December 1st, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It is not that you have become a student and you'll remain student. No. One day you shall become also guru and make more students, more students, more.
November 27th, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I am separated from my Guru Maharaja since 1936 but I am always with him so long I work according to his direction
November 26th, 2024 | by
Among the naïve, of course, one may pass for a spiritual master by wearing robes and a beard but intelligent people won't settle for these outer trappings
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
April 14th, 2024 | by
Only out of His immense compassion does the Personality of Godhead reveal Himself as the spiritual master
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
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.
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
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
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
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