PADA: Oh oh, Bombay ISKCON misrepresented that the case has already been accepted by the court. Not so fast! The court has not yet reviewed the new case.
But this is good, the appointment of 11 gurus were never authorized. And they crushed down, even murdered, those of us who dissented. In 1999 Bangalore had to use the courts to prove that they are authorized, but the GBC went to court to counter them and tried to stop Bangalore.
The court has not yet accepted Bombay GBC's NEW claims against Madhu Pandit, because Bangalore has not yet had a chance to reply to the court. The next hearing is in the the third week of January 2026. In short, the court has not accepted the GBC's case yet, and they have not heard yet from Bangalore's lawyers. So it is misleading to claim the court has accepted the GBC case of fraud against Bangalore.
Some in ISKCON have also tried to claim they are Akshaya Patra. In 2000 the GBC declared that Akshaya Patra is "food for death," and not "food for life." But now some of them claim they are the real Akshaya Patra. And we also know that some of the other leaders in India tried to make a competing "food for life" project.
The GBC has been trying to prove that Madhu Pandit is misappropriating funds and is committing fraud since 1998. But the GBC's whole position of hi-jacking the society with a false guru program is fraud itself. Snatching away Srila Prabhupada's post as acharya, was for the sole purpose of personal and financial gain. The GBC people told me their main object is to put Madhu Pandit in jail and shut down his operation. What kind of "devotees" want to jail the leaders of a free food for children program?
Meanwhile the GBC gurus have orchestrated widespread abuse of women and children, and most of them personally fell down into scandals. And then we wonder where all the money went? Hansadutta was arrested for shooting up downtown Berkeley with four guns, bottles of Vodka were found in his Jeep, and then it cost allegedly $500,000 in court fees to keep him out of jail. Who pays for all these types of things? Santa Claus?
ISKCON Bombay has already been chastised by the court for promoting misleading information and they were fined for making false claims against Madhu Pandit already.
So this is a good development, the Bangalore people are starting more and more to use our original 1980s arguments, i.e. illicit sex with men, women and children never happens in Krishna's guru parampara. And it is an offense to Krishna to ARTIFICIALLY make such deviants into His successors. I knew that already when I was 12 years old and going to Church. God's successor must be pure, or he is not God's successor.
In short, deviants ARE not, WERE not, and could NOT have been -- Krishna's guru successors. Neither these same deviating people could "2/3 show of hands" VOTE in MORE Acharyas. None of this is authorized.
A devotee asked me why is it so hard for devotees to understand these issues? I said because they are motivated to keep the big guru lie going. Whereas any American citizen walking down Market Street already knows -- homosexuals, pedophiles, molesters, perverts, Andy Warhol disciples, LSD gurus, crooks, drunks, porno swamis etc. WERE NEVER God's successors, EVER at any time, nor are their enablers.
Many devotees do not know that because they do not want to know, they want to be in illusion. But unless they change all this to the Bangalore idea -- promoting pure devotees as pure devotees, ISKCON in the West will die out altogether and is currently dying as we speak.
And then again there has been widespread women and children abuses, including beatings and rapes. In sum there has been one scandal after the next with these alleged messiahs from Vaikuntha. Never mind some of their children victims being severely traumatized and even committing suicide etc.
Oddly, this point is where we ALSO ran into conflict with Dayalu Nitai's HKC Jaipur folks. They were using a photo of Madhu Pandit and his Akshaya Patra name to collect funds at a big meeting, claiming they are Akshaya Patra. And there was a photo of them doing that -- which we posted many years ago.
Then, I said we cannot be doing these criminal GBC type things which are fraud and illegal. And that is when the HKC Jaipur folks jumped ship away from us Prabhupadanugas -- and started promoting their real spiritual authorities: Hitler-anugas, serial women exploiting, wife beater and raping pada, cradle robbing, Auschwitz for kids project helpers, sex in dham guy, cheer leaders of the Saint Radhanath oral sex in the motorhome messiahs fan club, designer drugs pada etc. And now they want me to apologize for not helping them promote their agenda.
