Who Started The Crap Storm? / India Justice is Slow / Sinister Movement 02 24

PADA: Thanks for the question prabhu. "Who started this big crap flying contest." 

A PADA helper says that it started when Dhamaghosa was the original person distributing the old Raghunath letter, trying to prove that we Prabhupadanugas are the persons causing troubles to the ISKCON children. And evidently Dhamaghosa did not even consider that Raghunath's mom had just passed, he had been stabbed almost to death, and he was struggling financially, and it would NOT be a good time to bring him into another whole controversy. 

Nor did Raghunath ever ask to be included in this controversy now. In sum, don't kick a person when he is already down. 

And neither Dhamaghosha answered why his friend Ishan was writing favorably about Swami Tripurari, who ran off to the Gaudiya Math. But evidently these guys are on vicious political vendettas and people's personal problems don't matter a whole lot. 

July 20, 2012 Harmonist

Please do not be offended by my assertions. I see you [Tripurari swami] as the foremost, if not the only, real representitive of His Divine Grace, A. C. Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada, in this world today. And I hunger for your association and good wishes for my spiritual advancement. Please don’t kick me away. Ishan

They are helping people, by hurting them. This happens all the time, the Gaudiya Matha people like Ishan are promoting peace and love bhakti, for example Sridhara Maharaja guys like Jayatirtha. But the followers of Jayatirtha wanted to beat me up, and harm me badly or worse, and I was only saved because a few guys with guns came out and chased their angry "Peace and Love" mob away, and probably saved my life. And then Jayatirtha's head was chopped off -- because he was having sex with the wife of a follower. So much peace and love here! Hee hee.

So it is clear Ishan promoted the Tripurari / Sridhara Maharaja worship of illicit sex with men, women and children messiah's program. And their program is credited with creating an Auschwitz for kids program, and we need to work with the mentors / promoters of that group. Yeah no kidding. 

As soon as I said there is a child abuse issue, Sridhara Maharaja said "none should protest." Great help that is! Tripurari was yelling and waving his hands in front of the San Francisco restaurant yelling "This man [me] is a demon" and I thought he was going to punch me. All the crowd waiting for the bus thought this Tripurari guy is an angry lunatic. And Ishan says we should have Tripurari as our authority. 

Can't wait to associate with the program that forces little children to worship homosexual pedophiles as their messiahs! 

Exactly same thing happened when Ishan totally cut me off repeatedly when I was on a conference call to discuss these issues. So that is why Srila Prabhupada said, do not associate with these Gaudiya Matha folks, they will divide and destroy my mission, and they did. OK like the Bible says, Satan with divide my church. Ishan could not answer these questions, and so he had to cut me off. 

And then Mathura Pati / Prabhupadanuga EU started to run off with these issues -- citing -- ok let us listen to: -- [wait for it] Ishan; -- New Vrndavana / Drug addict / Gaudiya Math groupie Swarup Hebel; -- Bhavananada's bucket boy Hari Sauri; -- Bhakta das and his Gaudiya Math / Saint Radhanath program; -- Laxmi Kary -- who was telling everyone to go to New Vrndavana to worship Bhakti pedo pada; -- Mukunda and his Zionist bankers Hitler-anugas; -- Krishna Kanta -- who was telling me to help him "make a deal" with Jayapataka, the head honcho of Auschwitz for kids programs, and their other assorted cast of characters who have opposed us cleaning up the child abuse sometimes for decades. 

And Mathura Pati says "PADA is a liar," which is the same identical mantra his homosexual and pedophile messiah's club leaders like Tamal have said since 1978. They cannot even come up with a new mantra since all these years, he has to cite Judas all of his life. And the Berkeley Police, courts, media, many victims etc. says -- calling PADA a liar has ENABLED the MASS MOLESTING of THOUSANDS of CHILDREN. 

Why does Mathura Pati types want to work with / promote the people who enable mass child abuse? OK Sulochana answers, Sulochana calls guys like Mathura Pati "boot lickers for the butt busters." Oh let me worship Tamal and call PADA a liar, so we can -- bust more butts? Where do I sign up? And HKC Jaipur people were sending me the link to their Bhakta das video, ten times in the same day. Oh no! PADA is not promoting Saint Radhanath!

Sorry, your team has been creating the mass children mistreatment issue and not our team. But the Gaudiya Matha leaders created a similar "divide and conquer" disaster in 1936, and we should not think they have anything good to offer us. So anyway, yeah it looks like they wanted to start another fire in the Matha, which is what their mentors did in 1936. But even Prahlad Maharaja says, the people who think they are my enemies are under the control of the material energy. 

Fortunately, many people have learned a long time ago -- to ignore these folks and use PADA as their info source, including many Vaishnavas, and various law enforcement, mass media TV folks etc. Even some big guy in the Mayapur ISKCON management just now asked me about some issues. 

And that is why it is said, if you spit at the sky, it lands back in your own face. In any case, the truth is what it is, and nothing really changes that despite lots of propaganda. 

ys pd    

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In 'To Kill a Tiger,' a father stands by his assaulted daughter. Oscar, stand by them. (yahoo.com)

In 'To Kill a Tiger,' a father stands by his assaulted daughter. 

