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Spiritual Master / Guru

The Guru Is A Pure Devotee!

November 8th, 2024 | by Madhudvisa dasa

During Srila Prabhupada's physical presence there was no confusion in ISKCON over the qualifications and qualities of a bona fide guru.

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Who Is Representing Srila Prabhupada Now?

October 29th, 2024 | by Madhudvisa dasa

The ISKCON gurus tell their disciples: You can't understand Prabhupada's books or classes, you have to hear from me. You can't understand Prabhupada

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The Life of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada

September 9th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami appeared in this world as the son of Bhaktivinode Thakur and from his boyhood lived a strict pious and religious life

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Initiation Into Spiritual Life

August 16th, 2024 | by

It is inexplicable how gurus who live in open sin contrive never-the-less to retain the unquestioning allegiance of the cultured portion of their disciples

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A Spiritual Master Should Not Be Accepted As A Matter Of Fashion

August 11th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

If you want to know who is a spiritual master, then you have to test him whether he is speaking exactly like the bona fide spiritual master.

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Become Spiritual Master but Spiritualize Yourself First!

July 28th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Those who have come to Krishna consciousness are expected to become spiritual master. But first of you must spiritualize yourself; otherwise it is useless

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What is a real guru? Prabhupada explains:

July 26th, 2024 | by

Don’t jump into a guru-disciple relationship blindly. If you continue chanting Hare Krishna and study Prabhupada's books your path will become crystal clear

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Saints, Swindlers, Cheaters–Who is a real guru?

July 17th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

If you want a cheap guru or if you want to be cheated then you will find many cheating gurus. But if you are sincere, you will find a sincere guru

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The Power of the Disciplic Succession, Guru Parampara

May 21st, 2024 | by Madhudvisa dasa

Spiritual knowledge descends through the disciplic succession from Krishna. The representatives of the disciplic succession can not change anything

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Prabhupada Desires His Disciples to Become Qualified Like Him

April 30th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

To become a spiritual master under the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not very difficult. Unless we adulterate, mix in something nonsense in His teachings

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What is the value of a Guru if he can’t deliver you from Death?

April 14th, 2024 | by

Only out of His immense compassion does the Personality of Godhead reveal Himself as the spiritual master

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A first-class devotee does NOT fall down!

April 12th, 2024 | by

You are correct when you say that when the Spiritual Master speaks it should be taken that Krishna is speaking. That is a fact. A Spiritual Master must be liberated

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With All the Humility at My Command — Srila Prabhupada in 1936

December 3rd, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The pure devotee who three decades later will become the world-renowned spiritual master of the Hare Krishna movement glorifies his own spiritual master.

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First you must know what Guru is, otherwise you will be Cheated

December 2nd, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Suppose if you accept a wrong person as spiritual master, and if you, if he guides you wrongly, then your whole life is spoiled

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Does the Spiritual Master Have A Material Body? Is He Omniscient?

November 19th, 2023 | by

Some devotees have said to me that Srila Prabhupada's form is spiritual. Now with my physical senses I perceive that Srila Prabhupada has a physical body

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The Universal Teacher

November 2nd, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

This speech was given by Abhay Charan Das before the Gaudiya Matha in Bombay in 1936, on the appearance anniversary of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

Letters

Initiation

October 6th, 2023 | by Madhudvisa dasa

I have never been told any thing about initiation. Is there any specific time that you can be initiated, I am already practicing the 4 renunciations

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Unless One is a Pure Devotee He Should Not Become A Preacher

September 14th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Unless one is situated as pure Vaisnava he should not become a preacher because it will not be effective, neither one should hear from such person

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Phalguna Krishna Pancami (Srila Prabhupada’s 1961 Vyasa-Puja Offering

September 9th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A Vyasa-Puja offering of five prayers glorifying special characteristics of Srila 108 Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Goswami Thakura

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Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s Appearance Day Lecture, London, September 23, 1969

July 15th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Bhaktivinoda Thakura is an ideal guru. He was not a sannyasi; he was grhastha, householder, living with family, wife, children. So anyone can become guru.