Gold, Guns and God
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A Biography of Swami Bhaktipada and a History of the West Virginia New Vrindaban Hare Krishna Community in Ten Volumes, by Henry Doktorski
Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada receives a birthday gift—a golden crown and mace, similar to the royal acouterments offered to the murti of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in his Palace of Gold, expertly crafted by master jeweler Ishani dasi (Ellen Schramm), the head of the New Vrindaban Jewelry Department—during Bhaktipada’s vyasa-puja celebration commemorating his 49th birthday, at New Vrindaban, West Virginia (September 1, 1986)
VOLUME 1—A CRAZY MAN (430 pages)
Chapter 1: This Child Is Going to be a Great Preacher
Chapter 2: Keith and Howard: A Couple of Wild and Crazy Guys
Chapter 3: Living in the Big Apple
Chapter 4: Denizens of Mott Street
Chapter 5: Weed, Sex, Booze, Violence and Dropping Out of School
Chapter 6: Tripping
Chapter 7: Passage, O Soul, to India!
Chapter 8: Turning Hippies Into Happies
Chapter 9: The Spiritual Master Is Never At Fault
Chapter 10: Keith Becomes Kirtanananda
Chapter 11: Return to India
Chapter 12: A Crazy Man
VOLUME 2—A PIONEER COMMUNITY (448 pages)
Chapter 13: Establishing the Caste System in the Modern World
Chapter 14: Almost Heaven?
Chapter 15: The Prodigal Sons Return
Chapter 16: The First West Virginia Winter
Chapter 17: We Must All Follow Kirtanananda Maharaja
Chapter 18: Growing Pains
Chapter 19: A Great Sinister Movement
Chapter 20: In Every Town and Village
Chapter 21: A Transcendental Rock Opera
Chapter 22: Kirtanananda Becomes Sole Leader at New Vrindaban
Chapter 23: The Cult of Kirtanananda
Chapter 24: He Is Worth Ten Of You
VOLUME 3—PRABHUPADA’S PALACE OF GOLD (490 pages)
Chapter 25: The Shooting Affair
Chapter 26: Our Men Should Be Trained to Kill!
Chapter 27: These Devotees Are My Jewels
Chapter 28: A Labor of Love
Chapter 29: New Vrindaban Under Lockdown
Chapter 30: I Am Already Living Here
Chapter 31: The Passing of Prabhupada
Chapter 32: The Palace Marathon
Chapter 33: We Had Been Waiting for Such a Long, Long Time
Chapter 34: Glory Days
Chapter 35: A Tourist Magnet
Chapter 36: Prabhupada Rex
Chapter 37: Spend Your Summer In Heaven
VOLUME 4—DEVIATIONS IN THE DHAMA (617 pages)
Chapter 38: Three Things Improve With a Good Beating
Chapter 39: Scam-Kirtan
Chapter 40: The Dharmettes, Part One
Chapter 41: The Dharmettes, Part Two
Chapter 42: The Secret Inner Sanctum
Chapter 43: Suffer Little Children
Chapter 44: He touched me all over. I was nine. He was thirty-eight.
Chapter 45: How much sex have YOU had?
Chapter 46: A Lying, Cheating, Cock-Scking Pedophile
Chapter 47: Cleaning House
Chapter 48: Children of ISKCON vs. ISKCON
Conclusion: Children in History
VOLUME 5—THE MURDER AND THE MANDIR (353 pages)
Chapter 49: Show-Bottle Guru
Chapter 50: King of the Fringies
Chapter 51: The Murder
Chapter 52: The Mandir
Chapter 53: Cows, Calves and Bullshit
Chapter 54: The Temple of Understanding and Land of Krishna
Chapter 55: For Whom the Bell Tolls
VOLUME 6—THE GURU BUSINESS (520 pages)
Chapter 56: The Zonal Acharyas Take Over ISKCON
Chapter 57: ISKCON Gurus Begin to Deviate
Chapter 58: Sulochan: A Thorn in Bhaktipada’s Side
Chapter 59: The Kirtanananda Exposé
Chapter 60: The Guru Reform Movement
Chapter 61: Preaching from a Jail Cell
Chapter 62: An Attack at the Heart of ISKCON
Chapter 63: He Was a Very, Very Different Person
Chapter 64: Murder Conspiracy
Chapter 65: The Keystone Cops Surveillance Team
Chapter 66: The “Demon” Jailed
Chapter 67: A Real Pain
Chapter 68: The Murder of Sulochan
VOLUME 7—TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS (321 pages)
Chapter 69: The Cavalry Comes to the Rescue
Chapter 70: The Rats Jump Off the Sinking Ship
Chapter 71: Tirtha On Trial for the Murder of Chakradhari
Chapter 72 The Berkeley ISKCON Takeover Attempt
Chapter 73: Expelled from ISKCON
Chapter 74: Defiance
Chapter 75: A Blessing in Disguise
Chapter 76: It’s Persecution, Pure and Simple
VOLUME 8—THE CITY OF GOD (357 pages)
Chapter 77: The Great Experiment
Chapter 78: Uniting East and West
Chapter 79: Krishna-izing the Classics
Chapter 80: The Krishna Chorale
Chapter 81: The Advent of Jesus Christ in the Temple
Chapter 82: Accordions, Organs and Music at the Palace
Chapter 83: The Temple Orchestra and Music Theater
Chapter 84: The Liturgies
Chapter 85: Ideational Music
Chapter 86: Christian-Style Robes and Women Swamis
Chapter 87: Silent Meditation
Chapter 88: Interfaith Preaching
Chapter 89: The Proposed Cathedral of the Holy Name
Chapter 90: The Interfaith Cities of God
Chapter 91: The City of God Media Circus
Chapter 92: Bhaktipada’s Rule
VOLUME 9—PUSHED OUT COMPLETELY (330 pages)
Chapter 93: A Good Day for a Crucifixion
Chapter 94: Under House Arrest
Chapter 95: End of an Era
Chapter 96: The City of Fraud
Chapter 97: Bhaktipada Returns Triumphantly to New Vrindaban
Chapter 98: The Winnebago Incident
Chapter 99: Admitting to Past False Pride
Chapter 100: Civil War at New Vrindaban
Chapter 101: Pushed Out Completely
VOLUME 10—SIX FEET UNDER: THE LAST DAYS (280 pages)
Chapter 102: Picking Up the Pieces
Chapter 103: New Vrindaban Readmitted to ISKCON
Chapter 104: Behind Prison Bars
Chapter 105: Return to New York City
Chapter 106: Passage, O Soul, to India!—Recapitulation
Chapter 107: Last Days
Chapter 108: Six Feet Under
Bonus Volume—NEW VRINDABAN IN PICTURES—Color and Black and White Photographs from the Swami Bhaktipada Archive, plus an index and timeline for all ten volumes.
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