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EDITORIAL February 3, 2000 VNN5397 Comment on this story True Confessions BY MAHAVEGAVATI DASI EDITORIAL, Feb 3 (VNN) — All glories to you, Srila Prabhupada, who has saved me from the ocean of birth and death, and who by your mercy gave me, (and is still giving me), the strength to go on in my spiritual life DESPITE what some of your children in charge of your ISKCON are doing. I attribute it ONLY to your mercy that my spiritual life was NOT annihilated by any of them. Vyasapuja Offering to Bhaktitirtha Swami: (Part One) Thank you for the many years you have given me so much pain, You stole my Deities' laksmi; it was Their loss but your gain. Thank you for your duplicity; "kutinati" fits you well, You lied in front of 18 Silas, not a true word could you tell. Because of your embarrassment due to your spiritual difficulty, You left me in Nigeria with an expired visa, hoping that immigration officials would arrest me. You were so stuck in your false ego as a GBC/guru/ sannyasi male, That to keep your secret hidden, you hoped I would be taken to jail. I tried to speak to you for so many years, But you were completely callous to all of my tears. Concerned only with the image you could portray for your peers, You committed so many atrocities due to your paranoia, worries, and fears. Funny thing is had you not done any of these negative things to me - your character assassination and other falsity, I would never have said anything about your spiritual difficulty to this one, that one, or anybody. Spiritual warrior, you try to propound yourself to be, Are you really feeling glorious with your so called "victory"? To do these things to a person who gave you 10 years of service so faithfully, Knowing Srila Prabhupada's loving mood do you think he is looking on cheerfully? Life has its lessons and we should learn them well, That way we can go back to Godhead and save ourselves from hell. Dear Srila Krsnapada, On your "Vyasapuja" day I would like to take the time to thank you for all of your dealings with me and for the lessons that I have, and am still learning from them. They have FORCED me to take a better look at things in life, especially the reality of the present day ISKCON that exists. I have come to realize that ISKCON is not the ideal society that I would have liked to think it was. I have also come to realize that enough of its leaders, including you, are NOT worthy of my admiration and submissive surrender, as I once so wholeheartedly USED to give in my foolishness. Your dealings with me were dishonest. This includes your lying, your duplicity, your stealing from my Deities and me. Despite the fact that these dealings have caused me so much pain, they have served to help me to come to a better position, one where I have at least STARTED to use some discrimination in relating with devotees, and in looking at the practice of Krsna consciousness in terms of its highest ideals and its practical application with relation to other devotees. Because of your deviations and your total paranoia that I might tell someone about the difficulty you experienced in your sannyas in Nigeria in 1990, your subsequent character assassination of me due to your paranoia, and the results of your lies about me, I was FORCED into a very unusual position for a devotee; FORCED to live outside of the association of devotees. This was NOT my choice, but rather the situation I was FORCED into, due to your character assassination of me. When I surrendered to Srila Prabhupada's Lotus Feet, I gave my life to Srila Prabhupada for keeps, and to HIS movement, and I had NO intention to leave, EVER. After ten years of FAITHFUL service to you, DESPITE ALL of the risks I took and was FORCED to take in that service, you, because of your OWN paranoia over YOUR falldown, FORCED me out of ISKCON, and on to the street until I could find some place to live. When you asked me to come to serve under and assist you in your service to Srila Prabhupada, I agreed to come and I gave you ten years of my life, rendering service under your direction. You BETTER THAN ANYONE, (and everyone), KNOW ALL of the risks I had to take, (and TOOK), the surrender and sacrifices involved in my performing my services which I rendered under your instruction. You also know that RIGHT after you asked me to come to Africa in 1981, Gopal Krsna Maharaj asked me to come to Bombay. I told GKM that I MUCH PREFERRED to go to India. I explained to him that because I had given you my word, I could not go back on it. I told him that if he could get you to agree to allow me to go to India instead of Africa, I would go. So Gopal Krsna Maharaj, with me present, telephoned you asking you if you would allow me to go to serve in Bombay. Because you told him that you wanted me in Africa, I kept to my word of promise to you, despite MY personal desires, and I went to Africa to serve under you. (To this day, GKM has NOT forgiven me for doing as I did.) Despite all of that, on SEVERAL occasions, you