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The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri
Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati
Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes
in the topmost planet of the spiritual world,
Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to
rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger
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Our Mission: To help everyone awaken
their original Krishna consciousness, which is
eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Such a global awakening will, in one stroke,
solve all the problems of the world society
bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and
prosperity for all. May that day, which the
world so desperately needs, come very soon. We
request you to participate in this mission by
reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and
assisting us in spreading this science all over
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Dedicated with love to ISKCON Founder-Acharya:
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual
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Be Krishna Conscious.
Make the World Krishna Conscious.
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 For
a devotee of Krishna life is very simple. It is not at
all complicated. His life is simply to be Krishna
conscious and make the entire world Krishna conscious.
In this way he does the highest welfare work both for
himself and for the whole world. Since happiness is
experienced in proportion to the degree of how much we
render selfless service to others, there is no one more
happy than the devotee anywhere in the entire universe.
Indeed, his happiness is fathomless and unbounded.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Prabhupada Blesses the Whole Universe with Krishna
Consciousness--San Francisco, Ratha Yatra
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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: |
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Question: Meaning of Bona Fide Guru |
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Please define the meaning
of bona fide guru.
Anupam R.
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Answer: He is Not a Rascal
Like the So-Called Gurus |
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The bona fide spiritual
master is not a rascal like the profuse so-called gurus
who are at the present moment so much misguiding the
entire human civilization. He is described in the Srimad
Bhagavatam 11.3.21 as follows:
tasmād guruṁ
prapadyeta
jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam
śābde pare ca niṣṇātaṁ
brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam
"Therefore any person who seriously desires real
happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and
take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of
the bona fide guru is that he has realized the
conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is
able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great
personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme
Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations,
should be understood to be bona fide spiritual masters."
The bona fide spiritual master accepts Krishna as the
original guru. Therefore he never changes the words of
Krishna. Whatever Krishna says he repeats without any
addition or subtraction. He never presents himself as
God. He presents himself as the servant of God. He is
authorized by the previous acharyas to accept as a
spiritual master. He cannot be self made. He can only
become a spiritual master when he is ordered to do so by
his spiritual master.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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