Our Daughters Must be Protected
BY: NANDAGOPA DAS
Oct 10, 2012 — KULLU, HIMALAYAS — Dear Vaisnavas of ISKCON, Hare Krishna. I have personal experience of how our young daughters many times visit Vrindavan and Mayapur, India, and how they get approached by these loose and frivolous Indian characters who are just hanging around Krishna Balaram mandir and ISKCON Mayapur. These men are going to kirtans, calling themselves ex-gurukulis, many times playing instruments in kirtans, wearing dhotis, tilak, etc. Most of them are smokers, but their main interest is how to fish-out some white girl who is visiting the Holy dham.
For many years this has been going on, and it will keep happening if we don't take some serious measures. Many immature daughters of the devotees have fallen victim, and started developing relations with these kali-chelas, and many times ended-up with an unwanted pregnancy. The whole relation becomes a big drama for the parents as well as the "couple". Why...? Well, first of all these boys don't have any serious intentions to have a family with our daughters. They just want to enjoy some time with them, and when they find another girl they jump like monkeys to her… Whatever happened, happened. If a child comes out of this crazy-not-matched relationship, let it come, let the varna-sankara (unwanted population) increase.
Who cares after all if the parents suffer, because we, most of the time, have to maintain these rascals, because they never have any money, no job, no desire to work for family, or any sense of responsibility.
I am humbly ringing the bell, asking all ISKCON parents to be very careful, because these kinds of dramas can disturb so much your spiritual life as well as your daughters, who just think, "Oh well, I will just go for a nice trip to Holy places"… but they don't know most of the times that there they will be approached by these expert wolves, who going around molesting and stealing our young children that we so carefully and with so much effort have helped to grow up.
I spoke with some parents about this serious social problem we have in ISKCON, and they are all saying that all this is happening because ISKCON -Vrindavan and Mayapur have become an easy target for our unprotected children. So, what to do. I know this is not an easy issue to stop, but I am calling for unity among all ISKCON parents who care to discuss and see if we can come to some practical ideas.
Now it comes to mind why Srila Prabhupada was telling us that we should have some varnasram development, because if we have some ksatriyas in the temples, we could hope to have some support from them.
Please write to me if you want to have some contact. My FB is 'Mixalis Nanda Gopa'. My email is nandagopadas@live.co.uk.
All glory to His divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, who gave us all the tools to defend against the kali-chelas in his great ISKCON mission.
your servant,
Nandagopa das
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