Hare Krsna, Nanuk Ji,
We read all the last five posts.
There are so many things that you may not know about Sriman Hansadutta Das and the whole BBT case, Rtvik case. I was the Treasurer for the San Francisco Temple at that time and finally Hansadutta Ji was really having very, very bad falldowns. He was very open about it. He was taking money from the Temple and turning in his beer recepts and directly telling everyone, "Don't worship me as a Guru!"

He said, "I've got it licked, now I'm coming back very strong!" so many times. I was about two rings away from him but his initimate followers like Kapilsva Das and Ripugna Das were right there taking the beer away from him when he was very intoxicated and explaining to us what he was going through. Since then I don't know how he has fared in terms of the four principles. I do feel that even in that abominable external condition he was more Prabhupada conscious than I was. He was always saying, "How can I face Srila Prabhupada like this."

Then with the BBT, I talked with Vedaguhya Das, whom I have had some contact for many years here and there. There has never been any moral criticism of him. He said that after they got the copyright usage to the pre-1977 BBT books that they started to print them and then Hansadutta Das started to fall into the same old habits intoxication and it looked very bad for their efforts so they asked him to step down as a Director. He did and there was a financial settlement.

As far as the poisoning issue and the hair samples. I asked Nitai-gaurasundara Das, who is our NIOS President and director of a psychiatric hospital and our concern from what you had said was that the arsenic level was low as I remember and the cadmium level was high. This is strange. How to get cadmium in India at that time. Why not use arsenic.

Our basic position is that yes there are many problems in ISKCON. We heard from Prabhupada's lips that this is the material world, there are problem everywhere, so certainly there are problems in the institution. At the same time we heard him say that anyone who chants the pancha-tattva mantra and follows it with Hare Krsna has achieved the perfection of life, but if you want to preach then you should read my books.

So, we are following four principles, up evey day for Mangala arati with devotees, Kirtan, SB, and 16-rounds. Then we judge other people in the ISKCON insitituion. Make our legal fight, and also judge who will be our friends in the ISKCON society, and talk with our Guru, directly.

That's where we are starting from. We can go into a lot more technical details about Guru-tattva, changing books, poisoning, but before that we really want to know if people who claim to be following, representing Prabhupada are following the standard that he set: 16-enthusiastic rounds daily, 4-principles strictly. If they are not, O.K. maybe they are neophyte devotees. Even neophyte pure devotees as Prabhupada calls them, more advanced than we are but need to adjust the externals.

So.... Hare Krsna!!!    HpS