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Further Considerations on Prabhupada’s Birthchart

As It Is and As You Like Him Further Considerations on Prabhupada’s Birthchart By Kailasa Candra dasa “ . . . any gentleman, dhira, must be interested in jyotisa, astrology.” This quotation is from Srimad Bhagavatam, 10.8.5. In October of 1978, I and a fellow devotional traveler landed in Bombay, having been sponsored by a […]

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Avatara, Ayanamsha, and Ahangrahopasana

Author: Sarva Sankalpa prabhu Every soul or jiva has a specific relationship with Krishna, who is Bhagavan, the Blessed Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes, however, this relationship is relinquished in the Highest Heaven, indeed, in the direct company of Lord Krishna. Milton hints the same thing in his Paradise Lost, an epic about war in

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Siksa-guru is Liberated Devotee

[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://returntosquareone.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/plamencek.swf” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”static” width=”300″ height=”210″] [/kml_flashembed] By Kailasa Candra dasa Revised, October 2009 All emphases have been added for your edification and realization. “The initiating and instructing spiritual masters are equal and identical manifestations of Krsna, although they have different dealings.” Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi 1.34, purport “Therefore, there is no difference between siksa-guru and

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Autonomic and Voluntary Bhakti

[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://returntosquareone.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/plamencek.swf” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”static” width=”300″ height=”210″] [/kml_flashembed] By Sarva Sankalpa prabhu We recently happened upon a snippet from R. Dass, and we should like to pass the gist of it onto you. What is “ISKCON” teaching these days? What wisdom is treasured by those who have been touched by an Avatar like Srila Prabhupada?

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Nothing Can Be Guaranteed

[kml_flashembed fversion=”8.0.0″ movie=”https://returntosquareone.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/plamencek.swf” targetclass=”flashmovie” publishmethod=”static” width=”300″ height=”210″] [/kml_flashembed] By the Vaishnava Foundation “Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back

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Ethnicity and the Topmost Tannery Experts

kiba vipra, kiba nyasi, sudra kene naya yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei ‘guru’ haya “Whether one is a brahmana, a sannyasi or a shudra-regardless of what he is-he can become a spiritual master if he knows the science of Krsna.” Madhya 8.128 This verse from the Chaitanya-caritamrita is one of the most important verses in the Gaudiya

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Cheap gurus, cheap disciples, cheap initiations

“None of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples had reached the required purity and level of realization for him to grant them the power to initiate newcomers into the disciplic succession.” The new shiksha theories, like Prominent Link and Rocana prabhu’s Sampradaya Acarya position paper, misrepresents the true historical facts. Srila Prabhupada never explicitly recognized his rittviks as

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