FACTS
1. For over 350 years, between 1607 and 1965, demons thrived in the shadows of America. Few humans believed in them.
2. Srila Prabhupada was one of the gifted demon hunters of his day, and kept a secret journal about his lifelong war against them.
3. Rumors of the journal’s existence have long been a favorite topic among historians and Prabhupada biographers. Most dismiss it as myth.
A spiritual atmosphere can be maintained only by living in a society of devotees and by serving the orders of the acaryas. The spiritual master is the best brahmana. At present, in the age of Kali, it is very difficult to render service to the brahmana-kula, or the brahmana class. The difficulty, according to the Varaha Purana, is that demons, taking advantage of Kali-yuga, have taken birth…
—Srila Prabhupada
I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, “If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.” Just then the eclipse would start, and they’d probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.
—Jack Handey, from Deep Thoughts
I was still bleeding… my hands shaking. As far as I knew, he was still here watching me. Somewhere, across a vast gulf of space, a kirtan was going on. A sannyasi wearing a a gold rolex was speaking about renunciation of materialistic values as the path to God.
None of it mattered.
The laid out volumes in front of me were the only things now. The ten leather-bound books of varying size—each one a different shade of black or brown. Some merely old and worn. Others barely held together by their cracked covers, with pages that seemed like they’d crumble if turned by anything stronger than a breath. Beside them was a bundle of letters held tightly by a red rubber band. The only standout from these antiques was a single sheet of gleaming white paper. On one side, the names of eleven people I knew. No phone numbers. No e-mail. Just the addresses of eleven men, and a message scrawled at the bottom of the page.
Expecting You.
Somewhere that man was still speaking. Prabhupada… dharma… varnashrama.
I had been writing for a Blog for 4 years, living an ordinary simple life if looked at from a certain perspective, in an town that seems timeless in it’s unchanging way. Time seems to stand still here. Always having something interesting to do has that effect on people. Years pass by without barely a notice of time. Many times I wonder why I started and continue on with Blogging, it seems so much slower than the rest of my life, but the answer is always the same, and I feel stupid for even considering the question.
I’ve been jarred out of my routine once a day every year for the last 4 years. It happens during the same time as the annual Gaura Purnima festival and gathering of the tribes for Srila Prabhupada’s followers, during the months of Feb-Mar in Mayapur, West Bengal. Every year for the last four I’ve been sent messages by a person calling himself Lochan Das: Demon Killer. Weird. But I’m used to weird. How can I not be? Anyone connected with ISKCON or other Hindu cults, sects, or whatever you want to call Hindu religions, gets used to weirdness to the degree where often they start to see the outside world as weird, and they’re own carefully crafted insular culture as “normal.”
The messages from Lochan Das have always been essentially the same: always cryptic, always mentioning “The Illuminati.” Here’s the latest I received a week ago:
It is a fact however that the great sinister movement is within our Society.
[Srila Prabhupada Letter to: Hamsaduta 2 September, 1970]
Srila Prabhupada makes it clear there are evil elements, a cabal of demons, who have infiltrated his society. After the beginning of ISKCON the demons knew of Prabhupada’s potency to destroy them, they infiltrated our movement at that time.
The Illuminati pawns poisoned Prabhupada, then through mind-control and bribery, gained control over some of ISKCON’s leaders and installed them as absolute rulers over ISKCON, FORCIBLY TAKING THE CROWN FROM PRABHUPADA’S HEAD AND CROWNING THEMSELVES GODS ON EARTH.
Your Servant
Lochan Das: Demon Killer
Along with the correspondence, I receive strange looking medallions made of what appear to be silver. On one side is a crude engraving of a half-man, half-lion, and on the other is a series of letters in a language I don’t recognize—although it looks to be like a combination of an Indian dialect like Sanskrit, mixed with the cuneiform of ancient Babylon. The only difference between the medallions are the unreadable letters.
Of course I’ve heard of a Narasimha Kavacha, which is what these medallions appear to be, but the language is usually Sanskrit, which is not what appears on mine. Until recently I thought I wasn’t the type of person who believed in amulets that can ward off demons, nor did I consider myself the type of person to believe in “demons taking birth for evil deeds” conspiracy theories, like the one Prabhupada promoted. Nor did I think I was the type to believe in witches or warlocks, or the sinister all-controlling Illuminati, like I know many Gaudiya Vaishnavas believe in. But with all the events of the last few weeks, I have to confess, they were right.
To Be Cont…
