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
December 16th, 2022 | 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.
December 12th, 2022 | 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
December 11th, 2022 | 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
November 23rd, 2022 | 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 24th, 2022 | 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 31st, 2022 | 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
August 26th, 2022 | 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.
August 5th, 2022 | 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
August 1st, 2022 | 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 31st, 2022 | 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
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.