The Case Against Changing Prabhupada’s Books Part III

While planning to print the unabridged version of the Bhagavad-gita, Srila Prabhupada often referred to it as the revised and enlarged edition. When the BBT published its unauthorized adulterated Gita years later, they would henceforward refer to the 1972 printing as the original edition while calling theirs the revised and enlarged edition. This appears to be a subtle act of deception meant to validate the irreverent practice of changing Srila Prabhupada’s Books… The remainder of this article will focus mainly on ...Read More

Arsha Prayoga – Part One

For those who saw the Hare Krishna movement spread from city to city and from country to country, it was clear that the original version of Srila Prabhupada’s books was full of spiritual potency and did not require to be changed in any way for his words to act upon the hearts of the conditioned souls. The question as to whether the writings of the acarya may or may not be revised by his disciples after his disappearance is answered by ...Read More

Reuniting Prabhupada’s Followers

On July 20th, at the Toronto Rathayatra, a group of senior devotees met with His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami to discuss the steps that need to be taken by the leaders of ISKCON to reunite the family of Srila Prabhupada’s followers. This was in pursuance of a seminar presented by His Holiness in Mayapura dealing with the role of Srila Prabhupada as Founder-Acarya. The meeting was hosted by His Holiness Bhaktimarga Swami who also acted as moderator. ...Read More

Tribute to His Grace Somaka Prabhu

Hare Krishna, prabhus. I would like to submit a few words in praise of His Grace Somaka Prabhu. I was present when he arrived in Paris in 1972 with his wife and her brother. We could immediately see his great dedication and seriousness of purpose. There were about thirty-five devotees at the time–men, women and children–all living together in a one family house in Fontenay-aux-roses, a suburb of Paris. All of Soon after his arrival, Somaka Prabhu became the temple commander. ...Read More

ARSHA PRAYOGA PART II

We challenge the BBT managers and their editors to produce a single letter from any recognized scholar agreeing with them that Srila Prabhupada’s original books were full of mistakes and had to be revised for his message to be properly understood. Srila Prabhupada’s desire was to see his books translated into all of the major languages of the world. By 1970, numerous centers had opened in countries outside of the United States and translation work had begun in Germany, France, Canada, ...Read More

Prabhupada Honored By New York City [Now with Photo!]

On Sunday, November 18th, the disappearance day of our beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the City of New York installed a plaque in Tompkin’s Square Park to honor Srila Prabhupada. Devotees have been trying for years to convince city leaders of the need to give recognition to the founder of the Hare Krishna movement for having inaugurated the sankirtana movement right here in New York City. Srila Prabhupada is finally being officially honored in a most ...Read More

Why are ISKCON Having an Appeal for New York’s Firefighters?

By distributing prasadam and transcendental literature, are we not already helping the victims? No good can come from giving money to non-devotees to help them maintain a life-style based on sense gratification. If ISKCON managers work together to start a massive prasadam and literature distribution program here in New York, that would be the perfection of all humanitarian work. Every religious act must be scrutinized according to desa-kala-patra: the time, the circumstances, and the subject. It is our good fortune that ...Read More

Perfect Preaching

On Monday, September 24th, a town meeting took place at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City. There were nearly 1,000 attendees who came to hear from mayoral candidates, economists, journalists, theologians, psychologists and foreign policy experts. The Prabhupadanugas were contacted the night before and were asked to provide prasadam for all of these people. With practically no time to plan, the devotees were able to put together Srila Prabhupada’s books were displayed and a copy of the ...Read More

On Giving in Charity

A devotee of the Lord tries to distribute knowledge of Krishna everywhere and, as the world’s greatest philanthropist, he is always concerned about the welfare of the fallen, conditioned souls. He knows that the cause of suffering is forgetfulness of one’s relationship with Krishna, and so he works tirelessly to broadcast the importance of becoming Krishna conscious. In the opinion of the Vaisnava acaryas, to preach Krishna consciousness is the greatest welfare work, para-upakara. They suggest that if one is actually ...Read More

Union Square New York: The Peace Vigil

On Wednesday evening, a group of devotees led by Brahmabhuta Prabhu sat down in Union Square Park in New York City and prepared to chant the Holy Name of Lord Sri Krishna to relieve thousands of grieving citizens of their painful loss and lamentation. The park was filled with thousands and thousands of candles lit in memory of those missing at ground zero of the World Trade Center disaster. As we Our audience appeared to us to be struck with ...Read More

Biggest Ever IRM Times Square Kirtana!

I can hardly begin to describe how ecstatic the kirtana was. Vatsala Prabhu and I took turns leading and the devotees were all absorbed in chanting the Holy Name. Madhusudana Prabhu distributed many books. Hundreds of invitations to the Sunday feast were given out as well. Vedaguhya Prabhu’s wife had prepared about one hundred rice krispie sweets which were all distributed.Many people joined the kirtana to dance with the devotees and We had a very nice Harinam tonight. The regulars ...Read More

Why Not Just Print Prabhupada’s Original Books

Srila Prabhupada said that our purpose was unity, and even though the legal documents seem to create a workable arrangement by which both editions of his books can be made available, the true potency of the Hare Krishna movement will be manifested when the deviation is removed and we are all distributing the same Bhagavad-gita As It Is, the same Krishna Book and the same Teachings of Lord Caitanya, just as Dear Gupta Prabhu, Please accept my humble ...Read More

Working Together?

For devotees to achieve something wonderful, they must cooperate and work together under the direction of the acarya. Our leader is Srila Prabhupada. We should all be happily engaged in serving within his mission, but, alas, so many followers of His Divine Grace lament that his movement has been hijacked by leaders claiming to be ‘new gurus’ worthy of worship… To be able to work together, devotees who now receive worship must defer to Srila Prabhupada as the exclusive worshipable ...Read More

The Vaisnava Council Cyber-Istagosthi

We have formed a cyber-istagosthi and the exchange of realizations taking place there is quite inspiring. I thought you might want to post some of the letters devotees are submitting on your own website or even direct your readers to go there to hear various topic being debated. The address is: