clients that can be interviewed by our investigators?  How was the fellow located in Calcutta?  Who found him?  Under what conditions and whose instructions was he sought?  Who paid him?  How much?  Where are the receipts?  If he was so famous and dedicated as proclaimed by the suspects ('Conversation Tapes') what incentive was he offered to drop his ailing clientele in Calcutta in favour of administering to Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan?  And, since he 'treated' Srila Prabhupada to the end, where is the Death Certificate?  Why didn't he issue one?  Or, was he in fact an unregistered quack with no legal authority to be practising?  And, for the very fact that no effort was made to initiate a bona fide legal/medical investigation into Srila Prabhupada's plaint, the material effort just wasn't there.  As for spiritual effort, we will leave it to Tamal Krsna and the open revelations by His Divine Grace.  Here they are, yet again:  (T-46/A, or “Conversations with Srila Prabhupada”, Vol: 36, 378 p)  

Tamala Krsna: " This seems like suicide, Srila Prabhupada, this program.  It seems to some of us like suicide."

Srila Prabhupada: "And this is also suicidal."

Tamala Krsna:  "Hm. Prabhupada said, "And this is also suicide." (Then, Tamal Krsna offers Prabhupada this choice) “Now you have to choose which suicide."

Srila Prabhupada: "The Ravana will kill and Rama will kill. Better to be killed by Rama. Eh?" (T-46/A)

When we link this up with the recently received audio forensic reports confirming Bacis' direct involvement with the poison whispers: his interpretation of "spiritual effort" certainly begs definition.

Back to the statement.

"Those were extremely difficult times not only for those of us who were nursing him but also for all his disciples around the world. I don't know where Nityananda dasa was at that time but his assistance in caring for Srila Prabhupada would have been greatly appreciated by his Godbrothers."

Of course! Times must have been extremely difficult for those who were nursing him.  The question is WHY?  Why were unqualified 'nurses' administering to a patient with advanced diabetes?  It is not that Srila Prabhupada was a pauper, or that hired professionals would have poisoned him, or that he would be forcefully removed to a hospital.  Dr. Khurana promised to have the hospital staff treat His Divine Grace in his room, in Vrindavan (we have the doctor on tape).  But for some mysterious reason Prabhupada's unqualified 'nurses' persisted in their extreme difficulty.  As for the extreme difficulty faced by devotees around the world, none were informed of Srila Prabhupada’s request to have them come to Vrindavan to be with him.  Instead, and in corporate interest, the request was never made known until discovered years later.  Living with this revelation has proved the greatest difficulty for many of Prabhupada’s disciples (Part Three: Letter by Ameyatma Das).

Back to the statement:

“Srila Prabhupada was certainly never more approachable by all the devotees regardless of sannyasa, grhastha, male, female or even child. I remember thinking Srila Prabhupada would want some privacy from the video camera of Yadubara prabhu but he told me Yadubara should be allowed to film whatever he wanted. So you can understand that an atmosphere of openness prevailed, not one of secrecy and whispers as the real poison conspirators are implying."

On which of the tapes (T-44, 45 or 46 after Srila Prabhupada's complaint to Balaram Misra) can we witness this heavy devotee traffic Bacis speaks of?   "Conversations With Srila Prabhupada" Vol: 36, depicts the final days. Readers can discover for themselves the exaggerations of Bhavananda.  The truth is, Srila Prabhupada was so closely monitored he was stifled to the point of protest.  Bereft of energy; his body wasted, he still argued and pleaded persistently in a bid to break free from the confines of the little room in which he was held, and from the persistence of “The Ravana” (according to His Divine Grace), the raksasa (according to the kaviraja), who “will kill”.

Bhavananda’s mention of Yadubara's film (The Final Lesson) as an example to prove an 'atmosphere of openness' cannot substantiate his claim.  Yadubara's film, albeit important, was only a short documentary.  No script, props, costumes, rehearsal or re-takes were necessary.  It was not a full-length feature film, just a hand-held video production that runs for approximately thirty-two minutes.  Even so, there was some attempt to stop this.  Only Srila Prabhupada's intervention permitted Yadubara to continue the shoot.

 In the last sentence of the paragraph Bhavananda claims: " an atmosphere of openness prevailed, not one of secrecy and whispers as the real poison conspirators are implying."  We would like to know to whom is he referring?  Is it Audio Forensic expert Mr. Jack Mitchell (owner/engineer, C.A.E Albuquerque)?  Is it Dr. Helen McCaffery. Dept: of Communicative Sciences, University of Texas?  Is it Mr. Tom Owen. Owl Investigations Inc?  Is it Dr. J Stephen Morris (Lauder Nuclear Analysis Program. University of Columbia)?  Is it Dr. Callery (Chief Medical Examiner.  National Medical Services US)?  When Federal Agents are enlightened as to who the 'whisperers' are, Bhavananda may need to make a "legal statement," unlike the slop he's dishing up here.

Finally, we arrive at Bhavananda’s goodbye:

"Doubtless there is much work to be done for Srila Prabhupada to save the conditioned souls from the horrendous onslaught of maya. Let us all at least put this particular lunacy to rest to allow us to get on with the serious work at hand. I remain the most lowly and unqualified servant of all the Vaisnavas of ISKCON. Bhavananda dasa."

A most lowly servant he is, that we cannot dispute, yet, his lowest activity remains hidden under a cloud of GBC deception.

CONCLUSION

 No righteous person would give credence to a man of Bhavananda’s character.   He was stripped of his “Visnupada’ acarya status (given to him by Tamal Krsna), and drummed out of the ISKCON Society for serious perversion and abuse to children (although ISKCON would have us believe it was because he fed a child too many raisins and made him vomit).  Yet, as can be seen above, the GBC has chosen to enshrine his ‘statement’ in their publication (NTIP).   For the very fact that they use someone like Bacis (Bhavananda) as a witness in defence, reveals their desperation and depths of darkness.  It also shows a loss of contact with righteousness and an unabashed intent to harbour criminals. 

PART TWO

CHAPTER TWO

BHAKTICARU:  THE FIRST DISCIPLE TO REPORT, “SOMEONE HAS POISONED HIM.”  (Conversations. Vol. 36. Page 367. Nov. 1977)

Part Two; Chapter Two is a discrete study of the ‘statement’ by Bhakticaru.  Posted on the VNN website ( 'Let The Truth Prevail' 4/10/99), the statement was later added to the GBC book 'Not That I am Poisoned" (NTIP, 121 p).

SUMMARY

Bhakticaru was appointed Srila Prabhupada's 'nurse' during the final days.  He was assigned to the position by Tamal Krsna (Prabhupada's Secretary).  Surprisingly, his appointment had nothing to do with medical accreditation (he had none).  According to ' TKG's Diary' (214 p), Bhakticaru got the job because he spoke Bengali.  Strange indeed.  Eyewitness accounts point to Bhakticaru as being the man to whom Srila Prabhupada confided in Bengali that someone had poisoned him.  It was he who said out loud, "Someone has poisoned him!" (T-45/B).  But later, after a secret meeting, for which there are no known details, he sided with Tamal Krsna, Bhavananda et al: Tamal Krsna: " We did not go searching for a murderer because we concluded there was no murder" (NTIP, 146 p).  After the meeting, Bhakticaru, as did the others, became silent about the ‘poison issue.’  And so it remained for twenty-one years until discovered by accident on audio-tape.  Subsequently, those who were present at the meeting and suspected of a cover-up made public ‘statements’ in their defence and of each other.

REPORT

Please find below (in red italics) the 'statement' (and other declarations made by Bhakticaru) with comments/observations and polemic fact proffered after each section.

"Recently one of our god-brothers, Nityananda dasa adhikari, wrote a book called, "Someone has Poisoned Me" and alleged that the cause of Srila Prabhupada's disappearance from this planet is arsenic poisoning, and the ones who were serving His Divine Grace at that time administered him that poison."

If in fact, Nityananda das’ book was nothing more than a libellous document, a slanderous allegation, why wasn’t he sued?  Why didn’t the suspects come out and fight instead of making these ‘statements’?  The answer is simple: high-profiled experts in the fields of forensic audio and hair analyses made the allegations, not Nityananda das.  Nityananda das, although aware of forensic reports, maintained a mood of neutrality as best he could.  Here are his opinions as expressed in his book: "Someone Has Poisoned Me" (SHPM): - ".... the evidence is solid that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, but by whom is not yet known” (excerpt, opening page). He next says (same page): ".....most probably carried out by some of his "closest" disciples."

Truth is, unless we translate the explanation of the kaviraja from the 1977 audio tape: "...some demon has given him poison," to mean some witch from Pixieland has given him poison, there could be no other deduction.  To believe that an indiscriminating demon poisoned Prabhupada is ridiculous.  Especially when we notice the vast inheritance involved.  The money trail does not lead to the Wicked-Witch-from-the-West, it leads directly to Srila Prabhupada's closest disciples, the ones who just happened to be ‘serving’ His Divine Grace at the time ("All these friends")… the ones who were whispering about poison; the wealthy inheritors; the "Heirs Apparent."

"Since I was one of Srila Prabhupada's personal servants at that time, taking care of his food and medicines, according to that book, I am naturally a suspect."

To imply that suspicions arose according to that book (SHPM) is a wilful attempt to negate the evidence in hand.  For the information of Bhakticaru or anyone else sheltering in this misprision, it should be categorically understood: the evidence gave genesis to the suspicions and the book (SHPM), not the other way 'round.  And what the irrefutable evidence reveals is the presence of heavy metal toxins in Srila Prabhupada's hair samples, and audio revelations of "poison whispers" preceding his death.  Furthermore, when we recognise that no endeavour was made to confirm or quell Srila Prabhupada's suspicions...."Someone said (I have) been poisoned...it's possible" etc. there is no alternative but to suspect a conspiracy to murder.  Then again, when we sift through the debris, dubiety, and gangland style take-over in the aftermath, suspicion is based, cemented and solidified.

"When I first heard about this allegation I considered it to be so absurd that I did not think it deserved any response."

Bhakticaru is saying here that he first heard this allegation in Nityananda prabhu's book (SHPM).  Of course we know this is untrue.  The fact is, Nityananda (like Bhakticaru and the rest of us) first heard it from Srila Prabhupada (T-44/A).  We all know that it was Srila Prabhupada's who first said, "Someone said  (I have) been poisoned...it's possible.”  But we don’t hear Bhakticaru tell Srila Prabhupada, "That's absurd, I don't think it deserves any response."  Quite to the contrary, he responded with, "Who said, Srila Prabhupada?" and later, "Someone has poisoned him here!"  That's the first time ever anyone heard about it. 

"I could not even imagine that anyone with a rational mind would give any credence to such an allegation. However, yesterday I received a com message from Hari Sauri prabhu, one of Srila Prabhupada's personal servants and the author of "The Transcendental Diary", saying, " The (poison) issue must be dealt with directly..."

How is it that Bhakticaru cried out, "Someone has poisoned him!" and then became silent until Hari-Sauri's call-to-action twenty-three years later?  Besides his documented audio statements, does he not remember sobbing on the morning after Prabhupada’s passing, saying to Abhinandana Das,  “Someone poisoned Srila Prabhupada”?   Does Bhakticaru wish to deny that for more than two decades (off and on) he confessed his concerns about Prabhupada’s poisoning to Sarvabhavana Prabhu*?

* Sarvabhavana Prabhu introduced Bhakticaru to Krsna Consciousness.

Without once again reiterating quotes from the 'Conversation Tapes" (T-44, 45 & 46,) we must remind readers of the credence given by Bhakticaru to the poison allegation made by His Divine Grace.  The irrationality of his 180-degree pivot intrigues us.  Nowhere on the tapes can we hear anything but concern from Bhakticaru.  Although he never spoke publicly on the matter, we have testimonials from his personal associates that tell us:  "Before and after the departure of His Divine Grace and throughout the years since, Bhakticaru Maharaja has expressed anxiety about the poisoning."  Witnesses are willing to take the stand and testify to the fact.

The statement continued:

  "That must include direct statements from yourself (Tamal Krsna Goswami), Bhakti Caru, Bhavananda, Jayapataka et al. When the persons that were there present their experiences collectively it makes a very powerful statement. I want to repeat, it MUST be done.”  Therefore, I felt somewhat compelled to write this statement."

Here we have a list of suspects corresponding with the view of many outside the ISKCON protectorate.  Is it a coincidence that the others are simply et al while the principals are mentioned by name?  We think not.  If the ‘statements’ were to be believed, the et al could have run up to hundreds if not thousands.  Yet, the above listing shows only four names: our four suspects.  The others (et al) are simply eulogists for these four.  Before branding us defamatory, please read "Testimonies," in the GBC book "Not that I am Poisoned" (NTIP).  What you will discover is that three (Jayapataka didn't post a 'statement') of the principals mentioned above, defend themselves (and each other) directly against the allegations, while the others (et al) defend them as well.  If the others (et al) were guilty they would have defended themselves...right?  But they don't; they defend the principals.  In so doing, they convey to us that what we know is also what they believe: The four principals mentioned above are the prime suspects.

Back to the statement:

"When the persons that were there present their experiences collectively it makes a very powerful statement." 

Why make powerful statements?  Why use collective power at all unless to subdue and subjugate?  Collective guilt does not exist; individuals must answer for themselves.  We prefer to erase all misconceptions by discovering the truth through accepted process?  If the whole issue is as irrational and absurd as Bhakticaru makes out, what need is there for further ado?  He should protest his innocence by submitting to Polygraph and Voice Stress Analysis.  It was what a BIF associate requested of Tamal Krsna before he abruptly departed. (EDITORIAL, Jun 9 (VNN) — An open letter to Tamal Krsna Gosvami Maharaja. 1999).  If Bhakticaru et al are innocent, they should take the above advice very seriously and before the issue goes public.  BIF is willing to bear the costs.   If there is some guilt that needs confessing, we can help by channelling through the proper authorities and with due consideration.  On the other hand, if the guilty parties wish to dig-in, as done to date, they should expect no mercy from God or mammon at the reckoning.

Back to the statement:

"Just in case you do not know me and wondering why Hari Sauri Prabhu is asking me to address this issue, I will give a brief introduction about myself - I am one of the last disciples of Srila Prabhupada. I met His Divine Grace in January of 1977. In March, during the Gaura-Purnima Festival, in Mayapur, he gave me first and second initiations. He personally appointed me as his secretary for Indian affairs. Once he instructed me not to get involved with any woman and offer this life completely to Krsna, and soon after that, in May, he gave me sannyas in Sridham Vrindavan. I had the good fortune to serve His Divine Grace's transcendental body until his disappearance pastime from this planet."

We know who Bhakticaru is.  He has servants across the globe; takes rose water footbaths; has never done an honest day’s work (as we know it); lives off donations collected by ‘his disciples’ and; his decadent birthday parties are renowned.  Those who have managed to untangle themselves from his ministerial web, say he still lives unabashedly in Srila Prabhupada’s pocket with only brief sojourns outside his comfort zone.  However, whereas Bhakticaru’s enterprises are cult endorsed, his quips and quotes reveal the man himself.  And the more we study the words of Bhakticaru the more distorted semantics we see.  Here are three samples from his "Disappearance Day Offering."

"...Prabhupada did not say anything and then in a very soft voice he told me, "Didn't I teach you that the spirit soul is eternal and he never dies?" (Comment: Yes, we have also heard that Srila Prabhupada whispered to him in Bengali: "ke aamake visha deyeche" (Someone has given me poison) but Bhakticaru did nothing about either of the two whispers.  He never did a thing about the poisoning and he jumped into Srila Prabhupada's shoes at the first possible opportunity).

"That one statement gave me a profound realisation: how could the person who taught me that the spirit soul never dies ever die himself? He will always be with us, although some day he may disappear from our mundane vision" (Comment: What profound realisation is Bhakticaru talking about?  There's nothing in his folio supporting the belief that Srila Prabhupada is eternal.  His activities speak so loudly we can't hear what he says.  If he actually believes Srila Prabhupada to always be with us, why didn’t he challenge Tamal Krsna when he wrote: "But when the guru departs, sadhu and sastra can take on a new import, as those who succeed him become the new interpreters of past precedents, scriptural law, and the new set of circumstance." (A Hare Krsna at Southern Methodist University, 297 p).

"Nevertheless, everyday, in all the temples of ISKCON, Srila Prabhupada is worshipped by everyone. Then why do we hesitate to tell a new comer who is searching for a guru that Srila Prabhupada, the best guru the world has ever seen, is still here, and one can surrender unto him and go back to Godhead very easily?"  Comment: Everyone, even those within ISKCON know Srila Prabhupada’s name is hung like a shingle to attract postulants.  People go to the temple because they read Srila Prabhupada's books.  They go to the temple for his association.  What happens then is a capture and acclimatising process known candidly as bhakta programming.  After the prospect is primed, he/she is steered towards a GBC-certified-guru for initiation into the sect.  This manoeuvre locks the aspirant into "spiritual obedience mode."  Under oath and from fear of transgressing spiritual laws, the new initiate keeps his "guru" and temple buoyant by accepting slavery in the guise of transcendence.  Or does Bhakticaru actually believe new recruits come along aspiring to pay his bills? 

