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Posted by Editor in Devotional Community, Gurus on 06. Feb, 2012 | 12 Comments
How Dare You Criticize My Guru!
Kṛṣṇacandra Dāsa- Śrī Vṛndāvan Dham: There are many misconceptions within our ISKCON institution which need to be addressed so that we can better understand the manner in which we as devotees interact with each other. We often hear that we, as aspiring devotees, must never judge or criticize another aspiring
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Posted by Editor in Gurus on 09. Nov, 2011 | 51 Comments
The Rtvik Representative Of The Acharya
Kṛṣṇacandra Dāsa – Vṛndāvan: Shortly after His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda entered into his Samādhi līlā in 1977; 11 of his senior disciples and members of the GBC who held the official position 0f representatives of His Divine Grace in 1st and 2nd spiritual initiations [as per July 9th Document], without authority and without
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Posted by Editor in Gurus on 13. Aug, 2011 | 2 Comments
What Need Is There To Take Disciples?
Kṛṣṇacandra Dāsa – Vṛndāvan: The false doctrine of the Rubberstamped Guru / Ācārya and the Rubberstamped ṛtvik Guru has no śāstric support or mandate by Śrīla Prabhupāda to show that they are bona fide systems of initiation. The Rubberstamped guru system was a fabrication of the eleven GBC men who Śrīla
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Posted by Editor in Gurus on 02. Aug, 2011 | 10 Comments
Forget About Being a Dīkṣā or Ṛtvik Guru
Kṛṣṇacandra Dāsa – Vrṇdavan: The term ṛtvik or ritvik is a Sanskrit term that has been widely misrepresented within ISKCON. Following are some facts regarding this term from both Śrīla Prabhupāda ’s explanation to general explanations from outside ISKCON. As I had personally not spent much of my time on understanding
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Posted by Editor in Devotional Community on 05. Jul, 2011 | 2 Comments
Nearly Everyone Is Ritvik
Bhaktisiddhanta Dasa – Vrndavan: Has everyone forgotten what happened in the past? In the early ‘70’s Srila Prabhupada started his own ritvik system, surprise! At some point it became too much to chant on everyone’s beads and give the new spiritual names so what to do? He appointed some of
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Posted by Editor in Gurus on 02. Jun, 2011 | 23 Comments
The Betrayal of Sri Guru by the Original Rtvik Gurus of ISKCON
Krsnacandra Dasa – Vrndavan: History is a record or narrative description of past events which should be a factual representation of events that transpired over time. However, history is prone to be rewritten or deconstructed to depict a version that is more appropriate to the needs of the power elite rather
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From The Archive: Prabhupada’s Way or the Highway!
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Govinda Dasa – USA: Prabhus! What is this talk about the Modernists way or the Gurus way or the middle way? I don’t know about you but I joined the movement in the early seventies because of Srila Prabhupada. I chose his way. If someone does not like that, what are they doing here?
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From The Archive: Women’s Rights – The New Style of Hari Nama
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Srimate Devī Dāsī – US: Well I have been bottling this up for many years now, until I came across this website and read about Indradyumna Swami and his ‘girls’. I want to say I am definitely not a women’s liber or a feminist but do agree with some of
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From The Archive: Sinister so called Devotees are Unauthorized and have No Spiritual Link
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Bala Dāsa – NY US: His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda , the Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness said it best. “I have tried to give you all Krsna Consciousness, now it is your duty to develop it. If you remain strong on the spiritual platform
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From The Archive: Sannyasi – Renunciant or Businessman?
Krsnacandra Dasa – Vrndavan: Srila Prabhupada established the Sannyasi asram to continue the preaching mission of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Every devotee’s prescribed duty which has been prescribed by His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada is to preach; whether they are a Grhastha, Brahmacari or Sannyasi. The position of a
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From The Archive: Wait Until They Are Dead
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Krsnacandra Dasa – Vrndavan: ISKCON is facing a crisis of faith. This crisis is due to a sense of hopelessness rising in the general devotional community from their lack of ability to affect change in their lives with relationship to the ISKCON leadership. Many devotees believe that the present leadership is
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Affirmative Action Urmila
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Nitai Dasa: Academically contrived Affirmative Action has raised its ugly face in our ISKCON society with the recent push by feminist women backed by the GBC and the Śāstric Advisory Council (SAC). The most earnest of these feminist activists, is Urmila Devī Dāsī who also happens to be a member
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From the Archive: Is the GBC Representative of Srila Prabhupada?
