Let’s be completely honest about Ramesvara’s complete honesty

Posted on May 21, 2013 Author: Hansadutta das

Letter to Madhudvisa, revised
by Hansadutta das

Hare Krishna
Dear Madhudvisa Prabhu,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Just the other day you sent out an email practically glorifying Ramesvara as a truthteller. Why are you promoting him? We are concerned that he has some intention to make a comeback on the ISKCON and BBT Int’l, Inc. stage (Ramesvara wants back in BBT). In the past he has shown himself to be duplicitous, ambitious, cunning and disloyal, and what kind of restitution has he made to demonstrate that he is a changed person with sincere intentions to serve Srila Prabhupada and preserve Srila Prabhupada’s books? more →

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Just what was Ramesvara’s Role?

Posted on March 28, 2013 Author: Das

The following is a repost from harekrishnamalaysia.com/KRSNAinsight:

How ISKCON bypassed the BBT
“What happened to the BBT”
In your post “Copyrights Transferred to the BBTI?”, published up on the Sampradaya Sun, you’ve understood correctly that BBTI is not the same as Prabhupada’s BBT. BBTI (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.) is a California corporation (non-profit) that was registered in 1988, in a deliberate attempt to bypass the legal trust.

Immediately thereafter, ISKCON GBC voted to assign the copyrights from BBT to BBTI. However, they had no legal authority to do so, because Prabhupada gave express instructions in the trust document that ISKCON was to have no jurisdiction over the trust. more

Over at Rochan das’s Sampradaya Sun, Ramesvara has retorted to Brhatasloka’s statement that Ramesvara was instrumental in bypassing the BBT, operating a shell. Ramesvara claims that Srila Prabhupada made him trustee at Mayapur in 1976 after the marathon production of 17 volumes of Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita. He also suggests that Hansadutta had nothing to do with BBT after 1975, that he himself was running the entire BBT operations in North America, and that Hansadutta had no part in the conversations that Ramesvara had with Srila Prabhupada pertaining to the BBT structure and accounts. Read Ramesvara’s article.

TL;DR:
When ISKCON and BBT International, Inc. brought the courtcase against Hansadutta and Srila Prabhupada’s BBT, Ramesvara could not produce any document showing his appointment as trustee, and so the court excluded him from giving testimony. The court found that he had no legal standing to claim that he was a trustee. Whether Srila Prabhupada named him a trustee or not, without the formal resolution on record, he was never a legal trustee. This, from Hansadutta. more →

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Ramesvara was NEVER a BBT Trustee

Posted on March 25, 2013 Author: Hansadutta das

In response to “A Reply to Rupanuga’s Article” by RAMESVARA DASA, published on Mar 23, 2013 — NEW YORK, USA by Sampradaya Sun —

If Rameswara was ever a BBT Trustee, then when I was in litigation with ISKCON / BBT International, Inc. (the bogus BBT that illegally converted the assets of Prabhupasda’s trust into their “For profit” corporation BBT International, Inc.), why when they attempted to bring Rameswara for testimony as an expert witness, claiming he had credentials as a legally appointed BBT for-life Trustee by Srila Prabhupada, he (Rameswara) could produce no legally acceptable BBT document supporting his claim as a legal BBT Trustee? And none have been produced since that time, about 15 years to date.

The court found that he had no standing, no position as a BBT Trustee legally appointed by the trust, filed by Srila Prabhupada, or added since the original filing. Rameswara was subsequently DISMISSED BY THE COURT and excluded from testifying in that case.

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Atomic Energy, the unloved child of the living dead

Posted on February 24, 2013 Author: Hansadutta das

spent fuel at Hanford

Uncapped fuel stored underwater in K-East Basin. This is spent nuclear fuel at the Hanford site.


Radioactive Waste Is Leaking From Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Zero Hedge – TYLER DURDEN – Feb 22, 2013

And now for a quick lesson in government spending: in the 1940s the federal government created the now mostly decommissioned Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. more →

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Please show me right direction

Posted on February 15, 2013 Author: Hansadutta das

Here is the answer to the question so many sincere devotees have: Who to trust for guidance? This is the answer. YOU HAVE TO READ AND HEAR EVERYTHING OF PRABHUPADA’S TEACHING, THEN YOU HAVE THE STANDARD, THE YARDSTICK WHEREBY WHICH YOU CAN JUDGE, MEASURE AND WEIGH THEIR QUALIFICATION. THEN ONE HAS TO GO FORWARD ON THE BASIS OF HIS OWN HEART. more →

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What are your plans for the upcoming war?

Posted on January 15, 2012 Author: Anuttama devi dasi
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Dear Hansadutta Prabhu,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

Thank you for your reply. Here are my thoughts on the current situation:

Srila Prabhupada stressed the necessity for his disciples to live a simple living/high thinking lifestyle. This has generally not been implemented.

Such a lifestyle makes its adherents somewhat immune to the consequences of war and economic chaos. more →

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Letter from Anuttama

Posted on January 8, 2012 Author: Hansadutta das

Here’s a letter received from Anuttama devi dasi on Friday. A very generous offer. My reply to her follows more →

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Who are the Terrorists?

Posted on December 24, 2011 Author: Hansadutta das

Those who are in the bodily conception of life are terrorists. Those who keep us from making progress to freedom are terrorists. Those who keep us in bondage of the cycle of birth and death are terrorists. There is no fear more terrifying than birth, old age, disease and death. The government leaders, the educators, the scientists and pseudo-religionists who perpetuate by conventional habit the bodily concept—all of them are terrorists. They are waging a war for and of sense gratification. more →

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But we’re already in outer space!

Posted on December 14, 2011 Author: Hansadutta das

stratolaunch

New Stratolaunch plane will take people into Earth’s orbit

Yahoo! News – ERIC PFEIFFER – Dec 13, 2011

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is teaming up with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to build a giant machine that is part airplane and part spaceship. The new vehicle will be able to transport people and cargo into Earth’s orbit and is scheduled to be commercially available by 2016. more →

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Fruit of the tree

Posted on December 14, 2011 Author: Hansadutta das

I think of the morning walk conversations as the fruit of the tree of Srila Prabhupada’s teaching. There are the formal translation and purports of his many books, but the conversations are the fruits of that extensive tree of formal translations and purports. The conversations give a taste that is not available in the formality of his translated work.

My opinion, my experience, my realization. The fruit of a tree is the desired and relishable thing.

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