News and views on culture, philosophy and siddhanta of ISKCON Vaishnavas
Hare Krishna Mandir Bhadaj taught its Instagram followers to wave the Kartik lamp seven times before each form on the altar. An ISKCON Youth Forum preacher answered that ISKCON’s “4-2-3-7” arati is…
The ISKCON guru, nearly 70, says his energy never came back after an illness this year. Most of his trips have been cancelled, and a facility is being set up in Mayapur…
A Facebook reel asks whether a clip of Bhakti Vikasa Swami and Basu Ghosh Das on female diksa gurus was made with AI. Most of it comes from a real conversation published…
A 2021 film by Karuna Productions follows Bhakti Charu Swami from a westernised Bengali home to Srila Prabhupada’s side, through his years on the GBC, and to the fear he named about…
In a message published by ISKCON, the well-known speaker offers his respects to Srila Prabhupada as the 50th anniversary of his samadhi approaches.
The Bhagavata speaker wishes ISKCON well on its 60th anniversary and says Srila Prabhupada was the one who took the call of bhakti to the Western world.
In his Srimad-Bhagavatam class at the Krishna-Balaram temple, he calls the ritvik movement a “power grab”, explains the 9 July 1977 letter and says the GBC should have thought harder before halting…
In a phone video recorded at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Govardhan, the ashram’s temple president, an ISKCON initiating guru, says he is “completely against” women giving class from the vyasasana as diksa-gurus…
In a 90-second video, the author of the ISKCON India Scholars Board’s recent paper on female diksa-gurus in Gaudiya history argues that Jahnava Devi’s example does permit a woman to initiate, but…
A reel by the American fitness personality Jillian Michaels warns of a tick bite that can turn a steak dinner into a night of hives. For people who already keep a vegetarian…
