GBC Resolutions 2025
Dear Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The 2025 GBC AGM Resolutions have been released at the below link: https://gbc.iskcon.org/gbc-resolutions/ Please click the bottom link for 2025. Hare Krishna. Your servant, Ananda Tirtha Das (GBC Corresponding Secretary)Continue Reading
ISKCON’s First Stone Temple Construction Update – April 2025
ISKCON’s First stone temple | Construction masterpiece to last 1000s of years | Traditional temple without steel or RCC For more information please visit www.iskconsalem.com.Continue Reading
Authorized Dates for Observing the Jagannatha Rathayatra: Presentations and Research Findings by the ISKCON India Scholars Board (IISB)
The ISKCON India Scholars Board (IISB) recently presented a series of research findings and discussions to the Shri Jagannatha Temple Administration (SJTA) on the topic of authorized dates for celebrating the Jagannatha Ratha-yatra. These discussions took place on 20th March 2025 in Bhubaneswar, India, before Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingh Deb andContinue Reading
Meeting between ISKCON India Scholars Board and the Sri Jagannath Temple management authorities
Meeting between ISKCON India Scholars Board Representatives and the Sri Jagannath Temple Management Authorities By Tukaram Das, Vice President, ISKCON Bhubaneshwar, March A significant and insightful meeting took place yesterday, March 23, 2025, between His Majesty the Gajapati Maharaja Dibya Singh Dev, the revered King of Puri, who was accompaniedContinue Reading
ISKCON India Governing Council (Bureau) Letter on passing of HH Gopal Krishna Goswami
Dear devotees, Namonamaha. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Gopal Krishna Maharaj ki jaya! The ISKCON India Governing Council (Bureau), is deeply saddened by the passing of our longtime Chairman, HH Gopal Krishna Goswami, earlier today at Dehradun in Devbhumi Uttarakhand. Words may not do justice to the lifetime of service to theContinue Reading
The Law of Disciplic Succession, Part 1
IISB members Basu Ghosh Das (ACBSP) and Krishna Kirti Das (Convenor, IISB) discuss Srila Prabhupada’s Law of Disciplic Succession.Continue Reading
Initial Response to SAC’s Paper ‘Brahma-gayatri mantra in ISKCON’
Abstract In Kṛṣṇa’s Vedic civilization, upanayana — the investiture with the sacred thread and brahma-gāyatrī — is exclusively conferred upon qualified men, with women and śūdras being excluded. In the early days, Śrīla Prabhupāda, to pacify a few irate female disciples who had revolted because of not getting second initiation,Continue Reading
