not exploit disciples

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Guru's business is not to exploit the sisya. It is the business how to deliver. So who can deliver? Who is actually guru in the parampara system? Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduḥ [Bg 4.2]. So we have to take the authority of becoming guru from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, recently within five hundred years. His order is that amara ajnaya guru hana [Cc Madhya 7.128]: "You cannot become guru all of a sudden. You must take order from Me." He is jagad-guru. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu says you, all of you, to become guru and deliver. Because there are so many innumerable fallen souls in this age-mandaḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya hy upadrutaḥ , we require hundreds and thousands of gurus. But not cheaters. This is the time when required hundreds and thousands of gurus. But who will become guru? That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's injunction, amara ajnaya: "By My order you become guru. Don't be all of a sudden guru. Become guru on My order." (More...)

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