Exposing ISKCON (Krishna Cult)
1. Swami Prabhupada on Child Marriage
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 4.25.42 Purport📚
”…As soon as a woman attains the age of puberty, she immediately becomes very much agitated by sexual desire. It is therefore the duty of the father to get his daughter married before she attains puberty. Otherwise she will be very much mortified by not having a husband. Anyone who satisfies her desire for sex at that age becomes a great object of satisfaction. It is a psychological fact that when a woman at the age of puberty meets a man and the man satisfies her sexually, she will love that man for the rest of her life, regardless who he is. Thus so-called love within this material world is nothing but sexual satisfaction.”
📚Room Conversation February 27, 1977, Mayapura📚
”Minimum age means generally the husband must be older than the wife, at least five years’ difference. Man has no maximum. Even an eighty-years-old man can marry a sixteen-years-old girl.”
2. Prabhupada’s Derogatory Remarks Against Women
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 4.25.41 Purport📚
”Although rape is not legally allowed, it is a fact that a woman likes a man who is very expert at rape.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 4.26.26 Purport📚
”Generally when a woman is attacked by a man — whether her husband or some other man — she enjoys the attack, being too lusty. In other words, when one’s intelligence is properly utilized, both the intellect and the intelligent person enjoy one another with great satisfaction.”
📚Letter to: Madhukara Bombay 4 January, 1973📚
”Women are normally very lusty, more lusty than men, and they are weaker sex, it is difficult for them to make spiritual advancement without the help of husband. For so many reasons, our women must have husband.”
Swami Prabhupada asserted that women should not pursue education due to their lower intelligence,
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 1.3.13 Los Angeles, September 18, 1972📚
”All literatures, all Vedic literatures, they are especially meant for instruction to the men. Woman is to follow the husband. That’s all. There is no such thing as the girl should go to school to take Brahmacari asrama or go to spiritual master to take instruction. That is not Vedic system. Vedic system is a man is fully instructed, and woman, girl, must be married to a man. Even the man may have many wives, polygamy, still, every woman should be married. And she would get instruction from the husband. This is Vedic system. Woman is not allowed to go to school, college, or to the spiritual master. But husband and wife, they can be initiated. That is Vedic svstem.”
📚Room Conversation September 26, 1972, Los Angeles📚
”A woman does not have more than thirty-six ounce of brain substance, whereas in man it has been found that he has got up to sixty-four ounce. Now, this is modern science. Therefore generally, generally, woman, less intelligent than man. You cannot find any big scientist, any big mathematician, any big philosopher amongst woman. That is not possible. Although in your country, you want equal status with man, freedom, but by nature you are less intelligent.”
📚Gita 1.40 Purport📚
”…women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy.”
📚Morning Conversation April 29, 1977, Bombay📚
”So far gurukula is concerned, that also, I have given program. They have given the name of “girls.” We are not going to do that…Girls should be completely separated from the very beginning. They are very dangerous…They should be taught how to sweep, how to stitch, clean, cook, to be faithful to the husband…They should be stopped, this practice of prostitution. This is a very bad system in Europe and America. The boys and girls, they are educated-coeducation. From the very beginning of their life they become prostitutes. And they encourage.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 6.17-34-35 Purport📚
”It may be clearly said that the understanding of a woman is always inferior to the understanding of a man. In the Western countries there is now agitation to the effect that man and woman should be considered equal, but from this verse it appears that woman is always less intelligent than man.”
Women cannot attain freedom,
📚Room Conversation April 5, 1977, Bombay📚
”Free woman means Prostitute. Woman gives freedom means she becomes prostitute. That’s why Indra Gandhi is also a Prostitute.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 5.6.4 (Purport)📚
”Unfortunately, in the present age, women are never controlled. According to the directions of the śāstras, women are never to be given freedom. When a child, a woman must be strictly controlled by her father. When she is young, she must be strictly controlled by her husband, and when she is old, she must be controlled by her elderly sons. If she is given independence and allowed to mingle unrestrictedly with men, she will be spoiled. A spoiled woman, being manipulated by paramours, might even kill her husband. This example is given here because a yogī desiring to get free from material conditions must always keep his mind under control. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura used to say that in the morning our first business should be to beat the mind with shoes a hundred times, and, before going to bed, to beat the mind a hundred times with a broomstick. In this way one’s mind can be kept under control. An uncontrolled mind and an unchaste wife are the same. An unchaste wife can kill her husband at any time, and an uncontrolled mind, followed by lust, anger, greed, madness, envy and illusion, can certainly kill the yogī. When the yogī is controlled by the mind, he falls down into the material condition. One should be very careful of the mind, just as a husband should be careful of an unchaste wife.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 4.4.3 (Purport)📚
”Generally, separation between husband and wife is due to womanly behavior; divorce takes place due to womanly weakness. The best course for a woman is to abide by the orders of her husband.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 9.3.10 (Purport)📚
”However great a woman may be, she must place herself before her husband in this way; that is to say, she must be ready to carry out her husband’s orders and please him in all circumstances.”
