Reply to Henry Doktorski 11 21 25

HENRY DOKTORSKI

In his November 20, 2025 blog post, our friend Puranjana has accused: “Anyway yeah, Henry has officially started to promote the pedophile rings and webs cover ups, but that means, he has not learned much from doing the same exact thing in the past.”

Perhaps I may be allowed to disagree. I appreciate Puranjana’s blog, and I have said so many times. I am grateful to him for allowing me to interview him for my book “Killing For Krishna” so I could better understand the facts about the 1986 murder of Sulochan. Puranjana’s photo appears in “Killing For Krishna,” as he was an important person who shared his memories with me of that unfortunate time.

However, sometimes Puranjana can make incorrect accusations. I recall a time, perhaps 20 years ago, when my friend and godbrother Damodar (who still lives at New Vrindaban today) called me on the phone and said that a few months earlier, on the insistence of our godbrother Dasaratha dasa, he attended a preaching program at Sri Galim’s brand-new preaching center in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Someone took a few photos and posted them online. Puranjana somehow found the photos and put them up on his website, and accused Damodar as conspirator in the New Vrindaban child abuse ring, and also used Damodar’s legal name Allen White.

Of course, Damodar never supported the New Vrindaban child abuse ring. He was a vocal supporter (as I was) of the “Remove Bhaktipada From New Vrindaban” faction shortly after Bhaktipada’s sexual activities with teenage boys was exposed during the September 1993 New Vrindaban Winnebago Incident.

Damodar knew that I had cordial relations with Puranjana and asked me to contact Puranjana, share Damodar’s situation, and ask Puranjana to remove the photos and false accusations. Damodar told me, “There are two things people cannot stand: a person who murders another person, and a person involved in child molestation.”

I wrote to Puranjana, explained the situation, and Puranjana removed the photos, and Damodar’s name from his website, as he appeared to realize his accusation was false.

PADA: All of the current ISKCON people are connected direct or indirect to the Vrndavana ISKCON program, which my reliable source says -- still has abuse going on now. Lokanath, Giriraj, Satsvarupa and other leaders have been charged with being predators -- and they are still high in the GBC leadership echelon now. And most of the former enablers are still in office as well. 

I took down the photo, but that does not change the fact that all of ISKCON is implicated if even one area has abuse going on, and we have heard that Mayapur still has some problems and so on. Jayadvaita says their gurus are sometimes engaged in illicit sex with men, women and children, and those are the people who voted in Satya Vani's guru, and so forth. 

I hate to speak ill of the dead, but my contacts told me that Jiva Institute former guru Swarupa Damodar had been caught engaged in homosex by some of the Manipuri ladies, and they reported it to Ravindra Swarupa, and Ravindra said we cannot do anything because his health is too bad and it will look like we are picking on the sick. These Satya Vani guys have questionable judgement, plain and simple.  

So all of this is connected in various ways. And yeah, Sulochana has never been recognized in official ISKCON as a martyr. And instead Radhanath, Umapati, Devamrita, Kuladri and others were given high posts in that society. And Kirtanananda was buried in a samadhi with help from Gopal Krishna, Radhanath and others. Therefore, the people at New Vrndavana today are part of the overall group. And we never hear a peep out of Satya Vani about the bogus samadhis because of "politics"? 

Today, Puranjana is making a similar accusation against me, that I support the Jiva Institute molester rings and webs / pedophile Goswami samadhis cover up, which is something I know nothing about. I have barely heard of the Jiva Institute, much less support them. 

PADA: But you advertised them extensively. Now you are saying you do not know about them? Why didn't you ask me in a PM about them, before running out acting as their evident campaign manager? You were promoting them as if you were agreeing with them, and others said the same thing, that is the impression you created. 

There are many terrible things about me, I have many faults, I admit, but no one needs to invent false accusations against me to prove my rascaldom.

I do like Satyavani’s book, “Miskconceptions,” not because of his conclusion but because it is based on sastra: the writings of the Six Goswamis. To be frank, I have never read any of the Goswami’s writings, but if Satyavani’s quotations are accurate, Satyavani presents a convincing case that Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada and Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada deviated from the teachings of Mahaprabhu.

PADA: Well yeah, but what have they done to fix anything? And they have spread this siddha pranali, rasa tattva and other deviations among ISKCON people, which has degrading effects. But more importantly, they did not help me expose the molesting and bogus samadhi program citing "political issues" in Vrndavana. 

