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Srila Prabhupada's words of encouragement:

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(Srila Prabhupada Letter, November 20, 1969)

"The secret of success in Krishna Consciousness is to render service to Krishna to the best of our capacity. There is no other alternative to this. The more we render service therefore, the more we are able to advance.

Regarding your feeling yourself as unqualified, whatever you can do, then do it, but you should try your best for Krishna. This is important. Ultimately everything is depending on Lord Krishna. You just have to always remember this."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, June 27, 1969)

"Do your best to serve Krishna and he will give you required intelligence to cope with disturbing situations."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, September 15, 1967)

"In the conditioned stage there is every possibility of being mistaken; but Krishna will always protect us if we are sincere; even if there is a gross mistake, Krishna forgives his devotee who is very sincere so go on working sincerely and Krishna will protect you always."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 29, 1967)

"You should try your best and with Krishna's help—Krishna will help you. If you keep your heart in that attitude, that you want to become a pure and sincere devotee, you must be a sincere devotee. And Krishna will help you. You have to keep your heart in that way, that is your business."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, November 23, 1968)

"So far as your duty is concerned, you are doing your best. That is your spiritual qualification. The best qualification for a Vaisnava is to act sincerely, and to his best capacity, for the service of Krishna. Otherwise, Krishna is so great, and we are so small, there is no question of our giving any service to Krishna. But Krishna is so great, and He is so greatly merciful, that any small service we offer to Him in devotion and sincerity He will accept. Krishna does not require anyone's help or service, but if we serve Him, even in a very small capacity, He will accept it. So that is our only hope. One who can show the whole cosmic manifestation within the hole of His mouth, what service can we render unto Him? So the best thing is to employ all of our talents and energies in His service. That will help us to progress."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, June 24, 1969)

"Actually, nothing in Krishna consciousness is an accident, but sometimes Krishna will put us into a seemingly unfavorable situation just to help us realize that he is the Controller. In the material world, all these situations are meant for tribulation, but in Krishna consciousness, they are meant for advancement. Kunti Devi is always praying 'Let the trouble come again and again, so that I may have the opportunity to surrender to You.' So to accept any situation as Krishna's mercy is to advance in spiritual life. You just try your best to serve Lord Krishna, and if any perplexing circumstances arise, just pray to Krishna to give you strength."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, May 21, 1972)

"Everywhere it is difficult because people have become godless. Still, we have to try our best. The task is difficult, undoubtedly. It is very difficult task, to bring back people to God consciousness. But still we have to do it to satisfy God. He wants it."

(Srila Prabhupada Conversation, Rome, May 24, 1974)

"Never mind even it is imperfectly done, we must execute the orders of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṇa-upadeśa (CC Madhya 7.128). I may not be so very expert in delivering the message of Kṛṣṇa, but my duty is to try to my best capacity how to distribute this knowledge to the suffering humanity."

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Delhi, March 26, 1976)

"So try to understand the philosophy nicely and spread it to your best capacity so that these suiciding men can be saved as far as possible. It is not, however, possible to check the suiciding policy of the modern society, but my Guru Maharaja used to say that if he could save one person then He would consider His mission successful. Similarly, if we individually could save at least one person, many of the suiciding men can be saved.

So do your best and Krsna will give you necessary intelligence and help, and try to push on this Movement as far as possible."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, June 17, 1970)

"So this is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, to distribute perfect knowledge, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and that will make the whole world happy. So try to distribute this knowledge to your best capacity. Kṛṣṇa will recognize you, that you are trying your best to work on His behalf because He comes down to distribute the knowledge. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata, tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham (BG 4.7). Because we are all His sons—we are suffering—so He wants to see that our sufferings are mitigated immediately."

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Miami, February 25, 1975)

"As a military man, Arjuna fought to his best, but the victory was brought him by Krishna. Similarly, we should try our best to our best capacity, and victory will come from Krishna. We should never sit idly and ask Krishna to do everything. That is the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita. It is clearly said in the Gita: 'Yuddhasya ca mam anusmara (BG 8.7).' So ordinarily, we have to try our best to our best capacity to achieve something, and by Krishna's Grace, all of a sudden we shall see everything is there. This sort of help from Krishna is transcendental happiness."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, February 20, 1968)

"If we remain sincere to Kṛṣṇa, that is our victory, not the result. Karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana. We have to act according to direction of Kṛṣṇa, that much. We want to see good result. Even there is no good result, we don't mind. We must be sincere to Kṛṣṇa that 'We have done our best.' That's all. Without cheating Kṛṣṇa. That is our duty. As servant, we shall not cheat the master. Result, no result—that depends on Kṛṣṇa. We should not be sorry if there is not result. Never mind."

(Srila Prabhupada Conversation on Train to Allahabad, January 11, 1977)

"Never mind where you are situated. We are not concerned with a particular place or country or society. We are concerned with Kṛṣṇa. And everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, wherever we go. We are here.

We are not in Japan; we are in Vaikuṇṭha, this temple. We are in Vaikuṇṭha. And we are doing the service of Kṛṣṇa, that Vaikuṇṭha service. So in this way, with this attitude, go on preaching. I am very pleased that you are doing your best. That I want."

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Tokyo, April 20, 1972)

"You should not be discouraged if people are not coming to your meetings. We are trying to please Krishna. That is all. We simply must go on with our business, to the best of our ability. We must always sincerely try to do our best with great determination. This is the transcendental position. Success or failure, this is not our business. We leave that up to Krishna. My Guru Maharaja said, it does not matter if anyone comes to hear. You go on with your chanting. If no-one hears you the walls will hear. But this does not mean that we should sit down someplace and simply chant Hare Krishna for our own benefit. We should be always anxious to save the cripple minded people with the science of Krishna Consciousness. This is the position of a Vaisnava."

(Srila Prabhupada Letter, February 15, 1973)

Saharsranam Das (Arvind Patil) Replies

Saharsranam Das (Arvind Patil) Replies

Hare Krishna S Dasi:

I was surprised to see your posts about me on Facebook. I wish you had contacted me earlier if you had any questions or concerns about me. I am not sure how I make a difference in your life, but since you've started this social media campaign against me, I have no recourse but to respond to your unfounded accusations. 

It is likely that your followers may think just like you and may not believe anything I say or write, which is OK, however, it is my obligation that my friends and well-wishers who may be reading your threads understand that I did respond to your absurd accusations.

Before I get into details, let's be clear that your Facebook campaign against me is nothing but harassment. It is my intention to let you know politely that I do not appreciate this type of harassment and it is against the laws of both NC and the United States. It is my attempt to resolve any issues you have with me in a just manner. If this does not succeed, I will have no course but to seek the interference of the legal authorities of your state. 

Please be aware that with your so-called social activism on Facebook, you're basically breaking the law of harassment, slander of my reputation which can lead to civil penalties if and when I choose to pursue that route. If you're truly an educated person you will refrain from doing this to me or any other person.
In all your posts regarding my uncle, you're pretending to be well versed in the USA laws. 

However, you know nothing and cannot accept that you and your co-conspirators have failed miserably. This is causing you so much misery. Now, your second endeavor is to paint all of Maharaj's disciples and family members as goons and people of bad character. I am afraid you're going to fail miserly in this endeavor as well.

Moving on to your baseless allegations about me regarding Kadamba Kanana Goswami Maharaj, let me tell you during those days I was working for the Vrindavan Gurukul. I had no direct or indirect role with the Temple in which Maharaj was the President. There was no motivation for me to commit such a ghastly act. Pretty much everyone living in Vrindavan aka devotees living in the temple as well as local Vrindavan residents were accused of having something to do with the incident. 

