To all ISKCON GBC’s, officers, managers, temple leaders:
Do you know how arrogant, toxic, inaccurate, dishonest, and misleading the GBC’s appointed spokesperson, Mayeswara das, is? …for denying 100% of the evidence that Srila Prabhupada was maliciously, homicidally poisoned by his own caretakers in 1977? Mayeswara is all hot air and worse than the proverbial “lying lawyer.” He is dragging your reputations through the gutter with his off-the-wall and crazy statements- please read the following so you may have a chance to disassociate yourselves from someone who is putting you into disgrace as well as legal jeopardy.
Prabhupada Truth Commission has published many books and white papers aimed at rectifying the widespread deviations from and misinterpretations of Srila Prabhupada’s original teachings and the insidious corruption of the basic spiritual principles of Srila Prabhupada’s Divine mission. It also aims to provide sincere Vaishnavas the truth and real ISKCON history about the personal ambition in ISKCON’s gurocracy, which has spoiled the purity and sanctity of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions, books.
ISKCON’s leaders have deceitfully and dishonestly covered up and denied all the evidence of Srila Prabhupada’s physical poisoning in 1977, giving shelter to those who committed this atrocious crime, and thus the entire institution has become implicated by aiding and abetting. Unfortunately, participation in ISKCON now makes one complicit in the supreme offense of poisoning the pure devotee of the Lord.
All secondary and tertiary leaders in ISKCON are now subsidiaries of a criminal organization, (1) denying the poisoning of their own Founder-Acharya, (2) concealing the widespread past and present child physical and sexual abuse, and (3) directly enabling the criminal, fraudulent activities of cheating, embezzling gurus and the misguidance of congregations. A list of charges will soon follow as civil, criminal, and class-action (public interest) litigations.
Once exposed, all the filth will come out into the open. ISKCON’s fraudulent cover-ups of Srila Prabhupada’s poisoning began as soon as the audio evidence surfaced in 1997 and they have continued unabated ever since, with increasingly absurd denials and bluff to hoodwink its members and congregations. At least 9 truthful books have been published of the facts and evidence which have proven and established Srila Prabhupada’s heavy metal, malicious, and homicidal poisoning.
ISKCON has produced two books denying the voluminous mountain of evidence, even claiming there is NO EVIDENCE to support this conclusion! The first book, titled Not That I Am Poisoned (NTIAP), is filled with hyperbole, fraud, and deceit, produced in secret by the prime poisoning suspects, and then unanimously endorsed by the GBC of ISKCON in year 2000.
However, “knowing that NTIAP implicates them in the cover-up of the crime, the ISKCON GBC has for many years made the book unavailable…” (Srila Prabhupada is Shastra)
In mid-2024 NTIAP could not be found on the internet, including ISKCON and GBC sites. This indicates the GBC prefers that persons not hear from Srila Prabhupada, “an elderly Bengali Vaishnava,” about his disappearance pastime, but also wants to hide this topic completely, and they now are fearing legal kickback by even making NTIAP available at all. Previously the GBC recommended one learn about Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance pastime. (GBC 2000 resolutions)
“The GBC body endorses the book Not That I Am Poisoned as the most detailed and comprehensive exposition of these allegations to date, and it recommends this book strongly to devotees who may have been affected by or who are interested in this issue.”
The second book was produced in 2020 by Mayeswara das, a frenetic, blustery, and crude person, who was unofficially anointed and empowered by the GBC to organize pushback of the poisoning evidence, and was titled Deception: The Poison Conspiracy. Many have found this
book to be a scrambled hodge-podge of wild opinions, hot air, mixed with bad science, full of glaring “errors,” almost indecipherable, and which deceitfully circumvents the actual truths and
facts.
Mayeswara das also produced a dodgy video with little substance and much obfuscation, boasting about his credentials and fooling the innocent by twisting the evidence in endless, tricky word games and insults. The GBC and Mayeswara repeat their same-old, tired, and flawed talking points, even in the face of JFSRF’s recent forensic-toxicological-medico-legal study/report which unequivocably confirms Srila Prabhupada’s homicidal poisoning in 1977.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION is addressed below in clarifications
based on truth, real facts, and real science.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # ONE: THE CADMIUM CAME FROM TAINTED AYURVEDIC MEDICINES, ETC
Mayeswara stated in Deception, p.246: “What we will explore here is a [sic] of ways that might explain for those high [cadmium] readings in the samples tested by Dr. Morris.” He suggests pollution in Calcutta and Los Angeles, weeds and trucks in India, snuff, mustard seeds, intraoral dental alloys, and the many medicines that Srila Prabhupada supposedly took in 1977.
