May 28th Conversation In A Nutshell

Vidura Mahatma dasa — The May 28th conversation (the section dealing with initiations) covers what will be officially implemented in the future for the system of initiations. Neither ritviks nor regular gurus were appointed on May 28th. Nevertheless, the conversation links to the time when Srila Prabhupada did officially give his order for how initiations would continue in the movement. […]

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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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On My Behalf

“On July 5th Tamal asked Srila Prabhupada about some devotees who wanted to get initiated as he was getting many requests from the Temple presidents. This conversation occurred in the garden as I fanned him. Srila Prabhupada said: “Tomorrow I will I will announce some ritvik acharyas who will initiate disciples on my behalf when I leave the planet.” It […]

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