Guru means one who has seen the Absolute Truth. That is guru. Tattva-darsinah, tattva means the Absolute Truth, and darsinah, one who has seen. So this movement, our Krsna consciousness movement, is for this purpose, to see the Absolute Truth, to understand the Absolute Truth, to know the problems of life and how to make a solution. These things are our subject matter. Our subject matter is not material things, that somehow or other you get a car and a good apartment and a good wife, then all your problems solved. No. That is not solution of problems. The real problem is how to stop your death. The real problem is this: birth, death, old age and disease. That is the statement given by Krsna, that janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. If you are intelligent, you should take up these four problems of life as very dangerous.
By H.D.G.Srila Prabhupada
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