Krishna Will Send You a Guru

Understanding that making the human life a success requires the expert guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, many of our readers request us to give them guidance on how to find a guru. Since this question has been perfectly answered by Krishnadas Kaviraja Goswami and Srila Prabhupada in the Caitanya Caritamrita, for your edification here is their answer:

jīve sākṣāt nāhi tāte guru caittya rūpe
śikṣā-guru haya kṛṣṇa-mahānta-svarūpe

"Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna Himself."--Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 1.58

Purport by Srila Prabhupada--"It is not possible for a conditioned soul to directly meet Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but if one becomes a sincere devotee and seriously engages in devotional service, Lord Krishna sends an instructing spiritual master to show him favor and invoke his dormant propensity for serving the Supreme. The preceptor appears before the external senses of the fortunate conditioned soul, and at the same time the devotee is guided from within by the caittya-guru, Krishna, who is seated as the spiritual master within the heart of the living entity."

So all we have to is sincerely and seriously engage ourselves in devotional service. As soon as we do this Krishna will send us a spiritual master. I have personal experience of this, and you will too simply by sincerely engaging yourself in devotional service.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: If You Take Someone As Disciple...

If you were to take someone as a disciple - to be their guru (teacher-guide):

1.) What qualifications would you require from that person?
2.) What would be the first thing you would want that person to do?
3.) What is your goal for that disciple?

Your eternal and grateful servant.

Buddy Gastineau

Answer: Duties of a Disciple

The qualifications of someone becoming my disciple is that they must chant at least 16 rounds a day of the Hare Krishna mantra on japa mala beads and they must strictly abide by the following four regulative principles:

1. No illicit sex
2. No meat eating
3. No intoxication
4. No gambling

The first thing that my disciple must do is realize that he is not his body, that he is instead a spirit-soul, the eternal servant of Lord Sri Krishna.

My goal for my disciples is that each and every one of them must go back to home, back to Godhead at the end of their present life in this material world. I also request that they fully dedicate their lives for sharing the supreme benediction of Krishna consciousness with the suffering souls of this world who are caught up in the cycle of birth and death.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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