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[b:9d7ebad4c0]THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT PRABOOFRAUD WAS DOING ONE TIME!!!!![/b:9d7ebad4c0]
You have got to be kidding. :P How blatantly arogant.
I once saw Siddha sing his own name. He obviously hadn't been paying attention and we were singing prayers to the spiritual master and he got almost to the end of his name (you know how long it is) before he realised and asked for the microphone.
Back in 1995/96 at a regular weekly gathering held in Sydney there was a video played after the offering and just prior to the Bhagavad gita class. This was a roughly 5 minute warning to all members of SOI not to talk about the happenings of the organisation. I can't remember the exact story but a lady was making a delivery to Siddha and perhaps she got pulled up by customs officials then freaked. She told them about what she was doing and about Siddha, the religion, Krishna, the whole bit. Some officers (can't remember who I wasn't paying attention sorry Siddha) then went over to Siddha's house and pulled the place apart, mocked the deities, asked questions and generally made a nusiance of themselves. That is the story anyway. The video tape was made and sent out pressumably over the planet as who knows where he was at that stage. I don't think he was in New Zealand. From that point on everyone had to be extremely careful about what they said about the cult and who they spoke to about the cult and particularly not to talk to any authorities about the cult.
This sounds rather paranoid don't you think? Even if their main concern was that legally they were considered wierd people you can't really get arrested in most coutries specifically for being weird. I'm sure having your house raided is not a pleasant experience but if you have nothing to hide sending an international warning to all your followers telling them to shut up is a little over the top.
Just to drive the point home about SOI's continued political motivation in the face of oncoming destruction in early 1999 there was a fax sent out from 'Head Quarters', i.e. wherever Siddha is located, which I had been shown by a disciple, and I had discussed this with various other disciples so it was throughtout ASM, that described preparations that were to be made. The grammar of the letter was much like that of Siddha's. It stated that people should begin making arrangements to live communally and should begin stocking up on food, clothing and face masks and other survivalist gear. He stated people should consider an alternate mode of transport such as solar power or whatever they may think would get people from A to B as being a long way from the next devotee farm, and there no longer being any fuel supply or telephones since all the computers crashed, walking would not be an option. Communication was to be maintained between devotee farms so each can take care of the other. He suggested that people begin growing their own food immediately and should have a stored water supply and solar power as these utilities would no longer be available. He stated that weapons should be amassed and that devotees are going to have to protect themselves from people who may try to come after the farm in desperation as there is no more sources of food and other basics. If this meant shooting people to protect your devotee farm then that is what a person should be prepared to do. I know of at least oe disciple who was self-sufficient and had solar power installed that year (Do you see how Little Ninjai could have been developed straight out of the imagery of this letter? With the demons trying to kill him for food and Ninjai walking along in a barren wilderness minding his own business he is forced to protect himself. Whilst contemplating his true identity of course :P )
The news report on Jan 1st 2000 stated that the landing gear on one plane was the only fault reported and it may have been related to Y2K although it needed further investigation. Noone was hurt though luckily. :oops:
Butler apparently being a big fan of B.F Skinner learnt his lessons well. Skinner was an athiest who believed he could control anyone's mind without their knowing they had been programmed. He did not need a dogmatic faith with an invisible all-seeing and all-knowing God to do so either. Siddha just realised that people's hope of there being a God and more to life was the easiest way to exploit them by making people believe he is a saintly worshipable person.
He paid ISKCON $28 000 and $800 the same day that he sent ACB his letter asking for initiation. ACB immediately sent a letter (in all capital letters) to his disciples requesting that they do not spend the money as he was already in negotiation to buy a $70 000 house in India. This was to be the deposit. Siddha on the other hand had his own plans. You'll notice in Sai speaks published in the same year as he requested initiation stating that he was not a bona-fide guru in the *sense* of disciplic succession which made it harder for people to tell if he is qualified. (As if just saying that makes you qualified :roll: ). So at least he thought he was qualified and a pure devotee. From this you can see his intention was to claim this title prior to even meeting his spiritual master. The money being a sweetener of the deal.
In July of 71 Siddha gets initiated and little over a year later Tusta Krishna prabhu is writing a letter to ACB about Siddha as a pure devotee and asking if the spiritual master (Siddha) is ultimately Krishna and if he will get to be with his spiritual master after leaving this world. (Boy was that relationship a little too how-do-you-do for a Siddha friendship?) ACB explains that he is thinking like an impersonalist and that he shouldn't make a faction by making claims of Siddha being above other disciples and if Siddha goes all the disciples should go to Krishna.
Notice too he addresses Tusta and other disciples by alternate names like prabhu or master as a sign of respect. Siddha svarupa's followers only ever get das or dasi (servant or servantess).
A year later Siddha along with Gaurasudara are selling the Hawaii temple and taking of with the money. ACB just asks for the money back and seems much more concerned about the money than his disciples.
ACB came to Hawaii and questioned Siddha about the behavior of his group being different and withdrawn from ISKCON and why Siddha's followers didn't want to go see ACB. So Siddha returns the next day with $10 000 which pleases his guru and goes about his merry business. ACB wouldn't have accepted Siddha taking disciples but as far as Siddha's group not shaving their heads, not wearing the dress and not selling books it was hardly a expelable offence. ACB didn't say he couldn't write his own books and distribute those instead but ACB asks how he is going to make money if Siddha gives his own books away for free. So Siddha buys outright $5000 worth of books and ACB is happy and Siddha doesn't have to sell his books. ACB didn't say that he couldn't form a non-profit religious organisation while he was still alive nor a political campaign. ACB didn't say that he couldn't cut an album while he was still alive so Siddha does these things instead.
Siddha totally scammed the system from the very beginning