Kailasa Candra dasa

Kailasa Candra dasa (J. K. Goodwin) (born 9 January 1951) is a spiritual and occult teacher, sidereal astrologer, and author guiding a small number of students.[1][2] In 1972, he joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Madison, Wisconsin. After the disappearance of the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, he was one of the first reformers who battled against the "ISKCON" zonal acharyas in 1978 and 1979.[3][4][5] He is co-founder of the Vaishnava Foundation,[6][7][8] and, working out of the United States, remains an exponent of devotional teaching, opposing all the deviations that emerged within the Hare Krishna movement after the demise of its Founder-Acharya A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.[9][4][10]

Kailasa Candra dasa
Other namesJ.K. Goodwin, Mark Goodwin
Personal
Born (1951-01-09) 9 January 1951
United States
ReligionGaudiya Vaishnavism
Other namesJ.K. Goodwin, Mark Goodwin
Senior posting
PredecessorA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
InitiationHarer Nama--1972/Diksha--1974
Websitewww.therealexplanation.org

Biography

Born in early 1951, he was immediately put up for adoption and raised in Glenview, Illinois, as well as Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, by foster parents. He became sports editor of The Daily Cardinal while majoring in journalism at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the early 1970s.[2]

Joining the Hare Krishna movement in February, 1972, he received Harer Nama initiation from his guru, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in September, 1972 at the rural ISKCON compound just outside Moundsville, West Virginia and was given the spiritual name of Kailasa Candra dasa (hereinafter, Kailasa).[11] He secured brahminical initiation in July, 1974, while serving at the Evanston, Illinois temple. In the 1970s, Kailasa ran Midwest college preaching programs throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.[12][13]

Kailasa Candra dasa in 1980's

After the disappearance of the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, he was one of the first reformers who had battled against the "ISKCON" zonal acharyas in Vrindaban, India, in 1978 and 1979.[3][14] Asked by the leader of that reform group, Kailasa was the devotee who compiled a lengthy position paper against the zonal acharya system.[4] He was one of the first members to be excommunicated from the now changed "ISKCON" movement, and, in the 1979 "ISKCON" GBC resolution, all the "ISKCON" centers were warned about his activities.[15]

In the late spring of 1985, Kailasa was contacted by Sulochan dasa, who was in need of an editor for his tracts that were meant to be combined into an eventual book. Kailasa traveled with him throughout America in the fellow's converted van during the summer and early autumn of that year, completing editing that for his godbrother.[3] In May 1986, at the behalf of one of the “ISKCON” zonals, Kailasa's friend Sulochan was assassinated in Los Angeles while in his van.[16]

In January, 1988, Kailasa co-founded The Vaishnava Foundation in Sacramento, California.[6][7] He is the author of over one hundred articles published on the Vaishnava Foundation's websites, along with thirty video presentations.[17]

Philosophy / Thought

In Western Vaishnava circles, Kailasa is known as a staunch critic of corruption that emerged after his spiritual master's departure.[4][3] In the following quote, he depicts the importance of exposing such deviations: "Based in no small measure upon deductions rooted in Prabhupada's teachings, this document will work to concentrate the mind. The big lies will be broken down. Once you are awakened from their intoxicating influence, the dismantling of the bogus philosophies underpinning them will inexorably proceed via the domino effect. The psychic shackles will fall off, and you will experience a natural freedom of mind and intelligence conducive to the development of genuine Krishna consciousness."[18]

Bibliography

Publications

Vyasa Puja Homage (ISKCON Honolulu), 1975

Vyasa Puja Homage (ISKCON Honolulu), 1976

“On the Measure of Our Conviction” treatise, 1980

“Guru is Never Appointed” tract, 1981

“Overall Considerations of the Bona Fide Spiritual Master” tract, 1981

“Shastric Considerations Concerning the Monitor Guru” tract, 1981

“The Appointment That Never Was” tract, 1981

“The Spiritual Master Never Deviates from Shastra” tract,1981

“When You Hear Someone Say in the Following Way” tract, 1981

"On Sufficient Guidance" treatise, 1992

"The Positive Alternative" treatise, 1992

"The Proof Of One Tooth" treatise, 1998

"How The Impersonal Philosophy Can Stand?" treatise, 1998

"Myth of The 'Final Order'" treatise, 1998

"A Closer Look at Siksa-Guru" treatise, 2007

"To Expose the New Theory" treatise, 2008

"Srila Prabhupada Was Makara Lagna" treatise, 2009

"To Expose the New Theory" treatise, 2009

"GBC: The Gods Who Failed" treatise, 2010

"Boon-dog-ill: Beyond "ISKCON" Triumphalism" treatise, 2010

"A Closer Look at Siksa-Guru" treatise, 2011

Books

Reclaiming the Lost Tarot, (book), 2009; ISBN 978-1449564087

Advanced Primer of Sidereal Astrology, (book), 2009; ISBN 978-1448608690

Messages From Nostradamus Revealed, (book), 2009; ISBN 978-1448617920

Buddhi-yoga and System Ouspensky, (book), 2009; ISBN 978-1448608874

Tattva-viveka, (Sanskrit book), translation into English, 2011; ISBN 978-1463733513

Beyond Institutional Gurus, Initiations, And Party Men, (book), 2019; ISBN 978-1696849661

Editing work

Bryant, Steve: The Guru Business (self-published book) Editor, 1985

References/Notes
  1. Doktorski, Henry (January 8, 2018). Killing for Krishna: The Danger of Deranged Devotion. USA. p. 320. ISBN 154460727X.
  2. "BIOGRAPHY". The VAISHNAVA FOUNDATION. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  3. Doktorski, Henry (January 8, 2018). Killing for Krishna: The Danger of Deranged Devotion. USA. p. 34. ISBN 154460727X.
  4. Sun Editors (Oct 13, 2017). "Because I Never Factually Heard". Sampradaya Sun. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  5. Bhumi, Vraja. "MONSTER HOTEL- KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS or how I learned to stop worrying and love the new world order". Academia.edu. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  6. "METEMORPHOSIS LEAGUE FOR MONASTIC STUDIES: THE VAISHNAVA FOUNDATION, INC". Ca-registry. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  7. "Corporate ISKCON - Part 39". Sampradaya Sun. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  8. "Who We Are". Bhaktivedanta Climate Change Collaboration Group. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  9. Doktorski, Henry (January 8, 2018). Killing for Krishna: The Danger of Deranged Devotion. p. 65. ISBN 154460727X.
  10. "Who's on the Menu at the Hodge Podge Buffet?". Sampradaya Sun. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  11. "Srila Prabhupada Disciple Database". Krishna. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  12. Sheppard, Robert (November 9, 1973). "Eastern sects offer alternative to Christianity". THE DAILY ILLINI. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  13. "Love Feast: Feeding the corporeal body". THE DAILY ILLINI. May 10, 1974. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  14. Sun Editors. "Challenging the Zonal Acarya System". Sampradaya Sun. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  15. "GBC resolution 1979". Official website of the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  16. Doktorski, Henry (January 8, 2018). Killing for Krishna: The Danger of Deranged Devotion. pp. 318, 319. ISBN 154460727X.
  17. "The VAISHNAVA FOUNDATION". Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  18. "Everywhere the Followers Make the Whole Thing Bungled". The Vaishnava Foundation. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
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