As one woman PADA reader said recently, the GBC guys and these HKC Jaipur people have to take shelter of deviants -- to support their attack on PADA. Thus to discredit us -- all so they can defend their favorite people, and their real agenda, enabling women and children beaters, rapers and abusers. Did I forget to mention these HKC people and Mathura Pati types always complain I am favoring Bangalore, and not them? Well yeah, they don't want me to support the people who worship Prabhupada, no kidding.
Anyway, it looks like Bangalore is finally letting lose with the real arguments, which we think are long overdue -- and all of this women and children abuse needs to be EXPOSED and WIDELY and PUBLICLY and THREADBARE -- to expose the molester messiah's program -- to thus to save ANY future vulnerable victims from developing. In fact, a mass child abuse program should be declared A PUBLIC SAFETY EMERGENCY and halted forthwith.
And if we collectively do not halt this odious and criminal issue now, we will not have any "Krishna society" left to save -- or not save -- for the future. ISKCON will dry up and blow away in the winds of time. And victims will be cheering that it is gone. And if we are part of the co-enabling all this, we are complicit in the odious result.
Anyway they are using the heavier counter argument tools, which I wanted them to use in 1998. They should make a public news release and expose these Bombay guys. Anyway, it is a start, better late than never! Let's see where it goes from here.
ys pd angel108b@yahoo.com
YND: Respectful obeisances dear Prabhus. Please tell Madhu pandita Prabhu to take the gloves off and expose these criminal impostors of Iskcon Mumbai.
Present the long list of criminal behaviors. It is time to end all this.
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VB:
Anti Ritvik Guru Parampara:
The disciplic succession of manipulative CROOKS! FISKCON has had pyschopath gurus, rapist gurus, murderer gurus, paedophile gurus, homo-sex gurus, drug gurus, alcoholic gurus, thug gurus, manipulative con man gurus, embezzler gurus, book changer gurus, mad man gurus, womaniser gurus, sex-yasi gurus, sin-yasi gurus, GBC conditioned soul factory produced rubber-stamped gurus.
And—— now—— for that SPECIAL treat: FISKCON’S PROSTITUTE GURUS.
Compare above with our BONAFIDE guru parampara:
SB 3.13.8 P The Appearance of Lord Varaha
Brahma is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahma is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next. The disciplic succession from Brahma is called the Brahma-sampradaya, and it descends as follows: Brahma, Narada, Vyasa, Madhva Muni (Purnaprajna), Padmanabha, Nrhari, Madhava, Aksobhya, Jayatirtha, Jnanasindhu, Dayanidhi, Vidyanidhi, Rajendra, Jayadharma, Purusottama, Brahmanyatirtha, Vyasatirtha, Laksmipati, Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Svarupa Damodara and Sri Rupa Gosvami and others, Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Krsnadasa Gosvami, Narottama dasa Thakura, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Jagannatha dasa Babaji, Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI.
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A Brief History of Srila Prabhupada’s Ritvik Instructions
"I may say many things to you, but when I say something directly to you, you do it! Your first duty is to do that. You cannot argue, 'Sir, you said like this to me before'. No, that is not your duty. What I say now you do it, that is obedience. You cannot argue!" (Lecture, Hyderabad, April 14, 1975]
This is an important quote for defeating some arguments against Srila Prabhupada's ritvik order. It should always be clearly noted, however, that the July 9th Directive was not a new or revised order. Nor did it rescind any previous instruction, order, or directive. Rather, it reaffirmed and formalized Srila Prabhupada's previous instructions for ritvik initiations, which had been conducted by leading disciples since 1970.
This is an important quote for defeating some arguments against Srila Prabhupada's ritvik order. It should always be clearly noted, however, that the July 9th Directive was not a new or revised order. Nor did it rescind any previous instruction, order, or directive. Rather, it reaffirmed and formalized Srila Prabhupada's previous instructions for ritvik initiations, which had been conducted by leading disciples since 1970.
