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Sounds like he is promoting the Gaudiya Matha gurus, whom we need to make sure we are not offending. At the same time he forgets, its the Gaudiya Matha folks that have promoted immature gurus. ys pd

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 4:19 PM, ‘B. Radha-Govinda Swami (ACBSP)’ via Prabhupadanuga <istagosthi@googlegroups.com> wrote:

If devotees were mature enough to understand guru tattva, there would not be such “my guru”/”your guru” consciousness, ISKCON-wise or not.

Because certain devotees haven’t been mature enough to understand, there are the guru CULT clubs, the multiple cults within the ISKCON society based on this OFF consciousness.

From: ‘Rakesh K Sharma’ via Prabhupadanuga <istagosthi@googlegroups.com>
To: Joseph Langevin <yasoda1008@yahoo.com>; Abridged Recipients <istagosthi@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:26 AM
Subject: RE: A Brief Expose of the Rubber-stamped Spiritual Master by Citraketu dasa

Hare Krishna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I read the article by Chitraketu which has a lot of valid points. However, the one statement below makes me somewhat alarmed. It almost sounds like he is saying there are some personalities present who can function as spiritual masters in ISKCON. Then there will be some people who will present some individual as a guru , another group someone else, and before you know it you’ve got the same mess again.

YS,
Rama Raghava Dasa

Sincerely,
Rakesh
Sent from my mobile phone/yahoo.com

——– Original message ——–
From: Joseph Langevin <yasoda1008@yahoo.com>
Date: 06/13/2015 1:26 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: Abridged Recipients <istagosthi@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Joseph Langevin <yasoda1008@yahoo.com>
Subject: A Brief Expose of the Rubber-stamped Spiritual Master by Citraketu dasa

A Brief Expose of the Rubber-stamped Spiritual Master
BY: CHITRAKETU DAS (ACBSP)
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First, however, one must check to make fully sure that there aren’t senior devotees who are actually qualified to be spiritual masters.

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Revisions – A Very Serious Situation
BY: PALAKA DAS (ACBSP)
Dec 20, 2010 — USA (SUN) — As I read “Interpretations of Bhagavad-gita”, recently published by Sun Staff, I noticed that the English translations of the Sanskrit Gita verses quoted by Srila Prabhupada just did not seem to fit, especially for a paper that was written by him all the way back in 1948. The style and arrangement of words appeared to have been taken from a much later date than the way I felt Srila Prabhupada would have written in India in the 1940’s. It dawned on me, perhaps these English translations were not the original English translations after all. Could it be they may have been changed or edited and not actually from the 1948 versions used in the original paper as presented by Srila Prabhupada?

So I took it upon myself to compare all the verses in this article with an original 1972 Gita along with the revised 1983 Gita. Not surprisingly, the result was this: each and every verse quoted from this 1948 paper came from the 1983 revised and enlarged edition of Bhagavad-gita. How can that be, since in 1948, this revised and enlarged version of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita never even existed in the first place?
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