Category:Questions On... Spiritual Master - Guru
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- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- And how do we get guru?
- And you were having also a guru there (in Bengal)?
- Anxious to learn from the spiritual master?
- Are the Spiritual Master and the Grand Spiritual Master consciously aware of the prayers of a sincere devotee who prays in love to Them?
- Are you a Bhagavan?
- Are you at all concerned about the, what seems to be an increasing number of gurus and swamis throughout the world?
- Are you knowing people take diksa from many gurus?
- Are you perfect master?
- Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Krsna or as the teacher of His teachings?
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- Because he was the spiritual master, would he be living in a very opulent house?
- Because the guru is responsible for taking all of his disciples back to home, back to Godhead, I was wondering what was the position of Lord Jesus Christ?
- Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhu, Bhaktisiddhanta your spiritual master. How you spent the days, your young age, with Bhaktisiddhanta?
- But Arjuna got it due to guru, like Krsna means is it possible in this age if one has the right guru, a man, he can elevate himself?
- But he does it on your behalf (he's guru. He's guru)?
- But how do they (disciples) know they're pleasing you, Srila Prabhupada?
- But how would you know, anyway? How are you able to tell, anyway? I mean, for any of your disciples or us or anybody that goes to any spiritual master, how are we to tell... True master. How are we to tell one from the other?
- But is it the guru? Does the guru give him that sense (when one is actually in service, then he comes to.... "So I have enjoyed. Now, no I don't want. Now I want Krsna." That is voluntary)?
- But there are many spiritual masters in the world. Each says...
- But there's so many so-called gurus, Prabhupada, how...?
- But to become learned, you go to so-called learned people, and you go to so-called learned people. How do you know that those so-called learned are...?
- By struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
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- Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna?
- Can someone achieve self-realization without a guru or does he need a guru?
- Can you briefly tell us what the difference, how your approach is different from the approaches of the other gurus who have come? You seen to have rather a unique place in...
- Chanting, following the orders of the spiritual master... Is that considered offenseless chanting?
- Could you accept me as your student until eternity?
- Could you please tell me a little bit about your life and how you knew that you were the spiritual master for the Krsna consciousness movement?
- Could you tell us a little about your spiritual master's life?
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- Did He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) have a spiritual master?
- Did I understand you to say the swami has no sex life?
- Did you get formal training with a...?
- Do they have a period of training or a program for the training of the swamis?
- Do you direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma
- Do you have anything comparable to bishops and the hierarchy of the Christian faith and of other major faiths?
- Do you initiate yourself all the disciples or do your other disciples also do that?
- Do you think people should beware (of false gurus)?
- Do you use the word guru?
- Does he have to be designated by the former spiritual master (a spiritual master)?
- Does taking the initiation create a permanent bond between disciple and guru?
- Does the swami, once he has been installed in office, does he wear a white long coat with a white hat?
- Doesn't Krsna say in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am the spiritual master"?
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- He (a vrajavasi) has a spiritual master?
- He holds your hand and gives that hand to God. That is guru. That is what I think. Am I right in a way?
- He wants to know how to find out how to please the spiritual master with one service
- He wants to know if the greatest offense is to disobey the guru
- His question was that can you take initiation by accepting the spiritual master in your heart without actually taking...?
- How about if a disciple wants to use the help of Visnu for the spiritual master?
- How are we to tell one (true master) from the other (any spiritual master)?
- How can I get with my imperfect senses the perfection brought by the master?
- How can I know that (who is guru?)...?
- How can one inquire of you how to know Krsna? What is the process? How does one inquire of the spiritual master?
- How can one reach the point where he knows that a particular type of service will please the spiritual master?
- How can one see the spiritual master in darkness? If you are standing in a dark room...
- How can she be sure that the spiritual master is bona fide?
- How can we begin to serve you so that you'll be pleased?
- How can we give up our enviousness and reluctance to serve the spiritual master and the other devotees?
- How can we repay you?
- How can we understand the guru?
- How close does one student usually, how close does he get to the master? How closely does he understand the master? Or he could interrelate himself to the master?
- How come we (your disciples) come to you (Srila Prabhupada)?
- How do you get that direction moment by moment, hour by hour?
- How do you get to the second stage by making your own decisions without God's..., without God's representative? In other words, how can you come to the platform of the third stage from the second stage?
- How does he (the sadhu) live in the woods without a spiritual master and learn?
- How does one contact the spiritual master? Through a book can you contact the spiritual master?
- How does one know a bona fide spiritual master who can lead them?
- How does that come? (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession… Originally the order is from Krsna)?
- How does the authority know to tell you?