Back to the statement:

 "From Srila Prabhupada we learnt that a vaisnava does not defend himself."

We have already dealt with this contravention in our previous chapter.  In that report, we used the IRM intercepted COM messages by Tamal Krsna, the leader of the group, to cult members.  The messages exposed a propaganda network structured exclusively to mount a proxy defence.  A grid, to which everyone/anyone (within the sect) with literacy and articulation were conscripted for a cult unified resistance to investigation.

"Therefore, in this response to Nityananda dasa's allegation I will not try to defend myself, however I feel it is my solemn duty to defend those who are innocent, with my honest testimony."

           No. Bhakticaru defends himself throughout his 'statement,' and more so towards the end.  Anyway, we strongly advise Bhakticaru to arrange his own house.  There are many questions that need answering for his own exculpation, i.e. why didn't he alert authorities to a possible homicide?  Why didn't he (as nurse) ask for a blood test, demand/witness/ lodge a Death Certificate? *  Why was he 'nursing' a patient with acute diabetes?  What are his 'nursing' qualifications?  Who instructed him to do the job?  Why was he chosen?  Why was he giving Srila Prabhupada 'mishti jaal,' (sweet water) and 'mishti doodh' (sweet milk) without knowing Srila Prabhupada's postmeal or postprandial plasma glucose levels?  Did he know that sugar is toxic to a diabetic?  Was sugar used to disguise poison?  Did the sugar bowl also house arsenic trioxide crystals?  Metal salts-acetates?   We are, with the evidence in hand, sure that His Divine Grace was poisoned.  All that remains is to establish actus reus.

           *For those who are unaware of how certified doctors react when requested to issue a Death Certificate without prior knowledge of a patient’s condition or cause of death, here is an excerpt from court records re. Death of Anneliese Michel:

Mrs. Michel (Anneliese's mother): 'The Devil had her in his claws. Death has released her. Now she is in heaven."

Dr. Kehler: ' Perhaps so. But you must realise that I cannot issue a death certificate for a corpse in such a condition.'

Mr. Michel: 'Then you may go. We will call in another doctor.'

Dr. Kehler: No other doctor will issue a death certificate, either, and moreover I shall have to report this to the police. There is certainly going to be an investigation into the circumstances of this girl's death.'

         Needless to say, the verdict was murder.  And these are the points BIF has been stressing from our first report: 1) No hospitalisation. 2) No authorised doctor in attendance. 3) No certified nurse in attendance. 4) A complaint by the patient about possible poisoning. 5) The patient mentioning he overheard his ‘inheritors’ whispering about poison. 6) No formal inquiry lodged. 7) No pathological investigation undertaken. 8) The patient had wasted beyond recognition. 9) No autopsy was performed. 10) No Death Certificate was issued (there is no known official cause of death). 11) The body was interred within fourteen hours after death.  12) Lime was added with salt to the samadhi (further confirmation being sought). 13) Death was registered three months after the date of expiry by an unknown party. 14) The registered cause of death was “Heart Attack.”  The officially endorsed book (NTIP) released by the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC), claims kidney failure due to diabetes was the cause. Not once did the book mention a Heart Attack.  Nor was a Heart Attack mentioned by anyone subsequent to demise. Nor have witnesses come forward to indicate there were visible heart attack symptoms prior to, during, or after demise. 15) When concerns initiated a GBC investigation and arsenic was discovered in the deceased’s hair sample, the investigation was immediately terminated. 16) Funds for the investigation were redirected by the GBC into producing a book entitled: Not That I am Poisoned.  Compiled under direction of the suspects and produced by disciples with literary support from cronies and beneficiaries, the book is riddled with deceptions.

 Back to the statement:

"The author of the book is accusing Tamal Krishna Goswami as the main suspect."

Tamal Krsna was the epitome of the secretary who wanted to be boss.  This is not just our opinion but the opinion of everyone who knew him, and the history of ISKCON politics (post Prabhupada) confirms this. Tamal Krishna Goswami (ThomasHerzig), the leader of a large number of sannyasi and brahmacari preachers, had insisted that he was now their via media in relating to Prabhupada and expected that his godbrothers follow him absolutely." (HKSMU: 305p).  Here is what Srila Prabhupada had to say about him: SP: " Of all the GBC, he," indicating Tamala Krsna Maharaja (Herzig) with a tip of his head, "is the most intelligent. But the problem is, those with intelligence want to control everything. And he wants to control the whole Society." (Excerpt from: "A Transcendental Diary" by Hari Sauri dasa). 

Is Bhakticaru denying this?  If Nityananda das is accusing Tamal Krsna as the main suspect...he's right.  And if this crime is proved positive Bhakticaru will also be accused of conspiracy, aiding and abetting, being an accessory before and after the fact and all those other charges with which prosecutors force gangland-gods to genuflect.  So, the togetherness exhibited by Bhakticaru does not surprise us at all, it is necessary under the circumstances.

Statement continued: 

"I do not know how well Nityananda dasa knows Tamal Krsna Maharaj and how closely he associated with him, but while serving Srila Prabhupada I had the opportunity to associate with him very closely and lived with him in the same room for about seven months."

Here we have a possible out-of-earshot scenario where pressure was applied and opinions overruled.  A space in which the alarming acceptance: "Someone has poisoned him here," was transformed to a pivotal: "...so absurd that I did not think it deserved any response."  Also, what we have is a seven month time-span for the 'elder brother' to mentally exert, psychologically subjugate, plan, execute, justify, and brainwash his subordinate siblings with promises of a higher life...GURUDOM. 

In a recent publication (“Spiritual Connections”) Bhakticaru confesses: "Tamal Krishna Maharaja was one of my most prominent spiritual connections to Srila Prabhupada. Under his guidance I served His Divine Grace during his final pastimes. What this tells us is that although Bhakticaru was 'nursing' Srila Prabhupada he was simply following Tamal Krsna’s instructions.  Tamal Krsna has himself admitted his lack of medical acumen: "But I was not engaged, nor were any of his servants, because of our expertise in medical knowledge."  So if Tamal Krsna was a medical mooncalf, what ‘nursing’ was Bhakticaru providing working under his guidance? Yet it was Tamal who sent for Bhakticaru to 'nurse' Srila Prabhupada  ("Because we could not understand Bengali.... [....].... We decided to call Bhakti-caru Maharaja immediately to Vrindavan" (TKG's Diary 214 p).  Why was Bhakticaru’s Bengali a criterion for assignment as nurse to an acute diabetic?  What is the connection?  Especially when trained nurses who speak Hindi Bengali and English are easily available in India.  Does this not confirm the Bhakticaru Tamal tie-in?  Bhakticaru was disposed to Tamal Krsna’s aspirations.  The facts, as do Bhakticaru’s own sentiments, support that conclusion. 

"During those days I saw what a deep love and respect he had for Srila Prabhupada, and I also saw what a deep confidence His Divine Grace had in him."

History proves 'love' to be the most easily faked emotion (Srila Prabhupada: “ati bhakti chorera lakshana” Too much devotion is the sign of a thief).  Our concerns are for Bhakticaru's 'love and respect’ for Tamal Krsna.  After all, Srila Prabhupada did tell them about the poisoning ("Prabhupada disclosed his thoughts that someone had poisoned him" (TKG's Diary, page 340).  Bhakticaru also admits it on tape ("Someone has poisoned him! " T-45/B).  Tamal Krsna was the leader of the group, he made no attempt to address it publicly or lawfully, yet, Bhakticaru defends him...Why?  Was Srila Prabhupada senile?  Was he hallucinating?  Was he falsely accusing his disciples of discussing his poisoning?  (Kaviraja: Who is saying?   SP: All these friends. T-44/A). 

We would like to know what excuses were given and by whom, to deny investigation.  Our own examination of the ‘Conversation Tapes’ reveals an extremely sharp Prabhupada speaking in three languages; dealing with everyone from a platform of transcendence and wit.  Why did his whispering disciples refuse to act on his complaint?  Who decided that nothing should be done? Tamal Krsna claims, ‘We decided...’ (NTIP 146 p).  Was there a meeting?  Who called the meeting?  Where was the meeting held?  Who attended?  Who put forward the ' Not Poisoned' conclusion?  What were his reasons?  The issue was buried in silence for more than two decades; was a need for silence stressed?  Who requested it?  Why did Bhakticaru agree?  Or was there really no consensus at all?  Did everyone simply go along with the hierarchical head that certified them gurus later? 

"Tamal Krsna Maharaj has a very heavy side but one should not judge him only from that point of view. He has a very soft side as well. Anyone who knows him knows well how aggressive and demanding he can be and to live with him for seven months was not always easy for me, to say the least."

Even in this short statement, Bhakticaru is unable to hide the true character of Tamal Krsna.  No more than a few sentences into his defence of Tamal Krsna and Bhakticaru is revealing a very heavy side.  Okay.  How heavy is very heavy?  Heavy enough to kill?  Without having to judge him at all, this description of a goswami’s mood-swing by a close friend, is alarming.  Bhakticaru tells us Tamal was very heavy, aggressive, demanding and not easy to live with.  How ‘goswami’ is that?  Sounds like a pendulum rider ‘cross a gambit of emotions.  Was he neurotic?  Psychotic?  A killer, sheltered by corporate considerations?

BIF has only recently discovered that the "July 9th Letter" directing ritvik initiations was never dispatched to Temple Presidents. *  We are told, that the letter was only discovered for the first time ten years after it was authorised by his Divine Grace and given to Tamal Krsna for copy and dispatch to temples internationally.  Was this letter and dictate therein the motive for Srila Prabhupada’s poisoning?

*Hari Bolo

The only letter I got as the TP (Temple President) Sydney was a letter stating the new gurus were in, with no pranams or mantras to be sung, this was after Prabhupada's disappearance. YS

*Hare Krishna

When I was TP of New Talavan farm in Mississippi, I did not receive the July 9 Th letter. I had never seen it until 1988 when Yasodanandana pr.  found it in his collection of papers.

YS.

The ex Temple President of Melbourne had a story similar to that of the Sydney TP.

Back to the Statement:

 "Yet I will honestly admit that I have seen his other side also and I have many sweet memories of my days with him. I have received elder brotherly affection and care from him that created a deep bond between us."

However we read this declaration, it would appear that Tamal Krsna’s side that gives Bhakticaru sweet memories are rare, or at least on par with the side that didn't, and Bhakticaru cannot honestly admit it.  This inadvertent revelation of Tamal Krsna’s Jeckyll-and-Hyde extremities by a fellow suspect is noteworthy.  Furthermore, Bhakticaru specifically states his reason for the deep bond as elder brotherly affection.  Everyone (well almost) with an elder brother can understand the ascendancy, superiority, sway and supremacy involved.  It is natural amongst all biological siblings, what to speak of brotherhood in a hierarchical cult.  When we put it in the framework of inheritance- triggered- parricide...big brother certainly knows best.

"Although from time to time we experienced our differences yet our relationship remained intact. I decided to mention about this perception of mine because I have seen many a times some devotees carry an inaccurate image of other devotees that obscure their perception."

Bhakticaru offers his perception as summum bonum while pointing at the obscured perceptions of others.  Psychiatry it appears (like nursing) is just one more uncertified attribute of the ISKCON franchised guru.  Was this natural method of analogy also used to justify burying Srila Prabhupada's complaints under years of secrecy?  To fail to notify authorities or other disciples of his complaint?  To accept Tamal' Krsna’s directions without thought or question?  Bhakticaru must now consider his own obscured perceptions and inaccurate image of others.

"It is quite interesting to note that although Nityananda dasa wrote one whole book based on some whispers and an incorrect and dubious analysis of some hairs, was nowhere near Srila Prabhupada in those days in Vrindavan. If he was then he would have seen how absurd his suspicion and accusation is."

At least, we can be sure Nityananda das did not murder Srila Prabhupada or profit by his death.  And, unless Bhakticaru & Co. are exposed by ISKCON to due process, we are naturally inclined to believe they did.  Also, Bhakticaru's attempt to minimise Nityananda das' book (SHPM) simply demonstrates further the 'criminal defence mode' adopted by the suspects in this case.  Nityananda das reported forensic evidence (with attached appendixes) as detailed by recognised experts in the field.  The reports have been further corroborated by more recent and intense forensic analysis.  Now there are more FBI recognised (audio and hair) forensic scientists' nodding in the affirmative.  Further forensic work is being done as we write, adding weight to ball-and-chain.

 Bhakticaru's deduction that Nityananda's report (SHPM) is based on some whispers and an incorrect and dubious analysis of some hairs, has been borrowed from the book  'Not That I am Poisoned' (NTIP).  However, the 'experts' produced by its author to refute the forensic evidence presented in SHPM, have started back-pedalling.  As we warned earlier, anyone dependent on the book (NTIP) for vindication, meets fate with one foot on a banana peel and the other in infamy.

Back to the statement:

"If he was present then he would have seen, what to speak of poisoning Srila Prabhupada, the devotees around Srila Prabhupada were praying to Krsna to let Srila Prabhupada stay on this planet in exchange of their lives." 

Tamal Krsna also uses this ‘exchange of lives’ in his ‘statement’ (NTIP): “Again and again we begged Prabhupada to stay with us, even offered our life in exchange for his, as any good disciple would do.”  The record shows that Sri Krsna rejected this offer.  It also shows that the practical process adopted by the poisoner/s was successful.  Had those like Bhakticaru (who were aware of the poison complaint) also been practical and reported the matter to authorities instead of contemplating the navel, this issue would have been long settled.  And if prayer was the only course of action: Bhakticaru's prayers should have been for a qualified nurse who: 1) was not a prospective inheritor or under the influence of an inheritor elder brother, 2) who would have asked for an immediate blood-test and criminal inquest into the poison allegations made by Srila Prabhupada, 3) who should have demanded and lodged a Death Certificate which is prerequisite to disposal of a body, 4) who should have enough pundit to realise that mounting evidence will open the samadhi if he doesn’t open his mouth.         

Let's leave aside exchange of their lives or other such extreme measures.  We would be quite content at this stage for Bhakticaru, Bhavananda, Jayapataka and Satadhanya to do polygraph tests, Voice Stress Analysis, and make Statutory Declarations.  There is no reason to offer Krsna an exchange of life.  Anyway, Srila Prabhupada’s life was perfect.  Bhakticaru, Tamal Krsna et al, may have seen themselves as moiety but Sri Krsna, obviously, did not.

"It is extremely unfortunate that Nityananda dasa is so obsessed with some whispers, but he is not listening to the exchanges that are so loud and clear. If he was present there then he would have seen that just a couple of days before Srila Prabhupada left this planet he told his very intimate god-brother, Srila Krsnadasa Babaji Maharaj, with tears rolling down from his eyes, "See, how much they love me!"

What Bhakticaru is trying to accomplish with this quote is to erase all other relevant documented evidence by highlighting Srila Prabhupada's appreciation for his (non-toxic) nurses.  The argument he offers is: If Srila Prabhupada suspected us why would he say, "See how much they love me!"  This is the same logic that instructs a poisoner to murder and then blame it on the Pixies.  What Srila Prabhupada said was:  "...Someone has given poison." T-44/A) “.... Someone had poisoned him."  TKG's Diary, pg: 340).  He never said, ".... They have poisoned me."  It is we (investigating) with facts and hindsight who see it as a cabal at work.  For Srila Prabhupada to say " They love me" doesn't mean, "Someone didn't poison me."  The fact that Bhakticaru accepts the plural as guilty further affirms our belief in the conspiracy theory.  Here is the quote under attention and in context (T-46/B).  Bengali to English translation by this author.

Tamal Krsna: Actually, Srila Prabhupada, we're so much attached to you that you practically drive us to madness sometimes. Tonight we were becoming mad.

Srila Prabhupada (SP): No, no, I shall not do that.

This next line of endearment is the one Bhakticaru hopes will detoxify the evidence.  It is important to note how quickly he accepts 'they' in the next quote to mean himself and his partners, but how he pretends the 'All these friends' quote (T-44/A) made by Srila Prabhupada earlier (in which Srila Prabhupada identifies them as being the 'poison whisperers') has nothing to do with him or his elder brother.  The loving disciples still have not explained why they believed Srila Prabhupada’s complaint to be invalid.  Nor have these gurus been questioned, even though five years have passed since discovery.

SP: (Bengali) Babaji Maharaja, dekhchen to era kirom bhabe, bhalobashe.

Trans: Babaji Maharaja, do you see how they love (me)?

Krsna Das Babaji: (KDB) (Bengali) Dekhchi to, shabi adbhut Maharaja... Eder theeke onek kichu shikbar aache Maharaja.

