Guest guest Posted September 1, 2000 Report Share Posted September 1, 2000 Comparing Sridhara Maharaja teachings with Srila Prabhupada's teachings >"The disciple is concerned with the delegation of the Lord, the guru's >inner self, his inspired side. 740223mw.bom Conversations Prabhupada: He's... just like your representative. Suppose if I have got you some business. There is a call: "If you love me, you love my dog." It is not the dog is you. Dog is different. But if you love somebody, you pat sometimes, "Oh,...," the dog. Just to satisfy him. Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah. This is stated. If you satisfy guru, then God is satisfied. That does not mean guru is God. Dr. Patel: No, no, no! I don't say I think guru... Prabhupada: Guru... Dr. Patel: I don't understand and you also don't understand me. I mean to say that disciples have got to take guru as God, and not this body as God. His atma is guru, and atma is God. So guru in that way is God. Prabhupada: No, that is not... Dr. Patel: That is what I think. Prabhupada: No! Dr. Patel: And I don't think I am wrong. Prabhupada: No, why God...? Why do you make...? Why do you distinguish between guru's atma and guru's body? Dr. Patel: But the body... But the body's not guru! Prabhupada: That is Mayavada. That is Mayavada. Dr. Patel: Even if you say guru is body,... Prabhupada: They make also Krsna and Krsna's inside different. Dr. Patel: Krsna's body is different from your body and my body. Krsna body is spiritual. Prabhupada: Then why do you make a... Once you say that guru is equal to Krsna, and again Krsna's body and Krsna is not different, but guru's body and guru's soul is different. Dr. Patel: That's right. Prabhupada: No. That's not right. Dr. Patel: Atma is, atma is guru... Prabhupada: That's not right. Please note it. If you compare the guru is God, then you should compare similarity. Dr. Patel: Similarity, this body and Krsna's body are different. Prabhupada: No, no, no, no. That is an ignorance. You do not know. Dr. Patel: Krsna's body is spiritual. His, any part of His body... Prabhupada: The Mayavadis do that, that Krsna... Dr. Patel: He can hear, He can hear by His eye and hear by His finger. And satisfy anybody, by His anything. Prabhupada: That's all right. That is all right. I mean to say that saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih. When you accept guru equal to Krsna, then you cannot make such distinction. Dr. Patel: Bodily distinction... Prabhupada: Then why bodily or anything!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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