If you want to read this paper from starting please click on the below links: Where is Poison? (Part-1) Where is Poison? (Part-2) Where is Poison? (Part-3) Highlights of Mayesvara Prabhu response to Dhira Govind Prabhu(Part-4): Your response suggests that you may have perceived the facts presented in DECEPTION toContinue Reading
If you want to read this paper from starting please click on the below links: Where is Poison? (Part-1) Where is Poison? (Part-2) Highlights from Part -3: GBC’s Latency is Very Suspicious`! On page 435 of Deception: The Venom of Deception, you include a letter from the ISKCON Governing BodyContinue Reading
If you want to read this paper from starting click on the below link: Where is Poison? (Part-1) Highlights from the discussion(Part-2): . . . .While I was still in Israel- late 80s/early 90s, I began reading, and relishing, Conversations with Srila Prabhupada, starting with Volume One. Into the 90s,Continue Reading
Overview: Dhira Govinda Prabhu (David Brian Wolf) completed his Doctorate Dissertation from the School of Social Work at Florida State University in 1999. After acquiring such esteemed credentials, he founded the Satvatove Institute which has been tremendously successful in coaching individuals thru life’s chal-lenges. His most noteworthy accomplishment has beenContinue Reading
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This is from an exchange I had with an ISKCON leader and sannyasi regarding the misunderstandings many devotees seem to have about Manu-samhita. The first message begins with an exchange between Basu Ghosh Prabhu and the ISKCON leader, and the last message gives a short introduction to the application ofContinue Reading
कोरोना के इस संकट काल में गौड़ीय_वैष्णवों का क्या कर्तव्य है? क्या उन्हें भारी मात्रा में भोजन वितरण करना चाहिए? क्या उन्हें #Hospitals खोलने चाहियें? क्या कोरोना आपदा ख़त्म करने के लिए भक्तों को नृसिंह यज्ञ या संकीर्तन करना चाहिए?? क्या मानव सेवा ही माधव सेवा है? कोई कुछ बोल क्योंContinue Reading
Chicago Tribune story In support of my recent musings on FDG – it’s quite common to hear the narrative of two ISKCONs today. Early ISKCON was liberal and women were encouraged in all possible ways, and then Prabhupada took devotees to India where they learned Indian customs and then theyContinue Reading
In this part we show that, after eighteen pages of a paper that extensively uses mathematics, MMD and his fellow mathematicians say that Sunīti could not initiate Dhruva because she was “afflicted by grief out of affection for her son” as well as by “jealousy and resentment toward Suruci and Uttānapāda” and therefore lacked the qualification to become his dīkṣā-guru. They further insult Sunīti, an elevated personality, by relegating her to mundane platforms, not worthy of becoming a role-model for ISKCON’s devotees.Continue Reading
When conducting any survey, one of the most important concerns a researcher has is in eliminating bias. Even if the bias is unintentional, if your survey is biased in any way, the results will be unreliable or misleading. As declared in the first verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam, “The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all.” Bias prevents the discovery of truth. Therefore, both researchers and devotees have a common interest in eliminating bias.
My overall assessment of the survey is that while some of the questions are reasonable and interesting and not without some utility for ISKCON policymakers, the survey itself is strongly biased to produce results that reflect the opinion of the survey’s sponsor. In the survey there are various problems of response bias, especially framing bias, and also selection bias. It is also apparent that those who created the survey are unfamiliar with some of the basic principles of survey design. Prior experience and training do matter.
Now, I will present examples of these different biases. After that, I will address some general epistemological issues related to this survey and its purposes.Continue Reading