Trans: I do observe. It's amazing Maharaja. There is much good to learn from them Maharaja.

SP: Aar eyi Bhavananda, recently ki safai koreche akebare.

Trans: And this Bhavananda has done so much cleaning recently.

KDB: Bhagaban dekhben.

Trans: God will watch over.

SP: Aakhere ghushkhora...

Trans: In the end it is...

SP: Loke gaye thuk thuk diyeche.

Trans: People have spat and spat on his body.

The quote and context in which it was made has been presented above in its entirety.  Forensic reveals that it did nothing to stop the malignancy, or reverse the effect of poison, nor did it prompt an inquiry into the declarations made by His Divine Grace.

Back to the statement:

"If he (Nityananda das) was attending Srila Prabhupada in the early hours in Vrindavan, he would have heard Srila Prabhupada as soon as his Divine Grace woke up, "Where is Tamal? Ask him to come to me." And then he would have seen a very sweet loving exchange between them. Srila Prabhupada talking to him about the affairs of the movement, his various concerns about the future of this movement and what should be done to protect this movement."

All good reasons for Tamal Krsna to undersign himself as heir to the ISKCON fortune.  But where was the loving exchange when it was most necessary, when Srila Prabhupada "... disclosed his thoughts that someone had poisoned him" (TKG's Diary, 340 p)?  Why didn't Tamal Krsna show some sweet love then?  Why didn't Bhakticaru show sweet love when he was told and hollered out,  “Someone gave him poison here”?   Why did Srila Prabhupada’s loving disciples decide to treat him as non compos mentis. 

We take great interest in hearing Bhakticaru mention Srila Prabhupada's concerns to protect this movement.   In his “Offering” below, Bhakticaru tells us what little effect those very sweet loving exchanges had on the sweet loving inheritors:

Krishna.org (20/11/'01) Bhakticaru: "However, today we see how miserably we failed to fulfil that instruction. Srila Prabhupada's greatest asset was his devotees, and that asset we started to lose first. Now we are about to lose everything else that His Divine Grace gave us to maintain.  I do not want to blame anyone for all the mistakes that were made, but we must nonetheless recognise them and learn our lesson from them. Therefore, with all sincerity, I say that we are losing everything because we had been thinking that Srila Prabhupada is now dead and gone, and we started to claim our shares of our inheritance."

Although Bhakticaru has been careful to not want to blame anyone for all the mistakes, others have been much more truthful and forthcoming:

 “Why does his (Tamal Krsna’s) death demand that we ignore the facts, the reality, of his status? His life was unquestionably mixed, as was his death. What is the problem? He did some good things and some bad things; but why, after his death, should we only express the good? Why deify him? When TKG (Tamal Krsna) was preparing his presentation describing the numerous heresies that had cropped up in ISKCON’s first 30 years, I heard him boast that he had been a key player in ushering in all of them! He himself knew that he was no saint; what to speak of his godbrothers.”  (Kurma Rupa Dasa. www.saragrahi.org Forum.

Back to the Statement:

 "If Nityananda dasa was present there then he would have also seen that there were hundreds of devotees whose hearts were so full with their love for Srila Prabhupada that they were prepared to do anything for him. There were personalities like Gurukripa, who used to attend Srila Prabhupda everyday from 12 midnight to 2 in the morning. If Srila Prabhupada really suspected that someone had poisoned him, then all he had to do is just tell Gurukripa. Anyone who knows Gurukripa knows what would have happened then."

What to speak of hundreds of devotees, there could have been millions of devotees.  For the very fact that they were never told of Srila Prabhupada's complaint, no one was ever the wiser.  As it is, two decades later, the ‘poison whispers’ were discovered on an old tape-recording (by sheer accident).  Immediately after, Tamal Krsna, knowing the fat was in the fire, released his 'TKG's Diary' in a bid to normalise the monstrosity.  As for Gurukripa not being told by Srila Prabhupada, we don't hear his voice anywhere in the "poison conversations."  So our query is not, "Why didn't Srila Prabhupada tell him about the poisoning?"  His Divine Grace was bedridden he could not go searching for Gurukripa.  Our query is to Bhakticaru: "Why didn't you tell him about it?  You were not bedridden."  The fact that Gurukripa Prabhu hasn't mentioned a word to date suggests the suspects shut him out along with everyone else.

The statement continued:

"And it is not only Gurukripa, Srila Prabhupada had to just tell any one of the few hundred devotees that were there and one can only imagine what the reaction would have been like." 

But Srila Prabhupada did tell devotees, he told Bhakticaru, Tamal Krsna, the kaviraja, Balaram Misra, Bhavananda and Jayapataka.  This group assembled and decided: We did not go searching for a murderer because we concluded there was no murder."  Not only was it kept secret from authorities, but disciples and followers would not hear about it until discovered by accident, twenty years later.  For the benefit of Bhakticaru who appears to be suffering from memory lapse: between Nov. 8th and 14th (audio Tapes T-44, 45 & 46) visitors were few and monitored.  If Bhakticaru is trying to suggest (as Bhavananda did) that hundred of devotees had access to Prabhupada, it isn’t true.  Yadubara's film (The Final Lesson) although showing a number of devotees present at Srila Prabhupada's deathbed, does not tell us that a security cordon was a permanent fixture.  Free access to His Divine Grace was only permitted in those final hours when speech was impeded.  Besides, what was the need for the Founder to disrupt (or more) a fledgling ISKCON for a dastardly deed already done.  What is the sense in that?  SP: "If I think I am taking poison, a dead body is already poisoned. For a dead body poison or ambrosia…" TKG's Diary. 261 p.

The statement continued:

"Those who are suspecting that Srila Prabhupada has been poisoned by some of his disciples, I will request them to go deep within their hearts and ask whether it is at all possible for a vaisnava, who does not even kill an ant, to murder his spiritual master."

Oh really!  And which vaisnava is Bhakticaru speaking of?

"One evening I was with Tamal Krishna Maharaj in our room in Vrindavan. A mosquito was sucking his blood sitting on his leg. It had become quite bloated with the blood that it sucked from his body. A sudden pain from the bite made Tamal Krishna Maharaj aware of that mosquito. His hand rose in a natural reflex to strike that little creature, but stopped all of a sudden, then it came down slowly and flicked the mosquito away from his leg. The person who would not even kill the mosquito that was sucking his blood, how can anyone think that he gave poison to his spiritual master."

Here's an excerpt taken from a BIF posting on PADA:

 "According to Bhakticaru, if Tamala Krsna would not even kill the mosquito he was incapable of poisoning his spiritual master.  So if we accept this logic, then Tamala Krsna could possibly have poisoned Srila Prabhupada if he was a mosquito killer.  Okay.  A BIF operative had no idea how an after-prasadam discussion (taped), would have any bearing on this logic, but it does.  Here it is:

Induliekha Mataji (IM): It was in ' 95 at Mayapura. I was having some problems with him (her husband) and needed to talk to TKG to help me with some direction. I remember it was Mayapura because there was no brahmacarini asram and I was having difficulty finding a place to stay. So I went up to see him.

BIF: Where exactly did Tamala meet with you?

IM: It was upstairs in one of those rooms in the conch building.

BIF: Who else was there? Where were you in proximity to Tamala? And where was he?

IM: I don't remember who else was there, but I remember sitting on the floor. Tamala was sitting up on a bed looking down.

BIF: Okay. So what happened next?

IM: A mosquito was trying to bite me. It sat on my face and I drove it off. Soon it was back again, this time it landed on my arm. I shooed it off again. Then I heard TKG say, "Kill it." I looked up. He was looking straight at me. "Kill it," he repeated. His eyes were intense (she demonstrated by fixing her eyes without blinking).

BIF: What did you do?

IM: I was scared. The mosquito had gone. I remember feeling some relief. But then it was back again and TKG was saying again, "Kill it !... I said kill it !"

BIF: Why didn't you just kill it?

IM: I didn't want to. Besides, I would have blood all over my hands. So I said to him, "No I won't."

BIF: Wow! And then what?

IM: He just glowered at me, then got up and walked straight out the room without saying another word.

Back to the Statement:

"Srila Prabhupada went to Vrindavan in May from Hrisikesa to leave his body. Everyone present there was aware of that. The conspiracy to eliminate him was not the reality rather the reality was intense prayer to Krsna not to let Srila Prabhupada go away from their midst."

          Many great personalities have predicted their own demise; it is not an excuse for murder.  Those involved with the investigation firmly believe that His Divine Grace (seeing his demise at hand) gave clearly defined dictates (just as his precepts are clearly defined in his writings) for the ongoing function of ISKCON.  His Will, the July 9th Letter and relative audio tape recordings (along with 151 missing tapes for 1977) lend heavily to this theory. 

          Were his dictates proving incompatible with the calculations of expectant ‘inheritors’?  SP: “These eleven devotees are called "ritvik"--representatives of the acarya” (TKG's Diary: 112 p).  It is quite realistic under the circumstances (corroborated by forensic evidence and related facts) to suspect a decision by clandestine caucus to prematurely dispose of His Divine Grace.  To urgently do away with senility threatening tradition, and to simultaneously fulfil the suicidal desires (according to Tamal Krsna's taped conversation dated 11/77) of a suffering old man.  Tamala Krsna: " A number of times he (Srila Prabhupada) would say: " Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine that will allow me to disappear now."  If we are to believe Tamal Krsna, then Srila Prabhupada made suicidal requests a number of times without any of the few hundred devotees that were there ever hearing him, because no one has come forward to confirm these claims, nor are there any recordings to substantiate it.  Why are these ‘gurus’ lying?  Res ipsa loquitar (it speaks for itself).

The statement continued:

"I personally learnt a wonderful lesson from this allegation. I must have developed some pride due to my good fortune in serving Srila Prabhupada those days. Now Krsna, the destroyer of pride, is mercifully taking care of that. While I, due to my false ego, was feeling proud that I served Krsna's pure devotee, the world is seeing me as the one who gave him poison. It is indeed Krsna's causeless mercy."

Bhakticaru should reserve his final analysis for later. ‘The world seeing me as the one who gave him poison’ isn't half as bad as ‘The law prosecuting me for murder.’

The statement continued:

"I used to feel very impressed by one statement of Srila Prabodhananda Saraswati, a very intimate associate of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the uncle of Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami, "If the whole world glorifies me but Krsna does not recognise me then what is the use of that glorification. If the whole world spits at me but Krsna recognises me then who cares about that spitting."

Srila Prabodhananda Saraswati is indeed an intimate associate of Chaitanya Deva.  He is also often quoted by His Divine Grace.  For Bhakticaru to expect the same recognition by Krsna is presumptuous to say the least.  After all, his only claim to fame is a short 'nursing' stint.  Now, even that hangs under a cloud of heavy metal toxins.  As for his certified guruship: it earns no recognition from any other than ISKCON's internal revenue, to which he clings in spite of the flying saliva.

"Very mercifully Krsna is giving me the opportunity to apply this wonderful instruction in my own life. This allegation is making me aware about the futility of mundane adoration and importance of Krsna's recognition. No matter what the world thinks, Krsna knows everything. Therefore what is the use of worrying about my image in this world? After all, sitting in my heart Krsna knows about all that I think and do. The conditioned souls of this material world may make mistakes in their judgement, but Krsna will never make any mistake. I have taken shelter of Him and surrendered myself unto Him, now let Him decide what I deserve."

Bhakticaru's desire for grandiose role-playing is in keeping with sect phenomena.  Frankly, we don't care if he thinks he sits on the right hand of God.  Our concerns are for his starring role in '77, in which he played a disciple who played an unqualified nurse who may have aided and abetted in murder for profit.

The statement continued:

"To this world I will declare clear and loudly, "IT IS AN ABSOLUTELY ABSURD ALLEGATION THAT SRILA PRABHUPADA HAS BEEN POISONED BY HIS DISCIPLES. IF ANYONE INTENTIONALLY POISONED SRILA PRABHUPADA, THEN IT MUST BE ME BECAUSE THOSE DAYS I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO USED TO GIVE PRASAD AND MEDICINE TO HIS DIVINE GRACE. WHATEVER HE ATE AND DRANK WENT THROUGH MY HAND."

Please note: Bhakticaru believes it is an absolutely absurd allegation that Srila Prabhupada has been poisoned by his disciples.  There is no need for any reverse speech analysis here.  What he's saying is that it would not be absurd to believe someone other than his disciples could have poisoned Srila Prabhupada.  In fact, he doesn't argue against the poisoning at all.  Then he says, "If anyone intentionally poisoned Srila Prabhupada then it must be me...."  So we must assume, since he is not disputing the fact that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, and if he (Bhakticaru) did not “intentionally” do it, then it must have been done "accidentally” by someone else.  A disassociated demon on a busman's holiday perhaps?  Here it is, Kaviraja: "Listen, this is the understanding that some raksasa may have given (poison)...Caru swami (Bhakticaru says, "Yes”)...some raksasa has given (poison). This can happen. It's not impossible” (T-45/B).

  Is this sanity?  Imagine what a jury would think?  But most importantly: why didn't the kaviraja’s "absurd" and "irrational" deduction cause any anxiety or need for clarification for Bhakticaru, Tamala Krsna, Jayapataka or Bhavananda?  They were all there.  How is it that a suggestion so far-fetched didn't so much as raise a coo-ee from these cowboys?

The ‘statement’ continued:

 "Let the omniscient, omnipotent Supreme Personality of Godhead judge me. If I committed such a heinous crime towards the most dear devotee of the Lord, to whom I owe everything, including my very existence, then let me suffer eternally in the darkest region of the hell."

No!  According to secular law, murder is tried by jurisprudence.  Suspects should be tried and if found guilty, sentenced.  By Vedic injunction, absolution is awarded in this world avoiding severe complications in the next.  If the poisoners perchance succeed in sheltering behind the ISKCON protectorate without subjection to due process, investigators will compile enough documented evidence and personal testimony (for posterity) to confirm the suspects as killers. 

The statement continued:

 "If any of Srila Prabhupada's disciples, whose heart is steeped with his love for Srila Prabhupada, wants to take the law in his hand and judge me, I will welcome that also. I give him full freedom to judge and do whatever he wants to do with me. I can assure him that I will accept that judgement without any protest."

ISKCON is not an enclave subject to its own constitutional laws.  Long before tri-dandis’ were in vogue, investigators moved past the nurse, doctor and obvious rascal to find sin most horrid nestled in the hearts of the clergy.  We are not interested in Bhakticaru's invitation to judge him.  Rather, the suspects should make public their willingness to submit to Polygraph tests, Voice Stress Analysis, and to making statements under oath.  Only due process can clear the suspects, if innocent.

The statement continued:

"If someone wants to take me to the mundane court also, he can do so. There also I will give the same testimony, "IT IS AN ABSOLUTELY ABSURD ALLEGATION THAT Srila PRABHUPADA HAS BEEN POISONED BY HIS DISCIPLES. IF ANYONE INTENTIONALLY POISONED Srila PRABHUPADA, THEN IT MUST BE ME BECAUSE THOSE DAYS I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO USED TO GIVE PRASAD AND MEDICINE TO HIS DIVINE GRACE. WHATEVER HE ATE AND DRANK WENT THROUGH MY HAND."

Waiting to receive your judgement and aspiring to remain a servant of the vaisnavas"

"Bhakti Caru Swami."

CONCLUSION

For those working with the evidence in this case, the wilful and criminal attempt to hide the alleged crime and simultaneously throw down a rearguard action, is far from coincidental.  No Sir.  Every detail was meticulously pondered, with every aspect of defence taken into consideration and applied.

Although Bhakticaru’s ‘statement’ has all the ingredients of one who is humble and submissive, the facts are quite different. A) Even after acknowledging that Srila Prabhupada had been poisoned, Bhakticaru never reported it to the authorities. B) He backed Tamal Krsna in the (secret) meeting in which it was decided that there was no poisoning. C) He was part of the conspiracy to keep the poisoning secret until its discovery two decades later. D) He still denies that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned.  E) He has done nothing more than hide behind the GBC produced book (NTIP) of which this worthless statement is a part. E) He has done nothing to initiate an investigation or prove his innocence.

 In the end, Bhakticaru’s sabre rattling may hilt from a phantasm believing that what the gods have put together no man can pull asunder, and/or from a false conviction that a quarter century has dissolved the molecular needle hidden in the chemical haystack.  If this is so, he is wrong on both counts.  He is not a god, nor will the heavy metal needle dissolve; it will always be there as final proof.  Also, through it all, His Divine Grace has remained present and immortal:

“The tell ill who speak that Vaisnavas die

When Thou art living still in sound

Vaisnavas die to live and in living try

To spread the Holy Name around.”  (Bhaktivinod Thakur)

 "I will remain your personal guidance, physically present or not physically present, as I am getting guidance from my guru maharaja." (Srila Prabhupada room conversation, Vrindavan, July 7, 1977)

PART TWO

CHAPTER THREE

“THE POISON’S GOING DOWN”- TAMAL KRSNA INCRIMINATES HIMSELF AS THE ‘WHISPERER.’

