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<div class="heading">The first guru. Guru, agni, arka—means sun—and then God. Therefore you see in our Deity room there is picture of guru first of all. First of all your guru, then his guru, then his guru—at least four, five generation, because the spiritual knowledge is received through the paramparā. I have received from my guru; you are receiving from your guru; and my guru received from his guru; he received his guru.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.12.2 -- Bombay, April 13, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.12.2 -- Bombay, April 13, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So the first teaching is ''brahmacārī ''should rise early in the morning. ''Brahmacārī ''. . . That is the general education. It doesn't require that you have to learn some book immediately. No. First of all build your character. Otherwise what is the use of taking degrees if you have no character? ''Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā sarvair guṇair tatra samāsate surāḥ ''([[vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). If you become a devotee of Kṛṣṇa . . . Just like in our institution they are being trained up as devotee, so to rise early in the morning is automatically there. There is no separate training. Because he is devotee, he has to rise early in the morning for offering ''maṅgala-āratika'', and you have got our order that everyone must attend the ''maṅgala-ārati''. That is automatically, ''brahmacārī''. ''Sāyaṁ prātar upāsita''. And what is the ''upāsana''? The first, ''guru''. ''Guru'', ''agni'', ''arka''—means sun—and then God. Therefore you see in our Deity room there is picture of ''guru ''first of all. First of all your ''guru'', then his ''guru'', then his ''guru''—at least four, five generation. Because the spiritual knowledge is received through the ''paramparā''. I have received from my ''guru''; you are receiving from your ''guru''; and my ''guru ''received from his ''guru''; he received his ''guru''. ''Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ ''([[vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]). ''Ādau gurvāśrayam ''(''Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu''). You cannot learn to become a perfect human being without accepting ''guru''. Then you remain a rascal. ''Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet ''(MU 1.2.12). That is the Vedic injunction. If you want to learn that transcendental science, you must approach a ''guru''. ''Guru ''principle is the same, not that your ''guru ''and my ''guru ''will be different. If he is actually ''guru'', then there is no difference between my ''guru ''and your ''guru''. Just like a medical man. You consult one medical man; I consult another. That does not mean the medical man is different. They are depending on the same medical science. So ''guru ''means the following the same principles. ''Evam paramparā-prāptam ''([[vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]). The first ''guru ''is Kṛṣṇa, the supreme ''guru''. He is the ''guru ''of Brahmā even. Brahmā is the first creature of this universe. ''Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye muhyanti yatra sūrayaḥ ''([[vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). So Kṛṣṇa is the original ''guru''. Then Kṛṣṇa spoke to the sun god, ''imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.1 ()1972)|BG 4.1]]).
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