Guest guest Posted October 23, 1999 Report Share Posted October 23, 1999 Dear Prabhu, dear devotees. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > this is a quick note: > > I will NOT post any text which may be directly or indirectly criticizing > Srila Prabhupada, his policies or his so called "failures" to this > conference. No excuses for posting such texts will be entertained. Hare > Krishna! > > ys, bb Nobody was criticizing Srila Prabhupada.Those are critizized, who are destroying everything that Srila Prabhupada has created. Srila Prabhupada is spotless.He gave us everything, but we dont seem to know how to make proper use of it.It is wrong to close your eyes to all the problems that are existing in our organization, especially not to sweep them under a carpet, like it has been done with gurukula abuse problem for so many years.Now we have to pay the price for it. In my opinion someone should have taken responsibility for the following events: -For letting the abuse go for such a long time, and not useing his authority to stop the abuse in its early stages. -For not handing over abusers to the police. -For giving abusers shelter in our organization. -For not takeing abused children under their protection, when they confronted them with this problem (this is the main reason that children have now taken shelter of a lawyer, and are suing our organization). -For not takeing full responsibility and blame for this case, instead, it has been tryed to pin the blame on the childrens parents, and childrens karma. This is the main reason that I am protesting against such behaviour of current leaders of our society.I feel that we should always defend what we know is right, regardless the consequences that my come up on us.The main thing is, that we satisfy Krsna and Srila Prabhupada. You servant Janaka das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 8, 1999 Report Share Posted November 8, 1999 > We often had to beg parents and temple presidents to pay that small > sum. Who do you think volunteers to take on an extremely difficult > service, in under near-impossible conditions, while having to struggle > every day to take minimal care of themselves and their families? They are > either the most compassionate and dedicated people, or they aren't > qualified to do much else, or they are those with ulterior motives. As far as I remember, everyone was living on a economical minimum. Not just the gurukula teachers, but all devotees. The only people I knew with money where the leadership. They had piles of money to spend on whatever whims they cooked up. And of course, that is a system that makes the crooks want to advance to a leadership position, to get the material facilities. Exactly what happened. Many became leaders, not because of leadership qualities, but because they liked money. Our philosophy, and the Varansrama system, is that those with leadership qualities, becomes leaders, those who like money, take up the duty to support the society economically. In addition to having a lot of money to use, those leaders also got spiritual prestige. As some kind of ersatz gurus. Even more fault added to the pictures. Vaisyas acting as brahmanas and ksatriyas. Could it get worse? In those days it was also so that you were not allowed to say anything. If you saw something, and said so, you were criticising, and that was completely forbidden. You just had to blindly accept what those faulty leaders said, otherwise you were in Maya and fallen. So in essence, we had a complete breakdown of all principles of sane society rules. How those who could see were forbidden to talk, and those hungry for material things got into power. So how is it now. Is the system cleaned up? Funny enough, the same persons are still in power, but now they suddenly are senior devotees, and have risen up on the leadership ladder. We instead have new devotees, of the same category, who are on lower leadership positions, carefully selected by the old ones, for their loyalty and to be like them, not for their leadership abilities. Sorry, I don't see any improvement in sight. Only dark clouds. ys Prisni dasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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