                  "Men never do evil so completely, and cheerfully as when they do it from religious reasons."  (Blaise Pascal)

INTRODUCTION

Being of extreme importance and relevance to the suspicious demise of His Divine Grace, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, this particular report has been compiled after meticulous research into 1) the written works of Tamal Krsna 2) his "testimony" in the book "Not that I am Poisoned," (NTIP) and 3) the existing "Conversation Tapes" (T-44, 45 & 46) and transcripts therefrom, as published in “Conversations with Srila Prabhupada” Volume 36 (BBT).

For those unaware of (the late) Tamal Krsna's position within the Hare Krsna Society (ISKCON): he was a sect-endorsed guru.  His ascension to this position has no precedence in Vedic law. Traditionally, devotees are trained continuously for twenty-five years before being considered instructors (what to speak of accepting disciples).  Here are Srila Prabhupada's credentials- Srila Prabhupada: "Oh Yes, my father trained me from childhood, yes. And then I met my spiritual master in 1922. In India 80 to 90% people are Krishna Conscious by family-wise. You see? So we were trained up from the beginning of our life" (Conversations, 681230 iu. la).  And here are Tamal Krsna's credentials- Srila Prabhupada: "I could understand you had no family, love, anything." (TKG's Diary. 75).

After only ten years of sporadic association with its founder, Tamal Krsna claimed (subsequent to the founder's suspicious demise) that he along with ten others were now acaryas themselves.  Here's what he wrote: "But when the guru departs, sadhu and sastra can take on a new import, as those who succeed him become the new interpreters of past precedents, scriptural law, and the new set of circumstance."  (A Hare Krsna at Southern Methodist University (HKSMU: 297).  The other ‘inheritors’ agreed.  However, it didn't quite work out.  The representatives who claimed acarya/guru status proved to be gangsters and whoremongers: - "Jayatirtha das was found to be taking LSD and was guilty of sexual transgressions. Hamsadutta Swami, in a much publicised case, was discovered amassing weapons, and was also found to be sexually promiscuous. (HKSMU: 305)

Not long after, others were exposed for murder, paedophilia, and fornicating with disciples, and the wives of their disciples.  Acting as if to plan, Tamal Krsna attempted to grab the lot: "Tamal Krishna Goswami, the leader of a large number of sannyasi and brahmacari preachers, had insisted that he was now their via media in relating to Prabhupada and expected that his godbrothers follow him absolutely." (HKSMU, 305 p).  First he introduced chaos and then relentlessly pursued his dream of being sole acarya.  Tamal Krsna: "Indeed. Lord Caitanya had given an open order for all to "become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land."  But a succession of 'all' is a succession of none." (HKSMU: 289).

Srila Prabhupada, as preceptor and spiritual master felt that none of his disciples were qualified enough, what to speak of a sole successor.  Here's what he said only eighteen weeks before passing away. Tamal Krsna: "I told Prabhupada we had a meeting to further relieve him. But he was not impressed at all and said, "Problem is there is no brain." (TKG' Diary: 54).  Now, only two of the eleven appointed representatives remain, of these one is in limbo.  More devotees live in exile than within ISKCON, and what remains of the Society is being cannibalised by others religious factions

Devotees witnessed as Tamal Krsna's 'inheritor gurus' began to retrogress.  Quickly brushing aside the 'anointed-appointed' concoction, Tamal Krsna replaced the fallen with voices from his own encomium choir.  "The Multi-Guru-System" was implemented: a virtual assembly line of made-in-ISKCON gurus.  The program now provides endless Fagans for ISKCON's unsuspecting Twists.  But more importantly for Tamal Krsna, it further confused the murder investigation by providing propaganda, allegiance, and bullet-proof protection via grateful 'gurus' who were all protégé party-liners.

It seemed unbelievable that His Divine Grace, an empire builder, had left ISKCON without a mandate and to a pod of resuscitated hippies led by Tamal Krsna.  As crisis followed crisis, it became painfully obvious to all involved that the self-proclaimed gurus were flying by the seat of their saffrons.  Then, as if by divine decree, poison whispers were discovered on the 'Conversation Tapes' (and forensically verified).  *We now read in the GBC endorsed book (NTIP) that it was Tamal Krsna who was doing the whispering.  This led to the analysis and confirmation of arsenic in Prabhupada's hair-clippings (twenty times higher than average).  Later it was discovered that Prabhupada’s Will (which gives clue to motive) had been hidden.  Then it was uncovered that a letter by Srila Prabhupada, designating the ‘acaryas’ as nothing more than ritviks, was never dispatched by Tamal Krsna (Prabhupada’s secretary) to temples internationally.  Furthermore, important audio-tapes (which quite possibly contained vital dictates from His Divine Grace) had gone missing.  Tamal Krsna was seen clearing out the tape almirah immediately after Prabhupada’s passing.  When devotees first heard Srila Prabhupada on tape speaking about the possibility of his being poisoned, the pieces began to fall in place.  There never was a more temperate incubator to hatch a murder.

* According to the GBC endorsed book (NTIP 75 p), its author (Hooper) interviewed Tamal Krsna who did not deny being the whisperer: " I RECEIVED THE FAMOUS T-46 TAPE FROM THE ARCHIVES, AND WAS AMAZED WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE SO CALLED "POISON IS GOING DOWN"…I COULD CLEARLY HEAR YOUR VOICE WHISPERING, "THE SWELLING IS GOING DOWN, THE SWELLING IS GOING DOWN."  Since Tamal Krsna did not deny it, and the GBC endorsed it, we must accept it.  But as our readers now know, Owl Investigations New York has since proved all three: the GBC, Hooper and Tamal Krsna to be liars because the correct whisper was “The poison’s going down.”

Those who knew Tamal Krsna knew that he was obsessively power-hungry.  So overwhelmed was he by a lust for power that he could not contain it.  No sooner had His Divine Grace been entombed than Tamal Krsna began to pump out patrimony propaganda.  We have listed some of his claims and contradictions below.

(1) Here Tamal Krsna wrestles God in a patrimony claim: “Indeed. Lord Caitanya had given an open order for all to "become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land." But a succession of 'all' is a succession of none." (A Hare Krsna at Southern Methodist University (HKSMU: 289) by Tamal Krsna).

And here's Tamal Krsna (in another publication), saying the exact opposite: " In the middle of the night, Srila Prabhupada called for me. He could not sleep; thinking of the will had kept him up. "Amongst the G.B.C., have you selected one after me who will succeed?" I replied that we felt that we should manage together as a group, that none of us was more qualified than the others. (TKG's Diary: 92)

(2) Here he tells us Prabhupada wanted acaryas, Srila Prabhupada: "I shall appoint some sannyasis as acaryas." (TKG's Diary: 48)

 And here he tells us something totally different, " This morning in the garden, I asked Srila Prabhupada what we should do regarding initiations. He said give me a list of sannyasis, and I shall mark which ones...[...].... These eleven devotees are called "ritvik"--representatives of the acarya. (TKG's Diary: 112)

(3) Here Tamal Krsna informs us why he should be the boss.... Srila Prabhupada: "You are my private secretary. You have to be responsible for everything." (TKG's Diary: 46)

Here Srila Prabhupada tells us why he could not trust Tamal Krsna to be boss.... I told Prabhupada we had a meeting to further relieve him. But he was not impressed at all and said, "Problem is there is no brain." (TKG's Diary: 54).

(4) Here Tamal Krsna tells us how his service effects the world..."I said, "Srila Prabhupada, our only desire is to serve you." And he said, "I know, and it is the only reason I am living. All over the world things are going on by your sincere service." (TKG's Diary: 66)

But here, Srila Prabhupada tells us Tamal Krsna doesn't want to serve at all.... Srila Prabhupada: "You have a bad habit. When I need anything, you always have your assistants get it." (TKG's Diary: 172)

And here (avoiding details) Tamal Krsna admits to arguing with Srila Prabhupada...." I felt very perplexed with Prabhupada' admonition, "You are prejudiced." Later in the afternoon, I was still feeling disturbed, mainly because of my argumentative attitude during the earlier discussion." (TKG's Diary: 103)

(5) Here are some more of Tamal Krsna's claims to Boss-Head...Srila Prabhupada: "Of course if I die there is nothing to lament. You are quite competent.... [....].... My physical presence is not important." (TKG's Diary: 217)

And..... " Was this perhaps a training period? Because now, I answer all the letters myself, reading His Divine Grace neither the letters nor the replies. It is certainly a relief for him not to be taxed with so many matters." (TKG's Diary: 68)

And again.... Srila Prabhupada: "Tamal, my brain is not working now. You are very intelligent; so whatever you decide, I will do." (TKG's Diary: 190)

 And again: Srila Prabhupada: "May your (Tamal Krsna's) words be blessed. Bless me that I may fix up my mind." (TKG's Diary: 195)

And again.... Srila Prabhupada: "There is nothing lamentable if I pass away. My age is now ripe. You conduct affairs." (TKG's Diary: 191)

And again...Calling for me Prabhupada said, "Now practically the whole situation will depend on you." (TKG's Diary: 329)

And again...." Srila Prabhupada said, " Do not go! I want to train you. At least one of you may know everything, can be qualified." (TKG's Diary: 92)

And again: "Krsna had directed Prabhupada to ask me to read the document. Otherwise, we would never have caught the mistake. (TKG's Diary: 329)

(6) Here's Tamal Krsna actually believing he's a doctor..."Because I was treating him, Srila Prabhupada acted as though I was his doctor. He told Bhakticaru to consult with me regarding which foods he should be served and asked Upendra to consult me about the kind of massage and bath to give." (TKG's Diary: 110)

(7) And here's Tamal Krsna playing guru in front of guru: "I told Srila Prabhupada that Visala would only try to conceive a child after taking permission from me." (TKG's Diary: 132)

What follows is a short list of vinegar quotes made by Tamal Krsna.  There can be no reason for these recollections other than to make His Divine Grace appear ordinary.  Some of the quotes have been attributed to Srila Prabhupada (SP) himself.  Whether or not the quotes are true is irrelevant, at best, they are a breach of confidence.  We see Tamal Krsna's reasons for publishing them as a sort of twisted therapy perhaps, an exorcising of hobgoblins.  (Note: To avoid excessive volume, we have only taken quotes from one publication, "TKG's Diary.")

 Tamal Krsna's FALLEN PRABHUPADA: -

(a) Gradually, I have seen that Srila Prabhupada is no longer chanting japa on his beads. Many years ago, he was chanting sixty- four rounds, then gradually less, until a number of years ago it was sixteen. But now he does not chant on beads." (TKG's Diary: 68).

(b) Although it was Ekadasi, Srila Prabhupada asked for Horlicks, which contains ingredients that are derived from grains. (TKG's Diary: 201)

(c) He had me put snuff near him, of which he also availed himself. (TKG's Diary: 204)

(d) Unfortunately, Upendra mistook champagne for lemonade, and he fed Srila Prabhupada the champagne. Prabhupada drank a little and motioned that he was satisfied." (TKG's Diary: 192)

 Here's Tamal Krsna's ORDINARY PRABHUPADA: -

(a) During the gurukula kirtan, Prabhupada is drooling more and more. (TKG's Diary: 58)

(b) Prabhupada was speaking to Bhavananda Maharaja (Bacis) and looking at him said, "Just now I am forgetting your name. This is the position." (TKG's Diary: 266)

(c) Prabhupada has difficulty hearing correspondence. Very often, he falls asleep in the middle of a letter. (TKG's Diary: 198)

(d) Today while listening to Jayadvita read, Prabhupada fell asleep..." (TKG's Diary: 285)

(e) In the case of Mr. Meyer, I had originally thought I should deal with him myself and not tax Srila Prabhupada. But gradually, I had begun to feel that this man was a little special and deserved special attention. Prabhupada however, had to strain to think the whole matter out, and I saw now that I should not have bothered him." (TKG's Diary: 73)

(f) In the afternoon Srila Prabhupada felt lonely and unhappy, so he asked us all to come to him. (TKG's Diary: 297)

(g) Srila Prabhupada had difficulty seeing, so I helped him sign by putting his hand in the proper place. (TKG's Diary: 329)

(h) It failed mainly because Srila Prabhupada was expected to subject himself to cold, a procedure he did not like at all. Otherwise, the treatment might have worked. (TKG's Diary: 97)

(i) He passed urine from bed, into a bedpan. (TKG's Diary: 195)

(j) SP: "I have not studied all the Vedas and Upanisads. I have read only Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam." (TKG's Diary:) 

And here is the HERZIG HORSEFLY who tells us: "Even though the very mention of Prabhupada's disappearance does indeed bring pain to a disciples heart, hearing the subject is like drinking hot sugarcane juice: painful yet irresistibly sweet." (The Final Pastimes of SP, page 4)

(a) The previous night Srila Prabhupada had passed stool in bed. (TKG's Diary: 161)

(b) Deciding to give Srila Prabhupada an enema, we laid him down in the bathroom...[...]...We gave him three enemas." (TKG's Diary: 169)

(c) In the afternoon, Prabhupada called for me. "Today I am not feeling well," he said. "I have passed liquid stool."  (TKG's Diary: 199)

(d) All night Prabhupada had passed urine full of puss and blood clots. (TKG's Diary: 257)

(e) When he passed urine in the morning, it was free of blood. (TKG's Diary: 265)

(f) When the kaviraja saw Prabhupada's very discoloured urine, he said the disorder was a type of gonorrhoea. (TKG's Diary: 270)

(g) He (SP) was disturbed because he was passing stool too frequently, three times a day. (TKG's Diary: 280)

(h) Srila Prabhupada began to vomit after hardly a mouthful. So much mucus immediately came out. (TKG's Diary: 280/81)

(i) Five times today he passed stool. (TKG's Diary: 301)

(j) During the second translation period in the evening, he began passing stool while translating was going on. (TKG's Diary: 304)

(k) Because he does not know when he has passed stool, we have to tell him, and then Upendra usually cleans him up. (TKG's Diary: 327)

So we get all this hot sugarcane juice from Tamal Krsna, but what we don't see are any structured charts or (filed) progressive medical reports on Srila Prabhupda's condition.  For example:

(1) Some patients with type 2 diabetes can avoid having to take any medications through diet and exercise, and to the extent that their blood sugar levels remain normal, they can be considered cured.  So where is Srila Prabhupada's diet and exercise chart?

(2) Insulin therapy is only started if pills do not work effectively or if patients request insulin, this has nothing to do with going to a hospital.  So where are the charts showing prescriptions, dosages and appropriate dispensing adjustments made for Srila Prabhupada?  The only record of medications we have is something about poisonous makaradhvaja, and this nonsense: "For now the kaviraja was giving medicine made from crushed pearls and will be giving crushed emeralds later, which are even more powerful than crushed diamonds." (TKG's Diary. 348).

(3) Most people with type 2 diabetes check their blood sugars less frequently, such as 1-2 times a day. But, this must be done regularly otherwise discomfort levels can become excessive.  Careful attention to keeping blood pressure and cholesterol levels in the normal range also improves lifespan for people with diabetes.  So, where are the daily/weekly/monthly sugar level readings taken from His Divine Grace?

(4) Many different foods, especially carbohydrates and fats, can be broken down into glucose.  In addition, glucose is made by the liver.  Both of these sources, in the setting of insulin deficiency or insulin resistance, can contribute to high blood sugar.  So, who was Prabhupada's dietician?  If he didn't have one, why not?  If he did, where is the diet control variation chart?

(5) All non-insulin-diabetics have a condition called impaired glucose tolerance, which means that they have normal blood sugars when fasting, but their sugar rises too high and stays up too long when they eat sugars/ glucose/fructose.  From reading "TKG's Diary," we find that Srila Prabhupada's intake was basically sugar/glucose/ fructose contained in misri jaal, misri doodh, honey, royal jelly, ice-cream, custard, raisins, fruit-juices, fruit, laddhu, fried eggplant, fried portals (sic), puris, and coconut milk blended with avocado.  Even without arsenic, this diet can poison/kill a diabetic: - "Prabhupada complained about a feeling of intoxication, but this was explained away as being due to taking glucose and protein....” (TKG's Diary. Page 251).  Why was this torture being inflicted on His Divine Grace?

(6) Why is there no record (by Prabhupada's nurses) of exacerbated hyperglycaemia leading to loss of energy, blurred vision, nausea, bladder and skin infection, kidney disease, heart palpitations, circulatory problems, nerves, and digestive disorders?

