More on Praghosa
BY: MAHAVIDYA DAS (ACBSP)
Mar 16, 2016 — UK (SUN) —
My thanks to Bhakta Chris for helping with some of the background history of Praghosa.
I always did wonder how and why Praghosa became a GBC.
More and more of the dots are falling into place and creating a picture.
I am painfully aware of the mismanagement of Sivarama Swami,
the personality who allowed Praghosa to get to the top of the heap.
My personal experience of Sivarama Swami began on my return from ISKCON South Africa to ISKCON UK.
I had been obliged to leave South Africa due to my asking awkward questions (but that's another story).
On returning to the UK, I found Bhaktivedanta Manor on the verge of closure.
The Manor had become literally...
a rat infested slum.
This is no exaggeration.
The Manor was £1,000.000 in debt.
The then GBC Sivarama Swami meanwhile had built his own private residence in Vrindavana.
The Manor temple president had his own private house with jacuzzi tub.
The Manor temple president's wife had a maid paid for by the Manor.
To this day regular
"the saving of Bhaktivedanta Manor " celebrations continue.
However NOBODY ever asks why it was put in such a dangerous position to begin with.
Let's move on…
I was invited to mend a Deity in Ireland...
Once again the temple was in a rundown, dilapidated condition...
I cannot say for sure why...
perhaps bhakta Chris could help out with those details.
but Pritu das was gone...
it looked like he had literally taken everything with him.
Sivarama Swami was again the GBC.
The scandal in Scotland...
Balabhadra das was made first a guru then a Swami with the blessings of Sivarama Swami.
The nonsense in Scotland had been an open secret for many years...
however...
the plug was only pulled when Balabhadra das STOPPED giving money to Sivarama Swami.
Balabhadra das told me personally that between £5.000.000 to £6.000.000 had gone to projects outside of Scotland.
Let's move on...
Sivarama Swami quits as the UK GBC and is replaced by Praghosa as GBC.
Sivarama Swami is concentrating on becoming a gopi.
Now...
we have Praghosa replacing Sivarama Swami.
However...
Sivarama Swami does not quit the UK.
Factually...
ISKCON Wales is a colony of Sivarama Swami's that collects cash for him.
Sivarama Swami had at one point a team of ladies collecting around the UK.
They were exposed in the public media.
Sivarama Swami's disciples manage Bhaktivedanta Manor.
They openly proclaim themselves as Hindus.
They receive undisclosed salaries.
They defy the ISKCON Child Protection Office.
All of this goes on under the protection of our new GBC, Praghosa.
Radhanatha Swami,
Bhaktividyapurna Swami…
Both have a sordid past but are made at home and welcomed by Praghosa.
Gauri das becomes Praghosa's... GBC EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.
Gauri das becomes managing director of Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Members of Bhaktivedanta Manor are required to sign a gagging order.
And so it goes on and on...
So one only has to ask...
Why did Sivarama Swami choose Praghosa as his replacement?
One has tried to contact Sivarama Swami on occasions in the past but the answer is always the same…
No reply... no response... nothing.
