Questions About Initiation and Preaching
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
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 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
November 13th, 2022 | by Madhudvisa dasa
The ISKCON gurus tell their disciples: You can't understand Prabhupada's books or classes, you have to hear from me. You can't understand Prabhupada
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
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
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 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.
November 3rd, 2021 | by Madhudvisa dasa
I have never been told any thing about initiation. Is there any specific time that you can be initiated, I am already practicing the 4 renunciations
September 18th, 2021 | by Madhudvisa dasa
Krishna.org is not separate from ISKCON. We are following Prabhupada. ISKCON is supposed to be following Prabhupada. So here you will find the real
September 11th, 2021 | by sudama-das
Many are not aware of the letter Prabhupada sent to all temples on July 9th 1977 clearly stating that henceforward all new devotees would be his disciples
January 12th, 2005 | by mike-duncan
In today's ISKCON spiritual understanding is absent. Because of their rejection of the clear instructions of Prabhupada they are just like the Gaudiya Matha
August 13th, 2003 | by mahesh-das
The formal initiation ceremony of name giving and bananas and sesame seeds thrown in fire yajna is not when past Karma is burned off
March 21st, 2002 | by krishnananda-das--gauridasa-pandita-das
Your initiation ceremony happened on the same day when you heard my Gayatri tape. Now by the mercy of our Lord, you could see your initiation ceremony
November 24th, 2001 | by visvamitra-das--janardana-das
The festival went on in spite of protests by Narayana Maharaj and Puri Maharaj who came to Radha Damaodar Mandir to stop the ritvik initiation ceremonies