This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 3 and consists of 25 lectures, available on:

Apasampradāyas

Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur

The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents.

• By Vaishnava doing everything in connection to the Lord, the good qualities of the Lord shine through everywhere.

• Free from vice means free from the entanglement in the material world.
• To serve Vishnu, we must serve with other devotees, and that requires etiquette.
• Actually only the great personalities are Vaishnavas, we all are trying to follow in their footsteps.
• We must not only accept the acharya, but also his mood and his teachings. The sampradaya means we do the activities in the mood as given by the acharya.
• Apasampradayas may accept Mahaprabhu, but don't accept proper mood and/or activities.
• When we perform proper activities in a submissive mood, we are then admitted into the sampradaya.
• Highest religion is the engagement in the Lord's service, but we still engage religion
• Madhva sampradaya will give us sarupya mukti.
• Confidential religious system here means devotional service in general.
• People outside sampradaya are not getting any actual taste or relationships in their life.
• There is a need of re-initiation when one has been in a bogus line, but not if one has been initiated in a bonafide sampradaya.
• There are some cultural differences between the sampradayas. In Vaikuntha worship more emphasis is put on the rules. Some sampradayas even use Varnashrama as a part of their devotional process, as dasyam.
• The difference between Vaikuntha and Goloka is simply taste.
• The apasampradayas are supposedly doing their devotional activities, but the rasa they gain from that is material. Their preaching is cheating.
• Devotees in a bonafide line are doing genuine devotional service, but  there is a mix of material activities. Apasampradayas are not mixed devotional service, they are just not devotional service, and they can't tell the difference.
• If one gets Mahamantra from an apasampradaya, it is just syllables, it is lifeless, the cit potency is not there.
• Only if one follows the mood and teachings of the acarya the mantra has an effect.
• Everyone for their nice work will get only heavenly planets or impersonal Brahman at best.
• Gravity is the potency of Ananta, space is the Adhara-shakti, it is not possible to get taste out of dead matter, everything that anybody is doing, they are getting a taste from interacting with God, but since they do not know that, it is not devotional service.
• Those not connected to sampradaya chanting Hare Krishna are getting purified, but they will only get bhakti-sukriti if they come and chant with sampradaya devotees.
• Apasampradayas function in a certain way, we just study the general principles of the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaishnava apasampradayas. Other genuine sampradayas also have their apasampradayas, as do Christianity, Judaism etc.
• Tattva-viveka study will be about world religions and philosophies.