Krsnacandra Dasa – Vrndavan: The GBC has proven over the years to be willfully neglectful of Srila Prabhupada’s instructions and have sought to modify the aims and objectives of the Society to suit their own ‘unstated’ ends. This has lead to disenfranchisement and polarization of the majority of the members of
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Is Manor “spiritual hussy” for profit?
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Ananta Dasa – Europe: Within ISKCON the stormy forceful winds of change are definitely pounding on us incessantly. The one small example is that of ‘Bhaktivedanta’ Manor in England. It is difficult to call it “Bhaktivedanta” since this spiritually promiscuous manor has nothing much in common with the Bhaktivedanta Manor
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ISKCON OPPORTUNISM and rise of the Masculine /Feminist Vaisnavis
Posted by Editor in Devotional Community, GBC, Gurus
Madhava Dāsa – USA: The ISKCON CIRCUS continues to amazes me with all the opportunistic shenanigans that are going on in the name of ‘preaching’ and pseudo devotional service. The latest one is that of women vaisnavis becoming the rubber-stamped institutional gurus. ISKCON passed the GBC resolution in favor for
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Will They Ever Wake Up?
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Rādhā Govinda Swami – USA: Hare Krsna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my fallen obeisances. I would have submitted the following response to the writer at Sampradaya Sun, but at one point Rocana prabhu expressed upset with my articles, said he wouldn’t post up anything else I would
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From The Archive: Compromise – Modern Secularism Vs Vaisnava Dharma
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Krsnacandra Dasa – Vrndavan: What is Community Development? This is question that needs to be asked. When we look at the programmes and policies that the ISKCON leadership are implementing, we need to ask the question whether or not they will develop our devotional community or will they be detrimental to
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Child Protection Investigation – Melbourne Temple President
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Bhakta Vijay – Melbourne, Australia: Aniruddha Das, the TP of Iskcon’s Melbourne Temple is under investigation by the CPO for child abuse and sexual exploitation of girls in Melbourne Temple going back decades. The International Child Protection team (Campakalata dasi) is conducting the investigations and flew to Australia a couple
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Radhanathardation: Opportunistic Nuevo ISKCON
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Gopinath dasa – Italy: For many years now I have been observing ISKCON leaders and their unhealthy protocols and programs that are implemented when it comes to dealing with issues pertaining to their questionable managerial/philosophical outlooks and consequent problems that arises from their unwillingness to enter a dialogue with the devotees
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Comment Notification Feature
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Kesava Dasa – Sri Vrndavan Dham: We have just introduced a notification feature for the comments in order to make it easier to know when a comment you posted as been replied to. When posting a comment, there is now a checkbox underneath where you write the comment. If you check
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FISKCON Bogus Gurus Cruise
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Ananta das – Europe: The incredulous trio namely Radhanatha, Bhakti Charu and Sachinandan are organizing luxury boat cruises targeting/catering/pandering the wealthy FISKCON community members. I would like to call them swamis but in any seriousness I just can’t, since no real and proper Gaudia sannyasi in their sane mind would
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Aug
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Some sources of sahajiya influence in ISKCON
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Puranjana Dasa – San Francisco: It’s important to understand how ISKCON is being infiltrated and influenced by bogus siddhantas, and here are some of the sources of these deviated siddhantas. Taken from GOSAI.COM GC: The trail (of the idea there is no Kaliki Avatar) leads back to two infamous Gaudiya
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THE CRIMINAL ISKCON AD INFINITUM
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Anonymous one – Spain: This year’s New Mayapur Balaram festival was canceled. Not particularly the big news especially if you do not know the reasons behind the cancellation. The reasons behind cancelations are extremely disturbing and gruesome. It involves a big Police investigation and the murder involving senior ISKCON managers.
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The plea of a Prabhupāda Loyalist
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Kṛṣṇacandra Dāsa – Śrī Vṛndāvan Dham: His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda is no ordinary jīva he is a saktiavesa avartara or an empowered incarnation sent by the Lord to give Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the world and to set the standard of pure devotional service for mankind. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
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