REPLY: There is a false assumption that Srila Prabhupada took large amounts of Ayurvedic and Allopathic medicines in 1976-77, but he did not do so, and he actually routinely refused to take the Allopathic medicines that were prescribed. He also did not take any of the Ayurvedic medicines that were tested in recent studies and found to have slightly elevated cadmium levels. During his last 18 months, Srila Prabhupada took only a few Ayurvedic medicines.
(1) He took Yogendra Ras (which has mercury as an essential ingredient) until Nov. 1976, and then again in April-June 1977 for 2 months. But the mercury in all of Srila Prabhupada’s hair tests were NORMAL.
(2) In March 1977 Srila Prabhupada briefly took some Somara-rasayana, which has no heavy metals as ingredients.
(3) Before March 1977, he took no Ayurvedic medicines except Yogendra Ras. Hair Sample D with 19.9 ppm cadmium (300 X normal) was cut around March 8 and reflects his blood contents for the prior month, when very little (if any) Ayurvedic medicines were taken. Thus, Sample D rules out Ayurvedic medicines being the source of his ultra-high cadmium. And after
March 1977 he took Allopathic or Ayurvedic medicines only for very short periods (if he took them at all).
(4) On Oct. 25-26, 1977 Srila Prabhupada took only 2-3 doses of Makharadhvaja, which cannot possibly explain the cadmium found in Srila Prabhupada’s hair samples that were cut from mid-Nov. 1976 until early Sept. 1977 (Samples, D, A, Q-2). The Makhradhvaja was taken AFTER these hair samples were cut.
(5) Further, the GBC tested Srila Prabhupada’s leftover Makharadhvaja medicine on Jan. 6, 2000 and it had no cadmium and normal mercury. The GBC agent Balavanta das also tested, on Feb. 11, 1998, Srila Prabhupada’s leftover Yogendra Ras from April 1977, and it had no cadmium or arsenic, and normal mercury.
(6) Srila Prabhupada, according to his personal servant, sometimes took Triphala Churna (laxative) or Lavan Bhaskar (black salt for digestion).
It is simply preposterous, ridiculous, and scientifically untenable to imply that modern day, slightly cadmium-elevated medicines could explain Srila Prabhupada’s lethal cadmium levels in 1977 when he hardly took any of these medicines. If any of these medicines could result in lethal levels of cadmium, millions of others would have become seriously ill or died over the prior centuries! Some Ayurvedic medicines have TRACE amounts of cadmium, 1000’s of times less than what Srila Prabhupada had in Samples D, A, Q-2, but this means nothing.
No Ayurvedic medicine contains cadmium as a deliberate ingredient, as cadmium has NO POSITIVE biological function, unlike arsenic or mercury, etc. Ayurvedic medicines in 1976-77 most likely were not tainted with impurities as they are nowadays. Recent studies on “possible health problems” caused by tainted medicines, ones not taken by Srila Prabhupada, does not explain his lethal cadmium poisoning. The Truth Labs 2024 forensic study/report confirmed it could only be due to an intentional, malicious, homicidal poisoning.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # TWO: SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS POISONED BY MUSTARD OIL, YAMUNA WATER, OR RICE
Mayeswara and his GBC handlers have continued to suggest many ways which “possibly” could explain Srila Prabhupada’s high cadmium levels, e.g., mustard seeds, the Yamuna, or rice!
REPLY: Mustard seed oil was used to massage Srila Prabhupada daily, including his head, so was this the cause of his lethal cadmium levels? Recent analyses have found very tiny trace amounts of cadmium in some mustard seeds and oils. But this feeble hypothesis is crazy- Srila Prabhupada’s masseurs (and millions of others) would have absorbed cadmium through their hands and food as well, and also died after a prolonged illness, but this is not the case. Mustard seed oil does not lead to lethal cadmium poisoning, and the trace amounts of cadmium in mustard seeds in modern times is not even causing any known illnesses. Massage oils are excluded as an external cadmium/arsenic source.
