Guest guest Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 [This message was in HTML format] "If one poses himself as an acarya but does not have an attitude of servitorship to the Lord, he must be considered an offender, and this offensive attitude disqualifies him from being an acarya. The bona fide spiritual master always engages in unalloyed devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By this test he is known to be a direct manifestation of the Lord and a genuine representative of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Such a spiritual master is known as acaryadeva. Influenced by an envious temperament and dissatisfied because of an attitude of sense gratification, mundaners criticise a real acarya. In fact, however, a bone fide acarya is non different from the Personality of Godhead, and therefore to envy such an acarya is to envy the Personality of Godhead Himself. This will produce an effect subversive to transcendental realisation." Srimad Bhagavatam 11.17.27 purport (Quoted from C.c Adi 1.46) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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