PAMHO!!

7 years, 2 months ago by Nanuk in Personal Sadhana Reports

This is rough, I really do hate child abusers, they destroy all in our lifes, this new document: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlRAyM3p4Q

HpS - We started to look at the video. About 16-minutes. It is very long and again ISKCON is so big. In Berkeley during this period we started to have a Gurukula but saw we couldn't handle it so it was discontinued. Each center is Incorporated independently. We are trying in so many ways to deal with this problem, the problem of stealing of money form ISKCON construction projects going to people's private homes, wife abuse, husband abuse, brahma'cari abuse.
We read the whole Child Protection Manual, about 35 pages and made suggestions. They weren't followed. 

Maharaja; maybe the TOVP as a craft is better idea, and if ISKCON is so corrupted as the documentary shows clearly, made by bhaktas: can we then use ISKCON anymore. Wouldn't that be aparadha to Srila Prabhupada?

HpS - We feel that there are many aspects of ISKCON.  It is like saying that I should not call myself and American because of all the stuff that goes on in America, but still I use a USA passport. If asked, "Are you from America?" we would respond, "We are from California".  We could deal with that kind of identification better. Even in the first few minutes we saw a few things that we would disagree with.
On the other hand there have certainly been real abuse of power, big, little, punctuated and extended. How can we help?  Where is best place for us to attack?    Right now I see the GBC is no less perfect than I am in trying to deal with these problems, so we support them as we understand who they really are.

We are certainly not 100% correct. Need simple more direct information.