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This document provides instructions and guidelines for receiving initiation (diksha) in ISKCON. It states that candidates should notify their examiner 4 weeks in advance of wanting to take their exam. It also outlines ISKCON law regarding receiving shelter from one's diksha guru, notifying the temple president, and waiting six months before being eligible for initiation. The document includes a shelter exam for candidates to pass in order to receive initiation.

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Shelter Test Questions ISKCON Brisbane

This document provides instructions and guidelines for receiving initiation (diksha) in ISKCON. It states that candidates should notify their examiner 4 weeks in advance of wanting to take their exam. It also outlines ISKCON law regarding receiving shelter from one's diksha guru, notifying the temple president, and waiting six months before being eligible for initiation. The document includes a shelter exam for candidates to pass in order to receive initiation.

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Initiation document compendium @ 1/12/2019 Brisbane Yatra

Remember
4 WEEKS BEFORE YOU HOPE TO TAKE SHELTER, ADVISE THE EXAMINER WHEN YOU CAN
ATTEND YOUR EXAM.
It takes at least ten days from the time you sit your exam for your examiner to mark it and to confirm whether
you have passed.
DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST WEEK BEFORE YOUR GURU VISITS TO ADVISE THAT YOU
WISH TO RECEIVE SHELTER. Like you, examiners have heavy service loads. Without forewarning, they
may be unable to take you through your checklist in time.

RECOGNITION OF ISKCON LAW


PLEASE NOTE that according to ISKCON Law it is your responsibility to contact your guru of choice when
you are ready to ask for shelter, and to forward written confirmation from your guru to the Temple President
(with a copy to the examiner) that you have received shelter.

ISKCON Law 7.2.1.1.3 Second Six-month Period


• After successfully completing the first six-month preparatory period, and after passing the required
examination, the candidate may choose his/her future dīkshā-guru. Receiving permission from that
guru,and
• notifying the local Temple President, the candidate should take shelter and begin to worship that
guru as his/her own spiritual master and chant his/her pranāma-mantra.
• Actual (sic. first) initiation may take place only after a minimum six-month period from the date
shelter was taken and the local Temple President notified.

Please note that the six month waiting period between receiving shelter and becoming eligible for first initiation
cannot begin until the Temple President (and the examiner) receives written notice from the guru.

I have read and understood the ISKCON law above Candidate (name)

(Signed) Date _

Witness Date

SHELTER EXAM
You may answer in point form. The pass mark is 75%

THIS IS A CLOSED-BOOK EXAM.


NO REFERENCE MATERIALS ARE ALLOWED WHILE SITTING THE EXAM

MARKS

1. What are the qualifications of a bona fide spiritual master?........................................................................ (5)


2. Why are you convinced to follow the order of the bona fide spiritual master in this life and even life
after life?..................................................................................................................................................... (3)
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MARKS

3. Why does one worship the spiritual master like God?................................................................................ (3)
4. Do you believe the spiritual master speaks the absolute truth? If so why?................................................. (3)
5. Under what circumstances should the spiritual master be rejected?............................................................ (3)
6. What are the qualifications and responsibilities of a disciple?.................................................................... (5)

7. What is the unique position of Srila Prabhupada in ISKCON?................................................................... (3)

8. Why do you accept Lord Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead?.............................................. (4)
9. Why do we follow the 4 regulative principles?........................................................................................... (6)

10. Why do we chant Hare Krishna?................................................................................................................. (4)

11. What is the position of the GBC body?....................................................................................................... (3)

12. Explain the difference between the body and the self……………………………………………………. (5)

13. What is ISKCON? Why should one remain in ISKCON?.......................................................................... (4)

READING LIST
COMPULSORY
• Your Ever Well Wisher by Satsvarüpa Däsa Goswami
• Bhagavad-gita As It Is, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (https://www.vedabase.com/en/bg)
SUGGESTED
• Temple Song Book (http://www.krishnapath.org/free-ebooks-audiobooks-of-srila-prabhupada)
• The Spiritual Master and the Disciple, compiled and edited by Subhananda dasa
(http://www.krishnapath.org/library/vaishnava-books-handbooks-reference-material-guides)
• Srila Prabhupada Siksamrta, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (or Bhaktivedanta Vedabase program available free from
http://www.krishnapath.org/free-ebooks-audiobooks-of-srila-prabhupada)
Chapters on:
· Chanting Hare Krishna · Deity Worship
· Spiritual Master and Disciple · Governing Body Commission

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