- How many qualifications does a spiritual master have in terms of being a spiritual master?
- How much of his time do you think should be spent preaching and traveling?
- How serious would it be for me if I should miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?
- How should we know that he (the guru) knows about Krsna?
- How to please God's representative?
- How to seek a master? How to find a master?
- How will the spiritual master be pleased?
- How would one tell that one had a genuine guru because one would be told to give up certain parts of...?
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- I heard you also saying that Caitanya was disciple of Madhvan-dasa-pura?
- I want to please Srila Prabhupada. How does he know my progress and my service, when I'm so far away from him and if I don't write him?
- I was recently told by one devotee that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee?
- I was thinking that Narada has actually an all-spiritual body, and Brahma has a material form, material body. And yet Narada appears to Brahmaji to ask questions from him as spiritual master. How is that?
- I wondered whether you feel that it's right that you could perhaps issue a warning to people who are seeking some new spiritual life that they should take care to make sure they have a genuine guru to teach them
- If I receive some action which I must do or some course of action becomes obvious, should I trust that, considering that you're communicating with me, or...?
- If one accepts initiation from a bona fide spiritual master but continues to perform material activities, are they still bound by the karma?
- If one has accepted a bona fide spiritual master and he did not receive much knowledge from him, can he change his spiritual master at later...?
- If one surrenders to a spiritual master, what then is their relationship to Krsna?
- If someone in all seriousness wishes to find the spiritual life and happens to finish up with the wrong guru, I mean should they beware?
- If the disciple is in ignorance before, how does he know which master to choose, because he doesn't have the knowledge to make a wise selection?
- If the science is available to everyone without impediment, then there must be the proper teacher, isn't it?
- If the spiritual master gives you any instruction, should we look upon that as the same as life? How would we know if it's maya or not?
- If the spiritual master is not bona fide, then is the Deity also not bona fide?
- If the spiritual master, Prabhupada, worships God through a demigod, is he bona fide?
- If there is question or not understanding in the course of a class, if the proper answer cannot be given, if one sincerely approaches you within the heart, then you will give understanding?
- If we do not finish our Krsna consciousness in this lifetime and we have to take birth in material world, can we worship the same spiritual master as our previous birth?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we don't know what Krsna is and we still get a bona fide spiritual master, then how do we call that? Our good fortune?
- If you are told that Mr. Nixon is the bona fide spiritual master, what do you do?
- If you are unable to receive knowledge from a higher authority, could you still somehow have this knowledge inside? So one could understand about Krsna perhaps if he was unable to receive from outside?
- In order to be involved in devotional service and execute devotional service in this life, we had to have some devotional service last life. So therefore, were you here last life too, to give us this devotional service?
- In the Bhagavad-gita it says that Brahma is the second spiritual master. I thought that all spiritual masters live forever; but Brahma doesn't live forever
- In the Caitanya-caritamrta it states that to understand Krsna and to improve our relationship with Him we must understand the spiritual master. What is the best way to understand him?
- In what way is the external manifestation of the guru different than the external manifestation of, let us say, Krsna or Caitanya when They come to earth?
- India is supposed to be a land of spirituality. How is it that there is so much moral degradation in our country? Is it the failure of our spiritual leaders?
- Is a guru essential to one to enter the spiritual path and attain the goal, and how does one recognize one's guru?
- Is guru and swami the same thing?
- Is it better to inquire directly a question to the spiritual master directly, or is it better to wait for the answer to come in an indirect, or in a less direct way?
- Is it not true that by service I am with you?
- Is it possible for a person to return to the spiritual world without taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master?
- Is it possible, Swamiji, for a woman to be a guru in the line of disciplic succession?
- Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?
- Is that spiritual master still guiding after the death?
- Is the spiritual master actually conscious of our activities?
- Is the teacher always necessary?
- Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has?
- Is there any way for a Christian, without the help of a spiritual master, to reach the spiritual sky through believing in the words of Jesus Christ and trying to follow his teachings?
- Is this one of the main things that distinguishes a genuine guru from a fake guru (we do not want, depend on anyone's financial contributions. We depend on God, or Krsna)?
- Is your spiritual master still alive?
- Isn't there some conditioning between the guru and sisya, that "The guru should be like this and a sisya should be like this"?
- It is also guru-purnima… Is there some special celebration or significance?
- It is not difficult (to become Krsna's representative)?
- It is said in the Bhagavad-gita that if one thinks at the time of death, if he thinks of Krsna, he goes to Krsna. What if one thinks of his spiritual master?
- It's considered offenseless if, chanting, if one follows the orders of the spiritual master carefully?
