(Trigger warning: child abuse)
I have been making a concerted effort to not allow the known, violent abuser of children Dhanurdhara Swami ruin my experience of Vrindavan.
Yet, I literally have to cross his path, just a stones throw from where he committed atrocities against innocent children, as he comes to MVT regularly to eat and cultivate his followers. Every single time I come to Vrindavan, I have to face the horrific history that he created here!
I know boys (who are now men) who have permanent hearing damage from the blows to their heads & eardrums. When their beatings were too visible, he consciously held the boys back from the temple morning programs. When boys reached out for help through letters to their parents, all communications were censored and punished!
Within an atmosphere of terror, he forced boys to finish all their food, and if they vomited as a result, they were forced to eat their own vomit from the floor! These are just a few stories that have all been testified to repeatedly!
Within his reign of terror as the head administrator, Dhanurdar maintained teachers who would also beat the children, not simply “corporal punishment”... heavy-handed, angry beatings that have lead to permanent physical and psychological damage. He allowed pedophiles to beat and rape the boys. Negligence of authority doesn’t even come close to covering it!
Most of his victims have spiritual scars also that prevent them from returning to this special pilgrimage place of Krishna, due to the life-long trauma inflicted upon them. Until they can return, justice has never been served.
NOW! Dhanurdhar wants to be reinstated into ISKCON! The entire GBC: Governing Body Commission Of Srila Prabhupada, are voting on this now on this topic in Mayapur.
He has never shown remorse and continues to initiate “disciples” and walk around in the sacred saffron robes of a sannyasi, while a number of his victims have committed suicide, others are lost in many ways. And we are left with a society that has normalized, minimized and silenced the abuse culture that Dhanurdhar represents.
Those who follow him have to choose willful ignorance, cognitive dissonance, denial of facts OR lose faith in this path. I urge the MVT Guesthouse & Restaurant & MVT Restaurant to follow existing ISKCON laws that ban him from Srila Prabhupad’s society.
I urge the Governing Body Commission to uphold their existing laws to continue an effort of healing and reparations for those who have suffered.
I have been pausing on public comments about this, in hopes to more officially contact the MVT Trustees, but this current vote in Mayapur is urgent and currently relevant.
Please contact your local GBC, share and inform publicly and remain informed as compassionate to those who have suffered from his torment.
Thank you
Most of his victims have spiritual scars also that prevent them from returning to this special pilgrimage place of Krishna, due to the life-long trauma inflicted upon them. Until they can return, justice has never been served.
NOW! Dhanurdhar wants to be reinstated into ISKCON! The entire GBC: Governing Body Commission Of Srila Prabhupada, are voting on this now on this topic in Mayapur.
He has never shown remorse and continues to initiate “disciples” and walk around in the sacred saffron robes of a sannyasi, while a number of his victims have committed suicide, others are lost in many ways. And we are left with a society that has normalized, minimized and silenced the abuse culture that Dhanurdhar represents.
Those who follow him have to choose willful ignorance, cognitive dissonance, denial of facts OR lose faith in this path. I urge the MVT Guesthouse & Restaurant & MVT Restaurant to follow existing ISKCON laws that ban him from Srila Prabhupad’s society.
I urge the Governing Body Commission to uphold their existing laws to continue an effort of healing and reparations for those who have suffered.
I have been pausing on public comments about this, in hopes to more officially contact the MVT Trustees, but this current vote in Mayapur is urgent and currently relevant.
Please contact your local GBC, share and inform publicly and remain informed as compassionate to those who have suffered from his torment.
Thank you
[PADA: It is amazing that after so many ex-gurukulis reported so many crimes against them being done in the Dhanurdar program, that this fellow is allowed anywhere near ISKCON. Don't the GBC folks realize how much grief and re-victimization of victims is going on here? And victims have even been committing suicide -- and then we just keep pushing the same persons who caused the victim's suicide process forward as our big ISKCON leaders if not gurus? Why was this guy never charged with any crimes by the GBC leaders?
One ex-kuli saw Dhanurdar strutting around the LA temple, and he went home and hung himself in a suicide. That is the guy you guys want to have hanging around ISKCON, while our folks are being banned?
