[PADA: When Bhakti Vikas swamis says their fallen gurus are only understood in India, but not in the West, that is a giant insult to India's culture and system of guru parampara. What do they mean when they say only Westerners will NOT want to worship their illicit sex with men, women and children gurus, but this is acceptable in India. And how can illicit sex with men, women and children deviants and their system of enablers "vote in more gurus"? ys pd]
January 27, 2024
Dear Devotees of the ISKCON Regional Governing Board of North America,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I would like to inform you that Kesava Bharati is being publicly worshiped daily at the ISKCON Houston temple. These photos were taken on January 19, 2024. The pujari who put Kesava Bharati’s photo on the altar does arati daily.
On May 3, 2023 the ISKCON Child Protection Office placed interim restrictions on Kesava Bharati while they investigated allegations of child abuse against him. Interim restriction #3 was: “He must not publicly represent ISKCON in any way”
On August 23, 2023, two ISKCON Houston managers were notified of the interim restrictions on Kesava Bharati: Temple President Saranga Thakur, and Child Protection Volunteer Sonia.
Four months later, on December 12, 2023, the ISKCON Child Protection Office found Kesava Bharati guilty of child sexual abuse and placed multiple restrictions on him, including:
“KBdG may not hold any position of leadership or management, including in an advisory capacity.”
From this restriction, we look to the GBC’s 2007 Resolution:
“Whenever the ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection rules that an offense is such as to restrict a person from serving in ISKCON in positions of leadership (including but not limited to offices of GBC, minister, zonal secretary or temple officer), the restriction must include the position of initiating guru. This restriction shall apply to all previous and future decisions of the Central Office of Child Protection.” https://gbc.iskcon.org/2007
Furthermore, the ISKCON Law Book states that a suspended guru may not be publicly worshiped at ISKCON centers:
"6.4.8.5 Guru Under Suspension
6.4.8.5.1 No Public Worship
There should be no public worship of a guru who is under suspension by the GBC.
6.4.8.5.2 Disciples Offering Arati
While performing arati to the Deities a disciple of a suspended guru should offer the various articles through Srila Prabhupada to the disciplic succession.”
https://ia601303.us.archive.org/.../Isk.../IskconLawBook.pdf
In 2018, the GBC ratified the "ISKCON Child Protection Office Policy & Operational Guidelines," which includes the following restrictions:
"No person, who has been determined to have engaged in severe maltreatment of children, will be allowed to remain active in a position of authority or trust within ISKCON, this includes activities such as leading kirtan, giving class, speaking publicly at any ISKCON event or representing ISKCON in official capacities." http://www.safetemple.org/.../04/CPO-Guidelines-2018.pdf
From the most recent GBC zonal assignments listed online (2022), it is not clear who the GBC member(s) are for ISKCON Houston:
https://gbc.iskcon.org/.../03/Zonal_Assignments_2022.pdf
Also, ISKCON Houston lists a school on their website for children ages 2 to 5th grade:
https://iskconhouston.org/goswami-academy/
That’s a good impetus for them to comply with ISKCON Child Protection Policies and Procedures.
I would like to file a formal complaint and request that the ISKCON Regional Governing Board of North America appropriately address this child protection infraction by ISKCON Houston.
Please let me know what additional steps I can take to assist you with this.
Thank you.
Your servant,
S dasi
cc: Saranga Thakur, ISKCON Houston Temple President
Sonia, ISKCON Houston Child Protection Volunteer
International ISKCON CPO
North American ISKCON CPO
PADA: Yes, there was a woman teacher in Dallas who badly mistreated a child. The child required hospitalization and long term care. So the temple said -- she could not attend any longer. However, my friend was sitting in the temple when she came back in, and everyone was welcoming her in. So my friend said, "excuse me, isn't she not supposed to be here"? And immediately the temple goons came over and said to him -- "you have to leave -- and if you come back -- we will call the police and have you arrested."