If, as claimed by the suspects, the relationship between Srila Prabhupada and his nurses/senior disciples were based on bhabe (love/caring), then how much basic care was given?  Here are some straight shooting questions regarding basic care for diabetics, let's have some straight shooting answers:

1) If Tamal Krsna knew Prabhupada had diabetes (and he did), what was the diet plan? (Provide chart)

2) What was Srila Prabhupada's overall glycemic risk, or risk of long and short term complications? (Provide analysis)

3) What was Srila Prabhupada's postmeal or postprandial plasma glucose level? (Provide chart)

4) What was Srila Prabhupada's fasting plasma glucose level? (Provide chart)

5) What was his (average) blood pressure mm Hg systolic and mm Hg diastolic? (Provide chart)

6) What were his cholesterol mg/dl readings? Triglycerides (blood fats)? And LDL where detected? (Provide chart)

7) Was a doctor called when blood sugar levels were high? (Provide name and filed report)

8) Were Srila Prabhupada's postmeal blood glucose levels (glucose spike) ever monitored?  His fasting blood glucose levels? His Glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c)? (Provide charts).

9) Did Srila Prabhupada's "nurses" know that blood sugar levels in people with diabetes need to be carefully monitored?  If not, why not? If they were, what proof is there that this knowledge was put into practice?

The information provided in "TKG's Diary" is distorted and dodgy without a lodestar (other than Tamal Krsna's own encomium).  Instead of mitigating evidence, it leaves us with little doubt that His Divine Grace was being tortured to death (by negligence if not pre-meditation).  To debate between dubious medication, arsenic and diet as catalyst, is academic.  It would appear that all three worked in unison to achieve fatal results.  A high level of blood sugar (complex carbohydrates) is known to exacerbate complications in diabetics, and since it is considered extremely hazardous (poisonous) if not strictly monitored and regulated and; since Prabhupada's 'nurses' were already aware of his diabetic condition (Ch: 2, NTIP), it is our belief that sugars and medication (containing heavy metal alloys) were used in concert to poison His Divine Grace.

It would be utter nonsense for anyone to even suggest that His Divine Grace was monitoring his own diet.  Here we see who controlled Srila Prabhupada's diet: - Tamala Krsna: " Now on one hand we could take it...give him that medicine (poison) or let him stop eating...to death...until death, we could have done that."  (Taped conversation dated 11/77 between Tamal Krsna and Satasvarupa das, in which Tamal Krsna claims that Srila Prabhupada wanted Tamal Krsna to kill him by administering poison).

SUMMARY

Since this report deals with the book, "Not that I am Poisoned" (the section entitled "Testimonies"), and in particular the "Testimony" of Tamala Krsna (a.k.a. Thomas Herzig), we are compelled to enema his recorded memoirs to flush out the truth.  BIF will analyse the writings of this man to show 1) How Srila Prabhupada has been portrayed as a personality so weak, he "desired" to be murdered by Tamal Krsna.  2) How Tamal Krsna depicted Srila Prabhupada as a soul so bereft of transcendental understanding that he was willing to commit suicide. 3) How Tamal Krsna actually admits the decision to allow Srila Prabhupada to live or die, lay with him (Tamal Krsna).  4) How Tamal Krsna surreptitiously doctored the "poison conversations" in an attempt to deflect suspicion from himself and render the facts obsolete.  5) How Tamal Krsna deliberately misled readers by editing himself out from the "Ram will kill / Ravana will kill" conversation in his book, TKG's Diary.  BIF will also provide excerpts from taped and documented interviews that will leave the reader with ample proof that homicide was more than a possibility, and poison was the coward’s weapon.  In so doing, we will reveal how a concerted effort was orchestrated by Tamal Krsna (and his confrere) from the very onset to obscure the crime.

In the book "Not That I am Poisoned" (NTIP), Tamal Krsna writes: " Many of you might have wondered why I have not denied this charge if there is no truth to it. The reason is quite simple: I felt the most appropriate and beneficial way to do so was to publish my diary, "TKG's Diary."  So we went out and purchased a copy of "TKG's Diary." Rather than vindicate the writer, the publication incriminates him further.  We will show how "TKG'S Diary" is no less felonious than the book "Not That I am Poisoned" or "The Final Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada," which have all been written with one thought in mind: to hide the truth so as to deter investigation and secular involvement.

REPORT

Okay, let's take a closer look at Tamal’s tamasa:

NTIP, page 145: Tamal Krsna (quote) " I DID NOT POISON PRABHUPADA. In fact, NOBODY POISONED PRABHUPADA." (unquote).

The second portion of the above statement by Tamal Krsna is certainly a lie, ipso facto the whole statement must be a lie. Here is Tamal Krsna admitting as much in his own words: "We asked Srila Prabhupada later what was the cause of his mental disturbance.  Prabhupada disclosed his thoughts that someone has poisoned him."  TKG's Diary, 340 p.

Actually, everyone there heard and believed Srila Prabhupada was poisoned.  We have already shown this to be a fact (Pt /1 Ch.3).

So why did Tamal Krsna say,  "NOBODY POISONED PRABHUPADA"?  Even the kaviraja (Damodar Prasad Sastri) admits there must be " truth behind it when Prabhupada says so," why does Tamal Krsna make point-blank denials?  We find this very strange since he tried to convince everyone (at the time) of Sastri's knowledge and efficiency.  He even immortalised the kaviraja as a sort of Jesus.  Here is Tamal Krsna quoting the kaviraja in his book: The final pastimes of Srila Prabhupada (quote): “…In the past I have cured lepers, brought youth to the aged, even made the dead come back to life. My medicines have never failed. But still Prabhupada's life is slipping away. It must be as he said. "This disease has no material cure" (unquote).  Tamal Krsna's god-like figure is claiming that Srila Prabhupada may have been poisoned and that his medicines were useless.  Under the circumstances even a donkey would have given credence to what Srila Prabhupada was saying.

From our own initial investigations we have discovered that there were respected Vrindavan citizens who also believed Srila Prabhupada was being poisoned (Re. Pt/1 Ch 3).  It would have come as a surprise to the late Tamal Krsna to discover that his almighty kaviraja was acting in consultation with other doctors to whom he admitted that Srila Prabhupada was being poisoned.  He also spoke openly to his family on this matter.  Here are some more facts that challenge Tamal Krsna’s pretensions:

Bonamali kaviraja was a Bengali and an old friend of Srila Prabhupada's.  It was only natural that Srila Prabhupada called for his medical advice when needed.  After Prabhupada's "dream" about a Ramanuja kaviraja making medicines that would cure him, Satadhanya went off to Delhi and returned with makaradhvaja that Srila Prabhupada said was poisonous.  Then Bhakticaru went to Delhi in search of the Ramanujwallah.  He returned with a thief who wanted to extort large sums of money.  But most importantly, the thief said that the makaradhvaja being administered by Bonamali kaviraja was not makaradhvaja at all. This caused ill will between Srila Prabhupada's minders and Bonamali, and his services were terminated.  However, when no kaviraja was available to administer to His Divine Grace, a decision was made to reinstate Bonamali.

TKG's Diary: Page 304. Tamala Krsna: " It may be we should take on Bonamali again"

Prabhupada: "And stick with him."

Devotees may or may not know that Bonamali refused to accept the reappointment. His reasons are revealed below. We wish readers to accept the person interviewed is of good standing within the Mathura district.  A credible witness: -

(Taped interview) Name withheld for legal reasons: " When Bonamali kaviraja was approached again to administer to Swami Prabhupada, he was cautious.  He knew Swamiji was being treated by other kavirajas', he did not want to become involved without first doing urine sample and basic examination, this was standard practice. He requested the two devotees who came to the dispensary; first bring him a urine sample for testing. They came back next day in a rickshaw. They had "Dabur honey bottle," with Swamiji's urine sample. Bonamali lifted this bottle up to sunlight. The urine was in three layers. Three rings. I was standing to his right side. He turned to me and said, " This is poisoning. The first layer is blood, second is bone and third is marrow." He said to me, " This is slow poison. After giving this poison, the man will die slowly.... no one can judge what is happening." This thing Bonamali explained me then and there. And he told them (two devotees) also, " I think it is poison."

We asked our witness how blood, bone and bone-marrow enters urine, he explained that chronic poisoning saps the energy and rots the body internally. If our readers find this difficult to believe...let Srila Prabhupada tell you about it:

Srila Prabhupada: " Bichar hi...jo idhar me to...sarte sarte bilkul sab energy nasht ho gaya. Usliye parikrama jayega."

Trans: " My thoughts are...that here...(I am) rotting and rotting. All my energy is wasted. That is why I want to go on parikrama." (T-46/A).

Or maybe readers would like to hear it from Tamal Krsna himself:

"Prabhupada was becoming increasingly weaker, dispite the medicine. The kaviraja said all organs except for the kidneys, were all right. There was no blood, marrow, flesh, or muscles." ("TKG's Diary", 332 p.)

Okay. Now BIF will move on to Tamal Krsna's book; "The Final Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada."  From this publication we will show how Tamal Krsna persistently portrays Srila Prabhupada with a body that's already dead, as a soul with a death-wish, and a coward who cannot deal with the situation he finds himself in.  We are aware of Tamal Krsna's attempts (through his publications) to be auto-suggestive.  We are also in tune with his literal endeavours at self-therapy.  But mostly, we are awake to the fact that he was an untidy liar who left behind a trail of debris twenty-five years long.

The following quotes are from " The Final Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada," a book by Tamal Krsna (TK), pages 9, 12, 13, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 52, 82, 87, 90.  Please note the auto-suggestive bold type (by this author).  Readers will also discover much subliminal messaging used to subjicate the unwary reader:

9 p. TK: Sometimes I think that his promise to Radha-Rasavihari, more than anything else, keeps Prabhupada struggling to survive."

12 p. Srila Prabhupada (SP): "My brain also is not working. According to medical science the only cure is cutting or dialysis. My present health is so weak that death can take place at any time."

13 p. SP: " But so far I am concerned, I am praying, "Krsna tvadiya pada pankaja panjarantam: My dear Krsna, please help me die immediately..." (Note: The translation Tamal Krsna attributes to Prabhupada is conspicuously incorrect. There is no mention of "immediate death" in the Mukunda Mala Stotra. Maharaja Kulashakar was not suicidal).

40 p. SP: " These doctors will come to give something to try and save. I don't want to be saved."

41 p. SP: " Better you don't pray to save me. When I was in London, I thought recovery was possible. But I have tried everything, and it is all a failure..[....]...Simply sleep. What kind of living is that? It is worse than death. Now I have finally made up my mind: I want to die...."

42 p. SP: "Why do you want me to survive? If I want to die, this is the way of peaceful death."

42 p. SP: "...They want me to survive, and I want to die...."

43 p. SP: "...If Brahmananda assures me that this movement will go on, then better let me die...”

43 p. Abhirama: " For days we've all seen Prabhupada slipping away, no longer even bothering to continue the struggle. Yet these torturous months have forced me to wish Prabhupada serene..." ( Note: And there we have it; the months were "torturous" and SP was not "serene," so they were wishing him "serene" or to use the right word...DEAD!!!).

44 p. Bhakticaru:  “But what can we do? I feel so helpless! On the one side is death, ominous, all devouring, and on the other side Srila Prabhupada, frail and unresisting."

45 p. TK:  " Prabhupada used the word "survive." Do we merely want him to "survive" as he has been doing all these months?" (Note: Please understand what is being said here. If Tamal Krsna did not want Srila Prabhupada to "merely survive," then what was his alternative?)

52 p. Upendra: " Kirtananda Maharaja said that such rich cooking was like poison...but Prabhupada countered that his body was already dead, so what was the question of being poisoned..."

82 p. Bhavananda: " Prabhupada seems to want to die. As if he's welcoming death with open arms..."

TK:  "This is the dilemma: As his disciples it is our duty to serve his "desires," but how can we help him fulfil this "desire." By which act do we prove our love?" 

(Note: Bhavananda and Tamal Krsna are discussing the "death-wish" of Srila Prabhupada.  Tamal Krsna is in a dilemma.  He wants to know which act will best fulfil Prabhupada's "desire" and prove their love: allowing Srila Prabhupada to go on living, or…).

87 p.  Bhavananda: "...Even when healthy, Prabhupada couldn't tolerate pain.  I'm afraid he'll prefer to die."

90 p. Jagadisa: " His relief is to join Krsna, not to remain in this world."

TKG's Diary 335 p. SP: "I want to die. Someone said I have been poisoned." (Note:  We have listened to the audio tapes, Prabhupada never said, “I want to die...."  It is another Tamal Krsna fabrication)

To conclude this section of the Report, we repeat an excerpt from the now infamous taped conversation dated 11/77 between Tamal Krsna and Satasvarupa das, in which Tamal Krsna claims that Srila Prabhupada wanted Tamal Krsna to kill him by administering poison. Here it is: -

Tamala Krsna: " A number of times he (Srila Prabhupada) would say: " Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine that will allow me to disappear now."   (NOTE: Tamal Krsna uses the euphemism "medicine" for "poison."  Srila Prabhupada was a qualified chemist and dispenser.  There is no occupation more au courant with the fact that medicines heal and poisons kill.  No chemist would ever knowingly commit the blunder of substituting one for the other, colloquially or otherwise.  It is much easier to accept Tamal Krsna as a liar, than attribute this faux pas to the successful chemist, Abhay Charan De.

(Continued) Tamala Krsna: " And other times..."I want most now to disappear.... I want to die peacefully...let me die peacefully. Now on one hand we could take it...give him that medicine or let him stop eating...to death...until death, we could have done that."  (Note:  Tamal Krsna uses the pronoun "we" to tell us there was a group who were in a position to murder Prabhupada if they chose to do so.  Who is this “we” referred to by Tamal Krsna in connection with the poisoning?

Another oddity: how many times have you heard the word "medicine" substituted for "poison"?  We agree that some may say that medicine can taste like poison, or is poisonous (when abused), but cannot admit to ever hearing it referred to as poison.  It is singularly unique.  But then we got a real jolt: there was someone else doing it!!  And he wasn't from another time or planet, he was in the same room as Tamal Krsna!!!  In fact, they were both involved in administering "medicine" to Srila Prabhupada!  We were amazed with the confirmation that two humans existed in the same time and space with the same unique idiosyncrasy.  Here's the kaviraja (Damodar Prasada Sastri) using the word "medicine" as a substitute for "poison":

Kaviraja (Hindi): "...Khana ek pan me dwai de doon, subhe me jindagi be bhool sakhoge."

Trans: There is an edible medicine that is put in pan.... by the morning you could forget your whole life." (Excerpt: T-45/B)

Kaviraja (Hindi): "Uske (pronoun=poison) koi medicine nahin aatha (packaged) aap ki leya...[...].... Jisko hamlok Rashkapoor* bolte hain."

Trans: This (poison) does not come (packaged) as a medicine for you...[...].... We call it Rashkapoor. (Excerpt: T-45/B)

* Rashkapoor is a poison prepared by poisoners and used as such.

In this next statement the kaviraja claims that makaradvaja (a medicine administered to Srila Prabhupada) may not be suitable for him, but as for the other medicines (woh) they are poisonous for everyone.

Kaviraja (Hindi): " Makaradhvaja to amrit hota hai. Inke liye nahin suitable hai. Yeh bat doosri. Baki woh to sab ki liye poison hota."

Trans: " Makaradhvaja is nectar. It is not suitable for him (SP). That's a different story. As for the other medicines (woh) they are all poison." (T-45/B).

When we discovered that Tamal Krsna and the kaviraja were using the same vernacular, we threw it in the think-tank.  It did not matter to us who was influencing whom.  What it did establish was 1) Tamal Krsna and the kaviraja were in frequent discussion.  There was no other way the outré could have developed.  2) Their agenda was predominantly medicines/poisons. 3) Since there is no one on record who claims privy to their meetings (or betrayed themselves by using the same word substitution) we deduced the meetings were secret and quite possibly of a clandestine nature.  But what we do know for certain is, the kaviraja admitted to his family that he believed Srila Prabhupada was poisoned.  BIF interviewed his son.

Now we take a look at Tamal Krsna's book: "TKG'S Diary" with its purposeful scramblings and omissions of documented data.  Why he published his ‘memoirs’ without first researching and correlating his work with archived material, is leery.  Especially, since he was involved with recording and maintaining the tape library.  But what really raises eyebrows is the fact that discrepancies in Tamal Krsna's memoirs occur only when dealing with the issue of "poisoning" and his involvement with it.  So here's another look at the excerpt from "Tape-44/B," following which we will expose Tamal Krsna's version: -

Tamala Krsna: "Srila Prabhupada?  You said before that you....., that it is said that you were poisoned? (Note; This question has been omitted from Tamal Krsna's account).

Srila Prabhupada: " No. These kinds of symptoms are seen when a man is poisoned.  He said like that, (has been omitted) not that I am poisoned."

Tamal Krsna: " Did anyone tell you that, or you just know it from before?" (has been omitted).

Srila Prabhupada: "I read something."

Tamal Krsna: " Ah, I see. That's why actually we cannot allow anyone else to cook for you."

