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Tad-vijnana means spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge. For acquiring spiritual knowledge. Tad-vijnanartham. Sa - one; gurum eva - eva means must; gurum - to a guru. Must go to guru. Not "a guru"; "the guru." Guru is one

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"Tad-vijnana means spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge. For acquiring spiritual knowledge. Tad-vijnanartham. Sa" |"one; gurum eva" |"eva means must; gurum" |"to a guru. Must go to guru. Not" |"the guru" |"Guru is one"

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General Lectures

Somebody was asking that whether guru is absolutely necessary. Yes, absolutely necessary. That is the Vedic injunction. The Vedas say, tad-vijñānārtham. Tad-vijñāna means spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge. For acquiring spiritual knowledge. Tad-vijñānārtham. Sa—one; gurum eva—eva means must; gurum—to a guru. Must go to guru. Not "a guru"; "the guru." Guru is one. Because as it is explained by our Revatīnandana Mahārāja, guru is coming from the disciplic succession.

Guru's business is . . . every human being is suffering in this material world. Nobody can say that, "I am not suffering." It is not possible. There must be suffering. There are three kinds of sufferings. That out of ignorance also, a rascal is suffering, he's saying that, "I am very happy." That is also another ignorance. There are three kinds of sufferings in this material world: ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika. Suffering on account of my own body and mind—this suffering is not imposed by anyone else. I do it. The same thing, that I cannot digest but I eat more, so there must be dysentery. You must suffer. This is due to mind, body and mind. That is another one kind of suffering. Another suffering is imposed by other living entities. Just like your enemy or an animal—or there are ants, mosquitoes, flies, they are all causing suffering. You are killing them, and they are trying to give you suffering. This is called struggle. This is called ādhibhautika, suffering given by other living entities. Suffering caused by myself, this is called ādhyātmika. And suffering caused by other living . . . and there are other sufferings, caused by the nature, superior power, ādhidaivika. All of a sudden, there is no rain, no rainfall, and now for want of rainfall there is no food grain. Excessive heat, excessive chilly cold, earthquake, famine . . . so many, by natures, imposed by the natures. Flood. So there are three kinds of sufferings in the material world, and everyone is suffering either by one, two or three or . . . but nobody can say that, "I am completely free from suffering." That is not possible. And why this suffering? Due to ignorance. I do not know. I am committing sinful life, I am committing mistakes; therefore I am suffering. Therefore guru's business is first to rescue his disciple from ignorance. Ignorance. Ajñāna-timirāndhasya. Everyone is suffering out of ignorance; therefore guru's business is to . . . just like we go to school. We go to school, we send our children to school. Why? To save him from suffering; to get education: "If my son does not get education, he'll suffer in the future." The same process: to get him out of ignorance, to get him relieved from the suffering. Therefore, guru's business is ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākaya. So sufferings is due to ignorance. Ignorance is compared with darkness. So in the darkness, how you can save one? By some light. So guru's business is to take the torchlight of knowledge and present before the ignorant or the disciple in darkness, and that gives him . . . relieves him from the sufferings of darkness or ignorance. This is guru's business. Then another verse is:

tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet
samit-pāṇiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham
(MU 1.2.12)

So it is Vedic injunction. Somebody was asking that whether guru is absolutely necessary. Yes, absolutely necessary. That is the Vedic injunction. The Vedas say, tad-vijñānārtham. Tad-vijñāna means spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge. For acquiring spiritual knowledge. Tad-vijñānārtham. Saone; gurum evaeva means must; gurumto a guru. Must go to guru. Not "a guru"; "the guru." Guru is one. Because as it is explained by our Revatīnandana Mahārāja, guru is coming from the disciplic succession. What five thousand years ago Vyāsadeva instructed or Kṛṣṇa instructed, the same thing we are also instructing. Therefore there is no difference between instruction. Therefore guru is one. Although hundreds and thousands of ācāryas have come and gone, but the message is one. Therefore guru cannot be two.

Real guru would not talk differently. Some guru says that "In my opinion, you should like this," and some guru will say: "In my opinion you'll do this"—they are not gurus, they are all rascals. Guru has no "own opinion." Guru has got only one opinion, the same opinion which was expressed by Kṛṣṇa or Vyāsadeva or Nārada or Arjuna or Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu or the Gosvāmīs. You'll find the same thing. Five thousand years ago, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa spoke Bhagavad-gītā and Vyāsadeva wrote it, recorded it. Vyāsadeva does not say that, "It is my opinion." Vyāsadeva writes, śrī bhagavān uvāca, "Whatever writing, it is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead." He's not giving his own opinion. Śrī bhagavān uvāca. Therefore he is guru. He is not misinterpreting the words of Kṛṣṇa. He's giving as it is. Just like a bearer, peon. Somebody has written you letter, the peon has got the letter. It does not mean he has to correct it or edit it or addition or . . . no. He'll present it. That is his duty. Then he is guru. He's honest. Similarly, guru cannot be two. Mind that. The person may be different, but the message is the same. Therefore guru is one.

The Vedic instruction is, tad vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). Gurum eva, "one must." Eva means "must." Abhigacchet, this verb is used when there is the sense of "must." It never says: "Go to a guru," but he says: "Must approach the guru." Guru is one. Guru cannot be two. Gurum evābhigacchet. And we see also, practically, in the disciplic succession of guru, the same thing is spoken by the guru. Same thing. Repetition of the same subject matter, no other. Kṛṣṇa said that man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru (BG 18.65): "Just think of Me," man-manā. "Just become devotee of Me," man-manā bhava mad-bhakto. "Just worship Me and just offer your obeisances unto Me." Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). "Just surrender unto Me." You'll find this instruction in the Bhagavad-gītā. The same thing was spoken by all the ācāryas. Rāmanujācārya also says the same thing, Madhvācārya says same thing, Caitanya Mahāprabhu says same thing, the Gosvāmīs say the same thing, and we are also speaking the same thing. There is no difference.

We do not interpret the words of Kṛṣṇa that, "In my opinion, Kurukṣetra means this body." This is rascaldom. The whole situation has been spoiled by these so-called rascal gurus who gives his own opinion. This is our plain declaration: Let any rascal guru come; we can convince him that he is not guru, because he is speaking differently. We can challenge any rascal. Just like somebody came here, he says that he's God, every one of us God.

Page Title:Tad-vijnana means spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge. For acquiring spiritual knowledge. Tad-vijnanartham. Sa - one; gurum eva - eva means must; gurum - to a guru. Must go to guru. Not "a guru"; "the guru." Guru is one
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-10-11, 08:22:45
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1