To Dayalu Nitai Sundar Dasa, sorry we didn’t know you went back to Madhu Pandit Dasa your name has been removed and replaced by Sriman Pandava Sakha Dasa in Singapore who wrote us the following text:
“Prabhu/mataji I was also part of ISKCON Bangalore from October 30th 1992 – January 21st 1997 & suffered heavily at the cruel hands of Madhu Pandit so I also want to stand against this fraudster. Please include my name in the list of devotees & let me know if any service can be done. I always want the temple to come back to ISKCON from these irresponsible people.
Hare Krishna
Your servant Pandava Sakha Das”
We went over out list of devotees in the BDA and saw that some (3-4) had been added by mistake and we have removed them. It was an oversight and not intentional to pad the list. Anyone else wanting to have his name added or removed should contact us and after verifying we will do the needful.
One devotee was telling us a few days ago that many devotees who actually do not support Madhu Pandit Dasa are forced to. We asked “how is that? Why don’t they just leave him?” He responded that one of Madhu Pandit’s tactics is to get young brahmacaris married and especially after they had kids they were stuck with Madhu Pandit for economic reasons. Why? They had been out the work force for 10+ years and would have a hard time getting a job and now they were weighed down with a wife and kids and no one to employ them except you know who. Pretty sad actually but such is life, sometimes we have to make tough decisions and make the wrong one for financial reasons (think Drona and Bhishmadeva). Anyway, spiritual life is a multi-lifetime process and you get another chance next life to make that tough decision and get it right.