Prab­hu­pada Is Always Right (Click for a humor­ous, yet insight­ful article.)

Prab­hu­pada Is Always Right

Often­times I’ve been asked to describe what a nat­ural devo­tion is com­pared to prac­tice found in insti­tu­tion­alised forms of Chai­tanya Vaish­nav­ism and their branches. In other words, I needed a good story peo­ple can imag­ine, take roles and iden­tify with. I finally got one, and that was — through karate.

I was doing some web research today and came across this book excerpt by emi­nent Chai­tanya Vaish­nav scholar, Joseph T. O’Connell. He con­cisely and insight­fully describes how Chaitanya’s devo­tional teach­ings and prac­tices became insti­tu­tion­al­ized in a soft, sym­bolic, decen­tral­ized man­ner as opposed to the hard, cen­tral­ized, coer­cive insti­tu­tions later formed by Gaudiya Math and ISKCON. […]