This is a
simple post clarifying the false accusations on Vishnukanta das by a certain
person who has been trying to harass him and several other devotees in
Bangalore for the past few years. His name is Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das (L
Narasimhan Rau or Lakshmi Narasimhan) and he has written several pages of false
information about Vishnukanta das only for the purpose of defaming his
character. Clarifications for his fake accusations and the reality about his
true nature are provided in this blog. As a devotee or aspiring devotee in
Iskcon, it's very painful to read about criticisms and clarifications but in
order to provide the alternate perspective which can help readers to get the
big, true picture, this information has been presented here.
It is
important to note that whatever complaints or criticisms Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev
das has on Vishnukanta das are
purely his own and are not endorsed by any Iskcon temple authority. The proof of this statement is that even though he
has written his complaints about Vishnukanta das to all the temple presidents
in Bangalore Iskcon temples, under the GBC, to the spiritual master of
Vishnukanta das, the RGB of south India and several other senior
devotees, none of the authorities have given any importance to Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das's accusations nor contacted Vishnukanta
das to get clarifications for any of the complaints. This is because
his complaints have no basis except for envy and insecurity that he has towards
a certain section of devotees in the congregation.
If
anyone wants to verify if there is any truth in the accusations made by Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das, they can contact the Iskcon authorities:
Temple Presidents in Iskcon Bangalore (under GBC):
HG Varada
Krishna Prabhu: vkd.jps@gmail.com
HG Sudhir
Caitanya Prabhu: sudhir.caitanya.jps@pamho.net
HG
Narahari Prabhu: narakesari@hotmail.com
South
India RGB:
HG
Dayaram Prabhu: Dayaram.JPS@pamho.net
Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das sent several emails containing various accusations and
complaints on Vishnukanta das and other devotees for a period of 2 years or
more. Now, since his purpose of taking some action against Vishnukanta das
through a temple authority could not be fulfilled, Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das has
created a blog to accuse him and paint a bad picture about him to the whole
world for his personal satisfaction. This blog is not written with any grudge
against him; at the same time, since it's our duty to clarify and provide the
real facts behind his criticisms, all the points have been explained below. His
blog post about Vishnukanta das is found in quitfakingseektruth.blogspot.com.
Although he hasn't revealed his identity, he has posted all the emails in his
blog that he had sent from his email id - narasimhan@absolutetruth.in.
He starts
his blog with this introduction:
"Here
is a chronological record of email communicationation on this subject. This has
been made public at the request of his counselor for those who are concerned
about Vishnukantha Das or Venugopal Ananthakrishnan."
This
introduction itself is absolutely
false. Vishnukanta das’s counselor is HG Shankarpandit Prabhu of
Pune. Anyone who wants to verify if this statement in his blog is true
or false can directly confirm with Shankarpandit prabhu by writing to his email
id - shankarpanditdas@gmail.com.
It
appears that Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das wants to make the readers believe that the
information he had posted in his blog is authentic by saying that he had posted
on the request of Vishnukanta das’s counselor. But Vishnukanta das’s counselor
was neither aware of such a post nor did he ever request Lakshmi Nrsimha das to
create a blog about him. As mentioned, anyone is free to check with Vishnukanta
das’s counselor Shankarpandit prabhu whether he requested Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev
das to post about Vishnukanta das or not.
He
further says in his blog:
"WHAT IS THE PROBLEM
The Problem is that
Vishnukanta Prabhu who claims to do BBT's english translation of Goswami's work
and assisting Bhagavat vidyapeetam which normally requires devotees of impeccable
character of the likes of HG Gopiparanadhana Prabhu is faking his scholarship
and his achara (behaviour) doesn't match his said qualifications. In the
greater interest of ISKCON this information is made available to public. HG
Vishnukanta Das has acknowledged that all the below events are true but he
claims that its being misinterpreted. But there are solid evidences to prove
his questionable activities. If anyone needs more details please email
Vishnukantha Pr himself madhuananth@gmail.com and copy truelies@activist.com."