I was personally never charged with any crime contrary to what you're making your followers believe. This is a grave miscalculation on your part to accuse me of such a heinous crime.

In 1996, I went to Iskcon Philadelphia and served the temple in various capacities for five years under the guidance of senior Srila Prabhupada disciples. They were extremely happy with my service. During that time, I also held two jobs, one was working for US Airways and the other job involved working with the US Passport Agency. In 2002, I settled down in the Los Angeles New Dwarka community and held a full-time job as a Facility Manager for 24 Hour Fitness. During my free time, I offered whatever service I could to the temple such as pujari seva, cooking for the deities, etc. I was extremely happy in the New Dwarka community and they were happy with me as well. However, due to my own family reasons, I moved back to India in 2009.

Now, coming to Vrinda's murder case, I would like to again emphasize that you have openly and publicly accused me of murder on a social media platform (Facebook) which is character assassination of myself and my family. You think someone that is capable of working several jobs in the USA will commit murder in India for a few ATM transactions and that also in Rupees? 

BTW, these were false accusations by the Indian Police since they could not produce any evidence to back up their claim. 

Folks in America are lucky not to have such a corrupt system of police fabricating evidence. During the time this crime took place, I was in a completely different state of India. I had all the evidences of my travel as well as an alibi that I was traveling with. To be precise, I was in Tirupati for Lord Balaji's darshan. Based on all this strong evidence provided by my legal team, the court found me innocent of all charges. 

I do not need to clarify any of these issues to you, however, I feel it is important for you to know the truth since we're part of the same Iskcon Society. I wish you had approached me in a different manner. Just so you are aware, Srila Prabhupada had expressed his desire to my uncle that there should be an Iskcon center in his town, and to fulfill that desire, all my family members contributed five acres of land to Iskcon and simultaneously provided funds and labor to make Srila Prabhupada's instructions and vision a reality. 

In Iskcon's history, this was one of the biggest temple openings in 2009 and many senior Srila Prabhupada disciples came for this opening. Here are a few names that I can mention: His Holiness Radhanath Maharaj, His Holiness Gopal Krsna Maharaj, His Grace Anuttama Prabhu, His Grace Dina Bandhu Prabhu, Her Grace Malati Mataji and many more. This was our family's offering to fulfill Srila Prabhupada's desire.

In closing, please do not confuse my silence on these issues as an admission of guilt. I would like to avoid any issues for the sake of the society and its members. I wish no further communication with you and have faith you will remove all these false accusations against me after I have voluntarily provided you with true and accurate information. Despite by best efforts to dispel your doubts regarding this matter, if you still choose not to remove this harassing and demoralizing content, I will have no choice but to take it to the next level.

Regards,
Sahasra Nam Das

[PADA: OK let us give him the benefit of doubt and assume that Sahasra Nam prabhu is not personally involved in any crimes. That is possible, because I was accused of being a drunk, a heroin addict, and who knows what else -- when that was never true. So lets give Sahasra Nam the benefit of the doubt, let us assume he personally has not ever engaged in any crimes. Personally. Fine.

OK but the organization that he supports, and is connected to, and which Lokanath swami is a leading member of, has engaged in countless crimes. The short list is: -- banning, beating, molesting, suing and assassinating Vaishnavas -- and various crimes too numerous to list herein. 

These crimes are all well known, easily proven, and have countless eye-witness accounts, numerous media accounts, court accounts, police and Federal Marshall's raid accounts, police records (including extensive ones here by police in Berkeley), molested gurukuli accounts, TV expose show accounts, ad infinitum. And now we can simply add to that odious list -- the account of Lokanath's molesting victim Satya. So let us confront the evidence that can easily be proven.

For starters Lokanath swami is promoting a guru parampara that contains illicit sex with men, women and children. Apparently also -- sex with cats. And he has been a supportive member of that parampara most of his adult life. And their parampara preaches to little children that they have to worship said illicit sex guru process to attain Godhead. 

Lokanath himself says he has children disciples. So they are telling little children to worship their guru system of -- homosexuals, pedophiles, deviants, crooks, porno swamis etc. as ISKCON's little children's guru links to God. Why is Lokanath's program corrupting the morals of children by telling these little children they have to worship a pedophile infused and infested guru parampara to attain God? And why are some of the victims of Loakanth's cult telling me LNS is accepting their sins, because he is apparently -- the next Jesus? 

And why are you evidently a supporter of this entire process? 

And what exactly is a guru parampara from Vaikuntha that contains: drug addicts, pill poppers, homosexuals, pedophiles, drunks, deviants, illicit sex of all sorts, oral sex with taxi driver's "Vishnupada acharya," porno swamis etc. Worse! Thanks to Lokanath's program telling ISKCON's little children to worship pedophiles and deviants as their acharyas, many of these ex-children of ISKCON now hate the religion (as do many of the mass public due to Lokanath's regime giving Krishna a bad name): 

https://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2021/08/how-current-iskcon-trains-children-to.html

Why is Lokanath swami helping orchestrate hatred of the Krishna religion, even by the very babies born into said religion? I thought we were supposed to protect these Vaikuntha children, but under Lokanath program's managed "care" -- many children report being starved, beaten, molested, and threatened with death when they tried to report the abuse etc. 

And Lokanath even recently said people should not listen to us (the rtiviks) -- who do not worship pedophiles -- but worship Prabhupada. We should not listen to the people who worship pure devotees, because they are failing to promote Lokanath and his pedophile worship regime, which bans, beats, molests, sues and -- kills? And causes the ISKCON children to -- many times -- hate the religion of Krishna.

People from India report they too are afraid to report abuse; or to criticize the pedophile samadhi Lokanath's program made in Vrndavana etc. And even going back to 1977 some of the locals thought Srila Prabhupada was being poisoned, but they were too afraid to speak up -- thinking this is a group of violent goondas. Why do some people fear the Lokanath guru's group as a violent pedophile cult, at all? 

We still have people who do not want their names mentioned in public, fearing reprisals by the Lokanath regime. OK we generally have to fear demons, and that pretty much is why many folks assume -- they are demons.  Demons produce fear.

In 1996 you claim you were in Iskcon Philadelphia. Great, that is the exact same time we were putting together a $400,000,000 child molesting lawsuit against the leaders of ISKCON, for mass child abuse. You were evidently serving the mass molesting regime, at least that appears to be the case. Why are we serving a regime that starves, beats and molests kids, and worse -- tells these kids to worship the leaders of the very same regime that is torturing and abusing them -- as their gurus? 

One ex-kuli told me they were like being in a North Korea concentration camp, where they had to eat rotten food, be beaten, be molested, and that is the same as North Korea's prisons. Another child said they were in "Auschwitz for kids." And so on. Why is Lokanath marching lock step with this program? And you are part of said program? Who authorized his program to mistreat any children, never mind Krishna's children? 

And you are promoting "His Holiness Radhanath Maharaj," Kirtanananda's main henchman. And "His Holiness Gopal Krsna Maharaj," who helped Radhanath bury Kirtanananda in a samadhi. Ok so that means they are burying a known pedophile, deviant, homosexual, and founder of a huge criminal enterprise that had to be raided by the police -- as a "samadhi saint." 

