Month: June 2016

Guru lust or Prabhupada’s vani?

It is clear that the ISKCON vapu-vadis (worshipers of the physical body as opposed to transcendental knowledge) do not have the mercy of Lord Caitanya and the holy name. Krishna’s holy name alone is sufficient to deliver all the fallen souls and bestow the highest perfection of life – Krishna prema; but the rubber stamped diksa vapuvadis do not accept this basic fact of Lord Caitanya’s sankirtan movement and insist on their own worship as “diksa-guru”.

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Dedication Slokas from the Srimad Bhagavatam

Anyone who has had the good fortune to read and study Srila Prabhupada’s epic Srimad Bhagavatam will know that on the title page of each and every volume is a dedication sloka. I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of the dedication slokas from all of the original books. I stopped this collection of slokas with the Tenth Canto, Part Three, as this is where Srila Prabhupada left off, and where my collection of Srimad Bhagavatams stops.

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What is a Guru?

The guru’s business is to bring his disciples from darkness to light. At present everyone is suffering due to ignorance, just as one contacts a disease out of ignorance. If one does not know hygienic principles, he will not know what will contaminate him.

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The Disciplic Succession

The name of our sampradaya — Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya – suggests three distinct phases, or links in the disciplic chain. The disciplic succession begins with Lord Brahma, who first spoke the absolute truth into the cosmic creation after receiving it in his heart directly from Lord Krsna.

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