Wednesday, September 24, 2025

ISKCON: The Challenges of Succession 09 24 25




ISKCON COMMUNICATIONS VIDEO

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya Srila Prabhupada's first arrival in the United States in September 1965, the ISKCON Communications Ministry has released a film entitled "The Hare Krishnas: The Challenges of Succession and Leadership." 

PADA: OK first of all, after 1978 the ISKCON GBC announced that they are creating a "guru parampara of God's successors" aka "Vishnupada / Acharyapada / Tirthapada / Krishnapada etc." -- which as we all know by now, contains -- homosexuals, pedophiles, perverts, deviants, drunks, drug addicts, porno swamis etc. What kind of respect for God is represented by the GBC people who are declaring deviants -- including pedophiles -- to be "God's successors"? 

Worse, even recently some "senior devotees" were telling our associates that they are "missing the boat" by not taking initiation from the GBC's homosexual and pedophile guru parampara. The GBC has emphasized the need to accept "a living guru" from their "living" homosexual and pedophile guru sampradaya, which has now morphed into the worship of DEPARTED homosexuals and pedophiles in samadhi. 

And as soon as someone is not on board with their homosexual and pedophile guru sampradaya, the "dissenter" can be banned -- or sued for $20,000,000 -- as the GBC has done with Bangalore -- or beaten, or assassinated. The result is that there has been a mass exodus from ISKCON by people who have no interest in worshiping conditioned souls and deviants as "God's successors."

Meanwhile, my associates recently noticed that their local ISKCON temple is placing demigod's murtis on the temple altar -- and is sponsoring a "Raas Garbha" Durga Puja type ceremony, which even my "newer devotee" associates knew is forbidden to be promoted in ISKCON under Srila Prabhupada. They sent me photos and asked my opinion, and I said -- this is not authorized.    

In other words, even some newer people can see that ISKCON is deviating more and more from Srila Prabhupada's ideals. These associates agreed -- the whole Raas Garbha program is a means of ATTRACTING HINDUS to get their $$$ donations. It is a Hindu business. 

To say that deviants are -- or were -- or could have been -- God's "gurus and acharyas" and "the successors to Krishna" really indicates how low class the GBC is, and it is self evident they have a very poor opinion of Krishna and His successors. Even an atheist would never claim that homosexuals, pedophiles, and assorted deviants, are the "guru successors to God." It is an insult to God.  

For starters, even the atheists would ALSO know -- making perverts into messiahs is placing children in a lot of peril -- since the children are then forced or coerced into worshiping deviants if not homosexuals and pedophiles as their messiahs. That will corrupt the worship process of children, and it has.

Never mind we also said in 1979 -- the GBC policy of worshiping pedophiles will act as a magnet to attract more and more pedophiles and perverts to the society -- a society where deviants and predators are being worshiped as good as God / God's successors etc. This perverted form of worship will attract -- perverts. 

As happened. 

Other newer persons just now said their blood is boiling after I told them that just after the GBC kicked me out in 1979 -- for protesting their "pedophile pooja," then by 1980 a pedophile group was using chloroform on children in the UK to seduce them. These newer folks said, these GBC people will be boiling in Hades as a result. Of course this begs the question, why were none of the perps, or leaders responsible for orchestrating this mess, ever charged with crimes? 

The film documents the history of Srila Prabhupada's creation of the Governing Body Commission (GBC) of ISKCON, as well as explaining the various functions and departments of the GBC today. "Many ISKCON devotees don't know what the GBC is, how it functions, why Srila Prabhupada created the GBC, or even that Prabhupada created the GBC before he established the BBT," said Kumari Kunti, Co-Director of ISKCON Communications in North America, who is interviewed in the film. 


PADA: The GBC's main and primary function is to insure that the standards are being held up, and thus to make sure that homosexuals, pedophiles and deviants are not being worshiped as acharyas / parampara members / messiahs in ISKCON. And that automatically protects the citizens from being entangled in these deviations, and protects children from these deviations. 

Instead, by all appearances, the worship of deviants has been encouraged and protected, while the dissenters are booted out, maybe sued and maybe beaten, and maybe killed by GBC enforcers.

She continued, "It's important that ISKCON members know what our leadership does, and how they do it." The film includes interviews with independent academics, members of the GBC, GBC Deputies, GBC Ministers, members of the ISKCON Sastric Advisory Council, and members of SABHA (the organization that reviews GBC resolutions and has the power to send resolutions back to the GBC for reconsideration). 

The footage also includes interviews with Bhakti Caru Swami and Gopal Krishna Swami, both former GBC members who have now departed this world. 

PADA: Gopal Krishna swami was one of the people who helped coordinate making the Kirtanananda swami samadhi, along with Radhanath and others. There is no such thing as a "homosexual pedophile samadhi" -- which is what even the mundane media people asked me. "What is a homosexual and pedophile samadhi"? Ummm, it is the handiwork of these guys. 

The Communications Ministry, in conjunction with Karuna Productions, worked for several years to create the film. The Ministry chose to release the movie now to honor the 60th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's landing in America. "As a member of the GBC for more than twenty years, I've seen our leadership deal with both opportunities and serious challenges," said Anuttama. "I'll be the first to acknowledge that we, the GBC, have made our share of mistakes over the years, but I'm also convinced that the GBC is composed of very genuine followers of Srila Prabhupada, and that without the leadership of the GBC, ISKCON would not have survived its first 60 years." 

