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<div class="heading">This is the activity of your spiritual master, that he is preaching the message of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and he's a disciple of Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. Namas te sārasvate. You should pronounce it sārasvate, not sarasvatī. Sarasvatī is the, my spiritual master. So his disciple is sārasvate. Sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe. These are the activities. What is the activities of your spiritual master? He's simply preaching the message of Lord Caitanya. That is his business.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.2 -- London, August 10, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.2.2 -- London, August 10, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So the question raised by the sages and saintly person in Naimiṣāraṇya as, "After departure of Kṛṣṇa, unto whom the charge of religious principle depended?" So Sūta Gosvāmī, who is a disciple of Śukadeva Gosvāmī . . . Śukadeva Gosvāmī is his spiritual master. Therefore it is the etiquette, before speaking anything, the disciple should first of all offer respect to the spiritual master.

So offering respect to the spiritual master means to remember some of his activities. Some of his activities. Just like you offer respect to your spiritual master, ''namas te sārasvate devam gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe''. This is the activity of your spiritual master, that he is preaching the message of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and he's a disciple of Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. ''Namas te sārasvate.'' You should pronounce it ''sārasvate'', not ''sarasvatī''. Sarasvatī is the . . . my spiritual master. So his disciple is ''sārasvate''. ''Sārasvate devam gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe.'' These are the activities.

What is the activities of your spiritual master? He's simply preaching the message of Lord Caitanya. That is his business. What is the message of Lord Caitanya? Lord Caitanya's message is that you go and speak everyone about Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's message. This is called ''paramparā'' system. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as disciple of Īśvara Purī, He is preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And similarly, in the disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Gosvāmīs, ''ṣaḍ-gosvāmī'': Śrī Rūpa, Sanātana, Bhaṭṭa Raghunātha, Śrī Jīva, Gopāla-bhaṭṭa, Dāsa Raghunātha. ''Vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau''.

We begin from our first disciplic succession, ''vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca. Vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalam'': "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my ''guru'', spiritual master." ''Vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca''. And then his ''guru'', his ''guru'', his ''guru'', they're all Vaiṣṇava. ''Vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn śrī-vaiṣṇavāṁś ca. Śrī-rūpam''. Then we offer respect to Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī. Rūpa Gosvāmī . . . ''vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau''. All the Gosvāmīs, six Gosvāmis.

''Vande rūpam . . . vande rūpa-sanātana . . . sāgraja. Sa agraja. Agraja'' means elder brother. Sanātana Gosvāmī was the elder brother of Rūpa Gosvāmī, and Rūpa Gosvāmī accepted him as his spiritual master. ''Śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitam'': associated by Raghunāthas. There are two Raghunāthas: Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī. ''Sa-jīvam'', with Jīva Gosvāmī. This is the process. ''Vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam''.

Then we go to Caitanya Mahāprabhu's status: ''sa-advaitaṁ sāvadhūtam''. That is also . . . first of all, Advaita Gosāñi, then Nityānanda Mahāprabhu, Prabhu. Mahāprabhu is applicable only to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Others, all ''prabhus. Ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa āra saba bhṛtya'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.142|CC Adi 5.142]]). Kṛṣṇa, and He has got innumerable servant. Kṛṣṇa is Mahāprabhu, and all others, they are ''prabhus''. And the spiritual master who has got many ''prabhus'' to abide by his order, he is addressed as Prabhupāda. This is the system.

So ''sādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devam''. After offering all these obeisances to Gosvāmīs, to guru and Advaita, Nityānanda, then you come to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then Śrī Rādhā. Not Kṛṣṇa directly. ''Śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān saha-gaṇa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca''. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa means They are always associated by the ''gopīs'', of whom Lalitā-Viśākhā are the chief out of the ''aṣṭa-sakhīs''.</p>
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