Questions About Initiation and Preaching
June 19th, 2018 | 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
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Prabhupada on his Disciples Becoming Gurus
May 3rd, 2018 | 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.
Srila Prabhupada on Initiation [compilation of quotes]
April 29th, 2018 | 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
Who Is a Real Guru?
April 28th, 2018 | by back-to-godhead-magazine
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
The Guru Is A Pure Devotee!
April 10th, 2018 | 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.
The Life of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada
February 9th, 2018 | 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
Initiation Into Spiritual Life
January 16th, 2018 | by srila-bhaktisiddhanta-sarasvati-thakur
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
A Spiritual Master Should Not Be Accepted As A Matter Of Fashion
January 10th, 2018 | 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.
We don’t care if anyone agrees with us. We push on.
December 21st, 2017 | 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
Saints, Swindlers, Cheaters–Who is a real guru?
December 17th, 2017 | 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
Does Initiation Make The Maha-Mantra Work?
December 16th, 2017 | 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
Correcting ISKCON’s Guru System
October 23rd, 2017 | 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
The Power of the Disciplic Succession, Guru Parampara
October 22nd, 2017 | by Madhudvisa dasa
Spiritual knowledge descends through the disciplic succession from Krishna. The representatives of the disciplic succession can not change anything
Prabhupada Desires His Disciples to Become Qualified Like Him
October 1st, 2017 | 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
Very Difficult times for new Bhaktas…
September 23rd, 2017 | 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
A first-class devotee does NOT fall down!
September 17th, 2017 | by mahesh-das
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
Srila Prabhupada: The Prominent Link
September 10th, 2017 | 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
The Future of ISKCON is in Prabhupada’s Disciple’s Hands
September 7th, 2017 | 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
What is Initiation?
August 17th, 2017 | by roy-barrios
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.
Serving Srila Prabhupada Across the Generations
August 15th, 2017 | 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.
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