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<div class="heading">Now, this spiritual master's succession is not very difficult. Of course, my students, they offer me so much respect, but all these respects are due to my spiritual master. I am nothing. I am just like peon. Just like peon delivers one letter. He is not responsible for what is written in that letter. He is not responsible for what is written in that letter. He simply delivers. But a peon's duty is that he must sincerely carry out the order of the postmaster and deliver the letter to the proper person. That is their duty.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Sri Vyasa-puja -- Hamburg, September 5, 1969|Sri Vyasa-puja -- Hamburg, September 5, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
The spiritual master means he must be just like the cloud. How it is possible? It is possible. It is possible in this way, provided he follows the disciplic succession of spiritual master. Then it is possible. He must inherit the power from the superior source. Then it is possible that by his teaching, by his lessons, the forest fire which is burning within our heart, it can be extinguished, and the person who receives such spiritual instruction bona-fidely, he becomes satisfied. This is the process. So:

:''saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-''
:''trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam''
:''prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya ''
:''vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam''

Now, this spiritual master's succession is not very difficult. Of course, my students, they offer me so much respect, but all these respects are due to my spiritual master. I am nothing. I am just like peon. Just like peon delivers one letter. He is not responsible for what is written in that letter. 

He simply delivers. But a peon's duty is that he must sincerely carry out the order of the postmaster and deliver the letter to the proper person. That is their duty. Similarly, this ''paramparā'' system is like that. Every one of us should become a spiritual master, because the world is in blazing fire. 

(aside) You can give them ''prasādam''. 

Now, of course, time is very high. 

So to understand the spiritual master . . . spiritual master is not a new invention. It is simply following the orders of the spiritual master. So all my students present here who are feeling so much obliged . . . I am also obliged to them, because they are helping me in this missionary work. At the same time, I shall request them all to become spiritual master. 

Every one of you should be spiritual master next. And what is that duty? Whatever you are hearing from me, whatever you are learning from me, you have to distribute the same in toto, without any addition or alteration. Then all of you become the spiritual master. That is the science of becoming spiritual master. 

Spiritual master is not very . . . to become a spiritual master is not very wonderful thing. Simply one has to become sincere soul. That's all. ''Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]). In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' it is said that, "By disciplic succession this yoga process of ''Bhagavad-gītā'' was handed down from disciple to disciple. But in course of time that disciplic succession is now lost. Therefore, Arjuna, I am teaching you again the same philosophy."

So this is the process. Simply if we . . . therefore Vedic knowledge is called ''śruti''. One has to hear it properly, assimilate it, and then practice it in life and preach the same thing. Then everyone becomes spiritual master. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, ''āmāra ājṣāya guru haṣā tāra 'sarva-deśa'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.128|CC Madhya 7.128]]): "O My dear disciples, I tell you that you, all of you, become spiritual master. Simply you carry out My order. That's all." "And what is Your order?" "The order is the same: ''yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadeśa''" ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 7.128|CC Madhya 7.128]]). 

Just like Kṛṣṇa gave instruction in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', and if you simply place the instruction received from ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is . . . we are . . . I am publishing ''Bhagavad-gītā'' As It Is because in the market there were so many ''Bhagavad-gītā'' misinterpreted, but that is not the process of presenting ''Bhagavad-gītā''. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' should be presented as it is. 

In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' it is simply said that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But most books which you have seen in English lang . . . they are trying to make minus Kṛṣṇa. That is their attempt. So what sort of ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is that? That should not be done. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. You should speak that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. That is the preaching of ''Bhagavad-gītā''.</p>
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