As the article itself makes very evident, all devotees and the general public should steer very far clear of these characters at the so-called "New Bihar Mandir". Following are a few excerpts from "White Power and apocalyptic cults: Pro-DPRK Americans revealed", in which Thayer tells the long and complicated story of a group of subversives. At about the mid-point of the article he writes:

"In 2009, leaders of the clandestine U.S. White Power movement created another religious organization—a Hindu sect worshipping an apocalyptic Hindu Deity, Kali" …

Taking on the aliases of a Hindu priest and priestess, Sutter and Hoy established the New Bihar Mandir Temple at the same rural South Carolinian location as the Rural People's Party headquarters and where the U.S. Songun Study Group represented by Cupp and the Palestinian American activist Ziad secretly travelled months earlier to formalize their political alliance.

Sutter adopted an additional new identity of a Hindu Hare Krishna priest calling himself Shree Shree Kalki-Kalika Mandir. Sutter's bride, Jillian Hoy, took on the name Jayalalita devi dasi, and billed herself as a Hindu priestess. …

Jillian Hoy, who also claims to be a disciple of the mainstream Hare Krishna Hindu sect,
holds up Hare Krishna literature at a rural South Carolina library in 2009
[ Photo: Nate Thayer, "NKnews.org ]

New Bihar Mandir's Myspace page, created in 2009, says "A new god has come to rural Lexington County, South Carolina: Their Lordships Shree Shree Kalki-Kalika." Adding "Lord Kalki will appear as the "Killer Avatar" to cleanse the earth as the pivotal factor in a worldwide annihilation, from which, like a phoenix arising from the ashes, will come a new Golden Age (or 'Satya-yuga.')"

The New Bihar Mandir proclaimed "Lord Kalki is our commander, ultimate master and final authority life after life." According to ancient Hindu scriptures, history is divided into four epochs: now is the 'Kali Yug', the Age of Kali, an epoch of darkness and disintegration…New Bihar Mandir, a worldwide movement of devotees and temples, is beginning to bring this prophecy into fruition." …

Jillian Hoy at Hare Krishna ceremony at Hare Krishna temple retreat in North Carolina in 2009
[HH Bir Krishna Goswami conducting fire yajna]
[ Photo: Nate Thayer, "NKnews.org ]

The previous year Sutter had professed loyalty to the Hare Krishna sect of Hinduism. "In retrospect I can see just how much my life has been enriched by your work," Sutter wrote in a letter to the head of a North Carolina-based Hare Krishna temple [apparently referring to HH Bir Krishna Goswami].

"[My wife] is now having some of the happiest times I have seen her have since our marriage because of the enriching potency of Krishna consciousness," …

On James Porrazzo's web site "OPENREVOLT" he posted an article "NOTES ON THE BHAGAVAD-GITA" on August 22, 2011 which begins: "We assume, quite justifiably, I think, that the Bhagavad-Gita sets forth Aryan philosophy. The Aryan is white and noble in contradistinction to the black and ignoble. This book then, if Aryan, must give us a noble system of philosophy and ethics."

The article concludes with: "This post is dedicated to his Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabupada, my anonymous Krishna Conscious Spiritual Advisor (you know who you are) and my brothers and sisters at New Bihar Mandir."

Text and images - Nate Thayer, "NKnews.org.

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