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.
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 23rd, 2024 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We don't care for anyone agrees or not. We push on. Do you think in India they agree Krishna is the Supreme Person? We don't care for them. We go forward
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
July 16th, 2024 | by Gadadhara das
One does not have to undergo initiation. One simply has to vibrate the holy name with his lips. Thus even a man in the lowest class candala] can be delivered
May 22nd, 2024 | by Bhakti Charu Swami
In ISKCON we have to be absolutely clear that Srila Prabhupada is the head of the institution and will continue to be that as long as the institution lasts
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 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 5th, 2024 | by Dhira Govinda dasa (David B. Wolf, Ph.D.)
The Prominent Link is Dhira Govinda's paper on ISKCON guru tattva. It was a presentation to the GBC in an attempt to harmonize the different camps in
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.
March 10th, 2024 | by Gauridas Pandit dasa
We cannot limit Prabhupada by describing him as guru for one generation of followers. Prabhupada is jagat-guru, the spiritual master of the entire world.
February 23rd, 2024 | by
They may worship you if they like you. But your business is to bring them to me. If your preaching does not bring them to this point then it is useless