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“Therefore having a bona fide spiritual master and serving him and pleasing him and getting his mercy is essential. Otherwise there can be no advancement in Krishna consciousness.
And unless the spiritual master is a pure devotee of Krishna then he has no potency to give you Krishna. He is simply a cheating rascal. So in fact, above all the rules and regulations and offenses I have mentioned the most important thing, the essential thing, which is required if you want to come to the stage of purely chanting the Hare Krishna mantra is you must have a bona fide spiritual master who is a pure devotee of Krishna.
Without having a bona fide spiritual master you can chant Hare Krishna forever but you will not be able to advance because Krishna does not reveal Himself in this way. He only reveals Himself to those devotees who surrender to and serve and please His pure devotees.”
-Srila Prabhupada Letter to his London Disciples, July, 1969
pamho prabhus,
agtACBSP,
this is the deepest point of our philosophy because people in general take a bonafide spiritual master for an ordinary person as happens to the miserable souls who are still trying to become guru by hand-up vote and not by actual surrender to SRILA PRABHUPADA.
They still chant Hare Krsna but they are not able to overcome the bodily platform of life.
The spiritual master is the pure mercy of SRI KRSNA because he has obtained the essence of Krishna’s mercy and is a resident of Vaikuntha.
“One should know the acarya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is the representative of all the demigods.” (SB 11.17.27)
“A person who seriously desires real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, should be understood to be bona fide spiritual masters.” (SB 11.3.21)
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seva das
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