Hare Krishna 🙏🏻
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das 🙏🏻
Anyone who comes in contact with devotees
& starts practicing Bhakti may have dilemma
That am I following Bhakti the way Krishna
Has tought & am I pleasing Krishna??
Krishna said in Bhagavad Gita 4.11 :
ye yathā māṁ prapadyante
tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham
mama vartmānuvartante
manuṣyāḥ pārth sarvaśaḥ
All of them—as they surrender unto Me—I reward
accordingly.
Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.
So according to one’s level of surrender Krishna
reciprocates
& guides one on the path of Bhakti.
But as we know we are not the actual devotee we
are just practicing devotees & our surrender to Krishna
Is be less than 0.0000001 %.
With this little surrender how can Krishna guide us
To fullest??
So here comes the role of Guru. From Externally
Spiritual master guides as Siksha Guru/Diksha Guru
& from internally Krishna Guides as chaitya Guru.
As said in sastra:
yasya deve para bhaktir
Yatha deve tatha Guru
So if one has unflinching faith in both Guru & Krishna
then transcendetal knowledge will be automatically
Revealed to disciple.
Regarding this HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev
Shared Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Kanchanbala,
Los angeles 14 January 1968:
“To the Sincere dovotee the internal Guru Krishna
Dictates, BUT the thing has to be confirmed by
The external Guru then it is all Right “
So sometime we may concoct something at
mental or intellectual level & think that Krishna
Is guiding us BUT we have to confirm it with our
External Guru Either Diksha/Siksha Guru.
Then we will be 100% sure that guidance is
Coming from Krishna only as it is confirmed by
External Guru.
Hare Krishna 🙏🏻
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