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

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

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

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