Roger Rodpush
September 12 at 11:19pm·
Where are these High Standards Today ???
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Where are these High Standards Today ???
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Thank You Andrew Whitlock Prabhu for this post. September 8 at 3:57pm
"If a high standard was expected of members of the GBC, even higher ones were expected of those who later, after Prabhupada left, would one day become initiating gurus in Iskcon.
In Iskcon's parent tradition, Caitanya Vaishnavism, the guru is defined not merely as a transmitter of sacred knowledge, but as a representative of God and conveyor of His grace to the disciple. As such, he or she is expected to be a human being of exceptional quality - virtually a saint - utterly free from worldly, egoistic taints.
Srila Prabhupada hoped that one day many of his disciples would become gurus, but warned that the absolute power attendant upon the position of guru may well corrupt a spiritually immature person, who 'may be carried away by an accumulation of wealth and large number of disciples' and may, 'by a false display of religious sentiments . . . present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities'.
Any religious system so dependent on the absolute faith and surrender of the disciple towards the guru is easily corrupted, and there is no greater spiritual tragedy than a guru gone bad..." Steven J Gelberg (Subhananda das)

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Srikant DalaiJay pravupada..
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