Hare Krisha Guru - the New Prajapati?

July 29, 2002
Tokyo, Japan

Japanese authorities have arrested an America man, J. Swami, who has been a guru in the Hare Krishna movement for the past several years, for multiple counts of bigamy.

The arrest was prompted by a civil class action paternity suit brought against the man by several hundred individuals that claim to have been fathered by him both in and out of wedlock. A spokeswoman for the Krishnas told reporters, 'He just had philosophical misunderstandings, that's all. He missed the point that our god Krishna could have sixteen thousand wives, but that such an activity is not bonafide for conditioned souls like us. As long as he keeps on chanting, he will overcome these anarthas.

Luckily he has amassed enough wealth to settle the pending litigation to everyone's satisfaction, and without any appreciable harm to the centers within his zone.' Criminal charges against Mr. Swami allege that he married over fifty different women in thirty different countries over a ten year period, and that he cleverly covered his tracks so that none of his wives would find out about any of the others. There was a break in the case when one of his illegitimate children had a DNA test done and started investigating the paternity of many of the other offspring of the man.