https://lightofdharma.com/tags/hermeneutics/ Recent content in Hermeneutics on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Thu, 14 May 2026 20:06:00 +0530 https://lightofdharma.com/the-theologian-who-corrects-the-%C4%81c%C4%81rya/ Thu, 14 May 2026 20:06:00 +0530 https://lightofdharma.com/the-theologian-who-corrects-the-%C4%81c%C4%81rya/ <p><em>On Garuda Dāsa&rsquo;s intervention in ISKCON&rsquo;s guru-approval process</em></p> <p>A devotee in his fifties watched the video twice. The first time nodding. The second with a discomfort he could not name. Garuda Dāsa spoke with the calm of a man who has read a great deal, cited hagiographies the devotee had never heard of, recalled Bhaktisiddhānta taking sannyāsa before a photograph, smiled as he coined the word <em>sneakṣā</em>. Everything sounded reasonable. And yet, when he shut the laptop, the devotee had the precise sensation of having listened to a godbrother from the Gauḍīya Maṭha, not to a disciple of Prabhupāda.</p>