I've been to the Hare Krishna temple in Melbourne and I mentioned this documentary to Aniruddha over the phone, he just responded with silence. In person when I spoke to him he also gave me a death stare. The way he is presented in this documentary makes it look like a benign documentary. I associated with Hare Krishna devotees according to the instruction of the ISKCON Cult Leader Abhay Charan Das aka Prabhupad and it ended very badly. The religion encourages dissociation from one's emotions, submission to authoritarian cult leaders, following the teachings of fake guru, and it also encourages deception, lying an presenting a false persona. This documentary is not completely accurate for people who are looking for a neutral perspective of the Hare Krishna Cult in Australia and Melbourne. This makes it look like a very normal religion like Islam, Judaism or Christianity. I've been to Catholic Church, Christian Protestant churches, to Buddhist Temples, Jewish Shuls, Islamic Mosques, Sufi Zhikrs and Hindu Temples. I would say the people at ISKCON are the worst, craziest fundamentalist mentally deranged people I have ever met in my life.
Please know that Iskcon of today is not the ISKCON of Srila Swami Maharaja back in the 60's and 70's. It has been infiltrated, as all good things are in kali-yuga. Srila Prabhupada knew this would happen. Before he our material vision he asked all his sincere devotees to continue chanting the Holy Names of Krsna, to read his books, and to take shelter of one of his Godbrothers, Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja and his siksha disciple and dear friend, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. This they did in their thousands.
Srila Swami Maharaja has completely revolutionised the whole world. Before he came to the West, none of us knew who God really is, what His activities are, How sweet He is...Srila Prabhupada brought us love of God, and to this day many many thousands are eternally grateful to him for bringing us to the path of Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotional service to God, Sri Krsna. He once said in an answer to a reporter who told him he is brainwashing young people, " Yes, they need their brains washing from all material contamination". He was never defeated in a discussion about God, science, philosophy, not ever. Not once. Because he knows the truth. He knows who is God. His original books (yes, they have changed them also) are still available in print and they hold the all answers, as do many of our dear Acaryas sublime works.
It looks like you are sincere in following your spiritual path. From the list of religions you have named, it seems you are searching for the truth of who you are as spirit soul and what is your relationship with God, so our revered saints say to pray sincerely and a bona fide Guru will come to you.
i hope you will search more for the deeper truths than what is on the surface and find the answers and the love you seek. Please don't tar all the dear sincere devotees of Lord Krsna with the same brush.
wishing you well on your spiritual path.
Candrika dasi
Hare Krsna
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Srila Swami Maharaja has completely revolutionised the whole world. Before he came to the West, none of us knew who God really is, what His activities are, How sweet He is...Srila Prabhupada brought us love of God, and to this day many many thousands are eternally grateful to him for bringing us to the path of Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotional service to God, Sri Krsna. He once said in an answer to a reporter who told him he is brainwashing young people, " Yes, they need their brains washing from all material contamination". He was never defeated in a discussion about God, science, philosophy, not ever. Not once. Because he knows the truth. He knows who is God. His original books (yes, they have changed them also) are still available in print and they hold the all answers, as do many of our dear Acaryas sublime works.
It looks like you are sincere in following your spiritual path. From the list of religions you have named, it seems you are searching for the truth of who you are as spirit soul and what is your relationship with God, so our revered saints say to pray sincerely and a bona fide Guru will come to you.
i hope you will search more for the deeper truths than what is on the surface and find the answers and the love you seek. Please don't tar all the dear sincere devotees of Lord Krsna with the same brush.
wishing you well on your spiritual path.
Candrika dasi
Hare Krsna