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Liberated acaryas

Srimad-Bhagavatam

SB Canto 4

Modern psychologists can study the actions of the mind—thinking, feeling and willing—but they are unable to go deep into the matter. This is due to their lack of knowledge and to their not being associated with a liberated ācārya
SB 4.29.75, Purport: One should always engage in the Lord's devotional service. As recommended in the arcana-marga, one should worship the Deity in the temple and constantly offer obeisances to the spiritual master and the Deity. These processes are recommended to one who actually wants to become free from material entanglement. Modern psychologists can study the actions of the mind -- thinking, feeling and willing -- but they are unable to go deep into the matter. This is due to their lack of knowledge and to their not being associated with a liberated acarya.

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Nectar of Devotion

Dear Lord, it is very difficult to understand spiritual knowledge. Your appearance here, just as You are, is to explain to us this most difficult subject of knowledge of the spirit. As such, Your devotees who have left their domestic comforts to associate with the liberated ācāryas [teachers] are now fully merged in the devotional service of Your Lordship

Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 4: There is a similar statement in the Tenth Canto, Eighty-seventh Chapter, verse 21, wherein the Srutis, the Vedas personified, pray to the Lord as follows: "Dear Lord, it is very difficult to understand spiritual knowledge. Your appearance here, just as You are, is to explain to us this most difficult subject of knowledge of the spirit. As such, Your devotees who have left their domestic comforts to associate with the liberated acaryas [teachers] are now fully merged in the devotional service of Your Lordship, and thus they do not care for any so-called liberation."
Page Title:Liberated acaryas
Compiler:Syamananda , Matea, Visnu Murti
Created:24 of jan, 2008
No. of Quotes:2
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=1, CC=0, OB=1, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0