Dear Cal,
This is the truth as I know it in the presence of the Supreme Person, of whom there is only one, who is also present everywhere by His Spirit.
My honest assessment, which I made consciously more than once, was that my friend, Caturbahu, would not try to contact you in any way, forget about posting on your internet forum.
I turned him on to HQ at some point after we met, and we discussed your story and its implications for man on earth and ourselves individually many times. It lead to discussions of the constitutional laws of this country and how they are similar or different to the social and spiritual orders of the Gaudiya Vaisnava society. But he seemed disinterested to contact you, although we did talk once about driving out to meet you and play you some Vaisnava music, and give you a Gita.
Gaudiya Vaisnavas are NOT Hindus.
Those who deviated from Lord Krishna's rules and regulations, using them for their own aggrandizement, became the dominant political and societal force, and purveyors of "religion" in India, after the passing of the dynasty of the last chaste Priestly King, Chanakya Pandita, famous for repelling Alex T.G.
The deviant culture are called Hindus, originally pronounced "Indus", which was the way the neighbors referred to those across the Sindu river from them.
Their presentation of the ancient scriptures of India is a calculated disinformation scheme to obscure the truth into something so absurd that noone but themselves buy into it and rule unfortunate people under that tyranny.
The Hindus are not representative of the small group of remaining Gaudiya Vaisnavas who stayed true, who have a small populational subculture, and according to the records shown to people I hold in confidence, the temple where Jesus spent years while in India was the MadvhaGaudiya Vaisnava temple at Jagannatha Puri. The famous one. Their priests have kept records way before Jesus stayed.
I have always come to HQ because of what you freely give. The truth as you know it. And try to share what little truth I have at any given time.
According to the Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy, according to the Holy Scripture of which there are 3 main, including Bhagavad Gita, there are many ways to induce knowledge. Using the eyes and ears to directly percieve something. Using logic and reasonable inference. These empiric and scientific methods are part of an inductive or ascending process of gathering knowledge of things.
Hearing from authority is considered descending knowledge, and this is considered the most perfect way of receiving any material knowledge, and the ONLY way of receiving actual understanding of that Person who confounds the materialistic thought process. And He reserves the right to not be understood by those who genuinely wish otherwise and he lets them speculate until frustrated.
According to the Gaudiya code one is not to speak unless they can back what they say by proof. It must be true as per scripture, or a person is bogus.
I was backing my friend, because any of the facts that he stated about Ghosts, social orders, king ship, etc, that he stated as if he knew something, were all in line with scripture, because I have read it diligently.
His subjective opinions that you took issue with are of his own design. But I understand his heart and the issues we have discussed threadbare, so I was not wordsmithing, just explaining, to the best of my ability to do.
As for the funding thing.
When I first met CB, we commiserated about the almost wholesale destruction and perversion of the spiritual movement of the great Gaudiya teacher, Abhay Caran, who was given the title Bhaktivedanta Swami by his teacher. There was much to discuss now that more than one serious disciple was in the same locale. That is how bad things have gotten. After trying valiantly but unsucessfully to persuade his fellows to stay true to the scripture and teachings given, even after they poisoned B.Swami and took his movement over, CB barely escaped the Abuse, Murder, and mayhem of one of the most sinister cults ever to scar this country. Iskcon.
There are a few sincere cast aways and exiled disciples who weren't suicided or murdered who gradually found one another and have bonded together and are sharing fellowship and worship.
The catch phrase is "full funding or armageddon'' . Which is applied to the 2 scenarios which seem most likely to enable certain orders of B.Swami to be executed by his head administrator, Caturbahu. We talk often of this tall order which was akin to creating an Amish like community, as self sufficient as possible within reason (budget and know how) and having freindly commerce with neighbors, and open invitation to fellowship and worship to anyone.
And we talk of how to arrange things so that at least the people we have guardianship over have the opportunity to live the lifestyle that accomodates their spiritual and material needs as we know them by scripture.
The Hare Krsna devotees in this country are so jaded by what happened by the abuse at the hands of their mad leaders that even someone proposing doing exactly what their teacher wanted are not trusted.
But some of them have standing orders. And those cannot be disregarded if the commander is a true spiritual teacher, authorized by the Supreme Person.
So we teach our children well, play king of our own little castle, and as far as the self sufficient agrarian based community of worshipers that an 80 plus year old B.Swami was coming to America to demonstrate by example in Port Royal PA. before he was poisoned, sickened and killed so as to not ruin the fun of the rat finks he treated like sons of God.
As far as that, we say, "full funding or armageddon". We bittersweetly repeat this phrase often. Either enough disciples will have a change of heart and get together and follow the principles and stop making excuses, (fully funded). Or armageddon. Which we have discussed about in terms of what it means to us, what that might be like for people around us, how it would effect us where we live, who we know, if they survived, would be more inclined toward being cooperative or selfishly destructive. Where to get water, how to print scripture, etc.
Some of these guys we have to beg to do the right thing. I have to beg for a paycheck sometimes even though it is owed to me. That is the truth.
B.Swami is a pure and confidential messenger of the Supreme Being.
We are just a mortal and imperfect support crew trying to watch over those he loved who loved him back, distribute the oldest revelation on the block called his Bhagavad Gita "As It Is", protect his legacy and archives, liase with true Gaudiyas from India, and love our neighbors as ourselves.
I was not expecting to introduce such a confidential aspect of my life here, but felt compelled to do so in order to make a clear explanation of what I feel was a misunderstanding. CB is hard like a thunderbolt, but soft as a rose. If you saw him with his kids you might understand. And he wasn't here looking for your money. And neither am I.
thanks.
Mark