NOTE:  Readers can see Tamal Krsna is initiating an inquiry by admitting "...that it is said that you were poisoned."  After Srila Prabhupada replies that someone (He) did "say like that," Tamal Krsna wants to know who had informed Srila Prabhupada or whether Srila Prabhupada had prior education on poisons.  This reveals to us Tamal Krsna's knew poison was being administered, otherwise he would never have asked-- who told or how did you know without first asking, “who is poisoning you”?- a sine qua non (essential requirement) in which he demonstrated little interest.  Then, after Srila Prabhupada tells him: "I read something," Tamal Krsna says: " Ah, I see. That's why actually we cannot allow anyone to cook for you."  He accepts the poisoning as fact and offers a solution without pursuing the suspects.  How strange is that?  Had my father told me he was poisoned I would have immediately looked around at all my family, what to speak of spiritual siblings and bush doctors.  But all Tamal wanted was the name of the informant (betrayer?) he wasn’t interested in looking for suspects.  There could be only one reason for that: he already knew who the suspect/s were.

What we get from the above exchange is penetration into Tamal Krsna’s headspace: 1) He accepted the poisoning as a reality.  2) He showed very little interest in possible suspects.  3) His interest lay more in the source of Srila Prabhupada’s information (Tamal Krsna can be heard on several occasions (taped) pressuring Prabhupada for the informant's name).  4) And, Tamal Krsna, without being informed or prompted by anyone, deduced that the poison was being administered in food.  Now how did he know that? 

Furthermore, we get two facts about Srila Prabhupada's understanding of the situation: 1) He was informed, having read about it and was therefore schooled in the knowledge of poisons.  2) He had the symptoms of one who was poisoned.  When Srila Prabhupada told Tamal Krsna, Bhakticaru, the kaviraja et al that he was being poisoned, his diagnosis was an educated one.

Here is Tamal Krsna's pretentiously blasé approach to this salient passage of information.  Readers are asked to note how a) Tamal Krsna begins his rendition by not mentioning the exact words he spoke.  This throws the actual understanding of the dialogue into discord since in fact Tamal Krsna admits to Prabhupada's complaint and the existence of an informant.  b) Then, the informant (He said like that) has been purposefully removed.  This mitigates the import of what's being said, and in so doing gives prominence to the phrase '...not that I am poisoned."  c) Tamal Krsna's pursuance of the informant ("Did anyone tell you that?”) has also been edited so as to whitewash his documented acceptance of the poisoning where he concedes: "Ah, I see. That's why we cannot let anyone else cook for you." d) Where Srila Prabhupada answers: "These kind of symptoms are seen when a man is poisoned," Tamal Krsna has changed the word when to where.  We request readers to recognise these subtle changes that are auto-suggestive, subliminal and deceptive.  e) Tamal Krsna tries to show that his interest in stopping anyone else cooking for Srila Prabhupada (and thereby bringing the food under his control) was simply a safety measure.  However, Tamal Krsna (according to him) had two options to "fulfil Prabhupada's desire".... Poison… or starvation.  Controlling Prabhupada's diet facilitated both options.  Here is Tamal Krsna's version of what was said.  The bracketed question marks denote missing words/phrases:

TKG's Diary, page-336. Tamal Krsna: " I asked Srila Prabhupada again about the poisoning [....?....] He explained, "These kinds of symptoms are seen where a man is poisoned [....?...] Not that I am poisoned [....?....] I read something." I said, [....?...] "We cannot allow anyone else to cook for you."

Also, we are curious about Tamal Krsna's fear of "anyone else" cooking for Srila Prabhupada.  Is he saying that Prabhupada's sister or some other disciple could/would poison him?  Why?  Who among Prabhupada's beloved disciples was Tamal Krsna protecting him from?  Who besides our suspect 'inheritors' stood to gain anything?  Who else was cooking for Srila Prabhupada at the time without Tamal Krsna's say-so?  Was it Tamal's dear friend and confidante, Bhavananda?  Bhavananda was the one standing beside Tamal Krsna when he whispered, "The poison's going down," as Prabhupada was fed milk by Bhakticaru (Mitchell/McCaffery/Owens).  Yes, we can believe that Bhavananda could/would poison Srila Prabhupada.  He was often seen adding "maha water" to Srila Prabhupada's food.  Or was it Bhakticaru?  He was aware that Srila Prabhupada was diabetic, yet he saturated his milk with sugar.  Was the poison acetate mixed in with the sugar crystals?  Was it Satadhanya?  Even Tamal Krsna admitted that the makaradhvaja Satadhanya brought for Prabhupada from Delhi was really poison: "Satadhanya had also arranged earlier for the makaradhvaja, which had proved poisonous." (TKG's Diary. 306).  Was it the kaviraja?  His knowledge of poisons far outweighed his medical acumen.  Or maybe it was the cabal acting under Tamal Krsna's instructions.  Since Tamal Krsna was the alpha of the pack, the latter case scenario is a definite possibility.  And the rewards for conspirators: wealth, comfort, sanctimony, sovereignty and sick sex.

In this next segment of our report we will look at another important scrambling by Tamal Krsna, as presented in his book: “TKG’s Diary.”

Readers will hear Srila Prabhupada clearly state that he would rather go on parikrama and be killed by Rama (God) than stay where he was and be killed by someone he refers to as the demon Ravana.  There is no need for any interpretation.  Ravana wanted to control the three worlds; Tamal Krsna wanted to control ISKCON.  Everyone, who knew him, knows this to be the case.  Srila Prabhupada also knew Tamal Krsna wanted ISKCON for himself: - SP: " Of all the GBC, he," indicating Tamala Krsna Maharaja with a tip of his head, "is the most intelligent. But the problem is, those with intelligence want to control everything.  And he wants to control the whole Society." (Excerpt from: "A Transcendental Diary" by Hari Sauri dasa).  So how is it that Tamal Krsna, with his intense desire to control, could overlook a murderous Ravana operating under his nose?

Now we will show how Tamal Krsna misled the ISKCON Society by omitting damning evidence (he did not simply omit; he took himself totally out of the conversation) that points to him as the prime suspect in Srila Prabhupada's alleged poisoning.  First we will present the documented version (audio taped, T 46/A, or its transcript in “Conversations with Srila Prabhupada” Vol 36, 378 p), and then Tamal Krsna's fairy tale adaptation as per his book: "TKG's Diary," 345 p.

Tamal Krsna: " This seems like suicide, Srila Prabhupada, this program. It seems to some of us like it's suicidal." (Note:  TKG has omitted this statement).

Srila Prabhupada: "And this is also suicidal." (Note: This statement has also been omitted).

Tamal Krsna: (speaking to others present): " Hmm. Prabhupada said, "And this is also suicide." (Turning to Prabhupada) NOW YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE WHICH SUICIDE. (Note: This statement has also been omitted in Tamal Krsna's version).

Srila Prabhupada: " The Ravana will kill and Rama will kill. Better to be killed by Rama. Eh? That Marica--if he does not go to mislead Sita, he'll be killed by Ravana; and if he goes to be killed by Rama, then it is better.”  (Note: This statement has been included in Tamal Krsna's version, but with subtle reconstruction.  Srila Prabhupada asks the question: "Better be killed by Rama. Eh?  He then voices his preference by adding the four words "then it is better" at the end of his statement. Tamal Krsna has removed the "Eh?" and the four words "then it is better," in his rendition. 

BIF has discovered that unless one is vigilant in pursuit of Tamal Krsna these subtle distortions will appear like oversights.  But what is really happening here is a scrambling of facts.  By removing the "Eh?" earlier, and then the four little words "then it is better" Tamal Krsna presents us with a whole different perspective.  Srila Prabhupada appears to be telling us he is going to die anyway...so it doesn't really matter who kills him.  The emphasis is on death rather than the killer.  And that's where Tamal Krsna wants us to go.  That is why the words have been o'-so-forgetfully butchered.  But the truth is, Srila Prabhupada is saying that he is being murdered by a demon and would rather die by God's hand.  Tamal Krsna knew this, he betrays the fact in his next question to the others in the room.  Here it is:

Tamal Krsna: "Who is this Srila Prabhupada is talking about?" (Note; This question is also omitted from Tamal Krsna's memoirs).

There is no one connected to Hinduism (any faction), who does not have knowledge about Sita's abduction.  Don't you?  Tamal Krsna was a sannyasi; a teacher of Vedic knowledge, did he not know of Sita's abduction?  Everyone else in the room knew the story.  When Tamal Krsna asked them "Who is this Srila Prabhupada is talking about?” one devotee responded with "Marica," and the rest followed like sheep saying "Marica...Marica."  So the question is, if everyone else in the room knew about Marica...and you out there know about Marica...why didn't our intelligent, academic, learned sannyasi know about Marica?  The answer is simple: of course he knew of Marica!  What he wanted to know was "Who is this (RAVANA!) Srila Prabhupada is talking about?"

When Tamal Krsna asked the question: "Who is this Srila Prabhupada is talking about?" and the unidentified devotee led the others into the "Marica” chant, Tamal Krsna knew right then and there that unless he translated Prabhupada’s words to mean –murder, no one else would dare do it.  He was in control, therefore, for anyone to speak the unthinkable they would need to accuse him directly.  Nobody!  Not a single soul present had the courage or sagacity to take up that challenge.  Besides, and very importantly, it showed Srila Prabhupada that everyone there held Tamal Krsna above suspicion, and that could be exactly what Tamal Krsna wanted to establish when he asked the question.

Here is Tamal Krsna's account of what was said (TKG's Diary, 345 p).  Our corrections follow (in brackets): -

Jagadisa: " Why do you want to go on parikrama? (Jagadisa said this long before the passage under examination).

Srila Prabhupada: " Let us call Krsnadas Babaji and then decide.”  (This statement was never made)

Srila Prabhupada: Either Ravana will kill, or Rama will kill. Better to be killed by Rama (Eh? is missing).  If Marica doesn't go to mislead Sita, he will be killed by Ravana; and if he goes, he'll be killed by Rama." ("then it is better" is missing).

(Note: Prabhupada never called for Krsnadas Babaji in this passage, so why did Tamal Krsna involve him?  Was it an accidental oversight, or auto-suggestive?  Meaning: outsiders were being consulted so there is no reason for anyone to believe Srila Prabhupada was being isolated and poisoned.)

So who was Marica being used as an example for if not for Srila Prabhupada himself?  And who was “The Ravana”?  Was he a phantom from the underworld?  A selfless demon who helps secretaries to fulfil their desire to be boss by committing murder on their behalf?  Or was it straight out- murder for profit?  Prima facie evidence and common sense support the latter.

TAMAL KRSNA’S ‘STATEMENT’AND THE BIF ANALYSIS.

When we see that Tamal Krsna's "Diary" (published twenty-one-years later) attempts to muff the facts surrounding Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance, and when the GBC endorsed refutation of the facts ("Not That I am Poisoned") conspires with Tamal Krsna by promoting his “statement,” the least we can do is take a closer look.  Here is his 'statement' (along with a few other gems) in red.  Our comments follow each excerpt.

"For quite some time rumors have been circulating that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, murdered by his own disciples. I as his secretary have been the chief accused."

As we have shown in the last chapter, rumours started from the lips of His Divine Grace back in ' 77 (on the 8th of Nov).  Here are his exact words. Srila Prabhupada: "Ka bole je poison korechhe...hote pare." ("Someone said (I have) been poisoned...it's possible" (T-44/A).  Tamal Krsna accepted Prabhupada’s complaint as truth. Here are some audio and literally admitted confirmations by Tamal Krsna himself, as proof: -

1)      "Was it Krsna das (who told you)?"  (T-44/A). (2) "Who said that Srila Prabhupada?" (T44/A). (3) "Srila Prabhupada? You said before that... that it is said that you were poisoned? (T44/B). (4) "Did anyone tell you that, or you know it from before?" (T44/B). (5) "Ah, I see. That's why actually we cannot allow anyone else to cook for you." (T44/B). (6) "Prabhupada was thinking that someone had poisoned him." (T45/B). (7) "Srila Prabhupada, Sastriji says that there must be some truth to it if you say that.  *So who has poisoned?" (T45/B). (8) "No poison is strong enough to stop the Harinam, Srila Prabhupada." (T45/B). (9) "Prabhupada disclosed his thoughts that someone had poisoned him" (TKG's Diary, page 340).

* “So who has poisoned?”  Was the only attempt ever made in twenty-five years to get at the truth.  Three questions: 1) Why would Tamal Krsna ask, “who has poisoned?” if he did not believe Srila Prabhupada was being poisoned?  2) If he believed Srila Prabhupada was being poisoned why didn’t he initiate an investigation to expose the poisoner?  3) Tamal Krsna asked Srila Prabhupada so many questions, they were all answered—why didn’t Srila Prabhupada answer this one? 

The statement continued:

 "I as his secretary have been the chief accused."

Who else is there that can be chief accused?  Who else stood to gain as much?  It was Tamal Krsna who moved into Prabhupada's quarters shortly after Prabhupada's passing.   This was done against His Divine Grace's expressed wishes.  Srila Prabhupada: " My rooms around the world should be kept as museum after my departure." (TKG's Diary, 213 p).  It was Tamal Krsna who had his Vyasasana (guru seat) set up on the podium.  It was Tamal Krsna who set up the 'appointed guru' system, the 'zonal acarya' system, and the now current 'multi-guru' system.  It was Tamal Krsna who had his hot little hands on the purse strings.  It was Tamal Krsna who was trustee for Prabhupada's properties internationally.  It was Tamal Krsna's birthday parties that continued for weeks around the globe while Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa puja lasts for an afternoon.  It was Tamal Krsna's food, clothes, international travel, university studies, accommodation, private bank-balance, private real estate, cars and other mod-cons that were made possible by Prabhupada's death and subsequent GBC legislature.  How can he not be the chief accused?  In fact, after taking everything into consideration (bar the sentiment), Tamal Krsna stands out like a fakir in Florida.

The statement continued:

"Many of you might have wondered why I have not denied this charge if there is no truth to it. The reason is quite simple: I felt the most appropriate and beneficial way to do so was to publish my diary, "TKG's Diary," both in book form and electronically in the Supplementary VedaBase."

Sure, Tamal Krsna has feigned publicly his disinterest in the accusations.  But privately (read Part Two, Chapter One) he embarked on a cyber-muster to arrange an all out proxy defence.  His publication of  "TKG's Diary," both in book form and electronically in the Supplementary VedaBase." was indeed  'the most appropriate and beneficial way'.  Appropriating funds for his own benefit was his adopted genre.  In fact, it was this very modus operandi that pans Tamal Krsna (like a vulture) in the right place at the wrong time: "...I proposed that things would go on nicely without me and that I was now free to become his secretary. His Divine Grace kindly accepted me." (TKG's Diary. Page 1).

The disappearance of His Divine Grace; its appropriation and resultant benefits (for Tamal Krsna), is what glues the clues. As for the diary itself, we would like to know why Tamal Krsna never published a diary before or since?  Is it because: "The diary is published in the conviction that a large and purgative dose of sheer facts is the best antidote to the "poisoned theory"? (TKG's Diary. Foreword).  Is this truly why the "Diary" was 'recorded'?  And why wasn't it published years ago, before the 'poison whispers' were discovered?  Or to be clearer: why was it published twenty-one-years later only after a conspiracy to murder was discovered?  Why did Tamal Krsna keep the "Poison Conversations" hidden for two decades?  Why did it take him twenty-one years to publish a series of disconnected notations that could be proof-read, edited and published within a month?

The statement continued: 

"This allows everyone the chance to judge for themselves what went on during Prabhupada's final pastimes."

No! The matter of Srila Prabhupada's disappearance is not so trivial that it be judged by a consensus of sectarian opinion.  To throw this issue to those who ride the ISKCON gravy train; who fear that a derailment may hurl them into a nine-to-five situation, is totally unacceptable.  More than any other of ISKCON's ghosts, this must be exorcised by law, not sect.

The statement continued:

" I also did not want to be drawn into endless debate with persons who are not actually interested in hearing facts that contradict their spurious theories. Still, friends have urged me to at least make one statement, and having read HH Bhakti Caru Swami's, I now am doing the same. It is not meant to be a comprehensive response to each and every allegation but a simple statement of fact.

We have already cleared up this matter about debate.  Tamal Krsna’s intercepted e-mail messages showed him in a frenzy whipping up a proxy defence behind the scenes. (Part 2/ Ch.1)

Statement continued:

"I DID NOT POISON PRABHUPADA. In fact, NOBODY POISONED PRABHUPADA."

It is very interesting to note how Tamal Krsna apes Bhavananda and Bhakticaru in closing ranks.  Bhavananda:  "Absolutely none of my Godbrothers poisoned Srila Prabhupada" (NTIP, 135 p).  Bhakticaru: " It is an absolutely absurd allegation that Srila Prabhupada has been poisoned by his disciples” (NTIP, 121 p).  Professional courtesy or what?  Okay.  For the umpteenth time and at the risk of repetition, we take Tamal Krsna’s own words: " We asked Srila Prabhupada later what was the cause of his mental disturbance. Prabhupada disclosed his thoughts that someone has poisoned him" (TKG's Diary: 340 p).

