Infiltration by Demons, Take a Guess …
BY: DHARMAPAD DAS (DEAN DOMINIC DE LUCIA)
Mar 13, 2012 — BRAZIL (SUN) —
raksasah kalim ashritya
jayante brahma-yonishu
This idea of beings from other realms taking birth on Earth with agendas is not unheard of. In the tenth canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, Sri Vishnu instructed the demigods to take birth ahead of Sri Krishna in order to assist Him in His pastimes:
"After all the demigods offered the Purusa-sukta prayer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they apparently heard no response. Then Lord Brahma personally sat in meditation, and there was a message-transmission from Lord Visnu to Brahma. Brahma then broadcast the message to the demigods. That is the system of receiving Vedic knowledge. The Vedic knowledge is received first by Brahma from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, through the medium of the heart. As stated in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam, tene brahma hrda: the transcendental knowledge of the Vedas was transmitted to Lord Brahma through the heart. Here also, in the same way, only Brahma could understand the message transmitted by Lord Visnu, and he broadcast it to the demigods for their immediate action. The message was: The Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear on the earth very soon along with His supremely powerful potencies, and as long as He remains on the earth planet to execute His mission of annihilating the demons and establishing the devotees, the demigods should also remain there to assist Him. They should all immediately take birth in the family of the Yadu dynasty, wherein the Lord will also appear in due course of time. "
(Krsna Book, Chapter One)
The other way around, however, it seems that asuras also either take birth as residents of Bharat, or that they express their influence through earthly beings, as we will see in the case of Duryodhana.
"After being thus informed by Narada about the appearance of the demigods in different families Kamsa at once became alert. He understood that since the demigods had already appeared, Lord Visnu must be coming soon."
"Kamsa was made aware of his previous birth by the grace of Narada. He learned that in his previous birth he was a demon of the name Kalanemi and that he was killed by Visnu. Having taken his birth in the Bhoja family, he decided to become the deadly enemy of the Yadu dynasty; Krsna was going to take birth in that family, and Kamsa was very much afraid that he would be killed by Krsna, just as he was killed in his last birth."
(Krsna Book, Chapter One)
I don't doubt that many of those who have committed atrocities in ISKCON, such as gurukula child molestation, were really demons that took birth with the purpose of implementing the agendas of demoniac beings.
But they don't have to have been actual demons. There can be normal people who become inspired at some point with specific agendas against the ISKCON Hare Krishna movement. Sadaputa das, in his book Alien Identities (p. 241 ), explains how this could be so by using the case of King Duryodhana as an example:
"King Duryodhana once had an encounter with some Ganharvas who had cordoned off an area around a lake for recreational purposes and had blocked Duryodhana's army from entering. When Duryodhana tried to enter anyway, a fierce battle took place, and he was captured by the Gandharva forces. At this point, Arjuna, who was staying nearby, used his political connections with the Gandharva to free Duryodhana. Arjuna and his brothers had been driven into exile by Duryodhana, but Arjuna intervened to save him from the Ganharvas on the grounds that he was a relative and a human being.
Duryodhana was humiliated at being saved by a person he had scorned and mistreated as an enemy, and he decided to give up his everything and fast until death. However, it seems that other parties had long-standing plans for Duryodhana and they weren't at all pleased by this turn of events.
'Thereupon the Daityas and Danavas, hearing of his decision, the gruesome denizens of the nether world, who had been defeated by the gods, now, in the knowledge that Duryodhana would wreak their party, performed a sacrificial rite in order to summons him.' (Mahabharat)
Once Duryodhana was in the presence of the Danavas, they explained to him that his birth on Earth was arranged in advance as part of their plan. His great bodily strength and his near immunity to weapons were arranged by their manipulations. He therefore shouldn't spoil everything by taking his life. Daityas and Danavas, taking birth as Earthly heroes, would assist him in his battle with the Pandavas. The Danavas also pointed out that they would use mind control to make sure that this battle had the desired outcome.
