BY: GADADHAR DASA
Nov 26, 2010 — DALLAS, TEXAS, USA (SUN) — Dear Dr. Misra, I just happened to read your article, “Higher Spiritual Standards Desirable in Phoenix Temple“. I am not at all surprised to learn about your situation. A few years back, Dasarath das was complaining about Hari Vilas. Two weeks ago, Houston Temple authorities called the police and banned Dinesh Parikh because he had sent out an email asking the Temple to show its accounts. So there is nothing new that is happening to you.
Things have been more or less same over the last 30 plus years, no matter which ISKCON Temple you go to, and things are more or less the same now. As soon as you question the leaders and/or ask for accounts, accountability, and responsibility, then you will be shown the door using one excuse or another.
We know each other for the last 30 years from Houston and Dallas. You know what I did for Dallas and Houston Temples, but when I left ISKCON, you became more active in Dallas and ignored my points about the heavy-handed and cruel tactics of Tamal Krishna Goswami.
I have written more than 100 articles to expose ISKCON and you may have read some of them on this website, but you had never felt any mercy for other victims of ISKCON. Now that your skin is on fire, you know how it feels. But I urge you to go one step further and consider the following damage ISKCON leaders have done over the years:
(1) More than 90% of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples were driven away or left discouraged.
(2) Thousands of disciples of self-proclaimed and rubber-stamped gurus came and have gone away.
(3) BTG distribution has gone down from ONE MILLION a MONTH in 1975 to almost nothing now.
(4) Distribution of Books, Prasadam, and Hari Nama have come to a near halt.
(5) Temples in North America, Western Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Africa have become empty or have disappeared.
(6) Child Protection Office had a list of more than 200 abusers/molesters and more than 1,000 abused/molested children, but not much has been done to abusers.
(7) More than half a dozen murders. My wife’s relative’s daughter was found dead, floating in a lake at North Carolina Farm around 1994. A suspicious death. I have copy of her last letter.
And read the following articles about how ISKCON leaders stonewalled and poured cold water on investigations of child abusers, and learn about their double speak:
Report on the Status of the ISKCON Child Protection Office
CPO Status Report Exposes Hypocrisy of ISKCON Leaders
Appreciation and Correction – Dhira Govind dasa
After reading these articles, thank Krishna that you and I are alive and our pain is nothing in comparison to what these children suffered and what anguish “more than 90% of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples who were driven away or left discouraged” must have felt, and may be feeling now.
Please learn that ISKCON is dominated by Gundas, Bandits, and Crooks where Rouges, Thugs, and Rascals pretend to be Rajarshis. It has become a rip off operation of unsuspecting people and to lie and cheat is very common there.
Srila Prabhupada says, “knowledge in the hands of the demons is more dangerous than ignorance itself”. So do not be misled by dhoti kurtas, saris, saffron clothes, recitation of Sanskrit slokas, and entertaining lectures. All that is a false facade behind which gangsters reside and wait to lie and cheat you.
Wishing You Well,
yhs- Gadadhar dasa
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