August, 2019 Third of a Four-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “Please be careful not to change the ideas.”Letter to Kirtänänanda, 2-10-67 “ . . . by nature, the people of India have a hankering for spiritual advancement, and, therefore, the present situation is a natural result of the clash between two opposite ideals.”Letter to […]
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July, 2019 Second of a Four-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “People have respect for our movement. Now it is time for G.B.C. members to be very, very careful so that people may not point out any black spot in the behavior of our Society.”Letter to T.K.G., 9-1-71 “Again, I am so much burdened by
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May, 2019 by Kailäsa Candra däsa Prabhupäda: These sahajiyäs will come out of so many devotees. What can be done? From my guru mahäräja’s disciples, so many sahajiyäs came. These are called sahajiyäs. Very easily they capture (the) thing. So my guru mahäräja used to say, “When my disciples will be sahajiyä, it will
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April, 2019 by Kailäsa Candra däsa “The symptoms of the Kali-yuga, as mentioned above, namely avarice, falsehood, diplomacy, cheating, nepotism, violence and all such things, are already in vogue, and no one can imagine what is going to happen gradually with further increase of the influence of Kali until the day of annihilation.”Çrémad-Bhägavatam, 1.15.37, purport
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August, 2018 Part One of a Two-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “. . . there are many rascals in the name of Vaiñëavas. Be careful of them.” Letter to Niraïjan, 11-21-72 “The aim of ISKCON is not to found a new religious sect . . .” Letter to Sir Roland Michener “You will be
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June, 2018 First of a Two-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “These things must be cleared up or there may be danger of split within our ranks. Try to keep the whole situation in unified condition. But if Siddha Svarüpa and his disciples are living there separately and peacefully, I have no objection, so long
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May, 2018 First of a Two-Part Series By Kailäsa Candra däsa “Ävaraëätmikä-çakti means she is covering the reality, just as when the cloud covers the sunshine, and we cannot see. For a few days now, it’s been cloudy. We cannot see the sun, but that does not mean there is no sun in the sky.”
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April, 2018 First of a Three-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa At the end of 1977, Kértanänanda, unlike the ten other rittviks, decided that he would unilaterally become an initiating spiritual master. Whether or not he considered that his appointment as a rittvik (in July) augured an indirect recognition (that he would then become dékñä-guru
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March, 2018 First of a Three-Part Series by Kailäsa Candra däsa “If one always follows the orders of the spiritual master, there is no question of falling down. As soon as a foolish disciple tries to overtake his spiritual master and becomes ambitious to occupy his post, he immediately falls down.” Çrémad-Bhägavatam, 5.12.14, purport “So,
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February, 2018 by Kailäsa Candra däsa Part Three of a Four-Part Series “Secular state: Don’t talk of God. This is the present situation of the world, atheist class. Don’t talk of God, but they do not know that they have not much improved by don’t talk of God. The situation is becoming grimmer and grimmer,
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