Question: Who is the Guru Who Delivers Us?May I know who is that bona fide spiritual master who will take the responsibility to take us back to Godhead? I am curious to know about this pure devotee.Nikhileswara Krishna DasaAnswer: The Pure Follower of Srila PrabhupadaThe great Vedic authority Srila Prabhupada has very nicely answered your question as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 2, Chapter 9, Text 43:"One who is now the disciple is the next spiritual master. And one cannot be a bona fide and authorized spiritual master unless one has been strictly obedient to his spiritual master."So you simply have to see who is purely following Srila Prabhupada. He is the pure devotee who delivers the fallen, conditioned souls back to home, back to Godhead. Of course, it is ultimately Sri Krishna who is the deliverer. But Krishna acts through the transparent agency of the bona fide spiritual master, who is coming in an unbroken chain of disciplic succession from Him.Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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