He is still banned as of today. Of course, the Texas Krishnas [Houston or Dallas] has a long history of oppressing people who challenge child mistreatment, going back to the 1980s. In 1986 we helped a woman who had been kicked out sue them for $3,000,000 -- because they mistreated her kids, and she won easily. In other words, this is a pattern of how they behave there. They also used to have porno pada Gunagrahi glorified there when he would visit, after it was well known he was addicted to watching porno etc. ys pd
MR Dasi: I love that you requested a formal complaint against ISCKON Houston ... they treated me so poorly after opening up about being abused by Kesheva Barti … they don’t take victims of abuse seriously because they prefer to not take responsibility
“I would like to file a formal complaint and request that the
ISKCON Regional Governing Board of North America appropriately address this child protection infraction by
ISKCON Houston.”
HP: He's another one of their bogus cheating gooroos as well as amongst all the other crimes.
S Dasi:
Here is a timeline of Kesava Bharati's activities, including abuse of children and young women:
1977 - Kesava Bharati bragged that he “slapped silly” a 14-year-old runaway that had sought shelter at the Kansas City temple.
1979 - Kesava Bharati took sannyas from TKG in Dallas, leaving his wife and 6-year-old son.
1982 - Kesava Bharati locked 18-year-old R dasi in a room and tried to touch her inappropriately. R dasi contemplated leaving New Vrajamandala after this.
1983 - Kesava Bharati sexually assaulted 23-year-old M dasi who then ran away from New Vrajamandala.
1983-1986 - Kesava Bharati used temple money to hire prostitutes.
1983 - After Kesava Bharati came to Madrid from London, a doctor regularly gave Kesava Bharati medicine injections to treat his venereal disease(s) which he contracted from prostitutes.
1984 - Kesava Bharati came to Madrid from the United States with gonorrhea.
1984 - Kesava Bharati sexually harassed 19-year-old H dasi in Malaga, Spain.
1985 - Kesava Bharati regularly called young gurukula girls to his room alone, grooming them. He asked one girl to massage his feet, and later sexually abused her.
1985 / 1986 - Vaishnava Dharma, New Vrajamandala Vice President, was going door to door and met a woman at a brothel who said, “I know all about you people. The short American with the pony tail and big nose comes here all the time.” That “short American” was Kesava Bharati.
1986 / 1987 - Kesava Bharati admitted to visiting prostitutes with temple money, his sannyas was revoked, and he moved to Soho. (He has not been welcome in ISKCON Spain since.)
1992 - Kesava Bharati was added to the ISKCON Sannyas waiting list.
2003 - Sivarama Swami gave sannyas initiation to Kesava Bharati, without permission from the ISKCON GBC.
2006 - ISKCON GBC approved Kesava Bharati as a guru.
2014-2017 - One ISKCON North American leader said Kesava Bharati would shame his disciples, calling them names, and yell at them. And would refuse to take responsibility when concerns about his behavior were raised.
2018-2019 - Kesava Bharati sexually and emotionally harassed Bhaktin M, driving her away from the Houston temple.
2018 - Bhakta M witnessed Kesava Bharati bringing a suitcase full of illegal drugs into the United States.
May 2023 - ISKCON Child Protection Office received allegation of child abuse perpetrated by Kesava Bharati, started an investigation on him, and placed the following interim restrictions on him:
He may not carry out any initiations
He must not give class, lead kirtan/Harinama, offer any public worship
He must not publicly represent ISKCON in any way
He must not engage in any service connected with minors (anyone under the age of 18)
December 2023 - ISKCON Child Protection Office found Kesava Bharati guilty of child sexual abuse and removed him from leadership within ISKCON.
HP: This is another example of many horror stories, why doesn't he take responsibility for his actions and leave ISKCON?
DD: I have no more words! I can't put two lines together to express my thoughts and state of mind over this.
MR: This was wonderfully written!!!!
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