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 Bureaucratization of Sacred Language
In 1972, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada completed his translation of the Bhagavad Gita, opening each of Krishna’s speeches with a phrase of striking intimacy: “The Blessed Lord said.” Twenty-two times throughout the text, this …
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 …