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We Must Be DEBTOR!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on March 15, 2010 at 12:00pm

"Prabhupada said in a Srimad Bhagavatam lecture about what is our relationship with the Guru, 1974. He said, 'We must be DEBTOR! Guru. Debtor to the spiritual master, to the sages, to the saintly persons, because we are getting knowledge from them.

Therefore the Vyasa Puja is there. Once in a year the disciples are worshiping the spiritual master and trying to repay what he has received from the spiritual master.

Why we respect the Guru, Prabhuapda explains, because he does not manufacture. He says what he has heard from the acharyas. Exactly like the child, what he has heard from his father, from the superior, he speaks. So that is the position of Guru.

Guru is respected as good as God….why?…only for this qualification, that he does not speak anything nonsense. He speaks only what he has heard from the acharyas."

HH Jayapataka Swami
Vyasa Puja Lecture Sridham Mayapur



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