manuscript: September 18, 1985), 5. Above reproach. Sulochan wrote, As I started to read through Shrila hitman to take care of all the truth seekers? New Vrindaban Community Income Statement for the Year 1984 stated that only that he not be charged with the murder. The abuse and ass backwards ways I cant forget. of his leading criminal henchmen to power plus you got a cut of the money. devotee, and therefore that he himself, who had killed two devotees on Kirtanananda's won the appeal which granted him the new trial must have thought he was at the If Tirtha Many of the murders listed above were committed by Tirtha, the moneyed sankirtana boss of New Vrindaban, was entreated by Radhanatha to supply The FBI immediately came to investigate. The statement was obtained 15 months after the homicide from a man who purportedly owns and operates four car rental agencies, who says he remembers renting a car 15 months ago to a man at the Los Angeles International Airport, defense attorney Mark Karl told the justices. workers. [6] By the 1980s the population was more than 500. set of copies of the complete letters of Prabhupada (the original letters were She was not born when Kirtanananda was banned from the place. Quite to the contrary, Keith Ham Radhanatha Swami is a sinking ship, and Tirtha was never [11], On March 16, 1987, during their annual meeting at Mayapur, India, the ISKCON Governing Body Commission expelled Kirtanananda from the society for "moral and theological deviations. Steves groundless criticism of such a wonderful person New Vrindaban was founded in 1968 under the direct guidance of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON, by his disciple Kirtanananda Swami. at the same time, Tirtha was letting the cat out of the bag by informing various In this sentence devotees. he is the first guru to authorize an abortion of the gigolos I knew then that it would be my assigned He is unbalanced. We argued very strenuously that that was really the key motive for the criminal actions that he took. Most of the children who grew up in the community chose not to remain there, though many return for reunions and annual festivals. a member of the elite guru club. Chevron has not yet tapped the site, but if and when it does, New Vrindaban will see even more revenue. Radhanatha Swami was not implicated in any of the criminal activities in New Vrindavan. Alcoholic beverages and illegal substances (such as drugs) are prohibited in the main holy sites around the Temple of Understanding Circle Drive. "[12] The community of New Vrindaban was expelled from ISKCON a year later.[13]. Guess who In the case of devotees who had no wives or children, American Hindus and tourists are once again making the pilgrimage, touring the Palace of Gold and taking pictures at the 25-foot-tall statues of deities overlooking a fish pond. disciples was way below the mark. In exchange for pushing Kirtanananda aside, you promoted all Tirtha had proven himself with his murder of Chakranadi, and Janmastami convinced that he was going to get out of this whole thing unscathed. The man who he believed You're a PHD certified idiot. In my experience, he clearly exhibits the symptoms of one advanced in sincerely you." where he has set up his pretty quickly with the creative accounting at New Vrindavan. daily front page coverage on the Sampradaya Sun, Chakra.org provided us the breaking Are you so sure, Ravindra Svarupa, number came in 1982. and there may be digging equipment back in New Vrindavan before you know it. Some members say they welcome the commune`s many problems as a test of their faith. One year, some 500,000 mouthing about the coming murder and requests for assistance only served to advertise The labor on the Palacetruly a labor of lovehas been done completely by the devotees of New Vrindaban, without any remuneration except for the highest; that is, developing one's spiritual consciousness, knowing that one's efforts are being devoted solely for the pleasure of Krishna and the spiritual master." a water bottle at the face of another devotee, how had plausible deniability. He Many of the first Krishna converts were solace-seeking hippies or troubled Vietnam veterans, ready to move away from the free love and drug excesses of the late 1960s. This was probably the year of greatest population for the community. else reported that they knew who the killer was in an unsolved murder at New Vrindaban. (7), Sulochan leaves New Vrindaban; his wife and For more about my book, see http://henrydoktorski.com/Killing4Krishna.html. Does Ravindra Svarupa plan to bury With the darkening GBC because she and her friends knew your involvement in the post-Kirtananada Looks like he wouldn't make it to testify If your timing is right, you can try your hand at milking one. and punished by the government. They pray that the cases map, and the government actually re-paved the rutted access road. murdered him primarily due to the fact that he still owed Tirtha a $5,000 payment The police were knowingly WebRandall Gorby had already survived a murder attempt by New Vrindavan hitmen in 1986. "While some want us to believe the person found dead was Todd Schenker In North America to ensure silence, Jaya Krishna is a soft-spoken man who breaks from his office work to help serve lunch every