Guru is described...
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 5
SB Canto 8
- guror apy avaliptasya
- kāryākāryam ajānataḥ
- utpatha-pratipannasya
- parityāgo vidhīyate
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
- tasyaivaṁ me 'nuraktasya
- praśritasya hatainasaḥ
- śraddadhānasya bālasya
- dāntasyānucarasya ca
- [SB 1.5.29]
So the, the one side, the guru. Saṅkīrtyamānaṁ munibhir mahātmabhiḥ. The... This is a relationship between disciple and guru. What are the qualifications of guru? And what are the qualifications of the disciple? If both of them are qualified, then immediately the result is there. Just like husband and wife. Both of them, if they are healthy, by sex there will be pregnancy. Similarly, if the guru and the disciple, both of them are qualified, then immediately Kṛṣṇa consciousness will be there. So the qualification of the guru is described in the previous verse.
- viśṛṇvato me 'nusavaṁ yaśo 'malaṁ
- saṅkīrtyamānaṁ munibhir mahātmabhiḥ
That... What is this, Viśvanātha Cakravartī's verse? Niyuñjato 'pi. Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā **. One of the symptoms of guru is described by Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, śrī-vigraha ārādhana: "He knows how to worship the Deity." Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau **. Dressing the Deity and tan-mandira-mārjanādau, and cleansing the temple, keeping everything fit in the temple. So the guru knows it, how to do it, and he teaches his disciple.
- śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-
- śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau
- yuktasya bhaktāṁś ca niyuñjato 'pi... **
- yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo
- yasyāprasādād na gatiḥ kuto 'pi
- kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya **
Guru is described, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ: ** "By the mercy of guru one can achieve the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Yasya prasāda. Yasya aprasādāt: "If guru is not pleased, then he has no place." Na gatiḥ kuto 'pi.
- sākṣād dharitvena samasta-śāstrair
- uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ
- kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya **
General Lectures
- sākṣād dharitvena samasta-śāstrair
- uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ
- kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya
- vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam **
Page Title: | Guru is described... |
Compiler: | Kanupriya, Serene |
Created: | 21 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=2, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=6, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 8 |