Krishna Dharma (Kenneth Anderson) Writes Adharma 03 20 26

GBC APOLOGIST RATIONALIZING 

THE BRUTAL TREATMENT OF VAISHNAVAS

ON MORAL HIGHGROUND (Krishna Dharma dasa) 

Krishna Dharma was born Kenneth Anderson, a British devotee known primarily for his retellings of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, which have become popular both inside and outside ISKCON. He has been active since the 1980s and is actively associated with the ISKCON community in the UK.

His service focuses on:

* Writing accessible versions of Vedic epics

* Teaching Krishna consciousness philosophy

* Giving classes and seminars at ISKCON temples

* Engaging in interfaith and public outreach

PADA: Great news. ISKCON invites in the Christian ritviks and welcomes them. Whereas! The Hare Krishna ritviks are banned, beaten, sued and -- killed. Yep, someone said, only the beef eating ritviks are welcomed in for these folks.

He is often invited to speak at ISKCON events, but this is based on his scholarship and communication skills, not a governing role.

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KRISHNA DHARMA: Of all the judgments we make of others—race, religion, nationality, political affiliations, social standing, etc.—perhaps the most excoriating is moral judgment. We can become highly condemnatory when we deem others to have committed a gross moral transgression. Of late, we have often seen banner - waving groups loudly denouncing those whose activities have not met their standards of what they consider morally correct. 

PADA: This does not clear up the main issue at hand, what is actually morally correct? ISKCON says their promoting the worship of illicit sex with men, women and children messiahs, and / or drunks, debauchees, porno swamis etc. -- guru system -- is morally correct. 

Krishna Dharma does not clarify whether he believes this is right or wrong on this issue? Does he know or not know what is correct, he does not say. But his works are promoted on the ISKCON sites where the illicit sex messiah's project and Mayapur's Auschwitz for kids program's leaders are promoted.  

Children have been mass molested in the ISKCON GBC leader's guru system, and they have been -- by many accounts. That happens by allowing the worship of the GBC's orchestrators and enablers, and their system of predators and their sycophants, and associated molesting webs and nests process. 

Should we not protest that process as not morally correct? Krishna Dharma makes it sound like we can promote illicit sex guru programs, which are abusing children industrial scale, because it is not clear if promoting that process is morally sound or not. We are not sure what we should declare as morally correct, and not? 

The situation in the Middle East has evoked this to a significant degree, with the ‘Free Palestine’ cause bringing crowds onto the streets in a passionate fervour of rage. The situation in Iran has also brought out many people on both sides of the argument. Extinction Rebellion, a cause campaigning against environmental damage, is another example, with its vigorous direct action here in the UK. 

This has been less prominent recently, perhaps overshadowed by the war concerns, as have the LGBTQ+ Rights campaigners and the opposing “Anti-Woke” movement. But they all share the same basic driver: moral outrage.

PADA: Does this mean devotees should not have moral outrage when other devotees, and especially devotee's children, are being mistreated? Moral outrage is part and parcel of the entire Vaishnava's process. It is required, because the whole Vaishnava principle of Bhagavad Gita is that the Pandavas are outraged at the moral mistreatment of their wife Draupadi. And that is the standard for Vaishnavas. Krishna Dharma seems to be attacking the main principle taught in the Vaishnava's Bible.

All such protesters consider themselves to be occupying the high moral ground, and their opponents contemptible reprobates worthy of nothing but censure, or worse. All too often, things can turn ugly, with violence erupting. It can even lead to serious situations in which certain groups are deemed so reprehensible that they must be eliminated. 

PADA: That is what happens in ISKCON. Anyone who objects to the GBC's illicit sex with men, women and children guru program is driven out on a rail, sometimes sued, beaten, and even -- killed. And the GBC has again made a mandate to have no "ritviks deviants" allowed in ISKCON. In other words, anyone who does not want to promote the GBC's illicit sex with men, women and children messiahs program is forbidden to participate in ISKCON.   

They effectively become ‘dehumanised’ and are subjected to the most terrible forms of aggression. We saw this in Germany during WW2, where specific ethnic groups were the victims of unspeakable atrocities. This kind of behaviour has been repeated many times since then, most recently among the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, the Darfuris in Sudan, the Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, the Uyghurs in China, the Rohingyas in Myanmar, and so on.

PADA: That is what ISKCON children victims of abuse told me happened to them in the Krishna Dharma process. "We were NOT treated as human children, in fact regular people treat their dogs better than we were treated." And some victims said we were in "Auschwitz for kids." 

So yes, ISKCON leaders as a group have dehumanized the child victims of their pedophile messiah's project. And that is why there are children's complaints "we were treated worse than animals" -- in the Krishna Dharma program. And that is also why we protesters were dehumanized and made into targets for assassination. Is this morally correct? He fails to say.  

