tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478589417348774686.post3520410332996440106..comments2024-03-27T16:45:50.376-07:00Comments on krishna1008: Eldercare Crisis For Vaishnavaskrishna1008http://www.blogger.com/profile/01723561177692442276noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478589417348774686.post-65198531477060431812015-01-25T06:23:01.290-08:002015-01-25T06:23:01.290-08:00Bhakti Ananda Goswami says: "[...]
My Childr...Bhakti Ananda Goswami says: "[...] <br />My Children, who are completely alienated from ISKCON and the Movement because of the years of abuse and hypocrisy that they experienced as Gurukulis, and my Father, who in the early 1980s was cold-heartedly conned and robbed by 'Devotees', are completely disgusted by the millions of dollars being spent on the lawsuits in India and the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, while Devotees of all kinds, including damaged Gurukulis and broken Seniors are living in terrible conditions and begging for help from the very families, governments and churches that they once left to 'join the Movement'.<br />Thus these, my Children and Father, who also gave so much of their lives to the Movement, want to know WHY ISKCON and other Gaudiya Vaishnava Institutions can raise so much money for giant temples and lavish "Deity worship", but they can't support or properly care for the Devotees who are in desperate need? Just see how Devotees must beg for the most basic help, just to 'die with dignity'?<br />How can I answer them? What can I say about a society that does NOT take care of its own members, that does NOT protect them from predation, hunger, thirst, cold, heat, illness and death?<br />Oh, one I can say that our Mission is to prevent all future suffering by preventing rebirth into a future material life. But we also have the opportunity to prevent or relieve some suffering in this life as well! Srila Prabhupada said that unnecessary austerities are demonic. Thus forcing unnecessary suffering on other beings is demonic too. How can we be so concerned about the suffering of cows and ants etc. and so unconcerned about the suffering of humans, especially those who depend of us, on our Community, for help?<br />So, those of us that have some way to help others, even if it is to pray or network, to write about it or to organize, whatever it takes, we Devotees have got to try to help those who cannot help themselves. Not because it is mundane social work, but because NOTHING pleases the Lord more than Devotees taking care of His Other Devotees! [...]"krishna1008https://www.blogger.com/profile/01723561177692442276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478589417348774686.post-53206383318805653662015-01-24T06:29:14.141-08:002015-01-24T06:29:14.141-08:00First of all, Srila Prabhupada said that he wanted...First of all, Srila Prabhupada said that he wanted to have facility for the elder devotees to retire in Vrndavana. Instead, the GBC has spent $20 million dollars suing the ritviks, first in Bangalore and now the Supreme Court in Delhi, and this is ongoing. That means, the GBC are spending more millions on this case as we speak. They also said they will sue the ritviks for another 100 years, so their plan is to actually spend $100,000,000 on suing the devotees. Thus, their priority is to spend more and more and more money on lawyers, its apparently their number one expense at present. And now, because they sued these devotees, they have been found engaged in various fraud in the Bangalore court, and so the Bombay ISKCON leaders are being charged in the Bangalore court, right now as we speak, with criminal fraud, conspiracy, blackmail, document manipulation, attempting to derail a court case by judge tampering, and more charges will be added by the CID investigation. So the GBC program will be on trial for that soon, which, how did you guess, its going to cost millions more. Basically the GBC has no visible interest in helping the devotees, they want to make huge mansions for their lawyers. Some ISKCON devotees also sent me a "fundme" asking me to post on my blog, they wanted to collect money for an ISKCON temple to buy a washing machine for the devotees. There is no money for a washing machine, but there is $100,000,000 for lawyers, what's wrong with this picture? Are we servants of Krishna and His devotees, or servants of lawyers? ys pdkrishna1008https://www.blogger.com/profile/01723561177692442276noreply@blogger.com