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BHAVANANDA CHILD ABUSE IN ISKCON / PART ONE

Bhavananda das, one of ISKCON’s original eleven successor acharyas (who lied about being appointed as such by Srila Prabhupada), is widely known and documented to have physically and sexually abused children and minors in ISKCON. Although there was a Child Protection Office investigation into his crimes, the outcome was hamstrung by an ISKCON leadership inclined to sabotage revelation of truths in these matters. 

In April 2023, Dhira Govinda das was asked: “Did the CPO investigation you supervised in the late 1990’s only scratch the surface of Bhavananda's sexual escapades?” His reply: “YES.”

There are perhaps dozens more cases of known and alleged Bhavananda sexual molestation, child rape, victim trafficking, and organized child exploitation, all never investigated. He ranks far higher on the scale of evil than Jeffrey Epstein. 

Why? Because at least Epstein only dealt with women over 15, paid them well, and did so in luxurious settings. Bhavananda, however, was responsible for hundreds of children from age 4 and up, and he knowingly engaged pedophiles and child sex abusers as their teachers and caretakers. It can be described as a pedophile club with support from the church clergy. He personally sexually abused children at least as young as 12, and it appears much younger (alleged but unproven).

This is worse than the Catholic Church’s priest culture of homosexuality and child sex molestation scandal. And somehow Bhavananda has avoided his due reaction for his gross and massive harm to so many children. It is as though Bhavananda has a power of immunity from his own stars. 

Of course, karma may be delayed but is ultimately never denied. The CPO’s “restrictions and rectification plan” was all they could do, but it amounted to practically nothing. How do you rectify a life-long child abuser? He never was properly investigated, never accounted for all his misdeeds, never went to jail for even a day. And walks around freely to this day!

If he did not prey on children under 13, he may technically not be a pedophile. But many unverified and persistent claims online say he was definitely a pedophile, sexually abusing younger children. Maybe his main interest was teenagers and young adults. Perhaps, due to lack of a full and comprehensive investigation, he was a pedophile, and not “just” a post-pubescent child sex abuser. 

It is safe to say that maybe 95% of his child abuse (physical and sexual) is still undocumented, uninvestigated, and unpunished. The “restrictions” and sanctions given by the very limited CPO year 2000 investigation were but a slap on the wrist. In real life, in outside society, Bhavananda probably would have been incarcerated for life.

“To me it is clear that Bhavananda did engage in sex with minors. However, his primary sexual attraction was to adult males, or, teenage males who already had adult bodies. That doesn’t mean necessarily that he never engaged in sex with prepubescent children (boys or girls). It does mean, though, that from a clinical point of view, he wouldn’t be labeled as a pedophile. Based on activities it can certainly be said that he committed egregious child maltreatment, vicious child abuse.” (Dhira Govinda das, former CPO director, 2023)

Then we saw an Apr. 14, 2023 email from Saraswati dasi, a campaigner for abused children’s justice, sent to a long list of members of ISKCON North 

American Regional Governing Board:

“The TOVP is currently raising funds in North America. Why are you allowing a project led by child abusers to be promoted in North American temples? The TOVP has two notorious child abusers (Satadhanya and Bhavananda) at the helm. Until the TOVP completely removes them and publicly issues a statement reflecting this, no ISKCON temple who values child protection should allow the TOVP one square foot to promote their project. Anything less reflects a leadership who is ambivalent about child safety, protection, and who turns the other way at child abuse. Bhavananda's CPO decision from 2000 does not mention all his abuses:

“(1) Dhira Govinda was the first ISKCON CPO Director and he said: ‘Starting in 1998, the CPO received lots of comments and allegations, regarding Bhavananda. All sorts of very slimy, sleazy accusations, including raping boys… my subjective impression in regards to Bhavananda is that there is a whole lot more, that didn’t get into the Official Decision. And again, after some span of time, based on the testimonies and accusations we received, we processed the case.”

“(2) Around 1984, Bhavananda removed M das at the age of 12 from the New Govardhan gurukula in Australia. He brought M das traveling with him and sexually abused him (sex trafficking). He brought M das to the rural ISKCON farm community called New Gaudadesh, where M das burnt down a house [sauna]. The temple president was Krodesvara, and the police took M das away for questioning. Days later a detective said the boy had admitted to being responsible for the fire and that he was being molested by Bhavananda.

“Achyuta recalled that ‘Bhav was bitterly angry, spoke quite viciously about [M das]. He was adamant the boy should be prosecuted.’ …and M das was sentenced to prison.”

