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These are rare things, if you have not seen you would probably enjoy this also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6FjhAmNyBE

Yes. Those who don't know history tend to repeat it. It is important to know when things went wrong with the preaching. Cheating people to get money from them is not what devotees do... Prabhupada instructs us to simply describe the books and what is in them and Krishna to the people and they will be more than happy to leave a contribution to help with the printing cost.

Yes. Of course, there are no great materialists. And I can understand for sure that the statement has upset you and it is not something I would say. It is not something that Srila Prabhupada would say either. Krishna is great and that is what we say as devotees. "Krishna is great. Chant Hare Krishan and be happy."

I think what Kirtananda was saying that today there are no great men, and that is certainly true, but in the past even back 100 years there were still some 'great' men. They are 'great' demons of course, as you correctly point out. But Swami's point I think is that today there are not even any great demons. Today our political leaders are terribly weak and stupid, compared to someone like Stalin. Who was a big demon, you could say even great demon. But today there are not even any great demons....

You would not like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGWHReI_Oaw

But Prabhupada liked George Harrison and his attempts to spread Krishna consciousness and the Hare Krishna mantra in his music.

Although that is something different from full time devotees doing it.

If Srila Prabhupada was the last pure devotee his mission has failed. Obviously Srila Prabhupada was not the last pure devotee and this is ritvik rubbish. Krishna consciousness is eternal. It goes on. Of course pure devotee is VERY RARE and not always available. But Krishna is constantly coming Himself to the material world and sending his representatives, pure devotees, to reestablish the religious principles when they are lost, He does it time and time again. I wonder why the ritviks don't read Bhagavad-gita?

So of course there will be more pure devotees...

Satsvarupa, with all due respects, has become crazy, insane. So by definition a crazy insane man is fallen. A devotee in good standing can not be crazy and insane...

Srila Prabhupada is not saying anything in this video? All that is given is a few Prabhupada quotes carefully selected to try and "prove" that Prabhupada appointed 11 successor acharyas, who have now long ago fallen down, etc. This video does not mention that there are ANY qualifications required to become and ISKCON "acharya". That is the real point.

Yes. Of course Prabhupada wants all his disciples to become acharyas and initiate disciples, your point. But it is not a cheap thing. First the have to become QUALIFIED, means pure unalloyed devotees of Krishna on the topmost, uttama adhikari platform, then they will actually be acharyas.

But that is not ISKCON policy. ISKCON acharyas, the only qualification is they MUST be surrendered servants of the GBC....

So a real acharya, a real guru, he will never surrender to the GBC, he will be surrendered to Prabhupada and Krishna.

Therefore there THERE ARE NO REAL GURUS IN ISKCON...

Yes. We only have a few minutes. I am sure they go on to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Like George Harrison did in his songs. Rock songs, "My Sweet Lord, Hare Krishna...." It is still one of the most popular songs on the planet. And very good idea, to get the rock stars chanting Hare Krishna, and to get the whole world chanting Hare Krishna and hearing Hare Krishna.....

Yes. There's always one "Hare Krishna Band" somewhere who doesn't realize the idea is to play Hare Krishna music...

@James-ford For your information this is the original transfer from the half-inch videotape. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nlpcqifo2ink66p8n95wn/DAS-73-2_AVI_.avi?rlkey=xveqd8gev5badcs4m7hyt62me&dl=0

We can get good quality from 8mm and 16mm film from the 1970s and some videotape is not so bad, but this tape, original is bad. In the best case videotape would be like about 360p but it is not digital it is analogue. Anyhow if you look at the original you can understand more what it is like...

This is already AI enhanced both audio and video.... You will never get better than this. You have no idea how bad the original footage is...

1972 New York City

Sitting still is not going to help anyone advance in spiritual life. If you carefully listen to Srila Prabhupada you will see that these bodily processes are not helpful actually in making spiritual advancement and that the activities of the karmis, janis and yogis, they are a little better than the activities of the animals.

It is not really the girls fault. They have just come out of the official ISKCON guru seminar, and they are just repeating what ISKCON has taught them, "Prabhupada is dead, you need a living guru." That is the ISKCON "Guru Tattva" and if you don't accept it you can't be in ISKCON.

No. That is useless for Krishna consciousness. Krishna consciousness can not be understood in a minute. Krishna consciousness is only for those who are prepared to patiently and submissively hear it from a pure devotee of Krishna. One minute in the middle of a stream of maya is useless. Hearing has to be attentive. So it is not possible in one minute surround by maya-katha...

Maybe six months, plan to redo everything in the new high quality format, but it will take some time...

The yogis use them to sit on in the forest when they are meditating. Tigers skins and sometimes deer skins. In the forest there are snakes and other dangerous animals so if yogi is sitting on a tiger's skin then the snakes won't bother him. At least that is my understanding.

It is from late 90's, maybe early 2000's. .Before cell phones.

Actually this is the 90s, not 80s, sorry for the mistake. I think 1995. There was still politics, but up until 1996 they were still following Srila Prabhupada. In 1996 they changed many fundamental things, like the understanding of guru in ISKCON. Before 1996 the teachings in ISKCON agreed with Krishna and Prabhuapda, that the guru is a pure devotee, that if you want to know the truth yourself have to approach a self realized soul because he has seen the truth. [Bg 4.34]. So in 1996 ISKCON rejected this concept and now they clam anyone can be a guru, self-realization is not necessary, Guru is just a service, like pot washing, anyone can do it, there are no qualifications except surreder to the GBC.

So that is the difference between ISKCON now and ISKCON pre-1996. Prior to 1996 they were still preaching the same philosophy that Prabhuapda and Krishna present. But now ISKCON has a new, fundamentally different, philosophy they are preaching.

But politics, it will always be there...

But dead, yes. ISKCON is dead now, because they have rejected the parampara understanding of the philosophy and have concocted their own new "improved" version of Krishna consciousness. Thus they are disconnected from the disciplic succession and now a dead branch of the Caitanya tree.