Sometimes it is said that the poison issue defames Srila Prabhupada and it is a disservice to him. But the discussion of the facts in Srila Prabhupada’s mysterious departure actually glorifies him and is a defamation of his poisoners. Srila Prabhupada knew he was being poisoned, and yet offered no protest, as seen in the tape-recorded conversations. This unselfish acceptance, without objection, of the betrayal and violence that was inflicted on him is a wonderful display of His Divine Grace’s transcendental glories. This is comparable to the acceptance of crucifixion by Jesus Christ, the unprotested flogging death of Haridas Thakur, and the poisoning of a submissive Prahlad by his demonic father. Just as one would study any other of Srila Prabhupada’s pivotal pastimes, such as his preaching about book distribution, his gurukula, his treatment of women, or his meeting with important guests, so we should also study his disappearance pastime.
The pure devotee’s pastimes are all transcendental and glorious, including his departure pastime, although they may evince different emotions. Srila Prabhupada showed the highest example of tolerance and mercy, even in the most trying and difficult circumstances imaginable. He stated several times he was being poisoned and yet he refused to name his poisoners. His only ambition was to deliver the science of pure Krishna consciousness for the benefit of those in Kali Yuga for the next ten thousand years, and he passively accepted his poisoning as a divine arrangement.
As Christians are not embarrassed by Christ’s gruesome crucifixion and murder, we should not be embarrassed by Srila Prabhupada’s departure pastime of tolerating a slow, terrible poisoning. This glorifies him as being a compassionate pure devotee coming to this hellish world, being tortured and “put to death” for being merciful to us. Srila Prabhupada told us that Christianity spread all over the world due to the drama of the Christ’s crucifixion. May Srila Prabhupada’s teachings also spread all over the world and may he be worshipped more widely than Lord Jesus Christ. Actually, there is a strong case that Srila Prabhupada is (or is like) the “Second Coming of the Messiah.”
Although during Srila Prabhupada’s manifest presence many devotees understood Srila Prabhupada’s highly exalted stature and his indispensable essentiality for success in their spiritual lives, today, decades later, that same “Prabhupada consciousness” has been largely obscured. Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental glories have been covered by imitators exploiting Srila Prabhupada’s mission for their own self-gratification. Many volumes will be written in the future about this history. ISKCON, presumably the destined main branch of the manifest tree of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, must keep Srila Prabhupada, Jagat-Acharya for the Golden Age, always available and worshipped as the shaktavesha avatar of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, the original Jagat Guru.
The updated, complete, honest, and unbiased analysis of the scientific evidence that Srila Prabhupada was homicidally poisoned with lethal levels of cadmium in 1977 is now available in a Sept. 2024 forensic report by Truth Labs, four years in the making and commissioned by the Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation. We should not be complacent about the physical attack against our spiritual master; his poisoning must be fully investigated and his spiritual mission cleansed of the insidious deviations introduced by his poisoners and their abettors.
A mountain of evidence irrefutably confirms Srila Prabhupada endured lethal levels of heavy metals poisoning for at least 10 months in 1977. This was established by a series of NAA forensic hair tests done in 2002-05. ISKCON has denied all the evidence, making a mockery of their “leadership,” because it threatens their regime- the truth is sacrificed for their political expediencies and status quo. In summary, there is the well-known quote from Dresden James (1931-2008):
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
