Our Living Guru (1983)

OUR LIVING GURU by the Prabhupadanugas, 1983 I shall remain your personal guide whether I am physically present or not, just as I am getting guidance from my Guru Maharaja.” –Srila Prabhupada, October, 1977, Vrindavana DEDICATION Thanks to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, we can get free from the treadmill of material desire and disappointment. Thanks to […]

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What Srila Prabhupada did in ten years (1993)

Some Statistical Reflections on the Awesome Stature of the Acharya by Hansadutta das * Srila Prabhupada translated and wrote purports to 18,000 verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Reading one verse with purport daily would take the reader 49.31 years to complete. * He translated and wrote purports to 700 verses of Bhagavad-gita. It would take the reader aproximately two years to complete.

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The Zonal Acharya System (1995)

Before Srila Prabhupada left his body he named some disciples who could give ritvic initiation (accepting Srila Prabhupada’s disciples on his behalf). These devotees could chant on the beads and initiate new devotees, but these new devotees would be disciples of Srila Prabhupada, not their disciples. Tamal Krishna, Prabhupada’s secretary at that time, outlined the whole procedure in a letter […]

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Srila Prabhupada The Brahma Sampradaya Acharya (1993)

by Hansadutta das – 1993 INTRODUCTION When a NON-LIBERATED person takes leadership (material or spiritual) without being under the guidance of a liberated soul, the end result is always destruction and failure. Initially there maybe fabulous success, like in the case of Hitler and Napoleon or as in our ISKCON, Bhagavan, Bhavananda, Rameswara, Jayatirtha, myself [Hansadutta] and most recently Kirtanananda, […]

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Child Molesters: Gurus? (1994)

Child Molesters: Gurus? The sad truth of the [false] Hare Krishna movement’s (ISKCON’s) allegedly “worshippable pure guru lineage,” is that it is still solidly linked to its incontrovertible history of disciple and child sexual molestation. In short, the false leaders say that those who are allegedly “equal in purity to Jesus or God,” simultaneously may be prone to become sexual […]

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Direct Order Required

Compiled by Yashoda-nandana dasa To be diksha guru one needs the direct order of the acharya. Srila Prabhupada explained that His Guru Maharaja never appointed anybody as acarya.  “…They wanted to create artificially somebody acarya, Note:  The ISKCON GBC artificially created 11 acaryas in March of 1978.   … and everything failed. They did not consider even with common sense: that […]

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The Lilamrta Review

The Lilamrta A Review & Philosophical Analysis By Sriman Yasodanandana dasa, 1996 Srila Prabhupada is a pure devotee always, being an eternally liberated associate of the Lord. He did not have a material past at any time. Being an associate of Lord Sri Krsna, he is properly understood to never have been contaminated by matter. As we knew him, his […]

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Qualification Required

The exalted position and character of the spiritual master The importance of accepting a bona fide spirtual master   Purports “One should take initiation from a bona fide spiritual master coming in the disciplic succession, who is authorized by his predecessor spiritual master. This is called diksa-vidhana.” (SB 4.8.54 Purport) “A guru must come in a disciplic succession, and he […]

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