| "Very advanced devotee": a new interpretation |
Autumn 2006
GBC-elected guru HH Bhakti Caru Swami (BCS) has this to say about the
spiritual status of Satsvarupa Das "Goswami"(SD), who was
exposed in as having admitted
to having an illicit affair with a married woman, but still occupies
some type of "guru" status in ISKCON:
| "Satsvarupa Maharaja is
undoubtedly a very advanced devotee. […] Although he is such an advanced devotee, we saw through him the danger of becoming isolated. […] Through this test it has become obvious that his heart became even more purified and his attachment to Srila Prabhupada stronger. Therefore there is no need to worry about his accidental deviation. Please continue to regard him as your siksa guru and offer him all the respect from your heart." (Excerpt of letter from BCS, posted April 10th, 2006) |
Now please compare this judgement of SD's spiritual status by BCS, with SD's statements about himself (Warning: Satsvarupa uses extreme profanities, and since ours is a family publication we have not printed these profanities in full, but used asterixes thus ****, even though Satsvarupa has used the extreme profanities in full):
| "I was chief once and then came down.
It's obvious I broke down and the nervous system can't take it
anymore." "But that fuc**** love I missed all those years was covered over […] Night train blue mist nature's all aflitter in fuc*** spring so why are you withholding?" "Japa beads don't seem like prayer to me anymore." "I'm reading John Fante instead of the Gita. I'm not doing wrong." "So, you're getting better? You want to tell official disciples you want loving with them? Do you mean that in your gut? No, I don't love them. Just a few of them. It's getting irrelevant this guru-sisya stuff." (All quotations from SD's latest book of poems, When the Saints Go Marching In, 2006) |
It should be clear from Satsvarupa's use of
profanity and his other statements, that his first statement about
having "broke down" as a result of his fall is true, and he is no
longer even well, not to speak of being a "very advanced devotee" whose
heart has "become even more purified" as a result of his falldown. This
horrendous error of judgement on the part of BCS shows he is so
committed to covering-up for his fellow guru hoaxers, that he will urge
people to take spiritual shelter of someone who by his own admission
does not even wish to give it. SD states:
"It's getting irrelevant this guru-sisya stuff",
whilst BCS urges everyone to continue to regard SD as their "siksa
guru". If BCS cannot even judge someone's level of spiritual advancement
accurately, how is he himself able to discriminate between truth and
illusion and offer spiritual guidance to others whilst claiming to be
their guru?
At the same time, BCS also states:
| "We all have a solemn
responsibility to keep Srila Prabhupada's house clean, and if
anyone is bringing in any kind of impurity, then he must be
corrected and punished if necessary." (Excerpt of letter from BCS, posted April 10th, 2006) |
Thus, we have the hugely hypocritical situation
of on the one hand BCS saying that anyone bringing in any kind of
impurity into ISKCON should be corrected and even punished; whilst on
the other, BCS considers SD's self-admitted masquerading as a
sannyasi (celibate renunciant) and guru taking disciples, whilst
conducting an illicit affair with a married woman, not even an impurity
but something which led to more purification!
Such hypocrisy is only to be expected from BCS since he poses as a
diksa guru successor to Srila Prabhupada in direct disobedience to
Srila Prabhupada's orders to keep him as the sole diksa Guru in
ISKCON.