Dr. Krishna Abhishek Ghosh is a professor of Hinduism and World Religions at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, and an Affiliate Professor at the Global Center for Advanced Studies, New York, USA. His interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include the history of religions, Indian philosophy and aesthetics (rasa), postcolonial and critical theories, and South Asian Studies. His current research projects revolve around the intellectual history of kirtan with a special focus on Bengal. This focus has developed from his doctoral work on the Hindu thinker Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinoda, for which he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2014. He also taught ‘Asian Classics’ at UChicago’s Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, for which he received the Dean’s Award in 2013. The Vaiṣṇava roots of his family and Bengal culture hold a special place in his heart and form a significant part of his scholarly activity. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as ‘Gandhi and His Critics,’ ‘Hinduism 101: Cows, Caste, and The Kamasutra?,’ ‘An Introduction to Religious Studies’ and ‘World’s Religions’ and supervises Ph.D. students in his areas of expertise.
Month: January 2022
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Humor in Krishna consciousness The Monk’s Podcast 63 with Pyari Mohan Pr and Brahmatirtha Pr
Pyari Mohan das was born in Brooklyn, New York. Upon completing his high school education he spent four years in the Navy, then one year travelling throughout North America searching for the purpose of life.
Afterwards, he ended up back in New York City where he visited a Hare Krishna temple for the first time, located on Henry Street in Brooklyn. After attending three Sunday Feast programs he began going to the temple everyday.
Pyari assisted the printing of Srila Prabhupada’s books at ISKCON Press, located a few blocks from the Brooklyn temple. One day the press rented a truck to deliver the books for binding to a bindery in Nashua, New Hampshire and Pyari went along to help. On the trip back to New York they stopped at the Boston temple for the night, where Krishna revealed to Pyari that the Boston temple was where he should move in, not the Fiji temple where Pyari had been contemplating moving to.
Thus in 1971, at 23 years old, Pyari moved into the Boston temple, located at 40 North Beacon Street in Allston. He was one of the oldest devotees living in the temple at the time. Pyari Mohan was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in April of 1972. While part of the Boston temple he first became the treasurer, then went out all day on harinama sankirtana. After that he became a book distributor, then a van leader taking devotees out on traveling sankirtana, distributing books up and down the East Coast…. https://iskconboston.org/people/pyari…
Brahma Tirtha Prabhu is a board member at Krishna House, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada, a professional mediator, and an advisor for the EPA, and the director of the City of Gainesville Planning Board. His initial conversations with Srila Prabhupada were recorded and later published in a book entitled Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers.
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Conspiracy theories The Monk’s Podcast 62 with Madhavananda Prabhu
Madhavananda Das, joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications. For over ten years he has been serving as the director of ISKCON Gopal Jiu Publications, the editor of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Magazine, and the email magazine Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu.
https://iskconleaders.com/madhavanand…
Putana an Article by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada as printed in issue 10 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita
https://archive.org/details/sbs-putana
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Is spirituality anti-science? The Monk’s Podcast 61 with Yogesvara Prabhu
Yogesvara Prabhu – JOSHUA M. GREENE is a popular lecturer on Holocaust history and the spiritual quest, and a brilliant, entertaining communicator. A former instructor at Hofstra and Fordham Universities, Greene is recipient of numerous awards for his historical biographies and documentary films. https://joshuamgreene.info/about/
JOSHUA M. GREENE
The host for Gita Wisdom is Joshua M. Greene. In 1970, at age twenty, he was initiated as Yogesvara dasa by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In 1982, after living thirteen years in ashrams of India and Europe, Yogesvara returned to New York and started a career in film, producing children’s programs for The Disney Channel and PBS. In 1995, he became Director of Programming for Cablevision, the nation’s sixth largest cable television provider. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Senior Vice President at Ruder Finn, an international communications firm, where he advised faith communities on their role in peacekeeping initiatives. In 2012, he retired after ten years as religious studies instructor at Hofstra University. He is the author of several books on Holocaust history and the lives of contemporary spiritual figures.
https://gitawisdom.org/about/about-st…
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Emotional challenges on the devotional path – The Monk’s Podcast 60 with Anuttama P and Rambhoru M
Rambhoru Brinkmann M.Div; MA; BCC ACPE Certified Educator
Rambhoru was initiated in 1974 in Cologne, Germany, by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. She spent the next twenty-six years assisting her husband, Prithu Dasa, to establish and manage ISKCON temples in Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, and India. During that time she and her husband had two sons, Madan Mohan (Madi) Dasa and Nila Madhava (now Sri Madhava Mahotsava) Dasa. In 1999, Rambhoru returned to Guilford College to complete her BA in Religious Studies, and spent the next ten years studying interfaith dialogue, practical theology, pastoral care, and religious education. She also earned a Master of Divinity degree from Claremont School of Theology, completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona, and earned a masters degree in Patient Counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she worked as an adjunct faculty member at the Allied School of Health. In 2007, Rambhoru began training to be an ACPE Certified Educator (www.acpe.edu) at Virginia Commonwealth University, and served as resident senior chaplain there.
In 2008, Rambhoru became a Board Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains (www.professionalchaplains.org), a fourth-level Healing Touch Practitioner, and a therapeutic harpist while ministering bedside to suffering persons at the Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital. In 2010, Rambhoru became the Director of the St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care: Urban Interfaith Chaplaincy program in downtown East Los Angeles, which serves patients at the Los Angeles County Hospital and University of Southern California Medical Center, Eastlake Juvenile Prison, Homeboy Industries, and other inner-city hospitals, hospices, and projects. Rambhoru became certified as an ACPE Educator (doctorate equivalent) in Clinical Pastoral Education in 2015. Rambhoru has been a member of the ISKCON Prison Ministry since 2015, and has corresponded with and provided Srila Prabhupada’s books to prison inmates since that time.
https://karunacare.iskcon.org/karuna-…
https://karunacare.iskcon.org