And you are advertising these people? And so is Lokanath swami. And some of the children from New Vrndavana say they get PTSD symptoms simple seeing Radhanath, because of all the abuse they experienced under the jackboots of his regime. And you are glorifying that person now? 

And your other hero is "His Grace Anuttama Prabhu," ... who says that the molesting in the Church is the same process as found in ISKCON. What! Why is he saying that the Christians are promoting pedophiles as their gurus / messiahs? The Christians never said that the guru of the Christians is a pedophile. Again, you are with these people who are attacking the religion of Jesus. 

No, pedophiles are not worshiped as the gurus and messiahs in Christianity, that is totally false, and is a vicious attack on Jesus and his followers. Why are you associated with these folks? ISKCON deviants promote pedophiles and fallen fools as their gurus and messiahs, not the Christians. 

And then we have "His Grace Dina Bandhu Prabhu," ... who evidently helped the Kirtanananda samadhi and the porno swami samadhi process. And Her Grace Malati Mataji and many more. OK all of these people are participants in the illicit sex with men, women and children guru parampara process, that bans, beats, molests, sues and -- kills. But you are innocent?

Well maybe. Let us not forget that shastra says that false gurus go to the most hellish planets, and so do their followers / supporters. And when Krishna attacks the demons, He also takes out their commanders, generals, advisors, followers etc. as well. That is because the people who support false regimes are implicated in the karma of the entire regime. 

So all you have done herein, is admit that you are a card carrying member of a violent pedophile worshiping cult. That does not make you are criminal legally, but it makes you a criminal from the eyes of shastra, which says, supporters of false gurus are going to the bottom of the universe. Supporters of violent pedophile cults can avoid the laws of the state, but not the laws of God, according to shastra. Anyway, thanks. Now we can say for sure you are in the pedophile messiah's camp, for certain, because you just said you are. 

So yes, all the claims against you personally may or may not be true, but even so, if you are not hitting people direct, you cannot say "I am not hitting you, my stick is." Shastra says, that is also not allowed, it is also criminal de facto. 

And as for Lokanath's victim, she is merely one of tens of thousands of other victims of their regime. And I cannot help but notice you have not mentioned how you plan to help her, or any other victims. You have detailed how you serve the regime of the victimizers, what is your plan to serve the victims?

ys pd]  angel108b@yahoo.com

Krishna Balaram Temple / Online Janmasthami

 

Please Pray for Amala Bhakta Dasa (ISKCON L.A.)

PADA: Amala Bhakta das. Another guy who was sneering and angry at me when we had his child molester guru's program sued for $400,000,000 for mass child abuse. He saw me every day and never once asked me -- what happened to these kids, what is all this about, what is the problem etc. 

He is just happy as a clam that ISKCON is sued, so ISKCON will have to pay and not him personally. He just helps orchestrate his pedophile guru worship process, which harms children, and then he expects others to pay for his odious co-creation. 

Sorry! Eventually, he will have to pay, with interest compounded daily. No one is allowed to promote a mass child molesting empire and not have to pay back all the victims, the ISKCON society, and so on and so forth -- by working in Yamaraja's coal mines. 

Someone told me, he is another member of the "gay saffron mafia" that had Sulochan assassinated, it is possible that may be the case. He is the sannyasa disciple of Radhanath swami, who is evidently complicit in the Sulochana murder, burying deviants in samadhis, etc.

Yep! He is the darling saint of Los Angeles because he is a huge cheer leader of the worship of illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's program, which also buries pedophiles and sex with cats deviants in samadhis. Anyone who buries pedophiles and sex with cats in samadhis receives the status of sainthood in ISKCON Los Angeles. 

No, I am not gloating that he is sick, because karma is catching all of them one by one eventually. And that is in the hands of the higher powers. And karma is as reliable as the sun rising, it is the unstoppable wheels of justice that no one escapes from, ever. ys pd

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Please say a prayer for HH Amal Bhakta Swami.

He was taken to the hospital as he fell on the street and the ambulance came to pick him up. He was so pale and weak and couldn't walk. We gathered around him. We thought that he was passing away. Let's hope he recovers soon. Svavasa and Naikatma Prabhu were talking to him while the Ambulance was here. Let's hope he will recover soon.

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam (ISKCON Bangalore)

 

Hare Krishna's Vegan or Milk Diet Debate

https://theharekrishnamovement.com/2021/08/milk-krsnas-miracle-gift-to-mankind/?

[PADA: There are devotees out there sending me links to "Milk is Murder" web sites etc. And they want me to promote the Vegan ("no milk") diet. First of all, I believe Srila Prabhupada is well aware that USA milk cows are not always treated very well, and they are eventually slaughtered. Yet he authorized us to buy supermarket milk.

At the same time, a devotee from India told me that cows on dairy farms in America are practically in heaven -- when compared to how so many cows are uncared for and suffering badly in India. And even the so-called "cared for" cows are often skinny and unhealthy looking compared to big fat USA cows. 

So yes, the cows are not treated very well anywhere practically speaking. Yet Srila Prabhupada had us go out to the supermarket and buy milk. And we bought butter and made ghee etc. So it does seem like Srila Prabhupada wanted us to make the best of a bad bargain and get supermarket milk products.

Meanwhile, he also wanted us to get our own farms and have our own cows and milk. That was never really done fully. So it seems we have to fall back to his original system -- of having us buy supermarket milk. 

I also do not believe the Vegan diet by itself is fully healthy, because milk gives us special types of nutrition for the finer brain cells etc. Meanwhile, I do not think that Krishna should be offered only Vegan when He loves milk products. We are supposed to be serving Krishna, and that is the process the acharya gave us, buy supermarket milk and offer that to Krishna. And take it yourself. That is the system he authorized, and I do not feel it is my job to change the system he authorized. ys pd]   

   

How Current ISKCON Trains Children to Hate

Kids -- who feel suicidal and / or

homicidal? 

[PADA: Below is an account of how followers of ISKCON's "guru" Jayatirtha were very angry at the other ISKCON gurus -- for supposedly mistreating Jayatirtha.

And some of his followers wanted to possibly take violent action against the other ISKCON gurus. Bottom line, the current ISKCON guru management program teaches people to hate, whether they hate us Prabhupada devotees, hate other ISKCON gurus, hate women or etc. A female devotee just now said that the leader at her temple is a Lokanath disciple -- and he always criticizes women -- and in sum -- the ladies there think he is a misogynist (a woman hater).  

Worse, they have made many ISKCON children hate the Krishna religion wholesale by mistreating these children -- in the name of the Krishna religion. Thus, some of the ISKCON children were trained for example to hate me, for opposing the regime that was abusing them -- the same children who were being mistreated. They hate the abusers, and they hate us people addressing the abuse --because many of their parents told them us "dissenters" are also evil. So they just really hate all sorts of folks all round equally, because that is the training they had growing up. 

Of course many of the parents told their kids to love Narayan Maharaja, because he has bee a huge cheer leader of the ISKCON pedophile messiah's process and he was saying us dissenters are "ritvik poison" -- so he could defend his pedophile guru process and defeat our opposing. And he was in Texas -- yelling and literally spitting -- at our friends -- when we were putting together the molesting lawsuit in Texas. Yep, yelling at our friends -- in hate -- because our friends are not promoting pedophiles as Krishna's gurus. So NM hated us for opposing his pedophile guru process, and suing his pals like Tamal in Texas. OK another hater. 

Dang it, these ritviks are having my molester messiah's

project's leaders sued here in Texas!