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- On what basis (I have been chosen by my spiritual master… That is our succession)?
- Once you surrender to God, will you still have to look for an authority to guide you, or Krsna helps you to find Him?
- One does not follow the instructions of guru?
- One must approach a perfect spiritual master and he must become perfect disciple. Could you explain that?
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- Passing the test means executing the order of the spiritual master?
- People like you can kindle them (the souls in a dormant stage )... Even our Samanja Acarya(?) or his guru, they were not able to carry this outside India... Is it not said that you are an incarnation of God or you are deputy of God, is it?
- Perhaps you can speak for the representative of Krsna?
- Prabhupada, either of those associations (guru's krpa and Krsna's krpa), which is the highest?
- Prabhupada, I heard it said that the spiritual master will always come back until his devotees, his disciples, have achieved God realization. Can you explain that?
- Prabhupada, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?
- Prabhupada, in one purport in the Bhagavad-gita, you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything... But how could he know...? What does that mean, "everything"?
- Prabhupada, in Vaisnava temples, asramas, do spiritual masters ever use the stick to rascal disciples?
- Prabhupada, this morning you talked about astrology in your lecture. Is this accepted in the Vedic scripture and by the gurus?
- Prabhupada, when we try to explain to people that our philosophy of Krsna consciousness is authoritative and is coming from undisturbed men, learned men, that our spiritual master is not an ordinary man, what does it mean that he is not an ordinary man?
- Prabhupada, when you are not present with us, how is it possible to receive instructions, for example, on questions that may arise?
- Prabhupada, when you leave this material world, will there be another spiritual master after you? Another pure soul?
- Prabhupada, who was the spiritual master of Lord Sri Krsna?
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- Regarding the wife of the Spiritual Master being considered as mother
- Regarding your question about rasa with the Spiritual Master...
- Regarding your question about sufferings of master
- Regarding your question about the husband becoming the Spiritual Master of the wife...
- Regarding your question about the verse in the prayers to the Spiritual Master...
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- Say I have some outside job, I'm living outside, but I'm not giving 50% of my income. So then that work that I'm doing, is it actually under the authority of the guru?
- She says there are many gurus and many people go there because it has become popular. So what do they say?
- She wants to know that there are many other gurus, and why do you feel that you have the truth?
- She's asking if you are the first master, what you are teaching?
- Should a disciple go to his spiritual master directly to offer the respects at least three times, or offer them where he is?
- Should we love Krishna or love the spiritual master?
- So the bona fide guru does not claim to be God, but he gives knowledge of God, and he only deals with God?
- So they may also be considered your disciples (he's guru. He's guru… Yes. That is formality. Because in my presence one should not become guru, so on my behalf, on my order... Amara ajnaya guru hana. Be actually guru, but by my order)?
- So, Srila Prabhupada, isn't Lord Brahma the original spiritual master in our sampradaya?
- Spiritual master is the mercy of God?
- Srila Prabhupada, if we think about our spiritual master, is that as good as thinking about Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, isn't Lord Brahma the original spiritual master in our sampradaya?
- Srila Prabhupada, what did Bhaktivinoda Thakura mean when he said, "I am going, my work unfinished"?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is our fortune that we've come in contact with a qualified guru? What have we done to qualify to come in contact with you?
- Srila Prabhupada, when someone is sick, he willingly goes to the doctor... So how we can get them to willingly come... to the guru?
- Srila Prabhupada, will you please explain the phrase "serving the lotus feet of the spiritual master"?
- Suppose someone is satisfied simply being related with the spiritual master?
- Swamiji, can you tell me about what you said, going through the spiritual master, not directly to Krsna, through the spiritual master?
- Swamiji, some religions, the guru, if someone wants to be his disciple, he is being given a sort of beads by the guru himself. Is it possible to get beads through your worship?
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- That one is making progress by how he feels, or should he just simply execute the order of the spiritual master and not worry about how he feels? How should... ?
- The answer to your Istagosthi questions (on the spiritual master) are as follows
- The bona fide spiritual master. If you have none, what do you do?
- The guru should be accepted as representative of God?
- The only way of talking to the spiritual master to communicate is verbal talking, the only way in which one can communicate with his spiritual master?
- The question also is there: the authority is the spiritual master, but the via media to the spiritual master... The difference between, like we were discussing in the automobile of siksa and diksa-guru
- The representative (of Srila Prabhupada) may be there, but what is my personal relationship?
- The sadhus in India who have long hair and wander in the woods and stuff, I guess, do they have spiritual teachers? The sadhus in India
- Then we will ask, how do we know who is really guru?
- There are many swamis and gurus and religious people throughout the world. How does one know which is the true guru?
