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GBC chairman Madhusevita Dasa inaugurated “Ranga” at MGM Park during the temple’s Sharad Purnima celebrations; PETA India says it is the 33rd mechanical elephant it has placed with temples that pledge never…
Bhupendra Patel performed the foundation rituals and a Narasimha yajna at Kosmada on 25 October, told the gathering to “link devotion with nation-building”, and honoured donors and Bhagavad-gita exam students, as ISKCON…
The Governing Body Commission has resolved that no ISKCON guru may give first, second or sannyasa initiation from 1 December 2026 until Gaura Purnima 2027, a date it says “could be extended”.…
Akincana Gocara publishes the video recordings of eight meetings of the GBC’s Global Vaiṣṇavī Dīkṣā-Guru Committee, held between 14 July and 6 October 2026, together with the position papers that regional governing…
Without a public announcement, the Governing Body Commission has rebuilt its website, gathered every resolution since 1975 into one searchable archive and published “AI-assisted” translations of its recent resolutions in ten languages,…
In a three-minute video recorded for Hare Krsna TV, GBC member Guru Prasad Swami tells how a campus chanting party in Texas, a Bhagavad-gita found in a US Army library in Panama…
A new YouTube course teaches Sanskrit from zero, in Hindi, lesson by lesson through Samskrita Bharati’s beginner textbook. Its first class is about the first thing anyone learns in a new language:…
WADA, India — As the GBC devoted the second and third days of its 2026 Midterm General Meeting at Govardhan Eco Village to Vaishnavi diksa-gurus,[3][4] two senior sannyasis and disciples of Srila…
Hours after ISKCON India’s delegation spoke at the GBC’s mid-term meeting on Vaishnavi diksa-gurus, three ISKCON India Scholars Board members recorded a 73-minute debrief. They say the delegation had half an hour,…
A devotee who spent nearly ten years raising money for the Hare Krishna Hill temple says that none of its builders had heard of the Karnataka society that now owns it. ISKCON…
