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From Gargamuni and Brahmananda
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11 March 2002
Dear Vaisnavas,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The following is an open letter of apology to the entire Vaisnava community within ISKCON. We would like to very sincerely and humbly request the forgiveness from all of you for some serious mistakes we have made by our recent actions.
We request that you please understand our motivations. Although we were wrong to pirate Tapes, CD’s and the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase from the Bhaktivedanta Archives, VCD’s from ISKCON Television and BBT material, our motives were not purely financial. We sincerely wanted to see Srila Prabhupada’s teachings distributed as widely as possible. In the course of coming to an agreement in this matter we have been informed that Bhaktivedanta Archives and ISKCON Television are now making efforts to distribute media of Srila Prabhupada more widely. We welcome this development.
We realize that the methodology we used to accomplish this desire was wrong and apologize to the devotees whose services have been hindered by our careless actions, and we agree to reimburse them for losses they have incurred, per already agreed upon amounts.
We humbly beg the forgiveness of all those devotees who have been adversely affected by our improper activities. We understand that Srila Prabhupada is not pleased with our actions.
We encourage all devotees to respect the copyrights of other devotees and to not pirate anyone’s copyrighted work.
We have carefully read and fully agree to meet the terms of resolving this wrong action of ours.
Your humble servants,
Brahmananda dasa, Gargamuni dasa
© CHAKRA 19 March 2002
