The Vrindavan Mellows Retreat
Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. ISKCON Bhagavat Mahavidyalaya wishes to invite all interested ISKCON devotees and preachers to come and experience this wonderful opportunity for sadhu-sanga in the holy land of Vrindavana, under the shelter of Govardhana. Dates: 21 – 24 August 2020Continue Reading
How to Mess up Your Life Without Varnasrama!
February 28, 2020|By His Holiness R.P. Bhakti Raghava Swami How to mess up your life without varnasrama! Response to a seminar given in Mayapur during ILS entitled “How to mess up your life with varnasrama. In as much as the absence of Bhagavat Dharma, known as spiritual sva-dharma, (in ISKCON “Krishna consciousness”)Continue Reading
Damodara Dasa Responds to Madan Mohan Das’s Book: Guru-The Principle not the Body -P3
There are 3 parts of this response that are answering the basic allegations on the authors of Vaisnava-diksa according to Narada-pancaratra. Nature of the Book: Khandana grantha Are there Female Diksa-gurus in Gaudiya lines? Part 3: Page 20-30Continue Reading
Damodara Dasa Responds to Madan Mohan Das’s Book: Guru-The Principle not the Body -P2
There are 3 parts of this response that are answering the basic allegations on the authors of Vaisnava-diksa according to Narada-pancaratra. Nature of the Book: Khandana grantha Are there conflicting statements in Srila Prabhupada’s Instructions? Part 2: Page 14-20 Continue Reading
Damodara Dasa Responds to Madan Mohan Das’s Book: Guru-The Principle not the Body -P1
There are 3 parts of this response that are answering the basic allegations on the authors of Vaisnava-diksa according to Narada-pancaratra. Nature of the Book: Khandana grantha Part 1: Page 01-13Continue Reading
ISKCON official statement from the group represented by Madhu Pandit Prabhu and a committee of ISKCON’s GBC
Dear Vaishnavas, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. What follows is a shared statement from the group represented by Madhu Pandit Prabhu and a committee of ISKCON’s GBC. Our two groups of Vaishnavas, all followers and servants of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada,Continue Reading
GAUR PURNIMA AT ISKCON MAYAPUR UNITES THE WORLD
কলকাতা |THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020|Debasish Chattopadhyay ; Kolkata : Its West meets the East , for centuries ,the traditions, customs, costumes , spirituality and Vedic wisdom of India has attracted the attention of people from all over the world. As Holi nears a unique spectacle of global harmony is visible atContinue Reading
Open Letter to HG Hrdayananda Maharaja by HG Mayesa dasa
Maharaja My obeisances, I just perused your letter addressed to the devotees regarding ISKCON’s recent adoption of Female Diksa Guru. I found a problem in your first claim and again in your second claim. And those two claims made up the whole of the letter. Your first claim is thatContinue Reading
Raaslila on streets for Trump’s visit an insult to Braj: Padma Shri MS Bhatia
Mathura, 2020-02-23 (VT) Prior to US President Donald Trump’s Agra visit on February 24, Padma Shri and veteran Braj litterateur, Shri Mohan Swaroop Bhatia has raised objection to the performance of Shri Radha Krishna’s Raaslila as a mere exhibit on the streets for his welcome. Along with other programs thatContinue Reading
In Defense of Vaisnava-diksa according to Narada-Pancaratra
Below is the executive summary of our paper, which is a short, initial response to Sriman Madana Mohana Prabhu’s paper “Guru: The Principle, Not the Body” (2020), which is a response to our book Vaisnava-diksa according to Narada-Pancaratra (2019). Click here for our full paper. Your servants, Krishna-kirti Dasa (BVKS)Continue Reading