September 1970: On or around this date in history 49 years ago, while preaching with Prabhupada in India, Kirtanananda started a daily program of bathing naked boys (street urchins) at the Calcutta temple. This caused great anxiety to his godbrother Tamal-Krishna Goswami, who tried, without success, to convince Kirtanananda to stop. Prabhupada himself had to personally get involved; he chastised his disciple and ended Kirtanananda’s “bathing program.”
When Kirtanananda Swami returned to New Vrindaban after some months of preaching with Prabhupada in India, his homosexual and pedophilic tendencies continued. He personally picked boys from the gurukula to stay with him overnight in his cabin at Bahulaban. This was common knowledge. The Brijabasi Spirit explained: “When Maharaja was living in his cabin, it was considered a great privilege to get to stay in the back room. Only a handful of selected boys got the opportunity.”
New Vrindaban residents assumed that Kirtanananda gave the boys his personal association and taught them about Krishna consciousness. Little did the naive Brijabasis understand what really happened to the “handful of selected boys” behind closed doors. One mother of a gurukula boy remembered a revealing conversation she had with her seven-year-old son who exclaimed: “He [Kirtanananda Swami] fondled my genitals!”
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