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Oct 2026•Documentary
POISONING OBJECTIONS ANSWERED
Deposition Summary
"Questions can be sent to Nityananda das at islandnitya@gmail.com"
Key Topics Covered
- 0:00 About cadmium as a poison
- 2:12 Short review of the evidence that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned homicidally with extreme levels of cadmium
- 13:45 COMMON OBJECTIONS TO THE “POISON THEORY”
- List of Objections:
- 17:09 (1). SRILA PRABHUPADA HAD BLOOD TESTS DONE IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1977, WHICH WOULD HAVE SHOWN POISONING IF IT WAS TRUE.
- 18:17 (2). CARETAKERS SUCH AS ABHIRAM WHO WERE WITH SRILA PRABHUPADA IN ‘77, HAVE SAID THAT THEY WOULD HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IF THERE WAS A POISONING.
- 19:25 (3). ONLY LOVING DISCIPLES SURROUNDED SRILA PRABHUPADA, SO HOW COULD THERE BE A POISONING?
- 20:15 (4). IF THERE IS NEW AND CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS POISONED, THEN TAKE IT TO THE POLICE AND AUTHORITIES, BUT DON’T BOTHER US.
- 21:42 (5). THIS POISON DISCUSSION WILL ONLY DISTURB DEVOTEES, SO WHY DISCUSS IT?
- 22:45 (6). THIS POISON ISSUE WAS ALREADY SETTLED YEARS AGO, SO WHY BRING IT UP AGAIN?
- 23:27 (7). IF HE WAS BEING POISONED, SRILA PRABHUPADA WOULD HAVE PUT AN END TO IT TO PROTECT HIS MOVEMENT.
- 24:18 (8). KRISHNA ALWAYS PROTECTS HIS PURE DEVOTEES LIKE PRAHLAD AND SRILA PRABHUPADA, SO THERE COULD BE NO POISONING.
- 25:30 (9). IF SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS POISONED 40 YEARS AGO, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE NOW?
- 27:15 (10). SRILA PRABHUPADA SAID, “NOT THAT I AM POISONED.”
- 28:31 (11). THE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT POISONING WAS JUST REFERRING TO SOME BAD MEDICINE.
- 29:21 (12). THIS POISON THEORY IS BLASPHEMOUS OF SENIOR DEVOTEES AND DEFAMES SRILA PRABHUPADA’S GLORIES.
- 30:19 (13). THE POISON THEORY IS JUST A RITVIK PLOT.
- 30:42 (14). SRILA PRABHUPADA WAS ALREADY OLD AND VERY ILL, SO WHY WOULD SOMEONE POISON HIM WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO DEPART ANYWAY?
- 31:42 (15). HAIR ANALYSIS IS NOT A RELIABLE SCIENCE FOR DETERMINING THE BODY BURDEN OF VARIOUS ELEMENTS.
- 33:19 (16). MAYBE SRILA PRABHUPADA ACCIDENTALLY INGESTED CADMIUM FROM AYURVEDIC MEDICINES OR OTHER NON-MALICIOUS SOURCES.
- 35:44 (17). THE PUBLICIZING OF SRILA PRABHUPADA’S POISONING WILL BE VERY DAMAGING TO THE PREACHING.
- 36:13 (18). HOW DO WE KNOW WHETHER SRILA PRABHUPADA ACTUALLY DIED FROM CADMIUM POISONING OR FROM SOMETHING ELSE?
- 37:02 (19). I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR ALL OF THIS. I’M TOO BUSY PREACHING, AND ACTUALLY SERVING SRILA PRABHUPADA’S MISSION.
- 37:55 (20). WE CANNOT TRUST THE CHAIN OF CUSTODY OF THE HAIR SAMPLES- MAYBE THEY WERE TAMPERED WITH, OR ARE NOT SRILA PRABHUPADA’S HAIR
