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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div class="heading">Guru must be śābde pare ca niṣṇātam (SB 11.3.21). Śābde means śabda-brahman, Vedic knowledge. He must be dipped into the Vedic knowledge, śābde pare ca, and in devotional service, śābde pare ca niṣṇātam, brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam. And accepting the Supreme Brahman, Paraṁ Brahman, as the ultimate goal of life. Not he has got any other goal of life. These are the signs of guru.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.7 -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.7 -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
''Guru'', who requires a ''guru''? ''Jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam''. One who is inquisitive to learn about the transcendental science, he requires a ''guru''. It is not a fashion that we keep a ''guru'', just like sometimes we keep a dog. Yes. A pet, pet dog, pet cat. So that is for my sense gratification. ''Guru'', I keep a ''guru'', a poor man ''guru'', and ''guru'' wants some money from me. Then ''guru'' . . . ''śiṣya'' says: "My dear ''guru'', if I do not eat meat and fish, my health will fail." "All right, I order you. Under my order you can do that."

This kind of compromise is not there. That is not ''guru''. The ''guru'' thinks that "If I say 'Don't eat meat,' then this disciple will go away, and there is no chance of getting money from him." That kind of compromise is not required. And nobody requires to have a ''guru'' if he has got such attitude. ''Guru'' . . . accept ''guru'' means you must surrender there. ''Samit-pāṇiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet, śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham'' (MU 1.2.12). One has to surrender. ''Tad viddhi praṇipātena'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). ''Bhagavad-gītā'' says that "You learn from ''guru'' by ''praṇipāta'', surrendering." The whole system is surrender.

So ''vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]]). ''Bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ'' means in order to enter into ''bhakti-yoga'' one has to first of all surrender to a bona fide spiritual master. ''Ādau gurvāśrayam.'' This is the beginning of ''bhakti-yoga.'' And what kind of ''guru''? An . . . that is also explained in the ''śāstras'': ''śābde ca pare ca niṣṇātaṁ brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam. Guru'' must be ''śābde pare ca niṣṇātam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]]). ''Śābde'' means ''śabda-brahman'', Vedic knowledge. He must be dipped into the Vedic knowledge, ''śābde pare ca'', and in devotional service, ''śābde pare ca niṣṇātam, brahmaṇy upaśamāśrayam.'' And accepting the Supreme Brahman, Paraṁ Brahman, as the ultimate goal of life. Not he has got any other goal of life. These are the signs of ''guru''.

So to attempt ''vāsudeva-bhakti'' means perfection of life. ''Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]]). If we execute pure devotional service into the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then ''jñānam'', ''janayaty āśu vairāgyam.'' This is the test of ''bhakti. Janayaty āśu vairāgyam''. A man is tested how much he has advanced in ''bhakti-yoga'' by his detachment from material enjoyment. If you . . . if one is attached to sense enjoyment, at the same time he poses himself as a great devotee, that cannot work.

Just like if you are eating something, then there will be no hunger. A man is hungry so long he does not eat something. So if, if he, if you say: "Yes, I have eaten so much, and still I am feeling hungry," that cannot be. Actually if you have eaten, then you must not feel hungry. Similarly, if you have actually tasted ''bhakti-yoga'', then there will be no more material attachment. This is the test. Not that artificially keeping a big ''tilaka'' on forehead and thinking within always, "How to get money? How to get woman?" That kind of is not. They, there . . . there will be no more hunger for these material things, especially woman and money. That is the test of ''bhakti''.

Therefore that pure ''bhakti-yoga'' can be attained only by executing devotional service to Vāsudeva. Otherwise it is not possible. ''Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ, janayaty āśu vairāgyam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]]). Without ''vairāgya'', there is no question of liberation. Of course, a devotee's not hankering after liberation. Why he should hanker? As soon as he's a pure devotee of Vāsudeva, he's already liberated. Already liberated.

:''māṁ ca 'vyabhicāreṇa''
:''bhakti-yogena sevate''
:''sa guṇān samatītyaitān''
:''brahma-bhūyāya kalpate''
:([[Vanisource:BG 14.26 (1972)|BG 14.26]])

''Brahmā-bhūyāya.'' At the present moment, in our conditional state, we are ''jīva-bhūta''. And when we become actually situated in our spiritual platform, that is called ''brahma-bhūtaḥ. Brahmā-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]).

So everything, there is link. So ''bhakti-yoga'' means detachment and knowledge. Somebody thinks like that, foolishly, that "''Bhaktas'' are generally fools and rascals, and therefore they take to ''bhakti-yoga''." But actually that is not ''bhakti-yoga''. One who has taken to ''bhakti-yoga'', he cannot be fools and rascals. He must be very learned. ''Svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ''. How he becomes learned? Now, ''svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ.'' Everything becomes revealed. Kṛṣṇa reveals.

''Nāśayāmy ātmā . . . ātma-bhāvastho jñāna-dīpena bhāsvatā'' ([[Vanisource:BG 10.11 (1972)|BG 10.11]]). If one is pure devotee, then Kṛṣṇa, from within, He will give knowledge. The Kṛṣṇa . . . just like Kṛṣṇa is giving knowledge to Arjuna. He's a ''gṛhastha''. He's a soldier. He's not even a ''brāhmin''. But who can be greater man of knowledge than Arjuna? Because he's directly receiving from Kṛṣṇa. And who can be greater teacher than Kṛṣṇa? So Kṛṣṇa says that, "If you are engaged twenty-four hours in devotional service," then, Kṛṣṇa says from within He will give all knowledge.

Therefore ''vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]]). If you actually engage in the devotional service of Vāsudeva, then ''jñāna'' and ''vairāgya'' automatically becomes revealed unto you. There is no endeavor.
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