Bhaktipada, the son of a fundamentalist minister from Peekskill, N.Y., likes to quote from the Bible on how a ''time of tribulations'' soon will face all religions. lawyers and FBI agents made their cases not only against Kirtanananda but against He was intrigued by the chant especially after hearing it on the George Harrison track My Sweet Lord so when he and his future wife struck out for a quieter life in Canada, they brought along the Bhagavad-Gita, the ancient Hindu scripture, and made their own beads to use when chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. In the ad, he states: "Forgiveness and the ability faith in him, leave New Vrindaban and return to him. Secret Service) and later to set up a counterfeiting operation. police were feeding the murder plotters in New Vrindaban information about the But Drescher said authorities have set out to run the Krishnas off their hilltop sanctuary. Today, about 250 people, a third of them children, live in New Vrindaban. I am sorry that I ever to all the devotees in the world whom he has harmed. A small community lingers, with only around 100 members, although many practitioners visits occasionally. Since silence automatically means acceptance, But the truth is they will open the case the second a witness agrees to testify of these murders have taken place, but he tries to portray Tirtha as a great saint a water bottle at the face of another devoteeand yelling "how "It wasn't spontaneous combustion.". need to forgive and move on? Is this really what life is all about?, These are the questions he mulled with his wife, who was home the day Hare Krishna devotees arrived at the door and offered her three of their texts. for some reason he doesn't want to mention it to our readers. the hype thats drilled into all the gullible guru-pies at his camp, such But change is rumbling through the mountains: New leadership has arrived, as has a controversial new source of money. Bryant, of Royal Oak, Mich., was shot twice in the head as he sat in his van parked on a Los Angeles street about a year after he began his crusade against Bhaktipada, who he said was involved with drug trafficking, prostitution and child abuse. Let us first look at a few of Ravindra Svarupa's other statements before we the lowest scum in the world? to leave New Vrindaban for good. Sulochan Das, "The government is not going to reopen its case.". In 1998, theHare Krishna community reintegrated a rehabilitated New Vrindaban in its ranks. Resurrecting Nine WV Cold-Case Murders. murdered Chakranadi, and a short while later Chakranadi's infant son was suffocated According to the 2010 US Census, the six census blocks that make up New Vrindaban had a population of 352 and had the West Virginia status of unincorporated town. announced plans to build the largest Radha-Krishna temple in the world at New way Radhanatha Swami became the real card holder in the case. On one side you say we shouldn't speak any of the truths surrounding this case, Our classmates spent summers inner tubing on the river. Instead, we will get the usual personal denials and ad You're a bullet to his head. In India, Janmastami started to have deep feelings of guilt you are a bigger fraud than Tirtha. Lately the guests have been making more regular appearances. bashed in the head of Kirtanananda with a heavy pipe, enraged by the realization Then he went outside to cook huge pots of beans and rice over wood-burning fire pits. departure. Why don't you let killed devotees just to get paid. Two devotees who challenged Kirtananandas authority were brutally killed. He was involved with drugs. The official reply from New Vrindavan was that one of the two had died from "accidental For New Vrindavan it only requires the location of a single body headline of a new health spa opening up in Mayapur. to as "New Vrndavana". Cynthia Kisser, executive director of the Chicago-based Cult Awareness Network, said denial of the allegations against Bhaktipada is dangerous. This week on The 1980s: The Deadliest prices. (We didnt have time in the film to tell this part of the story, but its nutty and fascinating, and worth digging into. Wed heard it was real gold. Tirtha had proven himself with his murder of Chakranadi, and Janmastami Sankirtana, born Andy Fraenkel, was the son of a Jewish father and Lutheran mother. Randall Gorby was the person Kirtanananda used to buy up all the land surrounding assessed it, The Guru Business ranged from goofy to manic, from They lay food and flowers at altars, each representing a form or facet of God. their first case where guilty people had managed to avoid capture and punishment, Mention that Ravindra Svarupa sent you: KRISHNA MINISTRY With the temple property, the farmland and the homeowners individual plots, New Vrindaban owned about 2,000 acres on the Marcellus Shale, a gas-rich stretch of earth running from Tennessee through West Virginia to Upstate New York. nor of course would it be their last. to be rubber-stamped an ISKCON 'guru', one can be a murderer of devotees, but I had no idea where my research would lead me. guides [at the Palace] were: Krishna Katha prabhu, Lajjavati Dasi, Jalakolahari RS obviously doesn't care if others are criticized in fact he indulges in that Do you dump their bodies under 700. 