Controversy of Cakori DD and Manonatha Das
AGTSP paoho. We got the following letter from Manonatha Das and then wrote the following answer. Whatever is the situation we refuse to think of either Cakori-radha Devi nor Manoantha Das' as anything other than our friends, and are sure as Lord Rama told Laksmana, there is not mistake you can make that you cannot correct:
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Hare Krsna,
Esteemed Manonatha Das et al,
Thank you for the following letter. The English construction in some places is a little unclear, but in general it is sufficiently clear to present your ideas. We have had some substantial dealings with Cakori Mataji and her good husband since her initiation in Chile and later in Mayapura and then in Vraja.
In practical dealings with her and her friends, we have not had any problems in terms of acquiring accomodations in the MVT building and other places for ourselves and professors we brought there etc. Nor have we ever had any other complaint from Temple or private people.
She has expressed to me that she has been under tremendous economic pressure for her family maintenance, and has had to do business for that purpose.
Specifically what happened with the apartment purchase I do not know. Do you remember the auto that Nandulal Das gave you in Houston? He felt very disturbed that he had given you an excellent auto and then you had sold it for half of what it was worth. Then you told me, as I remember, that it had serious problems as soon as you got it and you did something like invest in repairs and then sold it for some little profit to get another car.
So, I do not know the details of this transaction. She may communicate that your investment was as a share holder and then project fell through and she and all the shareholders lost their money or...
... I could accomodate that as a women trying to protect her family she may have panicked and kept money that was not proper in some business with intention of adjusting later, but I just don't know the details, and in our small, small perspective on the situation she has never given us cause to believe that she is a calculating robber or lying about sexual exploits.
I feel that there is NOTHING wrong with your letter and the tone of the letter, just that now she should possible state her perspective on the situation, and we should move to correct any mistakes that anyone has made.
O.K?
Very nice to hear from you.
Our Sankirtan is going on through www.jayarama.us
At your service.
HpSwami
<hr size="1" />From: Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP) <manonatha@...
To: Hanumat Presak Swami <jayarama108-largbc@...
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 3:13 AM
Subject: Regarding Cakori Radha
Dear Maharaja
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
You find below a letter that is in the process of being sent to authorities and being translated in Spanish to be put public.
I am sending it to you first since it concerns one of your disciple.
Your servant
Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)
PS:
Site: www.isvara.org
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Dear Vaisnavas,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I am writing this letter to protect my reputation and caution devotees about a lady devotee who goes by the name of Cakori Radha (Carolina Madera), a chilean born and a disciple of Hanumat Presak Swami. She presently lives between Vrindavan and Delhi.
For those who do not know me, I am a Prabhupada's disciple, an Iskcon initiating spiritual master and I am engaged in service in Latin America.
These are the facts.
In Febrary 2016, thanks to a inheritance and a loan, I came to Vrindavan with the idea to buy an apartment for our old age.
Here I was presented with this lady Cakori Radha who brought me to the "Russian Building". For this she asked me 1,600 dollars, including registration and help in following the building of the same, as the apartment was still in construction.
At that time I had come to India alone, without my wife and in a precarious health condition, so she offered me some extra help by sending prasadam trough her son and help with some purchasing. I really appreciated that.
Before leaving Vrindavan I left with her 18,000 rupies to buy few things when the apartment was finished.
Final result, she did not finish the work she was paid for nor bought anything.
Throught some devotees who are her friends we tried many times to retrieve the money or to get her to finish the job but we kept being lied.
When I was informed that other devotees had fallen victim of her, in my heart I accepted to have been swindled of several hundreds dollars and kept quiet.
On one hand I have been lucky because I tried to send her more money but fortunately the Xoom transfer didn't succeed.
But just few days ago some devotees reported to me her saying that I "took advantage of her". In spanish the word is "aprovecharse", that could be also be taken as sexual exploitation. I have been told that some devotees interpreted it in that way.
While I can accept to be cheated of money, I can't accept of being cheated of reputation, which is most important for a preacher.
There never was any sexual exploitation and I accepted some service from her only because she offered it.
Also I feel the duty to caution devotees about this lady.
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Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)
