Patita Uddharana Wants His Article "Taken Down" (ISKCON)

 Patita Uddharana Wants His Article "Taken Down" 

http://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2021/04/patita-uddharana-das-writes-leaving.html

PADA: Yes, he is thinking his article will: put him in the limelight; make him look bad in the devotee public; he will be criticized; he will offend someone etc. The article was meant as "reflection only," and was not meant for public consumption, whatever that means. 

So this has been a big problem, especially if we multiply this effect by thousands and thousands of Srila Prabhupada disciples -- who never said much in public arenas, much less wrote anything about anything publicly. They just let the GBC's version of events win by default without them protesting.  

Notice: If Srila Prabhupada's, ISKCON's and Krishna's names "look bad in public," so what who cares? "My name" cannot look bad and be in the negative limelight, but if Krishna's name is cast in a negative limelight -- who gives a hoot? Yup, that has been problem number one. A devotee of Krishna is supposed to defend the name of Krishna, or guess what -- he is not really a devotee of Krishna.

Krishna's name can be dragged into the mud of all sorts of public media scandals, court cases, police raids, and who knows what else. And if "Krishna's children" of ISKCON are being molested, we cannot report that to the police because then -- we will look bad. OK really, we do not care enough about Krishna's children to take action to protect them. 

We care more about ourselves, and making false propaganda and illusory images of ourselves and our Church. To the peril of the children. And ex-children have told me that -- they (leaders and many parents) have been more worried about themselves -- and their own looking bad -- than being worried about us, their own children. In sum, they are worried about themselves and their own image mainly, even if the image of themselves is simply a phantasmagoria illusion. "We are great devotees of God, which is why we are allowing His church to fall into the sewer." 

Ummm, but if we allow mass molesting to go on left, right and center, then the inevitable suicides of victims and mass molesting lawsuits will not make us look bad? How is that going to work? No, Krishna's name, Krishna's movement, Krishna's kids, these have to be protected or else -- we are not actually His devotees.

That will not only make us look bad, but also Krishna look bad, because we are supposed to be His agents. Bad, but also diabolically bad.

So that reminds me of the story I have told a number of times. A devotee was chastising me for trying to take action against the evils growing in ISKCON by his telling me -- I do not have faith in Krishna. Don't you know? Krishna is going to take care of all this. Just then, his child ran in the door with a big dog stools stuck on his shoes, which was being dragged into the carpet. This devotee started screaming at the child, get back outside!

But wait? I said prabhu, you have no faith in Krishna? He is going to be driving up here soon with His carpet cleaning truck to clean your carpet. You need to have faith! Same thing happened another time when me and another "Krishna will do everything" devotee were going down the freeway in the rain, and his front tire blew out. He pulled over cursing. He was also telling me Krishna would fix things, but evidently Krishna was not on hand to fix his flat tire? So we want Krishna to fix everything in His house, but we carefully take care of our own house? 

So it is a test. Krishna wants to see, are we going to clean up His Gundica Mandir, or are we going to sit back, drink a lassi while watching football on TV, and let Him clean up His own temple? So it seems evident to me, most people are more worried about their own house than Krishna's house. And worried about their own name being sullied, but not Krishna's etc.

Patita Uddharana is a prime example of how this process has gone on, and how it has had devastating consequences for Krishna's religion. I do not want my name cast in a bad limelight, but if Srila Prabhupada's, ISKCON's and Krishna's name are dragged into the mud, so what? Not my problem. 

OK you failed the first test. Do you want to serve Krishna, or serve -- "me, myself and I" -- and "my good name" etc.? Anyway, by allowing all this contamination to enter your religion, you ended up looking bad -- if not compromised with an illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's cult -- anyway. You failed to save anything, including your own good name. Your religion went down, and you who are compromisers went down with the ship. 

And there will be much future karma in store for people who do that. "My article was only for reflection" and not public. Well if you want to know how Krishna's name got to be badly reflected in public, go look in a mirror and see who compromised with the people who gave Krishna a bad name. ys pd