A Message to the Responsible Leaders of ISKCON
A Message from HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami to the Responsible Leaders of ISKCON. Recorded on 30.June.2020Continue Reading
Contentious Sankirtana or Compassionate Patience? Part-4
4. A Non-Dual Dialogue from the Trenches Chuck Hillig’s Opening Muse: Religion is a solution that’s used to solve a non-existent problem. Chuck Hillig Facebook post May 26, 2020 Chuck Borough A good religion helps us solve many existent problems. None of our five children, for example, ever smoked orContinue Reading
The Last One Hour in the Hospital of HH BCS
Our Prana Govind Prabhu (sanyas candidate from florida) was with His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja for the last one hour in the hospital. Somehow the hospital management allowed him. He was chanting various prayers from Brahma Samhita, Sannyasa mantras..etc for Maharaja. Hope this news will give pleasure to aContinue Reading
GBC Statement on Departure of His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami
Dear Devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It is with overwhelming heartache that we announce to you the departure of our beloved godbrother and a dearmost servant of Srila Prabhupada, His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami. From his earliest days as a young devotee, Maharaja hadContinue Reading
Contentious Sankirtana or Compassionate Patience? Part-3
An Editorial Study in Four Parts by HG Mayesvara Dasa(ACBSP) 3. The Futility of a Non-Dual Dialogue The Neo-Non-Duality Charade The Non-dual path known in Sanskrit as Advaita has been around for a long time. Although it was made more prominent in recent history with the advent of Sankaracharya inContinue Reading
Contentious Sankirtana or Compassionate Patience? Part-2
An Editorial Study in Four Parts by HG Mayesvara Dasa(ACBSP) 2. Don’t Waste Your Time, Or: Compassionate Patience? They Don’t Deserve Krishna Consciousness Several devotees from all layers of the ISKCON hierarchy have come to preach in Ojai over the 30 plus years I have lived here. It is interestingContinue Reading
Contentious Sankirtana or Compassionate Patience? Part-1
An Editorial Study in Four Parts by HG Mayesvara Dasa(ACBSP) 1. Stepping Away from the Choir What Attracted You? Srila Prabhupada gave us a radically new way to live and I am attracted to all aspects of it. He gave us a practical way to help us give up badContinue Reading
Update on HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj’s Health
UPDATE AS OF 11:20 AM EST 07/01/20 Dear Disciples of HDG Srila Prabhupada, devotees, disciples and well-wishers of HH Bhakti Charu Swami, Please continue your Vratas, and Sankalpas on this Sayana Ekadashi for the benefit of HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj. We remain eternally grateful for this. The medical teamContinue Reading
Victory or Defeat is not Actually Ours
The Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (15.15): sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca “I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.” When two parties fight, the fighting actually goes on under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is Paramātmā, the Supersoul.Continue Reading
Latest Update on HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj’s Health
UPDATE AS OF 2:00 PM EST 6/29/20 Dear Disciples of HDG Srila Prabhupada, devotees, disciples, and well-wishers We thank you deeply for the outpouring of the Holy name that is sweeping the world. We only have a short update at present. HH Bhakti Charu Swami remains in the critical period-Continue Reading