Prabhupada is the founder. Everything he gave us is of fundamental importance. We use Srila Prabhupada’s books, we stick to Srila Prabhupada’s instructions, and generally we quote Srila Prabhupada as the example for others, and generally people are receptive and appreciate and respect Prabhupada. So, you may see the Founder Acarya in that way. Somebody may see the Founder Acarya as the Gaudiya Math people, they say Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati is the founder Acarya. Other people could say Bhaktivinoda Thakura is the founder Acarya. You could take it back and back and go back to Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the founder Acarya. But we’re following Srila Prabhupada, in the present times.
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In my opinion, Srila Prabhupada will become more famous than Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ because Srila Prabhupada gave the absolute truth, he gave Sanatana Dharma, he gave Sanatana Dharma, the eternal, absolute, undeniable truth. This pure knowledge, this science of God consciousness and the Mahamantra will one day be accepted by the masses.
To help us understand this philosophical seed of the founder-acharya principle, we will now hear how the acharya-sampradaya culture inspired one famous disciple to appeal to his great guru in relation to their worshipable acharya.
from lecture on Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Appearance Day, evening February 15, 1971, Gorakhpur: Prabhupada: Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja, my spiritual master, his advent day [is] today. In 1922, I was at that time very much engaged in Congress activity. I was very much a devout follower of Mahatma Gandhi, and at…
After a final review by GBC members, the Srila Prabhupada: The Founder-Acarya of ISKCON was accepted and approved by unanimous vote as a “GBC Foundational Document.” Thus came to be published in February 2014 by the ISKCON GBC Press. In February 2015 an accusation against Srila Prabhupada: The Founder-Acarya of ISKCON began…
If Prabhupada can forgive us, we can also forgive each other’s mistakes and meanderings. Lord Chaitanya welcomes everyone and sees past any bodily designations. I respect any devotee who has tried in even the smallest way to serve Prabhupada, Krishna, or another devotee. He or she is special—like the sparrow who drank drops of the ocean to rescue her lost eggs from the sea, or like the chipmunk who was tossing pebbles into the sea to help Lord Ramachandra build his bridge to Lanka. The effort itself is success.
When Prabhupada came to us in his seventieth year, he had already spent a lifetime preparing himself, not only by preaching, but by practicing self-discipline and the many other qualities of an advanced spiritualist. We
joined him handicapped by our so-called hippie freedom and by so many other weaknesses in our characters.
Swamiji asked us how we were doing and seeing the red marks on my face, I explained to him that some bugs were biting me. He laughed and said, pointing to his window, yes they also come here but I stay very still and when they think I am asleep, they come.
By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi, ISKCON News Staff Writer Reproduced with permission from ISKCON News. The Prabhupada Network Team, under the leadership of Janmastami Dasa, successfully organized three Srila Prabhupada Connect Day events from July 27-28, 2024 in Sri Mayapur Dham. The events were designed to commemorate the 58th anniversary…
An English poem about Srila Prabhupada written by his senior editor and disciple, Dravida Dasa.