Baladeva appears as Nityananda Prabhu just in order to extend extreme mercy. Even criminals cut Him, He was prepared to vouch for their lives to save them. He is an unlimited transcendental ocean of light and purity and love and forgiveness for all. There is no other one we can approach, who so broadly opens the path back to Godhead. We all beg for the service of the Dust of the Divine Lotus Feet of Lord Nityananda.

"There is no need by any of my disciples to read any books besides my books—in fact, such reading may be detrimental to their advancement in Krishna Consciousness. All reading of outside books, except in certain authorized cases such as for example to read some philosopher like Plato to make an essay comparing his philosophy with Krishna's philosophy—but otherwise all such outside reading should be stopped immediately. It is simply another botheration. If my students cannot even read my own books thoroughly, why they should read others? I have given you TLC, what need is there to read Caitanya Caritamrta translated by someone else. You are right to stop such reading."
(Srila Prabhupada's letter to: Sri Govinda—Jaipur 72-01-20)

Reply by Tamohara dasa, Bh.S., MS. on May 21, 2015 at 19:57

"Otherwise, management, everything, should be done locally by local men. Accounts must be kept, things must be in order and lawfully done, but that should be each temple's concern, not yours. Krishna Consciousness Movement is for training men to be independently thoughtful and competent in all types of departments of knowledge and action, not for making bureaucracy. Once there is bureaucracy the whole thing will be spoiled. There must be always individual striving and work and responsibility, competitive spirit, not that one shall dominate and distribute benefits to the others....   "

My Godbrothers have no life for preaching work. All are satisfied with a place for residence in the name of a temple, they engage disciples to get foodstuff by transcendental devices and eat and sleep. They have no idea or brain how to broacast the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Tirupati 28 April, 1974

Washington D.C.

My dear Rupanuga Maharaja

Back To Prabhupada, Issue 56, Summer 2017

Recently, GBC-elected guru HH Trivikrama Swami wrote to us, arguing that the July 9th, 1977 directive mentioned in the previous article was not a "final order" on initiations for ISKCON. Instead, he claims that on October 18th, 1977, Srila Prabhupada gave his actual "Final Order" to HH Jayapataka Swami ("JPS") and others "to begin initiating their own disciples." (Email sent to us on 11/8/17). Other ISKCON GBC gurus have also made the same argument. However, there are at least 7 proofs that this was not a final order for JPS to become a diksa guru (emphases added):

1) Srila Prabhupada states that JPS is to act according to a "list" of names of "deputies" he had given:

Srila Prabhupada: "So, deputies, Jayapataka's name was there? [...] This initiation. I have deputed the... my disciples. [...] You have got the list of the names?"
Tamala Krsna: "Yes, Srila Prabhupada."
(Room Conversation, 18/10/77)

However, the only time Srila Prabhupada had eve

1. Here at spi, we consider ourselves simply the modern followers of HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, as he taught and set the perfect examples. There is no such thing as "ritvik philosophy", per se,  as we are simply following Prabhupada's philosophy.

Srila Prabhupada ;

" From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way. "

 "Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean one-sided. Kṛṣṇa as all-pervading, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement also should be all-pervading. It should touch everything, even politics, sociology, everything, if required. That is the aim. Because Kṛṣṇa’s mission is: yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [Bg. 4.7], paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām [Bg. 4.8]."

"Make your own field... and continue to be Ritvik... and act on my behalf." - Śrīla Prabhupāda: July 31, 1977.

Quote from ISKCON’s C

‘Never was there a time in which I did not exist, nor you, Arjuna, nor all these kings, ( before us at the battlefield of Kurukshetra), nor in the future shall any of us cease to be’ - Sri Krsna, from Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's ; Bhagavad Gita As It Is.

Herein Lord Krsna reveals His Eternal Being, beyond the gates of time. He speaks of past, present, and future as aspects of one supreme reality, in which God and the souls exist as distinct, eternally. Indeed, He says, ‘Time I am’, indicating that He is the origin and the maintainer of the flow of events that we call time, and He is the Supreme Controller of that time element.

Those seeking happiness and freedom from the crushing wheels of death must ask themselves whether all the fuss and botheration of struggling hard to try to create a position of happiness here, and to keep it going, are of any value. Time destroys all things; in the form of oxidation, aging, homeostasis and equilibrium, violent destruction, gradual d