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A pure devotee knows that everyone is the spiritual master. Therefore, a pure devotee can be jagad-guru.

Posted by Dharmabir Das on May 9, 2013 at 2:30am in Our Previous Acharyas

Hare Krishna !

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai!

All glories to Millions of Gaura Bhakta Vrinda !

Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur said:

A pure devotee knows that everyone is the spiritual master. Therefore, a pure devotee can be jagad-guru.

How to practically understand and apply the first sentence in our life?  Please enlighten me. 

Thank you

YS,

Durga Basnet

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    Gopal das May 11, 2013 at 5:06pm

    THE COMPASSION OF PURE DEVOTEES.‏

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    PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. PART 1.‏

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    PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. PART 2.‏

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    Jagadatma das May 10, 2013 at 5:00pm

    Hare Krsna,  can you please tell us where you got this from?

    A pure devotee knows that everyone is the spiritual master.

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      Ashwani Kumar > Jagadatma das May 10, 2013 at 5:44pm

      Hare Krsna ,

      Jagatmata Das Prabhu ,

      It is quote by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada

      I too want to know , He have written below it is lecture given by Kadamba Kanana Swami on 27/01/10 .

      But how far is this true , eveyone can not be same guru ..?

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        Radhe > Ashwani Kumar May 10, 2013 at 7:19pm

        No it isn't from  Kadamba Kanana Swami's lecture. That was to explain what the quote might mean. But I have no clue on the source either? 

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    Radhe May 9, 2013 at 4:19am

    A pure devotee knows that everyone is the spiritual master

    Kadamba Kanana Swami also gives a wonderful definition of this:

    Every devotee is your spiritual master. How is that possible? 
    Because everyone has a very unique way of serving Krishna! 
    Everyone has some specific strength, something extraordinary in the way they serve. And in this way you can learn from everyone! 
    You can learn a trick or two from anyone or everyone…

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    So in that way everyone is our spiritual master and if we think like this, and we look at the devotees and then we are discovering people.

    Instead of looking at people and thinking, ‘Hmm I know the type, yep hmm I know the type! you know don’t tell me anything about this person- I know everything about the TYPE!’. 
    Then we have already figured somebody out, before we have even spoken to the person, just the looks of the type: ‘I know the type. I figured this person out!’.

    But if we have the attitude that: ‘Everyone is my spiritual master. Everyone has some unique quality’

    Then we are discovering the person- to see where is it? Discover the unique wonderful qualities in a Vaisnava, or how that Vaisnava serves Krishna.  In that way one can genuinely: see everyone as a spiritual master.

    (Kadamba Kanana Swami 27/01/10)

     

    (source: http://www.kksblog.com/2010/04/see-everyone-as-a-spiritual-master/)

    Hope that helps :)

    See Everyone As A Spiritual Master!
    (Kadamba Kanana Swami 27/01/10)Just as Prabhupada would say that: ‘ I don’t have any disciples’They asked him: ‘ How many disciples do you have
    • Dharmabir Das > Radhe May 12, 2013 at 12:52am

      Hare Krishna ! 

      Thank you so much for your helpful reply.

      Durga

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