Controversy
By editor - 3.12 2021
Just when you think that ISKCON touched the bottom of stupidity, they somehow manage to go even lower. Before reading this article, you should read a well-researched article by Akincana Gocara, where you can see that ISKCON performed the first gay...Read more...
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By Madhudvisa dasa - 26.11 2021
Krishna Kant has completely misrepresented the teachings of Srila Prabhupada on one specific point. He has attempted to prove Srila Prabhupada did not intend any of his disciples to become initiating gurus, ever. This is his unique addition to the ritvik...Read more...
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By Sriman Harinam Prabhu - 24.9 2021
It is widely known that Srila Prabhupada instituted a ritvik or representative (proxy) initiation system throughout ISKCON as early as 1971 in order to meet the growing need to initiate his disciples worldwide. However what is not widely known is that he...Read more...
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By Madhava Dasa, Sadaputa Dasa and Svarupa Damodara Dasa
A challenge to the prevailing scientific view
that life comes from a chance combination of material elements.
Although scientists would like to assume that in the past, inert chemicals combined to produce life, as yet no one...Read more...
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By editor - 22.7 2021
According to a Gallup poll, about 6% of Americans believe that man never went to the moon; they endorse conspiracy theories in which these landings were supposedly staged in a studio. This post is not about such conspiracy theories. I will discuss why we cannot go...Read more...
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BY: MAYESVARA DASA - 16.7 2021
In this paper we shall argue that the ancient Vedic conception of the Earth known as Bhu-mandala (literally "Earth-circle") was the original and dominant conception of the Earth that existed in Indian society right up until the nineteenth century,...Read more...
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By editor - 29.6 2021
Recently there was a meeting with the leaders of the World Vaishnava Association – Vishva Vaishnava Raj Sabha (WVA -VVRS), where former Paramadvaiti Swami (Ulrich Harlan) was asked to hand over all the WVA Organisations formal documentation in his possession,...Read more...
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BY: ISKCON NORTH AMERICAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Lokanath Swami Case to ICPO - May 8th, 2021
Dear North American Devotee Community,
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
There has been a great deal of recent discussion on the Internet and social media...Read more...
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By: Madhava Smullen - 24.11 2020
Drutakarma Das (Michael Cremo), co-author of Forbidden Archeology, is at work on a new book, tentatively titled “Extreme Human Antiquity.”
The book, Drutakarma says, “Is composed of new cases of archeological evidence that are...Read more...
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By editor - 28.10 2020
[PADA: OK so Sivarama swami is voted in as guru by -- the other GBC's "gurus." These are his co-gurus, and gurus who are the sum total of the demigods and God's spokesmen on earth. Yet he complains his co-gurus are making bogus statements and written...Read more...
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BBT Revisions Review Panel to Examine Changes In Prabhupada's Books
By: Krishnarupa devi dasi - 1.7 2020
Many ISKCON members are aware of the formation of the Revisions Review Panel (RRP), but they may not be informed of how it came about and exactly what its task is. This article...Read more...
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Senior GBC / Gurus Support Vaishnavi Diksa-Gurus in New Video
By: ISKCON News Staff - 16.6 2020
Gopal Krishna Goswami, one of the GBC members featured in the video.
In a video released today featuring Gopal Krishna Goswami, Bhakti Charu Swami, and Jayapataka Swami, these three...Read more...
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BY: AJIT KRISHNA DASA - 11.5 2020
If you are involved in the controversy about the posthumous changes made to Srila Prabhupada's books then I guess you know who Garuda Dasa (Graham M. Schweig) is. Otherwise you can easily inform yourself by searching the internet.
To avoid any...Read more...
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By editor - 27.3 2020
“Disturbances similar to those created by Hiraṇyakaśipu are now taking place all over the world because of demoniac governments. As stated in the Twelfth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the men of the governments of Kali-yuga will be no better than...Read more...
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By bh. Jan Mares - 26.3 2020
"Whenever someone tries to convince me that ghosts don't exist, I challenge them to take a walk through a cemetery at midnight and they turn pale." (anonymous)
"The only cure for non-belief is the mystical experience." (Thomas...Read more...
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By editor - 2.12 2019
Resolution of the ISKCON Governing Body Commission (GBC)
Regarding Vaishnavi Diksa-gurus
October 15, 2019
Whereas in 2009 the GBC Resolved:
1. The GBC accepts the philosophical conclusion presented in the SAC's Female Diksa
Guru Paper that a mature,...Read more...
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By editor - 22.11 2019
Apollo Zero seeks to prove that no man has ever really walked on the moon.
Think about this: to date, only three countries have been able to put a man merely in Earth orbit – the United States, Russia, and China. That speaks to how difficult it is just to get...Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 19.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
APPENDIXES
- Number 5 - Letter of Radhanatha Dasa to his "guru," Satsvarupa.
- Number 8 - Rohini...Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 19.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
CHAPTER TEN
THE KIRTANANANDA EXPOSE
A CRAZY MAN
INTRODUCTION
This chapter is an expose on one of the new "gurus" in...Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 19.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
CHAPTER NINE
ISKCON'S WOMEN
PROTECTED OR EXPLOITED?
CONTENTS
PART ONE
GENERAL PRINCIPLES ON WOMEN
INTRODUCTION
1....Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 14.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
CHAPTER SEVEN
A VERY HUMAN STORY
THE LILAMRTA-PLANTING THE WEED
Devotees often react to our statement that Lilamrta...Read more...
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Damaghosa das - 15.11 2019
SB 3.24.40 Purport–
Kardama Muni followed the Vedic injunction that no one in sannyāsa life can have any kind of relationship with women. But what is the position of a woman who is left by her husband? She is entrusted to the son, and the son promises that...Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 14.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
Chapter Six
LET THEM DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES
Introduction: The Lesser Etiquette Must Retire
This review is a page-by-page analysis...Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 14.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
CHAPTER FIVE
JUST TO CHASTISE THE EVIL-DOERS
...BUT IF THERE IS NO SOLUTION, WE MUST ACT.
"Regarding the outlaws, why...Read more...
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Author: Sulocana das - 11.11 2019
(Sulocana das was murdered May 22nd, 1986, 1:00 a.m., Los Angeles, two days after this story was written.)
CHAPTER TWO
"DO NOT DISHONOR ME"
HOW THE PERSONAL AMBITION OF THE "TOP MEN" HAS RUINED EVERYTHING
"...Read more...
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