Lesson 3 of ISKCON Disciples Course helps students understand the unique position of Srila Prabhupada
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A personal account by a bengali devotee
This prediction of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s is now actually coming to pass. The Krishna consciousness movement is being distributed all over the world through the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, and people who were leading confused, chaotic lives are now feeling transcendental happiness.
Those days going to mangala-arati was the main priority no matter what age. They even had one western devotee taking note of attendance standing at the temple gate at 4:30 in the morning. I was always tired due to lack of sleep. But there was no way of getting prasadam if we didn’t go to mangala-arati. One day, I devised a plan and shared it with Dwarkadish…
All devotees are invited to attend this auspicious occasion glorifying ISKCON Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada either personally or online.
(This article appeared in Back to Godhead magazine 25-1, 1991)
based on lecture by Bhanu Swami In ISKCON, the topic of guru has been discussed…
from lecture on Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Appearance Day, evening February 15, 1971, Gorakhpur: Prabhupada: Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati…
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.