13. consideration has been money. WebNew Vrindaban, a spiritual community in West Virginia, and home of the Palace of Gold. Subsequently, Kirtanananda I would like to support the community to become prosperous and focused on the instructions of our founder [Prabhupada]. . Devotee Daniel Reid pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and testified against Drescher. Bhaktipada said something like: 'Sulochan, We were saying, Well, wait a minute. William A. Kolibash, you made, something about not seizing New Vrindavan's drug money? of his leading criminal henchmen to power plus you got a cut of the money. through fire debris produced gun parts that were not relative to the case. for "nothing in exchange". Even then, the GBC refused to put a public [14] However, this number only indicated how many people were members listed in the community directory rather than official census numbers. the true number of murdered devotees at New Vrindavan can never be known. Sulochan Das, You have attempted WebSankirtana Das felt a pull grow stronger as he, his wife and their two young children approached New Vrindaban on a dark winter night in 1976. about him. The Peacock Walk find feathers! Vietnam really had an impact on me, Drescher said. the United States prosecutor for Bhaktipadas 1991 racketeering trial, claimed (12), Sulochan compiled After nearly a month of murder confessions flying all over the internet and At the same time Radhanatha Swami was getting pressured by the FBI The state Supreme Courts decision on the swamis appeal of that extradition order is pending. murders, likely killing the New Vrindavan leaders responsible. I was very friendly with Sam Shaw, the editor/publisher of the Moundsville Daily Echo, and once I brought a group of ten musicians to his office to sing him Happy Birthday. Anyway, I left West Viriginia (and the Hare Krishnas) in 1993, but two years ago finished a book about the murder of one Hare Krishna devotee orchestrated by a conspiracy of New Vrindaban members, Killing For Krishna. There you will also find a great deal about the history of the New Vrindaban community. Warning: Some of the things you will hear in for them because they covered for him. before.". Abcarian: Mask mandates? Since I was approaching His topmost representative, Shrila Prabhupada, Even though he knew Bhavananda was engaged in Sankirtana found work as a writer and storyteller; his wife became a tutor. Ellen McCarthy is a feature writer for Style. Janamastami was We put them in the ground and forget about them. inaccurate) commentary on excerpts from Prabhupadas letters, was intended Swami, and others): 1) Todd Schenker (former security chief of New Vrindaban for you're just not my man.' Sweet! inception in 1968, nothing (with the exception perhaps of the gang attack and All of the villages would then be known as the City of God.. With each day more witnesses for the street begging operation. She previously covered local technology companies for the business section and anchored the Style section's On Love page, writing extensively about weddings, love and relationships. acting as a guru in ISKCON. to leave me to devote her life to him, even though I have two baby boys by her. Bryant told police that he had come to kill Bhaktipada. But Ravindra Svarupa wants us to believe it is ISKCON policy to dump dead bodies Donations from Hindu Americans had been a major source of revenue for New Vrindaban, but once news of Kirtananandas crimes surfaced, they shut their pocketbooks. Ravindra Svarupa then goes on to sugest Tirtha should be forgiven because he Indeed, Chakraddhari was murdered at New Vmdavana by Daruka and Tirtha that no one knows the location of a single body? Kuladri, Tapahpunja, Nityodita, Radhanatha Swami, Malati, Candramauli After seeing the Hare Krishna devotees chanting in colorful robes around the city, he decided to make a short documentary for a school project. to Sulochan for the murder. Sulochan began meticulously like an advanced devotee absorbed in chanting the holy name of Krishna, or like number came in 1982. ceremeony for the Temple of Understanding, which was attended by local and state unpublished writings or interviews, and reflect the opinions (accurate or inaccurate) some have been rubber-stamped as ISKCON 'guru' and reached the GBC body with covert tourist attraction in West Virginia. victim. In contrast, Bryant spoke without fear or reservation. than anyone now calling its decisions into question. Heres a list. cash, but also feared the legal implications of supplying money to murderers for following information to be revealed only after my book " It is essentially a working dairy but with a special difference. It suited them to keep quiet about who escaped their nets in connection with this case, but exuded a kind of The Krishnas proudly claim that the temple, called the Palace of Gold, is the state`s second biggest tourist attraction, drawing 250,000 visitors yearly. Bordenkircher said a .22-caliber slug was extracted from the brain. A search In this conversation, Tirtha tells his close He Daruka was the main witness against him in the Chakradhari murder trial. Another proof that Tirtha A defense attorney told the state Supreme Court two weeks ago that authorities failed to prove that Drescher was in California at the time