This note
about Vishnukanta das’s translation work or acknowledging the events are also
absolutely false. Although many years back, he was getting some basic
training from the late HG Gopiparanadhana prabhu for BBT translation work,
assisting him and HH Bhanu Swami in few of the translation work in
2006-2007, Vishnukanta das never officially took up any translation
service in BBT and Vishnukanta das never told Lakshmi Nrsimha das or
any other devotee that he was involved in any official translation project for
BBT for the purpose of publishing books. If anyone wants to verify this
truth, they can very well confirm with BBT by writing to the director of BBT HG
Bhima prabhu at his email id - bhima.acbsp@pamho.net or contact BBT in their
website http://www.bbt.info/about/contact. Vishnukanta das never
acknowledged any truth in the events that Lakshmi Nrismha had described below
since all of them have been simply cooked up by Lakshmi Nrsimha das for the
sheer purpose of criticizing Vishnukanta das out of some grudge or hatred
that he had developed.
Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das had tactfully avoided the relevant sections of Vishnukanta
das’s email replies to his emails and had posted only some portions that he
could comfortably use to criticize. The latest email that Vishnukanta das had
sent is provided below in order to clarify Vishnukanta das’s stance.
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From: Venugopal A
<madhuananth@gmail.com>
To: L Narasimhan Rau
<narasimhan@absolutetruth.in>
CC:
Gopal.Krsna.Goswami@pamho.net, Dayaram Dasa <Dayaram.JPS@pamho.net>,
Varada Krishna Pr <vkd.jps@gmail.com>, "Sudhir Caitanya (das) JPS
(Bangalore - IN)", <sudhir.caitanya.jps@pamho.net>, "Radheshyam
(das) RNS (ISKCON Pune - IN)"<radheshyam.rns@pamho.net>, Sumithra.Krishna.JPS@pamho.net,
radhakrishnagoura@yahoo.com, Shankarpandit das <shankarpanditdas@gmail.com>,
"Bhakti Vinoda Swami (Coimbatore - IN)"
<bhakti.vinoda.swami@pamho.net>, "H.H Radhanath Swami"
<rswami108@gmail.com>, Shyamasundara Dasa
<shyamasundaradasa@gmail.com>, Narahari Cait1
<narakesari@hotmail.com>, jkd108@gmail.com,
danavir.goswami@pamho.net, JPS.secretary@pamho.net, Gauranga.rns@pamho.net, Bhakti
Vikasa Swami <Bhakti.Vikasa.Swami@pamho.met>
Date: Fri, Jan
18, 2013 at 12:46 PM
Subject: Re:
Questionable activities of Vishnukantha Pr & Guru Groupism in Bangalore
Dear
Lakshmi Nrsimha pr,
Please accept my
humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Thank you pr, for your
concern for me. Based on the discussions in the chain mail, it does not seem to
be a healthy conversation. I do agree that I have certain imperfections which I
have to work on, however I cannot accept the allegations to the statements made
by you. They seem to have all been taken out of context & misinterpreted. I
do not wish to continue the argument, by again trying to explain in detail.
As I
mentioned in my previous email, I am more than willing to explain each instance
in detail to the authorities, if they have any questions for me.
I have no
intentions in hurting you, however if you feel hurt by any of my
words/actions/behaviour, please forgive me. From the way the discussion is
growing, it would be safe for both of us, to maintain safe distance from each
other, rather than continue our arguments back and forth & unnecessarily
increase our emotional expressions towards each other.
your
servant,
Vishnukanta das
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This
is last email from Vishnukanta das in this thread which Lakshmi NrsimhaDev had
deliberately avoided including in the post in his blog.
Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das replied to this email on Jan 18th 2013. Apart from repeating
the same thing that he had mentioned multiple times in his previous
email, Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das had now accused all the authorities in
Iskcon bangalore for not taking any action on Vishnukanta das and
other devotees that he had been writing again and again. In his own words:
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From: L
Narasimhan Rau <narasimhan@absolutetruth.in>
To: Venugopal A
<madhuananth@gmail.com>
CC:
Gopal.Krsna.Goswami@pamho.net, Dayaram Dasa <Dayaram.JPS@pamho.net>, Varada
Krishna Pr <vkd.jps@gmail.com>, "Sudhir Caitanya (das) JPS
(Bangalore - IN)" <sudhir.caitanya.jps@pamho.net>, "Radheshyam
(das) RNS (ISKCON Pune - IN)"<radheshyam.rns@pamho.net>,
Sumithra.Krishna.JPS@pamho.net, radhakrishnagoura@yahoo.com, Shankarpandit
das <shankarpanditdas@gmail.com>, "Bhakti Vinoda Swami (Coimbatore -
IN)" <bhakti.vinoda.swami@pamho.net>, "H.H Radhanath
Swami" <rswami108@gmail.com>, Shyamasundara Dasa <shyamasundaradasa@gmail.com>,
Narahari Cait1 <narakesari@hotmail.com>, jkd108@gmail.com,
danavir.goswami@pamho.net, JPS.secretary@pamho.net,
Gauranga.rns@pamho.net, Bhakti Vikasa Swami
<Bhakti.Vikasa.Swami@pamho.met>
Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM
Subject: Re:
Questionable activities of Vishnukantha Pr & Guru Groupism in Bangalore
Respected
Prabhus/Maharajas,
Nevertheless no one wants to talk on Brand building exercise within ISKCON
Bangalore community against GBC injunction on how devotees should be encouraged
to select a guru (see attached document on GBC resolution for 2012 & GBC
position). Bangalore temple was following siksha system to make it an open
unbiased path for devotees to progress towards choosing one's guru without
undue persuasion or marketing. But some groups don't make themselves accountable
to it. I kindly request authorities to intervene and eradicate guru groupism
for ever before its too late. We have been victims of this syndrome for a long
time, nice devotees are weaned away from temple and cultivated separately.
