"Photo taken May 4, 2023 at ISKCON Mayapur. L to R: Sikhi Mahiti, Satadhanya (child rapist), Riddha (child abuser), Subheksana (Mayapur Co-director and disciple of longest running child abuser in ISKCON's history: Anirdesya Vapu / BVP), AV Priti Vardana Swami (disciple of longest running child abuser in ISKCON's history: Anirdesya Vapu / BVP.) Subheksana (head wrap) is 1
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The following letter was forwarded to the Vedic Inquirer by someone connected to management in Mayapura. I'm posting in it the interests of public safety. If you feel so inspired please ask leaders for an immediate investigation into the grave allegations made by those who were abused. An immediate suspension of those involved is the correct course of action under the circumstances.
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Corboy: the whole time I lived at New Talavana, I could hardly wait to leave that place. That was the most depressing and distressing experience of my life, and Tapahpunja had a lot to do with it. I never would have gone there to begin with, if I'd have known he was there. But nobody told me until I was there, and was pretty much stuck. One time I made the mistake of asking him if he
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Why was Tapah not excommunicated from ISKCON for his involvement in the Sulocana murder, you may ask? The answer is simple: after he went on the lam and the law caught up with him in Malaysia in 1990, he went to prison for several years and he kept his mouth shut. He told the Feds nothing they did not already know. Then he got paroled after five years and I don't remember how he wou
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Before he was a Hare Krishna, Terry Sheldon (Tapahpujna) was a Leftist radical in the Sixties. He was NOT a hippie. He was a bomb-thrower. He was an original member of the White Panther Party, and he had a relationship with certain cadre of the Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army. He was friends with Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, who both died in the 1970 Gr
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He's basically saying "All you have is verbal accusations and hearsay. You've got nothing on me." Disgusting, it is. And this was from BEFORE Vedasara came forward. pg. 4, Allegation #10 & Decision #3: When xxdd told MGd about my actions in 2013, it was claimed that I touched her 3 or 4 times … then in the initial xxxdd/xxdd complaint to the CPO it was many times…
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There was this kid who came to New Talavana as a WWOOFER. He was anorexic, and he cottoned to the philosophy and so Tapah took him under his wing because Tapah was in charge of the WWOOFER program at the time. So Tapah starts preaching to him, and the kid (he was an adult, but still a teenager) started using the philosophy to justify his anorexia. This kid's name was Alex. Alex started s
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Here's a sort of funny story that will prove that I REALLY WAS at New Talavana. There was this one devotee named Madhavendra Puri das. He moved to New Talavana around the same time I did, and he was second-initiated shortly after coming there (late 2016). I believe he'd come from RVC, in Kansas City. Anyway, this joker used to pretend that he was crippled, so he could take it
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There is a devotee at New Talavana right now, who I have been told has been caught in possession of child pornography in his place of residence. I am not going to say his name because it's hearsay, what I am telling you now. I cannot prove it, and I have no real evidence of it, but I got this information from somebody who used to be a part of leadership there at New Talavana, somebody
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And I apologize for being heavy with you, Truth Wins. I never meant anybody any harm. I've been forced to learn to not take abuse from others personally too. I've learned that from a lot of bitter experience, years of it. You really have no idea about what I've had to live with, since I am here to talk about pedophiles in ISKCON, and not my own problems and issues. Abo
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This forum does not revolve around either one of us, or around anybody at all. We're bother former members of a cult, you and I. I'm trying to be nice here; I am trying to get along with you. Why do you insist on being so snippy? That was a rhetorical question and I don't expect you to reply. Your name, your age, your sex, your family history, nothing. I know noth
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Truth Wins, I cannot attack you personally, since I don't know you or anything much about you. I don't even know if you are a man or a woman. All I know about you is that you are a former member of Chris Butler's cult. I am here to talk about how, at its highest levels of international management and "leadership," ISKCON is little more than a well-organized an
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This thread is not about me, and I am not here to talk about myself nor (very much) my opinions about things. I am here to talk about how, at its highest levels of international management and "leadership," ISKCON is little more than a well-organized and well-funded pedophile ring that makes the Vatican look like a bunch of amateurs (in my opinion). I'm here to talk about w
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"MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE" Facebook group for discussion of GBC reform:
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At present, Tapahpunja (Terry Sheldon) is operating the Small Farm Training Center in Wheeling WV. He lives close to New Vrindavan, but I am told that he is heavily restricted there, is allowed to do no service, and can pretty much only go to the morning program. He is no longer welcome at New Talavana at all, and he's barely welcome at New Vrindavana. Tapah (his nickname) walk
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TYPO, CORRECTION: The plot came to light, and was foiled, when NS was either dumb or arrogant enough to give the temple president there at New Talavana the heads up about what they were planning. Then the temple president let GK know was was being plotted, and GK ALERTED law enforcement and then fled New Talavana.
