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video: Bhajan Vibhavari Sesa Srila Prabhupada Part 2
Letter to: Mukunda
New Vrindaban
10 June, 1969
London
My Dear Mukunda,
Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter of June 3, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully.
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Your next question, whether the Spiritual Master was formerly a conditioned soul, actually a bona fide Spiritual Master is never a conditioned soul. There are three kinds of liberated persons.
They are called 1) sadhan siddha, 2) kripa siddha, and 3) nitya siddha. Sadhan siddha means one who has attained perfection by executing the regulative principles of devotional service. Kripa siddha means one who has attained perfection by the special mercy of Krishna and the Spiritual Master, and nitya siddha means one who was never contaminated.
The symptoms of nitya siddha is that from the beginning of his life he is attached to Krishna, and he is never tired of rendering service to Krishna. So we have to know what is what by these symptoms. But when one is actually on the siddha platform there is no such distinction as to who is sadhan, kripa, or nitya siddha. When one is siddha, there is no distinction what is what. Just like when the river water glides down to the Atlantic Ocean nobody can distinguish which portion was the Hudson River or some other river.
Neither is there any necessity to make any such distinction. Actually, every living entity is eternally uncontaminated, although he may be in the material touch. This is the version of the Vedas. Asanga ayam purusha—the living entity is uncontaminated. Just like when there is a drop of oil in water you can immediately distinguish the oil from the water, and the water never mixes with the oil. Similarly, a living entity, although in material contact, is always distinct from the matter.
You are correct when you say that when the Spiritual Master speaks it should be taken that Krishna is speaking. That is a fact. A Spiritual Master must be liberated. It does not matter if he has come from Krishna Loka or he is liberated from here.
But he must be liberated. The science of how one is liberated is explained above, but when one is liberated, there is no need of distinction whether he has come directly from Krishna Loka or from the material world. But in the broader sense everyone comes from Krishna Loka.
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Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
pamho agtACBSP
thank you for posting this nice article by giving the chance to everyone to associate with a liberated person – our beloved acharya Srila Prabhupada.
All of us can become krpa siddhi (attaining perfection by the mercy of the spiritual master) if we fail to become sadhana siddhi.
Like the pujaris of SRI JAGANATH PURI at the time of Madhvacarya (1199–1278 CE), all of them became krpa siddhi because they were not able to follow all the rules and regulations of sadhana bhakti and although Srila Madhvacarya tried to kick them, because of their failure in following the regulative principles he was kicked out in a dream 300 miles far from Sri Jagannath temple by LORD JAGANNATHA’S foot.
It is said that one who is engaged in unalloyed devotional service unto the Lord, he has already transcended the material modes of nature. Brahma-bhuyaya kalpate. He’s on the Brahman platform, that means liberated. To become liberated means to be situated on the Brahman platform.
In the spiritual field nobody can become a bona fide spiritual master by dissatisfying his spiritual master. It is said that one can satisfy the Supreme Lord simply by satisfying the spiritual master and one who dissatisfies the spiritual master has no place in the spiritual world.
So let us try. Even the people do not take our instruction, that is not our disqualification. Our qualification is let us try our best until we become a liberated living entity by the special mercy of SRILA PRABHUIPADA,
agtSP ys
haribol