Dear Puranjana Prabhu,

Hare Krishna. Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am not in any receipt of any direct answer from you to my three previous letters. You are so busy you can't reply to me directly or you are just interested in utilizing segments of what I say for your propaganda machine. You tell me prabhu.

I suppose it is too much to expect you to reprint my letters since they don't support your tactics of misrepresentation and incomplete facts. I thought not to write again but you have now printed a note in your latest release concerning something that strikes a nerve deep in my heart, and that is the sale of the W.55th St. temple. The information from KD is simply a misrepresentation of the facts, and I can attest to what actually happened because I was there, I was the temple secretary, managed the guest house, and was privy to the GBC correspondences from Adi Kesava to the GBC, because I typed them all.

First of all let us discuss Chandra Swami. This rascal Mayavadi visited the temple once and stayed for one week. Adi Kesava hosted him, much to everyone elses dismay and they knew each other. This could possibly explain why he went to him for that nefarious medicine, that Srila Prabhupada refused to take anyway. He was considered to be Indira Ghandi's "guru" so the hospitality of the temple was offered to him just in case he might be of some help to us in influencing the Indian government to see ISKCON in a favorable light. But enough of him, His behavior is of no consequence to us. Adi Kesava certainly displayed bad judgement in going to him, and even more bad judgement in selling the West 55th St. temple.

The idea that his father was a CIA operative is one of the many delusional fantasies that came from his furtive imagination. It may or may not be true. Adi Kesava had, unfortunately, a very strong tendency to exaggerate such "facts" and we can't really believe much of what he told us then or now. Perhaps now he has come to more grip with relative truth, but I don't believe questioning him will shed light on much of anything. He was confused then, foolishly sold the temple, then gave up his sannyasa for an unchaste women, who subsequently gave him some children and then left him to suffer. The N.Y. yatra has never recovered from the sale of that temple. The Deities are still in three different places (Brooklyn, Towaco N.J. and Baltimore) most likely never to be re-united on the same altar ever again, and the former devotee population scattered across the globe. . What can be said of losing that property? It was the second greatest loss to ISKCON,the first being the disappearance of His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

Nevertheless let us understand that the sale of that building was approved by Ramesvara and the entire GBC body voted on the matter before the money could change hands and the property disposed of. GBC members who were at that meeting (and I cannot remember specifically who, you must ask them if you want to believe what they testify to) informed me that everyone except Kirtananada and Tamal Krsna voted to allow the sale. Kirtanananda Swami remarked, "if they will come to W. Va. then they will cross 8th Ave." This refers to the complaint by Adi Kesava that the temple location was not really suitable, another erroneous idea since it was only several blocks from the center of Manhattan. Tamal was against the sale because he knew that Prabhupada had instructed "not to move the Deities again," after they were re-located from 439 Henry St. in Brooklyn. At that time Tamal was not being particularly aggressive at GBC meetings since he was being chastised by them for behavior in Dallas concerning Godbrothers and how they accepted him, as a Godbrother or an absolute spiritual authority, because he was giving diksa. Also the ISKCON property committee was made up of Tamal, Jayatirtha and Ramesvara. Tamal was never consulted, Jayatirtha was gone from ISKCON and not particularly functional in l980 and Ramesvara was the only one left. He is still suffering for the offences he committed. He lives in Great Neck N.Y. only 30 minutes from the Radha Govinda Mandir, in Brooklyn and we haven't even seen him there in ten years. He never visits the temple and has little if no devotee association.

Now don't go crazy with this information and jeopardize me for being truthful. I don't care to feed milk to the snake and create more poison. Do not add these facts to your barrage of anti-GBC, anti ISKCON baggage. The sale of the building was a clear mistake. There are many reasons it happened. There was large unmanageable debt, and the most significant factor, generally unknown, was the Adi Kesava promised to Bhagavan that after the sale he would send $l,000,000.00 to Mayapura from the profits of the sale for construction of the samadhi. Of course the samadhi never saw one rupee from the sale because not enough was received for the building to actually facilitate that kind of donation from N.Y. The rest is history. I personally typed the letter to Bhagavan,( who was the GBC chairman) from Adi Kesava that proposed this financial consideration, so this is not anyone's speculation but fact.

The very far fetched suggestion that Sri Rama (who was the treasurer) was coerced to forge GBC signatures and that the building was sold without GBC permission is just not true. It is alas, embarrassing to admit that they mistakenly agreed with Adi Kesava and allowed the sale of the building, but if I remember correctly there are very clear GBC rules about sales of ISKCON properties and every temple president and GBC was obligated to sign a pledge that the sale of any ISKCON property without GBC permission results in his prosecution, and criminal liability. KD's allegations about Vakresvara Pandit are laughable. Sri Rama and he were not anything but friends, and he wasn't even in N.Y. at that time as he had moved to Puerto Rico to be the temple president there, until he left for other service. Anyone who doubts my testimony can write to him in Dallas and contact Sri Rama for how they remember what happened.

Who is KD anyway? and why are the sources of these outrageous misrepresentations always anonymous. I am not afraid to sign my letters and I am not embarrassed to have any and everyone in the Vaisnava community read them. Or do you purposefully mask identities so no one can contact these authors, independent of you? I notice the ritvik advise you so liberally dispensed to the interested soul inquiring was also devoid of his address. This censorship prevents anyone with a differing opinion from contacting him with an alternative point of view. Very convenient for you and your diatribes, but not fair or in the spirit of honest debate of these issues.

I would appreciate your direct reply to my statements, and not a public condemnation out of context for what you think I am ignoring. I will make every endeavor I can to confront you publicly on the Istaghosti page of Rocana's web sight. Let me know when you are going to be on and perhaps we can have some direct dialogue since you avoid answering me by e mail. Puranjana Prabhu, I am your godbrother, I am Srila Prabhupada's follower and I will not allow you to present blatant untruths just because they make the GBC or ISKCON management look bad.

I hope this letter finds you in good health and that we can have a reasonable dialogue some day, based on facts and genuine concern for the spiritual benefit of all the assembled devotees. We must all try to go Back to Home, Back to Godhead. I do agree with something you said and that is the result of hearing and chanting should be that we are ready to fight on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. That battlefield for us is to somehow gain control of our restless mind and unbridled senses, and learn to chant offenselessly. We will never do that if we offend the devotees who have dedicated their lives to the propagation of the holy name. That is one of the ten offenses. I am not a perfect disciple by any means, and I don't pretend to be someting that I am not. I may be still a conditioned soul, but I am not a liar, and I will not tolerate such bold faced misrepresentation either by you, the GBC or anyone else.

Your servant,

Puru Das Adhikari