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 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.
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
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 18th, 2024 | by Madhudvisa dasa
Krishna consciousness is a lifestyle very different from the one we have been trained up to lead in the West. To make the transition training is required
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
April 2nd, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
My Guru Maharaja is tenth from Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I am eleventh, you are the twelfth. So distribute this knowledge
March 12th, 2024 | by
It seems a simple question since so many devotees are initiated. But I have asked a few devotees and they seem not to understand what is initiation is.
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.
September 30th, 2023 | by
To the devotee his guru is all and all, more important than God. There is no God without guru, no Krishna without HDG AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
June 29th, 2023 | by Gauridas Pandit dasa
Shrinivas Acarya is one of the most important acaryas following Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He led the first book distribution party in Gaudiya Vaishnavism
March 7th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
You have come to help me. I shall go away, but you shall live. Don't give up pushing on this movement, and you'll be blessed by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati.
February 7th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This is the disappearance day of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, there is no difference between appearance and disappearance
February 1st, 2023 | by Madhudvisa dasa
When someone is initiated they have received transcendental knowledge and their past karma is burned up, they must be a bit like a new born baby
January 30th, 2023 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Unless we find a person who has seen the Absolute Truth or who has experienced what is Absolute Truth, there is very little chance of spiritual advancement
July 26th, 2013 | by
The Vaisnava acharya is always situated in his original spiritual nature. He is situated in permanent liberation
August 25th, 2010 | by Madhudvisa dasa
Your acharayadeva is a great disaster because he is presenting a completely different message to the one we get from the real Acharyadeva, Srila Prabhupada
June 12th, 2006 | by
Srila Prabhupada instituted a ritvik initiation system in ISKCON as early as 1971 and he intended this to continue after his physical disappearance.
February 16th, 2003 | by
His Divine Grace has so far given a list of eleven disciples who will act in that capacity