GBC Calls for Proposals for Its February 2027 Meeting, Warns They May Not Be Voted On This Year

Howdy, sankirta

Proposals for the GBC’s 2027 Annual General Meeting must reach the Secretariat by January 1, each sponsored by two GBC members. The Corresponding Secretary warns that, with a backlog from earlier years, they may not be voted on this year.

The Annual General Meeting of the ISKCON GBC Society will begin in February 2027, and the GBC Secretariat is now accepting proposals for it, the GBC Corresponding Secretary, Ananda Tirtha Das, announced on 8 November 2026.^[1] Proposals must be sponsored by two GBC members and submitted by January 1, 2027, on the GBC’s official form; none will be entertained after that date. The announcement adds that proposals “may or may not be voted on this year as there is a backlog of proposals from earlier years.”^[1]

The message went out on PAMHO to the Free Forum (Announcements), ISKCON India, Leadership Discussions and (GBC) Proposals conferences, and was sent to the editors of Dandavats and ISKCON.org. It is published in full below.

How to submit a proposal

• Deadline: January 1, 2027. No proposals will be entertained after this date.^[1]
• Sponsors: two GBC members, as required by the ISKCON GBC Society’s Rules of Order.^[1]
• Form: the fillable GBC Proposal Application (PDF) on the GBC website.^[2]
• Where to send it: proposals@pamho.net, which also takes queries.^[1]

Text of the announcement

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Annual General Meeting of the ISKCON GBC Society will begin in February 2027. Following the ISKCON GBC Society’s Rules of Order, the GBC Secretariat requests proposals, duly sponsored by two GBC members, to be submitted by January 1, 2027. No proposals will be entertained after this date. Also, please note that proposals may or may not be voted on this year as there is a backlog of proposals from earlier years.

Please follow the format for GBC Proposals, attached as a fillable PDF. The PDF is also here:

gbc.iskcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GBC_Proposal_Application_2022.pdf

Once ready, kindly email your proposals to proposals@pamho.net.

You can also submit any queries to that address.

Hare Krishna.

Your servant,
Ananda Tirtha Das
(GBC Corresponding Secretary)

Ananda Tirtha Das, GBC Corresponding Secretary, PAMHO Text 35173992, 8 November 2026

Context

The call follows the same procedure as last year’s, when the Secretariat set January 1, 2026 as the deadline for the February 2026 meeting and pointed proposers to the same fillable form.^[3] The form linked in this year’s message is still the 2022 version.^[2]

The 2027 meeting will open while the GBC’s moratorium on all ISKCON initiations is in force. Passed at the October 2026 Mid-Term General Meeting, it halts first, second and sannyasa initiations from 1 December 2026 until Gaura Purnima, 22 March 2027, a date the GBC said “could be extended”.^[4]

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Sources

1. Ananda Tirtha Das (GBC Corresponding Secretary), “GBC Proposals, AGM 2027”, PAMHO Text 35173992, 8 November 2026, to Free Forum (Announcements), ISKCON India (news & discussion), Leadership Discussions and (GBC) Proposals; copy received by Akincana Gocara.
2. ISKCON GBC, “GBC Proposal Application” (fillable PDF), gbc.iskcon.org. gbc.iskcon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GBC_Proposal_Application_2022.pdf
3. Ananda Tirtha Das, “GBC Proposals, AGM 2026”, ISKCON Desire Tree. iskcondesiretree.com/profiles/blogs/gbc-proposals-agm-2026
4. “GBC Orders Every ISKCON Guru to Stop Initiating Until Gaura Purnima 2027”, Akincana Gocara, 26 October 2026. akincana.net/2026/10/26/gbc-orders-every-iskcon-guru-to-stop-…