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Paperback: 660 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 8, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 154460727X
ISBN-13: 978-1544607276
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
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You would think this is a screenplay for a murder mystery or mafia movie, but sadly it is all real-life. There is so much on the internet describing this time in the Hare Krishna movement that it is nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction.This book does the best job so far. All sides are covered; no one is short-changed. Everyone's story is heard and the reader is left to make up their own mind.As far as criticisms, some aspects should have more details given, such as the murders prior to the main character, but the author did a very good job nonetheless. Really eye opening stuff about the people who inherited and almost squandered the legacy of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.
Killing for Krishna tells the story of the most notorious crime in the history of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON): the murder of Steven Bryant, aka Sulochan, on May 22, 1986. The murder conspiracy grew out of a culture of violence in New Vrindaban, the largest ISKCON center in America, located in the back hills of West Virginia. The guru and king of New Vrindaban was Kirtanananda Swami, also known as Bhaktipada, and whose real name was Keith Ham. Over the twenty-six years of Kirtanananda's reign, none of the ISKCON leaders anywhere in the world could stand up to him.ISKCON has had a half-dozen murders and other crimes, but the Sulochan murder stands out because it was a carefully planned crime, for which the gunman, the guru Kirtanananda, and others served time in prison. The gunman is still serving a life sentence.Doktorski traces every thread of the murder conspiracy, beginning when Sulochan joined ISKCON, to when he is murdered, on to how the conspirators fared in court, and ending with the aftermath up to the present day. Much of the later history, as cited in emails and other online exchanges, describes the internal bickering over who was the most to blame for the murder.Doktorski concludes the book with a warning about deranged devotion, citing tape recorded conversations and published statements, where the ISKCON founder explained why it was okay to kill for Krishna. He never advocated killing anyone, but in his teachings, he compared it to soldiers killing for a country's military. If killing is authorized, it's okay. That leaves the question, who can authorize a murder for Krishna? Fundamentalist religious cults often adopt twisted understandings of their own dogma, and given a deranged leader like Kirtanananda, and blindly devoted followers like he had up to the end of his life, the Sulochan murder makes perfect sense.Doktorski concludes: "the tragic yet heroic saga of Sulochan serves to enlighten us as to why we should not encourage nor participate in those charismatic cults. Instead, to whatever extent possible, we can work to curtail those cults from ever again gaining the momentum they did in the nineteen-eighties."Killing for Krishna is just a slice of the ISKCON history Doktorski plans to document. He published this story first, since it answers a lot of questions about ISKCON's controversial past. Unfortunately, the murder, and the culture behind it, remain taboo subjects within the ISKCON organization. By maintaining silence, they risk their reputation because the truth has its way of coming out. For one thing, books like Doktorski's will not let ISKCON completely forget.Killing for Krishna relies on court records, media accounts, interviews, and the author's own memory, since he lived through that era as a Kirtanananda disciple in New Vrindaban. The book includes a sixteen-page, detailed New Vrindaban timeline that covers the years 1974 to 2018. People who grew up in New Vrindaban or lived there during the seventies and eighties would gain new insights into their own experience from reading this book, and studying the timeline.- Nori Muster, former associate editor of ISKCON World Review and author of Betrayal of the Spirit
Y muy bien escrito, los sucesos son impactante y esclarecedores, lo recomiendo mucho para que sepan que hay muchos Gurus engañadores, solo Srila Prabhupada es fidedigno!!
Extremely well researched and well paced, this book offers an insider's view of one of the more bizarre chapters in the story of the Hare Krishnas. The author maintains a "professional distance," so this is no lurid hit piece nor common true crime thriller. Rather, it's a focused, yet engaging history of the Hare Krishna's New Vridaban community that tells the full story of what was covered in the more sensational "Monkey on a Stick" of the late-1980s.Even if your only recollection of the Krishnas is their omnipresence in airports decades back, this book is worth diving into as the story is representative of the fallout of the social and religious commune experimentation that began in the 1960s, flourished in the 1970s, and largely came to an end in the 1980s.
Informative, accurate, well written, and powerful book! Many accolades to Henry Doktorski for the courage to do this work. Definitely worth reading, especially if you have anything to do with the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON). Unfortunately one high level Krishna leader will likely spend upwards of $250,000 to slander this book in various ways (on Amazon and Googgle) as he has thousands of disciples who will leave poor reviews. This same person launched a similar campaign to boost sales of his own book(s) so that they would reach the best sellers lists. That being said, take each single 5 star review to count for about 500, just to level the playing field to some degree.What's even more interesting is that I've heard this man in question lecture and he states, "I have no money." This is further dishonesty, to add to what is in the book. He has millions but the rationalization of institution gurus alongside him is that the money is Krishna's (God's) money. Therefore they can claim that they have no money. Meanwhile some of them have well over a million in the bank, which is against many scriptural injunctions for sannyasis (renounced monks).Anyway, this is a wonderful book accounting the details of the famous New Vrindavan murder. I hope it will lead to a further level of institutional integrity and honesty among the leaders of ISKCON. When it comes to 'preaching' or education, Srila Prabhupada, the guru of the Hare Krishnas once explained that "preaching is like throwing a brick into a pack of dogs. The one who gets hit yelps the loudest." What this analogy means is that the person whom truth hurts the most is most likely the one to go on a campaign against it.
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