Correo electrónico de Badrinarayan dasa (GBC) a B.B. Govinda Swami sobre Bhaktividya Purna Swami, con copia a Hari Sauri dasa, Dhira Govinda dasa y Ravindra Svarupa dasa, junto con el mensaje reenviado por Hari Sauri dasa a Prahladananda Swami y al GBC

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Subj:               Case    Processing
Date:              Tuesday,   April   25,    2000   10:06:24     AM
From:              bnarayan@compuserve.com
To:                hari.sauri.acbsp@com.bbt.se
ce:      dgovinda@aol.com,         govinda.swami@com.bbt.se,
ravindra.svarupa.acb8p@pamho.net


From:    bnarayan@compuserve.com            (Badrinarayan dasa)
Sender:            bnarayan@compuserve.com          (Badrinarayan dasa)
To:      hari.sauri.acbsp@com.bbt.se            (Hari Sauri prabhu)
CC:      dgovinda@aol.com (dhira govinda), govinda. swamiécom.bbt.se (B.B.
Govinda Maharaj), ravindra.svarupa.acbsp@pamho.net (ravindra)

Dear B.B.       Govinda Maharaja:


 Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 I    can certify that what Hari Sauri              says   below is    true.   There   are
 also many confirmed reports           of BVP Maharaja beating kids with
 canes,    sticks,      and in one case a thorny bush.            We are talking about
 vicious beatings,         not a little rap on the rear.              It went on for
 years    and   got    so bad that    Jayapataka Maharaja finally had to come
 and take the canes         and sticks      away.    (BVP Maharaja had a whole                cs
 aresenal,      which he oiled and polished in public view regularly).                       an


The sexual abuse in Mayapur was even worse than Vrindaban. It was
a seething pit of fear and exploitation for many, many boys. And
BVP Maharaja was completely            aware of      it.   His   stated conclusion was
that this was the way it was in boy's schools and amongst
                                                          Bengalis
which is not true. I personally had conversations
                                                  with him, Bhuri-
jan, and Dhanurdhara Maharaja about this (when
                                               Sri Rama was Top
trying to introduce even the mildest forms
                                           of child abuse prev
tion programs) and they fought it every
                                        single step of the way. °
was    over   12   years   ago.   If they had   instituted those programs
dozens and dozens of boys would have
                                     been spared and we                            x
face the moral crisis and legal
                                battles we are confront




was a bloodbath with no one was left standing.


Your servant,         Badrinarayan dasa

was a bloodbath with no one was left standing.

Your servant, Badrinarayan dasa

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DATE:       4/25/00 6:10 AM

RE:          Case Processing



          > Funny thing, because I always thought that Srila Prabhupada wanted
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          > us to continue on with service even if we had personal problems and
          > weaknesses.
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          So this should be the principle we apply with BVPS.

          What's   good for one   is good for all.
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          Then we won't have to play any games.


             In case you hadn't noticed Maharaja, noone is stopping BVPS from
 doing service. He was rightfully asked to do some prayascitta for his
 extreme neglect over an extended period as principle of the gurukula.
 Factually, what he was asked was insignificant when compared to what
 happened to some of the boys under his care whom he failed to respond to
  when they asked him for help.

         Last night I happened to read a few of the notes kept by Bhakta Rupa
    from the 1991 investigation. At least two boys who were extensively abused,
    sodomized, beaten and systematically subjugated by others who were appointed
    by BVPS as monitors in the school, mentioned that they had reported the
    abuse to Maharaja himself and he never did anything about it. I don't know
     if you were in the room in the GBC meetings ve             I = xe hers
    he was sodomized and then reported it to BVPS only to have the perpetrator
    come back to inform him that "Maharaja doesn't believe you." For four years
    after the scale of his abuse was increased so that he was continually
    buggered by his tormentor knowing full well that as an orphan he had no
    parents to take shelter in, and his one shelter that he should have had
    didn't even bother to investigate his complaint nor take it seriously.

         No matter what other saintly qualities BVPS has, and no one is
    denying them, he is a terrible manager and his history shows that he should
    never be in charge of young children again. Those that ignore history are
    forced to repeat it. The token prayascitta that BVPS has been asked to
    undertake won't wipe out the past but it will send a signal that the past
    has been recognised and won't be allowed to be repeated. It will also help
    BVPS to come to some realization about the role he played in the abuse of
    scores of boys who thought he was their shelter but unfortunately were
    ignored and tragically let down.

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this is a very valid question that quent culpability of BVPS in the abuse
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that BVPS should not be dealt with when complaints specific to him
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things from a broader perspective. You are a long time on your pilgrimages
have been staying at the gurukula for a number of years
to Mayapur. Its natural that you see all his good qualities and all the good
that he has done. But please don't let your good sentiments blind you to the
realities of those who had to live in that gurukula for years together
without the shelter that he was duty bound to give them.
     The work of the CPO is not to go on witch hunts and create bad
impressions of good people. Rather it was created by the GBC in response to
years of protests, cries of distress and hopes of recognition of a black
period in ISKCON history by hundreds or thousands of victims and their
parents and other concerned devotees, in order to help heal and close the
festering wounds of child abuse that have poisoned the mainstream of our
Society and its vital organs.        I don't think it much to ask that we all,               and
especially the leadership, support the effort; and indeed, if we don' ee
this Society may just not be worth saving.                               :           Same ters
         Your humble servant,
         Hari-sauri dasa