Is guru a ritvik disciple?

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Back to Prabhupada, Issue 20, Summer 2008

By Krishnakant

One of the 70 unauthorised GBC voted-in gurus is His Grace Kratu Das, whose website states that he is in charge of Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi (burial place) in Vrindavan. The same website claims that he is an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada:

“He met his Guru, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada in 1976, from whom he received a direct order for preaching Krishna consciousness. He then got initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1977 in Toronto, Canada.”
(Kratu Das website)

The website also mentions that his wife’s name is Amrita Keli Devi Dasi.

However, having proclaimed to the world that he is both a false guru successor to Srila Prabhupada and his initiated disciple, we find a Kratu Das and Amrita Keli Devi Dasi writing the following Vyasa- Puja offering in 1987 to another guru, Kirtanananda Swami (“Bhaktipada”), one of the original 11 guru hoaxers:

Srila Prabhupada:
The only bona fide ISKCON guru

**HG Kratu Das:
**Became Srila Prabhupada’s disciple after Srila Prabhupada departed?

Please chant: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare,
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare. And be Happy!