News and views on culture, philosophy and siddhanta of ISKCON Vaishnavas
Founder-Acarya position, changes to his books, how to read/apply his statements, attempts to distance from or reinterpret them.
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Today, 18 August 2023 at 11:30 am IST, Host Sitapati Prabhu and his dharmapatni Smt. Danna Devi will…
Here is the official response of the ISKCON India Scholars Board to Kaunteya Prabhu's book Tough Questions, Difficult Answers: Other review essays by individual IISB members are also posted to the IISB…
In a comment on Kaunteya's book elsewhere, I mentioned "distance" but I think it deserves a little more attention. The book is almost 700 pages long and the title is not settled…
Srila Prabhupada says in his purport to Sri Caitanya-caritamrita Madhya-lila 20.352 that among the sources of knowledge dharma given by one’s guru, other saintly persons, and shaof stra, “the shastra is the…
This video explains how the ISKCON GBC's Shatric Advisory Council gave too narrow a definition for the evidence cited in support of the overarching principle for their system of hermeneutics. Verses like…
The SAC's mistake is just like quoting the Vedic injunction that the stool of an animal is impure and then using inference to say that because a cow is an animal, its…
जगदगुरु श्रील A.C. भक्तिवेदांता स्वामी प्रभुपाद ने विश्व भर के महानतम लोगो अपनी शिक्षाओ की तरफ आकृष्ट किया है। भारतवर्ष में वैष्णव धर्म को यथारूप स्थापित किया है। उनकी पुस्तकों एवं शिक्षाओं…
Whereas, the ICC has taken cognizance of the new course on “Hermeneutics” that the GBC SAC (shastra advisory committee) has introduced and is soliciting students for from amongst ISKCON devotees worldwide, Whereas,…
In the paper The Sunīti Pramāṇa and Set Theory, the authors apply formal logic to Śrīla Prabhupāda’s statement in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.12.32 in order to prove that it does not indicate that women are generally disallowed…
