Laxmimoni used to beat devotee children like mad ...

[Paramananda das]

dear devotees

Please accept my humble obaisences

 All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 I was talking to Mother Mohanasinis daughter Lynnet Bannow,  Navadvipa and she told me how Laxmimoni used to beat her so much.So that is nice she is respected in Alachua but  that she used to do to devotees children is not good:

 

 

Srila Prabhupada writes:

 

Now the thing is, children should not be beaten at all, that I have told. They should simply be shown the stick strongly. So if one cannot manage in that way then he is not fit as teacher. If a child is trained properly in Krishna Consciousness, he will never go away. That means he must have two things, love and education.... So if there is beating of child, that will be difficult for him to accept in loving spirit, and when he is old enough he may want to go away--that is the danger. So why these things are going on _ marching and chanting japa, insufficient milk, too strict enforcement of time schedules, hitting the small children? Why these things are being imposed? Why they are inventing these such new things like marching and japa like army? What can I do from such a distant place? They should run and play when they are small children, not forced to chant japa, that is not the way. So I have given you the guiding principles, it is not that I must be consulted with every small detail, that is the business of the in-charge, but if no one is there who can manage in the right way, what can I do? Now if you have got the right idea how to do it, you may go there again and take some responsible post for correcting the situation, that will be your real duty, not that there is some disagreement and I go away disgusted, no. That is not Vaisnava standard. Standard should be that, never mind there is some difficulty, my spiritual master has ordered me to do like this, now let me do it, that's all.
[Srila Prabhupada Letter to: Bhanutanya Hyderabad 18 November, 1972]

 

But among Srila Prabhupada disciples many never cared to listen to this instruction of their spiritual master....

 

your servant

 

Paramananda das