October 13th, 2026 | 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.
October 9th, 2026 | 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
October 8th, 2026 | 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
September 16th, 2026 | 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.
July 22nd, 2026 | 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
June 28th, 2026 | 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
June 23rd, 2026 | 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.
June 4th, 2026 | 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
May 31st, 2026 | 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 30th, 2026 | 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
March 31st, 2026 | 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
March 30th, 2026 | by Madhudvisa dasa
Spiritual knowledge descends through the disciplic succession from Krishna. The representatives of the disciplic succession can not change anything
March 9th, 2026 | 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
March 1st, 2026 | 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
February 23rd, 2026 | 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
February 16th, 2026 | 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
February 13th, 2026 | 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
January 23rd, 2026 | 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.
January 21st, 2026 | 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.
December 29th, 2025 | 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