The hell called - Gurukula

[Guest guest]

> And to add salt

> to the wound, none of our leaders who pledged the money are providing any

> explanations for this turn of events. The victims feel completely ignored

> and like they only matter when ISKCON wants to defend itself against bad

> press coverage (that's when the press release about the pledged money was

> issued) or when they're threatening to sue. How sad.

 

Sad? I think it is a scandal, it is criminal neglicence, it is foolishness,

it is incompetence and a society who cannot get together 13 000 USD a year

for the protection and resozialization of their abused kids can never "take

over the world". Those who are callous to the suffering of their own kids

must not claim to represent the highest dharma.

 

Was not Maharaja Sibi ready to give his very own flesh to protect a pigeon

who took shelter of him? Isn´t that the standard of leadership given in the

Bhagavatam? King Sibi was ready to give his life for a bird but we are not

able to spare a few dollars for our own kids? Srila Bhaktisiddhanta

Sarasvati Thakur said better to sell the marble of the Bhagh Bazaar temple

and use the money to print books. Perhaps it is now better to stop

collecting for making big big temples, and collect to help our own abused

kids instead.

 

What is the use of big big temples anyway, if they simply turn into dens of

pedophiles just waiting for the opportune moment to strike at another

innocent kid? If the GBC go out of their way now to help the kids who got

victimized in ISKCON, the kids will never forget it. In the future, they

will build temples for ISKCON. If the GBC refuse to help, the kids will not

only give up spiritual life for good, but will also take ISKCON´s money and

temples by force.

 

your servant

 

anantarupa das