Disappearance Day of Srila Prabhupada

Today is the disappearance day of my most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He disappeared by natural causes from this mortal world thirty years ago today on 14 November 1977 in Vrindavan . Of course it is not that he is dead and gone. The spiritual master lives forever by his divine instructions and the disciple lives with him. Srila Prabhupada accomplished what no other spiritual master in the history of the world has ever been able to accomplish. In a brief time span of eleven years from 1966 to 1977 he successfully established the culture of Krishna consciousness all over the world. It was by his divine potency that the Hare Krishna mantra became known all over the world. And it is by his divine potency only that Krishna consciousness is becoming ever-increasingly more popular with each passing day. For example, this meager attempt to serve his mission, our daily e-newsletter "Thought for the Day", now has over 7,100 subscribers in over 100 countries. And this is just one of the many thousands of Krishna conscious projects that are going on by his divine grace all over the world. As his Krishna consciousness movement gradually spreads more and more all over the world the inauspicious symptoms of this age of quarrel will gradually be dissipated, and a new epoch of peace and prosperity will become manifested for the benefit of the entire human society.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Our Beloved Spiritual Master: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder-Acharya: International Society for Krishna Consciousness

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Initiation into the Sect?

Namaste. Is it possible that one can be a devotee without being initiated into the Hare Krishna sect?

Thank you.

"Without a vision, the people perish."

Thanks for providing some of the vision I live by.

Love always...

Tommi

Answer: Krishna Consciousness is Not a Sect

Krishna consciousness is not a sect. It is the original natural pure consciousness of every living being. Krishna consciousness is the essence of existence shared by all. Krishna consciousness is highest level of spiritual enlightenment experienced by the fully awakened spiritual beings. When we clear out all the crud that has been accumulating and clogging up our consciousness for countless eons, we have attained that rarely attained state of spiritual perfection known as Krishna consciousness.

The rarity of awakening one's Krishna consciousness is described as follows by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita:

manuṣyāṇāḿ sahasreṣu
kaścid yatati siddhaye
yatatām api siddhānām
kaścin mām vetti tattvatah

"Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth."
--Bhagavad-gita 7.3

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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