Chapter outline:

Nine reasons why residents left the community.
1. Prabhupada minimized.
Confrontations between senior ISKCON leaders and Bhaktipada.
2. Bhaktipada excommunicated from ISKCON.
Five counts against Bhaktipada.
Bhaktipada receives the word.
Bhaktipada's ill-fated meeting at the White House.
Bhaktipada threatens ISKCON with $100 million lawsuit.
New Vrindaban Community expelled from ISKCON.
3. Court cases.
Bhaktipada's 1991 trial.
Convicted on Good Friday.
They Finally Got the Swami.
The appeal.
The murder of Chakradhari Das was not a conspiracy.
"Kidnapping" only a child custody case.
Testimony regarding homosexuality : "witchcraft trial of modern times."
1991 conviction overturned; Bhaktipada returns triumphantly to New Vrindaban.
4. Indians alienated.
Indian members disturbed by de-Indianization changes.
Feeding cows from goshala to tigers in New Vrindaban zoo?
"I don't need Indian money to build my temple."
5. Child abuse and molestation.
New Vrindaban gurukula.
Varnashram college.
New Nandagram.
ISKCON gurukula schools notorious.
Gurukula children starved for affection.
Boys rationalized abuse.
Bhaktipada to Kanka: "Sex is sex."
New Vrindaban headmaster and teacher's aide charged with sex crimes.
Bhaktipada involved
The older boys move to Bhaktipada's house.
Middle-aged brahmachari "seduced" by six year old girl.
Perverted sex at New Vrindaban: one explanation.
6. Abuse of cows.
7. Interfaith members defrauded.
"The City of Fraud."
8. Bhaktipada's controversial reforms.
"Tangy grape juice."
Umapati Swami: "I was disgusted."
Ravindra Svarupa Das: "Kirtanananda's innovations are . . . extremely sinister and ominous."
9. Dissenters fear reprisals.
Jadurani beaten.
Chadradhari "punished."
Despite persecution, Bhaktipada's loyal disciples remain faithful.
Killing sometimes authorized by Vedic scriptures.
"If the man who blasphemed Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is killed, his sinful action may be atoned."
"One should by force cut out the blasphemer's tongue and kill the offender."
Devotees believed allegations were "rumors and hearsay."

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