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Before Prabhupada died in 1977, he selected senior devotees who would continue to direct the organization.
Upon demise of Prabhupada eleven Western Gurus were selected as spiritual heads of the Hare Krsna movement, but many problems followed from their appointment and the movement had since veered away from investing absolute authority in a few, fallible, human teachers.
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