“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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“No board of conditioned souls can determine who is guru and institutionalize its decisions in such an unauthorized capacity–not according to parampara. “ The turn of the century saw the Second Transformation still in full force, as the “GBC” created buffer after buffer to act as an effective sentry, protecting its vested interests in the
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“Their immeasurable pride and audacity was not merely megalomania . All eleven of these men were absorbed in the delusion of self-apotheosis.” In the spring of 1978 the great movement meant for the rejuvenation of pure spiritual life and realization amongst all of those who joined it was transformed into something else . What was
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“First force, second force, third force, this is how the material world is constituted, and this is how we can dovetail our activities to the cause of Krishna consciousness.” The Fourteenth chapter of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is is so clear. Indeed, reading that chapter alone makes the understanding of all of the other chapters
