Topic: Guru-tattva

There is a danger for the disciple if he considers the so-called mistakes of his guru to arise from the conditioning of the three modes of material nature.

Such intimacies are better kept secret - not to be told here and there and certainly not to be forced upon others.

Uddhava said the gopis were the greatest devotees of Krsna. Similarly, in his adult life, Srila Puri Maharaja carried the message of krsna-bhakti to the world.

He is not in a class by himself – he is in the top class of the servants of the Lord, who live eternally in the Lord’s company

If Srila Tirtha Maharaja had actually accepted our Guru Maharaja’s request back in 1965, then there would be no ISKCON!

There are probably 100 initiating gurus in the Hare Krsna movement, but a vast majority of them are simply institutional gurus

We present another recent letter from a Vaisnavi who has also written to an ISCON guru about the inspiration that she has felt reading the words of Srila Sridhara Maharaja.

The following is a letter written by a disciple to her guru in ISCON regarding Srila Sridhara Maharaja.

At first, he went to New York City via Boston and started preaching the holy name with the accompaniment of mrdanga at Tompkins Square Park. Slowly, good people became attracted to his mission in large numbers.

The meaning of the phrase, ‘Guru is one’ is derived from the Sanskrit statement akhanda-guru-tattva. This means the undivided (akhanda) principle of the guru-tattva. This undivided guru-tattva manifests in three aspects, namely caitya-guru, diksa-guru, and siksa-guru respectively.

Let us always remember our Divine Master, His Divine Grace, as an eternal servant and resident of the eternal pastimes of Sri Sri Radha-Govinda.