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Sri Guru-Puja: Who Is Guru?

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Nabadwip Dham, India
23 July 2013, part 2

 

I am very happy to see you all. Actually, I told it yesterday, and it is necessary to say it now too. A Guru is santap-harankari (সনতাপ হরণকারী, he who removes santap, three-fold miseries), not vitta-harankari (বিত্ত হরণকারী, he who removes your wealth). Do you understand? This is who a Guru is. "Sei pita pita non, sei bandhu bandhu non, sei mata mata non...": if somebody cannot give you relief from death (mrityu-rupa-samsara), then they are not your mother, they are not your father, not your friend.

This is who a Guru is and also an original Guru will not hope to get anything from his disciples—he does not ask for glorification. Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur said, "Tosamod kari' kakhon guru hate pare na (তোষামোদ করি' কখনো গুরু হতে পারে না). Those who flatter others can never be a Guru." He taught so many things.

In this age of Kali, there are so many kaulik gurus (ancestral guru), so many laukik gurus (family guru), so many karmi gurus (gurus instructing on the path of fruitive work), jnani gurus (gurus instructing on the path of knowledge), but it is very rare to get a paramarthik guru (a bona fide spiritual Guru).

I saw from 1992, when I joined the Mission, how many times Gurudev said, "Everybody always says, 'Hari bol!' 'Hari bol!' but how many percent of them have chastity, sincerity, how many of them are actually sincere seekers?" It is necessary to understand how many percent chastity we have and how many percent attachment to our service we have.

 

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Sri Krishna Janmastami: Path Back to Home
We are taking so many things, but our hunger will not finish, there will always be some material desire. But if you surrender to Krishna, to His devotee, and if you worship Krishna, if you chant the Holy Name of Krishna, you will get real benefit, you can go to your real home.

 

Ki-rupe paiba seva
'My mind is endlessly engrossed in maya, and not even a trace of attachment to the Vaishnavs is born within me.'
কিরূপে পাইব সেবা

You must give shelter to Radha-Krishna, Gurudev within your heart,
and you can understand how wide you must open your heart to do that...

"HUMILITY, TOLERANCE, GIVING HONOUR TO OTHERS | HUMILITY, TOLERANCE, GIVING HONOUR TO OTHERS"