Hair dye, creams, sprays, and chemicals can cause external contamination and be adsorbed into hair. Therefore, the personal history and habits of a person should be known to rule out possible external hair contamination. But Srila Prabhupada did not use these items, and none of them could result in such high amounts of cadmium as was found in his hair. The cadmium source was NOT exogenous, but endogenous, and it was assimilated internally from the blood.
In Mayeswara’s book Deception, p. 37, he quotes from a 2001 Hair Analysis Panel Discussion to insinuate that Srila Prabhupada’s ultra-high cadmium could have come from exogenous sources, namely air dust, shampoo, massage oil, or anything external. However, the problem of external sources contaminating hair and thus getting a false does not apply here because Srila Prabhupada’s cadmium levels were far higher than what any known external source of contamination can produce. That Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 hair had 250 X normal cadmium levels, conclusively rules out any plausible external contamination. Also Dr. Morris examined the hair samples before testing under a high-powered microscope and found no significant external contamination.
All suggestions that Srila Prabhupada’s ultra-high cadmium levels came from slightly tainted medicines, massage oils, rice, shampoo, air, dust, smoke, pesticides, food, etc- are fatally
faulty. Trace contaminations can never result in 250 X normal. Do the math. It is not possible. And where are the other victims besides Srila Prabhupada? Some are even saying that since most rice is now found to have slightly elevated levels of cadmium, that this could explain Srila Prabhupada’s cadmium levels, while ignoring that slightly elevated is not lethal.
In 2017 the GBC/Mayeswara struggled to explain the contamination of the Yamuna River, where Srila Prabhupada bathed once in 1976, as the source of arsenic and cadmium. Preposterous! It is scientifically impossible that Srila Prabhupada’s cadmium levels are due to these things.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # THREE: SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS POISONED BY THE WATER HE DRANK IN INDIA
REPLY: The GBC book Not That I Am Poisoned proposes that Srila Prabhupada’s elevated arsenic levels came from the water he drank while staying in India, where there is an environmental health crisis due to machine-dug, deep-bore water wells made years after Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 passing away. He could not drink water from wells that did not yet exist! Further, in 1998 the GBC (Balavanta das) tested the water sources from which he drank in 1977, in Vrindaban and Mayapur, and they were found to have normal arsenic levels. Thus, this “water theory” was debunked.
Also, in 2004 Dr. J S Morris at MURR tested a container of Srila Prabhupada’s “last drinking water,” saved as a sacred relic since 1977, and it was found to have normal levels of arsenic (20.28 ppB), cadmium (3.71 ppB), and antimony (1.23 ppB). It is impossible, from these levels, to accumulate, even in 100 years, the levels that Srila Prabhupada had in his hair.
Srila Prabhupada’s heavy metals levels did not come from the water in India.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # FOUR: SRILA PRABHUPADA’S CADMIUM LEVELS CAME FROM THE HAIRCLIPPERS OR ITS OIL
Anticipating this claim, as has been made by Mayeswara and his GBC sponsors, Balavanta thought maybe Srila Prabhupada’s Wahl hairclipper lubricating oil contained arsenic. In Feb. 1999 he called Exxon (USA) and received a Material Safety Data Sheet on petroleum lubricating oils with their ingredients, which were absent any significant arsenic.
“Not expected to be harmful to internal organs if absorbed through the skin. Ingestion: Not expected to be harmful if swallowed. Inhalation: Not expected to be harmful if inhaled. Contains a petroleum-based mineral oil.” The Material Safety Data Sheet (Chevron) for Wahl Clipper Oil is found at: https://northamerica.covetrus.com/content/sds/022573.pdf No safety problems!
And a test by the GBC in 1999 at Scientific Services, a health services department of the Queensland, Australia government, on a sample of Wahl hairclipper oil was found to have NO significant arsenic. The Wahl clipper oil was not specifically tested for cadmium, but it is obvious that if, over the course of the last century, any widely used item/product (such as drinking water, food, jewelry, clothing) had lethal amounts of cadmium (or anything else), it would quickly become known.
No scientific study was found where victims of cadmium poisoning had over 2 ppm in their hair. Even in cases of serious industrial cadmium pollution, average hair levels were only 0.387 ppm, one-fortieth of Srila Prabhupada’s 1977 average 15.73 ppm. Srila Prabhupada’s pre-1977 hair Samples ND-2 and J had normal cadmium and arsenic, and they were exposed to the same clipper oil and massage oil as Samples A, D, and Q-2 that had lethal cadmium levels.
