Exclusive: Inside the GBC’s Private VDG Committee Chat – 712 Messages on Female Diksha Gurus, Published in Full

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For five weeks this summer, the representatives the GBC gathered to settle whether women may serve as initiating gurus in…

FDG Resolved In 3 Steps

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In Jaiva Dhrma, Srila Bhaktivenode Thakura clearly warns us to NOT introduce vyavaharika-dona, secular impropriety. “Vaisnava dasa: If one violates…

Memorial To Balabhadra Prabhu

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Included at the end of this memorial is a URL to a 35-minute audio/video clip of Balabhadra being interviewed after…

“This is ISKCON versus Madhu Pandit Dasa”: ISKCON India spokesman shows Bengaluru leader’s old court filings on national TV

3 days ago

On national Hindi television, ISKCON India’s communications director says the Bengaluru temple case is not a dispute between two ISKCON…

Congressman Was Inside Aurora Hindu Temple With His Parents on the Day an Alleged Neo-Nazi Gunman’s Rifle Jammed, Prosecutors Say

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Prosecutors say a 19-year-old self-described neo-Nazi drove to the Sri Venkateswara Swami (Balaji) Temple in Aurora, Illinois, on the first…

Two Societies, One Name: Briefing Note Accuses Madhu Pandit Dasa of ‘Double Fraud’ Over Bengaluru Temple

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A six-page briefing note dated 8 October 2026 sets out the 1971 Mumbai Society’s case that Madhu Pandit Dasa revived…

ISKCON Salem’s July 2026 video shows carved stonework at its temple construction site

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A 90-second film from ISKCON Salem offers a close view of carved stonework and ongoing work at the Sri Sri…

Reader traces the “expert at rape” wording of SB 4.25.41 to Visvanatha Cakravarti’s commentary and the Kama-sutra

6 days ago

A reader answers Akincana Gocara’s call for comment on the removed paragraph with a short philological note: the wording may…

Drutakarma Dasa, author of “Forbidden Archeology”, passes away in Los Angeles at 78

6 days ago

The co-author of “Forbidden Archeology” and a disciple of Srila Prabhupada since the 1970s spent his last years and months,…

Video: a 195-letter word from a Sanskrit poem, decoded by Sanskrit Garden

6 days ago

A Sanskrit teacher’s eight-minute video on a 195-letter compound from a sixteenth-century poem has passed 100,000 views in four days.…