Under the circumstances, self-preservation would have forced even a donkey to follow caution / contact officials / clear away suspicions, yet, there was no official investigation or pathological testing.  Even if there were doubts, what was the great loss in following standard procedure, i.e. initiating an inquest?  The only conclusion we can arrive at is that somebody was exerting influence to convince others that Srila Prabhupada was talking nonsense, and in so doing protected himself.  Tamal Krsna was kingpin.  Research cannot find anyone there (at the time) who had the gall to challenge him.  To further confirm our theory, we present this guilty-as-sin howler from the bossman himself: "We did not go searching for a murderer because we concluded there was no murder."  (NTIP, page 146).  In summation, it is difficult to see past Tamal Krsna's downplaying of this tragedy as anything other than cloak-and-poison.

The statement continued:

"There were many dozens of devotees surrounding Srila Prabhupada in his final pastimes."

The 'many devotees' line has also been used by Bhakticaru and Bhavananda.  It is almost as though the stories of these three have been sync'd to grow mushrooms.  This over emphasis on what should be of little importance sends tingles down the spine.  Here's Bhavananda's version: - "Srila Prabhupada was certainly never more approachable by all the devotees regardless of sannyasa, grhastha, male, female or even child...." And here's Bhakticaru variation on the same theme: "Srila Prabhupada had to just tell any one of the few hundred devotees that were there, and one can only imagine what the reaction would have been like."  Bhavananda tells us that all the asramas were there, Tamal Krsna tells us there were many dozens, and Bhakticaru outshines them both with a few hundred.  Yet, not one of these many dozens/ few hundred devotees heard Srila Prabhupada requesting Tamal Krsna (several times) to give him poison so he could die.

Why do these suspects want us to believe that Srila Prabhupada's chamber was like Chowringhee Road in peak-hour?  Is it because if it were true, the busy scene would not fit the crime?  And if the scene didn't fit, then how could there be a crime? And if there was no crime-scene hence no crime, how could there be criminals?  And if there was no crime-scene no crime and no criminals, why are we giving them the finger?  The fact is, devotees/visitors were kept away.  We have already clarified this in our previous articles.  Now we will further confirm this fact by using Tamal Krsna's own words: -

1) "I promised Prabhupada that no letters would be read and no visitors would come.  How long had he wanted this--to be undisturbed. But it took such a serious disease, for it finally to be possible." (TKG's Diary, 43 p).

Here he tells us it was Prabhupada's choice:

2)      " I mentioned that Bhavananda Maharaja had asked to be called if Prabhupada's condition worsened. Prabhupada said yes and added, "Actually all devotees should come." Then he corrected himself. "All important devotees should come." (TKG's Diary: 43 p)

Here he confirms a screening/selection process.  Selected by Tamal Krsna, no doubt: 

3) "Prabhupada commented, "We want a few selected men, not a big crowd." (TKG's D: 36).

 Here he admits to bouncers in operation:

4) At first he was told the doctor had ordered that Prabhupada was not to have any visitors; but when I took in a box of mangoes...Prabhupada inquired who had brought them and then asked to see him."  (TKG's D: 89).

 Even Prabhupada's sister (Pisima) was barred entry:

 5) "Prabhupada called for his sister and spoke in Bengali. Prabhupada (to his sister): "Sometime in the past I heard you were not allowed in the room. So if there is any offence, I want you to forgive me." (TKG's D: 259). (Note: Tamal Krsna did not speak Bengali, but here he tells us what Srila Prabhupada had said to his sister.  It tells us Tamal Krsna was monitoring all conversations, even private ones).

And here, according to Tamal Krsna, are the doctor's orders:

"Dr. G. Ghosh advised that there were too many people always surrounding Srila Prabhupada, decreasing the amount of oxygen and increasing the risk of spreading germs." (TKG's D: 272).

And here is the clanger. This proves how tight security was, and who was controlling it (Con: 246 p).

6) Tamal Krsna: "...I think now I'll turn off the light..."

    Prabhupada: "Light you can keep. Hmm?"

    Tamal Krsna: "I have to give the key to the door. I keep the door locked when I'm not in the room."

Security was always tight, but once Prabhupada complained to Balarama Misra about his being poisoned (T-45/A) the doors slammed shut.  From then on  (T-44, 45 & 46) only party-liners were permitted entry.  Even so, Tamal Krsna dominated all conversations.  He sat on all communions like a bowerbird over blue trinkets.  His voice on the final tapes can be heard asking repeatedly, "What did he say?" demanding immediate translations from 'little brother' Bhakticaru, for all spoken Hindi and Bengali.

The statement continued:

 "Their only concern was to see Srila Prabhupada continue to live with us. Especially those serving him personally were attentive to detail and every word His Divine Grace spoke."

Srila Prabhupada said he was being poisoned: Tamal Krsna did nothing.  Srila Prabhupada was seriously in need of professional care: Tamal Krsna presented him with the gang of five.  Srila Prabhupada had acute diabetes: he was administered to by an untrained ‘nurse’ and uncertified medicine men.  When Srila Prabhupada complained that the medicines were not working, Tamal Krsna changed the medicine man but not the needed medical acumen, medication or diet.  And now forensic reports tell us that His Divine Grace was poisoned with heavy metal alloys. 

"Do you think that we could be so callous as to have heard Prabhupada say "I have been poisoned," and not be concerned? Of course we were concerned."

Please read this statement carefully and again if necessary.  It is unequivocal. Tamal Krsna admits to hearing Srila Prabhupada say: "I have been poisoned."  His only concern is that others may feel he was not concerned after hearing the complaint.  This is confirmed by his admission: “Of course we were concerned.”   Naturally, the next question is: "Why be concerned?"  The answer is, "Prabhupada disclosed his thoughts that someone had poisoned him" (TKG's Diary, 340 p).  Question:  What did Tamal Krsna do about these serious concerns?  Answer: He used influence, bribery, seniority, and cult etiquette to suppress it.

The statement continued:

"We discussed the matter with Prabhupada and among ourselves, as anyone can read in "TKG's Diary." We did not go searching for a murderer because we concluded there was no murder."

Don't go rushing out to buy "TKG's Diary." The 'poison conversations' in that book have been corkscrewed.  The actual audio-tapes (T-44, 45 & 46) tell us a different story.  Tamal Krsna lived in the surreal world of Gurudom.  There, he freely fudged fact with fiction and reaped a handsome profit from disciples who are perpetually subjected to cult propaganda.  In truth, his literary offerings are like those of any culprit, and must be fine-tooth-combed for guruganda.

The statement continued:   

"Some have suggested that even if no one intentionally poisoned Prabhupada, the medicine he was given acted as "poison." I can well imagine some will hold me responsible as Prabhupada's secretary for giving him this medicine. But I was not engaged, nor were any of his servants, because of our expertise in medical knowledge"

Sounds like a plea for third degree... manslaughter.  It may have been so had an immediate investigation proven ‘negligence’ as cause.  In fact, negligence to notify proper authorities of a valid complaint bespeaks conspiracy and subversion.  Cunning, conducive to pre-meditation; murder in the first degree.

The statement continued: 

"All of us together did not even know one percent of what Prabhupada knew of Ayurvedic medicine."

Yes!  Srila Prabhupada said that the poisoning was a possibility.  This reason alone should have prompted Tamal Krsna to contact authorities.  Srila Prabhupada was the only one there schooled in the business of poisons (besides the kaviraja).  He had read/studied about poisons.  He complained he was being poisoned.  He related his situation to that of his Guru Maharaja whom he said was also poisoned.  Yet Tamal Krsna, who admits to being a medical moon-calf: "But I was not engaged, nor were any of his servants, because of our expertise in medical knowledge," did the exact opposite of one in his position: " We did not go searching for a murderer because we concluded there was no murder."  And the result: " Tamal Krishna Goswami, the leader of a large number of sannyasi and brahmacari preachers, had insisted that he was now their via media in relating to Prabhupada and expected that his godbrothers follow him absolutely." Suspicious, don’t you think?

Not only was His Divine Grace deprived of certified professional care and medical attention, not only was his jungle medication rendered ineffectual/toxic by a countering sugar diet, not only was he denied pathological verification and legal counsel for his plaint, he was also dissuaded by negativity, innuendo, suggestion and scare tactics from seeking medical attention that could have extended his existence; offered some relief from pain, or revealed pathologically a conspiracy to poison.  This monstrosity was identified by Srila Prabhupada eleven days before his passing: "That is my only request, that at the last stage don't torture and put me to death..." ("Conversations" 3/11/77).  Here are some quotes that lay bare the scheme to obstruct certified analysis by blackballing medical process: -

Excerpts, "Conversations with Srila Prabhupada" Volume 36:

1) Tamal Krsna: "From the beginning you always don't like the allopathic."

2) Svarupa Damodar: "Yes, it's a failure, allopathic treatment." (48 p)

3) Bhavananda: "I think that this doctor's desire you have seen through.  His desire was to remove you from here somehow or other. First to remove you for an x-ray, then...(Kill you?) (48 p)

4) Tamal Krsna: "Another trick they have is that you have one trouble, so they give you medicine, but the medicine cause a worse trouble.  And eventually such bad trouble is created that they get you depending on them, and then they say; " Now the only thing left, you must come to hospital for operation. " Then they kill you." (49 p)

5) Svarupa Damodar: " I have many medical friends. They frankly admit that oftentimes they kill the patients in the name of treating." (49 p)

6) Adi-kesava: "Sometimes they make the operation, and they leave the knife in, and they sew the knife up inside after they make an operation. Or the scissors. They take some clamps and they sew them inside the wound. And then the man says, "Oh, I have a pain in my side. And they say, "Oh, new disease"...." (50 p)

7) Tamal Krsna: " I told you the story of my father recently, Srila Prabhupada, how he had the arthritis in the hip, so they gave him a new hip. Then it moved to the other hip, and they replaced the other hip.  So after eight weeks he was in bed in the hospital, and then they said, "Now you can try to walk."  So they gave him crutches, and they stood him up, and after eight weeks of all these operations, as soon as he stood up he had a heart attack and died right on the spot." (51 p)

Excerpts, "TKG's Diary"

8) Tamal Krsna: "Prabhupada had me read the letter in which Dr. Ghosh advised that he go to Jaislok hospital for a thorough check-up and treatment.  Prabhupada said, "What is wrong with this proposal?"  There followed a discussion about the inevitable tests.  When I mentioned that they would want to give intravenous feeding, Prabhupada said, "What is the use of artificial feeding, when there is no digestion?".... [....].... Prabhupada agreed and proposed the possibility of having tests done at home, then considering further.  This idea was rejected, however, because we realised that once we began, there would be no turning back. Abhiram said they would kill Prabhupada just as his father had been killed and that they had no idea of nutrition, which was the solution to the problem"  (TKG's Diary: 207 p)

9) "Dr.Gopal requested that x-rays be taken, and Prabhupada had no objection, provided the machine could be brought to his room. On Dr. Gopals leaving, however, we came into Prabhupada's room and concluded that Dr. Gopal was now simply speculating." (TKG's Diary: 287 p)

10) Tamal Krsna: "Prabhupada wanted my opinion...I said that of doctors, the kavirajas were the best." (TKG's Diary: 290 p) 

Here are the results of the above conversations.  Excerpts from  "TKG's Diary".

1) Tamal Krsna: "Srila Prabhupada has little confidence in western medicine.  He understands that Krsna is the cause of all causes, and if Krsna likes, He can help him get better.  Prabhupada prefers dependence on Krsna to injections and pills and other artificial methods of treatment." (9 p)  (Question: Was it Krsna who spiked Srila Prabhupada with 2. 6 ppm of arsenic and was later heard whispering, "The poisons going down"?)

2) Tamal Krsna: Prabhupada said that under no condition should we ever allow anyone to take him to a hospital or administer drugs, even if he was unconscious. He would rather die." (17 p) (Question: Is this Tamal Krsna’s justification for euthanasia?)

3) Tamal Krsna: "I asked whether the two doctors from Vrindavana should come. Prabhupada answered, "No. Better take your advice for kirtana."  I agreed that kirtan was best because, in that way, we could ask Krsna to spare his life." (219 p) (Comment: Tamal Krsna never followed this advice with his prostate cancer.  He went to the best hospital he could find).

4) Srila Prabuhpada: "But don't take me to hospital." I (Tamal Krsna) said, "No, under no circumstances; even if you are unconscious, we will simply chant." (224 p)

5) Srila Prabhupada: "If I get strength, then we can go. But any condition, don't take me to the hospital. The doctors may induce." (297 p)

It becomes quite apparent that what Tamal Krsna is doing through his ‘Diary’ is giving us reasons why an allopathic diagnosis was never undertaken.  He blames it on Srila Prabhupada.  But we know that a kaviraja could never conclude poisoning as a diagnosis.  Even if a kaviraja knew it to be true, he couldn’t prove it.  His genus doesn’t have the screens to do so.  Without a toxic screen test not even a certified GP would dare bring down a diagnosis of poisoning, what to speak of an unregistered Mr. Makaradhvaja.  Therefore, the barrage of anti-physician stories were aimed specifically at shutting out pathological intervention.  Even a blind man can see that the suggestion was death rather than diagnosis.  Without a screen test or trained medical staff, and with the freedom to make decisions without confrontation, Tamal Krsna could do whatever he wanted.  And he did.  Here is the conclusion:

 1) Dr. Ghosh's advice to go to Jaislok hospital for a check-up and treatment was trashed when Tamal Krsna painted a picture of "intravenous feeding."  2) Srila Prabhupada agreed to "tests" being done at home.  But this was rejected when "we realised once we began there would be no turning back".  Question: How could a medical test at home take anyone to the point of no return?  A further determent came from Abhirama, who suggested "they" would kill Prabhupada just as his father had been killed.  Question: Why such a fatalistic view about a straightforward check-up at home?  3) Dr. Gopal offered to do an x-ray in Prabhupada's room and "Prabhupada had no objection".  But " we came into the room and decided that Dr. Gopal was speculating."  Question: Why did ‘we’ decide that an x-ray was speculation.  Is it not speculation without an x-ray?  To this list we must add 4) Dr. Khurana (an old friend of Prabhupada's) offered to bring staff and machinery to Prabhupada's home.  Srila Prabhupada agreed.  However, the hospital was later informed that their services would not be required.  In the end Tamal Krsna won: "Srila Prabhupada is completely entrusting us with his care.  All of the doctors have failed; but he fully trusts his loving devotees.  He is allowing us to care for him in whatever way we think best, just as a small child would." (169 p).

The statement continued:

 "It was His Divine Grace who had a dream about a Kaviraja preparing a particular medicine, and it was His Divine Grace who reviewed each and every type of medicine that he was administered."

Yes, we agree, it was His Divine Grace who had a dream about a kaviraja, but it was Tamal Krsna who seized upon the dream as a substitute for certified medical diagnoses.  Research reveals that “TKG's Diary” is not corroborated by documented audio data.  From what we read and hear on tape, Srila Prabhupada was nowhere near as enthusiastic about the dream kaviraja as Tamal Krsna makes out.  He tells us, Prabhupada: "There is no need of consulting me. I have seen a Ramanuja Vaisnava (in a dream) preparing makaradhvaja. How to do the rest, you decide" (TKG's Diary, 291 p).  We are unable to verify the quote by audio evidence.  “TKG's Diary” notes this statement on 23/10/77.  There are no transcripts available for this date, it is missing along with about 150 important tapes recorded in ‘77.  What we have is the following.  From the exchange we can see Srila Prabhupada is not really interested in the dream kaviraja: -

Tamal Krsna:  "And your dream was that it was a Ramanuja kaviraja who was preparing the medicine...."

Srila Prabhupada: "There is no treatment." (Con. Vol 36: 59 p)

Tamal Krsna: "Do you feel that he should come and prepare it (medicine) in your presence?"

Srila Prabhupada: "No, I have no....if he is reliable."  (Con.Vol 36: 60 p)

And here, Tamal Krsna tells us Prabhupada instructed Bhakticaru to go search for a Ramunaja kaviraja: -

"On Srila Prabhupada's instructions, Bhakticaru went out to search for a Ramunaja kaviraja" (TKG's Diary, 289 p)

Here is the correct audio transcript, which tells us Prabhupada didn't instruct anyone to go search, it was Tamal Krsna making all the arrangements: -

Tamal Krsna to Prabhupada: " Well, we were thinking that some other devotee should go with him. Actually we were thinking about Bhakticaru Maharaja, being an Indian devotee, that's also one advantage. [...]...And besides that Bhakticaru Maharaja has experience with you with all of these different kavirajas.... [...]...On one hand, we didn't want to take Bhakticaru Maharaja away from you.... I can see that you also don't want that." (Con. Vol 36: 60 p)

In the end it was Tamal Krsna who suggested jungle medication for Srila Prabhupada's acute diabetes: " I said (to Prabhupada) that of doctors, the kavirajas were the best...” What ensued from that advice was (Excerpts: "TKG's Diary"): -

1) Prabhupada: "... Things are deteriorating. Weakness...I am puzzled." (299 p).

