What About Abuse Suicides from ISKCON Australia?

PP DASI:

I'm posting this because it is shocking and news to me -- these deaths and details within. Jun 6, 2021, 1:49 PM 

Dear Prabhus.

Dandavats.

AGTSP.

With the recent expose of the cover up of Lokanatha Swami's sexual abuse of an 11 year old girl, some 30 years ago, devotees World wide have been enraged by the GBC, s lack of neglect of this abuse. But what is worse is the Cover up of Sexual abuse in the Australian yatra over the past 30 years.

2 ladies were sexually abused in Adelaide temple 30 years ago. One of the ladies was savagely raped by the Temple president Kripa Kara Prabhu. 

To this day, the Australian GBC has done nothing to resolve these cases. In fact thay have intimidated and bullied the victims.

2 years ago, a lady devotee was accosted by the VTP of Adelaide temple. ISKCON guru Devamrta's response was -- to create a fictitious lie about the incident, even telling the lady to change her story and that the incident was Consensual. He is now liable for criminal negligence.

I can't understand why so many ladies in Australia have not demanded his resignation for his abuse of this lady, and the fact that he has referred to all women as Toilet Seats. Another disturbing issue that has surfaced has been the tragic consequences of 5 ex Gurukulis who have committed suicide from here. All these boys attended the New Gov gurukla at the same time.

The same time that Gaura GOPAL, sexually abused 5 gurukla boys. Including my own step son. All this happened on Ramai Swami's watch, and he has never resolved the mess, and has never reached out to the victims, who are still traumatized.

Not to mention -- the many other abuse cases [where the ex-children are suffering from PTSD type symptoms, trauma, depression, anxiety and so many other negative emotions over all this. And they are having troubles moving on in their lives. And some of them have turned to drugs and self-abusive lifestyles as a result.] 

So speak out prabhus. Are you going to let all this abuse be swept under the bed, like so many other cases of complete defiance of Srila Prabhupadas instructions in the Australian zone. Or are you going to neglect the abuse by Ramai and Devamrta, as they sit proudly on the asanas in our temples.

NAME AND SHAME THEM.

NO MORE COVERING UP THEIR SO CALLED EXULTED POSITIONS.

In the name of Justice.

Ys. Sabhapati Das.

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P DASA:

Devamrta Swamis attack on Srila Prabhupadas books from his 2002 Vyasa Puja offering:

“During your physical presence your books were our be-all and end-all. Now, have we entered, consciously or unconsciously, a new era of ISKCON known as “PPB”—that is, ‘post–Prabhupada’s books’?” “More than a few seasoned devotees and supportive academics opine that indeed it’s time to move on.

Maybe, while maintaining our eternal gratitude to you, our founder-acarya, it’s now necessary to evaluate what you have left us and distill whatever part of that legacy should accompany us into the future of a different world and a different ISKCON.”

“Amidst the burgeoning potpourri of Gaudiya Vaisnavism outside of India, do you still assert that your books are sufficient for bringing us to the zenith of bhakti?”
“Can your books withstand time? That is, are the purports and language dated—if not now, then in the future?”

“Is emphasis on distributing your books, by whatever method, outmoded? Isn’t ISKCON without emphasis on mass distribution a breath of fresh air for us?”
“Should our senior devotees take the lead in demonstrating lifelong dependence on your books for their spiritual sustenance and delight? Is there a danger that by doing so they could inhibit their spiritual maturity?”

“Would we gain anything significant and lasting if ISKCON’s leaders, in both word and example, rallied to exalt your books as the main basis of our cultural unity?”

(Extracts from H.H. Devamrta Swami's 2002 Vyasa-Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada)

[PADA: This seems to be one of the biggest problems of modern ISKCON. Women and children are sometimes being sexual exploited -- and there seems to be little consequence for the perps. Of course many women were exploited as "samkirtan cash cows" and once they got older, they were sort of tossed to the wayside with little or no support in their elderly state. 

Some of the ex-samkirtan men in Europe reported to me recently the same thing, a number of them are now 60 years old and they are living in shoestring economic situations -- with no support.

If anything, there seems to be a sort of defense of the perps and attacks or demonizing of the victims. Demonizing the victims is what happens in sexual exploiting cults everywhere. Of course, anyone who advocates for the victims (like PADA) is also demonized, marginalized and so on.

Thus, it appears that there is a women exploiting and / or child molesting culture, protected by the leaders and their minions, and the enabling acquiescing general rank and file. Or what? It also seems as though the parents and care takers of ISKCON's molesting victims, rape victims, suicide victims etc. do not ever go to the authorities to have the perps -- or the leaders who enabled and protected the perps -- taken to task legally. 

So now we have former victims seeing these leaders -- still sitting in big seats -- being worshiped as good as God. Even children victims who commit suicide don't seem to have any subsequent advocates for justice on their case? Which is why one victim told PADA "we children are like cannon fodder, expendable collateral casualties. Our parents did nothing either."

What is wrong with this picture pilgrims? So the main problem seems to be: (A) bad leaders (B) an enabling and exploiting culture by the leader's second tier minions and (C) and acquiescing rank and file that allows all of this to go unchecked, by not reporting any of this to the authorities. 

Then we wonder why there is so much trauma in victims, even driving some of them to drugs, depression and suicide etc.? Some of the ex-victims here eat hamburgers, and they now want nothing to do with the Krishna religion, because they believe the religion is soft on pedophiles and criminals. How did they get that idea?

It should be self evident what is causing all this trauma, depression and suicide of victims -- there does not seem to be any realistic support system in place for the victims, but there is plenty of support for the leaders of this process, the perps, and their second tier "administration team" minions. So unless this pattern is changed, there seems to be no other means to address this other than, to expose it to save others from being victims. 

And someone from India wrote PADA to say, yep, the North America GBC said we need to get rid of Lokanath, but right after that -- now the NA GBC is pledging to raise $800,000 for India ISKCON, where Lokanath is one of their main messiahs. So the NA GBC is rewarding the people who make pedophiles into acharyas with a giant cash haul. So that means, it is more of the same pedophile guru protecting society and marginalizing the victims. Told ya!

So if we want to have an actual Krishna society, we have to follow the teachings of Krishna's Bhagavad Gita, and make war on evil people, and not be the acquiescing hand maidens of evil people. It really is that simple. And yep, this does beg the question, why is there such a culture of defense of evil in ISKCON, when that is diametrically opposed to the teachings of ISKCON? Does that not mean, the people in the institution, have no idea what the institution stands for? 

ys pd]