Controversy
By Jay Madhava das, 6.5 2015
How Hinduism Took Down ISKCON in the U.S. Heartland
Why Hindus won't or can't preach to locals and make devotees in the West.
Whatever happened to Srila Prabhupada's WAR AGAINST MAYA in the West?
"Acaryas, they declare war against Maya'...Read more...
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By Rochana das, 6.5 2015
Constitutional Issues: 'Rubber-stamp' Approvals
Over the course of the last year we have received input from a number of devotees who have reviewed the draft Constitution for ISKCON As it Is. The document was first studied and discussed by members of...Read more...
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By Murari das, 4.5 2015
The Real Threat of Schism in ISKCON
This article was submitted to Dandavats on 31st January 2015 for publishing, but it was not published.
Often the nature of schism is such that while there is a conflict, both sides do not know that they are in the midst of an...Read more...
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By Satya Govinda das, 4.5 2015
Intoxication: A Crisis in Contemporary ISKCON
Recently, I got into a rather heated debate on Facebook with a long time ISKCON devotee who made a post advocating the consumption of gañja (hemp) on the basis of Lord Śiva using it in Puranic...Read more...
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By Jahnava Nitai das, 4.5 2015
If I were to tell you, that once, no other country, save India, revered the cow as much as Japan, I could understand your disbelief. Today, we think of Japan as a meat-eating culture. However, this image is a product of the last 150 years of American influence...Read more...
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Two more attempts of Jones to destroy the Divinity of Sanskrit language and to mutilate Bhartiya history.
His second attempt was to mutilate the Divine greatness of Sanskrit language, and his third attempt was to create a fiction about Chandragupt Maurya being the...Read more...
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Jones writes in “On the Gods of Greece, Italy and India”,
“Since Gods of all shapes and dimensions may be framed by the boundless powers of imagination, or by the frauds and follies of men, in countries never connected; but, when features of resemblance, too strong to have...Read more...
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By editor, 4.5 2015
Organized efforts of the British to destroy our culture and religion, and mutilate our history.
The first evidence of the above fact is the personal secret suggestion of Jones (along with a derogative essay) of 1784 to Warren Hastings, Governor General of...Read more...
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Swami B.B. Vishnu, Mar. 17 2000
A Critical Essay Addressing the Ritvik Misconception in light of bona-fide siddhanta
"One should not proudly think that one can understand the transcendental loving service of the Lord simply by reading books... One must accept a Vaisnava guru (...Read more...
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GBC - Governing Body Commision, June, 1996,
This is an official ISKCON Governing Body Commission position paper demonstrating that those who keep faith with Srila Prabhupada cannot follow H. H. Narayana Maharaja. Presented by the GBC Executive and Standing Philosophical...Read more...
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QUESTIONS ABOUT HARIKESA PRABHU'S SITUATION.
Answers provided by the GBC Executive Committee.
I asked a number of GBC members, some disciples of Harikesa prabhu and some other devotees to put down some questions they would like to ask about Harikesa's present situation. I felt that...Read more...
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By Patita Pavana das Adhikary
Ed., The Astrological Newsletter
Surprisingly, there are those who, while claiming to believe in the words of the pure devotee, have also swallowed NASA’s lunar launch ruse. In responding to a 2009 article on www.dandavats.com entitled “Shrila...Read more...
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Published on September 8th, 2014 | by david-milne
Did man really walk on the Moon or was it the ultimate camera trick, asks David Milne? The greater lunar lie. In the early hours of May 16, 1990, after a week spent watching old video footage of man on the Moon, a thought was turning...Read more...
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Although many believe man first reached the moon in July, 1969, we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic scriptures, that the astronauts never actually went to the moon. The manned moon landing was a colossal hoax.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, the...Read more...
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The controversy the ritvik people are virulently pushing is this:
On 9 July 1977, only months before his impending departure, Srila Prabhupada approved a letter addressed to all ISKCON leaders worldwide. In that letter, considering his rapidly deteriorating health and the hundreds of...Read more...
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CHAKRA (Mayapur, India) - March 20, 2000: "Not that I am Poisoned" is the most complete description to date of the poison controversy, with more than 300 pages of scientifically documented evidence and eyewitness testimonies, showing the falsity of the poison allegations. It...Read more...
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By editor, april 30 2015
Srila Prabhupada: "So far as personal association with Guru is concerned, I was only with Guru Maharaj 4 or 5 times, but I have never left his association, not even for a moment. Because I am following his instruction, I have never felt any separation. There...Read more...
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by Urdhvaga Das (ACBSP)
Why the Ritvik System is bonafide! BECAUSE Srila Prabhupada is saying so! We don’t say like this. It is Srila Prabhupada who says, that the Ritvik System is to be followed after his departure. Why you rascals contradict Srila Prabhupada?...Read more...
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Vrindaban,9 July, 1977
77-07-09
To All G.B.C., and Temple Presidents
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. Recently when all of the GBC members were with His Divine Grace in Vrndavana, Srila Prabhupada indicated that soon He would appoint some of...Read more...
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By Chaitanya Dāsa – USA
I`m writing this letter in regards to Laxmimoni devi dasi (JBD) aka Linda Hickey, twisted and evil little woman who under her “care” repeatedly and violently abused innocent Vaishnavi children. Unfortunately, her understanding of the ‘...Read more...
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By Kṛṣṇacandra Dāsa – Śrī Vṛndāvan Dham
News has been coming out of Australia that GBC and Sannyāsa Guru Prabhavisnu Swami has been again caught with a Prostitute in Bangkok, Thailand by a senior disciple of his. The incident apparently occurred three weeks ago and has been kept under...Read more...
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