guru has no "own opinion"
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Imported quote 16015 The process of receiving Vedic knowledge is to have unflinching faith in God and the spiritual master. Then everything will be revealed. There are many instances. I told you the other story: Caitanya Mahaprabhu met one brahmana, another illiterate brahmana, but he was studying Bhagavad-gita, and Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired that other friends were criticizing him that he was taking Bhagavad-gita and trying to study, but he was illiterate. But when Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired, "My dear brahmana, what you are reading?" He said, "Sir, I cannot read; I am illiterate. But my Guru Maharaja said that 'You must read eighteen chapters daily.' So what can I do? I have taken this book. I am seeing only, just trying to utter something. So my other friends, they are criticizing; but this is my position." "So you are reading Bhagavad-gita?" "No, I cannot read." "But you are feeling something. I see you are sometimes crying." "Yes, sir. That I am doing." "What is the reason? If you cannot read, how you are crying? You are understanding, then you are crying. But you cannot read, you say?" "No. One thing I can understand." "What is that?" "As soon as I take this book, Bhagavad-gita, immediately the picture comes in my mind that Krsna is driving the chariot, and Arjuna is sitting within the chariot, and Arjuna is ordering Krsna, that 'You drive my chariot in this way. Put my chariot this way.' So Krsna has become the servant of devotee. He is acting according to the order of the devotee. So Krsna is so great, Krsna is so nice, Krsna is so loving. When I think all these things, then tears come down: 'Oh, Krsna is so great.' " Then Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately embraced him: "Your Bhagavad-gita reading is perfect because you are realizing Krsna." So these so-called scholars, they read Bhagavad-gita, but they do not know what is Krsna. Even big, big scholars like Dr. Radhakrishnan, he does not know what is Krsna, but he is writing comments on Bhagavad-gita. This is going on.
(More...) Imported quote 16786 Acarya means one who is speaking exactly the same instruction as Krsna has given. That is acarya. Not acarya..., everyone becomes acarya. "In my opinion it is like..." Who are you? If you have got any opinion, then you write your own book. Why do you touch Bhagavad-gita? Because Bhagavad-gita is very well known book all over the world, these rascals take advantage of Bhagavad-gita and interpret it in their own way. That is not acarya. Acarya means, as Krsna says, that "Millions of years ago I spoke this Bhagavad-gita..." Imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam, vivasvan [Bg 4.1].
(More...) Imported quote 19757 So it is Vedic injunction. Somebody was asking whether that guru is absolutely necessary. Yes, absolutely necessary. That is the Vedic injunction. The Vedas say, tad-vijnanartham. Tad-vijnana means spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge. For acquiring spiritual knowledge. Tad-vijnanartham. Sa-one; gurum eva-eva means must; gurum-to a guru. Must go to guru. Not "a guru"; "the guru." Guru is one. Because as it is explained by our Revatinandana Maharaja, guru is coming from the disciplic succession. What five thousand years ago Vyasadeva instructed or Krsna instructed, the same thing we are also instructing. Therefore there is no difference between instruction. Therefore guru is one. Although hundreds and thousands of acaryas have come and gone, but the message is one. Therefore guru cannot be two.
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