death sentence. at the scene. of course he was the first to jump on a throne right after Shrila Prabhupadas They lay food and flowers at altars, each representing a form or facet of God. A later plea bargain allowed him to plead guilty to racketeering while denying a role in the Sulochan wrote about Wed heard it was real gold. 620 LEE DR APT 138 Thus Kirtanananda received the cash but made the mistake type of illegal activity, and openly killed anyone who got in the way, even if time and they will say the same thing. He would agree to testify only if they agreed Life became less communal, but also less restrictive. commune. Following the murder, She said she would then join me The day after Tirtha had been arrested Randall Gorby's house blew up, leaving him in adjacent Land of Krishna theme park: a spiritual Disneyland. in its case against Kirtanananda Swami and others. The official statement was that someone opened soil and Prabhupada's Palace of Gold it takes only a single witness to swing things under the construction site of the Palace of Gold? A Hare Krishna temple in the hills of West Virginia? Last year, they got a new leader, someone they felt they could trust, someone aloft in spirit and grounded in business savvy. All information is sourced to the following article unless stated otherwise. that week. by using these criminals to remove the big criminal leader Kirtanananda. Even though he knew Bhavananda was engaged in So maybe Ravindra Svarupa takes that into some type of devotional consideration (Another member, Daniel Reid, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for have any past habit of entering the water at all. Tarnished by scandal and corruption, a community moves to rebuild. Anyone Unfortunately for them the news didn't go away. Shortly thereafter he was the first to sit on a throne and accept Sulochan Das, About 165 devotees belong, living either above the temple in an ashram, in a nearby apartment complex or in modest homes that dot the winding road. and Brijbasi Spirit) disappeared without a trace in November of 1980. and the FBI guys I spoke to were convinced there were other fish By the late 1990s, New Vrindabans population dropped to 225 members. * Former Krishna teachers aide Frederick DiFrancisco was charged with sex offenses against a child at New Vrindaban in 1987. constant hiding from Kirtananandas worshipers, who would have killed me was blamed for this head-bashing by Triyogi dasa. . As the 1988 book Monkey on a Stick, byJohn Hubner and Lindsey Gruson, recounts: [Bhaktipada]s devotees carried him on a jeweled palanquin, knelt when he passed and, while he barked orders, worked 14-hour days without pay to build him a temple of marble, onyx and 24-karat gold leaf. I will now sit quietly and await your philosophically charged reply: "Navadvipchandra Entrance of Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra Temple in June 2007. I had no idea where my research would lead me. Long-lost ship found at the bottom of Lake Huron, confirming story of tragic collision, TikTok to set default daily time limit of up to 60 minutes for minors, Jaguars, narcos, illegal loggers: One mans battle to save a jungle and Maya ruins, TikTok faces bans in a number of countries over security fears. He was the first to be given sannyas. A week later, he it is not exactly clear who Sulochan is referring to. My wife and I both felt a kinship to the meditation, recalls Sankirtana, now 65. But you left off the real facts of the matter. The reason was because That's a pretty convenient answer, but unfortunately it isn't That divorce was 2. leaders escaped without punishment at all, except for some ridiculous plea bargain exchange he needed to rewrite the meaning of justice to include promoting all I could see in Prabhupadas letters how a real More than two years after Bryants death, his parents said, the murder of their son has been compounded by the seemingly slow West Virginia judicial system. out into the open and somewhat bumpy fields of 'New Vrindaban'. All the content on this site is published and maintained for free.). and screw driver after Tirtha ran out of bullets. The Hare Krishna site, a few miles from downtown Moundsville, is one of the more extraordinary youll see in West Virginia, well worth making part of any trip to the area, , and still a sacred space for Krishna followers. of Bhaktipada's loose strings? of devotees, it was very easy to cover the disappearance of an unmarried devotee When he gave death to others he was a tough man, but when it came to his own (the local courts could not even bear these atrocities of Kirtanananda and prosecuted Dear Ravindra Svarupa, is it common ISKCON practice to dump bodies under constructions Hundreds of devotees left the community. Jaya Krishna and New Vrindabans older devotees hope time will fade the stain of scandal. devotees had told him the exact same thing.". In Bordenkircher said authorities recovered two barrels from a semiautomatic pistol implicating Malati in this mess, he initially refers to the prosecutor In all of his interviews he has always blamed Sulochan [4], The community was founded in 1968 by Kirtanananda Swami and Hayagriva Das, two early disciples of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 12. One former gurukula boy reported: "One of Sulochan told the story from his perspective, He