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From:
Avadhuta Maharaja
Date: May 24, 2011
To: BK
Giri
Ok Maharaj,
I am sure time will clear all
doubts. I am just trying to correspond with you and hope that in a
future we ll just wont waist our time unnecessarily and do some great
service and please our Gurus and preceptors. So i hope you successfully
preach but i feel i have to forward some mails to you becouse some
people in Russia and woldwide dont understand why you trying to attack
Goswami Maharaj who actually was the first man who was to invite you
for Acharyas meeting and was appointed directly by Srila Gurudev as one
of the acharyyas in front of all seiner devotees who were present at
that time. you say he is not mentioned in the will but i say very
clearly since he was selected by Govinda Maharaj to represent
specifically his divine will in a proper english language and this very
moment Srila Gurudev was on his departure pastime.
You are disturbed that some of the
board members don't accept you but you also dont accept them.
What would you say for that Maharaj? Please make your possision clear. Why your are not accepting Gurudevs will? please don't accept my offense its
just my sincere inquiry because by your letter i feel that i will have
to understand something in future. Give me a guideline....
Swami B.B. Avadhuta From:
B.K. Giri
Date: May 24, 2011
To: Avadhuta
Maharaja
Dandavats Maharaja,
Maharaja the best thing
I can tell you is to have someone
translate my article "The Pied Piper of San Jose" into proper Russian.
I am working on that but it may take a little time.
If you could have
someone do a good translation I will post
it on our website. I would be assured that we were getting a proper
translation if it came from one of your sources. Then, for those whose
Russian is better than their English, there would be less chance for
misunderstanding.
As you may have noted
from my previous email, Russia is just
below India in terms of numbers of readers of my articles and visitors
to our site. I know they have an interest in understanding the workings
of our Mission.
Almost all of your
questions below are answered within that
article.
I believe all your
other questions are answered in one of my
previous articles or emails.
Nevertheless, I'll
respond briefly below within the text of
your email.
Giri Maharaja
On May 24, 2011,
Sripada Avadhuta Maharaja wrote:
Maharaja, I'm always happy to correspond with you.
Yes, I appreciate that.
I want to stay informed.
I never attacked
Goswami Maharaja.
He previously wrote me
an email "attacking" me, telling me I
must consider Gurudeva's Will in light of the last thirty years of
history. I provided some of that history in my article the "Pied Piper
of San Jose." I think you'll find the answers to your questions,
including my motives for writing the article, are contained therein.
I am not aware of any
flaw with the article. I included
items that might be considered both favorable and unfavorable in
Goswami Maharaja's history. I only presented those things that were
part of his preaching life as Srila Sridhara Maharaja instructed
Sripada Satsvarupa Maharaja to do when writing Srila
Prabhupada
Lilamrta. I think an objective
reader would have to conclude I
actually followed that instruction more closely regarding the life of
Sripada Goswami Maharaja than Satvarupa Maharaja did in his coverage of
Srila Prabhupada's life.
My main recommendation
for anyone that has questions about
my article is to read it again and again until they understand it. If,
after several readings they still have some question, they should
contact me.
I know that. And you
were the first to tell me I was not a
member of the [International] "Acharya Board" and that it was a mistake
to have invited me to the meeting.
I wrote to each of you
last year on April 8 and April 9, I
believe, addressing this point. When I understood the situation I
accepted that I was not a member of the International Acharya Board.
Goswami Maharaja, on the other hand, was a member. I had no objection
[then] and have no objection [now] to either.
I do not know what
you're referring to or what your evidence
is but, it is irrelevant, as discussed in "Pied Piper."
I don't believe I have
ever said that. I know he is
mentioned in the Will, but not as an Acharya.
While some parts of the
Will appear to be composed by
different authors and therefore not as clear as they could be, the
portions of the Will pertaining to the Acharyas is very clear and
unambiguous.
I have no problem with
Goswami Maharaja's involvement with
writing the Will or working on it. Taking into consideration my own
prior knowledge of Srila Gurudeva's desires and demeanor, I expect his
Will is fairly accurate in doing what it was intended to do, state His
Last Will and Testament, which are his final instructions to us and
meant to be the final settlement of all disputes that might arise from
the items discussed within that document.
If it is not so, what
will be your arguments to the court
when the Will is disputed by Paramahamsa Maharaja? Will you allow him
to bring into discussion the desires Srila Gurudeva had for him [to be
his successor] ten years before his disappearance?
Sorry Maharaja, but you
are wrong again. From a recent email
explaining this point.
See above.
Maharaja you will have
to formulate some specific question
based on something I've said that you believe proves your point that I
am "not accepting Gurudevs will". I can think of nothing to support
this accusation of yours.
If you're going to
accuse me of something, you must not
expect that I will supply the evidence and the charge against me. You
will have to do that.
None taken.
If by "your letter" you
mean my article "The Pied Piper of
San Jose", the article is the guideline. If that's not enough you
should read my previous articles. My positions have not changed in the
least since my first two emails to you on this subject in April of last
year.
To sum up:
1. Srila Gurudeva's
Will expresses his final directives to
his followers, as stated above.
2. In his Will he names
six Acharyas.
3. An Acharya Board
(Acharya Sabha) shall be formed composed
of initiating Acharyas, etc.
4. The International
Acharya Board was formed on Mach 7,
2010. It ceased having a legitimate function immediately after Srila
Gurudeva's disappearance on March 27, 2010, when his Will became the
document intended to govern our activities.
5. Because you, the
International Acharya Board (IAB), did
not cease your operations as you should have, immediately following
Srila Gurudeva's passing, you continue to operate as an illegitimate
Board posing as the "Acharya Board", misguiding the devotees of our
mission to believe you are the Acharya Board (Acharya Sabha) described
in Srila Gurudeva's Will.
6. An Acharya Sabha, as
described in Gurudeva's Will, was
never formed. (Because you four Acharyas of the IAB want to protect
Goswami Maharaja from the reality that he was not named as an Acharya
in Gurudeva's Final Will.)
As long as the
International Acharya Board is kept alive,
the illusion, that Goswami Maharaja is an Acharya, is kept alive with
it. I think you must see this. If not, maybe you should get some
glasses that will allow you to see what is very obvious to a great many
of our devotees, senior leaders, Acharyas, and even Goswami Maharaja
himself.
No matter what you do,
Goswami Maharaja will never get the
recognition that comes with being named an Acharya by Srila Govinda
Maharaja, and you will never be able to give it to him.
You can try to maintain
the illusion, as you've been doing,
that Srila Gurudeva named him as an Acharya but, like all illusions it
will eventually fade, and the reality will be seen. And, like all
illusions you must use deception to try and keep the devotees from
seeing the reality. Many more than you probably realize already see it.
I had nothing to do
with any of this [excluding Sripada
Goswami Maharaja's name from the list of Acharyas given in Gurudeva's
Will], neither did any of you. It is silly to blame any of us for
acknowledging the reality, the truth. This was Srila Gurudeva's
decision when he composed his Last Will and Testament.
I can get a bit carried
away due to some frustration. Please
don't think I mean my sharp language to insult or offend you.
I pray this finds you
are well in all respects.
Sincerely yours,
Giri Maharaja
(Srila Giri Maharaja's email response has been edited for readability) |