Hare Krishna! I was just thinking that do we require a Guru if we follow the path given by the great Srila Prabhupada because right from the top most Vaishnava of ISKCON to the beginner are all obeying SP
2) isnt having a guru a high risk because most of materialist are lazy to be honest & if they disobey the spiritual master Krsna will be angry & who knows what may happen to them?
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Hare Krishna Siddhartha Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
In Bhagavad Gita 4.34 Krishna says:
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. the self realized soul can impact knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
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in the purport itself Srila Prabhupada says that one can not by self read books and become perfect. One has to find bona fide spiritual master and render service to him and somehow to please him. by seeing submissiveness of a disciple Guru can bestow mercy upon him.
Srila Prabhupada is our Guru, Param Guru. But also we have to have Guru whom we can see physically and serve to Him. By only reading Srila Prabhupada's books ourselves we won't be able to progress, because our mind will interpret those books according to our own poor understanding. We have to see real example of an acharya.
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By accepting Srila Prabhupada as an only Guru we firstly not accepting Him as a Guru. Because if we accepted Him as a Guru then we would follow His instructions which were mentioned above: to find a bona fide spiritual master and render service.
Secondly, some people decided that Srila Prabhupada was God's incarnation "because of that He was perfect. Because of that He could chant, He could preach, He could write books but who am i? i am a fallen soul, i can not do anything, because of that i won't do anything. "
Such like situation was in Christian religion, after Lord Jesus they did not accept the instructions of Apostals and did not continue the disciplic succession. because of that now most of them do not have strength to strictly follow the rules and regulations. Why? because knowledge was lost. when there is no true knowledge it is very difficult to overcome laziness and have fixed determination.
Your servant,
if we find a bona fide Spiritual Master and serve to Him, please Him then He will bestow to us His mercy. Seeing our devotion to Guru Krishna Himself will give us strength to follow rules and regulations.
Our duty is just to desire and strength will come from Krishna surely.
As like Haridas Thakur was beaten in 22 market places. Usually ordinary person would survive only in 2 market places but Haridas Thakur survived 22. Then killers became very tiered and distressed. They started to beg Haridas to die otherwise the King will kill them. Then only Haridas Thakur by his mystic powers left his body, before told them that after his death they should through his body into a river. He showed the symptoms of death, then they did as he told them to do.
But how so weak physically person like Haridas Thakur survive?
Then one time Lord Gouranga in the assembly of Devotees called Haridas Thakur and told to Him:
"Oh Haridas, do You know why You did not die and feel pain when You were beaten in 22 market places? "
then Lord opened His back and showed the bleeding back. He told:
"while those killers were beating You I was so upset and was coming with my chakra to destroy them, but You were praying to forgive them and not to harm them, and those prayers stopped my chakra, I could not kill them. Then I myself put my back in order to save You from beats."
Hearing this, Haridas Thakur felt unconscious.
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WHEN WE JUST DESIRE TO SERVE TO KRISHNA AND TO HIS DEVOTEES, HE DOES NOT WALK TOWARDS US BUT FLIES TO GIVE TO US ALL WHAT WE NEED: STRENGTH, KNOWLEDGE, INTELLIGENCE, GOOD QUALITIES...
Your servant,