ISKCON Sannyasis 2007: Is this list complete?

[krsna]

ISKCON Sannyasis 2007

 

1. A. C. Bhaktivaibhava Swami

2. Amiyavilasa Swami

3. Atmanivedana Swami

4. Bhanu Swami

5. Bhakti Bhusana Swami

6. Bhakti-Bhrnga Govinda Swami

7. Bhakti Caitanya Swami

8. Bhakti Caru Swami

9. Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami

10. Bhakti Gaurava Narayan Swami

11. Bhakti Marg Swami

12. Bhakti Pursottama Swami

13. Bhakti Raghava Swami

14. Bhaktisiddhanta Swami

 

15. Bhakti Sharan Shanta Swami

16. Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami

17. Bhakti Vijnana Goswami

18. Bhakti Vijaya Parivarjak Swami

 

 

19. Bhakti Vikash Swami

20. Bhakti Vishramba Madhava

21. Bhakti Vrajendranandana Swami

22. Bhakti Vyasa Tirtha Swami

23. Bharati Swami

24. Bir Krsna Goswami

25. BVV Nrsimha Swami

26. Candramauli Swami

27. Candra Mukha Swami

28. Candra Sekhara Swami

29. Danavir Goswami

30. Devamrta Swami

31. Dhanvantari Swami 32. Ganapati Swami

33. Gauranga Prema Swami

34. Giridhari Swami

35. Giriraja Swami

36. Gopala Krsna Goswami

37. Gunagrahi Goswami

38. Guru Prasada Swami

39. Hanumat Presaka Swami

40. Hrdayananda Goswami

41. Indradyumna Goswami

42. Janananda Goswami

43. Jayadvaita Swami

44. Jayapataka Swami

45. Kadamba Kanana Swami

46. Kavicandra Swami

47. Kesava Bharati Goswami

48. Krsna dasa Swami

49. Lokanatha Swami

50. Maha Visnu Goswami (SRS)

51. Maha Visnu Swami (ACBSP)

52. Mahanidhi Swami

 

53. Mukunda Goswami

54. Niranjana Swami

55. Navayogendra Swami

56. Paramgati Swami

57. Partha Sarathi dasa Goswami

58. Prabhavisnu Swami

59. Prahladananda Swami

60. Purusatraya Swami

61. Radha Govinda Swami

62. Radha Ramana Swami

63. Radhanatha Swami

64. Ramai Swami

65. Romapada Swami 66. Rtadhvaja Swami

67. Sacinandana Swami

68. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

69. Sivarama Swami

70. Smita Krsna Swami

71. Subhag Swami

72. Sukadeva Swami

73. Svayambhu Swami

74. Tatpara Swami

75. Trivikrama Swami

76. Umapati Swami

77. Varsana Swami

78. Vedavyasa Priya Swami

[Yofu]

Satsvarupa is not a sannyasi....althought he may think he is.

[Guruvani]

In ISKCON, sannyasa is a career move.

It is a statement that I want to be totally dependent on the institution as a career devotee.

Sannyasa?

Or, the saffron elite?

 

Sannyasa in ISKCON is like a college fraternity of insiders and GBC yes-men.

 

No matter how many more sannyasis they add to list, ISKCON just keeps falling deeper and deeper into disrepute and corperate politics.

 

A real ISKCON sannyasi would renounce his cushy seat at the temple and go out into the world and make sacrifice to preach and reach the bewildered souls of kali-yuga.

 

Pontificating from a big cushion in the temple room is no sannyasi as far as I am concerned.

[gauragaura]

 

In ISKCON, sannyasa is a career move.

It is a statement that I want to be totally dependent on the institution as a career devotee.

Sannyasa?

Or, the saffron elite?

 

Sannyasa in ISKCON is like a college fraternity of insiders and GBC yes-men.

Please read Indradyumna Swami's website: Traveling Preacher and stop criticising those you know nothing about.

 

HARE KRISHNA

[Guruvani]

 

Please read Indradyumna Swami's website: Traveling Preacher and stop criticising those you know nothing about.

 

HARE KRISHNA

 

Who did he take sannyasa from?

[krsna]

 

Who did he take sannyasa from?

 

bhagavan

circa 1978-79

 

 

Here they are taken on initiation day...

[Guruvani]

 

bhagavan

circa 1978-79

 

 

Here they are taken on initiation day...

so, that is my point.

 

I heard the tape where Srila Prabhupada said senior sannyasis in ISKCON can initiate.

 

Senior sannyasis are the sannyasis who directly took sannyas from Srila Prabhupada.

Indradyuma is a junior sannyasa.

He should not be accepting disciples in the presence of senior ISKCON sannyasis who got sannyasa from Srila Prabhupada.

 

Senior sannyasis are like Tripurari Maharaja who directly got sannyasa from Srila Prabhupada.

[Beggar]

Srila Sridhar Maharaja emphasized the importance of the sannyasa mantra. He said that this mantra, "gives entrance into Radha dasyam". What about the qualifications of the sannyasa mantra initiator? Consequently one must wonder whether Indradyumna Maharaja is truly a sannyasi from the internal perspective of the mantra. The only explanation is that he conceives that Prabhupada is his real sanyassa guru through some sort of rtvik chain, since even Bhagavan Prabhu did not take sanyassa directly from Srila Prabhupada. The main thing from the ISKCON perspective is that he has signed the GBC's loyalty oath and is not under any suspicion of associating with the Gaudiya Math.

