Hrdayananda Das Goswami (Howard Resnick) Comes Clean! (Sort of)

Hrdayananda Das Goswami: "If ISKCON spent as much on schools as it did on rituals and lavish pujas, our movement would probably be many, many miles farther down the road right now." - Hridayananda Goswami, July 2020

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GBC Strategic Planning Committee 

on child welfare

is investigating this matter.

Results to be announced in the year 2085  

PADA: Correct. The ISKCON GBC spent all sorts of money on their opulent "jet set lifestyle" guru process, while many of their subordinate gurukula children complained they were not getting proper food and basic supplies. Never mind -- there has ALSO been a problem of many reported cases of -- child abuse and molesting, as well as handing off known bogus people, sometimes sexual predators, sometimes known homosexuals, never mind also child beaters as their teachers and etc. 

To sum! The gurukula program was not managed and funded properly. Did I forget to mention -- many of these children were being forced to worship deviants as their messiahs? Did we forget to mention we alerted the leaders that there is a brewing crisis -- and we were booted out of the society?

Meanwhile, many of the big leaders did "manage things properly" to have a lot of funds from the ISKCON society for their personal opulent lifestyles. In short, the funds that were supposed to be used to facilitate the children was being evidently diverted to fund the opulent lives of some of these big leaders. 

And while some the ex-children in the Hrdayananda regime were struggling as young adults with troubles using basic spelling skills, Hrdayananda had meanwhile gone to Harvard to get a college degree. OK so he gets top notch education, the children, not so much. 

Never mind a number of children report having been forced to eat rotten moldy oatmeal in the Hrdayananda regime's "schools." However, there are ALSO many reports of these big gurus eating giant feasts -- while the children were being fed rotten food. Some children report they had stunted growth and rotten teeth from a lack of nutrition. Meanwhile gurus like Jayapataka were ballooning up to nearly 400 lbs. from eating, and eating, and eating, all day long.

Meanwhile, those of us who protested things like the child mistreatment process were banned, beaten, sued, and even assassinated. And thousands and thousands of Srila Prabhupada's original disciples had to be purged from ISKCON, to make way for this opulent jet set guru program. And in 1988 Lokanath swami asked, how did the temples become empty ghost towns? And Hrdayananda started "Krishna West" to sort of explain away why the temples are empty.

And then many of the children left ISKCON in disgust that a so-called spiritual society would treat them -- as one of them told me -- "as  Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners." Another one told me, ISKCON is like North Korea, the big fat cat leaders eat giant feasts, we have to round up some cock roaches to put into our grass and weeds soup. Some children told me, only psychopaths would treat children the way we were treated, and so on and so forth. So this was not some minor mismanagement problem, it was orchestrated exploiting / destruction of the lives of these children.

And then some of the victims were committing suicide. What kind of society drives its own children to depression, drugs, and suicide? And I believe one of the children of their regime's lawyer died of depression and a sort of slow motion suicide.

So the GBC was sued for $400,000,000 for child abuse. Srila Prabhupada says a devotee will feed all the living entities around his residence, including the snakes. These guys evidently did not even feed the ISKCON children properly. 

In sum this is a largely correct statement, i.e. most of the money went to establish mini-fiefdoms for a small group of "gurus." And they siphoned the lion's share of funds for their lavish poojas, nice cars, servants, private residences, feasts, salaries for their paid staff and so forth, all aimed at making an opulent life for a few elite leaders. This is a good admission, but its only scratching the surface of what really happened. ys pd

Sulochana said people like Bhakti Charu Swami are:

"The Velvet Glove That Covers the Iron Fist" 

M Dasi: Blocking our children from going to Krishna is most

obnoxious. These people are atma hana ... killers of the soul. 

The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance.