ISKCON Issues

Madhu Pandit Dasa Accused of Offering ₹50 Crore to the Auditor Who Turned on Him, With the Phones Kept Away

An updated briefing note from the Mumbai side of the ISKCON Bengaluru dispute sets out what it says V.L. Varadarajan…

2 weeks ago

Not AI: In 2023, Bhakti Vikasa Swami Said ISKCON Was Heading for a Split

A Facebook reel asks whether a clip of Bhakti Vikasa Swami and Basu Ghosh Das on female diksa gurus was…

2 weeks ago

Basu Ghosh Das: GBC Moratorium Has Given ISKCON “a Bad Name and Good Ammunition” for the Ritviks

In his Srimad-Bhagavatam class at the Krishna-Balaram temple, he calls the ritvik movement a “power grab”, explains the 9 July…

2 weeks ago

Did Srila Prabhupada Already Settle Female Diksa Gurus? Damodara Dasa and Rohini-tanaya Dasa Argue It Out

Image: Akincana Gocara (AI-generated), from a photo of Srila Prabhupada published by Sri Mayapur Dhama FACEBOOK — A debate over…

2 weeks ago

ISKCON Guru Asita Krishna Swami Vows to Fight the Approval of Female Diksa Gurus: “Whatever Fight You Have to Make, We Will Make It”

In a phone video recorded at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Govardhan, the ashram’s temple president, an ISKCON initiating guru, says…

2 weeks ago

Don’t Imitate Jahnava Devi: IISB Answers the Strongest Argument for Female Diksa Gurus

In a 90-second video, the author of the ISKCON India Scholars Board’s recent paper on female diksa-gurus in Gaudiya history…

2 weeks ago

The Female Diksa Guru Resolution’s Scriptural Basis Rests on an Error: Dhruva Was Never Given Vedic Initiation

A three-minute video from the ISKCON India Scholars Board argues that the Sastric Advisory Council’s 2005 paper on female diksa-gurus,…

2 weeks ago

Madhu Pandit Dasa Accused of Forgery on National TV: “A Different Typewriter, a Different Medium”

In a twelve-minute interview on News24, one of India’s largest Hindi news channels, ISKCON India’s communications director repeats the charge…

2 weeks ago

The Ritvik Debate Is a Smoke Screen: the Real Fight Is About Property

Two temple presidents and a former fundraiser who served at the Bangalore temple in the 1980s and 1990s say Madhu…

2 weeks ago

Hare Krishna Mandir Channel Answers Varada Krsna Dasa: “Stories Are Just Stories, Show Us the Documents”

A 34-minute Hindi video on the Hare Krishna Mandir channel calls Varada Krsna Dasa’s “Why I Left ISKCON Bangalore” interview…

3 weeks ago