[Shakti-Fan]

This year, September 25th is anniversary of the day that Srila Prabhupada took sannyasa from Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja. Srila Narayana Maharaja is in Bhubanesvara on that day and will be celebrating there. We will not be there with him to record his lecture, so please accept the following excerpts from his class on the same subject, given by him in Mathura on September 27, 1996:

“Sannyasa is taken in order to attain the service of Sri Mukunda. It is not an ordinary thing. The sannyasa mantra is the mantra of the very sacred gopi-bhava. By uttering this mantra we are able to give our entire body, mind, soul and everything we possess to Lord Krsna – to serve Him. Srila Swami Maharaja dedicated himself to his sannyasa-guru, nitya-lila pravista om visnupada astottara-sata Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja. They were god-brothers and very bosom friends.”

Next is an excerpt from a discourse given by Srila Narayana Maharaja in San Francisco on May 31, 1997. This lecture is from a series of classes on Srila Prabhupada’s Nectar of Instruction (a translation of Srila Rupa Gosvami’s Sri Upadesamrta), Srila Maharaja called on devotees to read from Srila Prabhupada’s translations and commentaries, and then he elaborated on Prabhupada’s words”

“Who are rupanuga? Those who are actually following the mood of Srila Rupa Gosvami. All our acaryas are rupanuga; they are not only raganuga. This is a very, very important point.

“Our Gurudeva, Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, has composed Sri Radha-Vindodastakam. The first sloka is:

“radha-cinta-nivesena yasya kantir vilopita

sri krsna-caranam vande radhalingita-vigraham

Sri Radha Vinoda-Bihari Tattvastakam (1)

[“I worship the lotus feet of Sri Krsna when, due to being thoroughly immersed in separation from Srimati Radhika (who is displaying mana, Her jealous anger), His own dark complexion vanishes and He assumes Her bright, golden luster.”]

“You should hear this meaning; otherwise you will miss this rare opportunity.

“Sometimes Srimati Radhika becomes so absorbed in feelings of separation, weeping so bitterly, that She faints. Srila Rupa Gosvami does not want this, and neither do our Gurudeva nor any of our acaryas. What will they want? Radha-cinta-nivesena yasya kantir vilopita. They consider, “Krsna should weep in separation from Srimati Radhika. Krsna should weep. Our Srimati Radhika is so soft, and Her feet are so soft. She should not walk here and there to search for Krsna. Krsna should search for Her, because He is a cowherd boy and His feet are very hard. He should walk far and wide in search for Her.”

“When Srimati Radhika disappeared from the rasa dance, Sri Krsna searched throughout the forests for Her. He could not get Her darsana, so He was continuously searching and weeping. At last He sat down at Imli-tala in Vrndavana, near Yamuna in Seva-kunja. He was bitterly weeping and absorbed in thinking, “Oh, where can I find Srimati Radhika? Where can I find Radhika? She has left Me here. Where has She gone?” Drowned in these thoughts, Krsna lost His black complexion and at once became golden. He was still Krsna, but He became golden like Srimati Radhika, and His mood was changed into Hers. At that time He began to cry bitterly, “Oh Krsna, where are You? Oh Krsna, where are You?”

“Do you understand this? He was not calling “Oh Radhika, Oh Radhika,” in Krsna’s mood. Rather, Her color and mood came in Him and He began to call, “Krsna, Krsna, where are You?”

“In all our Gurudeva’s temples and preaching centers he established the Deities, Sri Radha Vinoda-bihari, with this mood: radha-cinta-nivesena yasya kantir vilopita. Krsna’s color and mood became covered with Radhika’s. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

“Radhalingita-vigraham. I pray to that very form of Krsna, who has been embraced by Radhika with all Her limbs. Sri Krsna’s body has been completely covered by all the limbs and parts of Srimati Radhika’s body. In this way, radhalingita-vigraha is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

“This is rupanuga: ‘Krsna should weep; Krsna should search for Radhika. Why should our sweet, innocent, very simple Srimati Radhika go here and there, in mountains, across rivers and through thorny areas? Why should She go? Krsna should go everywhere in search of Her.’

“All rupanuga acaryas think like this, and they have come only to bestow their mercy upon us so that we may enter their mood.

“Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja spent much time cutting the jungles of atheism and impersonalism, but he did not come only for this. We can see from his Nectar of Instruction, his broadcasting of Srila Rupa Gosvami’s teachings, that he is giving all these truths. Patiently hear about this, and then you will be able to understand the mood of this special rupanuga-vaisnava acarya, Srila Swami Maharaja.” *[see endnote 1]

The following is an Excerpt from Srila Narayana Maharaja’s conversation in Srila Prabhupada’s room at Bhaktivedanta Manor, England, May 17, 1996.

The day was Visvarupa-mahotsava (in September, 1959), and many senior Vaisnavas and disciples of Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura were present at Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha. At that time my Gurudeva gave Srila Swami Maharaja the sannyasa-mantra. Uttering this mantra is not merely a formality. It is chanted to attain the service of the gopis – to enter into the mood of the gopis. He was really a rupanuga-vaisnava.

[*Endnote 1: In the madhurya-rasa, characterized by conjugal love, one can become like Srimati Radharani or Her lady friends such as Lalita and Her serving maids (manjaris) like Rupa and Rati. This is the essence of all instruction in the matter of devotional service.” (Nectar of Instruction, verse 8, purport)]

[harirasadas]

 

Senior sannyasis are the sannyasis who directly took sannyas from Srila Prabhupada.

Indradyuma is a junior sannyasa.

 

Senior sannyasis are like Tripurari Maharaja who directly got sannyasa from Srila Prabhupada.

 

Interesting... do U have the list of the senior sannyasis that rest even if they are not in Iskcon now, like Tripurari Maharaja for example??

[Guruvani]

 

Interesting... do U have the list of the senior sannyasis that rest even if they are not in Iskcon now, like Tripurari Maharaja for example??

 

No. I don't have a list.