Nevermind cult - certain individuals wil arrive to slow down the progress on exposing Science of Identity. Rather than defeat your argument creating irrelevant discussion is easier. The time frame is interesting though approximately three days is common for suspicious characters to respond.
The amount of man hours that are taken up attempting to hide the information is unbelievable considering it would only take one person (Siddha) to refute it. They would have people recording this thread and the anti-SIF site, others creating other sites like all the Craigslist classifieds quotes ads, the blog sites (here is two more [
www.freewebs.com] & [
www.myspace.com] ) and then people searching the internet for links and writing letters to the webmasters for removal.
There would be a whole tactical team internationally aimed at damage control like Mahak et al, has been doing over the entire span of the net for the last 6 years. They would have had to pay lawyers, letters have been written, the name change on Healing Noni could have potentially cost thousands if the packaging was changed.
They would be holding meetings to discuss strategies and write response drafts for later approval, all the while this group of people could have been engaged in checking and double checking the expiration date on foodstuffs in Siddha's refridgerator or making more money for the multi-million dollar empire if they had just come forward to answer one girls questions.Rather they resort to death threats, bribes and manipulation of her heart using as bait the person she loves.
Siddhaswarupa's teachings are extremely simplistic and he criticizes most every other religious group and all other vaishnava gurus.
He teaches it is unnecessary for anyone go to India and the internet is bad for a person's consciousness. Scriptures other than those he "approves" are boycotted and he attempts to control all information accessible.
His Kindergarten level teachings would almost only ever be interesting to those who are unfamiliar with eastern philosophy and once a person becomes involved they are shut off from ever learning anything of substance.
Other Vaisnava groups are not as controlling of their followers as Siddhaswarupa.
I was reading about Cult leaders like David Koresh and Jim Jones who believe they are completely pure in all thoughts and behaviors make the darkest aspects of their personalities acceptable to their followers. The natural danger of this is they become increasingly arrogant and paranoid in their unchallenged, unquestionable god-like position.
If Siddha were to allow his followers to question him and seek information elsewhere his empire would crumble as even on this forum the simplest of questions remain unanswered. Questions in his books and video lectures are so obviously pre-prepared and Mike Gabbard too would only answer questions that were pre-approved via email.
"Please Guru, would you offer me a question that I may ask you to receive enlightenment."
The main defense of Siddhaswarupa is from a member who speaks from exile/hiding from SIF (sounds like many of his ex-followers) and has had no involvement for over 30 years. He also says he has little time for the internet yet Mahaksadasa has been involved in the following online forums and sites often defending his siksa guru Siddha or siddha ideals:
Pada - harekrsna.org
India Divine
Yahoo Questions and Answers
WVA forum
Vaishnava Cooperation forum
jswami.info
geocities
Yahoo Vaishnava Council
Pratyatosa.com
oppositerule.naturama.us
VNN
guru.krishna.org
jayananda.com
graciouskrishna.com
krishnascience.com
bhagavat.net
..and many more!
Ananda das mentions Sudama Vipra and Gurukripa regarding illegal activities.
"Some nondevotees — such as the former Hansadutta, Gurukripa and Sudama Vipra — were engaged in gunrunning, smuggling and other heinous offences."
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PADA editor has been kicked off of the (so-called) "Vaishnava Council" discussion group because: we fail to support their real guru, "Jagat Guru Siddhaswarupa Prabhupada," who had to step down from sannyasa due to his scandals.
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SIDDHASWARUPA PREACHING ABOUT JESUS? I'm living in Poland for some
months. Today i went to a meditation conference and was positively
surprised that it were held by self intitulated gaudya vaishnavas,
disciples of a disciple of Prabhupada. However, i stranged the fact that
they weren`t selling any Prabhupada book. After, i saw a movie of a lecture
and stranged that the "guru" spoke almost all the time about Jesus. Finally
they chanted mantras, and none were the Hare-Krishna Maha-Mantra. The rest
didn't seem strange to me. Now i'm sure that they are not legitimate
followers of Prabhupada. However i don't mind hearing other stuff, because
i truly know that Prabhupada is the only one guru. My actual problem is if
i can trust them and start participating in their activities or if with
time i will get some creepy people annoying me because i stopped
participating in it. The name of their guru is Sidhaswarupananda
Paramahamsa (Chris Butler). Do you have any information on
him?
[PADA: We consider Siddhaswarupa to be a bit of a nut case. It is sad to
hear that IF you disagree with him, then there will be social pressure,
because he has established a cult in your area. He is not considered as a
legitimate follower of Srila Prabhupada, indeed, he calls himself
"Prabhupada." thanks pd]
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www.harekrsna.org]
Their criminal chaos in God's name is their scriptures, and thus they are all implicated in insulting God thereby, all of them, the GBC, Sridhara, Narayana, BV and BP Puri, Tripurari, Sudhir, Siddhaswarupa, Turya, ad infinitum, they all said that there is no managing system found in scriptures and they all supported the criminal maverick guru system. Srila Prabhupada said that there was supposed to be a managing system in 1936, but instead that there were envious fools, severe offenders, and in sum a pack of Rocana's and his cockroach gurus that destroyed that system.
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mitglied.lycos.de]
Of course there are many de facto disciples of Sridhara like Mahaksya dasa. He says it is fully acceptable for people like Siddharaswarupa to "dress up" and use the title of "Prabhupada." Never mind that Siddhaswarupa was involved in a scandal with his secretary and he eventually had to marry her. Folks like Mahaksya are another version of the (deviants should) "wear the uniform and adopt the titles of the messiah" ideology.
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www.harekrsna.org]
Consider the secrecy and paranoia surrounding this group there are many details they are attempting to protect and a criticism over the net causes such panic. This expose has been a long time coming and those attempting to divert attention are only adding to it ironically.