STOLE laksmi from me, and MOST worse yet, FROM MY DEITIES, DESPITE my SO MANY TIMES contributing laksmi to you for books, for my airfares, your airfares, and those of other devotees, etc. Even I tolerated and FORGAVE you for the SO MANY times that you did these things, and I CONTINUED ON IN MY SERVICE DESPITE. Your final BLOW to me came after you experienced your difficultly with your sannyas in Nigeria. You INSISTED that I travel with you and Mother Z for three months, DESPITE my pleading with you that you give me your permission to leave the situation so that I would no longer have to be a witness to the INSANITY that was going on between the two of you. Although I approached you many times in this regard, asking that you allow me to continue doing the service that you engaged me in doing for so many years, ie. - traveling to so many cities and villages to do book distribution and Hari Nam sankirtan as well as visiting the various temples and giving advice to the temple managers - you told me that I "MUST stay and travel with both of you, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU DID NOT FALL DOWN". So I stayed, as per your INSISTENCE, DESPITE the awkwardness, INSANITY and UNcomfortablity of the whole situation. You INSISTED that I travel with you during this period of time when you were having difficulty with your sannyas. I NEVER wanted to be a witness to what was going on. DESPITE that, ONLY because of YOUR concern of what I had witnessed, due to your FEARS, you left me ILLEGALLY in Nigeria, HOPING that I would be taken off to jail for immigration violation, and then the "witness" would be "gone". So many times you came to me to reveal your mind about your anxieties, difficulties, etc., ESPECIALLY with regard to this sannyas situation. AND there were OTHER times where you came to me confide in me so many of your other anxieties, including those with regard to the GBC. I ALWAYS listened to you and I tried to give you advice in EVERY instance. In this particular case I put aside ALL of my own feelings of discomfort with what I was seeing going on between you and Mother Z, WRESTLING with the INSANITY of it all, CONTINUING to assist you and be a friend. DESPITE ALL of that, the ONLY "reciprocation" that I received from you for my service and friendship was that you left me in Nigeria in an ILLEGAL immigration situation KNOWING that if I got caught, I would be sent to jail and RAPED until I was dead. This was due to YOUR OWN FEAR and PARANOIA that I might tell someone about your falldown as a sannyasi. Funny thing is that I would have NEVER have said a word to ANYONE about what happened. (I feel that this is something between the disciple, his Guru Maharaj, and Krsna.) It was due to your lies, your character assassination of me, your forcing me out of ISKCON, (and on to the street when you knew that I had no family, etc. to "fall back" upon), that I felt FORCED to speak up about the situation TO TRY TO GET MYSELF RESITUATED INTO SOME ISKCON TEMPLE. (But with NO luck due to the effectiveness of your discreditation of my character and the fact that I became crippled as a result of my service rendered in the movement and the surgical operations I had to undergo as a result.) You continue to lie to devotees about me, telling them "MVVD is 'crazy' due to head injuries she sustained in Africa." Your other lie is that I "stole" laksmi from you, (when in actuality, it was YOU who STOLE laksmi from my DEITIES and from me). You even went so far as to LIE in the presence of EIGHTEEN Silas. And there are so many other things which you have done that I am not mentioning here. All of your improper actions and LIES have caused me to FINALLY start to wake up to the fact that ISKCON as a society in general has gone off, (and is still), off-track from its original purposes as set by its Founder Acarya, our SPIRITUAL MASTER and FATHER, His Divine Grace Abhaya Caranaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami, Srila Prabhupada. I can see how so many of the GBC leaders will NOT honestly address devotee issues that NEED to be addressed. I saw that with my own particular case and I see it in the cases of so many other individual devotees as well, and it also exists on a more open and general level. The reasons that ISKCON has gone off-track is because so many of our ISKCON leaders are so spiritually OFF the mark. (Just to clarify; I am NOT speaking about ALL of the ISKCON leaders, but at least enough of them so that the general ISKCON society is being very badly hurt.) So many of the present day ISKCON leaders are both SPIRITUALLY AND MATERIALLY DIShonest. Sadly, for so long, I was one of those foolish, naive devotees who took the philosophy in its ideal form. I tried to attribute all of my personal suffering at the hands of those devotees in authority under whom I was serving, as being my "karma", as that was what I was told to see it as. (Yes, a devotee should see things in that way, but this does NOT mean that one should be completely stupid, as I feel I