This weekend, September 12–14, 2025, ISKCON Boston is hosting a three-day festival marking the 60th anniversary of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s arrival in the United States, the historic event that began the Hare Krishna movement’s worldwide mission.
In honor of the 60th Anniversary of ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya Srila Prabhupada’s first arrival in the United States in September 1965, the ISKCON Communications Ministry has released a film entitled “The Hare Krishnas: The Challenges of Succession and Leadership.” The film documents the history of Srila Prabhupada’s creation of the Governing Body Commission (GBC) of ISKCON, as well as explaining the various functions and departments of the GBC today.
“Many ISKCON devotees don’t know what the GBC is, how it functions, why Srila Prabhupada created the GBC, or even that Prabhupada created the GBC before he established the BBT,” said Kumari Kunti, Co-Director of ISKCON Communications in North America, who is interviewed in the film. She continued, “It’s important that ISKCON members know what our leadership does, and how they do it.”
The film includes interviews with independent academics, members of the GBC, GBC Deputies, GBC Ministers, members of the ISKCON Sastric Advisory Council, and members of SABHA (the organization that reviews GBC resolutions and has the power to send resolutions back to the GBC for reconsideration). The footage also includes interviews with Bhakti Caru Swami and Gopal Krishna Swami, both former GBC members who have now departed this world.
“The film hopes to further connect ISKCON’s ever-expanding membership to the leadership structure that Srila Prabhupada created, and to help ensure that the message of Lord Caitanya, and the principles of unity in diversity that Srila Prabhupada stressed, are never diminished,” concluded Anuttama Dasa.
To view the 32-minute film, click here.
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