News and views on culture, philosophy and siddhanta of ISKCON Vaishnavas
Sastra as authority, pramana, hermeneutics, Manu-smrti/dharma-sastra authority, sadacara.
Hours after ISKCON India’s delegation spoke at the GBC’s mid-term meeting on Vaishnavi diksa-gurus, three ISKCON India Scholars Board members recorded a 73-minute debrief. They say the delegation had half an hour,…
A reader answers Akincana Gocara’s call for comment on the removed paragraph with a short philological note: the wording may trace back to Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura’s commentary, and the “vīra” the verse…
Four months after Prāṇadā devī dāsī published a book arguing that women have long served as initiating gurus in the Gauḍīya line, the ISKCON India Scholars Board has answered with a twelve-page…
In a new hour-long discussion, the ISKCON India Scholars Board argues from the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that dīkṣā requires a living spiritual master, answers the ritvik doctrine, and takes up the…
Senior ISKCON leaders react to the removal of the final paragraph of Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.25.41 from vedabase.io. Hridayananda Dasa Goswami supports the removal; Sukadeva Swami opposes it. Statements will…
The closing paragraph of Srila Prabhupada’s purport, which the BBT trustees promised in 2008 never to subtract, is missing from the 2024 printing of the BBT’s eighteen-volume Srimad-Bhagavatam and from the English…
In this discussion from the ISKCON India Scholars Board, Kṛṣṇa-kīrti dāsa and Abhinandana Nimāī dāsa explore the value of Sanskrit study in devotional life. Responding to Suvyakta Narasiṁha dāsa’s criticism of Sanskrit…
An email exchange between Krishna Kirti Das and Hridayananda dasa Goswami, 5-7 September 2026, on whether Srila Prabhupada is infallible when he cites shastra, and what follows for Manu-samhita and the question…
The ISKCON India Scholars Board responds to GBC Chairman Madhu-sevita Das’s 2026 Janmashtami warning about internal divisions, arguing the real issue behind them is the female diksha-guru debate and the authority of…
Krishna Kirti Das, IISB Convenor, tells it like it is.