Their loyalty is elsewhere. And devotees make fun of us saying Bangalore is
transit point etc.
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It's
evident from the absence of any action taken by the temple authorities in
Bangalore which Lakshmi Nrismha Dev das is lamenting about, that whatever
complaints that he has on Vishnukanta
das and other devotees are purely his own and not endorsed by any of the temple
authorities.
In his
blog post, Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das had repeated the same information again and
again in same & different words probably because he feels when someone
reads the same points repeatedly they might end up believing them. One example
is the set of points under the subject "Brand Building Based on
Illustrious Gurus". It's clear from this deliberate baseless repetition
that he has developed very intense envy and hatred against one class of
devotees, who are disciples or aspiring disciples of a "Illustrious
Guru" whom he is referring to.
His
accusations on Vishnukanta das are classified under the following topics and
clarifications provided for them in detail. Since he had repeated the same
accusations at multiple places throughout his huge post, consolidated
clarifications for the accusations are provided below.
Accusation
1: About Vishnukanta das’s
Marriage and Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das's forcing his wife to take initiation from
HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj
Lakshmi
Narasimha das and few other devotees were extremely eager to inspire Vishnukanta
das’s wife to consider HH JPS as her spiritual master and take
initiation from him only. She was pulled in to attend the JSSS meetings every
time in the garb of hearing glories of a pure devotee while being brainwashed
to take initiation from HH JPS Maharaj alone. When Vishnukanta
das came to know about this, he had reported the issue
to few senior devotees and the devotees in Diksha Counsel and they had
warned against any such activities. But Lakshmi Narasimha pr did not
listen to the warnings and had been actively doing the same immature
activity all these years.
In order
to hide this truth, Lakshmi Nrsimha das has turned the story upside-down by
accusing Vishnukanta das of lying and fixing the marriage. At the first place,
HG Radha priya mataji was not involved at all in fixing his marriage. It was
through HG Amala Manjari mataji was he introduced to his wife. If anyone wants
to clarify and confirm this, they can contact Amala manjari mataji at this
email id - amalamanjarijps@gmail.com.
Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das has also indulged in forgery and treacherous means to threaten
Vishnukanta das and his wife for his cooked up accusations against him. This is
evident from the following incident.
Lakshmi
Nrsimha Dev das’s forgery and treacherous plan to threaten Vishnukanta das
Vishnukanta
das’s wife got an email from Amala Manjari mataji (from an email ID that had
her name) through Radhanath Swami Disciple Network. Amala Manjari mataji had known
Vishnukanta das for many years and only through her Vishnukanta das got
introduced to his wife who also knew mataji for few years. That email contained
the same set of false accusations and criticisms asking Vishnukanta das’s wife
to criticize and correct him in a heavy negative tone. The list of complaints
the email contained was exactly the same as that Vishnukanta das had received
from Lakshmi Nrsimha das.
It was
rather unbelievable for Vishnukanta das and his wife because Amalamanjari
mataji was very close to them and that mataji couldn't have just believed
whatever she might have heard from Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das without hearing the
other side from Vishnukanta das. Vishnukanta das’s wife discovered a new twist
in the story while she was chatting with Amalamanjari Mataji. Mataji happened
to be completely unaware of all these things that had happened about the email
which had come from an ID with her name. When they looked at that email,
actually that had come from RNS Disciples Network with the same name as Amala
Manjari DD but there were 2 IDs in the Radhanath Swami Disciples Network with
the name as Amala Manjari DD and that email had come from the fake one as the
real mataji was clueless of what was going on.
