Female Diksa Gurus
Song
Song Being a lifelong songwriter as well as initiated disciple of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami I know the effect of song and it's origination. My spiritual master often talked about the uselessness of…
ISKCON Issues · Page 3
Mission and Cultural Change
Welfare work vs preaching, cultural adaptation (e.g. Krishna West), tradition vs modernisation, debates over distancing from Prabhupada’s statements.
Mission and Cultural Change
How the Śrī Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya Split: Its Implications for ISKCON
The Śrī Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya has two major sects, one is called Vaḍagalai and the other Teṅkalai, and the two have existed for almost 400 years and arose on account of a bitter…
Mission and Cultural Change
Mission Drift
In 2001, Sripad Jayadavaita Swami gave a lecture series titled “Food for Death”, which is still available on his website at and which examined how prasadam distribution seen by the public as…
