Seeking Shelter: The Life & Legacy of Bhakti Charu Swami 

Beautiful memorial video for a great Personality. Thank you Karuna Productions from Sri Dhama Mayapur.

Thank you to all the devotees who took part in putting together this oceanic drop of the nectar pastimes of Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Gurudeva. This is a festival of inspiration for us and will remain so for generations of devotees to come.

Most wonderful video.HH Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj ki Jay.Thanks to Karuna Production and all dear devotees for making such amazing video. Hare Krishna.

i Offer my respectful Obeisances and Dandavats on To The Lotus Feet Of His Holliness Bhakti Charu Swami' 🙏 All Glories To His Divine Grace Srila Prabhuphada' S Ocean Of Mercy 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 and thank you to all devotees who comee forward To make This wonderful memories Of HH Bhakti Charu Swami' Alive 🙏🙏🙏

What a beautiful tribute to HH Bhakti Caru Swami! Thanks to all the devotees! Maharaja was a very soft kind heart personality. I saw him last time in 2019 in Mayapura Dham. If I could have known... Now that his phisical presence is no more visible, let us follow in his footstep and try to join him in the kingdom of divine love for Krishna! All glories to Bhakti Caru Swami, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I offer my humble obeisances to the divine lotus feet of Bhakti Charu Swami and to Srila Prabhupada.. All Glories to all the Vaisnava Devotees of the Lord!!! Hare Krishna..

Thank you v much. ys

Hare Krishna Thank you for producing wonderful video of Guru Maharaj. Made me emotional All glories to HH Bhakti Charu Swami. Missing you a lot Maharaj. Dandavat Pranam Guru Maharaj for giving me shelter at your lotus feet.

Thank you to the producers that have put together this amazing journey of guru Maharaj . Maharaj was a true example of how we should live life and let Krishna be the Center of everything with the guidance of prabhupada . Let’s all take the words of wisdom from Maharaj and let his legacy be shown for decades to come until we all unite 🙏🏼 Hare Krishna

HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj ki Jay Thank You

Really heart felt offering by Karuna production for the great personality. HH Bhakti Swami Maharaj ki Jai.🙌🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙏🏻

We love You, most wonderful Guru Maharaja!

Hare Krishna guru maharaj dandabat pronam...🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

Ocean of love how beautifully explained or expressed 🌸🌸

HARIBOLLLLL MISS YOU GURUMAHARAJ😭❤️🙏🏻

Oh! Such a beautiful production. Srila Bhakti Caru Swami Maharaja, everything about you is beautiful and sweet. Please accept my humble obeisances.

Miss you Maharaj 🙏🙇‍♀️🌸❤️😭

Hare Krishna, thank you for making now a video about his life. I have met him a few times when I was young. Now when I am older I appreciate much more who he was, his warm heart and great example in many ways. He is teaching what surrender actually means and how important it is to work together to please Srila Prabhupada, what serving the devotees means and much more. Its a big loss to this world. Lets follow his example as much as possible. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya! HH Bhakti Charu Swami ki jaya! Nitai Gaura Premanande Haribol!

Haribol, Beautiful🙏

Hare Krsna Dear Guru Maharaj You remain live in your teachings and books So does Srila Prabhupada However i am so fallen i still miss yourll so dearly Please bring me back home to yourll🙏🌸🌈🙏

Hare Krishna, PAMHO, Thank you for making such beautiful video of guru maharaj.🙏🙇 On this occasion of guru purnima and first tirobhav day we are missing him lot. 🙇 All glories to shri guru maharaj All glories to srila Prabhupada

🙏🙌 H.H. srila bhakti charu maharaj ji ki jai

Great. Jai Guru Maharaja 🙏

Beautiful video that brought me to tears, specially at the end of it. I will never forget the years that I spend so close to him as his secretary and assistant in Spain. Good work. Krishna Kripa Dasa

All glories, all glories, all glories to Srila Gurudev and to all the devotees who have put this wonderful production together 🙏🏽

Thank you Kritzina for this offering for Maharaj, saw it full and sharing it further.

Very inspiring video

Great Star of this Planet.... Jay Gurumaharaj

All Glories to this endeavor for my GuruMaharaja! Superb presentation!

Hare Krishna Dear Devotees, Absolutely Beautiful - Thank you for your amazing endeavor to produce this wonderful glorification of Srila Prabhupada's dearmost disciple His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj.

So beautiful! Miss him so much. Wonderful to hear his soft & inspiring voice again and to be reminded what is of upmost important while in these material bodies. I long for the day we can be together again. 🙏❤️🙏

Very beautiful Video. Very nicely edited. It must be done out of Love for Maharaj. Missing Maharaja so much.... 🙇🙇

Haribol, that is a wonderful tribute to a great soul, thank you

ग्रेट वर्क । गुरु महाराज 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Hare Krishna, this brought me to tears, thank you for this amazing production, all glories to HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj, all glories to Srila Prabhupada

I can't forget when I met Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj in flight from Mumbai to Kolkata. I couldn't imagine that he will leave us so early. Hare Krishna. Dandawat pranam

Thank you so much for this wonderful documentary. All glories to Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaja. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Most beautiful video. Brought tears of appreciation for this great soul to our eyes. Thank you, all who made this movie happen!

