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ISKCON guru system information


Chanting beads, normally of tulasi wood given by an ISKCON guru at the initiation to an ISKCON devotee of Krishna.

An ISKCON guru is a person who is permitted to initiate disciples into the International Society for Krishna Consciousness system. The guru system has undergone several changes and reform since its beginnings in the 1960s. Upanayana as a traditional "sacred thread ceremony" of the Gayatri Mantra, commonly known Hindu Samskara, is complemented by Pancaratric mantras of the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya and follows the principal initial nama initiation ceremony, referred to respectively as brahmana diksa and Hari nama diksa.[1]

  1. ^ First is synonymous to what in other Vaisnava traditions is called Saranagati Diksa or Pancha Samskara.

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