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Here are some details which will prove my truthfulness, in terms of what I described above: Tapahpunja and a devotee I will identify by the initials "NS" were going to kill a devotee I will identify by the initials "GK" and make it look like GK was killed while trying to kill NS. In other words, they were going to kill GK and make it look like NS killed him out of self
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Corboy: Tapahpunja (Terry Sheldon), chief engineer of the Sulocana murder, tried to have a devotee killed just in the last few years. This was at New Talavana. The devotee they were plotting against fled New Talavana before they could get to him, and is out of ISKCON and far away from New Talavana today. He's a friend of mine and he told me all about it. Local law enforcement was m
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OK, Rick, I understand and will back off. It's just that I do not like it when somebody wanders in and starts trying to tell us what "the main issue" is, and in so doing distracts from the focus of the thread. Especially when the person doing the distracting is not even a former member of ISKCON. I'll shut up myself now, and I bid you all a good week.
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This letter was delivered to the GBC on Rama Navami. The Executive Committee has followed up with the letter authors and many signatories. We are hopeful that the ensuing dialogue might result in earnest efforts to build/restore trust - and have the GBC operating as Srila Prabhupada would have hoped - in a principle-centred fashion and with the support and blessings of the entire Vaisnava commu
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"b. Leaders should not be allowed to defend or promote individuals who have been judged to have been involved in child maltreatment, nor prioritise the reputation of the institution above the welfare of a child, as has been attempted (and of course failed) in the past. The GBC must receive training on the appropriate management of these issues and negative global impact on the institution in
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I am the one who started this thread, and I don't want you distracting from what I am trying to focus like a laser on. OK, OK, technically Forrest started this thread, not me. But I still say that I started it, in a sense. In a sense. You do not know the back story there. That's the truth, Truth Wins. Please, let's just discuss the topic at hand.
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Truth wins, I have to be blunt with you now: I really wish you would not ramble all over this thread the way you ramble all over the Butler thread. I've been watching you do that for a long time, and I wish you would not do that here. I'm trying to get information to people who want and need it, and I don't need you distracting from the focus of this thread by seeking to
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Let's stick to talking about child protection in ISKCON, shall we, instead of talking about your opinions with respect to what is wrong with ISKCON (which you're not even an ex-member of). No, Truth Wins, THIS is the main issue: certain people who are in "leadership" positions in ISKCON, have prioritized the preservation of their own positions and the reputation of the inst
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ISKCON is international and right now child abuse is an international topic in ISKCON. Journalists can answer questions like: -Why did ISKCON ban Lokanath on two continents but not the others? -Why was Anirdesya Vapu supported by leaders for so long? -Why are child protection activists in the U.S. and Australia being sued by a sitting ISKCON guru? -What kind of religion says that it&#
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PS: Yes, there is the "Krishna House" program, but from what I can see this is mostly a retention program for kids who were born into ISKCON. They just expanded this program, not long ago. Most of the devotees who are involved in running this are people who were born and raised Hare Krsnas. The Krishna House Dallas ashram recently opened in East Dallas, across the stree
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No offense, corboy, but your understanding of the situation is based on a dated understanding of how ISKCON works, internally. It's not a temple-based organization anymore and has not been in years. It's a congregationally-based organization, at least in North America. The (ISKCON) Hare Krsnas I know, are not so much interested in "recruiting" anybody anymore. That is, th
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Just to make things clear: this is from an official ISKCON News website. ISKCON itself has released this.
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Just leaving this here...
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To address your specific query, corboy: In ISKCON, pedophilia is a bug, an aberration, and is not a feature of the religious practice as taught by the institution itself. Same as in Catholicism. Pedophilia is not a feature of Roman Catholic doctrine and practice, and it's not a feature of Gaudiya Vaisnava doctrine and practice either. Prabhupada would not have been OK with anyb
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