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“I did not poison Srila Prabhupada nor was I involved in a conspiracy to poison Srila Prabhupada... the entire poison issue is ludicrous and beyond absurd” — BHAVANANDA DASA Bhavananda dasa is a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Formerly he was a GBC member, ISKCON Zonal Acarya and ISKCON sannyasi. He presently lives in Australia. |
To all the devotees of ISKCON
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to
Srila Prabhupada.
I have been most apprehensive about becoming involved
in what I saw to be an “endless debate” on the Internet over the poison
issue, but then Hari Sauri prabhu made the point that many innocent devotees
were becoming bewildered by all this. I therefore felt duty bound to make a
statement - and one statement only - for the record.
I did not poison Srila Prabhupada nor was I involved
in a conspiracy to poison Srila Prabhupada. Absolutely none of my Godbrothers
poisoned Srila Prabhupada. The entire poison issue is ludicrous and beyond
absurd.
Anyone who was present in Vrindavana at that time
could not deny that every attempt both material and spiritual was made in an
effort to keep Srila Prabhupada with us all as long as possible. Srila
Prabhupada departed by his own sweet will and by the desire of his beloved
Lords, Krsna and Balarama.
Those were extremely difficult times not only for
those of us who were nursing him but also for all his disciples around the
world. I don’t know where Nityananda dasa was at that time but his assistance
in caring for Srila Prabhupada would have been greatly appreciated by his
Godbrothers.
Srila Prabhupada was certainly never more
approachable by all the devotees regardless of sannyasa, grhastha, male, female
or even child. I remember thinking Srila Prabhupada would want some privacy from
the video camera of Yadubara prabhu but he told me Yadubara should be allowed to
film whatever he wanted. So you can understand that an atmosphere of openness
prevailed, not one of secrecy and whispers as the real poison conspirators are
implying.
Doubtless there is much work to be done for Srila
Prabhupada to save the conditioned souls from the horrendous onslaught of maya.
Let us all at least put this particular lunacy to rest to allow us to get on
with the serious work at hand.
I remain the most lowly and unqualified servant of
all the Vaisnavas of ISKCON.
Bhavananda dasa.
© CHAKRA 21-Oct-1999
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