Also, Srila Prabhupada’s hairclipper head was tested by Chemical Solutions Ltd in PA, USA (Feb. 8, 2008) for cadmium content and found to have 12 parts per Billion, which is infinitesimal, and cannot result in hair levels of a multiple of 1333 at 15.73 pp Million. Srila Prabhupada’s hair lethal levels of cadmium did not come from clipper oil or the clippers.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # FIVE: DR. MORRIS AND MURR MADE ERRORS AND ARE NOT HAIR TEST EXPERTS
It is untenable that Dr. Morris (MURR) made errors in Srila Prabhupada’s hair tests. He has done thousands of Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) tests on tiny samples over many decades, and this, in fact, is his professional expertise and in which he is superbly qualified. By thousands of unique tests, he has perfected and refined his techniques, improving to 95% accuracy. We can justifiably have millions of times more confidence in Dr. Morris’ results than in the dishonest,
fraudulent denials of Mayeswara-GBC (politically motivated to deny the “poison conspiracy”).
Dr. J S Morris, on the other hand, is an honest academic-scientist who has no ulterior motives. The forensic scientific breakthrough discovered “accidentally” by MURR (Missouri Univ. Research Reactor) reveals the truth about Srila Prabhupada’s final year. Neither the GBC nor Mayeswara ever arranged forensic tests of other Srila Prabhupada hair samples with any other laboratory. Actually, it was the GBC themselves who twice chose to send hair samples to MURR for testing in 1998-99, and when they did not like the results, they criticized Dr. Morris- MURR.
Dr. Morris has done extensive testing and academic research on archeological artifacts, such as Peruvian and Aztec mummies, being a pre-eminent expert on the testing for amounts of elements such as arsenic and cadmium in human tissue and hair. Dr. Morris is a world leader in NAA hair tests. He is an expert on normal and abnormal levels of the same, regardless of Mayeswara blathering that Dr. Morris did not know how to do proper NAA tests. What is Mayeswara’s qualification to propose such ideas?
Dr. Morris did three separate hair tests wherein he found sky-high cadmium levels in Samples A, D, and Q-2, all similarly elevated in cadmium. He did not make the same miscalculation three times over a 3-year period, when he did numerous other NAA tests and by which he would have improved his testing regime. On each of his six tests on Srila Prabhupada hair samples, he refreshed his testing calibrations and calculations, coming up with similarly elevated levels of cadmium three times as well as similar levels of arsenic, antimony, and mercury. Six tests, 4 elements, 22 values without contradictions. This consistency and cross- correlation between the three cadmium tests, one arsenic test, and two normal pre-1977 hair tests validate his findings as accurate and reliable.
Dr. Morris’s findings are not to be taken lightly or easily dismissed. Dr. J. Steven Morris, at a high degree of professional scientific competence, followed rigorous procedure in his analysis and calculation of Srila Prabhupada’s hair samples. NAA is the best method for testing these samples. Srila Prabhupada’s hair contained about 250 X or 25,000% above average. False statements that Dr. Morris never tested hair before doing PTC’s tests, that he did not have at least 1 mg of sample weight as required for a successful test, and he did not use the correct testing method. (He is a better NAA expert than Dr. Morris?)
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # SIX: CADMIUM HAS NOT BEEN USED IN HOMICIDES, AND IS NOT SUITED FOR THIS
Mayeswara and the GBC insist the idea of homicidal cadmium poisoning is ludicrous because it was unknown in 1977 and there are no such cases on record. Both are untrue. Knowledge of heavy metal poisoning methodologies were readily available in 1977 in literatures and medical publications. The 1960’s discovery of Napoleon’s high arsenic levels in hair brought much attention to the subject of poisoning, such as in the 1972 book Who Poisoned Napoleon? From Toxicology of the Eye by WM Grant (1974): “Ingestion of cadmium salts has caused severe and sometimes fatal poisoning.”
Cadmium poisoning studies began with Friberg/1950, Bonnell/1955, and cadmium’s causing critical, life threatening kidney malfunction was well known in medical circles by 1977. Many scientific sources confirm cadmium is entirely suitable for homicidal poisoning and was well known as such before 1977. Well-known is Japan’s 1960’s “itai-itai” incident involving hundreds with industrial cadmium poisoning of rice fields.
