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So this Krsna consciousness movement is giving chance to everyone to hear from the authoritative sources, from the sastra. Sadhu sastra guru. These are authorities. So instead of hearing from the unauthorized persons, means... Sadhu means who speaks on the basis of sastra. Guru means who speaks on the basis of sastra. They're sadhu guru sastra. And sastra means the statement of authorities. That is sastra. Just like Bhagavad-gita: it is sastra because it is spoken by the supreme guru, Krsna. So who is guru? At the present moment so many unauthorized persons are presenting themselves as guru. But you should be very careful. Guru, Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said, amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa [Cc Madhya 7.128].    (More...)

He said that "Each and every one of you..." Whoever met Lord Caitanya, or whoever is in the chain of disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya, he's advised by the Lord that "You become a spiritual master." How? "Under My order. I give you order that you become a spiritual master." And then... "I am a fool." "No. You are not fool.    (More...)

Guru means who follows the predecessor, authorized predecessor. He is guru. Not that everyone is guru. So therefore we have to follow the superior order. Then we become guru, not that by cheating others we become guru. No. That is cheater. That is not teacher. Guru means who is following the superior order. The superior order is Krsna or His representative. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna. He is ordering, amara ajnaya, "By My order," guru hana, "you become guru." "Sir, it is very difficult to become guru. I have no education. I have no culture. I am not born in a very high family. I am very low." A devotee always thinks like that. He never thinks that "I have become very great man." Just like Caitanya-caritamrta, author of, he says, purisera kita haite muni se laghistha . Purisa, purisa means stool, and there are worms in the stool. So Caitanya-caritamrta author is saying that "I am lower than the worms in the stool." That is Vaisnava conception. Trnad api sunicena. He is very humble. He never says, "Oh, I am the Supreme. I have become God." A most rascal, foolish. So that is not... Therefore we have to follow. If we actually want to become guru, there is necessity of many thousands of gurus to teach this cheated public. But how to become guru? That is... Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, amara ajnaya: "By My order." "What is Your order, Sir?" Now, yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa [Cc Madhya 7.128]. Then you become guru. You simply advise people to follow Krsna's instruction. Then you become guru.    (More...)

Just see. It is very nice. You'll find in Caitanya-caritamrta-now it is published-Caitanya Mahaprabhu says-He is the Supreme Lord, Krsna-He says, amara ajnaya. "Whatever I say, amara ajnaya, by My order, you become a spiritual master." Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So one may be very illiterate, no education or no scholarship, may not be born in brahmana family, or may not be a sannyasi. There are so many qualification. But one may not have all these qualification, he may be rascal number one, but still he can become spiritual master. How? Amara ajnaya. As Krsna says, as Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, if you follow, then you become spiritual master. One may be rascal number one from material estimation, but if he simply strictly follows whatever is said by Caitanya Mahaprabhu or His representative spiritual master, then he becomes a guru.    (More...)

A guru is worshiped... Just like my disciples, they are offering respect exactly like God. That is their duty. Saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastraiḥ: "All the sastra recommends that guru should be respected as good as God." But that does not mean guru is foolishly thinking, "I am God." Saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair uktaḥ. Uktaḥ means "said," "it is recommended." Tatha bhavyata eva sadbhiḥ: "Those who are exalted, advanced, they accept this truth, that guru should be respected as good as God." But why he is respected as such? Because kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya: "Because he is very, very dear to God." The guru will never think that "My disciples are worshiping me exactly like God; therefore I have become God." He is not guru; he is rascal. Guru is always in the position of servant. And because he is the most confidential servant of Krsna, therefore he is to be respected as good as Krsna. Because in our present position we cannot see Krsna, but Krsna sends His representative; therefore he is respected as Krsna. Now, how one can become guru and representative of Krsna? Everyone will say, "I am a representative of Krsna. I am guru." No. That is enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, amara ajnaya guru hana tara ei desa [Cc Madhya 7.128]: "You just become guru on My order." So guru means who is carrying out the order of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, not a self-made guru. Guru means the most confidential servant of Krsna or Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the same thing. He is guru.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes, They have taken some devotees away, but they came back. This happened just recently. This is going on practically you understand. Therefore I want all of your co-operation. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission. Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission is that bharata-bhūmite haila manusya-janma yara One who has taken birth in the land of Bharata or India, what is his duty? janma sarthaka kari' kara para-upakara. To do good to others. It is not the duty of the people of India to exploit others. This is India's duty. Para-upakara. Janma sarthaka kari.. first make your own life perfect and then preach. If you yourself is in darkness then what will you preach? This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission. Again He says amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa, live wherever but become a guru. So the question will arise that I don't know anything, I am uneducated, so how can I become a guru? You have ordered. So the answer is, you just have to do this yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa [Cc Madhya 7.128]. That's all. You become a guru. There is no need to find a big leader. One who imparts Krsna's instruction to others, he is a leader. But one who changes and adds things to Krsna's instructions or trims and clips them he is not a guru.    (More...)

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...)

This is preaching. It doesn't matter whether one is sannyasi or grhastha, or a brahmana or a sūdra. It doesn't matter. If one knows the science of Krsna then he can become guru. And He said, "By My order, you become guru and deliver your country." Ei desa. Ei desa means "your country." "So what is to be done?" "Now, just whomever you meet, you instruct him about the instruction given by Krsna."    (More...)

Prabhupada: ...places that "Swamiji, how you have done this wonderful thing?" And I do not know what is wonderful thing. But I know this: that I do not adulterate. That's all. [break] That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission. He says, yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna' upadesa [Cc Madhya 7.128].    (More...)

Prabhupada: The standard is given by... That is standard, as that Vedic language, Vedic instruction. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave the standard, harer nama : "Chant Hare Krsna." Immediately successful. That is standard. Otherwise, how you will find standard? Therefore it is said, guru-mukha-pad... That is standard. What you [indistinct] from a bona fide guru, that is standard. Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [Bg 18.65]. Anyone who will do this standard, he will become devotee. And as soon as he become devotee, he is fit for going back to home, back to Godhead. Yes, this is standard. What Krsna says? Find out this verse: man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru. Whatever Krsna says, that is standard. All nonsense. Ar na koriho mane asa. Don't accept anything. This is standard. What is that?    (More...)

Prabhupada: We are not talking of so many gurus; we are talking of real guru, that's all, real guru. Real guru is he who talks in disciplic succession of Krsna. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduḥ [Bg 4.2]. That is guru. The bhumi-phoḍa guru is no guru. Avaisnavo gurur na syat. Anyone who is not Vaisnava, he's not guru. First, He says in the Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavan, ya idam paramam guhyam mad-bhaktesv abhidhasyati [Bg 18.68]. Find out this. He is guru who is preaching what Krsna has taught. He's guru. Not that anyone and everyone becomes a guru. No. If you want to be cheated by such rascal guru, that is your business, but who is guru, that is stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Anyone who preaches the teachings of Krsna, he is guru. Caitanya Mahaprabhu also says, amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa [Cc Madhya 7.128]:    (More...)