Banned Swami Returns to ISKCON / Cyril Wohrer 08 27

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The ISKCON Houston temple announced at their last Sunday program, August 20, they would be holding a Vyasa Puja celebration this coming Saturday, August 26, honoring the alleged child abuser named Kesava Bharati "Swami."

In May 2023, the ISKCON Child Protection Office (CPO) began an investigation into child abuse perpetrated by Kesava Bharati. As part of their investigation, the CPO placed interim restrictions on him:

1. He may not carry out any initiations

2. He must not give class, lead kirtan/Harinama, offer any public worship

3. He must not publicly represent ISKCON in any way

4. He must not engage in any service connected with minors (anyone under the age of 18)

Yet! The ISKCON Houston temple was trying to hold a Vyasa Puja festival for Kesava Bharati, which clearly violates restriction #3: "He must not publicly represent ISKCON in any way."

ISKCON Houston temple president Saranga Thakur das (Venkata S Kasireddy) said he was not aware that the CPO had placed interim restrictions on Kesava Bharati. He does now (the CPO contacted him). We hope Saranga Thakur honors the CPO's restrictions and cancels the Vyasa Puja celebration for Kesava Bharati.

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KESAVA BHARATI TIMELINE

1977 - Kesava Bharati bragged that he “slapped silly” a 14-year-old runaway that had sought shelter at the Kansas City temple.

1979 - Kesava Bharati took sannyas from TKG in Dallas, leaving his wife and 6-year-old son.

1982 - Kesava Bharati locked 18-year-old R dasi in a room and tried to touch her inappropriately. R dasi contemplated leaving New Vrajamandala after this.

1983 - Kesava Bharati sexually assaulted 23-year-old M dasi who then ran away from New Vrajamandala.

1983-1986 - Kesava Bharati used temple money to hire prostitutes.

1983 - After Kesava Bharati came to Madrid from London, a doctor regularly gave Kesava Bharati medicine injections to treat his venereal disease(s) which he contracted from prostitutes.

1984 - Kesava Bharati came to Madrid from the United States with gonorrhea.

1984 - Kesava Bharati sexually harassed 19-year-old H dasi in Malaga, Spain.

1985 - Kesava Bharati regularly called young gurukula girls to his room alone, grooming them. He asked one girl to massage his feet, and later sexually abused her.

1985 / 1986 - Vaishnava Dharma, New Vrajamandala Vice President, was going door to door and met a woman at a brothel who said, “I know all about you people. The short American with the pony tail and big nose comes here all the time.” That “short American” was Kesava Bharati.

1986 / 1987 - Kesava Bharati admitted to visiting prostitutes with temple money, then had his sannyas revoked, and he moved to Soho. (He has not been welcome in ISKCON Spain since.)

1992 - Kesava Bharati was added to the ISKCON Sannyas waiting list.

2003 - Sivarama Swami gave sannyas initiation to Kesava Bharati, without permission from the ISKCON GBC.

2006 - ISKCON GBC appointed Kesava Bharati as a guru.

2014-2017 - One ISKCON North American leader said Kesava Bharati would shame his disciples, calling them names, and yell at them. And would refuse to take responsibility when concerns about his behavior were raised.

2018-2019 - Kesava Bharati sexually and emotionally harassed Bhaktin M, driving her away from the Houston temple.

2018 - Bhakta M witnessed Kesava Bharati bringing a suitcase full of illegal drugs into the United States.

2023 - ISKCON Child Protection Office received allegation of child abuse perpetrated by Kesava Bharati, started an investigation on him, and placed the following interim restrictions on him:

1. He may not carry out any initiations

2. He must not give class, lead kirtan/Harinama, offer any public worship

3. He must not publicly represent ISKCON in any way

4. He must not engage in any service connected with minors (anyone under the age of 18)

[PADA: Got to hand it to the ISKCON GBC guys. They do protect their own. No matter what kind of a predator / deviant / criminal you are, as long as you sign the oath of allegience, you are a protected member of the gang. That is why Bhavananda / Nitai Chand / Dayarama / Hari Sauri / Jayapataka et al. etc. have been protected all along. 

Anyway, there you have it boys and girls. Srila Gonorrhea -- pada ki jaya? I was just having a heavy discussion with a GBC supporter, and he was arguing that the GBC are "trying their best." "Not all of them are bad" etc. Oh really? 

Trying their best to find the most degraded folks then can find, to annoint as God's successors? Sulochana said that if the GBC made a dog into God's successor, that would be a great leap forward. Because a dog does not ban, beat, molest, sue and assassinate Vaishnavas. 

But the GBC are not advaned enough to promote worship of a dog. Yeesh pilgrims. I would not want this guy to even touch my dog, never mind have access to human children. ys pd

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KAILASA UPDATE

PADA: Thanks, yes as soon I said there is a mass molesting of minors program going on, and I had to have the GBC sued for $400,000,000 for mass abuse, then the GBC and Kailasa people started to complain that I am a beer drinker. Meanwhile, their program's victims were taking their lives. And thanks to our lawsuit -- hundreds of kids were pulled out of their schools. 

So yes, beer is more important than children for the GBC and Kailasa people. It does not matter if I am drinking a gallon of Vodka every day, we had to save children from their hands. And we did. ys pd

PADA: I have not had a beer, or any drugs of any sort, since 1970. For many years I was a security guard, and had to take routine drug tests, in addition to that -- they would sometimes give us random tests on the fly at any time. I always passed with flying colors, which is why I once had an assignment at the winery, because the other guards were getting loaded. Hee hee. 

It is really not a relevant issue when we are discussing the mass molesting of children, which is a much more serious issue. And even assuming I was a drunk, that means the drunks have had to handle these issues while GBC and Kailasa folks would not, could not, and did not. That makes the drunks way more advanced than them. Now they are glorifying the drunks, what else is new? ys pd

PADA: This guy blocked me, and said lots of nasty things to me. OK so he is another Johnny come later guy who never listened to us years ago. Maybe he has woke up to some extent, but it is hard to say how much. Anyway some waking up is better than none. ys pd