I have recently become interested in American politics, partly because of 9/11/2001, the preemptive invasion of Iraq, and what appears to be a huge number of civilian deaths there. When I mention my interest with ISCKON members, the reaction is often that Srila Prabhupada was not concerned politics and that politics is not the [...]
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ISKCON; do we have a political voice?
Posted in Hinduism, ISKCON, Politics on August 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Education and the New World Order, by Janaki-Rama dasa
Posted in Bhagavata Purana, ISKCON, Politics on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I recently read an advertizement for the Srimad-Bhagavata-Vidyapitham on Dandavats.com, posted by Matsya Avatara dasa. It is about a new school for teaching Sanskrit and the Bhagavatam to ISKCON devotees. It began with the question: “Why become an academic scholar when you can be a natural scholar in the eternal Vaisnava tradition”?
The [...]
Evil Empire–The Iraq War in the Context of American Imperialism
Posted in Politics on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One can safely say that many people from all parts of the world recognize that the Bush administration’s “war” on Iraq hasn’t gone well. Many even wonder whether the Iraqis, and Americans themselves, were safer before America invaded the Middle East under the pretense of finding weapons of mass destruction (which curiously were never [...]