While I am here in Texas 

kissing the jack boots of the molester messiahs!

In other words, the ISKCON leaders / or GBC have trained these children to hate other Vaishnavas, if not hate the Krishna religion. Worse, some of these children were trained to hate the very people who opposed the mistreatment of children in ISKCON. And thus a number of them are equally bitter with me, with ISKCON, with the GBC, and even with Krishna, because they were trained to be angry and bitter at basically everyone and everything -- by the environment they grew up in. OK they were injected with poisonous hatred by the environment they grew up in. Plain and simple as pie. 

This is very similar to what happened to children in the David Berg / "Children of God" cult. Some children in his program became "suicidal and homicidal." And one of these children murdered some of the church leaders and then killed himself. And we have seen the same "suicidal and homicidal" process going on with some of ISKCON's children victims. Again, "suicidal and homicidal" mentality is NOT how these children were originally born. All this illusion and hatred was later on injected into them by the environment they lived in, i.e. mainly by their parents acquiescing with the GBC's guru system.  

I also personally know various ex-ISKCON children who absolutely hate the Hare Krishna religion and all it stands for. Again! These children were not born with a venomous attitude towards the Krishna religion, they were trained to hate the religion by the leaders and often -- their parents who acquiesced with the corruption. They had zero hate for the Krishna religion in their brains at birth, but now all of a sudden they have been seething with bitterness, hatred, and a number of "negative emotions." 

Suicidal and homicidal emotions for example (same as David Berg pedophile cult)! 

Who put that hate into their heads? How do children become suicidal and homicidal without that being poured into their essence and being by the environment they were part of? We know for example of one young lady who was a GBC gurukula student -- who later on was arrested for trying to stab her mother to death. She was hog tied and shot up with tranquilizers and carted off in an ambulance, but she was still quite young when this took place. 

That means, she has essentially ended her normal life before it even started. She has ruined her chances of a normal life in large degree -- before she could even stand on her own two feet -- her legs of progress to create her moving forward in life were chopped off. Where did this suicidal and homicidal element come from? Well we know, but the people inside the David Berg pedophile cult could not figure it out either -- at least for many of them.

OK lets face it, this poison came from the ISKCON leaders mainly, they trained these people to be dysfunctioning haters, and they are still doing that to more victims. Now the Lokanath followers are spreading hateful messages about us, and even about other ISKCON gurus. Worse, they are sending hateful messages to women and mothers who do not want pedophiles to be worshiped as gurus in ISKCON. OK it is a pattern, hateful attitudes and behavior. And it is either suicidal or homicidal, take your pick of wonderful attitudes they are generating.  

Again, who created all these hateful people? The ISKCON leaders / GBC / Lokanath / church elders et al. collectively created this hateful situation. And this begs the question, are these leaders making people hate the religion because they themselves hate the religion, and they are only posing as its leaders while harboring hate in their own hearts, and thus wanting to spread their hate to others.   

I have seen numerous other instances where followers of various ISKCON gurus were very angry at "the other gurus" for trying to advise, restrain or contain their guru. For example now the Lokanath disciples are VERY upset and angry at the "other GBC gurus," and are calling some of these ISKCON gurus "bogus Westerners" if not fools -- and other ill names etc. So they hate others, including the other gurus in their parampara. 

What kind of parampara from heaven contains gurus that hate one another, and their followers thus write nasty messages about the other gurus in their parampara? Even Kirtanananda used to call Gopal Krishna swami "Goofball Krishna." OK he hated the guy, his other parampara member.

Look at this bundle of bliss!

Wow! I helped the program to get perhaps 

thousands of kids 

starved, beat, and molested!

Satan will be proud of me!

 

One of the followers of Lokanath said Bhakti Chaitanya swami is "a Westernized fool who is attacking India's gurus." Thus, the current ISKCON guru parampara contains "Westernized fools" -- according to -- themselves. Right! Why then is Lokanath getting "voted in" to that parampara -- which his followers say is -- full of Westernized fools and femi-nazis (their words)? And since Jayadvaita says their guru parampara contains -- illicit sex with men, women and possibly children, why is Lokanath seeking a guru stamp of approval from that process? 

Lokanath finds a nice bogus Westernized guru parampara -- that is destroying the tradition of guru in India; and is chock full of illicit sex with men, women and children; and has parampara members who followers hate each others guts; and then he surrenders to that guru parampara -- to become a co-member of that process. In sum, Lokanath finds a nice pedophile guru program, and then he runs over an licks their boots and wants to get their stamp of approval. Why is Lokanath part of the illicit sex and Westernized fools guru parampara, in the first place? 

What kind of society has "gurus" whose followers might hate each other, oppose each other, threaten each other etc.? Yes, we are part of the GBC guru system, and our system teaches us to hate -- the other Krishna's guru successors? What kind of religion teaches people to hate the other successors of Krishna?

Wait a minute? How can gurus, who are all allegedly pure devotees of Krishna, create competing camps that want to infight, argue or even do violence to one another. So this is another feature of the GBC's guru program: one guru camp sometimes despises the other guru's camp, and the followers of one camp might want to possibly take violent action against another guru and / or his followers for "offending" their guru.

Yep, of course later Jayatirtha's head was chopped off by his own follower. Right, he spawned his own suicidal and homicidal victims, just as other GBC gurus were doing. He spawned his own demise. ISKCON is making violent guru cults, including violent pedophile guru cults, and they knew this all along since 1978. They evidently don't care really if Krishna's devotees are banned, beat, molested, sued and assassinated -- at least self evidently. They don't even care of they spawn suicidal and homicidal problems, with inter-homicidal attitudes among -- their own gurus. ys pd]

KK Dasa: Recently, there has been a fair amount of discussion about fanatical disciples and how they’re willing to defend their guru.

Was there any fanaticism among Jayatirtha’s disciples after the GBC declared that he was unfit to be a guru in 1982? There certainly was.

Jayatirtha Dasa took a large number of his disciples to Nepal to begin a new preaching venture. Throughout this time, the disciples were shielded from what was known in ISKCON about Jayatirtha. Eventually, this information filtered through.

One day in Kathmandu, in a large rented house where preaching programs were held and where the disciples lived, jayatirtha gave a talk in which he spoke of his bad experiences with his fellow zonal-acaryas and the GBC. Jayatirtha was in a distressed state as he explained his grievances. He cried at intervals. He described how he was forced to take sannyasa by the GBC and how he was physically manhandled by a GBC member during a GBC meeting. 

Can you imagine how the disciples felt upon hearing these actions against their guru? The disciples also shared in this emotive scene. On top of all this, Jayatirtha, like the other zonal-acaryas was considered an officially recognised maha-bhagavata.

After these emotionally-charged revelations given by Jayatirtha, the mood of the disciples changed to anger. Now, the GBC, the other zonal-acaryas and others were enemies. How did this enmity manifest?

One example occurred after the Nepali preaching initiative failed in Pokhara and the disciples were relocated to New Delhi at a place called Tourist Camp. Disciples waited around for air-tickets so they could get home, away from the directionless confusion of a breakaway faction of ISKCON. There was a recreational area. In that place, some photos of certain zonal-acaryas were used as dartboards. Darts were thrown at those pictures.

In Blackheath, London, where a branch of Jayatirtha’s breakaway faction stayed, several other acts of fanaticism were carried out. On some occasions, if it was known that an ISKCON leader was in the vicinity, a disciple or two would grab an item that could be used as a weapon, with the intent to commit assault. Since ISKCON UK was reeling from the after-effects of a guru fall down, many meetings were held at a national level. Some disciples would make abusive phone calls to devotees participating in those meetings.