With His July 9th Directive, Srila Prabhupada simply institutionalized and formalized the ongoing system to operate without His personal oversight. He made this adjustment to enable ISKCON leaders to manage initiations without directly consulting Him for approval on new initiates. Thus, Srila Prabhupada’s official “Ritvik Order” was specifically meant for after His disappearance—or, as clearly stated in that document, "henceforward".
Regarding the understanding that later instructions are more important: "... So, I have deputed some of you to initiate. I have already deputed... So, deputies.... This initiation-- I have deputed my disciples. Is it clear or not?" (Conversation, Vrindavan, October 18th, 1977)
Nowhere do we find suggestions or instructions from Srila Prabhupada deputing the GBC to make arrangements for nominating or approving new diksa-gurus in ISKCON. Some say that He had alluded to "regular gurus" and "disciples of my disciple," but this is speculative at best. The tape recording of this conversation is doctored and cannot be accepted as fully authoritative. Nonetheless, even on this tampered tape, we hear Prabhupada saying only that He would appoint ritviks. And this was later confirmed by Srila Prabhupada’s official order for ritvik initiations by deputed representatives.
Throughout his books, conversations and lectures, Srila Prabhupada makes another point crystal clear: One can become guru only when the bona fide guru orders. And he states this fact three times for emphasis in the May 28th conversation.
At that time, (May 1977) it was a known fact that some leading gbc upstarts were threatening to leave ISKCON and divide the movement --unless they were recognized as gurus. Some of them may have been involved in plans to remove or assassinate Srila Prabhupada. The fallen gbc men who challenged Prabhupada on May 28th were hoping to force out of Him an order for "regular gurus" --but Srila Prabhupada didn't give them what they so desperately wanted, despite their threats.
Sometimes a child demands the impossible, such as to have the moon in his hands. And, so, as Prabhupada explains, the child's mother gives him a bowl of water with the moon's reflection. Once Karna asked Lord Krishna for His Sudarshan Disc. Krishna commented to him that even Arjuna and Balarama had never asked Him such a thing. When Krishna handed Karna the Chakra he could not hold it for even a second--what to speak of use it.
And when the demon Kamsa was threatening to kill Mother Devaki, Vasudeva placated him with promises that he would personally deliver to Kamsa any future children born of Devaki. If a child demands something unreasonable, the mother sometimes says, "Ok, maybe later. Maybe in the future." She of course hopes he will grow out of his madness.
Regarding the understanding that later instructions are more important: "... So, I have deputed some of you to initiate. I have already deputed... So, deputies.... This initiation-- I have deputed my disciples. Is it clear or not?" (Conversation, Vrindavan, October 18th, 1977)
Nowhere do we find suggestions or instructions from Srila Prabhupada deputing the GBC to make arrangements for nominating or approving new diksa-gurus in ISKCON. Some say that He had alluded to "regular gurus" and "disciples of my disciple," but this is speculative at best. The tape recording of this conversation is doctored and cannot be accepted as fully authoritative. Nonetheless, even on this tampered tape, we hear Prabhupada saying only that He would appoint ritviks. And this was later confirmed by Srila Prabhupada’s official order for ritvik initiations by deputed representatives.
Throughout his books, conversations and lectures, Srila Prabhupada makes another point crystal clear: One can become guru only when the bona fide guru orders. And he states this fact three times for emphasis in the May 28th conversation.
At that time, (May 1977) it was a known fact that some leading gbc upstarts were threatening to leave ISKCON and divide the movement --unless they were recognized as gurus. Some of them may have been involved in plans to remove or assassinate Srila Prabhupada. The fallen gbc men who challenged Prabhupada on May 28th were hoping to force out of Him an order for "regular gurus" --but Srila Prabhupada didn't give them what they so desperately wanted, despite their threats.