There have been many cadmium homicides in the news, and apparently many by government agencies. Political assassinations worldwide are using cadmium as an ingredient, similar to Srila Prabhupada’s heavy metals cocktail which included arsenic and antimony. Using cadmium salts is very feasible as an effective masquerade poison. It only requires someone with a good chemistry knowledge. Bhakticharu Swami studied chemistry as his college study major. Any chemist knows cadmium’s suitability as a homicidal poison and that it causes symptoms that are difficult to recognize and are common to many ailments.
As for Mayeswara’s statements that cadmium is not easily available, a case study of a 17 year old girl who obtained toxic cadmium salts from her high school laboratory, shows cadmium is very easy to obtain. [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1340559/?page=1]
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # SEVEN: HIS WRONG DATA AND FALSE FACTS
Throughout his Deception book, Mayeswara continuously cites wrong data and false facts, left, right, and center. All his furious, inane attempts to “debunk” the “poison theory” are wrapped, adorned, and twisted with gross misinformation and one sees that he is a dishonest scroundrel and an enemy of truth. He suggests, “Dr. Morris was apparently savvy enough to
realize he was dealing with the most intoxicated members of the Goof Team…” who were smoking marijuana.
(1) Mayeswara mis-states that the “Poison in the milk” whisper comes 20 minutes after Srila Prabhupada drank milk when actually it comes 2 minutes before he drank milk.
(2) Mayeswara ridiculed Dr. Morris as having tested hair dust. However, all hair samples were sufficient for accurate NAA testing results and after testing, some samples were reduced to “dust.”
(3) Mayeswara stated: “To accuse anyone of conspiring to poison another human being with little more than rumors, controversial whispers, unconfirmed lab studies on suspicious evidence is so blatantly reckless that those who are not blinded by their own negative conditioning will be quick to dismiss this scandal.” This is a gross minimization and mischaracterization of the monumental solid evidence that has been confirmed by multiple leading forensic labs and experts.
(4) MAYA claims that cadmium poisoning is only possible by inhalation, but this is not true. Oral ingestion is the obvious route for intentional cadmium poisoning. A cadmium salt, such as cadmium chloride, would be used, which is water soluble, odorless, colorless, and tasteless.
(5) Mayeswara stated: “Cadmium ingested via the mouth is passed out of the body without being absorbed.” But this refers to the rare and unstable metallic form of pure cadmium, and is false anyway. Cadmium chemicals are the obvious way to poison someone, and are readily absorbed in the gut; a few grams are lethal. Mayeswara is a master of deception.
(6) Mayeswara stated: “Truth is the coroner diagnosed the cause of death as kidney problems due to diabetes.” But this is Untrue. There was no Vrindaban coroner or autopsy or doctor report for Srila Prabhupada’s passing away, and no blood or urine lab test results exist today, nor are any other specific lab tests remembered by anyone. The cause of death can be asserted only from the hair tests.
(7) On p. 34 of Deception, Mayeswara again made false accusations, accompanied by a silly cartoon, saying Dr. Morris needed “at least 1 mg… but could only find of hair dust.” But Dr. Morris very accurately tested 0.00012 grams of actual hair pieces, after which the hair was reduced to radioactive “dust.” He did not test hair dust. Such blatant dishonesty by Mayeswara.
(8) Mayeswara claimed that ICP-MS testing methodology is far better than NAA and Dr. Morris used the wrong testing method on the hair samples, but this is scientifically false-another ridiculous faultfinding exercise. NAA is best and can test much smaller quantities than ICP-MS.
(9) On p. 33 Mayeswara fussed how sometimes hair tests finding near-normal levels of cadmium will not accurately reflect the actual body burden of cadmium. Actually, there are TEN EXPERT OPINIONS which make it very clear that 250 X normal is lethal and “prima facie evidence of poisoning with malicious intent.” The science of hair analysis is highly advanced and reliable. Total body burden? We need only know how elevated and lethal is 15.73 ppm cadmium.
(10) Mayeswara puts stuff together that sounds good to himself but is bad science: “Another less often used NAA reason for studying hair forensics is to confirm the identity of a crime suspect by comparing samples of his hair to a strand of hair found at a crime scene.” (P. 35) But this is false- it is DNA testing (not NAA) that determines the identity of a person.