was, in allowing one's authorities, INCLUDING you, to manipulate, exploit and abuse a devotee with the philosophy.) I have to thank you Srila Krsnapada, (as you still use that name), for your atrocities and ongoing duplicity and dishonesty. From that, as well as the reactions that I have received from different devotees and ISKCON leaders due to your lying about me, I have finally started to BEGIN to wake up to the REALITY of things. I am seeing that present day ISKCON is SO MUCH FILLED with INFECTION due to the disease of material conditioning in its leaders. This desire on the part of the leaders for position, profit, adoration, gain, distinction, name, fame, and its results spill over in so many ways to so many of the present day followers. (BG 3.21 yad yad acarati sresthas......) At least when Srila Prabhupada was present on the planet, HIS purity (and THAT ALONE), was able to put some form of check on this disease. You speak of "peace", "love", "honesty", and "honest dealings". You speak of devotees learning and aspiring to have open, loving, and honest relationships. You speak of leaders becoming honest in their dealings with devotees, "owning up" to the past wrongs that they have committed. You speak SO NICELY. You are the "love man" of ISKCON, but WHY is it that YOU will NOT practice what you are preaching? WHY is it that you can NOT "own up" to and admit, even to yourself, what you did to me? (Actions speak LOUDER than words.) It was in New Vrndavan, (July 10, 1997), when you LIED IN THE PRESENCE OF EIGHTEEN SILAS, that I FINALLY woke up and realized HOW OFF things in the movement REALLY WERE. (That a "guru", sannyasi, and GBC "leader" should LIE in the PRESENCE of the Deities, THAT REALLY had a DEEP affect on me. Ultimately, a leader should NOT lie about anything whether the Deity is present or not but OBVIOUSLY when the Deity is present, one would EXPECT that a devotee would NOT lie.) After the meeting, BOTH YOU AND Malati LIED to Sesa about the decision that was made in that meeting, (that decision being made IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DEITIES). I WAS COMPLETELY AMAZED by ALL of this. ALL of this REALLY WOKE me up from my foolishness; my naivety and childish innocence, my "intoxicated slumber", or should I say, IGNORANCE, or possibly more accurate, STUPIDITY - maybe even idiocy? I guess when it REALLY comes down to it, I did NOT WANT to believe that these things REALLY did exist in our Guru Maharaja's present day ISKCON, but obviously KRSNA WANTED me to wake up and HE wanted me to SEE the reality for what it was and now is. (One has to ask oneself the viable question, "IS today's ITSGON the ISKCON that our Srila Prabhupada wanted? Can you or any of your GBC Godsiblings undeniably say "Yes"?) I suppose I should be thanking you for all of this, and maybe one day, when I can see it in a better light, I WILL profusely thank you for making me see things as they REALLY are, thus waking me up from my foolish stupor of idealism. Believe it or not, after ALL of these years, despite my feeling unsettled at your having pulled the rug out from under me, (ESPECIALLY the INCONVENIENCE that it has caused to my Deities), and my feeling disturbed with your continued lying, etc., I STILL have a VERY GREAT sense of SISTERLY love towards you as well as a great sense of compassion for you. THAT is one of the MAIN reasons why I have TRIED, for SO MANY times, to approach you in different ways to TRY to get you to HONESTLY address this situation. I ACTUALLY DO CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT YOU AS MY BROTHER and I would HOPE that we can clear and CLEAN up the MESS that you have created. After all, in genuine loving relationships there IS honesty. HOW can a proper relationship exist on falsity? (Of course, in terms of Krsna's design, maybe this situation is not meant to be cleared up. As for me, this is my LAST try. After this attempt, I will NO LONGER make any more attempts to try to approach you. I OBVIOUSLY have tried enough. After this, it is you who will have to come to me if you want to address the issue. I can only beat my head against a brick wall for only so long.) You are so busy "preaching" to ISKCON leaders that they should "own up" to their improper acts. You tell them that they should APOLOGIZE to the devotees who they have wronged and to rectify their wrongs. So many things you are preaching along this line. You are also writing books on how to become a spiritual leader, a "spiritual warrior," but WHEN are YOU going to PUT INTO PRACTICE those teachings and those words YOU are PREACHING? HOW LONG CAN YOU LIVE WITH YOUR LIES, those ones WITH RELATION TO ME? DOESN'T it BOTHER you? If not, then I guess I am giving you, as a human being, A LOT more credit than you really deserve. You may be a lot more hopeless than I actually realize. And if that is the case, then I should only feel even so much MORE compassion for one who has a heart like a stone, for surely, THAT is the ONLY way that you can CONTINUE to go on