Answer to Accusations against Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami
BY: RAMADEVI DASI
Dec 28, USA (SUN) — An Answer to Navadvipchandra's Accusations against Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami by Ramadevi dasi, Mayapur CPT.
I am writing on behalf of the Mayapur CPT with regards to a letter you published a few days ago by one Navadvipchandra das in which he makes sweeping serious allegations about Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami.
The CPT is currently investigating certain concerns and allegations that have been brought to its attention by some Mayapur community members regarding Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami's involvement with the senior girl's school in Mayapur. That investigation is almost complete and the CPT will publish its findings shortly. It is our request therefore that devotees refrain from publishing their own comments until the MCPT's report comes out.
Normally we do not comment publicly on investigations until they are completed but because of the article carried in the Sampradaya Sun we feel it necessary to at least correct what we feel are misinformed and misleading statements in that article.
I would like to state categorically that what Navadvipchandra is saying in this latest article is not true. Firstly BVPS does not have nor drive a motorcycle. The incident of him on a motorbike with a girl was as follows.
One of the teachers from the girls' school had burnt herself at home. She phoned the school and asked for some special medicine they have. At the time, Tulasi Vallabha, a disciple of BVPS was there with his motorbike. BVPS and Sri Radhe, who is the 23 year old principal of the girls' school (not a minor girl), thinking, because of the way it had been explained, that it was an emergency, grabbed the medicine and jumped on the back of Tulasi's motorbike. Sri Radhe was sitting on a rack which extends from the back of the bike and not in contact with BVPS. They went to the teacher's house gave the medicine, dealt with it then made their separate ways back to the school. That was the one and only time they were on a motorbike together. Now it may have not been a particularly sensible thing to do but it was done and then it was finished.
The whole of the Mayapur community does not see them regularly driving off into the sunset and they have not had a fall-down - accidental or otherwise. They are not seen and known about by "every single member of the Mayapur community" because this is not happening nor has it happened the way Navadvipchandra is describing.
As far as his spending all day every day in the school this has been dealt with. It wasn't that excessive but his visits to the school were stopped of his own volition long before we looked into it. That is all there is to it.
I am writing to you to request that you retract Navadvipachandra's article because it is based on nothing but gossip and speculation. In this connection I would like to draw your attention and the attention of other readers to your own words on the page which deals with submission of articles to the Sampradaya Sun webpage.
"Please carefully review your article before submission. Once published, we will not be able to accept requests to revise or correct a piece. We will, however, retract articles found by the author or Sun editors to be substantively incorrect after publication."
I am not covering up for BVPS. I wouldn't do that. If there was ever any investigation which revealed evidence that he had been involved in a sexual incident with a minor he, if found guilty, like any perpetrator of such child abuse, would be out. I'm not afraid of truth speaking but I abhor gossip. Prabhupada said that gossip could ruin our movement and I'm seeing every day how it's impossible to take what people say at face value. There are always 2 sides to a story. Truth should be published where it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be true but gossip is and always will be nothing more than gossip.
In eager anticipation of your editorial staff doing the "right thing" and retracting this article, I remain yours in the service of our youth,
your servant,
Ramadevi dasi
Mayapur CPT