(11) Mayeswara complained that the GBC’s Wisconsin hair samples sent to Dr. Morris were “stolen,” and therefore the tests are questionable. However, the GBC stated: “We will fully cooperate by providing full details of the specimens, which are already at a lab in the US, and what were their origins. If there are some who feel strongly that this investigation should be done, then they are more than welcome to come forward and meet the costs associated with it.” Those who completed the GBC hair tests and paid for them did not steal, see, or touch these hair samples which have scientifically, irrefutably proven Srila Prabhupada’s homicidal, lethal poisoning.
(12) Mayeswara contended cadmium poisoning is “just too unpredictable, complicated, risky, and unreliable” and that cadmium always accumulates in the body slowly over years and that large amounts of cadmium will simply pass through without being absorbed into the blood. But this is all scientifically false. A tiny bit of cadmium chloride can quickly end someone’s life.
(13) Mayeswara stated that Srila Prabhupada’s levels of cadmium were “impossible.” But these levels are a fact established by advanced science, whereas Mayeswara’s pseudo-science is faulty, biased, and misinterpreted with his agenda to deny the “poison theory.” He did no scientific tests which disprove the poisoning. He only creates doubts via his deceptive word games and lies.
(14) Mayeswara speculated that Srila Prabhupada, having ingested or absorbed cadmium tainted mustard seeds and oil all his life, became immune to cadmium, even though he had high levels of cadmium and he really died from causes other than cadmium. [?] Then he accepts Dr. Morris’ test results after all? This contradicts his previous assertions! But there are no case studies of 250 X normal cadmium due to mustard seeds? He is desperate, flip-flopping, confusing.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # EIGHT: HIS OFF-THE-WALL CONCLUSIONS, OMISSIONS
(1) Mayeswara stated that since many devotees ate Srila Prabhupada’s maha prasadam in 1977 and they did not become ill, therefore Srila Prabhupada was not poisoned. But this proves nothing and assumes that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned via the prasadam that was then distributed to others. But there were many possible avenues for administering poison, perhaps only once a month or in drinks which were not distributed. Any poisoner would know not to poison others as well.
(2) Mayeswara omitted from his book Tamal’s mercy killing interview, most of Srila Prabhupada poisoning statements, and the extensive conversation by the caretakers with Srila Prabhupada acknowledging Srila Prabhupada’s homicidal poisoning. Selective and deceptive!
(3) Mayeswara’s film included a clip from Primeau Audio Forensics on how whispers are often misinterpreted by what the listener wants to hear, and so a forensic analysis is recommended, and yet he did not have that (nor any) firm analyze the poison whispers!
(4) Mayeswara stated that the caretakers would not talk and whisper about poisoning if they knew they were being taped, and that this was a contradiction proving they did not do so. He dismisses the “poison theory” because poisoners would never be so dumb to be recorded speaking about their crime. Well, obviously, since forensic studies have verified the poison whispers, it appears they thought the tape recorder could not pick up background whispering? And concern over being heard is exactly why they whispered rather than talk out loud about poisoning.
(5) Mayeswara stated:“Those seeking vengeance for all the past transgressions feeling compelled to stop the GBC Kings. To do so they cleverly devised the ‘Who Poisoned Prabhupada’ conspiracy knowing that it would have far more disruptive consequences than just introducing some new philosophical controversy.” I.e., “poison theorists” concocted something out of nothing due of malice. (?) This is standard propaganda methodology: to attribute a nefarious motive to the adversary and that it is not the evidence that matters, but the messenger’s hidden motives. But the evidence that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned was not “created,” it was discovered and verified.
(6) “To suggest that Srila Prabhupada felt like he was being poisoned by his most trusted men implies that he didn’t even have enough common sense to immediately send anyone away he did not trust. …he could summon mystic powers and know who was betraying him, as Jesus knew it was Judas. Yet, we would then have to assume Srila Prabhupada just went along with it? Why would he do that? If Srila Prabhupada knew he was being poisoned, he was empowered with divine wisdom, and certainly could have outsmarted his envious disciples. Srila Prabhupada is offensively portrayed like a confused martyr, who was willing to sacrifice his own life because he was so tolerant, compassionate…” (Deception, p. 15-16) Mayeswara’s errant philosophical interpretation negates the possibility of Srila Prabhupada being poisoned? This is a common objection, that Srila Prabhupada would have saved himself and stopped the poisoners. Yet Jesus did not protest his crucifixion, and carried his cross up to Calvary. Christ could have used mystic powers to save himself, but did not. Did Haridas Thakur stop the soldiers from whipping him? And what of Prahlad or Mirabhai? Yes, the pure devotee has inconceivable mercy and tolerance.
