Prabhupada-Anuga Initiation in the Philippines
Initiation Ceremony – Philippines – Dec. 30, 2017
More Prabhupadanuga initiation’s in the Philippines. Devotees take initiation as Srila Prabhupada’s disciples, by accepting harinama and brahmama initiation.
Both first (Harinama) and second (Brahminical) initiations were conducted during the ceremony held at the temple. Harinama initiation is the formal acceptance of the holy names of the Lord in the form of Hare Krishna mantra from the spiritual master and during the Brahminical initiation; the initiated devotee receives a sacred thread and Gayatri mantra from the spiritual master. All the initiated devotees were glad that they had taken shelter of Srila Prabhupada, the bona fide acharya as their guru in their journey for spiritual perfection.
Vancouver Krishna Balaram Temple and Calasiao Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Temple Philippines held a harinama and brahmama initiation ceremony as per Srila Prabhupada’s instruction in his July 9, 1977 letter. Devotees were so happy and were very satisfied with the outcome of the initiation, as well as enjoying the delicious prasadam and ecstatic kirtan. At the end of the ceremony, the fruits that were offered to Lord Vishnu during the fire yajna were distributed to the devotees and guests. The majority of the comments from the devotees were that they cannot wait for the next initiation to happen.
The candidates for initiation are as follows:
- Bharadvaja Dasa – for brahmana initiation
- Vidarva Kanya Devi Dasi – for brahmana initiation
- Ikisvara Dasa – for brahmana initiation
- Bhakta Raul – for harinama initiation
- Bhaktin Girly – for harinama initiation
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Slowly but steadily, the genuine ritvik system is gaining popularity among the Hare Krishna devotees all around the world. Gradually as devotees catch on to what Srila Prabhupada ordered, they reject the “living guru” fallacy propagated by FISKCON and accept the actual order given by Srila Prabhupada in the famous July 9th 1977 letter.
This initiation ceremony is in accordance with the ritvik system of initiation set up by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder and Acharya of ISKCON.
Srila Prabhupada, in his institutional directive dated July 9, 1977, outlined the initiation procedure to be carried out in order to accept new disciples after his physical departure from this world. He appointed some of his senior disciples to act as ritviks (representatives) for the purpose of performing initiation of devotees on his behalf. After initiation, they would become the direct disciples of Srila Prabhupada. Through this ritvik initiation system, thousands of devotees in the future would get the rare opportunity to directly take shelter of Srila Prabhupada and accept Him as their spiritual master. Thus Srila Prabhupada continues to be the current link in the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya.
Srila Prabhupada is the initiating guru of the society and he confirms it in the following quote:
Srila Prahupada: “Yes, I am the spiritual master of this institution, and all the members of the society, they’re supposed to be my disciples. They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are initiated by me spiritually.” (March 12, 1968, San Francisco)
Srila Prabhupada: “I shall remain your personal guidance, physically present or not physically, as I am getting personal guidance from my guru maharaja” (Srila Prabhupada Letter 14 July 1977).
How TRUE it is ;
” Slowly but steadily, the genuine ritvik system is gaining popularity among the Hare Krishna devotees all around the world. Gradually as devotees catch on to what Srila Prabhupada ordered, they reject the “living guru” fallacy propagated by FISKCON and accept the actual order given by Srila Prabhupada in the famous July 9th 1977 letter. ”
That is the ONLY AUTHORIZED BONAFIDE way to carry forward the mission of the Lord Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu via the Ritvik INSTRUCTIONS of His Sena Pati i.e. The Commander-in-Chief His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanata Swami Shreela Prabhupada, the Founder Acaraya of the World Wide Hare Krishna Movement aka ISKCON in order to distribute FREELY the Holy Name of the Lord and deliver the conditioned JIVAS from the sufferings of the repeated Birth, Death, Old Age and Disease through the propagation process of the chanting this Maha Mantra ; ” Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare ” in every town and village on this Bhu Loka for the next Ten thousands years as predicted by our beloved Jagat Guru HDG Srila Prabhupada ki Jaya.
OM TAT SAT.
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and His Sincere Followers.