Why I Am Accepting Disciples

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My spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, taught me how to become a completely

surrendered disciple who accepts whatever instruction received from my

spiritual master as my very life and soul. This is the standard for the

guru/disciple relationship. Accepting a guru is not like getting a pet dog

that you pat on the head and he wags his tail. Guru means that place where

you fully surrender yourself.

 

Before meeting Srila Prabhupada I had been seeking a means of fully

surrendering myself unto the will of God. The difficulty I was having was

that I did not know what that will was. When I learned that God's will is

revealed through the form of the orders received from the bona fide

spiritual master, it was the dawning of an entirely new enlightened reality

for me. I then placed myself fully under his orders and instructions as his

eternal servant.

 

After I came to this fully surrendered position at his lotus feet I learned

from him the principle that the one who is now the disciple becomes the next

spiritual master. Therefore since my Guru Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada, is

now departed from this world it is my duty to keep the chain of disciplic

succession going by accepting disciples. This is not a matter of pride of

egotism. I personally consider myself unfit to be a spiritual master, but

it is my duty to do so on behalf of Srila Prabhupada to keep the

guru/disciple legacy going strong into the future just as it has been going

on since the beginning of the universe.

 

Sankarshan Das Adhikari