in your denial. (See CC Antya 4.102,103) Quite a number of devotees have asked me at one time or another to submit the details of what I encountered under you to VNN but I have never done so as of yet. It is SO UNpleasant and there is just SO MUCH to say. (It is practically non-ending; I could actually write a book.) It is also such a source of deep pain for me. To have to think about it and make myself "relive it" all at once is SO very hellish. It is something that I just did NOT want to have to deal with. I also felt that in my submitting the facts, it would not help you as you are STILL in SUCH DENIAL about these matters. Thus, why should I submit something that would cause you embarrassment if it was NOT going to help you due to your own denial? I feel though at this point that I should finally submit something, if for nothing else, to get it out of MY system. Over the telephone in Aug 96, you again LIED to me. You said that Sanatan Dharma wanted to take initiation from you. (He later told me that he TOLD you that he WANTED to take diksa from Govinda Maharaj.) In that same conversation you told me, "Don't go telling anyone anymore what I did to you," your reason being, "I have an image to keep up. Everyone is looking to me to pull this movement back together." You even went so far as to threaten me with death. Thus despite ALL of the various risks involved, because I feel that I SHOULD come out with the truth, I am making this submission, and hopefully, by Krsna's grace, it will cleanse BOTH of us. If nothing else, at least I will have released it from my heart, put it out into the open and I can close the book for myself. I am hoping for your sake, that this submission will will make you take a REAL and closer look at yourself. I hope it will help you to face the reality that you are so much in denial of. I hope that it will serve to enable you to go BEYOND your false ego and help you to FREE yourself from your own hypocrisy. Most important is that I hope you will see this submission for what it is INTENDED to be: It is being offered in the hopes that it will help free BOTH of us from the situation that you have created. Sometimes in speaking the truth, presenting the bare facts of a matter, it can be very painful. Even it may prove very risky to the person who is presenting the facts. As Srila Prabhupada used to quote, sach bale tomare lutha jutha jagat mohaye: "When one tells lies, everyone is enchanted, but when one tells the truth, he is beaten with sticks." But in the BG 10.5 purport, Srila Prabhupada says that one should speak the truth, satyam, for the benefit of others. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada said, (this was printed in Srila Prabhupada's first BTG), "I have most probably given many people troubles in the mind. Some of them might have thought about me that I am their enemy because I was obliged to speak the plain truth for service and devotion towards the Absolute Godhead. I have given them all those troubles only for the reason that they may turn their face towards the Personality of Godhead without any desire for gain and with unalloyed devotion. I hope some day or other they may understand me rightly." And so I also hope with you, Srila Krsnapada. I actually do want to see you as the brother that I have feelings of love for, (due to your surrender and service to our Father, Srila Prabhupada), not for the person, who due to your own false ego problem, has forced me to live in the deplorable conditions that I am being forced to live in. (Ramananda Raya in CC Mad 8.248 explains that the greatest distress a devotee can experience is to be forced to live without devotee association. And that is what has happened to me due to the situation created by you.) How many times when I TRIED to approach you to discuss the situation, in your desire to AVOID any and ALL discussion of the issues, (when you would not TOTALLY avoid ALL discussion), you tried to tell me, "It's your karma that you're suffering like this." You would wave it all off, trying to make it seem as if Krsna had appointed you as the judge and executioner to see to it that I was being given my "just karmic rewards". Yes, it may simply be my "karma", (a devotee will see things in that way; tat te nukampam...), but for you as the perpetrator and a leader to be telling me, (as you said to me), "It's your karma," - meaning, "It's your karma that I committed these injustices and atrocities to you. It's your karma that I stole your Deities' laksmi and your laksmi. It's your karma that I left you illegally in Nigeria that if you got caught they would put you in jail and rape you. It's your karma that I discredited your character and lied about you. It's your karma..." - this is NOT good. This is NOT a TRUE leader. A REAL leader PROTECTS those who are serving under his jurisdiction. (He CERTAINLY does NOT ABUSE those who are serving under him.) A TRUE leader does NOT exploit his servants, nor does he LIE about them and try to discredit their character. Nor does a REAL