Sometimes a child demands the impossible, such as to have the moon in his hands. And, so, as Prabhupada explains, the child's mother gives him a bowl of water with the moon's reflection. Once Karna asked Lord Krishna for His Sudarshan Disc. Krishna commented to him that even Arjuna and Balarama had never asked Him such a thing. When Krishna handed Karna the Chakra he could not hold it for even a second--what to speak of use it.
And when the demon Kamsa was threatening to kill Mother Devaki, Vasudeva placated him with promises that he would personally deliver to Kamsa any future children born of Devaki. If a child demands something unreasonable, the mother sometimes says, "Ok, maybe later. Maybe in the future." She of course hopes he will grow out of his madness.
They wanted a rubber stamp from Prabhupada for their false ambitions but instead Srila Prabhupada gave the order that saves His mission and makes it a little harder for cheaters to exploit it. Srila Prabhupada ultimately assured all sincere devotees that He would always remain the real acharya for the entire Krishna consciousness movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfLWZbWbhY
74-09-29. Letter: Sri Govinda:
Now hold a fire sacrifice and impress upon the devotees that they are taking vows before Radha Krsna, the spiritual master, and the Vaisnavas. The beads may be chanted upon by a sannyasi or GBC man.
On Friday, 13 December 2024 at 10:54:09 GMT, Mahesh Raja <mahesh_agtsp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Madhya 7.130 The Lord' s Tour of South India
The cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is explained here very nicely. One who surrenders to Him and is ready to follow Him with heart and soul does not need to change his location. Nor is it necessary for one to change status. One may remain a householder, a medical practitioner, an engineer or whatever. It doesn't matter. One only has to follow the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra and instruct relatives and friends in the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. One has to learn humility and meekness at home, following the instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and in that way one's life will be spiritually successful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxfLWZbWbhY
74-09-29. Letter: Sri Govinda:
Now hold a fire sacrifice and impress upon the devotees that they are taking vows before Radha Krsna, the spiritual master, and the Vaisnavas. The beads may be chanted upon by a sannyasi or GBC man.
On Friday, 13 December 2024 at 10:54:09 GMT, Mahesh Raja <mahesh_agtsp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Madhya 7.130 The Lord' s Tour of South India
The cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is explained here very nicely. One who surrenders to Him and is ready to follow Him with heart and soul does not need to change his location. Nor is it necessary for one to change status. One may remain a householder, a medical practitioner, an engineer or whatever. It doesn't matter. One only has to follow the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra and instruct relatives and friends in the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. One has to learn humility and meekness at home, following the instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and in that way one's life will be spiritually successful.
ONE SHOULD NOT TRY TO BE AN ARTIFICIALLY ADVANCED DEVOTEE, THINKING, "I AM A FIRST-CLASS DEVOTEE." SUCH THINKING SHOULD BE AVOIDED. IT IS BEST NOT TO ACCEPT ANY DISCIPLES. One has to become purified at home by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra and preaching the principles enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Thus one can become a spiritual master and be freed from the contamination of material life.
On Friday, 13 December 2024 at 09:49:24 GMT, Mahesh Raja <mahesh_agtsp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My reply is below your email - I have put ((…)) for your statements - to REFUTE IT. So that others here can SEE what EXACTLY the FACTS are.
Yes, there are differences in each individual, and each person's realizations. We must be tolerant of this. I find humility in accepting the EXTERNAL manifestation of the Lord who is the siksha and diksha spiritual masters (PLURAL). Since Gurukrpa was present with Prabhupade when the referenced latter was written and signed, he never for one second understood that it was an eternal order. It was simply because His Divine Grace was physically incapitated, hundreds of news bhaktas around the world knew Prabhupada was possibly going to enter nitya leela, and they were desperate to become his initiated disciples understandably. In 1969, I felt the same way. I was 19. Prabhupada was 73. I was too much anxious that he might leave before I was accepted by him as his disciple.