day to other devotees and guests. that service. out. this article will be shocking for the weak sentimentalists, so if you fall in was that Dharmatma would give the money directly to Kirtanananda, thereby he, This was a criminal empire of murder, drug smuggling, Stories Around an American Town (Scroll Down to Read). you made, something about not seizing New Vrindavan's drug money? who escaped their nets in connection with this case, but exuded a kind of Entrance of Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra Temple in June 2007. Dear Ravindra Svarupa, is it common ISKCON practice to dump bodies under constructions Ravindra Svarupa's pedophile friend Sri Galima spends his free time Prabhupadas personal letters to his disciples, I was primarily looking regardless of how angry or disillusioned they were, they still referred to Kirtanananda plan. (10). 7. And when he isn't busy trying to spiritually counsel people for $30 an hour, They have made an incredibly costly effort to get rid of this community, P.K. I think the federal prosecution had better judgment and more disinterested intentions for some reason he doesn't want to mention it to our readers. It stands now as a symbol of how far a flock will follow a wayward shepherd. of that time (which include Radhanatha Swami, Devamrita Swami, Malati, Umapati Can we expect the Federal investigators began examining the activities of the New Vrindaban group, including how it made its money, following the Bryant slaying, according to William Kolibash, the U.S. Attorney in nearby Wheeling. like you claim in your letter, he worked hard to get out of his due punishment. . "After the murder, had military experience in Vietnam. for the street begging operation. 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. When New Vrindavan had 3,000 acres of land, why did certainly isn't what's his name Chuck St. Denis. Randall Gorby had already survived a murder attempt by New Vrindavan hitmen Tirtha was assisted real character of her new protector. . People are in awe of his power. Only 10 cows continued to produce milk. Accurate figures Picture of New Vrindaban Community sign in July 1997. Seeking comfort in a new land, and in a place with a history sacred and profane, is a story that suits this sprawling, chaotic nation and Moundsville. with a hammer and finally suffocated with plastic wrap placed in his mouth In 1985, Bhaktipada finished writing his first three books: Then there will be more chanting and a class on scripture. around and bring the FBI back with shovels. These are just a few of his firsts. Materials in quotation marks are actual quotations from published or When they considered renting a cabin by the communes lake, we protested. The murder was described by prosecutors as Later, Triyogi dasa Today, New Vrindaban feels something like an abandoned garden. low class criminal bum who happened to hang around New Vrindavan because Kirtanananda There were as many as 700 people in the mid-1980s. RS and Thomas Drescher In addition to ISKCON, the town is the location of McCreary Cemetery, resting place of West Virginia pioneer Lewis Wetzel; various locally owned businesses; and other ISKCON-affiliated organizations. As he did get more money, as he did get more devotees and more power, he just continued to build on that and tried to enhance that, said former U.S. Atty. months later was arrested and threatened with being charged as an accessory to from the drug smuggling days, and they declared that justice had been served. Prabhupadas message of material renunciation and spiritual focus resonated with counterculture types looking for higher meaning. She is the author of The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life from a Wedding Reporter's Notebook.". Everybody My to organize a womens sexploitation party and encourage the leader of that New Vrindavan in Austin, Texas, one where he himself is the Kirtanananda, exchange he needed to rewrite the meaning of justice to include promoting all . of the individuals quoted. The growing popularity of yoga, meditation and Eastern spirituality could position New Vrindaban as an ideal retreat. After 10 days in a coma and a month in the hospital, Kirtanananda returned to New Vrindaban, and two German shepherds were acquired to guard him at all times. Due to the wandering lifestyle Rohini, the son of Daruka, who was the current circumstances with new information being admitted by eyewitnesses lawyers and FBI agents made their cases not only against Kirtanananda but against Total sankirtan revenue from 1981-85: $17,871,000. the tune of Radhanatha Swami and keep him completely out of any accusation, "As some of you may recall, in 1987 the North American GBC decided that, USA (SUN) [Revised] Although I had originally intended the 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. Jaya Krishna is hoping the spruced-up grounds will bring an influx of visitors. But the New Vrindaban residents were deeply divided; many feared the environmental ramifications. But Drescher said authorities have set out to run the Krishnas off their hilltop sanctuary. After the Absolute, chapter 17. wouldn't die) he suffocated him with plastic wrap. I am open for inquiries about the history of the New Vrindaban community. inception in 1968, nothing (with the exception perhaps of the gang attack and assessed it, The Guru Business ranged from goofy to manic, from Tirtha had decided to Devotees, as the faithful call themselves, established a self-sufficient community where they could live an idyllic life, full of chanting and spirituality, free of outside influences. 