In this Q&A at ISKCON London’s Soho Street temple, Śivarāma Swami reflects on ISKCON’s mission and the challenges devotees face today, including outreach, environmental responsibility, child protection, varṇāśrama, professional burnout, and sustaining spiritual consciousness beyond the temple.Continue Reading
By Śrīdhara Śrīnivāsa dāsaḥ and Kṛṣṇa Kīrti dāsaḥ – December 30, 2025Posted in To address the challenges of preaching in the West, Śrīla Prabhupāda made adjustments within ISKCON. He made Americans and Europeans into brāhmaṇas, he gave them sannyāsa, and he established brahmacāriṇī-āśramas for women and engaged them in preaching side-by-side with men. He said the “jealous fools” whoContinue Reading
Summary: In this video, Bhakti Vikasa Swami (BVKS) critiques the preaching trajectory of Hridayananda Dasa Goswami (HDG), acknowledging his significant early contributions to ISKCON in Latin America but asserting that his approach changed detrimentally after he received a PhD from Harvard. BVKS argues that HDG’s subsequent “Krishna West” project, foundedContinue Reading
Basu Ghosh Prabhu Speaks On Traditional vs. Modern ISKCON at the Namarasa Podcast This podcast was recorded in August 2024 in New Jersey, USA. Basu Ghosh Das (ACBSP) discusses the growing cultural tensions within ISKCON—East vs. West, tradition vs. modernity. Can ISKCON stay true to its Vedic roots while expandingContinue Reading
Kaunteya Das wrote: Recently, Sarva-drik Prabhu wrote: “One small request . . . Best to keep the discussion civil. Savaging the opposition (although ultimately we are all on the same side) with inflammatory name calling as “deviant, half-baked, pseudo-Vedic, neo-Smarta,” etc. isn’t helpful.” In private, a very senior Srila Prabhupada discipleContinue Reading
The interesting thing is that we are struggling over the same issues that the Christians are in Western society. That suggests there is a single, secular Western influence that is driving the challenge to traditional morality in both the Christian and Vedic traditions.Continue 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
BY: BASU GHOSH DAS (ACBSP) Oct 25, 2011 — BARODA, INDIA (SUN) — In response to the short message from Brhat Shloka Prabhu regarding prasad distribution at Bombay, there are two letters from Srila Prabhupada that highlight his outlook on the subject. Before reading the letter to Giriraj (now) Swami, notice the sentence:Continue Reading
A large section of us feels attached to our fellow human beings and it is obvious that we get affected by each other’s miseries or happiness and we feel compassionate about each other. It is because we all are attached by a single source i.e. Lord Krishna who is theContinue Reading
The thing I want to point out is that having done this at this one part of this one book [Sri Krishna Samhita], Bhaktivinode Thakura never does it again. Shukavak admits that to me. It was a one-time thing. And later on in his many songs, Bhaktivinode Thakura has manyContinue Reading