Two quotes

[Guest guest]

Dear devotees, PAMHO AGTSP

 

"Without being spiritualized, without being red hot, if you touch, it will

not act. So every one of us, those who have come to this Krsna consciousness

movement, expected to preach in the future and TO BECOME A SPIRITUAL MASTER

ALSO IN THE FUTURE. But first of all you must spiritualize yourself..."

(Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam in 1969, 690410SB.NY)

 

SP says here that "every one of us" has "to become a spiritual master also

in the future." He is not talking about siksa-gurus, because they are

already siksa-gurus at that time. He is talking of diksa-gurus.

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"So we got this information from His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

Thakura, and that knowledge is still going on. You are receiving through

his servant. And in future the same knowledge will go to your students. This

is called parampara system. Evam parampara prap... IT IS NOT THAT YOU HAVE

BECOME A STUDENT AND YOU'LL STUDENT. NO. ONE DAY YOU SHALL BECOME ALSO GURU

AND MAKE MORE STUDENTS, MORE STUDENTS, MORE. That is Caitanya Mahaprahu's

mission, not that perpetually... Yes, one should remain perpetually a

student, but he has to act as guru. That is the mission of Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. It is not that because I am acting as guru, I am no longer

student. No, I am still student. Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught us this

instruction that we shall always remain a foolish student before our guru

maharaja. That is the Vedic culture. I may be very big man, but still, I

should remain a foolish student to my guru. That is the qualification. Guru

more murkha dekhi karila sasana. We should be always prepared to be

controlled by the guru. That is very good qualification. Yasya prasadad

bhagavat prasadah. Ara na kariha mane asa. So we should become always a very

obedient student to our guru. That is the qualification." (Lecture in 1976,

761210DB.HYD)

 

Here SP makes it clear that we have to become gurus in the future.

 

A rtvik may argue that SP wants us to make more "student" and not

diksa-disciples. But when you see the context, it becomes clear that he is

referring to Lord Caitanya as a student (and diksa-disciple) to his guru

(Isvara Puri, the Lord's diksa-guru). In this context, therefore, we have to

understand that the word "student" here is not only to be taken in the sense

of a siksa-disciple but in the sense of a diksa-disciple. Also here, SP uses

the expression, "in the future" to refer to his disciples teaching their

students (disciples) after his departure.

 

yhs

vgd