“(3) Bhaktavatsya said when she visited her son at the Vrindaban gurukula, he had a ‘scabbed over 3 inch cut on his neck’ from Bhavananda ordering the teachers to scrub the boys’ necks until they bled. (late 1970s/early 1980s)

“(4) Vimuktasanga said, ‘I was in Mayapur from Europe in 1975. We all found out straight away that [Bhavananda] had recently been caught, doing it with boys in the goshala.’

“(5) Sattvic said he was with Pippalai in Mayapur when Pippalai witnessed Bhavananda sexually abusing a boy. Sattvic said, ‘The next day a group of sannyasi headed by Tamal came to the Goshala and heavies out poor Pippalai. He was practically forced to leave Mayapur. Next thing I know is that Srila Prabhupada asked Bhavananda to go on the boat program and follow the caturmasya. That was it.’ 

Rukma said, ‘I was in Vrindaban in 1976 when Pipalai Prabhu arrived there in a very sad state. He said he had to run away from Mayapur with no Laxmi, because he had caught Bhavananda abusing a very young Indian boy in the Goshala. Pipalai believed that after that terrible discovery then the temple authorities wanted to cover it up by killing him and therefore he was very afraid for his life. He stayed with me in my room since we were good friends from NY Henry Street temple.’

(6) One of the women who worked with the students of the India gurukulas said she ‘found 20 children with syphilis in their mouth. Bhavananda would prey on children.’ (END PART ONE)

Your Servants,

JFSPF Team

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PADA: Thanks for sending prabhu. Yep, Badrinarayan Swami seems to be falling apart and sleeping at the GBC meetings. Even he must be tired of defending his homosexual and pedophile guru brotherhood for his entire adult life. Yes, agreed, his pedophile guru project is worse than the regular Joe karmi samsara dava -- fire of material existence. 

Children caught up in Badi's samsara program are often going to get burned 1,000% worse than regular samsara fire of karmi life's existence. Correct. That is why a number of them committed suicide and a number of those still alive have severe trauma. That is what happens to children in Badri's samsara project.  

Bir Krishna says he loves to hang out with Radhanath, whom Henry Doktorski says, had a hand in Sulochana's murder.  

PADA: Yeah it looks like Badrinaryan dasa is not doing well. He seems to be saying, "can someone wake me up when this meeting is all over"? He is sleeping maybe because -- he knows the GBC is just recycling their same 1978 idea around and around in circles, i.e. illicit sex with men, women and children, homosexuals, pedophiles, drunks, porno swamis, people having sex with half dozen female disciples, orchestrators of murders -- and perverts like Bhavananda -- are commonly found in the chain of Krishna's successors, and he is just tired of hearing that same horse manure crap over and over. Yep, these leaders look washed up, wiped out, old, tired and fried, agreed. ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com   

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Right. A number of ISKCON child victims told me that while the leaders have all been living like opulent Saudi Princes -- many kids had no shoes, or bad shoes, not enough soap, not enough food, not enough medical treatment, and fully disqualified hired hands to care for the children, if not bad hired hands. In other words, ISKCON's wealth was siphoned away from the children's needs and over to a small elite group of leaders, while the children were given a few left over table scraps of the wealth of the society, the bare bones left overs. The opinion of some victims told me, this is a society that cares tremendously for the few elite leaders, and not the citizens, including or especially children. 

And some of them recently said -- nothing has changed -- it is the same now, the same big leaders who orchestrated taking away our funds for themselves -- still have opulent situations now, and us victims have to struggle to make rent. The care of children is a society wide issue, the parents need to contribute of course, but so do the leaders and elders who are in charge of the society. It takes a village to raise a child, and when the village chiefs steal the money supposed to be allocated to the children, the children will not get the care they need. One victim told me -- this is like North Korea, the leaders get big giant feasts every day, while we had to eat soup made from weeds. And Kim Jong Un was in power then, and he still is. ys pd

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RADHANATH AND TIRTHA

October 1, 1989: On this date in history 36 years ago, Radhanath Swami (in Pune, India) writes an inspiring letter to Sulochan’s murderer—Tirtha in prison—and explains: “Without a goal worth dying for we have nothing worthwhile to live for. Any shallow creature can speak these words. Very few most fortunate souls have the courage and integrity to engrave these words within the heart of hearts and remain faithful in the face of life and death.”

In the same letter, Radhanath glorifies Tirtha’s book, Meditations on the American Gulag, which Tirtha had written in prison, “Your beautiful book is THE MOST POPULAR BOOK amongst your godbrothers and godsisters in India. It is even more sought after than any other book.”

Why did Radhanath write these words? One possible reason Radhanath was attempting to give Tirtha the courage and strength to accept life in prison and not rat out his co-conspirators, like Radhanath himself.

For more about this topic, see “Killing For Krishna,” p. 390.

http://henrydoktorski.com/Killing4Krishna.html