Srila Prabhupada on Gurukul

The children should be trained in early rising, attending mangal arati, some elementary education: arithmetic, alphabet, some of our books, like that. They should go to bed by 8 p.m. and rise by 4 a.m. for mangal arati, getting 8 hours sleep. If they take 8 hours sleep, they will not fall asleep during arati.   ...Read More

Srila Prabhupada And the Treatment Of Children in Gurukul

I recently came across something which may help illuminates a dark issue that has been widely discussed and still receives coverage in the media. It is the issue of child abuse within Iskcon. It’s a very disturbing subject. Even more disturbing, some have insinuated that Srila Prabhupada himself was indifferent to the suffering of the Gurukuli children. It is to this charge that I ask you to look at the following.   ...Read More

Message from Windle Turley

Several members of the Iskcon group, Temples, Publishing, etc, have ask the Bankruptcy court to reorganize them ,contending they can not pay the judgments about 90 Iskcon students have taken against some of them.   ...Read More

Growing Up in the Hare Krishnas

Though they have mixed views about their upbringing in the sect, one ISKCON couple keeps their faith.   ...Read More

Gurukuli Youth Abuse Claims Very Important Notice About JUNE 30, 2003, DEADLINE for filing claims re the Iskcon Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

An offer of compensation via chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings to ISKCON Gurukulis who agree NOT to sue ISKCON.   ...Read More

ISKCON–Shattered by Abuse of Children in Gurukuls [Boarding Schools]

In October 2001, 91 plaintiffs in their late 20s and early 30s filed a four hundred million dollar lawsuit in a Texas district court against more than a dozen Hare Krishna temples and organizations and many former leaders of the movement. The suit alleges that horrendous sexual and physical abuse occurred in at least eight of 11 Hare Krishna boarding schools in the 1970s and ’80s.   ...Read More

No More Kirtan

My name is Krishna-das. I went to several gurukulas, South Africa, Mayapura and Mauritius to name a few. I went through the same torture, neglect and abuse as the gurukulis who’ve taken suit against ISKCON. I often question myself as to why I still think myself to be an ISKCON devotee. After everything that this movement has put me through, (after it has raped my parents of their youth, stolen the   ...Read More

Asharm for Girls in the Bay Area started by Second Generation Gurukuli’s

We are pleased to inform you that by the mercy of Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga a new Devotional Performing Arts Ashram has just been opened in the Bay Area by second generation gurukuli girls. We have secured a two-bedroom house…   ...Read More

ISKCON Destroys a Whole Generation of Devotee’s Lives… [UPDATED]

I have so much pain in my heart…. So much pain and tears… If you could just see what you have done to me..to us…. All in the name of worshiping Krsna…. Well now krnsna can kiss my suicidle ass! Cause that’s all I think about is just ENDING my misarable life…. Everyday I have to find a reason why I should stay. I have nothing but you and all your   ...Read More

ISKCON Temples File For BANKRUPTCY

Rather than wasting millions of dollars to fight this suit, Chapter 11 reorganization will help ISKCON communities to establish a substantial, yet reasonable, fund to help any young person who may have been abused, said Anuttama Dasa, ISKCON Director of Communications. We want first and foremost to heal our communities and our young people, Dasa said.   ...Read More

I’ve never been brainwashed or anything! [Letter from Gurukul Student]

Hare Krisna. I’m a gurukuli raised in Krishna consciousness in France, and am thankfull enough to Srila Prabhupada for having giving me the chance through his preacher to become a devotee myself.   ...Read More

Corruption At The Highest Levels Of ISKCON

The lack of character and moral responsibility in our top leaders created an atmosphere in which child abuse flourished and was allowed to continue unabated. Child abuse is the tip of an iceberg of improper behavior that has led to massive lack of confidence in ISKCON and its leaders, and mass desertions.   ...Read More

Gurukul Court Case: A Direct Attack on Srila Prabhupada and Indian Culture

The plaintiffs’ lawyers have placed Srila Prabhupada at the organizational center of a vast, decades-long criminal conspiracy to shamelessly, purposefully and knowingly abuse hundreds of innocent devotee children. Note that at this point in the legal proceedings, IT IS TAKEN AS TRUE that Our Beloved Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada, was the pivotal, evil ‘conspirator’ in the abuses allegedly committed against the children. This outrageous claim justifiably incites anyone who has ever had   ...Read More

Gurukul Case: Blame Indian Culture and Prabhupada?

1,800 or more gurukulis (out of 2,000) know that Prabhupada is not guilty for these abuses. More surprisingly, they still honor the merits of Vedic Culture in spite of the difficult times at school. These convictions about Prabhupada are supported by thousands of witnesses like our parents and tens of thousands of Prabhupada letters, conversations, quotes and books.   ...Read More