Supreme Court Order dated 25.11.2025 – Meaning, Impact and Next Steps

4. December 2025 By Leave a Comment

Dated: 29-11-2025

To,

The Trustees

Justice for Srila Prabhupada Foundation

Alachua, Florida, USA

Subject: Supreme Court Order dated 25.11.2025 – Meaning, Impact and Next Steps

Dear Trustees,

We write to formally apprise you of the significance of the Court proceedings and Order dated 25 November 2025 passed by the Hon‟ble Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 398/2025, Rajneesh Kapur & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors., a copy of which is enclosed herewith for your records.

In the said PIL, Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Ajay Garg Advocate and his team representing the petitioners placed before the Supreme Court extensive material on systemic abuse, institutional negligence, and suppression of complaints spanning many years and sought legal action by the child protection authorities. During the hearing, Senior Advocate Mr. Kapil Sibal appeared for ISKCON Mumbai. Notably, he did not dispute or deny any of the material relating to child abuse that we had filed. Instead, he attempted to divert the matter by alleging that the petitioners belonged to a “Bangalore ISKCON faction” and had other disputes pending in the Supreme Court with ISKCON Bombay. We made it clear that child abuse is not a factional issue—it is a humanitarian, legal, and moral crisis. [Read More…]

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3. December 2025 By 3 Comments

(by Vibhisana Vidura Vani)

 

 

Srila Prabhupada re Advent of Bhagavad Gita – Gita Jayanti

1. December 2025 By 3 Comments

śrī-bhagavān uvāca
imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ
proktavān aham avyayam
vivasvān manave prāha
manur ikṣvākave ‘bravīt
SYNONYMS
śrī bhagavān uvāca—the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; imam—this; vivasvate—unto the sun-god; yogam—the science of one’s relationship to the Supreme; proktavān—instructed; aham—I; avyayam—imperishable; vivasvān—Vivasvān (the sun-god’s name); manave—unto the father of mankind (of the name Vaivasvata); prāha—told; manuḥ—the father of mankind; ikṣvākave—unto King Ikṣvāku; abravīt—said.
TRANSLATION
The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku.
PURPORT
Herein we find the history of the Bhagavad-gītā traced from a remote time when it was delivered to the royal order, the kings of all planets. This science is especially meant for the protection of the inhabitants and therefore the royal order should understand it in order to be able to rule the citizens and protect them from the material bondage to lust. Human life is meant for cultivation of spiritual knowledge, in eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the executive heads of all states and all planets are obliged to impart this lesson to the citizens by education, culture and devotion. In other words, the executive heads of all states are intended to spread the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness so that the people may take advantage of this great science and pursue a successful path, utilizing the opportunity of the human form of life.
In this millennium, the sun-god is known as Vivasvān, the king of the sun, which is the origin of all planets within the solar system. In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is stated:
yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇāṁ
rājā samasta-sura-mūrttir aśeṣa-tejāḥ
yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kālacakro
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“Let me worship,” Lord Brahmā said, “the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda [Kṛṣṇa], who is the original person and under whose order the sun, which is the king of all planets, is assuming immense power and heat. The sun represents the eye of the Lord and traverses its orbit in obedience to His order.”
The sun is the king of the planets, and the sun-god (at present of the name Vivasvān) rules the sun planet, which is controlling all other planets by supplying heat and light. He is rotating under the order of Kṛṣṇa, and Lord Kṛṣṇa originally made Vivasvān His first disciple to understand the science of Bhagavad-gītā. The Gītā is not, therefore, a speculative treatise for the insignificant mundane scholar but is a standard book of knowledge coming down from time immemorial. In the Mahābhārata (Śānti-parva 348.51-52) we can trace out the history of the Gītā as follows:
tretā-yugādau ca tato vivasvān manave dadau
manuś ca loka-bhṛty-arthaṁ sutāyekṣvākave dadau
ikṣvākuṇā ca kathito vyāpya lokān avasthitāḥ

 

“In the beginning of the Tretā-yuga [millennium] this science of the relationship with the Supreme was delivered by Vivasvān to Manu. Manu, being the father of mankind, gave it to his son Mahārāja Ikṣvāku, the King of this earth planet and forefather of the Raghu dynasty in which Lord Rāmacandra appeared. Therefore, Bhagavad-gītā existed in the human society from the time of Mahārāja Ikṣvāku.”

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Myth: “Non-liberated gurus and their disciples will also go to the spiritual world”

29. November 2025 By Leave a Comment

Anti Ritvik Myths debunked (#24)

 

Myth: “Non-liberated gurus and their disciples will also go to the spiritual world”

Truth: According to sastra, “blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch”.

Nowadays maya-ISKCON mainstream preaching is that no need to worry how qualified or authorized is your ‘ISKCON guru’, just choose whoever you like and who is “in good standing” (or even not anymore) and follow him/her. Then you will surely go to the spiritual world along with this guru.

“This is also an often problem: is my guru liberated or not?.. But the good news is there are no kanistha adhikari gurus in our movement. Therefore we shouldn’t worry too much… For we are not to be delivered by the guru. Krishna will deliver us. We should always remember this. Krishna can manifest in our spiritual life through a kanistha adhikari guru, a madhyama adhikari guru, or uttama adhikari guru.” (15.10.2011, guru tattva class by Radha Govinda Das, now ‘ISKCON guru’)

Lokanath Swami who confessed that he had “sexually abused” 11 y.o. girl while being “guru” and “sannyasi” and was officially punished in maya-ISKCON for that, still took a tight grip on his guru position and said during his “Vyasa-puja” celebration: “My disciples… have to see & help each other to go back home [to the spiritual world].” (July 20, 2021)

“ISKCON Disciple Course” (2017) says that “bona-fide diksa-guru[s]” (meaning their GBC voted-in gurus) “formally accept the responsibility of delivering the disciple.” [Read More…]

Question by Bhakta Derek from Scotland

28. November 2025 By 4 Comments

I would like to receive RITVIK initiation on behalf of Srila Prabhupada. I stay in Glasgow, Scotland. Do the ‘Ritviks’ have a place in London or the UK. I would visit them and get their association. I could travel to India to receive Ritvik initiation on behalf of Srila Prabhupada.

(by Bhakta Derek)

 

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