July, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa “Such (demoniac) people are considered the enemies of the world, because ultimately they will invent or create something which will bring destruction to all. Indirectly, this verse anticipates the invention of nuclear weapons, of which the whole world is today very proud. At any moment war may take place, […]
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June, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa “Thus, the so-called sannyäsés try to construct another home in the name of the sannyäsa-äçrama and glide down into all sorts of luxury at the expense of others. So, all these varëas and äçramas have now become so many transcendental frauds.” Light of the Bhägavat, Verse 32 “World monarchy
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(“Why compromise? My Guru Mahäräja never made any compromise.”) May, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa “Don’t make compromise. This principle must be observed. Then you’ll remain strong. As soon as you make compromise, then it is finished.” Room Conversation, 7-2-74, Melbourne “As soon as there is a little deficiency, we must repair it or it
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April, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa In the name of persuasion, “ISKCON” employed (and certainly still employs) argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad baculum, and reductio ad absurdum as weapons for spreading its movement, along with its untenable propositions. Imitating its elder brother—but mostly in a different way–Rittvik attempts to bamboozle people into joining its factions
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March, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa Prabhupäda: He has taken these ideas from the Vedic literature. Hayagréva: When this form degenerates, it becomes a tyranny. Prabhupäda: Yes. Dialectical Spiritualism, Critique of Plato “. . . so-called dharmas, they are simply cheating, because that will not benefit anybody, the followers or the dictators.” Platform Lecture in
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Overcoming the Obstacle that is “ISKCON” by Gokulänanda The Western world is relatively new to the teachings of Kåñëa Consciousness. When these teachings were brought from India just over fifty years ago by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedänta Swämi Prabhupäda, they were potent and unadulterated. However, after he left physical manifestation, so-called “ISKCON” allowed his
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Rittviks Their Own Worst Enemies by Kailäsa Candra däsa When the ambitious and audacious leaders of what was still considered by most to be the Hare Kåñëa movement instituted something entirely new just months after Çréla Prabhupäda departed, a somewhat covert, liberal element underlying that change was an integral part of it. Since all eleven
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There Never Was a Rittvik Dispensation by Kailäsa Candra däsa “Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by incompetence.” Napoleon Bonaparte The devotees and/or fanatics who have affiliated themselves with various Rittvik factions throughout America, Europe, and India would have you believe that His Divine Grace Çréla Prabhupäda intended their particular rittvik-in-absentia movement
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Liberation From the Church of “ISKCON” Last of a Ten-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa Prabhupäda: He doesn’t want any improvement. He wants to keep it . . . just like professional church, temple. Disciple: They’re more attached to the external form that they already have. Prabhupäda: No, no, that is which we call Churchianity.
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