The ISKCON GBC Is Doomed

[Pratyatosa Das ACBSP]

The half dozen or so GBC men who are responsible for failing to remove Lokanath Swami from all leadership positions within ISKCON, in 1993, should lose their leadership positions also. Even worse are the members of the ICC who are currently openly/publicly defying the GBC, the organization that Srila Prabhupada has designated as the "ultimate managing authority within ISKCON." Have these ICC members zero respect for Prabhupada? These rebellious members of the ICC MUST be kicked out of ISKCON! Any GBC man who dares to tolerate this ICC rebelliousness MUST be removed from the GBC! Otherwise, the GBC is doomed, and so is ISKCON! These measures must be implemented, otherwise, for one thing, Lokanath Swami simply becomes yet another scapegoat!

[rainer hahn]

Right, it is the GBC who told Lokanath Swami in 1993 not to worry and that he should go on with his work as a GBC guru. If they would have removed him in 1993 there would have been no controversy.  Now they waited for 30 years to again reinvestigate the case. It seems there is another reason. In the meantime, Lokanath Swami accomplished many new properties, farms, and temples. Is this what the GBC is after, to take control of the properties? Bhakti Vikasa Swami recently remarked that he is not registering his farms in India as "ISKCON" because he doesn't trust the GBC to properly manage these farms in case he won't be there anymore. So it seems the GBC has lost control and the gurus don't like to work under the GBC? 

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 5:43 AM Pratyatosa Das ACBSP <praty...@gmail.com> wrote:

The half dozen or so GBC men who are responsible for failing to remove Lokanath Swami from all leadership positions within ISKCON, in 1993, should lose their leadership positions also. Even worse are the members of the ICC who are currently openly/publicly defying the GBC, the organization that Srila Prabhupada has designated as the "ultimate managing authority within ISKCON." Have these ICC members zero respect for Prabhupada? These rebellious members of the ICC MUST be kicked out of ISKCON! Any GBC man who dares to tolerate this ICC rebelliousness MUST be removed from the GBC! Otherwise, the GBC is doomed, and so is ISKCON! These measures must be implemented, otherwise, for one thing, Lokanath Swami simply becomes yet another scapegoat!

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[Pratyatosa Das ACBSP]

Yes. Some members of the GBC don't seem to trust the GBC to manage properties! For example, BKG claims that his gurukula, "BKG Academy," is not part of ISKCON, even though his ISKCON temple's official website states, "We facilitate..." when referring to the school (<https://newgoloka.com/school/day-school/>). Does this mean that ISKCON Hillsborough, North Carolina is also not officially part of ISKCON? But it's listed on ISKCON's official directory of ISKCON centers (<https://centres.iskcon.org/centres/?search_keywords=&search_region=95&search_categories%5B%5D=>). Oh, but it's incorporated under a different name than "ISKCON" or "International Society for Krishna Consciousness." But isn't this true of all ISKCON properties?

What is worse: 1) letting an admitted child abuser keep his leadership positions within ISKCON, or 2) covering up for the abuser, including keeping it secret from local law enforcement and from the rest of the GBC? Sexual molestation of a child is illegal, but so is ecclesiastical leaders not reporting child abuse to local law enforsement!

This cover-up of child abuse by ISKCON leaders is what ended up costing ISKCON US$15 million (Turley lawsuit). IMHO, anyone who was named as a defendant in that lawsuit (see: <https://surrealist.org/jpgs/complaint_state.pdf>) or was on the GBC at the time, should not only lose their leadership positions, but should be made to get outside jobs and work to pay back ISKCON for the US$15 million that ISKCON lost due to their criminal negligence!