Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Fifteen) Fatal Flaws in the Rittvik Shtick By Kailäsa Candra däsa Bhakta Ernest: The following discussion was held on Sunday, July 20th between Kailäsa Candra däsa and two other members in good standing of The Vaishnava Foundation, […]
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Fourteen) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ In the second half of 1970, Prabhupäda’s still fledgling movement was afflicted by its second major crisis. Here is an excerpt from a letter about thatto Hansadutta, a leading
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Thirteen) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ The root issues of why and how Prabhupäda’s branch of the Hare Kåñëa movement was converted into an abhäsa-dharma is analyzed every month in our presentations. This month, we
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Twelve) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ The mid-Eighties, “ISKCON” was embroiled in contentiousness. Kali-yuga was having a field day amongst the various groups of argumentative and disturbed devotees trying to get over. The whole debacle
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Eleven) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ By the mid-Eighties, fanaticism and reliability became issues in “ISKCON”: Too much of one and not nearly enough of the other. The second and third echelon fanatics were confronted
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Ten) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ Having spent my adolescent years in Wisconsin, I had plenty of experience with snow. It is a very cold and snowy State in the winter months, and I had
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Nine) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ Aside from its institutional absurdity, a previously bona fide and powerful branch of the Hare Kåñëa movement of the Gaudiya sampradäya was converted into a hypocritical illusion–full of pretension,
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record A multi-part series Analysis of Eleven Naked Emperors (Review of Chapter Eight) by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ There are perspectives you need in order to really conceptualize and assimilate what went down in Prabhupäda’s branch of the Hare Krishna movement after he departed physical manifestation. You
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by Bhakta Michael Garner “Sri Jiva Gosvami advises that one not accept a spiritual master in terms of hereditary or customary social and ecclesiastical conventions. One should seek out a genuinely qualified spiritual master for actual advancement in spiritual understanding.” Caitanya-caritämåta, Ädi 1.35, purport The concept of paramparä refers to an unbroken chain of spiritual
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Podcast transcription: On and For the Record (Ch. 7 Review of Eleven Naked Emperors) Analysis of Chapter Seven by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ “ . . . if there is bad boy, he can turn the whole family into ashes. Similarly, in this institution, if there is a bad disciple, he can burn
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