📚Gita 16.7 (Purport)📚
”Now, in the Manu-saṁhitā it is clearly stated that a woman should not be given freedom. That does not mean that women are to be kept as slaves, but they are like children. Children are not given freedom, but that does not mean that they are kept as slaves. The demons have now neglected such injunctions, and they think that women should be given as much freedom as men.”
3. Polygamy for Men but Women are limited to Only One Husband
📚Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.13 Los Angeles, September 18, 1972📚
”Vedic system is a man is fully instructed, and woman, girl, must be married to a man. Even the man may have many wives, polygamy, still, every woman should be married. And she would get instruction from the husband. This is Vedic system.”
4. Swami Prabhupada Justifying the Massacre of Jews by Hitler
📚Conversation During Massage January 23, 1977, Bhuvaneśvara📚
”Therefore Hitler killed these Jews. They were financing against Germany. Otherwise he had no enmity with the Jews….And they were supplying. They want interest money. Therefore Hitler decided to Kill all the Jews.”
5. Swami Prabhupada’s Hatred Against Blacks
📚Shrimad Bhagvatham 4.14.45 (Purport)📚
”The brāhmaṇas are called sukla, or white, and the kṣhatriyas and the vaiśhyas are a mixture of black and white. However, those who are extraordinarily white are said to have skin produced out of white leprosy. It may be concluded that white or a golden hue is the color of the higher caste, and black is the complexion of the śhūdras.”
📚Room Conversation Varnasharma Dharma must be reintroduced Mayapura 14 feb 1977📚
”Śhudra is to be controlled only. They are never given to be freedom. Just like in America. The blacks were slaves. They were under control. And since you have given them equal rights they are disturbing, most disturbing, always creating a fearful situation, uncultured and drunkards. What training they have got? They have got equal right? That is best, to keep them under control as slaves but give them sufficient food, sufficient cloth, not more than that. Then they will be satisfied.”
📚Morning Walk at Villa Borghese – May 26, 1974, Rome📚
”The Africans, they were meant for becoming slaves.”
📚Room Conversation October 5, 1975, Mauritius📚
”A first-class Rolls Royce car, and who is sitting there? A third-class negro. This is going on. You’ll find these things in Europe and America. This is going on. A first-class car and a third-class negro. That’s all. Is it not?”
6. Prabhupada & Science
Prabhupada firmly held the belief that the Moon was positioned at a greater distance from the Earth than the Sun, persistently disregarding the established scientific reality,
📚Morning Walk May 12, 1975, Perth📚
”Prabhupāda: They (Astronauts/Cosmonauts) have not gone to the moon planet. Paramahaṁsa: Really? Prabhupāda: Yes. It is far, far away. Their calculation is wrong. They are going to a wrong planet. Paramahaṁsa: It must be the Rahu planet. Prabhupāda: Yes, or something else. Not moon planet. Paramahaṁsa: How many…Prabhupāda: It is above the sun planet. Paramahaṁsa: Oh. Because they (scientists) say that the moon planet is the closest planet to the earth. That is their calculation. And they say that it orbits around the earth, and then that the earth orbits the sun. Prabhupāda: All wrong. What is the… According to them, what is the distance of sun planet? Paramahaṁsa: Sun planet is 93,000,000 miles. Gaṇeśa: They say the moon planet is only 250,000 miles. Prabhupāda: It is wrong thing.”
📚Morning Walk June 4, 1976, Los Angeles📚
”Prabhupāda: That is not their invention. That is already there. (pause) (walking) We shall go further? No?Hari-śauri: One thing is, Śrīla Prabhupāda, if they’ve wrongly calculated the distance of the moon, then how is it that they’re able to calculate these eclipses and whatever? Prabhupāda: That I do not know. First of all, answer this. Yes. Yes. They say the moon planet first. I say, no, sun planet. First of all… Trivikrama: But they can see the moon comes in front of the sun. Candanācārya: This is some other planet. Prabhupāda: Huh? Candanācārya: That must be some other planet. Prabhupāda: Which one? Candanācārya: This one that comes in front of the sun. Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be, all over the world, they accept Sunday first.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 8.10.38 Purport📚
”Apparently, therefore, as stated elsewhere in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the sun, not the moon, is the planet nearest the earth. We have already discussed this point in many places. The sun is first, then the moon, then Mars, Jupiter and so on. The sun is supposed to be 93,000,000 miles above the surface of the earth, and from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam we understand that the moon is 1,600,000 miles above the sun. Therefore the distance between the earth and the moon would be about 95,000,000 miles. So if a space capsule were traveling at the speed of 18,000 miles per hour, how could it reach the moon in four days? At that speed, going to the moon would take at least seven months. That a space capsule on a moon excursion has reached the moon in four days is therefore impossible.”
📚Shrimad Bhagavatam 5.24.2 Purport📚
”As stated herein, the sun extends for 10,000 yojanas, and the moon extends for twice that, or 20,000 yojanas. The word dvādaśa should be understood to mean twice as much as ten, or twenty…”