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Corboy: This means that well meaning US business leaders, academics, public servants, elected officians and candidates for political office must conduct due diligence and do extensive background checks on any guru or group calling itself 'Hindu' before constenting to share a podium or being photographed with that guru or his/her publicists. Coer
(This alone demonstrates that Srila Prabhupada, and by extension, all sects deriving
from him are tainted at the root.
By the rules of orthodox Hinduism, Prabhupada would have lost caste and become ritually contaminated by leaving India and crossing the ocean to the USA and other countries.
It would be interesting to know whether Prabhupada was a Brahmin. If he was a Brahmin, he would have lost caste and become ritually impure through crossing oceans and through contact with non Hindus
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But in practice, Indian merchants, especially Bengalis began to ignore this taboo, but only in the 19th century.
[historicalleys.blogspot.com]
Corboy note:
For thousands of years jewelers have known to test anything brought to them as gold before purchasing it as gold.
No one would call this hateful behavior, except someone selling lead and naming it gold.
Testing anything called gold is, in the jewelry business, due diligence and wise practice. The same prudence must be done by any prudent person when asked to share company with a guru.
And this is absolutely necessary for anyone who is a journalist. There are too many greedy money snatchers who go by the name of guru or Godman.
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These cults impact and influence the communities around them in a myriad of ways, fostering criminal activity, significant social costs, and the weakening of the fabric of our society. What are we leaving behind for our children that are growing up in the USA? What will be left for them to aspire to? How will they practice Hinduism if we are not good stewards of our faith?
This entire nexus that I speak of uses “religion” or “spirituality” to cloak very bad motives and efforts. Yet, this will not be allowed to continue if enough Americans stand up and say no, not in the U.S.A., not in our country.
The US Constitution allows for religious freedom, yet not when such organizations engage in criminal behavior and actively harm devotees, by utilizing brainwashing, fraud and various concerted, systematic efforts. There are many devotees today that are secretly being abused and they have no voice. No one is helping these folks.
I also suspect that many minors are being harmed, especially the ones who have parents that live at the sites of these organizations. Many children end up with no protection at all and are abused unfortunately, by gurus and others. Unless corrective actions are taken to change these dynamics and shut down such organizations, we will pay huge societal costs as a nation. Meanwhile, some reap rewards while many do absolutely nothing.
There are those too afraid to even speak out, for fear of retribution, especially since they may have friends and family involved with such groups. These cults are also very vindictive by their very nature, casting those that are critics as being biased, dishonest, or intolerant of other “faiths”. Yet, freedom of religion does not offer protection for criminal and civil wrongs in America.
The American public and the citizens that are served by our Government has a right to know these things and to be fully informed of what exactly is at play. For far too long, there has not been a proper airing of these issues. They should be exposed to the light of day, especially since many end up unwittingly giving their money and lives to these groups. Our community and society at large has a fundamental, legal right to be protected from these groups. This issue cuts across all religions and countries. It impacts Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims alike.
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There are many splinter groups or small groups that copy the formulas of the largest most lucrative destructive cults. Many of these groups in fact disparage “traditional” or “Vedic” Hinduism, or simply copy the principle and text from ancient texts in the public domain.
They then monetize it all. (Prabhupada was utterly greedy. That alone should have
signaled that he was an imposter, but exoticism to the Western mind, trumps all.)
There are groups in the USA now attempting to recast Hinduism in a new problematic way here in the USA, in India, and worldwide. This is part of a larger effort to make spirituality more lucrative for a select few, at the expense of the general Hindu population.
The future of the Hindu religion is at stake in the US. Many honest and devout Hindus simply want to practice our ancient faith, which has been passed down from thousands of years ago by our ancestors. Such Hindus are traditional in their practice of the faith, in that they do not attempt to convert others into their faith and they cannot be converted to some other faith.
Corboy: This means that well meaning US business leaders, academics, public servants, elected officians and candidates for political office must conduct due diligence and do extensive background checks on any guru or group calling itself 'Hindu' before constenting to share a podium or being photographed with that guru or his/her publicists. Coer
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Traditionally, Hinduism is simply not a missionary religion. That is one of its strengths and key features. In this manner, it has influenced all the other major religions of the world, through sheer strength of the ideas contained in the world’s most ancient religion.
(This alone demonstrates that Srila Prabhupada, and by extension, all sects deriving
from him are tainted at the root.
By the rules of orthodox Hinduism, Prabhupada would have lost caste and become ritually contaminated by leaving India and crossing the ocean to the USA and other countries.
It would be interesting to know whether Prabhupada was a Brahmin. If he was a Brahmin, he would have lost caste and become ritually impure through crossing oceans and through contact with non Hindus
[www.google.com]
But in practice, Indian merchants, especially Bengalis began to ignore this taboo, but only in the 19th century.
[historicalleys.blogspot.com]
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These cults often have Indian “gurus” (teachers) as leaders/figureheads of the destructive cults. In this way, the Indian community here in the US is being split badly and harmed.
There is much corruption, fraud, and in fact criminal activity connected with many of these 501(c) organizations. They are typically for profit businesses hiding behind charity/non-profit status. Often the 501(c) have devotees run businesses as registered agents, and then the money simply gets funneled back to the 501(c). The businesses run by such fraudulent 501(c)’s are utilized for recruitment as well financial and tax fraud.
There is also immigration fraud, tax fraud, slave labor and much criminal activity linked to many of these destructive cults. In this way, they do significant personal damage to their followers or devotees. They also thereby harm extended families and friends of devotees, who are slowly transformed into slaves of the organization.
Even God and family slowly comes second to the destructive cult.
Corboy note:
For thousands of years jewelers have known to test anything brought to them as gold before purchasing it as gold.
No one would call this hateful behavior, except someone selling lead and naming it gold.
Testing anything called gold is, in the jewelry business, due diligence and wise practice. The same prudence must be done by any prudent person when asked to share company with a guru.
And this is absolutely necessary for anyone who is a journalist. There are too many greedy money snatchers who go by the name of guru or Godman.