The Most Auspicious Appearance Day of Srila Prabhupada

Today is the most auspicious appearance day of my most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Astotara-sata Sri Srimad Abhaya Caranaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja Prabhupada. It was on this unlimitedly blessed day 125 years ago that by the all-merciful arrangement of Lord Sri Krishna he appeared in this world in Calcutta, India to expand Lord Caitanya's sankirtan movement exponentially for flooding this entire universe with Krishna consciousness. His preaching was so successful that he made "Hare Krishna" a household word all over the world.

Can you imagine how much love for and faith in his spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, he had that at the age of 70 with only 40 rupees (the equivalent of only ten US dollars) in 1965 he came to America on the order of his spiritual master for establishing the Hare Krishna Movement? He had no money to travel, but got a free passage on the Jaladuta, a ship of Scindia Steamship Navigation Company. On the ship he suffered two hearts and thought that if a third one came he would surely die. Even though he had a round trip ticket, he did not utilize it. He remained in American and struggled with great difficulties. But then in 1966 the most amazing thing happened. Krishna starting sending young American men and women to join him. Gradually more and more came and he sent these out for preaching all over the world. Within a few years ISKCON became established all over the world. Now ISKCON has more than 800 centers and over a million members.

Even though compared to the entire world population ISKCON is very small, it is having a most profound and powerful impact on global history. Eventually it will bring about the complete total re-spiritualization of our entire global society turning this upside down world right side up.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Celebrating Prabhupada's Appearance Day in 1972
(I was there standing just behind the sannyāsīs.)

Celebrating Prabhupada's Appearance Day in 1972

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Does Prabhupada Truly Represent Krishna?

How does ISKCON claim Swami Prabhupada is of true lineage from Krishna? Do they have proof, or is it blind belief?

Answer: Here's the Proof

Our Krishna consciousness movement is not some kind of bogus fly-by-night operation. We are a 100% bonafide movement started by God Himself. The knowledge that we are giving you has been very carefully handed down from spiritual master to disciple from the time at which our universe began some 155 trillion years ago when Lord Sri Krishna enlightened Lord Brahma with this knowledge. Krishna described 5,000 years ago in Bhagavad-gita that this knowledge has been received through the system of disciplic succession, which is as follows:

1. Krishna
2. Brahmā
3. Nārada
4. Vyāsa
5. Madhva
6. Padmanābha
7. Nṛhari
8. Mādhava
9. Akṣobhya
10. Jaya Tīrtha
11. Jñānasindhu
12. Dayānidhi
13. Vidyānidhi
14. Rājendra
15. Jayadharma
16. Puruṣottama
17. Brahmaṇya Tīrtha
18. Vyāsa Tīrtha
19. Lakṣmīpati
20. Mādhavendra Purī
21. Īśvara Purī, (Nityānanda, Advaita)
22. Lord Caitanya
23. Rūpa, (Svarūpa, Sanātana)
24. Raghunātha, Jīva
25. Kṛṣṇadāsa
26. Narottama
27. Viśvanātha
28. (Baladeva) Jagannātha
29. Bhaktivinoda
30. Gaurakiśora
31. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
32. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

So kindly take advantage of this Krishna consciousness movement and make your life unlimitedly sublime.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
By the blessings and the order of his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all over the world. Since he has been blessed by his spiritual master with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will make everyone happy and usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.

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