Dedication to Guru's Mission Tantamount to Seeing Krishna

Nowadays it is very popular that people like to test a spiritual master's credentials by asking him if he has seen Krishna or God, because they take this as a qualification for being a spiritual master. But this a misunderstanding. Why should God be seen only once? A fully self-realized soul is always seeing Krishna at every minute. But what if someone has not seen God but is simply seriously serving his spiritual master's mission. Can this be considered as good as seeing God? Srila Prabhupada has answered this question in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 4.28.51 as follows:
"When one becomes serious to follow the mission of the spiritual master, his resolution is tantamount to seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

Tantamount means "the same as." So whether one is directly seeing Krishna at every minute or he is fully serious to serve the mission of his spiritual master, he is understood to be a God realized person.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Spiritual Master Serves the Mission of Lord Caitanya--the Personification of Pure Love

The Spiritual Master Serves the Mission of Lord Caitanya

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Is It Necessary to Become Self-Realized?

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Is it necessary for a Jiva Atma to become self-realized?

Your eternal servant,

Shashank

Answer: Only If One Wants Eternal Happiness

If a person doesn’t mind being tortured perpetually in the repetition of birth, death, old age, and disease again and again being recycled through the 8,400,000 species of life, there is no need for him to become self-realized. Self-realization is only for those persons who are tired of suffering and are determined to enter into a dimension of unlimited, eternal happiness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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