DEVOTEE leader FORCE a sincere servant out into the world of nondevotees, ESPECIALLY a servant who has served under his jurisdiction faithfully, for SO MANY YEARS. (See CC Antya 4.46,47: Even in this particular case given in the verse, if a servant TRIES to leave of his own accord, the servant's master comes and FORCEFULLY TRIES to RESCUE that servant.) Yes, it may be possible that all of this is my "karma", but for a leader who commits such atrocious acts against that servant who has served FAITHFULLY under that leader, HONESTLY and WITHOUT DUPLICITY, that leader WILL have to suffer the reactions for THEIR atrocities committed against the servant. For years I tried to approach you in SO MANY ways with hopes that I could understand why it was you felt the need to do as you did, but you would not discuss the issues. Only in Jan of 96, did you FINALLY open up to me. You called for me to come for the Gita Nagari New Years celebration, and when I came, you "apologized" to me, saying, "I am sorry for all of the wrongs that I did to you. I want to correct that." You revealed later that your apology was only a political apology, your desire being that I would now be silent and never speak a word of the issues to anyone. That Jan 1, 1996, when I went to see you, you invited me to come to live in Gita Nagari. I revealed to you that it had been my desire to move to GN before you had taken over, and that now that you had apologized, I would like to come. You then said, "But it will have to go before the GN board." Vraja lila telephoned me later, "The board members voted against your coming because of your problems with Srila Krsnapada." (Why didn't you give anyone an HONEST explanation of WHY there were "problems"?) Instead, one week after Vraja lila's telephone call, I received another telephone call from one GN devotee. This devotee told me that YOU had ORDERED ALL of your disciples on the board to vote AGAINST my coming to GN. Had you NOT done this, and allowed me to come, THAT would have RECTIFIED the WHOLE situation. But you STILL could NOT be honest. INSTEAD, you let your PARANOIA get the better of you. (You were worried that the "beans might somehow or other get spilled"), and you CONTINUED to allow your false ego to overpower you. You were STILL SO WORRIED, about your "image". Thus, instead of being honest, you pulled this idiotic NONSENSE. HOW LONG are you going to continue to be DISHONEST and live YOUR LIES? It was a short while after that, in Aug 96, when you made your first death threat to me. You told me "Don't say ANYTHING to ANYBODY, ANYMORE about what I did to you. I have an 'image' to keep up for the devotees." ("Image" was the EXACT word that you used.) "They are all looking to me to pull this movement together." THOSE were ALL your EXACT words. In Oct 96, again over the telephone you also told me, (EXACTLY THREE times), "My disciple Aja wants to kill you. He REALLY wants to kill you. He wants to KIIILLL you" - your stretching out that third use of the word "kill" - "hearing you ask his guru why his guru stole your Deities money." (Thanks; BIG leader that you are, you are just SO encouraging. It is enough to make one vomit.) And what was my reply to this statement that you made to me over the telephone with regard to Aja? I asked you why it was that you directed Aja to come and sit down when we were already in the middle of a private conversation, (in New Vrndavan, in July 96), trying to clear up the issues. I was asking you, "What made you feel the need to steal my Deities laksmi?" Then your disciple Aja prabhu came into the room, and I asked him if he could come back later, telling him, "We're having a bit of a heavy discussion between Godsiblings and it is not proper that a disciple be present". Aja prabhu asked you if he should stay, and you TOLD him to stay. Thus you once AGAIN played your TYPICAL game of politics. (Obviously HOW could I possibly discuss freely with you EVERYTHING that had happened with your disciple PRESENT there. You TOLD him to stay so that you could avoid having to speak honestly about the issues.) AND YOU AGREED in that conversation of Oct 96 that you WERE INDEED playing politics by telling Aja prabhu to stay. You also added that you knew that it was completely wrong that you had done that. When I asked you in that same Oct 96 conversation why it was that you didn't tell Aja prabhu the truth, and why you didn't tell him that you DID steal my Deities' laksmi, you said, "I don't know. I guess I should have told him the truth." I then told you, "It is because you are still such a politician," and you ADMITTED to that fact. (BUT HAVE YOU TOLD AJA THIS TRUTH AS OF YET? HAVE YOU TOLD ANYONE THE TRUTH YET?) Because there is SO much to say, I am NOT saying every-thing. There are some things which are VERY HEAVY and which I feel the reader would not even believe, thus I feel that there is NO point to putting them in. I also feel that this is one of those posts which can drag on one's consciousness. Thus why give ALL of the gory examples