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Kirtanananda – A Study in Duplicity and Depravity
As referenced in Henry Doktorski’s Gold, Guns and God Vols. 1-10, a biography of Kirtanananda and history of his New Vrindavana community. by bhakta Eric Johanson “Namno balad yasya hi papa-buddhih. If one thinks that ‘I am chanting Hare Krishna mantra, so my sinful resultant actions are now nullified. Now again let me do it. Again I shall nullify.’ This is greatest offense.” Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 4.10, Bombay, March 30, 1974 The followers of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada have produced at least two types of cheater “gurus,” those capable of feeling shame and those who did not. Those who became ashamed after falling into scandal were…
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Forward to Gold, Guns and God Vol. 7
By bhakta Eric Johanson Read Gold, Guns and God Vol. 7 The search for truth can take some to unexpected places, and since the physical departure of Hare Krishna movement founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Srila Prabhupada) in November 1977 the ISKCON institution’s leadership has provided any number of cul-de-sacs in this regard. One of these is the subject of the Gold, Guns and God (GGG) book series. Author Henry Doktorski’s search for truth and healing of his experience in that space now includes giving a detailed account of its events and personalities. ISKCON is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. It is said that children inevitably…
