Controversy
BY: SUN EDITORS - 13.7 2023
Editor's Note:
This segment of the first Sridhara Maharaja conversation focuses on the role of the officiating ritvik representatives of Srila Prabhupada. Hearing from Bhakti Caru Swami and Dhira Krsna Swami about how initiations were handled during the...Read more...
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By MATTHEW TRZCINSKI - 12.7 2023
George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" is one of the most beloved songs written by an ex-Beatle
After the Beatles tragically broke up in the early 1970s, each member of the band went on to have a solo career. George Harrison...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 12.7 2023
BCS: Now, Maharaja, there is a doubt in many devotees that a… whether Prabhupada really appointed them as acaryas. Because… should I read this? These are the final instructions of Srila Prabhupada. In this he said… When asked who would succeed...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 11.7 2023
DKS: Let me give you an example. One of the requirements to be an initiated disciple is to chant 16 rounds of maha-mantra daily.
BCS: Bengali repeats Dhira Krsna Swami's question that it's a deviation.
DKS: Prabhupada said that this was the most...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 7.7 2023
DKS: There are some devotees, they feel that Srila Prabhupada, he is being offended. That in their estimation the greatest vaisnava is being offended.
DKS: Yes, now in Prabhupada's books he describes guru, a bona fide spiritual master, as being on the topmost...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 6.7 2023
DKS: There are some devotees, they feel that Srila Prabhupada, he is being offended. That in their estimation the greatest vaisnava is being offended.
SM: BCS Bengali
BCS:
DKS: By the… for example vyasasanas… we are talking in general of having...Read more...
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By editor - 4.7 2023
Today we begin a presentation of another historical document related to the Zonal Acarya era – the transcript of the devotees' first meeting with Srila Sridhara Maharaja, on August 18, 1980. This conversation took place two years after the GBC's...Read more...
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By editor - 4.7 2023
March 1978
Known present GBC members: Tamal Krsna Maharaja, Jayapataka Maharaja, Jayatirtha Maharaja, Harikesa Maharaja, Satsvarupa Maharaja, Jayadvaita Maharaja, and others
[This talk formed the basis of the ISKCON GBC's 1978 paper entitled: "THE PROCESS...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 28.6 2023
Nisiddhagara
And fin[ally] it should now be document[ed] & ? that one of our Godbrothers has written a letter to one of his followers "TO KILL one of the disciples of HDG"
It has also been said by 1 "guru" in the west coast of...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 27.6 2023
Prabhupada instructed the entire GBC body to manage the society not this division of zones among the 11 ach[arya] gurus with an artificial claim of acaryaship. Not this zone thru zone.
Prabhupada never inst[ructed] this zonal acarya business. You gentlemen may...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 22.6 2023
The Godbro[thers] will see that my sen[ior] and older Godbrother is so eager to serve our Prabhupada and who will enthuse the devotion and inspire the newcomers. However if we try to imitate Srila Prabhupada by accept[ing] opulent worship directly in ISK[con] then...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 19.6 2023
The following is a letter written by Yasodanandana dasa to Tamal Krsna Goswami in March 1979. A note at the top identifies the document, written in Yasodanandana's handwriting. There are a number of words that have been clearly abbreviated. For...Read more...
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By editor - 16.6 2023
“Hare Krishna Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama,
Rama Rama Hare Hare.
For relief of all the anxieties of material life, please chant these names of God.”
This was inscribed on a card recently given to me as I recently...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 16.6 2023
Following our recent article, "Challenging the Zonal Acaryas …and the Ritvik-Vadis", a reply from Yasodanandana dasa has been posted on a few Ritvik forums. In it, he informs that a mistake was made in our article – Pradyumna was not a key...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 14.6 2023
As documented in "The Roots of Ritvik-vada", for a number of years after the July 9th Letter was released, Yasodanandana dasa, now a prominent Ritvik leader, understood that letter to be Srila Prabhupada's appointment of 11 diksa gurus who...Read more...
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BY: ROCANA DASA - 14.6 2023
The Yadus destroy one another
I would like to address the subject of how and why the Yadu Dynasty disappeared due to fratricidal suicide after Lord Sri Krsna's departure. There are a number of lectures given by Srila Prabhupada on this...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 13.6 2023
We recently published a document entitled, "Proposed Topics of Discussion for 1979 Mayapura Meeting", being a letter from Yasodanandana (then) Swami to Satsvarupa Gosvami. The document serves as a very interesting historical footprint, for several...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 5.6 2023
Page thirty-four
This paper was written in a mood of hope. We stated as such in the beginning. And we shall close it in the same mood.
20 October, 1978
Dear Giriraj Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to our beloved spiritual master,...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 2.6 2023
Page thirty-three
In the unhappy event that these necessary resolutions are not seriously considered by the Governing Body of Commissioners of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness, on grounds of disagreement as to their validity, or whatever, then we...Read more...
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By Satsvarupa-dasa-goswami - 1.6 2023
Although many believe man first reached the moon in July, 1969, we have information from a very reliable source, the Sanskrit Vedic scriptures, that the astronauts never actually went to the moon. The manned moon landing was a colossal hoax....Read more...
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By editor - 31.5 2023
Many people from other sampradayas raise concern over the order of usage of word Krishna and Rama in the Hare Krishna Mahamantra based on an advaitin edition of Kali Santarana Upanishad in the middle of 17th century forgetting that Hare Krishna...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 31.5 2023
Page thirty
RECTIFICATION PROCEDURES
We request that the GBC please adopt all of the resolutions we are now proposing. We further request that this be done during this spring festival. These rectification proposals should not be promised verbally only, but...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 27.5 2023
Page twenty-seven
THE SPIRITUAL MASTERS ARE EQUAL
Recently the issue of "representative of Krsna," was discussed with one guru. When it was proposed to him that the temple presidents of the devotees in our centers were also Krsna's...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 25.5 2023
Page twenty-six
We should stop and soberly consider, before allowing this issue to degenerate to lower levels of disagreement. These days, epitaphs like "envious snake" are being flung around with abandon. This is not at all good. We are presenting...Read more...
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BY: SUN EDITORS - 19.5 2023
Page twenty-one
LIMITATIONS OF THE MADHYAMA GURU
The qualifications of the uttama adhikari are mentioned in the Nectar of Devotion. The new gurus seem to concede that they are not on this platform of realization.
"Yes, the guru has to prove himself by...Read more...
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