How can we understand the Absolute Truth?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
The Absolte Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is cause of all causes. The Absolute Truth is self-manifest. He is not dead matter. He is fully cognizant. He manifests before us out of His own sweet will. It is impopssible to know Him by mundane experience or the ascending path. The Absolute is not an object belonging to the third dimension. We can measure objects belonging to the...
How we will receive a bonafide spiritual master ?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
The Supreme Lord is present in our heart as the internal spiritual master and outside our heart as a pure devotee. If we are sincere, the Lord will guide us to a pure devotee. We may approach Him and beg for such mercy, but He is the sole in-charge for granting our wish. We cannot question Him if He refuses to grant it. Krsna is not the caretaker of our...
Who can act as a spiritual master?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
Only a devotee of Krsna who knows the service of Krsna can act as guru. Since Karmis, jnanis and impersonalists are nondevotees, they can never become gurus. Only one who worships the Personality of Godhead is able to become a spiritual master. Those who think proudly that they are Krsnas servants cannot become spiritual masters unless they proudly identify themselves as disciples of a disciple.
Who is the internal spiritual master?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
The localized Paramatma, the individual Godhead situated within the heart of every living entity, who is described in the Vedas beginning with the verse *dva suparna*, is the internal, pure, unalloyed conscience spiritual master, the caitya-guru.
How can we understand the actual truth?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
The faith, devotion, and tastes of godless people are always opposed to devotion. With such faith, devotion, and tastes, human beings will never be able to understand actual truth. When the Absolute Truth personally appears by His causeless mercy, He reveals Himself to the surrendered souls. In the form of the SuperSoul, the Lord reveals to sincere souls to whom they should surrender. Actual truth comes down to us through...
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Only in the heart of that great soul in whom there is pure bhakti to Śrī Bhagavān, and similarly, pure bhakti to Śrī Gurudeva, are all the confidential purports of the Śrutis self-manifest (prakāśa).
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