A beautiful documentary about maharaj's divine life

Jaya! What a fitting tribute. I was only in his presence twice toward the end of his life and got to serve him in a small way. His words as he explained his understanding of the philosophy were kind, caring well thought out, and pretty much inarguable! I will never forget standing on stage near him as the sound person for our festival. I was not allowed to take anything from his hand or be too close as a woman but he did not protest when I had to be near. Something funny happened in the crowd as he was handing over the mic and one of his disciples quickly yanked it so I would not touch it. He looked at me with this HUGE smile. I looked at him grinning and we shared a laugh before he was carted off stage. I shall never forget him or that moment. 🙏🏽

Hare Krishna 🙏🙏

Jay guru maharaj 🙏

Haribol . Awaiting Eagerly . Jai Gurudev

Hare Krishna from Cape Town. South Africa. Ys

heartful obeisances into the lotus feet of maharaj .... and heartful thankyou to all the vaishnavs who made such a beautiful documentary... Jai Shrilla Prabhupada

Shyam Hari Das Guru maharaj ki Jai.. Missing you a lot Maharaj.Who so ever has taken this splendid work of glorifying maharaj , my millions of obeisances to you.

Dandavat Pranamas 🙏 Maharaja

Maharaj we love you, you always dwell a scared place in our hearts ♥️.

Jai!! Thank you for uploading the video!!

Jay Sri Srimat Bhakti Charu Swami Majaraj Ki...Jay 🙌🏻

Hare Krishna 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Hare Krishna, simple superb ! The best video available !

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Heart touching video...Thank you so much...

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করুনা সিন্ধু প্রভুপাদ গত প্রাণা

Can you please share the name or the source of the song used in "Krishna-valley, Hungary" titled video which was uploaded 3 years ago? I am asking here because the comments are off on that video. The song starts at 3:20 mark.