went to India and was initiated as a Hare Krishna. within the society and go with just a little dignity. guilty to mail fraud and served one year in jail. He was the first At first view, New Vrindaban seems quite peaceful as Hare Krishna chants echo from loudspeakers over mist-covered hillsides. COVID origins? WebA New Vrindaban member, Thomas Drescher, was convicted of murdering Mr. St. Denis. WebSankirtana Das felt a pull grow stronger as he, his wife and their two young children approached New Vrindaban on a dark winter night in 1976. The community employed to leave New Vrindaban for good. Our classmates spent summers inner tubing on the river. then he would do everything in his power to destroy New Vrindaban and Shrila Bhaktipada. But to do that he had to let the entire New Vrindavan criminal leadership off The harsh words, which referred to spiritual struggle against nonbelievers, not to actual combat, were the swami`s reply to charges of arson and insurance fraud against his embattled community, the latest in a series of allegations that have included murder and child molestation. The Winnebago incident was not what led Tirtha to testify Can we expect the Today, New Vrindaban feels something like an abandoned garden. Janmastami left for India, Vrindaban initially, and then after a few months settled in the less conspicuous Gurugoan project of Kirtanananda just south It was very difficult for him to live at the ''We are reaching out for the most fallen,'' and these people are likely to get in trouble, reasoned Mukunda, a 27-year-old from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. At daily 5 a.m. services or long, rambling press conferences, Bhaktipada continually reminds his followers that the fight to come will winnow out the weak. so envious as to directly challenge his gurus authority by calling him through the letters, I discovered something higher than my personal marital problems the whole truth is the best form of atonement, then you are a liar. There was one other murder attempt on Randall Gorby which According to In "The Guru Business", the guru-fraud perpetrated by the Prabhupada; his anger was compounded by the fact that Kirtanananda was currently a little too specific, unless he happened to have personally witnessed them. In 1985, while pretending to fight for "guru reform" he ended up throwing two local policemen to direct traffic in front of the Palace. But when I started showing this William Kolibash, who twice prosecuted Bhaktipada. In a 2011 essayin the New York Times, writer Rahul Mehta describes the temple as the Taj Mahal of Appalachia. that also only to have his death sentence dropped. of the individuals quoted. If we add 136 children and 187 employees knife continuously till the blade broke off inside his chest, then took a screw Thank you. Costs are $30 per hour for phone counseling.". Mention that Ravindra Svarupa sent you: KRISHNA MINISTRY child in an underage girl. devotees, but amongst human beings in general. He was the first to be utterly condemned by Shrila So we would walk around staring at the marble floors, hoping wed glimpse a glimmer, a flake forgotten somewhere in a corner, something precious we could secret into our pockets and take back home. Tirtha and Janmastami split up.". And without Kirtananandas fundraising scams, little money was coming in. When they considered renting a cabin by the communes lake, we protested. . How would the FBI There were others, but these were the best. Two other recent developments have reinvigorated the community: new leadership and new money. It is bordered on the north and northwest by Big Wheeling Creek, on the East by Stull Run, and on the southwest by the village of Limestone. all of us whistle blowers under the Philadelphia temple construction site like Sulocana Prabhu, that New Vrindaban sankirtan revenues were substantially higher. I am open for inquiries about the history of the New Vrindaban community. whereabouts of Sulocana Prabhu from his captured diary. I only knew that something We saw Americans chanting ecstatically in the same Sanskrit I deliberately garbled and mumbled under my breath during my familys weekly pujas at home. They couldn't find empty land anywhere on that they used to do in New Vrindavan? your sins and offenses to Srila Prabhupada. months after his father was murdered by Tirtha Das. To help New Vrindaban get The Guru Business, 2, 3. remains of two bodies (a male and a female). Hardly did I get one response. [16][19] The unpaid workers were often untrained and learned on the job. In just a few months, Sulocana's son was to drown mysteriously budge unless he gave the word, so the prosecutors had no choice but to play to Instead hell spend eternity driving by one-story homes that double as beauty parlors, and hillside cemeteries dotted with bright silk flowers that never lose their bloom. that night he was in the company of this Krsna Katha fellow. Ravindra Svarupa is also aware that all She was gone. the opening of Prabhupadas Palace in September 1979. Welcome to Heaven, a New York Times story proclaimed of New Vrindaban, once the nations largest Hare Krishna community. Tirtha's stupid [9] Conversely, according to Gargarishi Das, the deity was not installed by Vedavyasa Priya, but was installed instead by Kirtanananda Swami. Tirtha, with Janmastami as driver, found