On the other hand, I was with Prabhupada on his morning walk in Los Angeles. We greeted him with "All Glories to you Srila Prabhupada." Srila Prabhupada stopped and said, "My glory is when my disciples are being worshipped all over the world."
He wanted his disciples to have disciples and he wants their disciples to have disciples. That is parampara, handing down the ripened fruit from the top of the tree to the bottom without bruising it. Because someone has compromised, does not change the science. Shastra is clear that a prospective disciples must live with the prospective teacher for one year and then if faith is firm on both sides, the initiation takes place.
On Friday, 13 December 2024 at 09:49:24 GMT, Mahesh Raja <mahesh_agtsp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My reply is below your email - I have put ((…)) for your statements - to REFUTE IT. So that others here can SEE what EXACTLY the FACTS are.
Yes, there are differences in each individual, and each person's realizations. We must be tolerant of this. I find humility in accepting the EXTERNAL manifestation of the Lord who is the siksha and diksha spiritual masters (PLURAL). Since Gurukrpa was present with Prabhupade when the referenced latter was written and signed, he never for one second understood that it was an eternal order. It was simply because His Divine Grace was physically incapitated, hundreds of news bhaktas around the world knew Prabhupada was possibly going to enter nitya leela, and they were desperate to become his initiated disciples understandably. In 1969, I felt the same way. I was 19. Prabhupada was 73. I was too much anxious that he might leave before I was accepted by him as his disciple.
On the other hand, I was with Prabhupada on his morning walk in Los Angeles. We greeted him with "All Glories to you Srila Prabhupada." Srila Prabhupada stopped and said, "My glory is when my disciples are being worshipped all over the world."
He wanted his disciples to have disciples and he wants their disciples to have disciples. That is parampara, handing down the ripened fruit from the top of the tree to the bottom without bruising it. Because someone has compromised, does not change the science. Shastra is clear that a prospective disciples must live with the prospective teacher for one year and then if faith is firm on both sides, the initiation takes place.
A person chooses the guru and the guru chooses the disciples. Prabhupada made the system so his temple presidents tested the students and recommended them because Prabhupada could not be in every location. He never in his translations of shastra or in his purports stated that he was to be initiating the world after he was not manifest before us any longer.
I totally understand why so many want this, because we were all misled, lied to and cheated by the GBC in 1978. They never have atoned for their devious conspiracy. They have proceeded to make every changing systems of ratifying so-called gurus. All of us know this. Especially myself, as after serving with every ounce of my being for 10 years I was ordered to leave the movement and die by the new "acaryas."
We are not the supersoul. We cannot judge anyone. We can attempt to share what we have realized with those who are submissive. Otherwise, we will fly our own plane to Krishna, or to hell.
Your servant,
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REFUTATION:
((Shastra is clear that a prospective disciples must live with the prospective teacher for one year and then if faith is firm on both sides, the initiation takes place. ))
In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, the requirement is that one must be prepared to give up the four pillars of sinful life-illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. In Western countries especially, we first observe whether a potential disciple is prepared to follow the regulative principles. Then he is given the name of a Vaiṣṇava servant and initiated to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, at least sixteen rounds daily. In this way the disciple renders devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR. He is THEN recommended for a second initiation, during which a sacred thread is offered and the disciple is accepted as a bona fide brāhmaṇa.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/cc/madhya/24/330
Note the above usage of words carefully the EXACT words “OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE”. So the question is—– WHO is this REPRESENTATIVE of the Spiritual Master? The answer is VERY clear: “RITVIK–REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACARYA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING INITIATIONS, BOTH FIRST INITIATION AND SECOND INITIATION:
77-07-09.All Letter: All G.B.C., All Temple Presidents
Letter: All G.B.C., All Temple Presidents
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. Recently when all of the GBC members were with His Divine Grace in Vrndavana, SRILA PRABHUPADA INDICATED THAT SOON HE WOULD APPOINT SOME OF HIS SENIOR DISCIPLES TO ACT AS “RITVIK–REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACARYA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING INITIATIONS, BOTH FIRST INITIATION AND SECOND INITIATION.
