SRILA PRABHUPADA SPEAKS ON SIKSA-GURU

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> SRILA PRABHUPADA SPEAKS ON SIKSA-GURU

> (C.C. Adi 1.58)

> jive saksat nahi tate guru caittya-rupe

> siksa-guru haya krsna-mahanta-svarupe

>

> "Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He

> appears before us as a LIBERATED devotee. Such a spiritual master is no

> one other than Krsna Himself."

>

> "It is not possible to directly meet Krsna, the Supreme Personality of

> Godhead, but if one becomes a sincere devotee and seriously engages in

> devotional service, Krsna sends an instructing spiritual master to show

> him favor and invoke his dormant propensity for serving the Supreme. The

> preceptor appears before the EXTERNAL SENSES of the fortunate conditioned

> soul, and at the same time the devotee is guided from within by the

> caittya-guru, Krsna, who is seated as the spiritual master within the

> heart of the living entity."

 

 

Are you assuming that in ISCKON, the devotees are not aware of this?

 

But the "hack" seams to be that ISCKON devotees are assumed do not

know who *particularly* their guru is to be. That Krsna is assumed

to not being doing His "job" of the caittya-guru sufficiently well,

so the additional advertisement from Srila, Payonidhi and the other

similar proponents of NM are needed to re-direct the poor ISCKONiaties

from their gurus to Narayana Maharaja and other GM leaders.

 

Normally it is Krsna the one guiding the person to such a guru. But

what to do, He seams to be not so efficient when it comes to sending

ISCKON devotees to NM, so Srila got to take up the task in his hands.

 

 

 

-- mnd