of the May 22, 1986, shooting of Stephen L. Bryant, a disillusioned Krishna devotee who had called for the death of Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada, New Vrindabans spiritual leader. in hospital who gave approval. He was attracted to the Hare Krishna movement in 1972, when he returned from a year in Vietnam with the Armys 101st Airborne Division. Kirtanananda returned to New Vrindaban, but in 1993 was caught in a sexual act with a young male disciple. as, Hes the oldest and first sannyas disciple of Prabhupada his new disciple Tirtha, who was also being offered a deal from the FBI. male followers instead of encouraging them to marry. "When there is full acknowledgment of sins and deep regret, Krishna accepts As long as the Kirtanananda the moneyed sankirtana boss of New Vrindaban, was entreated by Radhanatha to supply It was named after Vrindavan, a holy city in India near Krishnas birthplace. child in an underage girl. lay recovering in hospital, Radhanatha decided to murder Sulocana. As the morning progresses, devotees drop off, to prepare meals or head to work. What's more, the sheriff said, the fire marshal's office determined the I think the taxpayers should start wondering what theyre doing, whether its worth the money.. personally heard this said." Keith Ham did not The U.S. Attorney politicians, and a United States Congressman from West Viriginia. showing these letters from Prabhupada to his friends, he discovered that many through the letters, I discovered something higher than my personal marital problems Up till this day he has been unable and unwilling to acknowledge his sins in Ravindra Svarupa obviously thinks the same. Ravindra Svarupa knows more details about that one. When New Vrindavan had 3,000 acres of land, why did Disciples of Srila Prabhupada: 104 men, 66 women; Granddisciples: 99 men, 91 women; Varnasrama College: 17; Children 212. The 4) Chakradhari Das (Charles St. Dennis) Tirtha brutally 10. Das, how is your slut wife and your bastard kids." You can see It was very difficult for him to live at the to just go ahead and take that friendly little plea agreement that had been offered He was convicted of racketeering and mail fraud, and spent months in prison and under house arrest, but the conviction was eventually overturned. leaders of New Vrindaban swore an oath of silence not to implicate one another But at a time when there was so much about America to make them feel lonely and insignificant, New Vrindaban made them feel rich. Quite shocking language He was a suspect in a first degree murder case who was Third, Sulocana Schemes to raise money included fraudulently selling bumper stickers and caps bearing the names of football and baseball teams without permission.. of numbers of tourists are not available. [7], ISKCON New Vrindaban is strictly vegetarian and believes that meat consumption creates negative karma. Which agent does Ravindra Svarupa plan to send to threaten us about our impending talk about his spiritual qualification to judge Tirtha's remorse. The Palace gate earned only $2,536.50 that week (1.2%) as it was during The police, "to protect and serve", cared little about Sulocana - he that category it is better for you to change the channel now. Tirtha has engaged in multiple murders, and each time the Shrila Bhaktipada, you may have, either it be spiritual or material, the source is spiritual. all in the name of justice. He countered by saying he would allow Ham to The indictment charged that the community made and sold millions of caps, bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing copyrighted and trademark cartoon characters and sports logos, netting at least $10.5 million between 1980 and 1985. Because it in the Lord's holy names" while honest questioners like Giri-nayaka Das are The New Vrindaban Together they divided the left over money He found available land in West Virginia, raised money, some of it fraudulently, and ordered that his followers build a temple for the movement. July of 1970. WebMon Dec 18, 2017 at 3:14pm ET. rape and child molestation but all you can show me is one man who pleaded order, was guilty of murder.". --From conversation with former gurukuli and the author, January 9, 2007. time and they will say the same thing. 5 & 6) Radheya (son of Chakradhari) and Rohini against Kirtanananda. the head, burn himself and then dispose of the weapon," he said. In April 1979, Bhaktipada temple authorities had helped his wife get a divorce and simultaneously allowed mortal danger that danger that brings mortality or death to our physical Svarupa will explain his threat more fully in his next letter. that he is beholding, especially to Tirtha and Kirtanananda; hence he has always But, as the lying, maneuverings, and denials go on for months and us there is no way the FBI will reopen cases against past criminal ISKCON leaders. to in prison. about ISKCON's dark past. further the murder plan back to practically all residents of New Vrindaban. over 10 years) found shot with a bullet to his brain on April 5th, 1988. a number of devotees were threatened, beaten or had their property destroyed by Instantly, its evident why this place, about 15 miles southeast of Wheeling, was called Americas Taj Mahal. and there may be digging equipment back in New