Generally, the antagonists believe their victims have no right to exist and that killing them is morally justified. The victims themselves will obviously have an entirely opposing perspective, and objective observers of the conflicts will also likely take a different view. So who is right? 

PADA: No one can tell who is right or wrong from Krishna Dharma's writings? Does he endorse the GBC system that bans, beats, molests, sues and kills Vaishnavas? And if he does not endorse them, why is his stuff always getting posted on their sites?

Is it ever justified to attack and slaughter other people based on our moral judgments? Vedic wisdom has a few things to say about this. The first is that ultimately God is the judge; only he knows what is good for everyone. With our limited perspectives and different prejudices, we cannot make infallible judgments. 

PADA: Saying that worship of illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's projects is sinful -- is an infallible judgement. We always seem to find these ISKCON-ites trying to muddy the waters, and tamper down criticism of their process of making WRONG moral judgements, even when thousands of children are in peril as a result. 

As the Bible says, “Judge not, lest ye be judged” (Matthew 7.1). 

PADA: Why should we not judge that debauchee guru programs are bogus?

The next point is that we are all equal in his eyes, which means in truth. The bodies we inhabit are only temporary coverings of the soul. To hate others based on their bodies is gross ignorance, akin to hating someone because you don’t like their coat. Similarly, detesting others because of their beliefs is also ignorance.

PADA: OK so if some folks, like a lot of GBC people, believe that homosexuals and pedophiles can be buried in samadhis, and we object, that is due to our ignorance? Then there is no standard for who is pure, who is not etc. And the Bhagavad Gita says people who do not know right from wrong are in ignorance.

That should surely be obvious. Would any of us like to be targeted by others simply because of what we think? Of course, certain kinds of behaviour are unacceptable in civilised society and may need to be addressed, but checking this is the job of law enforcement, not vigilante crowds baying for blood.

PADA: OK so if we do not like pedophile samadhis, and the worship of the people concocting these samadhis, and all the ensuing false worship of pedophiles and their enablers and samadhi -- makers, we should call law enforcement? And we should do that because, none of the ISKCON devotees care one way or other? And how will law enforcement clean up these samadhis when the Vrndavana police are taking money from the people -- making the samadhis? 

The Vedas say that any hatred is ignorance. It is generally born of the mistaken belief that others are somehow impeding my happiness, but this is a misconception. We are all the architects of our own destiny.

PADA: Arjuna is in ignorance because he is making war with the usurpers and insulters of Draupadi? No, and the children who were molested in ISKCON did not create their destiny, that destiny was imposed on them by the leaders and elders, and in sum -- the same people running the sites that Krishna Dharma posts on. People have been banning, beating, suing and killing us, and that is our fault because we created our own destiny? No, the aggressors created that situation.

 

In the Vedic scheme of things, happiness and distress are the consequences of our own actions, well known as karma. 

PADA: Oh oh, here we go again. The ISKCON children who are being starved, beaten, molested, raped etc -- and are suffering trauma and sometimes taking their own lives by suicide -- are suffering from their own actions. How do any of these people like Krishna Dharma know that? Narayan Maharaja said the same thing, it is the children's karma. That gives NM a licence to promote the leaders of his pedophile messiah's program like Tamal. 

Isn’t this how we act? We all work expecting that our endeavours will produce a desirable result. We are responsible for our own circumstances. If I do good things, I will get good results, and vice versa. I trust we will all agree that harming others is not good and will not produce a happy outcome for anyone, including ourselves. The so-called ‘Golden Rule’ should be our guide: would I like it if someone did this to me? If not, don’t do it to others.

PADA: OK so we should sit idle and allow children to be abused "industrial scale" in ISKCON, without protesting and suing the GBC etc. The GBC program regularly bans, beats, molests, sues and kills people, obviously without much concern for the karma of mistreating others.  

The Bhagavad-gita is an excellent resource for understanding these points in more detail. It explains that the soul is not just present in humans, but in all creatures. The wise person, therefore, sees with equal vision all beings and treats them all with respect. In that regard, the Vedas connect violence in human society with our treatment of animals.

PADA: But some of the ISKCON children told me that the karmis treat animals better than these kids were treated in ISKCON. The karmis are eating animals, but they have zero tolerance for child abuse. That means they have a higher standard than the Krishna Dharma program. 

The Pandavas and Kauravas fighting was not anything about eating animals. The war was about usurping the property of Vaishnavas, and morally mistreating a woman. The Pandavas fought against morally insulting Vaishnava women. In other words it was mainly about mistreating Vaishnavas. Eating meat is not mentioned as part of the problem by Srila Prabhupada. 

So when brahmanas, women and children are mistreated, we should not protest? That is why Jane Wallace of CBS news said to me, none of these ISKCON men are fighting for moral justice, they have not understood the teachings of the Gita.  

