Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada..
It is extremely essential to associate with the spiritual master and with Vaisnavas who are fully surrendered to thespiritual master. Unless we associate with Vaisnavas, howwill unqualified people like ourselves learn the proper code of conduct and come to serve Guru ? We always need ideal examples. If we don’t associate with Vaisnavas who are fixedat the spiritual master’s lotus feet, attached to chanting the holy name, and fixed in the Lord’s service, we cannotourselves become fixed at guru’s feet. We cannot learn to consider the spiritual master our well-wisher. We cannotunderstand that the spiritual master is as good as God. Wecannot develop the tendency to serve the spiritual master. If genuine devotees who are fixed at the Guru’s feet teach us neither how to serve the spiritual master nor how to behave when we are with him, then even after receiving a bona fidespiritual master we may lose him. We would be losing acoveted jewel if we were bereft of his service.
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur
(Page No.17 and 18 of the book ‘Amrta Vani’)
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