Guest guest Posted May 12, 1999 Report Share Posted May 12, 1999 >Question: Premarnava dasa, February 19, 1994 "Does a Vaisnava guru have to be an uttama-adhikari devotee?" +Harikesa Swami, February 20, 1994 "It is best that the Vaisnava guru be an uttama-adhikari. However, even the uttama devotee will have to come down to the level of a madhyama devotee in order to discriminate between different levels of persons, so that he can preach to them and help them advance in spiritual life. So basically the guru in ISKCON or any preaching mission has to be acting on the level of a madhyama-adhikari. A Kanista-adhikari can also be a guru. To be appointed as a guru is not difficult, especially when the father guru has passed away, since it is the right of those who are the sons of the father guru. But it is not at all good for the disciples to have a guru who is a kanistha-adhikari, since he cannot elevate his disciples beyond the kanistha platform. So the prospective disciple has to beware and not accept a lower-class guru and then become unfortunate." >From "Essential Truths" , Sentient Press Jatukarnya prabhu, actually I cannot quote this book without prior permission from the publisher, but I thought it appropiate in regards to your question. So here it is. Nice, eh? Your servant Trayimaya das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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