Table of Contents 1. Some relevant quotes on Guru Issue 2. Transcript of May 28, 1977 conversation 3. July 9th, 1977 letter 4. Qualifications of a Bona Fide Spiritual Master 5. Srila Prabhupada Resolves Controversy 6. Who Should Be Considered As-Good-As-God. 7. How Srila Prabhupada used the word, Acharya? 8. Learning from Other's Mistake 9. What Srila Prabhupada said when one of his disciples tried to become a guru? 10. Authorization is important to become a guru 11. Can a bona fide Guru fall down? 12. Taking stock of the situation in 1977 13. The Real Process of Initiation 14. Guru: to become or not? 15. How a disciple is recommended to see the guru? Part – A 16. How a disciple is remcommended to see the guru ? Part – B 17. When is parampara lost? 18. The sum and substence of our Krishna consciousness movement 19. Become Spiritual master 20. The meaning of pranipatena 21. I have given in writing everything
22. An acharya invents new ways 23. Out-of-tradition practices that Srila Prabhupada and Srila Bhakti Siddhantha Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada introduced 24. Associate only with sva-jati devotees 25. Diminished spiritual master 26. Do not give up reason and discriminatory power, just to be gentle 27. First initiation in ISKCON excerpts from Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita 28. Time gaps in the Parampara 29. Srila Prabhupada's books invariably describe an uttma adhikari guru 30. The meaning of Bhakti-lata bija 31. Understanding the true meaning of parampara system 32. Siksha links in the Parampara 34. Physcial presence is not important 35. The Spiritual Master who has departed from the material world can accept a disciple 36. Hamsadutta Swami can't become guru; but Mr Dwivedi can become guru! 37. How can we receive instructions from Srila Prabhupada now? 38. Kirtanananda Swami, Revatinandana Das and Jayathirtha Das can chant on the beads on behalf of Srila Prabhupada 39. Should we discuss the Guru issue at all? 40. But how will the newcomers be intitiated? 41. Can someone else take the position of Srila Prabhupada? 42. Srila Prabhupada struggles to get his Western Disciples to Work in India 43. Gaps in the Disciplic Succession 44. Srila Prabhupada's estimation of his disciples in 1976-77