Brief History on Bhavananda

the greatest child molester, abusing and raping children,
paedophile and homosex-guru Bhavananda is back in Iskcon?


- According to the ACBS Disciples Database, Bhavananda was initiated by ACBSP in 1969.

- He appeared in Andy Warhol films in - hmm - non-Vaishnava contexts, after his initiation. (For example, "Ciao, Manhattan" staff list contains his legal and initiated

Bhavananda
name too.)
PADA says that he also starred in homosexual films while supposed to be a celibate monk.

- He rose in authority within ISKCON in the following years, emerging as the head of the Mayapur project in 1975.

- In 1977, he was arrested for murder, when he supposedly shot a Muslim peasant, when a mob of Muslim protesters attacked Mayapur (TKG Diary).

Note: Bhavananda was the one that the village people were after in Mayapura, because he was molesting children at Mayapura, even while Prabhupada was present in this world (other than his books)".

- In July 1977, and as per request of Tamal (!), Prabhupada officially appointed Bhavananda as a ritvik, with 10 other of his "main" disciples.

- Poison theorists accuse Bhavananda of administering poison in Prabhupada's food, in coopoeration with other leading disciples (Tamal? Bhakti Caru?), in 1977 November. (Poison theorists themselves spread this on their websites; the well-known representatives are PADA and b-i-f.org.) Bhavananda refused the allegations in 1999, on VNN.

- He very much enjoyed to rule and command, led a flamboyant, luxurious lifestyle, not well fit for renunciation of sannyasa. He ruled with an iron fist; he exercised his power by psychical terror (Bhaktavasya, Gimmegames and Jagat wrote such things here at Istagosthi; Maria Ekstrand and others write this elsewhere)

- He broke the regulative principles (sanctioned by ousting form ISKCON if committed by rank and file devotees) wile being an initiated devotee, a leader, later a "guru". (Letter to GBC, quoted by Nori Muster, at surrealist.org; and quoted by Pada in many places.) This was known to Jagat Guru, Bhagavan, Mukunda, Sivarama, Tamal Krishna and Ramesvara Swamis.

- He is a pedophile. (He is named as a defendant in the Turley lawsuit; surrealist.org, Pada, Rocana d. all reinforce that he committed pedophile acts.)

- Other GBCs defended Bhavananda, even knowing that he is a pedophile and is breaking those regulative principles. His most vehement supporters were Tamal and Jayapataka. In 1985, Bhavananda was suspended from guruship and from GBC by a GBC resolution, but in 1986, he was reinstated! He was finally scrapped from his positions in '87. Bhavananda himself said that Tamal was his best friend - at Tamal's burial, Sivarama Swami read his message.)

- He was never exposed to authorities, he is still in ISKCON. He is allowed to give lectures.(Articles on VNN and Chakra, photos at the websites of Sydney and Mayapur ISKCON temples.)

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