How to Attain the Highest Perfection

In the Bhagavad-gita Chapter 4, Text 34 Lord Sri Krishna instructs us how we can attain the highest perfection of the self-realization science. He tells us that we can realize the highest truth by approaching a bona fide spiritual master with submissive inquiries and the rendering of service. The Lord assures us that if we do this everything will become revealed to us just as the sun lights up everything in the daytime.

In this regard I am often asked: How does one decide who to accept as their spiritual master? This question is easily answered when you understand what are the key essentials in the guru/disciple relationship. Since the guru/disciple relationship is based on inquiring and serving, you simply have to see with which guru you get the best opportunity for inquiry and the rendering of service to him. Once this is discerned, you should then approach that spiritual master either personally or through correspondence and inquire from him how you can take complete shelter at his lotus feet. He will then bestow his mercy upon you and expertly guide you along the pathway of self-realization.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Prabhupada House, MelbourneThe Prabhupada House, Melbourne

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Becoming a Self-Realized Soul

Could you explain to me about becoming a self-realized soul? It sounds interesting and I would like to try it.

Ruth

Answer: Are You Ready to Begin?

I am very happy to hear that you are interesting in self-realization and that you would like to try to become a self-realized soul. Your interest is wonderful because the purpose of the human life is that we all should become self-realized. After wandering in the cycle of birth and death for hundreds and millions of lifetimes we have finally achieved the human form of life. If we become self-realized, we then escape the cycle of birth and death and return to our original home in the spiritual world.

Self-realization means to fully realize who you actually are. It means to understand that you are not your body, that you are instead a spiritual being, a servant of God. And it means to be fully absorbed in the service of the Supreme Godhead under the expert guidance of the bona fide spiritual master.

So now I urge you to practically adopt the pathway of self-realization. If you are you ready to begin, I am ready to give you specific instructions.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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