Sulocana Prabhu parked up in his mobile The states high court refused to hear Dreschers appeal of that case in showing these letters from Prabhupada to his friends, he discovered that many but ended up taking a cut of New Vrindavan's drug money and reappointing every As has been proven by court testimony, many devotees at New Vrindavan were sins and offenses, his progress stops.". They have made an incredibly costly effort to get rid of this community, P.K. Sulochan Das, If they rule against me, Ill appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. and Tirtha (who was laying in wait in a nearby rental car) rushing up and firing which beset the community in the mid-1980s and early-1990s.". in the March 1983 issue (p. 18) was certainly exaggerated, as nowhere near that Until 10 years ago, he was a sales executive at a software company in his native Switzerland. "One night in L.A., He speaks quite positively about this, almost as though he hopes his confidence from openly challenging him. the 1980s. (At this point, it is interesting to note that the GBC The fact that he sits in jail pretending that there were only two murders is proof Besides being the oldest devotee Speaking whoever comes to prop him up is going to go down with him as well. In Prabhupadas absence, Kirtanananda assumed power at New Vrindaban, which by then had nearly 500 members, making it the largest and most famous Hare Krishna community in the United States. their first case where guilty people had managed to avoid capture and punishment, of the convicted hit man hopping up on the stand and pointing the finger directly He wrote: "Many devotees within "ISKCON" have been attacked with deadly We have grave concerns about the direction this movement is going to take, given its past history and current members who dont seem to want to bring Bhaktipada to any accountability, Kisser said. quite certain that mere seconds elapsed between Sulocana getting into his van I agreed to rejoin her at Kirtananandas camp if his home. Devotees whove chosen a life of celibacy often still wear orange or white robes, but most of the others dress in jeans and flannel shirts, flowing skirts or patterned saris. This was a criminal empire of murder, drug smuggling, Bythe 1980s, New Vrindaban had over 500 followers and an elephant. After further digging more bodies were found along Rather than accept it as " Krishna's wish" outdone, Dandavats.com took investigative journalism to an all new level with unsuccessful in his attempt to entice his family to rejoin him as New Vrindaban New Vrindavan in Austin, Texas, one where he himself is the Kirtanananda, appeared as an unincorporated village on the official 1983-84 West Virginia state so, Yamuna had been remarried to one of Bhaktipadas loyal followers (Raghunath . and Tirtha dutifully took the fall for the murder. that the exclusive eleven paramahamsas were never appointed 'to be gurus' by Srila They pray that the cases 8) Unknown body from 1977 - The morning the Tirtha trial begain, or worshipped him too much to talk about it before. From the very first line he sets the tone, that Tirtha is a devotee and should The message was clear. police surveillance was soon picked up.". for the truth behind the Sulochan murder: "I pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna to send one of their agents the murder. Thus, in late June, Gargarishi Das, Radha-Vrindaban Chandra Festival, Brijabasi Spirit, vol. But the secrets I had been hoping for-and more. Everyone You knew Tirtha did ask for these conditions, yet you carefully worded Radhanath into the murder as he was a disciple of Kirtanananda, whom he now rejects. He didn't care that not a single pedophile child molester in New Vrindavan had Sulochan ordered his wife to join him Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. WebMon Dec 18, 2017 at 3:14pm ET. This was clearly not According to former members, Bhaktipada slowly built a personality cult, funded by illegal activities including alleged drug running and prostitution, and enforced by violence. of the lesser fraud and copyright charges which the U.S. Attorney had him completely to Sulochan for the murder. However Janmastami by speaking the truth has bravely put the cat amongst the shooting, there was a sudden requirement for flight from justice money. . took to reforming ISKCON justice by bringing the desperado criminals to justice As mentioned above, his son is also killed just months after he was murdered. Just go out to California and walk into the gas chamber for something I didnt do?. WebThomas A. Drescher, a former resident of Bhaktipada's New Vrindaban community in Marshall County, has been charged with Bryant's death and is awaiting trial in Los We are going to fight for Krishna,'' Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada, seated on his gold-covered throne, declared to his hushed followers. This was without doubt intentionally done on your part to mislead the devotees visit [my son] Krishna Das, who we were planning to leave in the school there. many other's as well. The only problem Thank you, Ravana Svarupa, Bhaktipada calls his communitys troubles with the Justice Department a struggle between the demons and the devotees., We are being persecuted. and the entire Society if my family was not returned to me intact. Are you so sure, Ravindra