Another time, a bold, daring plot was hatched to steal the Sri Sri Pancha-tattva deities from Chaitanya College. Four disciples went there by stealth in the night with a van. Before the theft, a disciple did some reconnaissance to ensure no one was around. That disciple encountered a Prabhupada-disciple chanting on the property. The plan was called off. I’m sure there were other incidents that I’m not aware of. In the relative isolation of Pokhara, a disciple turned into a whistle-blower after witnessing dubious behaviour in the guru, and his life was threatened.

Lessons: It can be dangerous to hang around with fanatical followers of any kind when confusion and uncertainty reigns It takes just a single careless or true word to ignite trouble.

The higher the disciples revere their guru, the stronger the reaction will be against any challenge to such reverence, even if the challenges are true.
It would appear that within ISKCON, there is still a culture of revering gurus who do not match up to the high estimations of actual pure devotees. It’s an indication, and it shouldn’t surprise us if we encounter similar fanatical behaviour in disciples today or in the future. I had no joy in writing this. If it serves to inform on how fanaticism exists, then it’s an area of concern which requires education of guru-tattva grounded in practical truths rather than in ideology.

Ys KK Dasa.

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/3389554/i-was-forced-to-marry-notorious-paedophile-cult-leader-david-berg-at-aged-three/

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-horrors-of-growing-up-in-a-pedophilic-sex-cult?

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/id-shows/children-of-god-sex-cult-pedophilia-prostitution-apocalypse-david-berg-river-phoenix

Women Against Raghunath Swami (Change Org)

 https://www.change.org/p/gbc-comisi%C3%B3n-del-cuerpo-gobernante-de-iskcon-denuncia-l%C3%ADder-espiritual-mis%C3%B3gino-de-iskcon/u/29519536?

[PADA: He's a disciple of Lokanath Swami. It's the usual anti woman rhethoric that we've often heard in their classes... women do not want to accept the worship of pedophiles as God incarnate, so let's shut them up.

He is talking about how women are disqualified in account of their bodies to serve in leadership positions...Yep, women do not want their children to worship homosexuals and pedophiles and sexual predators as their children's gurus. As soon as a woman speaks up to protest, she gets death threats from their violent pedophile worshiping cult. We need to expose this dangerous criminal pedophile worshiping process to save children, and women who are also victims of exploiting and even -- threats of violence. ys pd]

ISKCON Guru's Criminal and Murdering Brotherhood

Lokanath Swami's Nephew Arvind Patil

http://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2021/07/iskcon-india-icc-responds-to-na-gbc.html

[PADA: Yep, he is the darling of the ISKCON India ICC. When the ICC are not busy promoting pedophiles as God incarnate, they are promoting gangsters. Of course when the ICC finds a nice pedophile who orchestrates murders, and is alleged to have had sex with cats, they all fall off their chairs and start licking the boots of their favorite sex with cats messiah -- and have him buried in a samadhi. Evidently, ICC thinks persons engaged in oral sex with minors, and having sex with cats, and orchestrating murders, is their biggest "as good as God" hero to worship. ys pd]

Sahasranam (Arvind Patil), nephew of Lokanath Swami (Raghunath Patil), shot Kadamba Kanana Swami in 1995, and murdered Vrinda dasi in 2011. Both acts of violence were about land.

https://iskcondesiretree.com/.../lessons-in-life-by...

Video cued to Kadamba Kanana speaking about getting shot and how he could barely lift his arm two years after getting shot:

https://youtu.be/0a7N9lIMIhY?t=2532

Sahasranam murdered Lokanath's disciple Vrinda dasi (Bodha Voie) in 2011 over a land feud. He was found later using her debit card to withdraw cash.

https://www.harekrsna.com/sun/news/12-11/news4073.htm

https://www.harekrsna.com/sun/news/01-12/news4135.htm

https://www.harekrsna.com/.../01-12/editorials8199.htm

After shooting Kadamba Kanana Swami, and murdering Lokanath's disciple Vrinda dasi, Sahasranam was invited to speak at the ICC meeting on July 9, 2021 (video cued to him speaking):

https://youtu.be/iwVFyHMC7Nw?t=7831

Lokanath also invited Sahasranam, murderer of one of his disciples, to speak at his Vyasa Puja this year.

ISKCON's Pedophile Guru Crisis: Two Choices

[PADA: Correct LD: The GBC decided to make illicit sex with men, women and children and criminal behaviors their de facto "lesser etiquette standard" for ISKCON's gurus in 1978, and then they had one scandal after the next as their gurus crashed and burned. Instead of realizing, we cannot keep rubber stamping gurus artificially, they just kept adding more and more gurus to their pile of scandal making gurus, and their pile of crashed and burned ex-messiahs on the garbage heap. 

So I agree, the Lokanath thing is turning into a movement in itself. It is not really Lokanath himself, it is the whole issue of making deviants into gurus and messiahs artificially. I also agree this is a historical event, will ISKCON decide to finally declare that pedophiles are not EVER God's successors, or not? 

Will they bury their pedophile guru idea, or will they continue to bury ISKCON in one guru scandal after another? You are also right, this Lokanath thing has turned into a cause celebre on its own, because it shows the corruption of the GBC has not changed one iota since 1978. 

They wanted to make pedophiles into their acharyas in 1978, and they still do, they have learned zero in all this time. That is why many people are finally rebelling, enough is enough! So they will either change, or lose thousands more people, and lose ISKCON in the end, because ISKCON will be simply seen as laughingstock bogus pedophile worshipers process with zero credibility, as it already is seen by many people currently. So, you either clean out your toilet sewage spill, and clean your place up, or people will avoid going to your residence, it is that simple.

So you are right, ISKCON is at the cross roads, clean up the sewer, or keep the stink. Either way, history will see what they do for centuries to come. This is truly a moment in history. Agreed.

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K Dasa: Yes, the pedestal thing is a problem. Why do the GBC insist on imparting such institutional charisma to a select band of individuals? New devotees are funnelled toward them for diksha in their hundreds and thousands, naturally thinking that they are special in some way due to the GBC endorsement, a misapprehension compounded further by their ever increasing number of followers and hence apparent external success through the medium of such acolytes. All this only further convinces the GBC that they have to impose rigid controls on who can give diksha, which only exacerbates a problem of their own making.

Imagine if they had just let diksha occur naturally according to genuine siksha relationships. How many disciples would gurus accumulate? Traditionally gurus would have a handful that they could personally guide. Now, thanks to the GBC controls, they amass thousands and in the end become uncontrollable. How many more times must this be thrust into our faces before it changes?

GS: Child abuse is not even human behavior.

PADA: Lokanath became "a diksha guru" because the GBC made a "Guru Reform" where they legislated that in future -- more ISKCON gurus would be "2/3 show of hands voted in" as gurus. Narayan Maharaja, Satsvarupa, Jayadvaita, Jagadish and others were all working together to pen Satsvarupa's "Guru Reform Notebook," although original drafts were being circulated way before it was officially published. And so they "2/3 show of hands" voted in a bunch more gurus, most of whom also fell by the wayside and created scandals. 

