Duty of the master
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 4
SB Canto 8
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Guest (2): Excuse me. Your honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?
Prabhupada: To teach the rascals (laughter). The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is.
Guest (2): Is not the perfect master, when come to the Earth, prophet, he showed to the God?
Prabhupada: You were asking what is the duty of the master and teacher.
Guest (2): Yes.
Prabhupada: The teacher's duty is to make right the rascals, that's all.
Guest (2): When is the perfect mast...
Prabhupada: So, first of all this is the duty of the teacher. So, therefore, a disciple should consider himself, that he's a rascal, and then he goes to a teacher. If he thinks himself, that he is quite all right, he does not require a teacher.
Guest (2): But when we are going to the teacher, teacher is showing from the 1, 2, 3, 4, teacher is showing, but not to what you can tell him to just you. Teacher is telling, teacher is showing us. So the perfect master, when the Lord Krsna...
Prabhupada: But how do you know the perfect master, if you are a student?
Guest (2): When the Lord Krsna was on the Earth...
Prabhupada: First of all you answer me, that if you are a student, how you can know who is perfect teacher? (laughter) So you do not know what is your position. If you are teacher, if you are a student, then you should go to the teacher submissively, not that strong attitude.Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Page Title: | Duty of the master |
Compiler: | Syamananda, Visnu Murti |
Created: | 22 of feb, 2008 |
No. of Quotes: | 4 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=3, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0 |