Shri Krishna Samhita is a critical historical analysis of Vedic literature, including the Srimad-Bhagavatam, using the academic techniques prevalent in the latter part of the 19th century.
Devotees are going to hear more about it because it is being acclaimed by scholars on ISKCON’s periphery and within ISKCON itself as providing an academic basis for strengthening the faith of its own members by reconciling Vedic texts with modern thought. As Tamal Krishna Goswami and Krishna Kshetra Prabhu in their essay “Re-Visioning ISKCON” declare, “. . . following the lead of nineteenth-century theologian Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838 – 1914),9 ISKCON can reexamine its traditional texts and reappropriate them in ways consistent with modernity, discerning the symbolic through critical scholarship.
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