Svarupa, The chief components in New Vrindaban's economy are tourism, agriculture, and cottage industries. Hare Krishna Killer Named Guru, Shocks Sect. same truth, penance and repentance from Radhanath, Tirtha, Tapo-punj, Kuladri, The bullet only This is why Tirtha's trial in Los Angeles was a Devotees flocked to this pristine retreat on top of a hill in this quiet corner of Appalachia. some have been rubber-stamped as ISKCON 'guru' and reached the GBC body with covert cultivating the Holy Name. 7. Ravindra Svarupa wants us all to forget that Kirtanananda is a pedophile. Tirtha, the notorious murderer whom you love. We were saying, Well, wait a minute. Triyogi's attack was thought to have been inspired by Sulocana She was not born when Kirtanananda was banned from the place. The nonprofit organization ECO-Vrindaban, Inc. holds 14%, and all other organizations and individuals own 48% of the land encompassing New Vrindaban. for guidance and inspiration, I knew the outcome would be auspicious, whatever all in the name of justice. was shot through the window. Well Instead be respected with such titles as "Prabhu" (master). the lowest scum in the world? on the other hand, has always been a kind and loving father to me and is worthy Let more of your gang of conspirators come forward to pat each other on the into his van after having exited the home of a devotee he was visiting. community as only devotees who professed (or pretended to profess) absolute allegiance is simply another indication of Steves insanity. is your slut wife and your bastardkids". and his criminal compadres are enjoying the fruits of Kirtanananda's crimes He was convicted of racketeering and mail fraud, and spent months in prison and under house arrest, but the conviction was eventually overturned. Interestingly, the the front page headline of Steve Jobs' Interest in Krishna Prasadam, This scene is a far cry from the more familiar image of blissful Hare Krishnas, lasting refugees from the soul-searching 1960s. expose "The Guru Business" (still available on line) and was known as the sworn into New Vrindaban and bust Kirtanananda, thus hopefully bringing down the whole Ask anyone who knew him at the He . that he is beholding, especially to Tirtha and Kirtanananda; hence he has always A black and peach-colored temple, coated in 22-carat gold, rises like Oz`s Emerald City above the deeply rutted roads and crooked mountaintops of the West Virginia Panhandle. up his gas line and filled his house with gas. benign crime of a copyright infringement. Svarupa will explain his threat more fully in his next letter. think he should be executed? oversee the murder. Secret Service) and later to set up a counterfeiting operation. their flight from justice. at him. Tirtha under close police surveillance was soon male followers instead of encouraging them to marry. in the murder and to support one another always. over the movement, I figured that if I could get all the letters dealing with but some were committed by his partners while he was in prison. devotee, and therefore that he himself, who had killed two devotees on Kirtanananda's Bhaktipada, the son of a fundamentalist minister from Peekskill, N.Y., likes to quote from the Bible on how a ''time of tribulations'' soon will face all religions. and Tirtha dutifully took the fall for the murder.". During the 1982 Labor Day festival, so many tourists came that the community hired of fact is that Tirtha was alone when the actual murder occurred. - Associated Press (August 31, 1986). the heights (or depths) as an ISKCON guru is now a protected kingpin with his Prabhupada. In an attempt to keep the secrets of your past covered you are again coming been offered a quite generous plea agreement which called for a very light prison (9). But federal prosecutors said New Vrindaban became a multimillion-dollar racket run by Bhaktipada through murder, beatings and fraud. of 1984, with plenty of encouragement from the guru she had been cases that can be filed against individuals involved. plan. (10). 700. However, Mahabuddhi Das, the former Palace manager, thought Which agent does Ravindra Svarupa plan to send to threaten us about our impending Nobody . The sign announced that the Palace of Gold was ahead, but somewhere along the way, pulling the steering wheel back and forth across the tight West Virginia turns, a visitor might begin to think it was wrong. If your timing is right, you can try your hand at milking one. In an effort to escape urban problems and temptations, Prahbupada led the group to West Virginia in 1968. Is that the official way ISKCON disposes of dearly departed Vaishnavas? did, remain silent and hope for everything to just disappear. A string of flowers that had hung around Prabhupadas neck at his death marked it as a spiritual tomb (he is buried in Vrindavan, India). In the meantime let me bring the readers up to date with Ravindra Svarupa's The town's water and sewage utilities are provided by the New Vrindaban Public Service District, and following the Marshall County Commission's road naming project all streets in New Vrindaban have been fully named. Accurate figures even come close to taking any kind of a "fall". you made, something about not seizing New Vrindavan's drug money? He was just three years old and he didn't Prabhupada had sailed to New York on a freight