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Recently, India Today held its 2025 Conclave at the Taj Palace in New Delhi, where key leaders explored the Age of Acceleration in which we are living. One of the key topics explored was “Playing God: the Right to Live Forever.” A panel made up of Dr. Sajeeve Nair, Henrique Jorge, and ISKCON’s Gauranga Das discussed the risks and implications of AI clones, digital immortality, and biohacks to extend human lifespans.

In his comments, Gauranga Das addresses the ethical and religious implications o

By Sesa Dasa

Sesa Dasa, a member of ISKCON’s Ministry for Educational Development, looks at the place of ‘virtue’ in the lives of devotees. He notes the changes that thirty years of devotional practice have made to his outlook on life and takes lessons from Mahabharata about the apparent conflict between material and spiritual duty.

Thirty years is time enough. Thirty years, out of a life of fifty-one, spent in the Hare Krsna movement, is certainly time enough. A thirty-year period provides enou