Isha Sharma

It’s a universal truth, commonly unacknowledged, that there's an implicit set of rules women are conditioned to follow from a young age in order to remain safe. For centuries, we’ve been taught to adjust to a patriarchal society – in which we are not considered fundamentally equal – by changing our behavior or appearance to blend in, thwart unsolicited attention and avoid danger.

This is how it has been, but I refuse to believe this is how it must be.

As the Oscars voting begins Thursday, I urge members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to consider the nominated documentary "To Kill a Tiger," which provides a stereoscopic view into the intersectional manifestations of sexual violence against women and girls in India.

The documentary follows Kiran, 13, and her family in their village over more than a year. The opening scene, filmed in 2017, features a close-up of Kiran braiding her hair with colorful ribbons while a voice-over describes how she had been sexually assaulted by three men after a family wedding – one of the assailants was her cousin.

"To Kill a Tiger," nominated for an Oscar for best documentary, follows Kiran, 13, and her family in a village in India after she had been sexually assaulted by three men in 2017. The film's website says it's about "a father whose love for his daughter forces a social reckoning that will reverberate for years to come."

A woman is raped every 16 minutes somewhere in India

Though legislation around women’s rights and sexual assault in India has progressed in the past decade – spurred on, in part, by horrifying high-profile cases that sparked worldwide outrage – checks and balances are seemingly nonexistent with an overarching culture change lagging behind.

In 2011, according to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, a woman was raped every 20 minutes in India. By 2021, this rate increased to a woman every 16 minutes with a total of 31,677 cases registered, or 87 cases a day.

According to the nongovernmental organization Equality Now, most cases are never officially reported due to attitudes toward police officers who had turned away survivors, bribery and corruption, intrusive medical examinations, pressure to compromise or settle cases, low conviction rates and lack of support services for survivors.

Perhaps this is why I was taken aback by the fact that in "To Kill a Tiger," Ranjit, a farmer, chose to support his daughter and filed a court case the very next day.
In the Oscar-nominated documentary "To Kill a Tiger," Ranjit, a farmer in India, chooses to support his daughter after she was sexually assaulted and filed a court case the very next day.

In the Oscar-nominated documentary "To Kill a Tiger," Ranjit, a farmer in India, chooses to support his daughter after she was sexually assaulted and filed a court case the very next day.

In an interview about her documentary, Emmy- and Oscar-nominated Indian Canadian director Nisha Pahuja told me: “If you think about the history of how change happens, there’s always that one person that’s willing to take a stand and speak the truth. That’s Ranjit. In his community, and even in India, there are so few men that actually will stand by their daughters. And here’s this man that did it.”

Meanwhile, Ranjit and his family experienced backlash from other village members for disrupting the peace and going against the status quo. What was fascinating, though not surprising, were the justifications that the villagers – both men and women – used to excuse the predators for their actions. It was almost as if they had blinders on: They didn’t want to see what they didn’t want to see.

#MeToo movement: Sean 'Diddy' Combs lawsuits show how sexual assault survivors can leverage public opinion

While most of the villagers were sympathetic – or at least seemed uncomfortable – by what had occurred, the majority thought that prosecution was unjust, that the village dynamics were in jeopardy, that the teen shouldn’t have been out past midnight, and that the easiest way to remove the “stain” on her was to marry her off to one of the men who assaulted her.

This type of groupthink is lethal if left unchecked, its adverse effects permeating for generations.

'I said I would kill the tiger'

At one point in the documentary, the female defense attorney representing the three accused men says in Hindi, “This isn’t the West. Here, I can’t even trust my own son,” implying that the onus is on village girls and women to keep themselves safe.

Regarding such victim blaming that allows individuals to operate without fear of consequence, best-selling author Rupi Kaur told me, “The first thought shouldn’t be to defend the perpetrator, whether they’re a man or woman – the first thought should always be to ask the survivor what they need and hold the perpetrator responsible."

“Unless men become increasingly involved, nothing is going to change,” added director Pahuja, who’s made a career out of advocating for gender parity and human rights. “For too long, as women, we’ve been carrying the burden of equality on our shoulders when we aren’t the problem. The issue is patriarchy and masculinity.”

But to dismantle an entire system, there must be a revolution of consciousness – one where human beings recognize their individual roles in upholding a patriarchal society that tolerates sexual violence and oppresses women.

“In order to reduce sexual assault we all need to be a part of the conversation. We all live in a shared society, which means all members have to join the cause to stop the violence,” Kaur said. “How can we expect half the population to empathize with survivors if they’re not at the table discussing with us?”

Isha Sharma is a first-generation Indian American writer based in Brooklyn, New York.

In the final minutes of "To Kill a Tiger," we witness the traumatized Kiran turn hopeful and her exhausted father in buoyant repose. Despite all odds, together, they’ve won: After a 14-month trial, the perpetrators were sentenced to 25 years in prison. With a hint of pride and a glimmer of a smile, Ranjit states, “I said I would kill the tiger, and I did.”