His Divine Grace has so far given a list of eleven disciples who will act in that capacity:
His Holiness Kirtanananda Swami
His Holiness Satsvarupa dasa Gosvami
His Holiness Jayapataka Swami
His Holiness Tamala Krsna Gosvami
His Holiness Hrdayananda Gosvami
His Holiness Bhavananda Gosvami
His Holiness Hamsaduta Swami
His Holiness Ramesvara Swami
His Holiness Harikesa Swami
His Grace Bhagavan dasa Adhikari
His Grace Jayatirtha dasa Adhikari
In the past Temple Presidents have written to Srila Prabhupada recommending a particular devotee’s initiation. Now that Srila Prabhupada has named these representatives, Temple Presidents may henceforward send recommendation for first and second initiation to whichever of these eleven representatives ARE NEAREST THEIR TEMPLE. AFTER CONSIDERING THE RECOMMENDATION, THESE REPRESENTATIVES MAY ACCEPT THE DEVOTEE AS AN INITIATED DISCIPLE OF SRILA PRABHUPADA BY GIVING A SPIRITUAL NAME, OR IN THE CASE OF SECOND INITIATION, BY CHANTING ON THE GAYATRI THREAD, JUST AS SRILA PRABHUPADA HAS DONE. THE NEWLY INITIATED DEVOTEES ARE DISCIPLES OF HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPAD, the above eleven senior devotees ACTING AS HIS REPRESENTATIVE. After the Temple President receives a letter from these representatives giving the spiritual name or the thread, he can perform the fire yajna in the temple as was being done before. The name of a newly initiated disciple should be sent by the representative who has accepted him or her to Srila Prabhupada, to be included in His Divine Grace’s “Initiated Disciples” book
Note: this brings us to back to the EXACT qualification of the Spiritual Master giving DIKSA (DĪKṢITAḤ) :
MAHĀ-BHĀGAVATA
MAHĀ-BHĀGAVATA-śreṣṭho
brāhmaṇo vai gurur nṛṇām
sarveṣām eva lokānām
asau pūjyo yathā hariḥ
mahā-kula-prasūto ‘pi
sarva-yajñeṣu DĪKṢITAḤ
sahasra-śākhādhyāyī ca
na guruḥ syād avaiṣṇavaḥ
The guru MUST be situated on the topmost platform of devotional service. There are three classes of devotees, and the guru MUST be accepted from the topmost class. The first-class devotee is the spiritual master for all kinds of people.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/cc/madhya/24/330
WHEN ONE HAS ATTAINED THE TOPMOST POSITION OF MAHĀ-BHĀGAVATA, HE IS TO BE ACCEPTED AS A GURU AND WORSHIPED EXACTLY LIKE HARI, THE PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD. ONLY SUCH A PERSON IS ELIGIBLE TO OCCUPY THE POST OF A GURU.
Link to this page: PrabhupadaBooks.com Srila Prabhupada's Original Books
I totally understand why so many want this, because we were all misled, lied to and cheated by the GBC in 1978. They never have atoned for their devious conspiracy. They have proceeded to make every changing systems of ratifying so-called gurus. All of us know this. Especially myself, as after serving with every ounce of my being for 10 years I was ordered to leave the movement and die by the new "acaryas."
We are not the supersoul. We cannot judge anyone. We can attempt to share what we have realized with those who are submissive. Otherwise, we will fly our own plane to Krishna, or to hell.