Never mind also ISKCON was sued for $400,00,000 from the abuse, and we still let the people who co-created these problems to mill around, if not re-enter into the society, if not act as gurus? And what about the victims who see Dhanurdar and it gives them PTSD symptoms? And what about the mass alienation of the ISKCON youth this process is causing? The people who bankrupted the society are welcome, we dissenters who tried to save the society and save the victims, are not welcome?
One ex-kuli saw Dhanurdar strutting around the LA temple, and he went home and hung himself in a suicide. That is the guy you guys want to have hanging around ISKCON, while our folks are being banned?
Never mind also ISKCON was sued for $400,00,000 from the abuse, and we still let the people who co-created these problems to mill around, if not re-enter into the society, if not act as gurus? And what about the victims who see Dhanurdar and it gives them PTSD symptoms? And what about the mass alienation of the ISKCON youth this process is causing? The people who bankrupted the society are welcome, we dissenters who tried to save the society and save the victims, are not welcome?
Then again we have other GBC groupies like Krishna Kirtan / Pancali / Sanat / Mukunda / Prahlad / Dayalu Nitai's HKC Jaipur folks (harekrishnacommunity.org)
who said that PADA is bad to put a crimp in this process. They wanted the ongoing abuse and suicides to continue without us checking that process.
As soon as they found out hundreds of kids were being pulled out of the GBC's schools and the suicides were reducing, they wrote all sorts of propaganda about how they wanted to save their favorite abuse program by stopping PADA's efforts. They even wanted to have us banned from the internet, so their favorite child beaters could continue to be made into spiritual masters and worshiped authorities.
As soon as they found out hundreds of kids were being pulled out of the GBC's schools and the suicides were reducing, they wrote all sorts of propaganda about how they wanted to save their favorite abuse program by stopping PADA's efforts. They even wanted to have us banned from the internet, so their favorite child beaters could continue to be made into spiritual masters and worshiped authorities.
Then they even said that the followers of Radhanath are "the innocent," and they should not have to pay for the lawsuit. Right, they wanted to make sure that a program that hires hit men to kill devotees; that bans, beats, sues and assassinates devotees -- is well funded. And more recently that program was helping fund getting legal government burial permits to bury deviants in the dham. Oh no, there will not be enough money to bury pedophiles in the dham, I am crying already, gimmee a kleenex! Yep, if there is one thing the world needs, its to make sure there are funds to buy burial sites for pedophiles in the dham. Who knew!
I have to cry now, since there will maybe be a shortage of funds to ban, beat, sue, perhaps assassinate devotees, and to buy burial plots for deviants to be placed in a samadhi! And that is what the GBC and their pals are worried about? It is amazing to me how so many various GBC people and their groupies almost alway complain to PADA about how we are costing them MONEY, and that is their main concern, like they are going to shovel their gold shekels onto the angel's airplane that is taking them to heaven when they die?
In any case, the only good news is that more and more folks are waking up to what is going on here and they are writing more publicly, sharing info with others and so on. Yep, the conclusion is, the GBC are shameless, that is the growing consensus. Shastra says if we make the Vaishnavas unhappy, we make Vishnu unhappy. What happens when we make tens of thousands of Vaishnavas unhappy? And if Vishnu is not happy with someone, that someone is in deep doo doo, both figuratively and literally.
ys pd
I have to cry now, since there will maybe be a shortage of funds to ban, beat, sue, perhaps assassinate devotees, and to buy burial plots for deviants to be placed in a samadhi! And that is what the GBC and their pals are worried about? It is amazing to me how so many various GBC people and their groupies almost alway complain to PADA about how we are costing them MONEY, and that is their main concern, like they are going to shovel their gold shekels onto the angel's airplane that is taking them to heaven when they die?
In any case, the only good news is that more and more folks are waking up to what is going on here and they are writing more publicly, sharing info with others and so on. Yep, the conclusion is, the GBC are shameless, that is the growing consensus. Shastra says if we make the Vaishnavas unhappy, we make Vishnu unhappy. What happens when we make tens of thousands of Vaishnavas unhappy? And if Vishnu is not happy with someone, that someone is in deep doo doo, both figuratively and literally.
ys pd
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