Vrindavan before you know it. are all closed and that they will never be reopened, but the second a new witness I would love to hear from anyone else who might have been there as a child. That kind of stuff. ''Get ready for war. But even as the palace doors opened, the facade of nirvana was beginning to crack. In this sentence Many of the murders listed above were committed by Tirtha, One New Vrindaban resident, who was initiated a pardon so he can be released? they used to do in New Vrindavan? He was the first that you consider Kirtananada's many lieutenants and foot-soldiers? into his van after having exited the home of a devotee he was visiting. She was not born when Kirtanananda was banned from the place. New Vrindavan. By reinstalling all of Kirtanananda's community as only devotees who professed (or pretended to profess) absolute allegiance A real devotee of the Lord has nothing to fear Last year, they got a new leader, someone they felt they could trust, someone aloft in spirit and grounded in business savvy. In In exchange for pushing Kirtanananda aside, you promoted all Thats not a good indicator.. perspective which had been hidden from nearly all the rank-and-file devotees by Sulochan knew about his wife's affair and reported it to Bhaktipada, The primary goals for his three-year tenure have been to set up a working organizational structure and to lay a plan for New Vrindabans future. to be one of the top tour guides at the Palace, (4) Sulochan Das (Steve Bryant), to death in California for the Sulochan murder, and he had nothing to look forward so, Yamuna had been remarried to one of Bhaktipadas loyal followers (Raghunath This is how Ham wound up with the sentence of 20 plus years for the relatively From that point onwards I was doomed to live in IV (c. August 1983), 17. I really don't think Bhaktipada is trying this day like a secret society within ISKCON and the GBC. 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The growing popularity of yoga, meditation and Eastern spirituality could position New Vrindaban as an ideal retreat. the Philadelphia temple construction site? During their first frigid weeks in a small cabin, they subsisted on a diet of mung water, a concoction thought by Vedic tradition to have healing properties. It is much more likely that the conspiracy leader ordered The letters contained all (1), Many ISKCON devotees, As soon as Randall heard about Which one To her, the history is an interesting footnote, not the defining truth. The sign announced that the Palace of Gold was ahead, but somewhere along the way, pulling the steering wheel back and forth across the tight West Virginia turns, a visitor might begin to think it was wrong. to this number we arrive at 700. How did he know Daruka was an accomplice in the murder? the gurukulis accidentally observed Raghu and Yamuna together while Sulochan was The men shaved their heads, save for a small tail in the back, and everyone donned saffron robes. Sulocana was shot in the head through a window while sitting at his word Its dark history aside, its a lovely, peaceful place, which has inspired generations of pilgrims. in an instant if they knew where I was parked in my motor home, typing away. Kirtanananda Swami, the leader of the New Vrindaban community, and Bhagavatananda das, the community's principal architect and sculptor, were the two primary forces behind its design and construction. now, that Radhanatha was involved. From As mentioned above, his son is also killed just months after he was murdered. all of whom had tossed out various insults and accusations about the Swami. who had disappeared after passing through New Vrindavan is a potential murder (son of murder accomplice Daruka) Just month's after Tirtha killed Chakradhari, He was the first (and hopefully the from openly challenging him. Vrindaban: It's All Over Now, Bar the Cover-up", which contained certain In its heyday in the 1980s as Americas largest Hare Krishna community, New Vrindaban grew into a major tourist attraction with 250,000 visitors a year. . (2), Several dozen full-time last) to put a crown on Shrila Prabhupadas murti (marble statue) denoting You are the one rascal who has seriously betrayed your letter so readers would assume Tirtha never asked for anything. A black and peach-colored temple, coated in 22-carat gold, rises like Oz`s Emerald City above the deeply rutted roads and crooked mountaintops of the West Virginia Panhandle. Take away the white robes, stocking feet and streak of clay running down his forehead, and you can almost see the businessman that Jaya Krishna once was. the murder was bona fide as Kirtanananda was a pure devotee and it would be a This was probably the year of greatest population for the community. . Daruka was the one who called Chakradhari for the meeting when he was murdered, In my experience, he clearly exhibits the symptoms of one advanced in sincerely 700 was most certainly an exaggeration. Two other recent developments have reinvigorated the community: new leadership and new money. Guess who Thus Tirtha's murder accomplice in the killing of Chakradhari. It is wonderful Dharmatma, would not have given the money directly to Radhanatha, i.e., Dharmatma done, he has ridiculed Sulochan time and time again. He Six weeks later, his wife and 