[They explained to Duryodhana that] ‘other asuras will take possession of Bhishma, Drona, Kripa and the others; and possessed by them they will fight your enemies ruthlessly. When they engage in battle, best of the Kurus, they will give no quarter to either son or brother, parents or relatives, students or kinsmen, the young or the old. Pitiless, possessed by the Danavas, their inner souls overwhelmed, they will battle their relations and cast all love far off. Gleefully, their minds darkened, the tiger-like men, befuddled with ignorance by a fate set by the Ordainer, will say to one another that – ‘you will not escape from me with your life!‘ Standing firm in their manly might in the unleashing of manifold weapons, best of the Kurus, they will boastfully perpetrate a holocost.'
If this wasn't enough, the Danavas also explained that the hero Karna and the "sworn warriors" (a band of demons ) would slay Arjuna. After convincing Duryodhana that he would be victorious, the Danavas arranged for his return.
The same Kritya brought the strong armed man back when he was dismissed, to the very spot where he had been fasting unto death. Kritya put the hero down, saluted him, and when the king had dismissed her, vanished then and there.
'After it was over, King Duryodhana thought that it had all been a dream, Bharat, and he was left with this thought: I shall vanquish the Pandus in battle.' "
Thus, dear readers, there are those among us who are actual demons, and those whose hearts have been influenced by possession by evil spirits on the level of chakras and the astral plane.
What a pertinent treasure trove of occult information Sadaputa das has passed on to us! This puranic narration informs us that demons take birth in human bodies and influence affairs on the surface of the Earth. If this was true 5,000 years ago, even while Sri Krishna walked the face of the Earth, then what to speak of now. The Hare Krishna movement had formed a scientific body (Bhaktivedanta Institute) to debunk the Apollo mission, complete with a worldwide book distribution apparatus selling millions of books per year, a couple of decades before anyone else really mounted any credible debunking effort; surely the Hare Krishna movement deserved at least a little bit of infiltration by the materialistic and demoniac elements that control the world, if not much, much more than just a little.
The narration also tells that the demons have the ability to take possession of even dharmic warriors, overwhelm their souls (the Pandavas resisted this), and have them carry out agendas. What to speak of some of the pathetic people that have engaged in embezzlement, child molestation and even murder in ISKCON. For example, I recall thinking about the former leaders Dhanurdar Swami, of gurukul fame, and the former Harikesa Swami, that they had some really ill, icky mindsets and that they weren't like the other devotees.
We could go on and on developing this line of thought, but I think that by now the readers can certainly understand what happened to the Hare Krishna movement just prior to, and certainly after the passing of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. To actually spell it out, the movement was infiltrated by those whose spirits were turned against it, and they went on engaging in the nefarious activities mentioned above; they generally neutralized and impeded the preaching agenda and seem to have poisoned Srila Prabhupada. Surely some of them are active and still on call, waiting to go off like time bombs.
Remember that Duryodhana didn't really have any clear recollection of what had happened -- he just thought he was a Vedic king and that he had a right to compete with Arjuna, as kings do. In a similar way, there have been leaders walking around in ISKCON that imagine that they are what they present themselves to be, but at certain times their hearts become overwhelmed by demoniac influences. Let's not be impersonal about it; we can think along the lines of lower and even demoniac beings on the astral level influencing someone's subtle body and consciousness. I remember just a few years ago, I walked out of a major hospital that had large neuro-psychiatric and psychology wards. I was at a corner waiting to cross the street with a few others that had come out when a boy of about 10 years of age started barking and howling and looking around himself with that wide-eyed, curious look that is so common to canines. His mother kept admonishing him, but he didn't seem to pay much attention, he was into it! All of that split personality business is sometimes really a matter of some other being having penetrated the polarities that usually help us to resist. This usually doesn't happen, though, until we become old and our energies no longer resist. But demons of the type that fly around in UFOs have shown that they understand the technology, the mysticism, to do it with. And don't think that ISKCON's book distribution potential and Srila Prabhupada's straightforward preaching didn't attract their attention.
There are quite a few conclusions we can draw from all this; one of them is to be careful about who gets involved in temple management, in general. Another more specific idea is that it just might not be feasible to feature gurukulas anymore in ISKCON. Nobody can assure that some lackey with strange agendas won't be able to infiltrate and have his way with the young ones; and just one slipup of a dastardly deed of this nature could generate enough repercussions to do away with ISKCON's work on an entire continent.
Good grief!
I welcome the readers to correspond with me personally, Dharmapad das, with any feedback, questions and encouragement: silopanna@uol.com.br
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