Books and Media
Article by Sitalatma Das…on Kaunteya’s book
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…
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Position and Legacy
Founder-Acarya position, changes to his books, how to read/apply his statements, attempts to distance from or reinterpret them.
Position and Legacy
How can Srila Prabhupada be the center when “the shastra is the center for all”?
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…
Position and Legacy
Is the SAC’s definition of their Overarching Principle too narrow?
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…
Position and Legacy
Is the SAC’s Overarching Principle Supported by Śāstra?
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…
Position and Legacy
श्रील प्रभुपाद जी का गुणगान मलूक पीठ श्री राजेंद्र दास जी महाराज द्वारा
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…
GBC and Governance
The ICC has taken Cognizance of the New Course on “Hermeneutics”
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,…
Female Diksa Gurus
Can a liberated soul make false statements?
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…
Guru and Initiation
A few thoughts on Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada: "I shall remain your personal guidance, physically present or not physically, as I am getting personal guidance from my guru maharaja." He wrote this in a letter to his initiated…
Life and Memories
Do Not Change My Words
Srila Prabhupada used to like to sit in his garden in Vrindavan especially in the mornings. He liked to hear his books read to him daily. One time Yasodanandan Prabhu was reading…