Your servant,
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
REFUTATION:
((Shastra is clear that a prospective disciples must live with the prospective teacher for one year and then if faith is firm on both sides, the initiation takes place. ))
In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, the requirement is that one must be prepared to give up the four pillars of sinful life-illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling. In Western countries especially, we first observe whether a potential disciple is prepared to follow the regulative principles. Then he is given the name of a Vaiṣṇava servant and initiated to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, at least sixteen rounds daily. In this way the disciple renders devotional service under the guidance of the spiritual master OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR. He is THEN recommended for a second initiation, during which a sacred thread is offered and the disciple is accepted as a bona fide brāhmaṇa.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/cc/madhya/24/330
Note the above usage of words carefully the EXACT words “OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE”. So the question is—– WHO is this REPRESENTATIVE of the Spiritual Master? The answer is VERY clear: “RITVIK–REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACARYA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING INITIATIONS, BOTH FIRST INITIATION AND SECOND INITIATION:
77-07-09.All Letter: All G.B.C., All Temple Presidents
Letter: All G.B.C., All Temple Presidents
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. Recently when all of the GBC members were with His Divine Grace in Vrndavana, SRILA PRABHUPADA INDICATED THAT SOON HE WOULD APPOINT SOME OF HIS SENIOR DISCIPLES TO ACT AS “RITVIK–REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ACARYA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING INITIATIONS, BOTH FIRST INITIATION AND SECOND INITIATION.
His Divine Grace has so far given a list of eleven disciples who will act in that capacity:
His Holiness Kirtanananda Swami
His Holiness Satsvarupa dasa Gosvami
His Holiness Jayapataka Swami
His Holiness Tamala Krsna Gosvami
His Holiness Hrdayananda Gosvami
His Holiness Bhavananda Gosvami
His Holiness Hamsaduta Swami
His Holiness Ramesvara Swami
His Holiness Harikesa Swami
His Grace Bhagavan dasa Adhikari
His Grace Jayatirtha dasa Adhikari
In the past Temple Presidents have written to Srila Prabhupada recommending a particular devotee’s initiation. Now that Srila Prabhupada has named these representatives, Temple Presidents may henceforward send recommendation for first and second initiation to whichever of these eleven representatives ARE NEAREST THEIR TEMPLE. AFTER CONSIDERING THE RECOMMENDATION, THESE REPRESENTATIVES MAY ACCEPT THE DEVOTEE AS AN INITIATED DISCIPLE OF SRILA PRABHUPADA BY GIVING A SPIRITUAL NAME, OR IN THE CASE OF SECOND INITIATION, BY CHANTING ON THE GAYATRI THREAD, JUST AS SRILA PRABHUPADA HAS DONE. THE NEWLY INITIATED DEVOTEES ARE DISCIPLES OF HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPAD, the above eleven senior devotees ACTING AS HIS REPRESENTATIVE. After the Temple President receives a letter from these representatives giving the spiritual name or the thread, he can perform the fire yajna in the temple as was being done before. The name of a newly initiated disciple should be sent by the representative who has accepted him or her to Srila Prabhupada, to be included in His Divine Grace’s “Initiated Disciples” book
Note: this brings us to back to the EXACT qualification of the Spiritual Master giving DIKSA (DĪKṢITAḤ) :
MAHĀ-BHĀGAVATA
MAHĀ-BHĀGAVATA-śreṣṭho
brāhmaṇo vai gurur nṛṇām
sarveṣām eva lokānām
asau pūjyo yathā hariḥ
mahā-kula-prasūto ‘pi
sarva-yajñeṣu DĪKṢITAḤ
sahasra-śākhādhyāyī ca
na guruḥ syād avaiṣṇavaḥ
The guru MUST be situated on the topmost platform of devotional service. There are three classes of devotees, and the guru MUST be accepted from the topmost class. The first-class devotee is the spiritual master for all kinds of people.
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WHEN ONE HAS ATTAINED THE TOPMOST POSITION OF MAHĀ-BHĀGAVATA, HE IS TO BE ACCEPTED AS A GURU AND WORSHIPED EXACTLY LIKE HARI, THE PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD. ONLY SUCH A PERSON IS ELIGIBLE TO OCCUPY THE POST OF A GURU.
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