Karuna Sindhu

BBT Admits Books Changed to Fit GBC Philosophy (unabridged) We highlighted previously, in one of our articles, how Bhakti Caru Swami's Bengali translation of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam had omitted a very key verse from Śrīla Prabhupāda's original version. The omitted verse in question would itself have destroyed the GBC's position that they were duly authorised to be Dīkṣā-gurus in ISKCON. This, of course, was shocking, since it showed that Śrīla Prabhupāda's books were being 'edited', not to bring them closer to the originals as claimed but, rather, doctored to prop up the GBC's bogus Guru philosophy. Though we had also been aware of many other controversial changes made to Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, the BBT had always claimed that they were made to actually correct 'errors' made by Śrīla Prabhupāda's 'hippie' editors. Thus they were not actually changing Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, but Hayagrīva's version' of the books, and thereby actually RESTORING the books BACK to how Śrīla Prabhupāda actually wanted them. However, thanks to the diligent efforts of His Grace Dhīra Govinda Prabhu, the Chairman of the ISKCON Office of Child Protection, we now have evidence that the current BBT, which is controlled by GBC supporters, are making changes motivated ... soley by the desire to doctor Śrīla Prabhupāda's books so that they fit in with whatever happens to be the prevailing view instituted in ISKCON by the GBC. Some time back many devotees had noticed that the new 9 Volume edition of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta had made a deliberate change from Śrīla Prabhupāda's original version, not unlike the one made by Bhakti Caru Swami mentioned earlier. Śrīla Prabhupāda's Caitanya-caritāmṛta states the following: "Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura accepted Śrīla Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, who *initiated* Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, who in turn initiated Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī". (C-C, Chapter 1) In the new BBT doctored 9-volume edition, the same passage reads: "Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura accepted Śrīla Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, the spiritual master of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, who in turn accepted Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī." In other words it has been decided that, contrary to what Śrīla Prabhupāda states, Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī did not really INITIATE Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura after all. Now the reason for the BBT changing Śrīla Prabhupāda's teaching here is very significant since the GBC maintains that the relationship between Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī and Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was based, not on 'formal initiation' but, rather, only on the transmission of transcendental knowledge'. Once it is accepted that the transmission of divine transcendental knowledge ALONE constitutes INITIATION - then the objections made by the GBC to the Ṛṭvik system of initiation crumble, since Śrīla Prabhupāda could also *initiate* us with transcendental knowledge. Thus the BBT could not allow Śrīla Prabhupāda to teach that Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī actually *initiated* Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, for that would indirectly sanction Śrīla Prabhupāda *initiating* for many generations to come simply via his transcendental knowledge, with the 'formal initiation' administered via the Ṛṭvik system that he set up. In any case the teaching given by Śrīla Prabhupāda above is totally consistent with what Śrīla Prabhupāda has taught about Dīkṣā and initiation in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta itself: "Dīkṣā actually means *initiating* a disciple *with transcendental knowledge* by which he becomes freed from all material contamination." (Madhya-līlā, 4:112, Purport) Of course, just the very fact that the BBT is deliberately changing the main legacy left by Śrīla Prabhupādada - his teachings - is horrendous enough. However, the fact that it was done specifically to keep the positions of the GBC within the crumbling Guru system intact is totally shameful. But, just when you thought it could not get any worse, it does. For the BBT have now become so arrogant in their campaign against Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings that they have even tried to JUSTIFY this change. Draviḍa dāsa, the BBT editor, upon being asked by Dhīra Govinda Prabhu to justify the change, first sums up the reason for NOT changing Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings as follows: "On the side of not changing the "initiated" phrases we have the strong bias against changing the books unless absolutely necessary and the fact that Śrīla Prabhupāda did indeed say that Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī initiated Bhaktivinode." (BBT Editor, Draviḍa dās) Please note that Draviḍa clearly ADMITS that Śrīla Prabhupāda "DID indeed say that Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī initiated Bhaktivinode". To any sane person, this would be the ONLY reason required to NOT tamper with Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings in any manner whatsoever. But hold on. Draviḍa dās has a reason that far outweighs a mere detail such as what Śrīla Prabhupāda himself actually taught. Rather he states we must change Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings to ensure they conform with what is currently understood within ISKCON in regards to initiation: "Leaving one or both "initiated"s will strongly imply that the use of the phrases "direct disciple" and even "accepted [as his disciple]" indicate formal initiation as we know it in ISKCON, which is far from the truth." (BBT Editor, Draviḍa dās) Draviḍa then adds that this reason was paramount in justifying the change: "This last was the weightiest argument, in my view, for changing the passage." (BBT Editor, Draviḍa dās) Thus, to summarise, what Draviḍa is saying is this: That whenever Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings differ from the way 'we know it in ISKCON', then they must be changed to conform with the way we DO 'know it in ISKCON'. And, of course, the way 'we know it in ISKCON' is dictated by whatever ridiculous philosophy the GBC happens to be preaching at the time. So the fact that we have had a bogus Guru system imposed on us in ISKCON by the GBC means that, even though we may find that Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches something else, we must modify Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings to agree with the way things are understood in ISKCON. Instead of changing the practices and understanding of ISKCON to conform with Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings - which of course is what a spiritual society based on following Śrīla Prabhupāda would do. Not only is it bad enough that ISKCON is NOT run according to Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings, but now Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings must also be changed to fit in with the way we happen to be doing things in ISKCON. What makes this shocking state of affairs even more ludicrous is that the way things are 'known in ISKCON' are themselves constantly changing anyway. Thus, from 1978-onwards, in ISKCON we 'knew' one thing in regards to the process of initiation - that you could ONLY take it from 11 people, and then ONLY whichever of the 11 people 'owned' your geographical area. Then, from 1986, we 'knew' something else about initiation - that you could take it from many others providing they had received the necessary number of votes. Now we 'know' something else - that whoever you get initiated from, do not forget that you must not worship him too much and that Śrīla Prabhupāda is also doing some important things, and indeed maybe even more important than the person who does initiate us. And what's the betting that this 'understanding' will also change in the next year or so? And, just because we happen to 'know' at the moment that initiation must mean the 'formal ceremony', therefore any teaching in Śrīla Prabhupāda's books that imply otherwise must be doctored. And this is a very sinister development for yet another reason. For this justification is laying the ground for making ANY further change to Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings that the GBC deems fit. Thus, in the future, if it is 'known in ISKCON' that 'women are as intelligent as men', say, then we will be able to alter all of Śrīla Prabhupāda's statements where he says that women are less intelligent, since then it would not conform with the way things are 'known in ISKCON'. Or, if in future, we begin to 'know in ISKCON' that Lord Śiva is just as worshipable as Kṛṣṇa, say, then, whenever we encounter the word 'demigod' in Śrīla Prabhupāda's books, all those instances must be changed. And so on. Of course someone may argue that the philosophy as 'we know it in ISKCON' will never change and will always be faithful to Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings, and the above fear is unfounded. of course, Pigs May also Fly If the last 23 years is anything to go by, the only thing we can say with certainty is that the GBC will ALWAYS be deviating from Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings, and the ONLY SAFEGUARD WE HAVE IS ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA'S TEACHINGS. And, once we change Śrīla Prabhupāda's teachings to fit in with whatever nonsense we happen to believe, then all will be lost - as seems to be happening now. How much longer must we put up this with this madness that is leading to the destruction of Śrīla Prabhupāda's movement. No wonder devotees, life members and members of the public, are turning to support the IRM in their droves. Please chant: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare, Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare And be Happy!

what to say ? a hagiography that exalts a good person ..... definitely not a documentary!