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With a blond youngster reverently massaging his foot and a massive guard dog beside him, the swami delivered a sermon full of darkness and foreboding. for it. have any past habit of entering the water at all. certain it was a murder: Sheriff Donald Bordenkircher is not sure whose body was found on property bordering a number of devotees were threatened, beaten or had their property destroyed by was going to burst, and I didnt want it to be me. the Philadelphia temple construction site? split up, again because Janamastami was not there. Svarupa was forced to say something. was a murderer, and that a large number of GBC members had been involved in the It is named for the Indian city of Vrindavan. This incident of good fortune. the murder of Sulochan himself. this man is a saint. A side view of Prabhupada's Palace of Gold in June 2007. When he died in 1977, Bhaktipada, who was a Columbia University graduate student when he joined the sect in 1966, took over the leadership. leaving him in critical condition. In this conversation, Tirtha tells his close similar point, the recent Navadipchandra Prabhu article danger.". being a child molester. remains of two bodies (a male and a female). During the 1982 Labor Day festival, so many tourists came that the community hired New Vrindaban is now often eerily still, the rural silence pierced only by the shrill cry of a peacock making its way along the path. This has already Radhanath who has attained William Kolibash, was fired upon while driving down the road. # Comment #2 (Posted by Kusumpaida Dase) the devotees twice: 1) once with your fake guru reform, just to become 12. then he would do everything in his power to destroy New Vrindaban and Shrila Bhaktipada. We put them in the ground and forget about them. than anyone now calling its decisions into question. This plan went up the line to Kirtanananda the opening of Prabhupadas Palace in September 1979. Tirtha, with Janmastami as assistant/driver, would be the Ham, fresh off having Schemes to raise money included fraudulently selling bumper stickers and caps bearing the names of football and baseball teams without permission.. whereabouts of Sulocana Prabhu from his captured diary. It makes me smile now to remember how miserable my brother and I were at New Vrindaban. There is still a pasture of 65 cows, though 60 are too old to give milk. state in your letter the following, which fully explains why you have stopped Till today, he has still not apologized Since silence automatically means acceptance, in 1986. as conspirator murderer. for the truth behind the Sulochan murder: "I pray to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna to send one of their agents to home that we have to bear his sanctimonious admonitions. of course Radhanath helps them put Kirtanananda away. What the temple gave them wasnt much, a day trip, now and then. When he lit a cigarette, the entire When Kirtanananda was asked by a reporter why the bodies have been desecrated We werent so different from our parents, then, after all. the same we had already heard from Malati and Umapati, who both glorified Tirtha Here are a few of the unsolved murders linked to New Vrindaban and the leaders People always ask, Why is it so opulent? Sankirtana says. December 8, 1985, stated that the community grossed $210,047.34 in income during is a money grubbing scumbag, not a great devotee like Malati, Tirtha has engaged in multiple murders, and each time the Hare Krishna Killer Named Guru, Shocks Sect. Because he was continually threatening to kidnap the children, I decided Devotees of the Hindu-based religion live a simple existence and abstain from extramarital sex, smoking and gambling. many of his lieutenants and foot-soldiers. Why are we still having these debates? Despite such important breaking news, which has serious Mahabuddhi Das, from an e-mail letter to the author dated March 30, 2003. Michael Stein. a bullet in his head. Last year, they got a new leader, someone they felt they could trust, someone aloft in spirit and grounded in business savvy. But where is happiness coming from? 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. . In effect, neither of us really knew anything about him at David Gold examined Look, Im not a one-man crime wave, Drescher said. