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June, 2018 First of a Two-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “These things must be cleared up or there may be danger of split within our ranks. Try to keep the whole situation in unified condition. But if Siddha Svarüpa and his disciples are living there separately and peacefully, I have no objection, so long […]

May, 2018 First of a Two-Part Series By Kailäsa Candra däsa “Ävaraëätmikä-çakti means she is covering the reality, just as when the cloud covers the sunshine, and we cannot see. For a few days now, it’s been cloudy. We cannot see the sun, but that does not mean there is no sun in the sky.”

April, 2018 First of a Three-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa At the end of 1977, Kértanänanda, unlike the ten other rittviks, decided that he would unilaterally become an initiating spiritual master. Whether or not he considered that his appointment as a rittvik (in July) augured an indirect recognition (that he would then become dékñä-guru

March, 2018 First of a Three-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “If one always follows the orders of the spiritual master, there is no question of falling down. As soon as a foolish disciple tries to overtake his spiritual master and becomes ambitious to occupy his post, he immediately falls down.” Çrémad-Bhägavatam, 5.12.14, purport “So,

February, 2018 by Kailäsa Candra däsa Part Three of a Four-Part Series “Secular state: Don’t talk of God. This is the present situation of the world, atheist class. Don’t talk of God, but they do not know that they have not much improved by don’t talk of God. The situation is becoming grimmer and grimmer,

January, 2018 by Kailäsa Candra däsa Initiated Disciple: . . . people often confuse our allegiance to scriptural authority with totalitarianism. One professor told me that, if the Kåñëa consciousness movement ever became powerful, we would probably be intolerant towards all other religions. Prabhupäda: That means he does not understand us. Room Conversation, February, 1977

December, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa First of a Two-Part Series “So, this is not a new system that we are introducing or manufacturing by our concocted imagination, but it is authorized, coming down by disciplic succession from time immemorial. It may be that, in this country, it is being introduced for the last two

November, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa First of a Two-Part Series “Relative truth is conditional and when the conditions fail, the relative truth disappears, but Absolute Truth does not exist on conditions. It is above all conditions. So, when we speak of Truth, we may take it for the Absolute Truth, and when we speak

September, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa Part One of a Two-Part Series “Now by the grace of Krishna, we have got sufficient properties all over the world, so there cannot be any diplomacy or conspiracy by any sane man. All these properties and opulences, whatever we have got, this will not go with me when