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BIOGRAPHY Kailasa Candra dasa is a
Vaishnava scholar, Vedic astrologer, and author of numerous position papers and
articles about After major managerial
changes to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) just subsequent
to the departure of its founder Srila Prabhupada, Kailasa became disillusioned
with the confederation he now calls “ISKCON.” In 1977, he was practically the
first of a current majority community of Prabhupada-initiated disciples who
rejected both the authority of the eleven so-called mahabhagavat
“zonal acaryas” and the Governing Body Commission that empowered their
deviation. While in A challenge to debate was issued, and the paper was
formally presented in the winter of 1978-9. In what quickly degenerated into a
contentious affair, Hridayananda Swami was selected
to represent the zonals, who were all in
attendance. The representative of the
“G.B.C.” early on emoted and insisted that it was offensive to even imply that
he did not understand what Srila Prabhupada had authorized, what constitutes
spiritual master, and what must be his relationship to his godbrothers. As
a result of this dishonest approach, Pradhyumna prabhu finessed his way out
from various entreaties from the others and bowed out after the first session;
he refused to attend the follow up gathering, which turned out to figuratively
be a kind of massacre. At the end of that fateful day, every one of what were
originally thirty-six signatories (except for four devotees, which comprised
the chief author of the paper, along with his small party) recanted and apologized
to the ever-triumphant zonal acharyas, the so-called
eleven heartbeats of their great new movement. Pradyumna
prabhu did not sign the position paper; despite this, he was punished anyway. This
less-than-stellar get-together led to the following item, on Jayatirtha’s adamant insistence, being inserted into the 1979 GBC resolutions a couple of weeks
later: Kailasa’s
perceptions, however, were validated less than seven years later when the zonal
acharya scheme cratered. It
is interesting to note, over thirty years later, that many of the
recommendations made in that abovementioned paper have been adopted, in one
form or another, by the Governing Body Commission. History has shown that “the
GBC” has consistently failed to acknowledge the ruthless audacity and personal
ambition that led to the creation of what it previously labeled a terrific team
of God-realized “zonal acaryas.” Despite usurpation of the Hare Krishna
movement--and the subsequent direct or indirect banishment of so many of their
godbrothers and godsisters--what have always remained
sacrosanct are the reputations of those ever-loyal “worship able acharyas” from back in the day. A handful of them still
retain an influence in the GBC, under the newer mid-Eighties’ dispensation,
personified by Ravindra Svarupa
das Adhikari. The
devotees of 1979 dared to enter the mouth of the governing body Aghasura. That GBC clearly considered Kailasa Candra dasa
expendable; in one sense, he was the first “monkey on a stick.” Even now,
despite the historical vindication of the position paper he penned (under the
direction of an ISKCON authority at the time), there are devotees who associate
his name with something insidious—supposedly against the Hare Krishna movement.
Such is the nature of what the zonal acharyas and
their henchmen tend to spontaneously propagate: “That
understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be
irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the
wrong direction, O Partha, is in the mode of
ignorance.” Bhagavad-gita, 18.32 Widely reviled by these party
men during the early 1980’s, Kailasa affiliated himself with a renowned
initiate of Srila Prabhupada, Jadurani devi dasi,
one of the first female disciples. He co-authored with her numerous position
papers questioning the legitimacy of the policies of the Commission and the
zonal acaryas. These papers were circulated amongst a number of disciples of
Srila Prabhupada living outside the temples and influence of “ISKCON.” Kailasa
Candra prabhu, in one of these papers, was the first to point out the many offensive
characterizations of Srila Prabhupada by the Governing Body’s biography of
Srila Prabhupada known as Lilamarita, which
was written by one of the eleven so-called mahabhagavats
rubber-stamped to initiating guru in 1978. After this period, Kailasa
again traveled extensively throughout In 1989, Kailasa was involved
in intense conversations with three of the five founders of the “rittvik”
faction in the West, pointing out numerous flaws in their new process of
initiation. Since the 1990’s, Kailasa has directed INTERNET preaching efforts
of the Vaishnava Foundation and authored and edited many articles posted on its
website. Throughout his involvement in Extreme ordeals undergone in the service of the
spiritual master have a way of turning into greater realization and conviction. Kailasa Candra prabhu teaches
the science of Krishna Consciousness as it is.
He promulgates it free from the influence of—and in defiance of—the
following unauthorized mindsets: Vitiated Judaism, hypocritical “Christianity,”
nihilistic Islamo-fascism, the Hindu hodgepodge,
secular humanism and its associated cult of “science,” witchcraft, neo-sahajiyism (particularly of the post-modern
pseudo-Vaishnava variety), I-am-God impersonalism, voidism, all old and new atheistic cults, and the
hedonistic, decadent Western culture in general. His words, his personal influence, and his
mission offer all sincere spiritualists protection and shelter from the
abovementioned evils, which he works to expose. |