Open Letter to Braja Bihari

BY: ANONYMOUS KULI

Jun 2, USA (SUN) — I would like to thank all the devotees who have been writing in about Braja Bihari. I see things a lot more clearly now. I never really liked the guy, he always sort of gave me the creeps. Now I know why.

I want to have my say but for obvious reasons I don’t want my name known, since I have not yet received all my “Shut Up” money.

My uncle laughed at the amount that I was getting, since he got $250,000 in an out of court settlement from the Catholic Church in the 80's. When I told him the story of what happened to us, he told me his, which was a walk in the park compared to ours!

Now I am so fried! To think I signed up for so little. You know it's not that I want ISKCON to pay but I want these guys to pay. I want the two perverts to pay as much as I want all the devotees in all their big positions who told me to shut up back then, to pay.

When I think back last year sometime when the temple I live near began collecting for the lawsuit, I was feeling so ashamed. Now I am so fried. At first they made me shut up and I did so out of fear, then they paid me to shut up, then they made me feel guilty.

Yeah! I want this Braja Bihari to be investigated. I want the whole damn lot of them investigated! What type of people are they?! These guys are so sneaky, they come with folded hands, but are they really devotees? How can they be?

Why do all of us have to feel bad or pay for what they have done?

I sort of feel sorry for the two perverts who abused me, but they were just lusty dogs who only got away with it because the so-called devotees in charge of our school and the so-called devotees in the GBC let them.

This is the real truth! The perverts are just victims of their senses, but these guys are the worst type of persons.

I remember being so scared and confused when I was in the gurukula, but what was the worst was that I felt so alone. I remember praying to Krishna to get me out of there. I also remember praying that the school would burn down so we could all go home.

Right now I have to admit that I am real mad, not only at people like Braja Bihari, but at myself for not seeing the truth of all this and giving in so easily. Now I will pray to Krishna to give me and all the other gurukulis the courage to do something. We have to stop these guys somehow.

Legally it is probably too late, for I think that we signed away our right to do so when we signed up for their settlement. I don’t know, is it? Anyhow, we should do something! Maybe at our next reunion in Alachua we should work out a plan to deal with this.

I am nearly 30 and this stuff still burns me. So long as these guys walk around as if nothing ever happened, then I can’t get closure. What really burns me is most of these guys have big fat bank balances (I know that Braja Bihari has), and they are getting temples around the world to pay.

If this Braja Bihari is not guilty of covering the abuse up, then why doesn’t he go around making all the ones who are guilty pay? He goes around as if he is a friend to us gurukulis, so let him prove it.

It is not a secret that ISKCON covered up our abuse. They have more or less admitted to this. So make the ones that covered up pay!

We should work out how much each of us should get and add it to our settlements, then work out who among them have to pay and how much they have to pay.

You know, whatever is more than my settlement I don’t want in my hand. They should all be made to pay for the settlement and then the balance should be made to distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books to make up for it.

They have no right to their positions. Actually their positions are not a right, they are a privilege. If they are brave enough to admit that they are wrong to cover it up, they can prove this to us and to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna by cleansing themselves in the fire of the Sankirtan Yajna of book distribution. Even if this takes them the rest of their lives.

Our movement can do without them as leaders, but the Sankirtan movement can always use them as book distributors.



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