 2) Prabhupada: "That is the only hope. When I first took medicine, I thought it would give strength, but instead I am passing stool." (301 p) 

 3) Tamal Krsna: "We had waited so long for this makaradhvaja; and now it had turned into poison" (304 p).

 4) Tamal Krsna:  "Satadhanya had also arranged earlier for the makaradhvaja, which had proved poisonous, Srila Prabhupada noted, "Everything is being done by the same Satadhanya and people are bluffing him" (306 p).

 5) Prabhupada: " I say no medicine...If it is working, why I don't feel strength?" (318 p).

 6) Prabhupada: " I am not improving in strength...I can't see how I can gain strength...But I am losing will power because practically I see I am losing my strength...I am becoming hopeless...You may hope, but practically I am hopeless (326 p).

 7) Tamal Krsna: " Today, after passing stool five times, Prabhupada said that all medicine should be stopped" (329 p) 

 8) Tamal Krsna: "Let us call the kaviraja." Prabhupada: "What is the use?" (330 p)  

 9) Tamal Krsna: "Prabhupada was becoming increasing weaker, despite the medicine" (332 p) 

10) Prabhupada: "Someone said I have been poisoned" (335 p) 

11) Prabhupada: "These kind of symptoms are seen when a man is poisoned" (336 p) 

12) Prabhupada: "Now it has become unbearable. Why am I suffering like this?" (338 p).

13) Prabhupada: "Either Ravana will kill, or Rama will kill. Better to be killed by Rama" (345 p).

14) Prabhupada: "Stop the medicine." (Con: 115).

15) Prabhupada: "The kaviraja's medicine is complete failure" (215 p).

It was medication without a label, containing crushed gems, precious metals, arsenic, mercury and jungle-juice.  Elixirs compounded and distilled under hygienically outlawed conditions by bidi-smoking-chemists with no certified recognition and dispensed by 'doctors' with even less.  The truth is; what happened to His Divine Grace amounts to frustration, deception, extortion and negligence...Oh yes, and poisoning.  Finally, it would appear, the penny dropped with Tamal Krsna, but he did nothing to change the crime-scene.  Tamal Krsna: "Yes. First we had that Madhva...not Madhva. Ramanuji came from Sri Rangaji temple, and he seemed to be a cheater. Then this one.... We got this medicine from that sakta-kaviraja, and that medicine turned out to be poison. And now this kaviraja." (Con: 149).  And then, Tamal Krsna's "dream kaviraja" appeared. Tamal Krsna: " I may not be an expert judge, but I have never seen, in my opinion, anyone who seemed to be this good."   He showed up on 30th Oct ' 77 and promised to cure Srila Prabhupada in fifteen days.  Tamal Krsna: "Now this man said in fifteen days Prabhupada would be better"  (Con: 205). In exactly fifteen days, on Nov: 14th ' 77...................

(Note: On any given day, the Nilratan Sarkar, Dufferin and B. R. Singh Outpatients (Kolkata), will deal with forty/fifty 'kavirajas' seeking allopathic treatment). 

The statement continued:

"Still, no medicine "killed" Srila Prabhupada."

True. Very true.  Medicines cure, poisons kill.  Nor is anyone saying that medicines killed Srila Prabhupada.  What is being said by expert forensic diagnoses is, "Poisons killed Srila Prabhupada."  Yet, we often hear (in publications and on tape) as we do here, Tamal Krsna's inability to differentiate between the two.  It could prove fatal for a patient dependant on a 'nurse' with such an idiosyncrasy, would it not?  Did it?

The statement continued:

"His Divine Grace said that Krishna had given him the decision whether to stay or not."

Yes! Krsna did want Prabhupada to stay and Srila Prabhupada wanted to stay.  Here is the evidence in Prabhupada's own words as recorded in Tamal Krsna’s diary (TKG's Diary: 153): -

Tamal Krsna: "But the astrologer said you could live beyond the six months."

Prabhupada: "That depends on Krsna's desire."

Tamal Krsna: "Do you have any indication whether Krsna wants you to live?"

Prabhupada: "The indication is that He wants me to live."

Okay. So the next question is if Krsna wanted Srila Prabhupada to live, why didn't he?  Once again, we use Tamal Krsna's 'diary' to find the answer (TKG's Diary: 246): -

Tamal Krsna: "We don't want.... you can't leave us now."

Prabhupada: "I don't want, but if there is force...."

So, Krsna wanted His Divine Grace to stay, and Srila Prabhupada also wanted to stay, then who used 'force' to make him go?  This question can only be answered by the suspects, surely they have all the answers?  And that is why we feel the investigation into Srila Prabhupada’s poisoning was never completed, because the suspects knew where it was going.  They used whatever means they could (including the dreaded word ‘exhumation’) to gut enquiries.  If Bhakticaru, Bhavananda, Satadhanya and Jayapataka refuse to come out from behind the bogus “Not That I am Poisoned” shield created by Tamal Krsna, we have no choice but to see them as the poisoners of His Divine Grace, A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

The statement continued:

 "It is most unfair to say that any one of us who were serving him was praying for his untimely departure (what to speak of orchestrating it).  Again and again we begged Prabhupada to stay with us, even offered our life in exchange for his, as any good disciple would do."

Enough with the theatrics.  His Divine Grace was being fed poisonous-voodoo-elixirs constantly (and not just for one day as claimed by some).  He knew it and tried on several occasions to stop it--no one listened.  His Divine Grace wanted to go on parikrama, he said he would be cured-- no one listened.  He said “The Ravana” will kill him--no one listened. He said that he was being poisoned--no one listened.  He said that if he could get away from his caretakers he would be cured--no one listened.  *The kaviraja said he would live for another ten years, but he passed away in a fortnight--no one bothered to investigate.  He was denied proper medical attention, medical check-ups, blood tests, and cardiograph tests.  He was denied a trained dietician.  His 'death' was a convenience just as its investigation is proving an inconvenience to his 'inheritors.'  We would most certainly have believed the "offered our life" drivel if something positive was done, but nothing ever was.  Tamal Krsna's sentiments are like Othello revisited: "I will kill thee now and love thee after."

*Bhakticaru: (Bengali) Sastriji bolchen aapni aaro dosh bocchor aamader shonge thakben, Srila Prabhupada.  Trans: Shastriji is saying that you will be with us for another ten years, Srila Prabhupada. (T-44/A).

Ps. Did you know TKG never came to an SP disappearance day festival in Vrindavan from AT LEAST 1985-2001?

I was at almost all of these and never saw him except for one year. That was I think the year the GBC made him apologize to all for the NM episodes. He was ordered I think to stay in Vrindavan dham for several months.

Anyway even that year he did not attend the KB temple festivities but preferred to stay in "his" house (Abhiram's old place) a mere two hundred metres away. He did not come at all that day.

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The statement continued:

 "Prabhupada repeatedly said that he was living simply due to our love and affection."

Thanks for telling us what kept him alive; what we would like to know is who, and how many, were involved in his murder?  How did heavy-metal alloys get into him, and in such large amounts?  Why was Tamal Krsna whispering, "The poisons going down" when His Divine Grace was being fed sweetened milk?.  Why did Tamal Krsna say (on tape) that His Divine Grace requested to be murdered (poisoned) by him?  Why did Tamal Krsna's "Ministry for the Protection of ISKCON" produce a book riddled with deception for his protection?  Why didn't Tamal Krsna and the whispering cabal take polygraph tests, Voice stress analysis tests, sign legal statements and subject themselves to interviews?

The statement continued:

 "He said that his Guru Maharaja passed away dissatisfied, but that he was completely satisfied."

His Guru Maharaja was not just dissatisfied when he passed away, he was also poisoned: "I mentioned that one Sankaracarya had been poisoned. Prabhupada said, 'My Guru Maharaja also.’ (TKG's Diary, 336 p).  As for Srila Prabhupada being completely satisfied, we beg to differ.  To prove it we could produce a whole bunch of quotes (we already have), but this report is heretofore too bulky.  Anyway, we have made our point.

The statement continued:

"No one, he said, could ever hope to have such loving sons and daughters as he had. He left us because he chose to leave. He left because Krsna called him back."

No!  He left because he was poisoned.  The forensic (audio/NAA) proves it.  Srila Prabhupada can be heard on tape often saying that his work was incomplete and he would like to stay a little longer to finish it.  If Tamal Krsna had some loyalty (what to speak of love) he would have made proper arrangements before and followed due process after, to insure that His Divine Grace received proper attention and that his assets were not looted by greedy ambitious charlatans.

The statement continued:

"That is the plain truth and anything else is a concoction."

Tamal Krsna was a plain-truth-Pinocchio.  But it wasn’t his nose that grew; his growth manifested somewhere else and needed two operations to cut it out.

The statement continued:

 "Prabhupada's servants dedicated the better part of their lives to serving Srila Prabhupada. We served him during his manifest pastimes right up until the end. It was not easy to serve His Divine Grace during the last year of his failing health. It was not easy to see his body wither, his resolve to continue on, wane. By his mercy alone we stayed by him throughout this difficult time and performed every possible service, collecting his urine, removing his stool, bathing him, changing his clothes and bedding, but most of all encouraging him to continue on."

This is why Tamal and Co. saw the 'inheritance' as their right.  Quid-pro-quo. Tradition sanctioned it, supporters condoned it, godbrothers wanted it, the corporate world was waiting for it, and sanity demanded it.  So, when His Divine Grace threatened the inheritance by appointing ‘representatives’ (not inheritors), Tamal Krsna started hearing Prabhupada’s voice in his head begging to be murdered: “Can you give me medicine, please give me medicine that will allow me to disappear now…[…]… I want most now to disappear.... I want to die peacefully...let me die peacefully.   " 

 The statement continued:

 "It has come as a most cruel blow to be suspected of having been moved by any other motive than love in serving our dear most spiritual master."

It is not suspicion any longer.  Prabhupada said he was poisoned, everyone there accepted it without question.  Arsenic was found in his hair clippings (confirmed by forensic analysis. VNN5599 / 5605).  Whispers around his deathbed revealed a conspiracy to poison him (Mitchell / Macaffery / Owens).  He was entombed (illegally) without a Death Certificate.  Furthermore, Tamal Krsna claimed that Prabhupada requested to be poisoned by him.  Also, and of grave importance, the motive for murder was very lucrative, and the booty was greedily snatched at the expense of many souls being lost. 

The statement continued:

 "The facts will speak for themselves. In the coming days and months all the allegations of poisoning will be shown to be allegations and nothing more."

The facts are speaking for themselves right now!  We know now of the negligence.  We know now that his 'nurses' were knowingly or unknowingly torturing him with a toxic diet.  We know now of the depravation.  We know now that ill advice and doggedness forced His Divine Grace to digest poison in the guise of medication.  We know now he had arsenic in his hair, twenty times higher than normal.  We know now that the whisperers at his bedside were talking poison, and ongoing forensics is tying it all up in a neat little bundle.  We also know that for twenty years all attempts were made to keep this knowledge hidden.  We know now that attempts to bring evidence into the open was sabotaged by GBC propaganda.

The statement continued:

 "Then I hope that those who have falsely accused me and others will have the decency to admit that they were wrong and beg forgiveness, not from us, but from Srila Prabhupada, whose sublime final pastimes they have attempted to tarnish."

The only ones that falsely accused Tamal Krsna are those who called him "gurudeva."  They will, one day, beg forgiveness from Prabhupada for deserting him in favour of this man who evidently, could be a murderer.  Srila Prabhupada's lila, no matter what, could never be tarnished his body of work speaks for itself.  But Tamal Krsna's lila...Well...

The statement continued:

"Begging to always be a servant of the Vaisnavas,"

Servant of the Vaisnavas?  Who did Tamal Krsna serve without demanding his pound of flesh?  Tamal Krsna was always a one-man agenda.  His 'nursing' of Prabhupada nabbed him an inheritance.  He exacted a heavy toll from the Society and all those who believed his 'appointed acarya' poppycock.  Tamal Krsna squeezed Prabhupada's ISKCON like a grape to make his heady wine and drank his fill like a dipsomaniac. 

"Tamal Krishna Goswami"

Who was born Thomas Herzig.  Unknown.  Picked up off the street by a saint and nurtured by his mercy.  Now marked as prime suspect in the poisoning of his benefactor, and the subsequent splintering of his holy family.  A Murder most foul.

CONCLUSION

He had a burning ambition.  Everybody knew it, including His Divine Grace. When Srila Prabhupada went to New York in ’76, he stayed for a week as Tamal Krsna’s guest.  In retrospect, it was then that the first symptoms of chronic poisoning began to manifest.  By the time Srila Prabhupada got to London (after that week) he was vomiting and in the grip of serious illness.  After the ’76 world tour, on which Prabhupada had spoken a number of times about the deadly potency of the cobra’s bite, he discovered two cobras in his room at Mayapur.  We believe this to be an attempt on his life.  Given the already weakened condition of Prabhupada’s health, had the cobras bitten, the attempt would have been successful and no questions asked.

 In ’77, Tamal Krsna jockeyed into position by suggesting to Srila Prabhupada that he was available to serve him directly as secretary.  He then proceeded to surround himself with subordinates: young brother Bhakticaru and sidekick Bhavananda.  With everything in order, Tamal Krsna took over the administration of medication and food.  In a hierarchical system, he saw himself as ‘Rana-Tika’ or ‘Heir Apparent’ and used the system and belief to control every situation.  As we have mentioned before: a perfect incubator to hatch a homicide.

(1)   Our analysis of existing data has shown that Tamal Krsna (TK) was aware of the poisoning.  He had to be, he was whispering about it even before Srila Prabhupada (SP) mentioned it.  We know this because when SP was asked who had told him he said “All these (whispering) friends”—Tamal Krsna, Bhakticaru, Bhavananda, Jayapataka.

(2)   SP made statements that he was being intentionally poisoned.

(3)    TK tried a number of times to get the name of SP’s informant, and on occasion even asked who had poisoned him.  All of which indicate his acceptance of the poisoning as fact.

(4)   TK incriminated himself (although his voice is easily identifiable without spectrograph) as the poison ‘whisperer.’

(5)   TK has been recorded (audio) claiming that SP ‘several times’ requested him (and his group) to murder him by administering poison.

(6)   TK has been recorded (audio) claiming that he could have murdered SP if he wanted to.

(7)   TK was discovered (on COM) plotting and misleading devotees, members and Prabhupada’s followers by arranging the publishing of the book, Not That I am Poisoned.

(8)   TK used position, power and manipulation to prevent people from seeing the facts for themselves.

His Divine Grace was poisoned.  Nobody should doubt it.  His assassins acted in premeditation and in full knowledge of all the facts needed to bring about an end.   And from the very onset, it was planned and executed in secrecy.  The plan was carried out and adhered to, to the letter, until discovered two decades later.  Even, when the truth was out, Tamal Krsna involved the whole movement in defence instead of an inquest.  All he was doing really, was stemming the growth of concern by consensus.  By conjuring up demons in the minds of devotees and pointing at us, the investigators, he created a threat and a need for solidarity.  All he was doing really, was creating a diversion from the truth.

In closing may we say, there is much more to the poisoning of His Divine Grace, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada than what is mentioned here.  Please keep your ears and hearts open for revelations yet to come.  But most importantly—Judge For Yourself.

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX 1

BALAVANTA’S FORENSIC INVESTIGATION

REPORT TO THE GBC (VNN. 12^TH FEB. 2000)

DR. J. STEPHEN MORRIS, Ph.D.

NUCLEAR ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

RICHARD T. CALLERY, M.D., F.C.A.P.

CHIEF EXAMINER

DIRECTOR, FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY.

L. GOSWAMI

LABORATORY DIRECTOR

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & TESTING LABORATORY INC.

APPENDIX 2

OWL INVESTIGATIONS, INC.

THOMAS J. OWEN – PRESIDENT.

APPENDIX 3

INTERNATIONAL DETECTION SERVICES

STATEMENT: DAVID JAMES NEIL

APPENDIX 4

COMPUTER AUDIO ENGINEERING (C.A.E)

JOHN J. MITCHELL. OWNER/ENGINEER

SEGMENT REPORT- 1, 4 & PROCEDURE.

APPENDIX 5

HELEN A. MCCAFFERY, Ph.D., CCC/A

SUMMARY REPORT

APPENDIX 6

CONVERSATION WITH FORENSIC EXAMINER

J. JACK MITCHELL/ NAVEEN KRISHNA DAS