KCd’s Monthly Missives

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

August, 2017 by Kailäsa Candra däsa First of a Two-part Series “There is every evidence that they (the rascal sannyäsés) are influenced by some of my fourth-class godbrothers. . . . If there is opportunity, try to convince these rascal sannyäsés, who are misled by fourth-class men that, if they at all want to have

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

(“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

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