Even Hrdayananda said "the Mad Acharya's Disease has become an epidemic." In other words, as the first wave of false gurus was crashing on the beach, they voted in another wave, which was later on also crashing on the beach. And that is why Srila Prabhupada said -- gurus are not subordinated to the votes of mundane people. Giving Lokanath the false nomenclature of diksha guru is the fault of the combined GBC, and their advisors, and we should understand that false guru designations are at the root of all these "guru scandal" problems. If he is having a scandal now, he never was a guru. ys pd

Lokanath Swami Attempts to Curb His Attack Dogs

[PADA: Lokanath swami is acknowledging that his followers are making threats of violence towards others. And thus he is trying to call off his attack dogs. Unfortunately, he has presented himself as a pure devotee of God, and some of his followers are calling him "God incarnate." 

So naturally -- some of his fanatical and mis-informed followers think it is their duty to defend "God's incarnation." In sum, he has created a violent fanatical pedophile worship cult. Whether he is honestly concerned for the welfare of others -- or not -- is hard to say. Maybe he is more worried that these threats could be tied back to him -- by India's CBI, or USA's FBI, and / or Interpol and he might get arrested for orchestrating death threats.

At the same time, he is a full time leader of a pedophile worshiping program (and for most of his adult life) that regularly bans, beats, molests, sues and even assassinates anyone who objects to their pedophile worshiping cult. He knows that his group takes their pedophile messiah's worship program very seriously, even deadly seriously. We foolish peons have to assist their pedophile worship process, or face dire consequences, including possible assassination -- of which I am a first hand eye-witness to. 

Anyway this is a good start. 

He seems to be opening the door for a little bit of respect for the opposing side -- i.e. anyone who does not want to worship Lokanath and his illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's process. Naturally, as soon as the Lokanath followers find a non-pedophile messiah worshiper -- they are infuriated and want to silence the people who prefer to worship pure devotees like Srila Prabhupada. 

And that is why his followers call us "the bogus ritviks," because the ritviks do not worship Lokanath and his illicit sex deviants, perhaps even sex with cats is contained in the Lokanath parampara. Thus we "ritviks" only worship pure devotees -- hence we have to be erased off the face of the earth, or at least be banned -- since they cannot just kill us outright, although a number of them would evidently like to. 

It looks like the pedophile messiah's club is circling the wagons to beat back the onslaught of opposition, which is why Basu Ghosh, the INDIA ICC, and friends of Basu Ghosh like Bhakti Vikas swami, Badrinarayan, et al. are all gathering together to make one last stand to uphold their pedophile messiah's club. It is not going to work long term, that we can assure them. 

Sulochana said: even dogs do not worship illicit sex with men, women and children; dogs do not molest children; dogs do not ban, beat and assassinate Vaishnavas, so these people like Lokanath swami are not advanced enough to worship a dog. So it will take them many, many lives to become advanced enough to worship a dog. 

ys pd]        

Dear Disciples, Friends, and Well wishers,

Please accept my respects, prayers, and blessings for your continued happiness and well being, in Krishna Consciousness.

It has been brought to my attention, by several senior devotees, that those calling themselves my well wishers (even including some of my disciples), have been resorting to: threats, derogatory comments, and insults towards others. 

As you all know very well, we are followers of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. We should all remember the appropriate teachings of Mahaprabhu in his Shikshastakam. Mahaprabhu wrote, "trinad api sunichena, taror api sahishnunaa, amanina manadena" - consider oneself lower than the straw in the street, be more tolerant than a tree, never desire respect or regard, and always offer all respects to others".

Please know that I disapprove of all such things, even if you feel obliged to react because of actions that have been taken (or words that have been spoken), against me.

In this regard, please be so very kind as to cease and desist from using any violent words and / or actions against others.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this regard.
Yours in service of Srila Prabhupada,

Lokanath Swami

San Diego ISKCON's Pedophile "God Incarnate"

http://krishna1008.blogspot.com/2021/08/san-diego-iskcons-molester-messiahs.html

How do pedophiles from ISKCON including San Diego become

"God incarnate"?

And why is Badri Hosting and Promoting 

Bhakti Vikash Swami:

The best pal of pedophile Lokanath's defender's team 

like Basu Ghosh?

S. Dasi: Email I sent to Bhakti Caitanya Swami today:

Hare Krishna Bhakti Caitanya Swami,

Regarding your recent email sent out to devotees concerned about the Lokanath Swami case, here is some advice from Badrinarayan Swami from 1999:

"I would drop the "H.H." all the way through it. It sets the tone which may not be the one we want. Lokanath Maharaj is fine and may not rankle others."

I will respond to your other email shortly.

Your servant,

S dasi

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 10:50 Bhakti Caitanya Swami 

(bhakti.caitanya.swami@gmail.com) <mailer@pamho.net> wrote:

Dear devotee of Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We have received your message concerning His Holiness Lokanatha Maharaj. It is a very challenging, stressful situation.

We are praying to Lord Krishna and Srila Prabhupada that the matter can be settled in a way that is fair and proper all round.

Please bear with us for the time being. The GBC Body is doing its best to resolve it as soon as possible.

Your servants,
Bhakti Caitanya Swami
Bhanu Swami
Revati Ramana das
GBC Executive Committee
#lokanathcasetoicpo

[PADA: After having 30 years to resolve this issue, guess what? More foot dragging. Well sure, we are going to make an "ISKCON resolve" committee; a Lokanath issue committee; a "Srila Prabhupada's position" committee, ad infinitum committee. Meanwhile, Lokanath's thugs are sending vile messages out to various Krishna devotees, because they have been trained to be vile goondas by the GBC. 

And the truth is, they never resolve the root issue, conditioned souls cannot be gurus. And conditioned souls who touch little girls are degraded conditioned souls who should not have a post of power and worship. 

Notice how quickly and easily the mundane society got rid of Governor Cuomo when his scandals started to leak. And Lokanath is being advertised as "God incarnate" by some of his followers, while he cannot keep the standards for mundane Governor? ys pd]

Letter COM:2134385 (14 lines) From: Yasoda (dd) BKG (USA) Date: 04-Mar-99 01:37 To: Bir Krishna das Goswami [10942] 

Subject: 1990 Incident Report: Final Version 

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Dear Srila Gurudeva: 

PAMO AGTYDG AGTSP The report is inaccurate in two areas. If I recall it correctly, when she played the harmonium he caressed her thigh. He moved close to her on the couch when no one was there and pulled away when someone entered. His hand did not brush against her thigh while reading Krishna book ... it was on top of her genitals and I think he pressed down. 

The girl felt so violated because it was her vagina and also because he pulled away when someone entered and resumed when they were gone. This made her feel dirtier. YS,Yasoda 

March 5th, 1999 Dear Ravindra prabhu: Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad. I am sympathetic to the difficulties you faced in writing this. Given those you have done a very good job. I do however have a number of concerns. Without changes made along the lines mentioned below I cannot stand behind this statement. 

Sorry, but I just don't think it will wash, but rather it will come back to haunt all of us. I want to see Lokanath Maharaj off the hook and these sad events buried in the past, but I do not think that this statement, as it is now, gets us closer to those goals. It could, with a little more work. Your servant, 

Badrinarayan dasa 

Information Release from the GBC ------ 

Brief Account of a 1990 Incident Involving H. H. Lokanath Swami And How the GBC Handled It 

Bnd: I would drop the "H.H." all the way through it. It sets the tone which may not be the one we want. Lokanath Maharaj is fine and may not rankle others. In 1993, a fourteen-year-old girl of Indian background lodged a complaint concerning H. H. Lokanath Swami before some members of the GBC. (The girl is a daughter of initiated ISKCON members who have long resided in America.) 

