Guru's first business is to deliver the suffering humanity from the forest fire of this material existence. This material existence is compared with forest fire

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"Guru's first business is to deliver the suffering humanity from the forest fire of this material existence. This material existence is compared with forest fire"

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Guru's first business is to deliver the suffering humanity from the forest fire of this material existence. This material existence is compared with forest fire. There is no such question, Hindus, Muslim, Christian.Everyone can join, even one is born in low-grade family. That is Kṛṣṇa's order.

760502 - Lecture Festival Installation, Sri Sri Kaliya Krsna - Lautoka, Fiji

Guru's first business is to deliver the suffering humanity from the forest fire of this material existence. This material existence is compared with forest fire. You know there is fire in the forest. Big forest, nobody goes there to set fire, but automatically there is fire. Therefore this material existence has been compared with the forest fire. Here everyone wants to become happy, but there is fire. Even if we do not want, there is fire, miseries, because this place, this material world, is place for suffering. It is confirmed by Kṛṣṇa Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā, duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). This place is for suffering. But under the spell of māyā, sufferings we have taken as happiness or enjoying. This is called māyā. Actually there is no enjoyment here. Where is enjoyment? When we have to die, then where is the question of enjoyment? Does anyone want to die? No. Nobody wants to die. If there is some danger immediately, immediately we shall flee away. That is death. Nobody wants to die. Therefore, in the Bhagavad-gītā the four principles of unhappiness is described by the Supreme Lord, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam (BG 13.9). Those who are intelligent, they will see four principles of major suffering. What is that? Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi: to take birth, to die, and to suffer from disease and to become old. So, so long you have got this material body, you have to suffer. Now, under the spell of māyā you can accept suffering as enjoyment. That is your business, but it is suffering.