And there is evidently molesting going on now, right on their doorstep, as it evidently has since the 1980s. You perhaps did not know that, but you never asked me either. 

To me scriptural differences have to be ignored when it comes to the welfare of children and keeping false samadhis out of the dham. They should have helped me on those issues, way back in the 1980s, and that might have helped reduce the problems and had fewer victims. Jagadanandha knew that evidently, he felt bad for being silent. 

That is not to say I do not appreciate the teachings of the founder of the Gaudiya Math and the founder of ISKCON. I appreciate maybe 99% of their teachings. However, I vehemently disagree with one percent, and I have consistently posted evidence of this on my Facebook page which explains why I disagree with one percent of the teachings.

PADA: That is fine, but then are you accepting the Christian's teachings now? I mean these are some of the less questionable statements:

• Leviticus 11:20–23 – “All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you.” (Insects don’t literally walk on four legs, so this verse often confuses readers.)
• Judges 3:21–22 – Ehud kills King Eglon by stabbing him, and the fat closes over the sword so he can’t pull it out.
• Deuteronomy 25:11–12 – If two men are fighting and a woman grabs one by the genitals to help her husband, she must have her hand cut off.
• 2 Kings 2:23–24 – Elisha curses boys who mock him for being bald, and two bears come out of the woods and maul 42 of them.
• Isaiah 20:2–3 – God tells Isaiah to walk naked and barefoot for three years as a sign against Egypt and Cush. 

So to me, it looks like you are hanging out with the Christians without ever questioning their scriptures? Many people have pointed this out, it looks like Henry is with the Christians, but never once does he question the numerous dodgy statements in the Bible, only other people's scriptures, which is called hypocrisy. 

In any case, the Jiva Institute says that we do not originate with Krishna, because they are preaching the Christian idea that some souls start with God and some do not. You don't seem to mind when they make dodgy statements?

Five years ago in “Eleven Naked Emperors,” I wrote “I am not a disciple, nor a follower. I am merely a historian.” I am not a devotee, but I regard myself as a friend of the devotees. I do have many devotee friends, even though I do not share all their beliefs. Everyone I think knows this. So no one should expect me to regard the ISKCON founder as a divine, perfect and infallible being.

PADA: That is fine, but now that you are supposedly with the Christians, do you accept their Bible as perfect and infallible? You never tell us what is perfect and infallible? All scriptures including Christian, Muslim and Hindu -- have some weird, odd if not cruel looking statements, but I am concerned with the overall conclusion, love God and love others as you love yourself. 

I never challenge a Christian on some of the odd statements in the Bible, but believe me, there are many. To me it looks like you are not promoting any scripture at all, which means you are sort of your own scripture author. 

But supporting a child molestation regime? That is far fetched. I left ISKCON in 1987 when my spiritual master was expelled from the Society. I left New Vrindaban in 1993, three years before the May 1996 GBC meeting in Alachua when ten ISKCON gurukula alumni spoke about the “heart wrenching suffering at the hands of school authorities which reduced the entire audience of educators to tears.” 

PADA: OK a lot of people left, but did not present the molesting issue out the way me and Sulochana did, to make it a public issue. Jagadananda told me, he felt bad for never doing that.  

Prior to that historic May 1996 event, 99% of people in ISKCON were blissfully unaware of the abuses against ISKCON children which had been going on since 1972, except for the school teachers who propagated the abuse, and some GBC members (and the children, of course, who mostly remained silent until that May 1996 meeting).

PADA: They were aware, that is why me and Sulochana were being hunted? They were very aware that we were onto something. Many parents told me their kid was molested, but they did not want to make waves. Anyway, 1996 is when we were putting together the lawsuit. Satya Vani guys were not doing anything about any of this to my knowledge, but they knew, because Jagadananda told me they did.   

The ISKCON Child Protection Office did not conclude their case against Sri Galim, who I knew from New Vrindaban and Pittsburgh, until February 2000. His wife and my wife were best friends at New Vrindaban. We didn’t know about his pedophilia until years later. Even Sri Galim’s wife didn’t know. Can you accuse her of being part of the New Vrindaban child molester’s ring? Of course not. For years, I had no relationship with ISKCON (since 1987) or New Vrindaban (since 1993), much less support a child molester ring.