The girl asserted that about three years earlier, when she had been eleven years old and Lokanath Swami had been staying in her family's home, incidents took place between them which made her feel sexually victimized by Lokanath Swami. 

After receiving the girl's complaint, it was arranged for a committee of seven GBC members to meet with Lokanath Swami as soon as possible. The GBC also arranged for the young girl to be interviewed, first by a female devotee whom the girl knew and trusted, and then by another female devotee who was a mental health professional in the field of child molestation. 

The GBC committee had immediately suspended Lokanath Swami from initiating further disciples and restricted his movements while it undertook a complete investigation. This is what the GBC committee found out: 

In 1990, while Lokanath Swami was leading the world-wide "Padayatra" program, he had suffered a broken leg. While convalescing with his right leg in a cast, he stayed for about seven days with a devotee family in America. During his sojourn, Lokanath Swami was frequently pressed by the father of the family to administer spiritual instruction and discipline to his children, especially to the youngest child, an eleven-year-old girl. 

During the course of Lokanath Swami's interactions with the girl, the incidents occurred that the girl later reported. She reported that Lokanath Swami sometimes sat uncomfortably close to her, when, for example, teaching her to play harmonium. Sometimes he would praise her by patting her and saying "Very good." 

One morning, Lokanath Swami, who had been especially charged by the father with the task of getting the girl up on time, noticed that the girl was tardy. While chanting in his room, Lokanath Swami saw the girl in the room directly opposite his. In spite of the late hour, she was still wearing the long T-shirt that she used as a nightgown, and she was upset that he saw her. 

When he told her to go take her shower, she ran into her closet to hid from him. He made her come out, and as she ran past him, he said, "Go and take your shower!" and swatted her with his hand. 

Bnd: They are all going to ask "Where did he swat her?" Head, back, shoulder is one thing…rear end (which is what happened) is another. We are leaving out details which clarify events. I know that this is the painful part but to not do so is like the servants telling the bad tempered king that his favorite elephant had died…

"She is lying down and not breathing". The details will get out; I believe there is already a script read to his aspiring disciples before initiation, and when the details are compared to what we say, we will be accused of a whitewash. 

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However, the incident that most distressed the girl took place one morning in the living-room. The two sat close together on a couch reading from a volume of the Krsna book, with Lokanath Swami's servant going in and out of the room and the girl's mother cooking in the adjoining kitchen. As they sat reading together, Lokanath Swami's hand touched and moved across the girl's upper thigh over her clothing. 

Bnd: It was more than this. His hand was palm down, it was over her private area, he moved it away when the mother or other family member came in the room and then moved it back when they left. The girl moved his hand and he moved it back. 

I want to let Lokanath Maharaj off the hook and I know this is a disaster for him, but with this version, I think we (including Maharaj) may all lose whatever credibility and good will we have left. Reading further, I have come to this statement: "When questioned, Lokanath Swami could recognize the various individual episodes that had caused her disturbance, and he confessed to the emergence in himself, during the incident of reading together, of shameful feelings." 

This is an improvement. This will pacify the pious and gentle, but I think that those who are angry or suspicious are going to demand more details. 

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The psychologists who evaluated this matter had no doubt that the girl had undergone a disturbing and even traumatizing experience. 

When questioned, Lokanath Swami could recognize the various individual episodes that had caused her disturbance, and he confessed to the emergence in himself, during the incident of reading together, of shameful feelings. In order to help determine the proper disposition of this case, the GBC sent Lokanath Swami to CAP Behavior Associates, Inc., a group of mental health professional that specializes in evaluating and treating clergy (from a variety of religious traditions) implicated in child molestation. 

The beginning of their written report outlines their procedure: "The following is a summary of our evaluation of Swami Lokanath and is provided per the request of the patient in accord with the wishes of the Governing Body Commission of I sk[c]on. The evaluation was conducted over a two day period (6/25/93 & 6/26/93) and consisted of multiple clinical interviews (complete mental status, psychosocial and psychosexual histories), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory II, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory II, the Assault Knowledge Inventory, and the Rorschach Inkblot Test." 

The CAP Behavior Associates team also received a report from the psychotherapist who had interviewed the victim. After the evaluation was completed, members of CAP team met personally with some members of the GBC, explained their findings and answered questions. The following are their major findings: 

1. Lokanath Swami is not a pedophile. He presents no danger to children. 

2. Although the girl was young, she had begun the transition to womanhood, and Lokanath Swami did not sexually relate to her presence as that of a child. 

3. Lokanath Swami had been brought up in a way that kept him entirely innocent of the experience of sexuality. He had not undergone the normal (or, at any rate, western) adolescent struggle of coming to grips with sexuality and sexual feelings. 

Thus, when he found himself put into close association with this young girl, some sexual feelings unexpectedly arose, but these feelings were new to him, and he did not know exactly how to acknowledge them or cope with them. The normal, reflexive restraints and inhibitions that experience would have established in him were not in place, and he yielded, momentarily, to impulse, and thus acted in a transgressive manner. 

4. Certain circumstances conspired to disassociate Lokanath Swami from his usual sense of himself and his normal behavior and to make him unusually vulnerable. First, his leg was broken, a serious disability for one's whose main service and raison d'être was Padayatra, walking. Second, his immobility confined him for a prolonged period to an unfamiliar domestic atmosphere, full with family interactions and emotions. 

Third, the strong desire of the father for Lokanath Swami to administer discipline and instruction to the girl also drove him into closer association with a female than he would ordinarily venture. 5. The episodes offensive to the girl were therefore anomalous, brought about by a highly "unusual concatenation of circumstances." They arose fortuitously, and with a minimum of precautions, such occasions should be easy to avoid in the future. 

6. Lokanath Swami's entire identity and sense of self is built upon his role as a religious leader, and it is a role to which his personality is exceptionally well-suited. Given the unique conditions that prompted the episodes, and given the fact that there is no reason to expect such episodes to occur again, Lokanath Swami should remain in his role as a religious leader. (However, this does not negate the girl legitimate feelings of violation and abuse.) 

Bnd: All well and good, but what about someone who asks, "If he did it once, in the same situation (staying with a family for some days, young pubescent girls in the house) he could do it again. Our only guarantee is that he promises to not be in this situation again. Pretty weak assurance actually. 

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Having received this evaluation, the GBC committee had to make a decision. It's conclusion, arrived at after much discussion, was that Lokanath Bnd: Typo "it's" instead of "its" ----------------------------- Swami's fault quite exactly exemplified what Srila Prabhupada termed an "accidental" mistake (B.G. 9. 30-31). 

Lokanath Swami's transgression was not planned or premeditated. It was, to use Prabhupada's terminology, unconscious, not willful, unknowing. (See for example, the conversation of May 10, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio and the morning walk of January 9, 1976 in Madras.) First, the stage was set by the highly "unusual concatenation of circumstances": a broken leg, an overlong stay in a householder's dwelling, the obligation to the father to have dealings with the girl, and so on, all of which together operated to put Lokanath Swami in a vulnerable state. 

Second, Lokanath Swami's own inexperienced condition, his unusual sexual innocence or naivete, meant that at the age of forty Lokanath Swami was suddenly ambushed by feeling he had never dealt with before, and which he consequently had trouble acknowledging and controlling effectively. Whenever Prabhupada discussed such an accidental mistake, he referred to the sudden reappearance of a discontinued bad habit. Lokanath Swami case was a little different: there was not even the underlying traces of a former habit. 

