Bhakti Caru Swami – Myth Maker!
BY: GAURA PRASAD DAS
Mar 13, USA (SUN) — Many thanks to Rocana Prabhu and Nrsimhananda Prabhu for their insights on Bhakti Caru Swami's myth-making. It does seem that ISKCON is in desperate need to canonize saints whenever they can. Whenever an ISKCON guru departs this world, he automatically becomes saintly (even if he wasn't during his lifetime). Even somebody like Gaur Govinda Swami, whom the GBC despised literally became a rubber-stamped, GBC approved saint overnight. The day before his departure, the GBC were planning to subject him to a philosophical interrogation and, in the words of one of the GBC's present at that time, "Finally smash this guy!" Maharaja passed away that evening, and the next morning the whole GBC body were mourning and crying crocodile tears, calling him a paramahamsa – what hypocrisy!!!
One of the GBC's bewailing the departure of Gaur Govinda Swami was Bhakti Caru Swami, who lauded heaps of praise on him, though he had plenty of other things to say about Gaur Govinda Swami privately in the GBC meetings.
However, back to the present – I would like to make a further analysis regarding Bhakti Caru Swami's claim that Tamal Krishna Goswami left his body prior to his fatal car accident.
1) Firstly, who was the doctor who made such a claim and how did he come to such a conclusion that Tamal Krishna Goswami left his body a split-second before the crash? Even a first-class medic would be hard pressed to make such a claim, what to speak of a simple doctor from rural Krishnanagar.
2) Even if we do entertain the bizarre notion that Tamal Krishna Goswami purposefully left his body before the crash, why would he decide to leave it in some funky old taxi when he could have easily have left his body directly in Mayapur-dhama, surrounded by the devotees?
3) If Tamal Krishna Goswami knew there would be a crash, why did he not notify the other three passengers that were in the taxi with him? Are we then to assume that Tamal Krishna Goswami did not want to get involved with their karma (in the same way that Narayan Maharaj says Srila Prabhupada knew the children were being abused in the gurukulas, but did not want to get involved with their parabdha-karma).
It would seem that Bhakti Caru Swami has an innate tendency for fabricating stories. He already created a mythological version of Srila Prabhupada for his Abhay Charan TV series – now he invents a fable about Tamal Krishna Goswami, giving him the same attributes as Bhismadeva by informing us that Tamal Krishna left his body at will in a taxi on the way to Kolkata. Such legends may gain kudos with the blind followers and admirers of Tamal Krishna Goswami, but under scrutiny it makes no sense whatsoever.
Can we now assume that Bhakti Caru Swami will also make a 108-part TV serial based upon a mythical version of Tamal Krishna Goswami?
