The Unexpected Interlocutor
How a fifty-year veteran of ISKCON defends posthumous edits to Prabhupāda's Bhagavad-gītā — and what his defense reveals about institutional self-preservation.
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The Prabhupada Rape Controversy
Srila Prabhupada's purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 4.25.41 has been defended online with arguments worse than the sentence they were meant to protect. The linguistic case is short and clean. The apologetics are the actual scandal.
H.D. Goswami's Gita Guide: How Krishna West Derails Pure Siddhanta
How H.D. Goswami's Comprehensive Guide to Bhagavad-gita repackages karma-yoga as career spirituality, redefines sannyasa without renunciation, and systematically steers readers toward the Krishna West ideology.
The Annotator's Dilemma
How Graham Schweig's annotated edition of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is mirrors the very editorial overreach he spent seven years criticizing — the paradox of preservation through intervention.
Refuting Radhika Ramana on Posthumous Book Editing
The question of whether to posthumously edit Śrīla Prabhupāda’s published works has become one of the most contentious issues in the contemporary Hare Krishna movement. In a recent presentation, Radhika Ramana Prabhu attempts to justify such …