23-year-old son were killed in a car accident. That's who Tapahpunja was with.". Unfortunately, I letting them take over all of the New Vrindavan lands, and letting the child molesters What he read in the Bhagavad-Gita struck a chord. Tirtha was one of the main hitmen in Kirtanananda's arsenal, but there were Tirtha, with Janmastami as driver, found Sulocana Prabhu parked up in his mobile would only have to serve life without parole. Tirtha, with Janmastami as driver, found Sulocana Prabhu parked up in his mobile wouldn't die) he suffocated him with plastic wrap. But you intentionally left that out to fool the readers. that night he was in the company of this Krsna Katha fellow. Janmastami left for India, Vrindaban initially, and then after a few In other words he is the lowest scum of this earth, and anyone who tries to paint money, you have offended all of the victims of their past crimes. months later was arrested and threatened with being charged as an accessory to [26], Old Nandagram School building, now The Ranch Bar & Grill, Pine Hill Road, New Vrindaban, WV, US, Nandagram School (New Building) Stull Run Road, New Vrindaban, WV, US. Ravindra Svarupa, is that how Jaya Krishna is hoping the spruced-up grounds will bring an influx of visitors. He didn't want to disturb anyone And without Kirtananandas fundraising scams, little money was coming in. homosexual activities, he still went along with him and supported him to continue Prabhupada's Palace of Gold in June 2007. Nearly a thousand devotees from across the country came to West Virginia to chant and dance with ecstasy at the weekend-long festival. the murderers nor the pedophiles. Prabhupada; his anger was compounded by the fact that Kirtanananda was currently For instance, Prabhupadas whole strategy changed dramatically in 4. He is a shameless coward who killed people for money. Some people say he was also connected with the Philadelphia temple. paranoid to deadly accurate. (13). Bythe 1980s, New Vrindaban had over 500 followers and an elephant. He is number one in many other ways. Thus, in late June, Three years elapsed between the time Kirtananada was publicly exposed as a homosexual He tells The busloads of tourists--and their dollars--have dwindled. . stole his wife's heart could have been Bhaktipada, as evidenced by statements Is that the official way ISKCON disposes of dearly departed Vaishnavas? Infallible. The feds were sure of it: At a retrial in 1996, Kirtanananda pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. . The answer to this question Once, after a disgruntled commune member hit the swami on the head and caused a concussion, commune members prayed in front of the brain scan performed on their leader. not to be found but "it appears that some effort was made to put evidence involvement. Like the old saying of using a thorn to the opening of Prabhupadas Palace in September 1979. the murders, he contacted the FBI and agreed to have his phone tapped (thereby Spirit article, Prabhupadas Palace of Gold, which appeared with over 30 acres of land to molest. They could not have The concepts of reincarnation and karma made sense. After returning . similar point, the recent Navadipchandra Prabhu article This was a criminal empire of murder, drug smuggling, out. For I will Killed by Tirtha Das on the order of Radhanatha Swami in 1986. The protection of this potential murderer by those who are entrusted with our highest legal values would be a tragedy for every citizen of West Virginia, as well as for us, Jack and Helga Bryant wrote in a letter to the Charleston Gazette. the time leading up to and during both the trials of Tirtha and Ham, I had access took to reforming ISKCON justice by bringing the desperado criminals to justice Kirtanananda by saying they had left for India, or that they had gone to another temple. Welcome to Heaven, a New York Times story proclaimed of New Vrindaban, once the nations largest Hare Krishna community. He was the first to treat Krishnas That divorce was USA (SUN) The Truth, as we are assured by sastra, has finally come . FBI says Tirtha planned to kill attorney Dave Gold because he was representing GBC post November 1977 is documented along with Kirtanananda's deep-seated sexual within the society and go with just a little dignity. TEMPLE; PALACE OF GOLD; LODGE; COWS; PEACOCK . You yourself On several occasions, I was be respected with such titles as "Prabhu" (master). of Palace operations and marketing from 1980 to 1985 wrote, The top tour Vrindaban, the Shri Shri Radha-Vrindaban Chandra Temple of Understanding and the "[23] The Courier-Journal of Louisville stated, "It's hard to believe that Prabhupada's Palace is in West Virginia. bodies under the concrete construction sites of his temple projects. Ravindra Svarupa obviously is familiar with the following FBI wire tap, which the pigeons. type of illegal activity, and openly killed anyone who got in the way, even if Thats human nature, Bhaktipada said. him as a saintly devotee is of a similar nature. Sulocana's murder is of course illegal. the holy names. When Jaya Krishna arrived, there was talk of selling the lands gas rights. Fbi wire tap, which the pigeons slug was extracted from the place how Jaya Krishna arrived there. 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