PADA: These GBC guys chased out / purged out / most of the first generation, second generation, and the third generation of small kids is mostly being raised up outside the walls of ISKCON, because the mass of people have rejected the authority of the GBC. 

To say that all the systematic banning, beating, molesting, lawsuits and murders "are mistakes we made" is also not correct. These evil programs have been well orchestrated, well planned, and highly coordinated. For example, I said there is a pedophile program, and I was harassed ever since, and not one leader has ever stepped up to defend my position. 

ISKCON has grown substantially since Srila Prabhupada arrived in the US and later founded ISKCON in 1966. As the Society has grown and its membership diversified, the responsibilities of the GBC have also grown, and the GBC has added several layers of management support and checks and balances to help carry that load. For example, as part of its effort to connect with and effectively offer leadership to devotees around the world, the GBC recently created the Executive Support Office (ESO). 

Part of the ESO mission is to better inform ISKCON members about the ongoing discussions and decisions of the GBC, and to provide better opportunities for two-way communication. Professor Larry D. Shinn, former President Emeritus of Berea College, USA, (who passed away in early 2025) comments in the film, "I see ISKCON growing up, maturing from a charismatic movement to what Max Weber called a rationalized institution. It's when you have to then put your beliefs in writing. You have to formalize the rituals. You have to make sure you understand what all the roles are, what the ethics of the community are, and all the rest."

Radha Devi Dasi, ISKCON Vaishnavi Minister, USA, and an attorney and former professor, is also featured. She appreciates the need for international leadership in this way, "There are some things on which we have to have an international policy. We all have to be on the same page. 

"In addition, there are large legal issues that have international implications that only an international governing body is going to be able to deal with." As the film points out, all has not been rosy for the GBC or ISKCON. 

It highlights shortcomings in providing opportunities for women and youth, as well as the need for greater openness to new expressions of devotion and devotional culture. "The film hopes to further connect ISKCON's ever-expanding membership to the leadership structure that Srila Prabhupada created, and to help ensure that the message of Lord Caitanya, and the principles of unity in diversity that Srila Prabhupada stressed, are never diminished," concluded Anuttama Dasa. 

The film is produced by ISKCON Communications and Karuna Productions Executive Producer: Anuttama Dasa Director of Photography: Gour Govinda Das (Filip Cargonja) Directed and edited by: Krishna Lila Dasi (Kristina Danka, PhD)

PADA: It seems like the current GBC guru program is oblivious to what is the reason ISKCON is being rejected wholesale in the West. And the temples are mainly attracting Hindus. 

As Hansadutta pointed out some years ago, the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON was never given the job of managing, and thus 2/3 show of hands -- voting in, sometimes voting out, the pure devotees and acharyas in the parampara. Hansadutta said -- a governing body is supposed to work UNDER the authority of an acharya, and not be the managerial directors -- acting as the superior over lords and authority over the acharyas. There are no examples in shastra of any acharyas being voted in, voted out, suspended, monitored, corrected, excommunicated and overall controlled by a managerial body. Especially when that body is prone to constant "mistakes."

Meanwhile, these GBC annointed acharyas have often been acting like -- out of control mavericks -- in many cases, and it looks like the GBC is not even doing its alleged job of "managing" these acharyas. As the book Monkey On A Stick points out, the GBC are often seen as "gutless wonders" when it comes to addressing deviations in their acharyas.  

All that being said, it seems the GBC is totally oblivious to the fact that any corporation, institution, religious organization, government leader etc. who seems to have allowed or orchestrated child abuse, is not going to be recognized as a proper civil, religious, moral and righteous management system. 

It is going to look corrupt and even evil. OK, or as some of the ex-Krishna kids would say, it looks like a pro-pedophile Satanic cult that orchestrates Auschwitz for kids. That impression has to change if the GBC wants to start to improve its credibility.

Even the current problem with "The Epstein Files" is not going away soon either. The perception that child mistreatment is being allowed, or has been allowed, or covered up, is not something most people will forgive or tolerate. So the first problem the GBC has is, they appear to have enabled, covered up, excused and facilitated the abuse of MANY children. 

And worse, they orchestrated the oppression of us whistle blowers, which means, they defended the regime. All of that is not going to be fixed by making "another committee." Anyway, GBC these folks don't seem to get it. When Jayadvaita says their guru parampara lineage contains -- illicit sex with men, women and possibly children, that is the end of the line for most people. 

Most folks are never, ever, ever, in trillions of years, going to accept and worship a guru line that contains these deviations. On the other hand, some have suggested the GBC is promoting a pedophile guru line on purpose, to disgust everyone, and have them leave, so they can transform the buildings into a Hindu business. Anyway we want to look at it, the GBC has lost credibility, and they have not done hardly anything of substance to fix that problem. Meanwhile more people think our view is the credible one. 

So we are winning more and more hearts and minds over to our side all the time, and in that sense, we are winning, albeit slow but steady. There is no challenge of succession, deviants are not part of the succession, end of story.

ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   





 


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