You Must Surrender to the Bona Fide Spiritual Master

If you want to get out of this miserable material existence, you must surrender yourself fully to the bona fide spiritual master. If you try to practice Krishna consciousness on your own without taking shelter of the bona fide spiritual master, trying to concoct your own non-bona fide process of spiritual realization, you will not be successful. Therefore it is clearly described by Srila Prabhupada in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 4th Canto, Chapter 21, Text 35 as follows:

"The Vedas give the direction tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet: [Mundaka-Upanisad 1.2.12] in order to reach the perfection of life or to understand the real constitutional position of the living entity, one must approach the spiritual master. Gurum evābhigacchet—one must; it is not optional. It is imperative that one approach the spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The highest perfection of such consciousness is called Krishna consciousness."

Simply by fully surrendering yourself unto the bona fide spiritual your spiritual progress will come easily, and you will be completely happy.

Srila Prabhupada Initiates a New Disciple

Srila Prabhupada Initiates a New Disciple

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Can We Become Radharani?

Dear Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I have read, heard, and understood that Krishna is unborn, supreme, full of six opulences and that nobody can become Krishna. Srimati Radharani is the internal potency of Krishna. One needs to pray Radharani to achieve Krishna's love. So how to explain Radharani in detail? Can one become Radharani?

Your humble servant,
Makarand

Answer: Only Radharani Can Be Radharani

It is not possible for us to ever become Radharani. We can however become servants of Radharani. She is described in detail as follows in the Brahma-Samhita 5.37:

ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis
tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ
goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Radha, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhis], embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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