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Don't Take a Guru Like Getting a Pet Dog

uploaded from ISKCON Austin, Texas

In a lecture given on 29 September 1974 in Mayapur Srila Prabhupada explains the guru should not be taken as a pet dog:

"When one accepts somebody as guru, he cannot argue. That is the condition. One must be fully surrendered otherwise there is no meaning of making a guru. It is not like a pet dog, that 'Everyone has a guru, so let me have a guru.'  That is not guru. Guru means first of all the condition is pranipata, fully surrendered. Not that, 'If I like, then I shall carry your order. And if I don't like, then I shall not do it.' That is not acceptance of guru. Pranipata. First of all, we must agree. So because friends and friends talking, a friend may agree with his friend. He may not agree with. That is friendly talk. But Arjuna became disciple. Sisyas te 'ham: 'I am now Your sisya, disciple. Now there is no question of disagreeing with You. Whatever You'll say, I will accept.' So at last Krishna said, 'Surrender unto Me.' And Arjuna did it. That is the whole purpose of the Bhagavad-gita." 

Srila Prabhupada's point is that unless we accept our guru in full surrender without argument, we haven't really accepted a guru.  This means also that we are not surrendered to Krishna's order and that we are also not qualified to go back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Vamanadeva Das Accepts Initiation from His Spiritual Master

18 October 2014--Kaunas, Lithuania

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