How to make a bona-fide PRABHUPADANUGA Temple

1. Morning Program –
2. Evening Program
3. Srila Prabhupada’s Kirtan style
4. Include Hearing all lectures of Srila Prabhupada in the classes
5. Srila Prabhupada’s Deity worship method
6. Only books of Srila Prabhupada to be used for studies.
7. Only Original Books of Srila Prabhupada used and distributed
8. Daily reading/studies of Srila Prabhupada books by devotees ideally to prepare for Bhakti Sastri degree etc.(Prepare course material and Q papers)
9. Daily Sankirtan Party; Perform sankirtan in streets, parks, schools, TV, homes, etc.
10. Regular Istagoshtis in the temple and among the congregation
11. Weekly Feasts(like Sunday feasts)
12. Strict with 4 regs, 16 rounds, mangala arati, scheduled programs for temple devotees
13. Vaisnava Dress for inmates. Grahathas working outside normal dress and hair. Brahmacaris for official purposes can wear American gentleman’s dress with shaven head, shikha and tilak.
14. Temple to have many many pictures of Krishna and Srila Prabhupada Std pictures at least in the temple room
15. Temple to have 24 hour kirtan, live or recorded(Srila Prabhupada or disciples with his mood)
16. Regular viewing of Srila Prabhupada’s videos in the temple and among the congregation(possibly while taking prasadam)
17. Brahminical standards of cleanliness in the temple.
18. Vaisnava etiquettes among the temple devotees and the congregation

Test everything by its practical result.

 Srila Prabhupada in his wonderful exchange with Professor J. F. Staal: Professor of Philosophy and of South Asian Languages University of California Berkeley, California in January 1970:

In a court of justice two lawyers put forward their respective relevant arguments taken from the authorized law books to decide a point, but it is up to the judge to decide the case in favor of one of the litigants. When the opposing lawyers put forward their arguments, both of them are legal and bona fide, but the judgment is given as to which argument is applicable to the particular case.

Lord Caitanya gives His judgment on the authority of sastras that the chanting of the holy names of the Lord is the only means to elevate one to the transcendental platform, and actually we can see it is effective. Each and every one of our students who has seriously taken to this process may be examined individually, and any impartial judge will find it easy to see that they have advanced in their transcendental realization further than any philosophers, religionists, yogis, karmis, etc.

We have to accept everything favorable to the circumstances. Rejection of other methods in a particular circumstance does not mean that the rejected ones are not bona fide. But for the time being, taking into consideration the age, time, and object, methods are sometimes rejected even though bona fide. We have to test everything by its practical result. By such a test, in this age the constant chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra undoubtedly proves very effective.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

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THE RITVIK SYSTEM IS A PRACTICAL  SOLUTION GIVEN BY SRILA PRABHUPADA TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE AGE,TIME AND OBJECT.