Karma Chameleon

Last week I wrote about Ravindra Svarupa Dasa’ philosophical musings where he was trying to prove that Prabhupada was infallible in the face of his obvious fallibility. Prabhupada had prophesied a nuclear holocaust. When it never came he told his followers that Krishna “changed his mind”. Ravindra Svarupa informed us [...]

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Megalomania-Mart

Every so often in ISKCON news outlets you see someone going off about varnashrama-dharma. Usually they are lamenting the inability of ISKCON to “fulfill Prabhupada’s desire” in establishing varnashrama-dharma within ISKCON. Right now there is an article called Get-involved with global varnasrama efforts at Dandavats where we are informed of a [...]

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Reality Bites

This is a reply to another long thoughtful comment by Jamadagni
Thanks for the effort you put into your comment. About my use of the word Vedic. I have been critical of ISKCON and Prabhupada’s use of the word. They tend to use the word in two ways. One of [...]

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Baby It’s Alright!

This is a reply to agd who said:

so you know krishna better than someone because you have read a few books? don’t keep an offensive mentality. a little skepticism is fine, but don’t critize great souls by whose mercy you have the chance to know a little about krishna.
Why can’t I criticize [...]

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Estimated Profit Prophet

I just read Part 1 of an article just posted by ISKCON bigwig Ravindra Svarupa Dasa on his personal blog. It’s titled Prabhupada—A Prophecy. Ravindra’s self-serving foolish idea shows very clearly the danger of what I have been writing about.
He tells us of the time back in April of 1975 in Mayapur when Prabhupada [...]

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