Nectarean Mellows --- By His holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja

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Nectarean Mellows

 

 

 

"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v

a k y a"

 

 

 

Dear Members,Devotees,Bhaktas,And friends of KRSNA!I am now Posting a Gita Class

By my dear Jagad Guru,His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada,Then I will be

Posting from My Dear Diksa Guru,His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja!Both posts

Will Enhance the other,So I hope You Get Transedental Pleasure From

this,Acintya-bheddbheda-tattva- "simultaneously one and different" , though they

are different gurus,they are saying one and the same Krsna Consciosness teahings

 

Your

unworthy servant,Jaya Kesava dasa

 

"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"

 

 

 

3 most essential qualifications in approaching a Guru……….. Nectarean Mellows

 

 

 

How to take shelter? Krishna says in Gita “tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena

sevaya upadeksyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva-darsinah”. You see; it's not that

you just accept initiation; now I have a Guru, study Vedas, become Sanskrit

scholar, become very learned. Never!!! In billions of births, you will be

bewildered & you will be so bewildered that you'll think you know the Truth, but

there are 3 most essential qualifications in approaching a Guru. One is

pranipat; that means the first thing you have to do is follow in Arjuna's

footsteps. Karpanya dosho pahat svabhavat. You must accept that I am a fool. You

must accept that I do not know. You must accept that I have imperfect senses, I

have a tendency to cheat, I commit mistakes & I am invariably illusioned. That

because I am covered by these defects I cannot understand anything as it is.

Therefore the first most important qualification is that you must humble

yourself before Guru. Whatever you know you have to put it aside & admit that

you don't know. That's the beginning. Otherwise you don't need a Guru. If you

are not willing to do that it's just a fashion, it's a fad, our Guru Maharaj

used to say many people like to keep a Guru like they keep a flower pot on a

wall. They just see I have a Guru, Every now & then I water it. They keep a Guru

for their own prestige, but that is not correct. Through such a process the

transmission of knowledge cannot take place. Pranipat that means you have to

humble yourself, seek the shelter of the lotus feet of this personality. That I

do not know anything, please instruct me. Krishna, the JagatGuru Himself was not

willing to say a single word to Arjuna of transcendental knowledge until Arjuna

came to this platform. Karpanya dosho pahat svabhava As long as Arjuna thought I

know what's best for me Krishna simply remained silent. There was no use in

talking to such a person who thinks he knows. He convinced against his will of

the same opinion still what can you tell a person who already knows. In

classical music, there was a very famous music teacher & it is described that he

would teach the piano & if you never played the piano before in your life he

would charge you a certain amount of money for the lesson & if you had already

been playing before, he would charge you twice as much; because before he could

teach you anything he had to first convince you that you don't know anything,

otherwise you are a useless student, you'll always be second guessing or coming

up with another idea. And after pranipat is pariprasnena. Once you seek shelter

and humble yourself then you must enquire submissively. What is the real goal of

life? What is the Supreme occupation? What is the Real Dharma? What is the duty

of a man about to die? Who is God? What is my relationship? Who am I? Ultimately

these enquiries fructify in the third principle sevaya. Where we ask the

question "How can I serve you Guru Maharaj". And how do we serve? Not just by

giving garlands or washing feet but by following the instructions he gives us in

our life day by day & when the disciple has this consciousness & this approach

then yasya prasadat bhagvat prasado, yasya aprasadan na gatih kutopi. It is

described that when one pleases the Guru in this way the grace of Krishna comes

through him in the heart of the disciple. The Guru is not Krishna, but the Guru

is the manifestation of Krishna's grace in this world; the delegated

representative of Krishna to deliver the Supreme grace, the Divine grace of God,

into this world. So when one is favored by Krishna through such humility &

devotion then one can understand things, as they are not otherwise.

 

H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj

 

guru-mukha-padma-väkya, cittete koriyä aikya,

är nä koriho mane äsä

 

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Hare Krsna,Jaya Radhe,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Your

servant,Jaya Kesava Dasa