Are ISKCON's Child Beaters "Going Home to God"?

 

CM DASA: It is painful for me and my fellow ex-gurukula ashram brothers to see ISKCON's Dandavats site publicly honoring Raghunath, ex Swami, who dished out some of the most extreme beatings experienced by students at the Vrindavan Gurukula. 

K DASA: He beat me so badly in gurukula, and many times. If you fell asleep during japa, he would punch you. Sometimes he would kick the young students or throw them against a hard pillar. He knocked out some gurukuli's teeth.

AC DASA: He took great pleasure torturing, bullying, and injuring little kids, sometimes for extended periods of time. He would lash out and seriously harm small children, but also he would take sadistic pleasure in carrying out long torture sessions while he watched their souls shrivel up and die. 

He was a demon, wrapped in a dhoti and mouthing some magic words he memorized, and suddenly everyone ignores how truly horrible a person he was.
Let's put it out there. He was a monster and the world is a better place with fewer like him in it.

SJ DASI: All I know about him is -- the sadistic, brutal, gruesome torture he inflicted on my gurukuli brothers. I’ve never met him but seeing his name and face causes me pain for the immense harm he inflicted on innocent children. It would have been better to have not mentioned him at all. Monsters don’t deserve a mention.

NS DASA: He was an exemplary role model for what not to be like, for the children of the Gurukula. He was extreme in his punishments. The above statements from other victims are accurate in describing his character (they've experienced it first hand, as have I and many others). The whole school knew of his over-zealous corporal punishments.

I'm sure you will all see more testament to his evil character as long as others see what glorification he is being given.

C DASI: I had always heard his name, from my gurukuli brothers ... and the vile, brutal beatings he would inflict on little children. So to make a post for "condolences" for the evil brutality he dished out is pouring salt the the wounds of my brothers. This monster does not deserve condolences.

M DASI: His grace?

B DASA: I knew him. He came to our group sometime like 1986 I’d guess. He stayed with me and did a program in this house I had. 

I have wondered what happened to him. Seemed like soon after he went back to Boston, where he was temple president, he disappeared. Regarding that, I do remember him talking about either his marriage that failed or his wife died very suddenly or something. Seemed he was lamenting that maybe he needed to be grihastha.

Anyway a few things I remember of him: (and I had no idea of his harsh child abuse stuff), one was -- he sent me a very big, i would call it almost a cake of sesame burfi prasadam, which was delicious. One morning we were up chanting as sun came up and he said, looking at. One of those red and orange sunrises, he said “Krishna is the greatest artist” -- first time I had heard such. 

Then last thing was kind of revealing in light of some stuff I read above … one morning i didn’t get up at 4:30 or whatever we were doing, and I awake with him standing right over me, inches away. I’m on the floor, and he made some snide remark. And like someone else said, he was very intelligent it seemed to me. Haribol. 

[PADA: First of all we need to study the shastra to determine a person's future situation. In the Srimad Bhagavatam we find that persons who punch or beat a Vaishnava have to go through the stone rollers in Yamaraja's planet, where the criminal beaters of devotees of God are squeezed between rotating stones -- until they are squished as flat as a pancake, and they have to go through that process repeatedly. 

What to speak then of a person who beats up defenseless Vaishnava children. 

So this guy is going into the stone rollers at Yamaraja's planet, for sure, but only as a starting point for the punishments he will have to endure, for probably millions of years. No one is allowed to attack the devotees of God, without getting severe wrath from God's agents. The agents of God have zero tolerance for Vaishnava beaters, never mind devotee children beaters.

So when these GBC guys say -- "Oh he is finally going back to Godhead now," they are foolish and misinformed. It was the same problem ISKCON has had with other child abusers being glorified.

Now some Lokanath people are still trying to convince me that the whole Lokanath molesting thing is a one time, one off, minor league incident. What about the evidently thousands of other kids who were mistreated under the jackboots of the Lokanath regime? How can we say a regime that mistreats numerous children is a "one time, one off" problem, when there are countless problems? 

Meanwhile we don't see Lokanath making amends to his apparently thousands of children victims -- and stepping down from a post of authority, where he was one of the head army generals in the "Auschwitz for kids" concentration camp? The generals in charge of the Auschwitz for kids program are not simply one time, one off criminals, they are big leaders of a mass child abuse systematic process that has afflicted numbers of victims. And Lokanath is a ten star general in that camp. 

One victim said, we were saved from the karmi slaughterhouse school, where at least they treat their prisoners with care before they are killed, to go to the horror movie GBC schools where they molest and torture the victims of their slaughterhouse, making the victims wish they were dead. 

Anyway no, these people are not going back to Godhead, nor are their enablers, cheer leaders, pals, associates, propping upper crew members etc. This whole regime is going down to the lower regions of the universe, from where is comes from. And the fact that various victims have to come forward and point out how bad this is for victims means, there seems to be no human emotional feelings, no remorse, no accountability etc. on the part of the GBC leadership side for any of this mess they made. ys pd]