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Killing for Krishna The Danger of Deranged Devotion

Henry Doktorski

The 1986 murder of Hare Krishna devotee Steven Bryant (Sulochan dasa) was arguably the darkest moment in the fifty-one year history of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness—a new branch of the Chaitanya-Bengali-Vaishnava religion founded in New York City in 1966 by an Indian spiritual...

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American Scandal

It covers the history of the Hare Krishnas in the United States and the murders within their ranks; the author was a consultant on the podcast series and a former Hare Krishna devotee who lived at New Vrindavan for many years.

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His book, Killing for Krishna, The Danger of Deranged Devotion, covers the history of the Hare Krishnas in the United States and the murders within their ranks.

— Episode: The Hare Krishna Murders: Inside and Out...

Episode: The Hare Krishna Murders: Inside and Out | 7

It covers the history of the Hare Krishnas in the United States and the murders within their ranks; the author was a consultant on the podcast series and a former Hare Krishna devotee who lived at New Vrindavan for many years.

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His book, Killing for Krishna, The Danger of Deranged Devotion, covers the history of the Hare Krishnas in the United States and the murders within their ranks.

Yes, it is a large book but the story is so complex and detailed that I really felt compelled not to omit any of the details.

The book was not written for the general public it was written for Krishna devotees in their language because I just felt this was a part of history that I did not know of until recently and I think most people did not know the extent of this murder plot and who was involved in it and how it transpired

and the more I did research into these I was granted access accidentally granted to be frank if they knew what was in these archives they wouldn't have never given it to me because these archives held trial transcripts tens of thousands of pages of internal Nuvrandaban documents and publications and investigative reports and trial transcripts and Bhakti Pada's correspondence hundreds and hundreds of letters but anyway so this was given to me because I was writing a history of Nuvrandaban and there it was and it took me ten years to read through these tens of thousands of pages

and what I discovered in them regarding the plot to murder Steve Bryant I was completely shocked these people that I knew that I was even friends with they were my superiors the higher ranking people at Nuvrandaban reading these documents which implicate them in this murder conspiracy was like a revelation to me and I pretty much decided that Krishna has given me these archives for a reason and I saw it as my sacred duty to write this book incorporating all this information and publishing it for the benefit of the world and especially for my God brothers and God sisters in the Hare Krishna movement and I discovered that the key factor which made this murder conspiracy possible and also the murder of Charles St. Denis but my book is about the murder of Steve Bryant who had criticized Swami Bhaktipat

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