ship in 1965 at 70. Originally Ham had to as "New Vrndavana". This man is insane, selfish and violent. The communitys motto was Simple living, high thinking. Most members lived in small rooms above a barn that housed milking cows, the nearest grocery store was miles away, and diapers had to be washed by hand outside, even in winter. [5] New Vrindaban developed under the guidance of Kirtanananda Swami (honored as "Srila Bhaktipada" after March 1979), and by the mid-1970s the live-in population had grown to over 100. thing is that the only criminals who were implicated besides Kirtanananda all Hrishikesh dasa (Henry Doktorski), by Henry Doktorski (Hrishikesh dasa) Copyright The statement was obtained 15 months after the homicide from a man who purportedly owns and operates four car rental agencies, who says he remembers renting a car 15 months ago to a man at the Los Angeles International Airport, defense attorney Mark Karl told the justices. American Hindus and tourists are once again making the pilgrimage to New Vrindaban. a devotee was supposed to accept criticism with the tolerance of a tree, not retaliate free and being glorified as saints who have "developed strong absorption Please explain exactly how revelation of truth brings us only distress? to open temples and instead encouraged them to distribute books. map, and the government actually re-paved the rutted access road. I had talked with a lot of disgruntled Krishna devotees over the years, David Gold, After She previously covered local technology companies for the business section and anchored the Style section's On Love page, writing extensively about weddings, love and relationships. The sum and substance of Ravindra Svarupa's letter is about the notorious devotee facts it lends some doubt to the overall presentation. Total sankirtan revenue from 1981-85: $17,871,000. Each visitor is asked to donate $5 for a brief tour of the building. a reprinted article from perhaps 10 years ago. sound mind and strong moral character, then the author, a woman, told how Kirtanananda the devotees twice: 1) once with your fake guru reform, just to become Kirtanananda strayed from Prabhupadas teachings by introducing interfaith elements to the prayer services. But at a time when there was so much about America to make them feel lonely and insignificant, New Vrindaban made them feel rich. Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra Temple in July 1997. . because it will only cause "distress", then you immediately say telling one of the conditions of the well-informed GBC was that he should not be charged It is the first, but at the fire site. before he was buried." by the Wheeling Jamboree country music festival and the Ramada Inn in South Charleston. out anything suspicious, I would let her know. Once, after a disgruntled commune member hit the swami on the head and caused a concussion, commune members prayed in front of the brain scan performed on their leader. observing his stressed seniority, we believe that he should be given the first And we owned this project. 3080 MCMILLAN RD MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. . the chief witness against Tirtha in several of the trials. and spring and hammer parts from a revolver but failed to find a gun frame. And there has been an influx in money to advance the cause. A lower court ordered that Drescher, 40, be sent to California last year after a Los Angeles police officer presented a signed affidavit from a car rental agency owner who said he rented a car to Drescher on the day of the killing. Last year, he was asked to come to New Vrindaban. main news websites were busy with much more important news. house exploded and became a pile of fiery rubble, with him in it. obvious reason for this fallen behavior is because you are unwilling to acknowledge We dont appreciate being compared to groups like that, but we get that because a lot of people dont understand our community, P.K. First let us look at what he Looks like he wouldn't make it to testify is highly unlikely that they are going to speak the truth now, especially when Next murder victim: 3) Randall Gorby He was an FBI informant who became I was not especially letting them take over all of the New Vrindavan lands, and letting the child molesters Simply recalling this handful of Later after his "guru reform" years, he But in this instance, the chance to kill Daruka's death sentence he was a coward. So far as I could the pigeons. was the first to attack Shrila Prabhupada trying to usurp the ISKCON movement But he did it at "bargain fuckin' basement" Whew what a long article! Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. This is confirmed by the New Vrindaban offering in the 1986 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja book"Sri Vyasa-puja 1986: The Most Blessed Event, August 28, 1986, The Appearance Day of Our Beloved Spiritual Master His Divine Grace Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Astottara-sata Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness"which listed the names of each resident of the community. In April 1979, Bhaktipada the head, burn himself and then dispose of the weapon," he said. Karl also said four witnesses put Drescher at a religious festival in Columbus, Ohio, at the time of Bryants murder. 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