KCd’s Monthly Missives

Podcast transcription: SIDDHA Confronts Cult Obstacles by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ “Now, to take such guidance means the spiritual master should also be a very perfect man. Otherwise, how can he guide?”Platform Lecture, March 6, 1966 in New York “The guru must be mahätmä and muni. Muni means thoughtful, philosopher. Not foolish rascal,

Podcast transcription: After The Burn Code By Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ An all-pervading illusion promulgated by “ISKCON” is that the many deviations of the zonal äcärya imposition have been completely overcome in their movement. “Old news, move on.” It is not so, but could they have been overcome in the early years after

Podcast transcription: “The Whole Thing Would Have Been Killed” by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ The majority of disciples, adherents, and even casual followers of Prabhupäda’s branch of Lord Caitanya’s Hare Kåñëa line believe, with no lack of evidence, that things have not gone well in the G.B.C. since he left the scene in

Podcast transcription: Only Experts in Forming Initiation Machines by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ If you are attracted to Kåñëa consciousnessand have begun research into it,that is most commendable; however, you are only at the beginning of your search into achieving perfection. Specific manifestations of what appear to be Kåñëa conscious institutionsrequire more than

Podcast transcription: This is True by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ There are many people who believe everything is relative; this is a popular shibboleth in the West. They claim that there is no Absolute Truth, yet such a claim is, in and of itself, stating an absolute. There is Absolute Truth, but it

Podcast transcription: No Fault/No Blame:The Big Neo-Mutt Lie by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ “It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”George Orwell, 1984 A specter is haunting the Hare Kåñëa movement: It is the specter of Neo-Mutt. It is a ghost that emerged from Gouòéya-Mutt and represents

Podcast transcription: Oppressive and Aggressive: The Zonal Äcärya Takeover by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ To mistake material energy for spiritual (or to mistake spiritual energy to be material) is the plight of deluded souls. This delusion of all conditioned souls situated in the lower modes extends to process, as logically it must. To

Podcast transcription: Dons of the “ISKCON” Empire by Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OÀ NAMAÙ evaà paramparä-präptam imaà räjarñayo viduù sa käleneha mahatä yogo nañöaù parantapa “Having thus been received by disciplic succession, this spiritual science was understood by the self-realized kings. That great science of yoga was scattered (destroyed) in this world by the influence

(And Where Does “ISKCON” Power Come From?) By Kailäsa Candra däsa HARIÙ OM NAMAÙ We find the following excerpt from an important room conversation between His Divine Grace Çrila Prabhupäda and members of his Governing Body Commission at the Krishna-Balaram temple on May 28, 1977 in Våndävan, India: Leading Secretary (1): The people who they

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