(7) Mayeswara takes (p. 36) a potshot at Dr. Morris: “With all due respect to Dr. Steve Morris and his Hyperpure Dermanium Generator Detector at the University of Missouri, he simply isn’t an expert in the field of toxicology.” But Dr. Morris did not make a toxicological evaluation of the cadmium findings (though he is fully qualified to do so). Where are the denier’s own experts on 250 X normal average hair cadmium? He has none. Instead, he concocts fake faults.
(8) Mayeswara stated (p. 69): “If this were heard by a trial jury, the prosecuting attorney would have to explain with great detail where the poison was acquired, who obtained it and how they learned to administer it.” (Actually, the hair tests are court-quality proof of the poisoning and who did it is a separate case.) He ridiculed the idea of cadmium poisoning as “complicated” and “difficult.” But cadmium chloride is easy to obtain and can easily taint food or drink. Maybe
Chandra Swami gave advice; maybe someone studied chemistry; there are many possibilities. But the hair tests prove that a lethal poisoning took place – and now we should find who did it.
(9) Mayeswara insists: “This poison conspiracy has caused so much alienation, hurt, resentment, and chaos in all branches of the Vaishnava community, and this rumor has been so disruptive to Lord Chaitanya’s movement.” Well, truth sometimes hurts, but ultimately it heals, and honesty is the right path. We should not hide from or fear the truth. We must use our God-given intelligence to ascertain truth, regardless what others believe. The world is full of lies; the GBC/gurus have cheated us time and again. Study the facts and evidence and judge for ourselves.
(10) Mayeswara stated: “The fact that the hair samples, which changed hands many times, were not stored in a clean, controlled environment and could have even been stolen and replaced with other hairs by a zealot disciple, are all possible.” This is false. The hair samples’ chain of custody was impeccable, fully documented, and the GBC had custody throughout- Dr. Morris was engaged by the GBC’s Balavanta. All his doubt mongering is dishonest deception and baseless exaggeration. Why did Mayeswara nor the GBC do any new hair tests and instead just disparage the ones done by Dr. Morris? Further, there is so much other evidence besides the hair tests.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # NINE: CADMIUM IS NOT A VIABLE WAY TO POISON SOMEONE
Mayeswara and the GBC engaged Dr. VV Pillay, a poisons expert in south India, who was paid only $200, but from his comments on video it is obvious that he was grossly misinformed about the case and the actual evidence, which he should make sure about before making comments. Dr. Pillay repeated the same things over and over, ad hoc… Embarrassing. He made two faulty assumptions and then criticized the diagnosis of lethal cadmium poisoning:
(1) That the poisoning was done via pure metallic cadmium, which has a metallic taste, and this would be noticed by a victim, and so therefore the idea of cadmium poisoning is silly.
(2) That it was an acute lethal dose of cadmium, which produces extreme gastrointestinal distress, nausea, vomiting, pain, diarrhea, and so therefore it would have been easily discovered.
Thus, Dr. Pillay dismissed the notion of any cadmium poisoning, saying that “the symptoms of cadmium poisoning would be so obvious that even an average clinician would immediately detect it… No, it would be impossible. Much before such levels accumulate, the person concerned would be in severe health complications that would be apparent to all.”
Yet, Dr. Pillay did not address the obvious option of cadmium salts (chloride, sulfate, nitrate) which have no taste, smell or color, and would not be noticed. How can a “poison expert” not know this? Actually, Srila Prabhupada suffered greatly from stomach pain, especially during his periodic, serious health attacks in 1977. Both metal and salts cadmium poisoning causes stomach pain, nausea, anemia, no digestion. Cadmium poisoning is very difficult to recognize- many health conditions produce stomach pain and without specific tests for cadmium, the cause would look like diabetes, kidney disease, etc.
Dr. Pillay’s faulty arguments do not nullify the many Dr. Morris-MURR hair test results.