And that
fake ID was treacherously created by Lakshmi Nrsimha das temporarily with an
intention of convincing Vishnukanta das’s wife to criticize and correct him for
whatever concerns Lakshmi Nrsimha das has on him. It’s evident that Lakshmi
Nrismha Dev das was behind this forgery was that the email had 100% the same
content as the emails that he had been sending Vishnukanta das. This story
shows that when a person, even after chanting the Maha Mantra for 15 years or
more, can do treacherous and illegal activities thereby showing his deeply
contaminated consciousness if he is being burnt by the flame of envy and
hatred.
This is a
picture of
Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev
das (L Narasimhan Rau or Lakshmi Narasimhan)
Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das is a self-appointed authority for many devotees including Vishnukanta das. However, his imposed authority on the devotees is not endorsed by any Iskcon temple nor any devotees "under" his supervision.
Accusation 2: About Vishnukanta
das’s propaganda of wrong conceptions on HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj.
This is
again another of the misconstrued and baseless complaints on Vishnukanta das.
The fact is Lakshmi Nrsimha Dev das has zero-tolerance
and envy towards aspiring or initiated disciples of spiritual masters other than his own Guru. As per Lakshmi Nrsimha das,
devotees should not take counseling from a disciple of a Guru other than the
devotee’s Guru. Rather, should approach his/her god-brother alone and no one
else to take spiritual guidance from.
When Vishnukanta das
tried
explaining him about the broader aspect of taking counseling, taking
guidance from a disciple of the god-brother of one’s Guru to cultivate
vaishnava qualities and advance in one’s own spiritual sadhana, overcoming
anarthas, dealing with difficult situation especially with respect to
grihasta ashrama, etc., he was not able to understand or digest this.
According to him, a devotee should take counseling from his own god-brothers
and not from anyone else. When Vishnukanta das
tried to
point out the fact that many Maharajs like HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj, HH
Niranjan Swami Maharaj, HH Bhakti Vigyana Maharaj, HH Gopal Krishna
Goswami Maharaj and few others have been encouraging their disciples to learn
the counseling from disciples of HH Radhanath Maharaj and in-turn help
their god-brothers in their spiritual advancement, he considered that as an
offence to their spiritual masters. This is due to his misconception about
the whole counseling system.
Other Miscellaneous baseless accusations of Lakshmi Nrsimha das
Lakshmi Nrsimha das had thrown few other baseless accusations against Vishnukanta das which are not even worthy of being explained or clarified. It appears that by putting words in Vishnukanta das's mouth such as the latter condemning HH Bhakti Vinod Maharaj, Lakshmi Nrsimha das tries to strengthen his case against Vishnukanta das by making a variety of accusations. Although there was a discussion between both of them on a similar topic, Vishnukanta das never made such a remark against Maharaj and Lakshmi Nrismha das has absolutely no evidence for his false claim. Rest of the points need no clarification as any sensible person can understand the irrelevance, illogicality and immaturity in them.
Conclusion:
It has become a trend, unfortunately, for some immature people to write pages after pages criticizing others. The huge amount of time spent in writing criticisms can be effectively utilized by studying Srimad Bhagavatam with Srila Prabhupada's purports which has more than 10,000 pages of pure nectar and listening to the lectures of innumerable faithful followers of Srila Prabhupada elucidating this nectar.
Numerous scriptures proclaim the truth of the greatest danger in listening or propagating criticisms on practicing devotees. It is evident that all the scriptures and realized personalities reiterate the point that the material and spiritual life of those who read, hear and speak criticisms with relish will be destroyed very soon and they will be doomed for ever in eternal hell.
Let us all pray to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna to give us purity in heart, mind & soul and remove the huge bundle of anarthas that are present from innumerable lifetimes, which is the source for tendency to criticize. If anyone who reads this blog has experienced any discomfort, apologies are offered at feet and forgiveness sought. Hare Krishna.
Avyaaja-prema-sampurnam anya-dosha-paranmukham
Vasudeva-priyam shuddham vande Vaishnava mandalam
"I prostrate at the lotus feet of all the Vaishnavas, who are full of unconditional love for others and who do not see faults in others and therefore are pure-hearted and extremely dear to Lord Krishna."
