Srila Prabhupada’s Ritvik Initiation at Hare Krishna Community Jaipur, India
This time 11 devotees took first initiation and 5 devotees took second initiation.
Prabhupadanugas Hare Krishna Festival March 29, 2004
Srila Prabhupada’s Ritvik Initiation Ceremony, Jaipur India
Hare Krishna Community Jaipur – More and more devotees rejecting Iskcon bogus gurus accepting Initiation directly from Srila Prabhupada via His established Ritvik-System of Initiation, as outlined in His July 9th letter, issued to all TPs and GBC.
Srila Prabhupada: “continue to become ritvik and act on my behalf.” (July 31th)
Letter To All G.B.C., and Temple Presidents (July 9th)
Srila Prabhupada indicated that soon He would appoint some of His senior disciples to act as ritvik – representative of the acarya, for the purpose of performing initiations, both first initiation and second initiation.
In the past Temple Presidents have written to Srila Prabhupada recommending a particular devotee’s initiation. Now that Srila Prabhupada has named these representatives, Temple Presidents may henceforward send recommendation for first and second initiation to whichever of these eleven representatives are nearest their temple. After considering the recommendation, these representatives may accept the devotee as an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada by giving a spiritual name, or in the case of second initiation, by chanting on the Gayatri thread, just as Srila Prabhupada has done.
The newly initiated devotees are disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, the above eleven senior devotees acting as His representative. After the Temple President receives a letter from these representatives giving the spiritual name or the thread, he can perform the fire yajna in the temple as was being done before. The name of a newly initiated disciple should be sent by the representative who has accepted him or her to Srila Prabhupada, to be included in His Divine Grace’s “Initiated Disciples” book.
pamho agtACBSP
Thank you for posting this wonderful article on diksa initiations on behalf of our guru maharaj HDG ACBSP, it give me a great pleasure to see the original standard wanted by SRILA PRABHUPADA in the real iskcon because our guru maharaj is pleased too that’s why we are happy to see things to going on as our best well wisher wish to do.
Actually Jaipur is a very old holy place it’s the land of the rajarsi saintly kings since ancient time a lot of original deities from SRI VRINDAVAN DHAM are situated in Jaipur to escape from the attack of the muslim demoniac kings, in gelta kunda one can take bath in the ganges river it’s situated on the top of the hill of Jaipur and one can see all the city from up there. I love Jaipur, I’ve been living there also by doing book distribution from SRI VRINDAVAN DHAM yatra in the winter marathon. We had our accommodation inside the SRI SRI RADHA GOVIND-JI TEMPLE which are the original deity of SRILA RUPA GOSVAMI.
agtSP ys haribol