Community members
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
CC Madhya-lila
Conversations and Morning Walks
1968 Conversations and Morning Walks
Interviewer: What are your teachers called, those who teach the members of the community of Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Are they also gurus or anything similar to the gurus of the Hindu faith?
Prabhupāda: The original guru is Kṛṣṇa. And just like He taught first the Kṛṣṇa consciousness principle to Arjuna. And how Arjuna understood, that is also there. So anyone who follows the principle... Just like my great grandfather told something, "This is watch." Then my grandfather told, "This is watch." Then my father told, "This is watch." So I am also telling, "This is watch." So there is no difference of opinion between the old great grandfather and me because we are following the same principle. Similarly, whatever is spoken by Kṛṣṇa five thousand years or forty millions of years, it doesn't matter. If you are simply following the same principles, then you are spiritual master.
Interviewer: Then your teachers are called spiritual masters? You are the spiritual preceptor, your holiness. And do you use the word guru?
Prabhupāda: Our guru or spiritual master comes down from that disciplic succession. It is not that, that somebody all of a sudden becomes guru and manufactures his own philosophy. We don't accept such nonsense. We must accept somebody who is actually bona fide, coming in disciplic succession, not others.Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
1970 Correspondence
Page Title: | Community members |
Compiler: | Aparajita Radhika, Serene |
Created: | 26 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=1, CC=3, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=2 |
No. of Quotes: | 7 |