This is a very important point that might shed light on our moral conflicts and their ensuing violence. Modern society has normalised the slaughter of animals, only for the pleasure of eating their flesh. Certainly, animals do not want to be killed and eaten, but they have no voice or indeed power to prevent it. We kill them because we can, and they can’t protest. 

PADA: Yep, heard that over and over. We were children, we were being severely mistreated, but since we were only five years old -- we had no voice, no power to defend ourselves. Mistreating Vaishnava children is a trillion times worse than mistreating animals. Now Jayadvaita is evidently saying -- these five years old children did not study shastra, so they got the wrong guru?

This is said to produce terrible karma, manifesting as war and slaughter in human society. It also hardens the heart. Animals are helpless, and we think nothing of killing them. Effectively, we have reduced them to objects of our enjoyment. 

PADA: Yep, what we were told many times by ISKCON children victims. We became objects. They would dress us up nicely for photoshoots with maharajas, then after the ceremony, treat us worse than dogs. We were simply photo-op objects like store mannequins. 

Is it not then just a small step from that to treating our fellow humans the same way? We may not eat each other, although that has also occurred, but, like animals, we can quickly reduce others to mere objects to be treated as we like.

Perhaps we should consider this when we find ourselves ascending to the high moral ground. Are we really so virtuous if we participate in the mass slaughter of innocent creatures just to satisfy our carnal desires? 

PADA: Yep, mass molesting of children to satisfy carnal desires of ISKCON leaders and their henchmen, true. And a number of people said this was "industrial scale" child abuse. Just like slaughterhouses are industrial scale. 

Especially when such slaughter may be the very cause of the conflict we are caught up in. As well as the Vedas, great thinkers of the past have also made this connection. Leo Tolstoy said, “As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will always be battlefields.” 

Leonardo da Vinci expressed a similar view, saying, “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” The author Louisa May Alcott made a direct connection when she opined that, “Without flesh diet there could be no bloodshedding war.” From a spiritual perspective, Srila Prabhupada often mentioned the connection between animal slaughter and war. In his Srimad Bhagavatam commentary, he wrote, “In this Age of Kali, the propensity for mercy is almost nil. Consequently, there is always fighting and wars between men and nations. Men do not understand that because they unrestrictedly kill so many animals, they also must be slaughtered like animals in big wars.”

It seems then that it would be a good idea to make an honest appraisal of ourselves before we get carried away by judgments of others. After all, we are all just seeking happiness in everything we do, but if our endeavours are not informed by truth, by correct spiritual understanding, we will likely achieve quite the opposite. Never has that been so apparent as now, with the world seemingly poised always on the brink of all-out conflagration.

Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of ISKCON or ISKCON News.

PADA: OK so the Berkeley police told me, the Hare Krishnas will not kill a cow, but they will kill you and eat you for lunch. They hate you and want to kill you. And the reason they want to kill you is -- you are exposing their crimes -- like mass child abuse. 

Why is Krishna Dharma helping the program that will not kill a cow, but will kill me, or Sulochana and others, all to protect their mass children abuse process? And where is the moral ground to claim any of this is authorized? 

But yeah, Krishna Dharma's religion had to be sued and checked by the Dallas meat eating courts, because the Dallas courts understood more about how to morally treat children -- much better -- ten million percent better -- than the Krishna Dharma program. When the meat eaters have a higher moral standing than the Krishna Dharma program, what does that say about his process?

And yeah, Krishna Dharma has told my associates that Srila Prabhupada is the shiksha guru, and the GBC are the diksha gurus. Which means, he evidently thinks the homosexual and pedophile / Auschwitz for kids messiahs club folks are equals to Jesus and they can absorb sins. 

And that explains why, when we challenge, we can be killed. Krishna Dharma's program is creating adharma fanatical guru cults and it is dangerous for the followers of dharma. We can be banned, beaten, sued, molested and -- killed, thanks to his program. There is no moral basis to support such a program. He never mentions anything about any of this herein, which is adharma itself, acquiescing and accepting the wrong principle.   

ys pd

  

About the Author

Krishna Dharma Das is the author of several English translations of Ancient Indian classics, including the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Panchatantra. He is also a broadcaster and has written numerous articles and papers offering a Vedic spiritual perspective on current events. He is a student of His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Srila Prabhupada), the Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and author of many widely acclaimed English translations of the Vedic scriptures.

Krishna Dharma’s aim is to make these teachings accessible and relevant to today’s world. His motto is “Spiritual Solutions for Material Problems”, which sums up his mission: to address the multitude of dilemmas faced by society through the profound instructions of the great sages of ancient times. You can learn more about him and his books and essays by visiting his website and following him on Facebook, Twitter, and Substack.
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