In an Oscars’ race where large budget films regularly dominate, a rare cinematic triumph that showcases what happens when we believe in girls and women warrants center stage.

Isha Sharma, a first-generation Indian American writer based in New York City, is a Case Western Reserve University and Georgetown University graduate. Follow her on Instagram: @isha__sharma

PADA: Similar dynamics have made it hard to get justice for sexual abuse in ISKCON. Or even, ISKCON is worse -- because victims and whistleblowers can really face more severe consequences for attempts at getting justice. Just look at even so-called reformers like Krishna Kant's IRM telling me not to pursue the child abuse issue, and let the molesting and suicides continue. And worse, let us work with Jayapataka, a leader of the molesting empire. 

Suppressing the problem, does not address or solve it. 

Someone told me ISKCON is improving because it will become a full on Hindu society and culture very soon. Well that is partially true, it could not get any worse, hee hee. But there are problems even in the Hindu culture, as we see herein. 

Meanwhile Srila Prabhupada did not want ISKCON to become "another version of the Hindus." It is another deviation. OK it might be a better deviation than the current version, but Hindu culture has some of its own issues and one issue is, they are often hodge podge compromised with diluted siddhanta, such as mayavada, demigod worship, businessman consciousness, Bollywood culture etc. Which means, one has to take another series of births and deaths, which is really another big problem. 

ys pd

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“THE GREAT SINISTER MOVEMENT IS WITHIN OUR SOCIETY This famous phrase from a Srila Prabhupada letter in 1970 to Hansadutta das was always a mystery to devotees: what was Srila Prabhupada referring to? 

The Gaudiya Math’s envious Godbrothers who wanted to take over ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada’s disciples? Maybe, in part. But we think it refers to the entrance into ISKCON of those who had strong personal ambitions to take Srila Prabhupada’s place, to replace him with themselves. After all, this 1970 incident was about some senior disciples who had relegated Srila Prabhupada to a figurehead role and tried to take over the management. 

The great sinister movement is when the personal ambition to become guru becomes organized, as in the plot to poison Srila Prabhupada’s body and then poison his mission with policies and doctrines which facilitate the illegitimate installation of disqualified men on the seat of Vyasadeva. In the wake of the pure devotee’s unparalleled success, ambitious men sought to artificially achieve such greatness and transcendence for themselves, attached to profit, adoration, and distinction. 

The scheme to poison Srila Prabhupada was meant to remove him and take his place, and the zonal acharya successors did this horrendously well until they were forced by maya and their own weaknesses to modify their plan- including all other similarly ambitious persons as well! Thus the infection and pollution of serving one’s dirty heart became an accepted practice, all in the disguise of... holy preaching. As though one cannot preach without sitting in Srila Prabhupada’s place…"

For 40+ years the great sinister movement of facilitating personal ambition by exploiting the assets of the real Acharya Srila Prabhupada have been staining, defiling, percolating, and seeping into the fabric of Srila Prabhupada’s mission. ISKCON became a series of guru franchise operations from ultra-large like Jayapataka and Radhanath with 50,000 disciples each, to the one or two disciple, small- time gurus. 

The purity of the mission was lost, especially within the institution itself. Thousands of devotees refused to cooperate with the jackals and hyenas who ravaged Srila Prabhupada’s properties for selfish desires and they remain outside the institution. The real history of ISKCON must be made known for their edification. 

Book Two: The Poisoning of Srila Prabhupada’s Mission and Mercy will put together the evidence and facts of how the poisoners and their followers (cheaters and the cheated) practically ruined Srila Prabhupada’s hard work, one deviation at a time until ISKCON would be unrecognizable to Srila Prabhupada himself. Today’s officially accepted policies and doctrines are those Srila Prabhupada clearly spoke against. 

Few study Srila Prabhupada’s books. Srila Prabhupada’s instructions are continually de-emphasized, and new gurus are free to audaciously enunciate their own interpretations as they like, no questions allowed. “But when the guru departs, sadhu and shastra can take on a new import, as those who succeed him become the new interpreters of past precedents, scriptural law, and the new set of circumstances.” (Perils of Succession, Tamal 1996)

The great sinister movement of personal ambition (Tamalism) must be weeded out and purged from Srila Prabhupada’s mission. Whether that means a restoration of the original ISKCON institution (IRM), which would seem ever more unlikely considering how badly corrupted it has become, or it means a new ISKCON, such as breakaway temples (Bangalore Group, Singapore ISKM), or starting again from scratch (Hare Krishna Society), the open discussion of issues and distribution of facts, evidence, and truths must be aggressively fought for and practiced. 

The truth dispels all ignorance; just as when the Sun rises, darkness is automatically dissipated. The magic of Lord Chaitanya and Srila Prabhupada’s mercy is such that, as preordained, the “Golden Age” will change the face of this planet for thousands of years. The great sinister movement does not stand a chance. Of course, how soon personal ambition is purged depends on sincere and proactive devotees who strive to please Srila Prabhupada with their words, minds, body, wealth, actions, and life. Without fear.” (Srila Prabhupada’s Hidden Glories,1.700)