when what is given here is enough to give the reader a pretty accurate understanding of what went on. I think the best way to do this is to just give the general date for when something happened and a brief as possible description of the particular event. I have to warn the reader though: I feel that in order to give a proper understanding of what was actually going on, I have to include quite a bit of detail, and I will take the liberty to do so. Originally I was only going to submit an account of the laksmi that Bhaktitirtha Swami STOLE OR TOOK from me WITHOUT my willingness to give him this laksmi for his keeping, but I will include other examples of his improper actions as a leader, and his abuses as well. (This list of laksmi does NOT include the laksmi that I WILLINGLY gave to Bhaktitirtha Swami for airfares, books and other things for the ISKCON Africa project. Just to reiterate, the laksmi being listed is laksmi that BT Swami either STOLE OR took from me which was SUPPOSED to be RETURNED to me, but which BTS did NOT return, and instead, kept it against my will.) This is NOT a nice story, and I could go on and on with so many incidents and examples, so I will tell only VERY LITTLE of it, as I myself can NOT STAND to deal with it and "relive" so much of it all at once. At any rate, readers are forewarned, so if you can NOT "stomach" it, then I suggest you exit at this point. I will even TRY to add some, (sort of), humor IF I CAN REMEMBER to, so that it will take away a little bit from the heaviness and negativity of it all. So for all of you, Candravidya, Mani, Guru Krsna, Janaki, Madhurya-lila, (Not the ML from Gita Nagari), Nanda, Sitala, Vraja, and so many other devotees who have insisted that I SHOULD do this, here it FINALLY is. While serving under Bhaktitirtha Swami, I ALWAYS paid ALL of my expenses and airfares. I have NEVER asked for, or taken any laksmi from BT Swami for anything with regard to my service, in any way, shape, or form. (BTS likes to tell devotees that I "stole" laksmi from him.) Despite all of the laksmi I contributed towards my services rendered in Africa, Bhaktitirtha Swami, on quite a number of occasions, out and out STOLE laksmi. Sometimes BT Swami TOOK laksmi from me, as he said, "for safe-keeping" which WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RETURNED, but he instead KEPT the laksmi, and NEVER returned it. (Just to give an example: At one point in Zambia when BTS understood that I had laksmi for purchasing things for my Deities, he told me, "It is 'very dangerous' for you to be carrying around that much laksmi with you in Africa. You should give me that laksmi for 'safekeeping'." (Funny, I had NEVER had ANY problem carrying the laksmi with me. But STUPID as I was, I just handed it over to him, to TO BE RETURNED later. BTS TOLD me that he WOULD RETURN that laksmi to me, but BTS NEVER did, EVEN THOUGH HE KNEW that it was to be used for my Deities.) I will enclose in this part a "chart" of the laksmi BTS either STOLE or took from me, (saying that it would be returned, but it NEVER was). This will be elaborated upon further in parts two and three. 1981: $2,500 - to cover for airfare, but the laksmi got "lost" 1981: $1,000 - given to BTS for airfare to India, but I was NEVER sent 1983: $1,500 - for Deity purchases. BTS told me to give him the laksmi "for 'safekeeping'" and it was TO BE RETURNED to me later, but he NEVER returned it 1986: $550 - passport and visa, (and bribe to immigration official), in Kenya 1987: $2244 - BTS STOLE that laksmi after getting me a two week ticket from NYC to Ivory Coast to NYC 1990: $800 - teeth; (to be explained later) 1990: $350 - bribe to immigration officials to get me out of Nigeria safely; (to be explained later) 1990: $100 - bribe to Nigerian soldier for escort 1990: $1,285 - ticket from Nigeria to NYC to Buffalo 1992: $1,900 - teeth; (to be explained later) This totals up to $12,229. For those who have not understood, again, this totals up to TWELVE THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED TWENTY NINE dollars that Bhaktitirtha Swami STOLE OR TOOK from me. This sum above does NOT include the $2,488 that BTS took from the $4,000 that I sent him to cover for his and Umapati Swami's tickets from NYC to Ivory Coast, out of which BTS used ONLY $756 per ticket - that's $1,512 altogether, with $2,488 left over. If that laksmi was to be included into the overall figure, then the amount would come to $14,717; FOURTEEN THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED, SEVENTEEN DOLLARS in total. And there was the medical mal-practice suit which was worth several million dollars, which BTS told me to give up, (giving me his FALSE promises in return for my giving up the suit and staying in Ghana.) This will all be explained in parts two and three. End of Part ONE: (To be continued.) About the Author  Other Stories by this AuthorComment on this story Contact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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