- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Upfront Publishing (March 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1844261034
- ISBN-13: 978-1844261031
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.7 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 154 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Book Description
To a disenchanted America of the 1960s, seeking alternatives to materialism, Sbdhupbda's devotional singing and exotic Hindu religious doctrine of love for Lord Krishna found instant appeal. In its fertile field Sbdhupbda found space to fulfil his guru dream of spreading Krishna consciousness to the materialist West.Founder of the Worldwide Organisation for Awareness of Krishna Consciousness, the religious message he preached, and the organisation he founded to spread the word, became mired in rigid formalism, plain perversion and grotesque distortion. The Organisation, far from spreading Krishna consciousness in the West, turned out to be a mere euphemism for self-seeking greed and other malpractices at the hand of senior devotees.Abiding faith in, and unbound love for, the personal godhead of Krishna made devotees like Pracodaybt and his wife turn away from the perverted WOAK to strive for spiritual advancement following Sbdhupbda's original teachings and Hindu religious scriptures.'Devotee Farm' is a lucid narrative that describes the distortions of original Hindu philosophy at the hands of successors of Swami Sbdhupbda. Claiming themselves to be the representatives of Hindu religion, they used it as a camouflage to realise their base instincts, deceiving simple faithful devotees who went to them to find spiritual succour.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An accurate description,
By A Customer
This review is from: Devotee Farm (Paperback)
I was a member of ISKCON for many years and I can recognize many of the things the author describes in this book. "Devotee Farm" is obviously a fictional story about a fictional cult, but it is clearly based of the true stories and scandals of ISKCON and its splinter groups.As a former member, I can say that the description of the leaders' mentality, and their manipulation of the cult members, is very accurate, although the author has changes some details. This book is a good reading for anybody who wants to know the manipulation and abuse that takes place in cults.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Weak and poorly researched !,
By A Customer
This review is from: Devotee Farm (Paperback)
The writing here is pretty lame. As a cult buster I have studied the Hare Krishnas and this book reallly distorts the facts about them. It is worse than a cheap romance novel.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Basic facts are wrong,
By A Customer
This review is from: Devotee Farm (Paperback)
I have only read the cover review of this book and I am not a devotee of Hare Krishna, but the founders name was NOT Sâdhupâda, his name was Srila Prabhupada. He didn't found the World Organization for Awareness of Krishna (WOAK), he founded the International Society for Krisha Consciousness (ISKCON).If the author messed up on such basic facts as the name of the founder and the name of his organization, how can we trust anything else he says?
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