Guest guest Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Prabhupäda: Spiritual master is not the question of... Spiritual master is eternal. Spiritual master is eternal. So your question is without spiritual master. Without spiritual master you cannot be, at any stage of your life. You may accept this spiritual master or that spiritual master. That is a different thing. But you have to accept. As you say that "by reading Bible," when you read Bible that means you are following the spiritual master represented by some priest or some clergyman in the line of Lord Jesus Christ. So any case, you have to follow a spiritual master. There cannot be the question without spiritual master. Is that clear? Haribol This passage quoted above from Srila Prabhupada is misinterpreted by some to mean that the clergyman is a representative of Jesus and Jesus is the spiritual master. However, in this example it is the clergyman is the individual spiritual master and Jesus who is the universal spiritual master. So in all cases, one at least has the universal spiritual master, but one gets initiated by a physically present individual spiritual master. Gerald Surya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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