If the guru does not know the right thing, he can be given up

Sri Jiva Gosvami has recommended that laukika-guru… This is laukika-guru. Parityagena adhyatmika paramarthika, guru accepted. Guru has to be accepted who is actually paramarthika, advanced in spiritual knowledge, not the formality. That is recommended by Jiva Gosvami. Parityagena. Parityaga vidhiyate. Sastra says, “If the guru does not know the right thing, he can be given up.” So what is the right thing? Right thing is to become devotee. First of all the sastric injunction is that anyone who is not a devotee, he cannot become guru. He cannot become guru. Avaisnava, he cannot become guru. He must be a Vaisnava. Then he… Sat-karma-nipuno vipro mantra-tantra-visaradah. A brahmana, born in a brahmana family, not brahmana but in a brahmana family, or even brahmana, because qualified, sat-karma-nipunah… Brahmana has six kinds of livelihood, sat-karma. Pathana pathana yajana yajana dana-pratigraha. A brahmana, well qualified, he must be a very learned scholar, pathana. And he must be able to make his disciple also very learned. Pathana pathana. He must worship the Deity, yajana yajana. And he should worship for others also, yajana yajana. Dana-pratigraha: he should accept charity from disciples and others, and again distribute it. Dana-pratigraha. A brahmana is supposed to be…, always remain a beggar. Even if he gets lakhs and lakhs of rupees, he spends it for Krsna consciousness. That is the sign of brahmana.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.14
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mayapur, February 21, 1976

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  1. Pamho agtacbsp, a real guru must be a tri kala jna beyond the factor time as proof of his purity like our guru maharaj , one must know his real spiritual identity otherwise HE could not have the power to save others souls , this means to be free therefore can make others free too.anyway SRILA PRABHUPADA KNOW ISKCON WILL COME TO HIM , ITS A QUESTION OF TIME ONLY , just let the last exploiters to die then f-iskcon will disappear again forever also because there is a strong need of a pure devotee to lead this rotten society like our guru maharaj since the influence of kali yuga get stronger and only a pure devotee have the power to change the nasty calamities stored for this most sinful age therefore the fake guru of f-iskcon is taking this heavy karma for slowing down the divine mission of SSGG. Agtacbsp ys haribol

  2. * A brahmana, well qualified, he must be a very learned scholar, pathana.

    * And he must be able to make his disciple also very learned. Pathana pathana.

    * He must worship the Deity, yajana yajana.

    * And he should worship for others also, yajana yajana.

    * Dana-pratigraha: he should accept charity from disciples and others,

    * and again distribute it. Dana-pratigraha.

    A brahmana is supposed to be…, always remain a beggar. Even if he gets lakhs and lakhs of rupees, he spends it for Krsna consciousness. That is the sign of brahmana.

    *

    Six kinds of qualifications, let’s get the math right on this one. Yeah…worship the deity, ok that’s the easy one….as for the other five….NOPE don’t see it….learned? Ok, I see a foolproof business concept. A blanc cheque, for otherwise bad business men and materially incompetent, poor, lazy fellows, to stuff their pockets with lots of tax free money with ZERO accountability and with free board and lodging. The only requirement needed is to put on a saffron coloured bedsheet, Tilak, a long beard and shaving the head are optional, a big grin, a fat Buddha belly and not to forget, a MUST: you have to be able to squeeze a few tears. The way to go to quickly relieve the many who are listening of the burden of having money.

    These are the qualifications for the successful application of the Kaliyuga-Guru-Business. That is a Sudra-Business. Wellcome to the Santa Claus dress rehearsals. What’s the difference? They have a job only over the Christmas season, the Guru Business is 365 days, year after year, it’s the cash cow which never stops giving. Now how far are they from what Srila Prabhupada states in the above lecture? They are light years apart. Brahminical qualifications? Where? I don’t see any according to the said above.

    Human nature never changes. It is the old maximum: power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts completely that’s what happens if there are no checks and balances. Srila Prabhupada’s Hare Krsna Movement is benevolent. He wanted term limits for the leaders and GBC. They purposely failed to impose His Will and Srila Prabhupada’s Iskcon ended up with Career-Gurus who spend their lives there, refusing to depart and thus they no longer see themselves as part of We the Devotees. They are such pinnacles of wisdom that their brains have fallen out of their heads.They desperately cling to their brain dead ideas because they have no alternative. So they have a broken clock, and it is always high noon, or perhaps it is midnight. That depends on which side of the bed they got out of that morning.

    As for their followers they still want to live the dream that Santa Claus is real. Physiologically, they need to remain as part of of the herd. This will change eventually, but it must come with pain and sorrow that forces them to reassess their life and it must come voluntarily.

    As for us somehow we jumped boat a long time ago and with life vests, good winds and the spirit of Aloha are drifting into the sunset.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EKPQX6LC4Uw

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