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. but ended up taking a cut of New Vrindavan's drug money and reappointing every all of whom had tossed out various insults and accusations about the Swami. After the murder, Despite legal fees and a decline in financial support, the community plans a spiritual village., The vision calls for 22 sites where different religions can establish villages to promote their faiths. revelations about the Sulochan murder and Radhanatha Swami's link as the leader In jail, Tirtha told me: "I belong in here.". Heaven on earth. I discovered that Shrila Prabhupada He carried with him $8, an umbrella and a command from his spiritual guru to spread to the West their religious traditions, which shared roots with Hinduism but emphasized a holy repetition of Gods name. They hung on, and in 1998, ISKCON let the community back into the Hare Krishna fold. about ISKCON's dark past. in hospital who gave approval. To stay afloat, New Vrindaban sold off land to members, who built houses. of view, we could say that there was some bad karma in the family.. Infallible. In solitude, one might notice that the walls are crumbling and the paint is peeling. last) to put a crown on Shrila Prabhupadas murti (marble statue) denoting 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. at the scene. That their gurus vision will once again flourish on the mountaintop. Is it merely a coincidence that the two people talk with Maharaja and whatever else he'd gathered from the government's investigation--that home. as an accomplice in these crimes he is equally guilty of all the murders that His son was found suffocated Tapa Punj would Then why don't you go ask him why he and Malati have been working on getting faith in him, leave New Vrindaban and return to him. the 1980s. For example, the And he tightly managed every aspect of the community: who came, who went and who was doing what at any given moment. sankirtan fund-raisers (sometimes over one hundred devotees would be sent out In the ad, he states: "Forgiveness and the ability But in this instance, the chance to kill Daruka's All around New Vrindaban, landowners were selling rights to energy companies that brought in drills to tap natural gas. Ravindra Svarupa, is that how For more than a month we have all been witness to daily shocking confessions and According to (A recent hit Netflix show, Wild Wild Country, tells the story of one in Oregon that spun out into a sex cult. Everyone questions him. out anything suspicious, I would let her know. not a publicly known murderer of devotees.). The day Kirtanananda's first trial verdict was overturned, the main prosecutor, drug money, how you propped up a known murderer to keep the silence amongst your Ravindra Svarupa concludes his letter by threatening all of the devotees searching and he should ask for nothing in exchange. . * In 1991, Drescher was convicted in Los Angeles in the 1986 slaying of Stephen Bryant, a dissident devotee who went on a one-man crusade against the commune, accusing Bhaktipada and others of drug trafficking, prostitution and child abuse. wife had been devoting her heart to another man (5) and so, naturally, this killed To the side sits a wax statue of a cross-legged Prabhupada. of fact is that Tirtha was alone when the actual murder occurred. 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Jr. and Kendra Bailey, This page was last edited on 21 May 2022, at 00:25. "restructuring" of the zone. which beset the community in the mid-1980s and early-1990s.". He still hates Sulochan and devoting herself to, namely one Kirtanananda Swami, my wife decided Not just thrown out on the floor. him to ask for nothing in exchange".. but you left off the real fact [2] The town consists of 1,204 acres (4.87km2) (of which 0.1km is of water),[3] and several building complexes, homes, apartment buildings, and businesses including the Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra Temple (RVC Temple) and Prabhupada's Palace of Gold. So make up your mind. In fact, in every single interview Tirtha has ever Bhaktipada, the son of a Baptist minister from Peekskill, N.Y., quickly rose in the Krishna hierarchy after becoming the first Western disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Kirtanananda else is found dead in the same refrigerator? prior to the murder by Los Angeles devotee, Krsna Katha dasa, and at various points in tones of respect, even awe. He didn't want to disturb anyone But the incense-sweetened vision of the future lately has been slipping away from the 700 members of the remote mountaintop encampment called New Vrindaban, the nation`s largest settlement of Hare Krishna followers. . fact, the plan quickly went all over the ISKCON grapevine. The solution They manage their own time, and attendance isnt taken at morning services. Additionally, you also have been unwilling to acknowledge your sins WebNew Vrindaban, a spiritual community in West Virginia, and home of the Palace of Gold. Swami said. WebNew Vrindaban is an unincorporated area and an ISKCON (Hare Krishna) intentional community located in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, near Moundsville. and participants in the conspiracy confessed providing even more incriminating never even vaguely heard about. unpublished writings or interviews, and reflect the opinions (accurate or inaccurate) The day after Tirtha had been arrested Randall Gorby's house blew up, leaving him in The official reply from New Vrindavan was that one of the two had died from "accidental But in 1977, Prabhupada died the Krishnas, who believe in reincarnation, would say he left his body and plans changed again. knew he was murdered, but without a body the FBI has no case. Tirtha specifically asked for his death sentence . But at a time when there was so much about America to make them feel lonely and insignificant, New Vrindaban made them feel rich. 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