- There must have been very many gurus. Were there many gurus then?
- These days there are so many men who claim to have found the Absolute, who claim to be spiritual masters in their own way. How does one tell who is a bona fide spiritual master?
- They (the vrajavasis) don't need a spiritual master?
- They have accepted some of these gymnastic people as their guru. So they say, "Oh, our guruji is here. We have to go see our guruji," this, that. So how should we speak to them or how should we preach to them?
- They worship you, don't they?
- This is the big thing, isn't it? The teacher has got to be God conscious
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- We are all imperfect because we are imperfect. Right? So how can a master, a person who really understands or who claims to really understand be able to know perfection, to see the truth, how can he with his imperfect senses...?
- What about a savior?
- What about the so-called gurus that take a little bit here and a little bit there?
- What are your teachers called, those who teach the members of the community of Krsna consciousness? Are they also gurus or anything similar to the gurus of the Hindu faith?
- What do you think about some of the other gurus, if you will, since you are yourself considered a guru? Do you study anybody else?
- What does that do to his relationship with his own spiritual master?
- What exactly is guru's role in your system?
- What happens when he dreams of the spiritual master or Krsna?
- What if sometimes a disciple, he may go to preach, but he's not preaching in the exact same spirit of his spiritual master?
- What is the difference between holy man and spiritual master?
- What is the difference in full between the Spiritual Master, Krishna, and the devotee?
- What is the special quality that makes one a spiritual master to describe the infinite when God is beyond speculation?
- What is the test of a true guru?
- What then are the guides? Are they also masters of a sense? Spiritual guides
- What then is a master? Are there not many planes in mastership?
- What's a man's qualification to be chosen… On what basis, though, can you tell me some of the things that…?
- What's the difference between a sadhu and a guru? Sadhu means authorities like Vyasa?
- Whatever the spiritual master says, that is also perfect?
- When did you become the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness?
- When Krsna came here, did He take a spiritual master too?
- When one has become pure enough, Krishna conscious, does one take regular dictation from one's Guru Maharaja? I know you to confirm yes, but how is this so?
- When one takes to spiritual life, is it the result of material exhaustion, or is it simply the guru's mercy on him, and nothing else?
- When the devotees are chanting their rounds and when they think of their spiritual master they feel a type of ecstasy. So why are they feeling this ecstasy?
- When they think of the savior, they're talking about the guru, the spiritual master. He's asking, is Krsna our guru?
- When we offer something to you, for example, your picture, he wants to know if the person, if, simply by his act of offering does he become purified, or if the spiritual master is actually aware of the offering
- When your spiritual master was a little boy, did he do things like Lord Caitanya did like when He went to the water and all girls were asking for...?
- Where will I go at the time of death if I am thinking of my spiritual master?
- Who asked you (I was family man. I retired in 1954. My Guru Maharaja asked me to take this task seriously when I was twenty-five years old)?
- Whose disciple was Krsna?
- Why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka?
- Why they don't approach a spiritual master for religious knowledge? Why do they think they can do it by themselves?
- Why we are so fortunate to have such a nice genuine spiritual master as you, and some others have bogus spiritual master. Is it something of karma or is this the pure mercy of yourself?
- Will you always be our spiritual master?
- Will you be our spiritual master for eternity?
- Without taking diksa from the guru also utters the name of Lord Krsna with devotion?
- Would that person have to have contact with you and learn from you also?
- Would you call yourself a guru?
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- Yesterday you said that the spiritual master may have to suffer due to the sinful activities of his disciple. What do you mean by sinful activities?
- Yesterday you said when one becomes initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, his body changes?
- You (Srila Prabhupada) accept our (his disciples) karma also. Is that correct?
- You are in fact the spiritual leader of these students. What does that mean?
- You are now the leader and the spiritual master. Who will take your place?
- You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master?
- You had a paternal guru?
- You have asked how you can thank me
- You have asked if it is true that the Spiritual Master remains in the material universe until all of His disciples are transferred to the Spiritual Sky?
- You have asked me if the spiritual master is ultimately Krishna
- You have inquired why Caitanya Mahaprabhu has not mentioned anything about accepting a Spiritual Master in His Siksastaka. But perhaps you have missed the point
- You stated that a statue of yourself is not the same as you, and yet in some of our temples, such as Vrndavana, the murti of Your Divine Grace has been installed and they are offering prasadam. So is it the same, that the prasadam is accepted by the guru?
- You're the leader of how many disciples or devotees throughout the world?
- Your next question, whether the Spiritual Master was formerly a conditioned soul...
- Your teachers are called spiritual masters?