https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-expenses-for-corbett-family-for-loks?
We are humbly requesting for help for the sudden tragic passing of my brother Lokanath / Lawrence Anderson.
He leaves behind his two kids -- Vrindavan and Ananda -- his only grandchild Lucas Gopal, his younger brothers Balarama and Srinama, his sister Krishnaya, his parents Vatsal and Shashikala and many aunties, uncles, nieces nephews.
We are requesting for for help with cremation costs, travel for family to attend -- and the rest will be going to his kids. This from our sister as we all try to make sense of this horrific act. My brother was the nicest guy, and there for anyone whether they deserved it or not.
From Krishnaya,
“When you see the news on TV of people dying, perhaps you feel sorry and a little sad, but it is nothing compared to the sadness experienced from a close relative being murdered 5 minutes away from your house. Today, I share that news with you. My uncle, Lokanath, was murdered today by gunshot sometime between 5-5:30 Pm EST on 05/01/2021. He wasn't shot to be injured, he was shot in the head, to be killed instantly.
"The person who shot him and has been arrested is named Dhruva. He has been living in the ISKCON community here in Sandy Ridge, NC for many years. Everyone here knows that Dhruva has mental problems, drinks, and does drugs.
He has a side which is tolerable and another side when he drinks, which is nasty and aggressive. But many people have pity on him because of his clever words and way of speaking and asking for forgiveness. A couple years ago, my uncle had kicked Dhruva out of his life and banned him from ever coming to his house.
But, apparently, because Dhruva was bowing down to Loks, touching his feet, and asking for forgiveness, Loks, being a compassionate person, accepted him back into his life. He accepted that person with open arms, that person who would later murder him; therefore robbing two people of a father, parents of a first-born son, brothers of their eldest brother, and nieces / nephews of an uncle.
There is no pain more agonizing than a loved one being murdered; not dying of illness, an accident, nor old age. He died because of another human's will for him not to live, not to exist on this earth. Yes, yes, many people can be like, "It's God's will ... it was meant to happen ... blah blah blah." For whatever reason it happened, at the end of the day, he was murdered for no substantial reason.
When a tragic event like this happens, being in that loved one's house, you expect them to drive up the driveway any moment, be sleeping in their bed, or walk through the front door. You see the breakfast they didn't finish that morning, their coat casually draped on the couch, their dirty clothes on the floor, and many similar things. I experienced this and even put on his coat, which was so big for me and smelled of cigarette smoke.
I know that his soul still exists and lives on, but that doesn't help the pain of knowing that I will never see his smile again, hear his funny singing, taste the amazing food he cooks, hear him talk about his time in gurukul, or be able to give him a hug. I can never hear the sound of his voice again and wonder how long I will even remember what it sounds like.
I had many talks with him and he always told me that if I ever needed a place to stay for any reason, I could always stay at his house. As a child, he was heavily abused in iskcon's gurukula system, but that never stopped him from loving Krishna nor keeping the framed picture on the wall of himself receiving a cookie from Srila Prabhupada. He was loving, kind, welcoming, friendly, compassionate, pure-hearted, humble, humorous, bright, and simply a good human being.
I loved him a lot and will miss him a ton! Please send prayers and love for my older brother, Vrindavan and my sister Ananda. They are left without any parent in their life now. I don't know how they will survive this tragedy.
Life is very fragile. We see news of people dying but we never feel that it will happen to our loved ones, nor ourselves. We are caught up in the rat race of making money -- but sometimes we forget to spend time with the people who matter the most in our lives. We must live our lives fully and happily, true happiness comes from people, not money. We must take the time to be with our loved ones because there is no guarantee that they will be there tomorrow, nor we.
Loks, you left me too soon, only at the age of 54. I didn't have any chance to say goodbye or see you one last time. You will forever be in my heart and I love you! I hope that Krishna is taking care of you and that you're in a better place. Much love, Krishnaya.”
[PADA: Very sad situation indeed. He was "heavily abused in the gurukula" -- and all that -- after Srila Prabhupada had given him a cookie and had high hopes for his life. The victimizing regime will have to pay dearly for the way these children of Krishna were treated.
Recently one of ISKCON's former youth was saying, "It is just finally dawning on me how much damage has been done to our generation of ISKCON children. It took me decades to realize just how bad our whole situation has been, and it has not improved for us much either. We still don't have much of anything to show for our being ISKCON's children. I have been living in denial. We were treated in a criminal manner -- and none of these criminals were ever prosecuted."
Another one said "It is obvious the ISKCON leaders are not taking responsibility for the disaster that they made for our lives. They are a law unto themselves, and they appear to not care one iota about even ordinary moral laws."
Also recently, another "crazy person" stabbed a devotee in Australia. And another gurukuli was stabbed -- almost to death -- "by a crazy person." OK maybe we should ask -- why ISKCON has attracted some of these crazy persons?
In the end, he has left all this mess behind. Krishna has a better plan for him, and he is moving into another BETTER situation where this birth here in a Krishna environment will propel him onto something more suitable to prosecute Krishna consciousness.
God speed spirit soul!
And if people want to help by donating funds for his family, that would be nice. Hopefully, some ISKCON leaders will pull their socks up and do something to help this family.
ys pd]
"OK maybe we should ask -- why ISKCON has attracted some of these crazy persons?"
ReplyDeleteGD: Since the past twenty years ISKCON is no longer able to recruit local devotees in NA and EU. They recruit poor, uneducated devotees from poor countries like Eastern Europe, South America, Cambodia and other developing countries. Devotees who first of all join ISKCON to improve their precarious material living condition. What the GBC does is to import these devotees to the empty temples in EU and NA. To make it look as if these temples are crowded with local devotees. There is of course no problem with imported devotees but in this case these imported devotees by the GBC cannot preach the ABC of Krishna consciousness. Their ambition is rather to find a job in the EU and NA. So naturally these kanisthas even fight when they get in contact with sincere devotees. GBC has no problem with this. They own the buildings and are satisfied. Somehow or other people still donate when visiting ISKCON temples. Occasionally they go out for harinam and make a photoshoot for social-media. Bas. Preaching of Lord Caitanya's Sankirtan movement is complete.
[PADA: Yep, we have had a bunch of Bengalis and people from Eastern Europe taking the post of temple poojaris here. They are importing poor and uneducated people as well. And they want the crazies from the USA so they can cash their Social Security checks and "donate to the temple." It is a business. Of course preaching that God's successors are often deviants, will make people go crazy if they are not already. ys pd]