Fact Check

In our experience, the vast majority of people who take up the practices of SIF become closer to their families. They love people more, they love their family members more, they're more tolerant, they're more patient, they're more loving.

In Vaishnava Hinduism, children are raised to be independent critical thinkers, who are prepared to question everything. If someone accepts the teachings of Vaishnava Hinduism blindly, or accepts it based solely on tradition (i.e. “my parents are Vaishnava Hindus, therefore so am I”), they are not understanding or applying the process correctly.

A so-called cult leader is somebody who makes up their own teachings, creates their own theology, claims that they are the source of the Absolute Truth, and cult followers are those who follow such a person blindly, regardless of what nonsense they may be teaching, or the fact that their teachings have no basis in scripture or in the teachings of previous saintly persons.

Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa is in a bonafide disciplic succession of Vaisnava acharyas, teachers, who is passing down the science of bhakti yoga and meditation to whoever wishes to receive it and apply it to their lives. As such, he is respected as a representative of God, not the only representative of God.