MAYESWARA’S MASSIVE MISINFORMATION # TEN: HIS MISINFORMATION AND QUALIFICATIONS ARE AN ISSUE
It should be noted that Mayeswara das was personally trained by Tamal Krishna Goswami and that he has arduously defended Tamal’s legacy and character. He also is a staunch defender of the ISKCON GBC’s policies and track record, and is a “company man.” Being loyal to a corrupted institutional leadership that has rendered ISKCON unrecognizable from what it was when Srila Prabhupada left it to us in 1977, he has become similarly corrupted. He is immersed in the same hypocrisy, word games, dishonesty, name-calling, and extreme bias as his superiors.This does not lend much credibility to his defense of the GBC’s poison, guru hoax, and child abuse cover-ups.
Mandapa das: “Mayeswara comes across as a nasty man full of hate and bias, who can hardly control himself. His denial project must have cost the GBC quite a few bucks. I had business dealings with him and […] I have little regard for him.”
Mayeswara has ridiculed Dr. Morris-MURR with insults and denigrations; he has labelled all “poison conspiracists” as emotionally damaged, sociopathic who have a deranged agenda for destruction of Lord Chaitanya’s movement. He has also advised that he knows better than Dr. Morris in how to properly conduct NAA testing, which he says is unable to do reliable hair tests.
Such audacity and preposterousness renders discussion with him useless, and Mayeswara invariably resorts to character assassination of “poison conspiracists” rather than address the defects in his facts and analyses. Bizarre, distasteful cartoons show Dr. Morris as a mad scientist
and “poison conspiracists” as Chicken Little or the Klux Klux Klan.
DHIRA GOVINDA DAS- ASSESSMENT: FROM HIS REVIEW OF MAYESWARA DAS’ BOOK DECEPTION
“I’ve several times read […] the section entitled What Was HDG Communicating, of your Deception. My conclusions of what Srila Prabhupada was expressing, in important ways, do not align with what you write. For example, you write (page 221), “Based on prior portions of this dialogue, BCS was confirming that Srila Prabhupada was still concerned that his disciples had misunderstood him and they might think he was accusing someone of poisoning him.”
“My understanding from several times reading Srila Prabhupada Conversations Vol. 36, […] Nov. 8, 1977, […] pages 354–372, and confirmed from listening to recordings […] of these conversations, is that Srila Prabhupada clearly was concerned, experiencing distress, that someone or perhaps more than one person, was giving him poison with murderous intent. [conversations about poisoning]
“I understand that there may be slightly different versions of the transcript. Notwithstanding that, for me it’s clear that several of those who are around Srila Prabhupada are clear that Srila Prabhupada is experiencing mental distress because he is concerned that someone is giving him poison with malicious intent.
“As far as the contention that Srila Prabhupada and those around him were only speaking and concerned about the sometimes-toxic effects of some medicines, that stance, for me, doesn’t at all hold up. I say that because in that same conversation they are speaking about a case of poisoning by murder, and previously they were speaking about a case of murder by poison of an acarya in a Sankaracarya math (Page 359- Tamal Krsna Goswami- “Jayapataka Maharaja was telling that one acarya, Sankaracarya, of the Sankaracarya line…he was poisoned to death…”
“So, Srila Prabhupada was expressing and concerned about being given poison with murderous intent, and those around him were clear about that. That is clear to me from reading Conversations with Srila Prabhupada, and from hearing audio recordings from Srila Prabhupada’s conversations from that time period. To me, the interpretations you give in your book, to a significant extent, sound and seem quite twisted, strained.
“Further, simple-minded as I may be, when I read, [in] Vol. 36 of Conversations, Tamal Krishna Maharaja say, “Srila Prabhupada, Sastriji says that there must be some truth to it if you say that. So who is it that has poisoned?”- my understanding is that Tamal Krishna, at this time, is clear that someone has attempted or is attempting, to give poison to Srila Prabhupada, with homicidal intent; or at least, Tamal Krishna Gosvami is clear that Srila Prabhupada clearly believes or at least is concerned, that someone is giving to him (Srila Prabhupada), or has given to him, poison with murderous intent. “Tamal Krishna Gosvami isn’t asking whether someone has poisoned Srila Prabhupada. He is asking, “who is it that has poisoned.” Thus, for Tamal Krishna Gosvami, the question of whether Srila Prabhupada was poisoned, or at least whether Srila Prabhupada thinks that someone has been giving him poison, is already decided in the affirmative. That’s my assessment…”
(emphases added)
