At the end of December, ISKCON Communications Europe released the new ISKCON Communications Journal (ICJ) in a bookmarked, digital format. Click here to access the 2024 ICJ. You can read the Introduction, which summarizes all the articles, by clicking here.
The articles, written by devotees, are rooted in the teachings of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda and offer different thoughtful perspectives on important issues. For example, the first article in this volume is a historical review of ISKCON’s initiation system, by Hṛdayānanda Dāsa Goswami (HDG), written in response to a 2023 ICJ article about the system by Kṛṣṇa Dharma Dāsa (KD). KD’s article aimed to inspire ISKCON leaders to reflect on past lessons and suggested a decentralized way to regulate initiations and avoid the problems with the current system, without undermining the managerial authority of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC). HDG’s scholarly article addresses the difficulties encountered by the first eleven gurus and presents the historical evolution of the GBC’s guru-approval system. He cautions against decentralizing the system.
source: https://iskconnews.org/explore-the-new-2024-iskcon-communications-journal-now-online/
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