PADA: None of these people came out to make a public protest to notify the other parents, or write letters, or public protest, which caused many further victims to fall into the system. They did not write letters, or make public protests like the Catholic victims, etc. Pretty much "no one knew" because the people who did know were silently acquiescing. There is the crime of commission, and the crime of omission, silence. That is what many victims told me, no one said anything to help us.  

In fact, I did not understand the extent of the atrocities until the mid-2000s when I began research for my books and interviewed New Vrindaban gurukula alumni. Don’t forget, after 1993 I pretty much severed my relationship with New Vrindaban, although I would visit my friends from time to time during festivals. I published my research on the child molestation history in my books, especially “Gold, Guns and God, Vol. 4: Deviations in the Dhama,” which came out in 2021.

Just because I like Satyavani’s book, doesn’t mean I support any child molestation cover ups. Puranjana, you support Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and consistently praise him. Does that mean you also support his teachings about women? About child marriage? About how women love a man who is expert at rape? That the United States should never have given black people freedom from slavery? I think sometimes, when you point one finger at another, four other fingers point back on you.

PADA: I forgot, you are with the Christians who enslaved the blacks and other people all over the planet, and caused mass starvation in Bengal, and ruined Europe many times over with wars etc. And that is your religion? And your religion is mass killing millions of animals in horrible conditions. You are the black pot criticizing another black pot? You should first of all get your own religion in order before you can reform everyone else's. Or is Christianity not your religion, you have none, anyway -- you have not made anything clear. 

Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts. I hope you will include my letter as a comment on your November 21st blog post.
Hare Krishna
Henry Doktorski

PS My friend Boris comments: Henry, you may be a great historian and also an honest man. But I have to disagree with your statement about 99% of ISKCON being unaware of all the child sexual abuse until the Alachua program. Many ISKCON members, both blooped and unblooped were aware back in 1986, the year I met one of the gurukulis living on the West Coast (San Diego) and became “friends “. 

What he told me freaked me out, so I asked around, even making lots of long distance telephone conversations (the era before the Internet and devotee forums). I would say more than 75% of the communities were aware, and by the time of Alachua meeting it was 100%

Henry: Perhaps I am mistaken in my numbers, Boris. Frankly, just because I was unaware, doesn't mean most others were also. Your estimation sounds reasonable.

PADA: Good, yeah all sorts of people knew. That is why Sanaka Rsi called it a conspiracy of silence, parents, elders, leaders all sorts knew. And the Satya Vani program also knew -- since the 80s.

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PADA: Well these Satya Vani guys are cover ups, since the 1980s evidently, and there is a pedo ring going on even now in Vrndavana according to reliable sources, which they have not properly addressed 1980 - 2025. Neither they addressed the samadhis, and Jagadananda told me -- they could not address these things "because of the local politics." 

OK so politics is more important than children? Or Goswami samadhis? That means the Jiva Institute people have failed, since the 1980s, to address this. Anyway, yeah you have been promoting them, first saying they know the truth on issues, and yet now -- you claim to know nothing about them. 

That is the problem the whole time, no one asked me what is their story and agenda. I know their story. If anyone had wanted to know their real process, they could have asked me in private. 

As for people living in New Vrndavana now, they are still connected to the whole GBC operation now, same operation that has the pedo rings in India now. I was and am right, they are still connected -- now. 

As for Srila Prabhupada's statements, we are all Krishna's spirit particle souls and as such we need to respect each other, whether women, children, cows, dogs, cats, even black widow spiders that I protect and save in my garden. There is no license to mistreat even a black widow in his teachings, and yes, I support that. 

He never said mistreating any innocent soul is ever authorized, all living beings are part of Krishna and should be respected and seen as such, and doing ill to them will reap terrible consequences in Yama's court, and his position is my own position now. 

Since you are now supposedly leaning towards the Christians, do you have any idea how animals are MASSIVELY mis-treated in their program? And the list of Christians creating massive suffering for human folks, including using 500 lb. ordinance on civilians, is too much of an encyclopedia to recount herein. 

There are many off beat citations in the Bible that comedians have made fun of for decades, I do not think you accept the Bible as fully authentic either. 

Why are the Christians better than us? Yeah, you have helped me on some issues, and so have the Christians, and that cannot be taken away. Credit must be given where it is warranted. But we do not see the same way on all issues. In short, you never asked me about the Jiva people beforehand. This is your doing. 

I give you the benefit of doubt, I don't think you knew their history, but now you do, so it is all for the best.

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