Hence, in his case, it was a mistake that was highly unlikely to happen again. 

Bnd: "Hence, in his case, it was a mistake that was highly unlikely to happen again." 

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Better lay out the reasons why. That it happened once is an argument that it could happen again. The only unlikely variable is that he is unlikely to break his leg again. A vow from him to never stay with an family overnight and to never, ever be alone with young girls may be the answer…with a promise that he will stop initiating if he breaks this. I can see the difficulties in this, but what is the guarantee that he will not be in a similar situation and again be "ambushed by these feelings"? 

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He was found to be neither a pedophile nor a sexual aggressor. At the same time the action was anomalous, circumstantial, and not indicative of future behavior. Furthermore, the GBC could recognize the truth of the psychologists' assessment that Lokanath Swami was eminently suited to his role as a spiritual leader and guide, and that not allowing him to act in that capacity would be utterly devastating to his personal identity, his sense of himself. 

Bnd: "eminently suited"? If we over look the above incident. I would strongly suggest that this sentence be reworded. I can see the VNN headlines now. "Sexual aggressor deemed eminently qualifed to be guru by ISKCON/ GBC". 

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For these reasons, the GBC committee decided his suspension from giving initiations would remain in effect only until Gaura Purnima of 1996. Thus for two and a half years he performed no initiations. By the time he began to initiate again, more than five years would have gone by since the incident in America. Two further stipulations were added to underscore the seriousness of his breach of conduct and to help him atone for his offense to the girl: Lokanath Swami was asked to spend at least two months in Vrindavan in a mood of repentance, praying to Prabhupada and Krishna for forgiveness. 

He did this, and he reports that he continues to repent. In addition, he was directed to seek forgiveness from the victim herself. This he did also, first in writing and later in person, offering his obeisances to the girl in the presence of a family member. Bnd: Has the girl accepted his genuine remorse? Is she going to read this and agree or become angry? If she is not in agreement it could be the impetus for her speaking out or trying to sue him. 

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In 1997, Lokanath Swami's leading disciples were also informed of the incident, and , in consultation with the GBC, guidelines were established for informing prospective initiates of Lokanath Swami's transgression and its resolution. These guidelines were applied according to time, place, and circumstance. Bnd: "These guidelines were applied according to time, place, and circumstance." What does this mean? 

Is this the after-the-fact rationale for the fact that he was suppose to tell all his prospective initiates, but did not? We GBCs agreed to his reinitiating if he told all of them and he didn't. Now we take the fall for letting him initiate and him not telling people. This stains the GBCs credibility for what was in fact Lokanath Mahara j not following through on his promise. I can understand his difficulty and the pain in this full disclousure. Still he did promise, and he did not do follow through. We are trying to maintain people's faith in ISKCON and the GBC. This statement undermines that. 

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The major misgivings of the committee is that word of this event would eventually leak out, and inevitably become exaggerated; Lokanath Swami reputation would be sullied, and the GBC would be accused of "covering up for a pedophile." 

Bnd: Although that was an element, that was not the only reason. For most of us, the main reason was so that the disciples could choose with full knowledge, so they would not be angry or crushed when they found out later on. If you don't present the full picture we look like we are covering up for him and duping the innocent. 

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Although acutely aware of this likely prospect, the GBC committee felt it to be unprincipled to destroy Lokanath Swami's life and service merely for the sake of expediency. Bnd: This sentence is also too glowing in its endorsement. It does not destroy his life to not be a guru. One of the main reasons we agreed was because he cannot see himself functioning outside of being a guru and he would be crushed if he could not continue in this way. To preach, serve the Deities and Vaisnavas, to hear and chant….but not as a guru….would "destroy his life"? We are going to take much flak for these last few lines. 

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The committee also recalled that Prabhupada had himself exercise a policy of trying to protect the reputation of erring leaders so that they could rectify themselves and continue to service the movement. On several occasions when a sannyasi had a falldown and the fact was embellished and broadcast by scandalized gossip, Prabhupada became angry. Although no one ever accused Prabhupada of a "cover-up," the committee members realized that if they perpetuated Prabhupada's same policy in the current milieu, they would be so accused. 

Bnd: Sannyasis falling down is one thing, gurus falling down is another. What about Srila Prabhupad saying that he could be lenient, but we needed to be very strict. The argument was that when Srila Prabhupad overlooked these falldowns, we always had Srila Prabhupad as the paragon of virtue and ultimate spiritual purity. Now that falls to the GBC and ISKCON gurus. You are comparing two different times and realities. 

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Nevertheless, according to the teachings and practices established by Srila Prabhupada, Lokanath Swami's sole accidental mistake did not disqualify him from his service, provided he recognized his fault and took every necessary step to atone for it and rectify himself. And this he did. 

Bnd: Too glowing. Time will tell what he did. We had to work with him over several years to break his long talks alone with Prasanta dasi…if they have in fact stopped. If we say "he took every necessary step" we are going to lose all those who spoke repeatedly to Maharaj about this and saw it go on still. Again, I know that this is painful, but I am just trying to work this so we can put it behind us, not give it new life and make it worse. 

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In the event, the worry of the committee turned out to have been well-founded, and the incident has now been broadcast by gossip and rumor, circulating usually in a highly distorted and exaggerated form. Given this situation, we are issuing this veridical account of the 1990 incident and of the GBC's manner of dealing with it. Bnd: "gossip and rumor" is a bit unfair and arrogant. It is a significant event and for it to be in the course of discussion is no surprise. I am not sanctioning the rumor mill or gossip, but I think the tone is condescending and presumptuous. He, and we by association, are the ones at fault here; we should not be calling names and pointing fingers. We are trying to convince, pacify, woo, and apologize to the audience, not anger or insult them. As a small note, I think it is better to close with a more commonly used word than "veridical". Although accurate it rings as a bit pompous and may not be the way we want close out this perfume job. 

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Appended here is the conclusion of the report on Lokanath Swami submitted by CAP Behavior Associates., New York, NY, dated July 1, 1993: 

Bnd: Some will ask "why appended". Why not just say "Here is a summary of the conclusion of the report…." 

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"Thus, given the above detailed character and personality analyses we do not believe that Swami Lokanath suffers from any paraphiliac condition and does not pose a danger of overt sexual violence toward women and children. These findings do not negate the fact that he acted in a clearly inappropriate manner or that the girl who was a recipient of thee acts may have experienced many traumatic sequelae common to victims of sexual abuse. 

We believe that Lokanath's actions were not consciously planned but resulted from his own lack of any experience of the intimacy and/or sexuality and the internalized awareness of boundaries which such experiences provide. This dearth of experiential knowledge would have been compensated had Lokanath adhered strictly to the tenets of his religious beliefs about the proper boundaries to be observed by males with a females. 

However, Lokanath found himself in a very unique setting which evoked feelings of early family ties coupled with feelings of vulnerability due to his physical limitations and took him briefly out of his usual sense of himself as defined by his religious persona. In order to best assure that such a set of circumstances could not reoccur we strongly suggest that Swami Lokanath not allow himself to be alone with a woman or child, that he continue his religious works of service as they are absolutely necessary for maintenance of a healthy sense of himself in the world, that he not spend more than one day / night with any one family while travelling, and that he seek the on-going support of his colleagues via communications with him during his travels. [Signed:] Ken Cullen, C.S.W. Christina Casals-Ariet, M.D., J.D., Vera Beato-Smith, Ph.D." (end)