Correcting ISKCON’s Guru System
June 7th, 2022 | 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
June 7th, 2022 | 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
June 6th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa
Spiritual knowledge descends through the disciplic succession from Krishna. The representatives of the disciplic succession can not change anything
May 16th, 2022 | 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
May 8th, 2022 | 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
May 2nd, 2022 | 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
April 25th, 2022 | 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 22nd, 2022 | 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
April 1st, 2022 | 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.
March 30th, 2022 | 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.
March 14th, 2022 | by srutakirti-dasa
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
January 4th, 2022 | by Gauridas Pandit dasa
Things were ecstatic in Hrisikesh until Prabhupada said: "Tomorrow we will go to Vrindavan; better to die in Vrindavan." All of the sudden there was a storm.
November 30th, 2021 | 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.
November 27th, 2021 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In 1969 Prabhupada was a house guest at Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon's estate. He gave lectures a hundred yards from the house in which John and Yoko lived
November 23rd, 2021 | by khan
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 21st, 2021 | by Prahlad-Nrsimha dasa
My Guru Maharaja passed in 1936 and I started this movement in 1965. Even guru is not physically present, if you follow the vani, then you are getting help
November 19th, 2021 | by HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
There is one proverb, guru-mara-vidya, you learn from him first of all, then kill him. Don't care for guru. This is demonic. Don't learn guru-mara-vidya.
November 6th, 2021 | by gurukripa-dasa
Tamal Krsna Swami, made this list of 11 names himself and Srila Prabhupada signed the letter. But they were only priests to act on behalf of Prabhupada
October 31st, 2021 | by patita-uddharana-das-adhikary
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
October 30th, 2021 | by vyasasana-dasa
I am confussed by the state of affairs, today, when leading godbrothers are trying to replace the position of my only beloved spiritural master? Are we so quickly enlinghtened, that we can replace a great acharaya. It's Mayas illusion
October 27th, 2021 | by Madhudvisa dasa
I agree that there are so many bogus guru's out there. I am looking for a guru as well, but I still think that there must be a living guru to approach.