As followers of Śrīla Prabhupāda, we have been taught that service to the instructions of the guru (vāṇī) are given more importance than service to the form of the guru (vapuḥ). All of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s followers know this. However, sometimes according to personal taste or circumstance, we may focus moreContinue Reading
Group Think The most important thing one needs to establish quickly when whipping up a good conspiracy is to get as many people on board as fast as possible. Marketing specialists refer to those people who are the first to rush out and try something new as “Early Adopters”. SocialContinue Reading
Baffle them with Cow Dung That is indeed a very tragic scenario… but despite all the hyperbole, pages of so-called testimonies, dramatic stories to track down hearsay rumors heard by children who disappeared in Mexico, pages of audio charts, medical history, and tangential stories about Chandra Swami, Napoleon, Blanch TylerContinue Reading
Raw Hubris Regardless of how much the Truth Team squawks about wanting everyone to “…honestly present all the evidence and facts in one place,” they have made a colossal farce of that intention by grossly failing to do that very thing themselves. This paper will show how the ones makingContinue Reading
All Aboard! Poison Conspiracy! The vile idea that Srila Prabhupada was poisoned by his top disciples became the acorn which fell on the head of LINK: Chicken Little. The short 9-minute rendering of this classic children’s tale provided here is well worth the watch. It very accurately captures the phenomenonContinue Reading
Millennial Controversies Just prior to the turn of the century, there was an upheaval of controversy that had never before been experienced in ISKCON. Some creative writers got together and published a bunch of unconventional ideas in a title referred to as the ‘Final Order.’ I had an opportunity toContinue Reading
The Poison Conspiracy Antidote Visa-Virya Bijam visa-virya—highly potent poison; bijam – seed Exposing the real poison of fraudulent poison allegations. By Mayeśvara Dāsa • ACBSP • mdjagdasa@gmail.com October 2017 • Ojai, Ca. “It appears that you have been poisoned by some rascals. Such rascals cannot do anything to push onContinue Reading
Hospital Yajna? I was prowling the internet recently for some cyber-association and encountered a well written, straight forward presentation that raised questions about the role of ISKCON in the construction of Hospitals. I was so appreciative of how honest the article was I decided to leave a two sentence commentContinue Reading
It is not one of the purposes of ISKCON to open hospitals. Srila Prabhupada told his disciples not to open hospitals: Hospital-making business is there, going on by the government, by the state. You are not meant for making hospitals. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 4.37-40 — August 21, 1966,Continue Reading
Even before but more so after the sensational Nirbhaya gang-rape case of December 2012 India has been portrayed as the rape capital of the world where violence against women is enshrined. But what do the numbers tell us? Other countries in fact have much higher rates of rape than India,Continue Reading