Drug Screening for all ISKCON Gurus?
BY: NAVADVIPACHANDRA DAS
Dec 5, USA (SUN) — [Revised] Recently a letter has been circulated by Bhakta Bruce on behalf of Tirtha dasa, the infamous devotee murderer who killed Sulochan. Tirth dasa has also been suspected by some of killing a number of other devotees at New Vrindavan. Bhakta Bruce's letter reads as follows:
"Tirtha dasa wishes devotees to read and, if they wish, distribute the following statement which they may send or e-mail to the Governor of West Virginia:
We deplore the fact that H.H. Radhanath Swami and H.H. Candramauli Swami have been repeatedly denied access to the Mount Olive Correctional Complex on the pretext that a drug sniffing dog alerted to the presence of illicit drugs on their persons. This is a great insult and highly disrespectful to such exalted holy men of our religious faith. Especially so when their only purpose for hoping to enter the institution was to uplift the suffering condition of the imprisoned men there. We ask that your honor look into this matter and put a stop to such discriminatory profiling."
The letter or E-message can be sent to:
The Honorable Joseph Manchin III
Governor of West Virginia
Capitol Building
1900 Kanawha Blvd., E
Charleston, WV 25305
Governor@WVGov.org
Hare Krsna,
Bhakta Bruce
Here we have an ISKCON guru who has been identified by drug sniffing dogs, to the extent that they will not allow him to enter this prison complex. Police drug sniffing dogs are highly trained and have a very high accuracy level in identifying illicit drugs or traces of them on people. If these dogs have alerted to the presence of drugs on one or both of these ISKCON gurus, in all likelihood these people are using illicit drugs. Perhaps it is time for ISKCON to adopt a drug test policy for all ISKCON gurus, so we do not need to be embarrassed in public when drug sniffing dogs identify our spiritual leaders.
On another note, what are Radhanatha Swami and Candramauli Swami doing meeting with a convicted murderer who killed one, if not more, ISKCON devotees? There have long been rumors that Radhanatha was involved in the killing of Sulochan (delivering the payment to Tirtha Das). What does ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada gain by these ISKCON leaders going out of their way to meet with a murderer whom they have had questionable connections with in the past? Radhanatha Swami has never gone out of his way to see other devotees in jail, why this special "mercy" to murderer Tirtha Das?
The answer to a lot of these questions revolve around Tirtha Das. He took the complete fall for the murder, refusing to testify against Kirtanananda or any of the other leaders under him. As a result, Kirtanananda was only convicted of minor offenses such as tax evasion. Perhaps Radhanatha Swami is showing his thanks to Tirtha Das with his special visits. Unfortunately the drug sniffing dogs have singled him out and he won't be able to meet with murderer Tirtha Das.
