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Issue Three Hundred Nineteen, Page — 2 é[q k*Z<akQaaMa*Ta ibNdu “To one who has staunch faith in the words of the spiritual master and the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the secret of success in Vedic knowledge is revealed.” The Krishna consciousness movement is being propagated according to this principle, and therefore our preaching work is going on successfully, in spite of the many impediments offered by antagonistic demons, because we are getting positive help from our previous ācāryas . One must judge every action by its result. (Purport to Cc . ādi 12.8.) In his commentary on the verse vyavasāyātmikā- buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana , Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur says, “The instruction which I have received from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul.” This is called niścayātmikā-buddhiḥ. It means condence that, “Whatever order I have received from my spiritual master, that will give me salvation. Or even if it doesn’t give me salvation, it doesn’t matter.” A real devotee, a servant, does not expect anything. He only thinks of kāryam , “It is my duty, therefore it must be done.” (Lecture in London, 3 August 1973.) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said, āmāra ājñāya guru hañā [ Cc. madhya 7.128], “Under my order you become a spiritual master.” So if you carry out the order of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Krishna, then you become guru. Unfortunately, we do not wish to carry out order of the ācāryas . We manufacture our own ways. We have got practical experience how a great institution was lost by whimsical ways. Without carrying out the order of the spiritual master, they manufactured something and the whole thing was lost. Therefore Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur stresses very much on the words of the spiritual master. Vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana . If you stick to the order of spiritual master without caring for your own convenience or inconvenience, you become perfect. We have to carry out very faithfully the order of the bona de representative of Krishna. Then our life is successful. Then we can understand Krishna in truth. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam [ Bhāg . 1.2.11]. We have to hear from the tattva-vit , not from the so- called scholars and politicians. No. One who knows the truth, you have to hear from him. And if you stick to that principle then you understand everything very clearly. (Lecture in Vrindavan, 22 October 1972.) Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe ‘rjuna [ Bg . 18.61] — Krishna is within your heart. If you are sincere and you actually want Krishna, Krishna will see, “Here is a sincere soul, he wants me ,” teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ top left 2 Top right 2 bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakaṁ, buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam [ Bg . 10.10]. As soon as Krishna sees, “Here is a sincere person who wants me,” then he will give you a nice guru. This is guru-kṛṣṇa kṛpa, the mercy of guru and Krishna . Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādat —if you really have a bona de guru, then by pleasing him you will get the favor of Krishna. And yasyāprasādān na gatiḥ kuto ’pi . If you have become more than your guru, if you think, “By surpassing my guru, I shall get Krishna’s favor.” “I have learnt more than my guru.” “ guru mara vidyā — By knowledge I will kill my guru.” that is also not good. Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur has described very nicely in his explanation of vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru nandana — the order of guru should be the life and soul of the disciple, without caring for his personal salvation. This is the qualication of a disciple . (Lecture in Vrindavan, 6 November 1976.) One should be faithful to the spiritual master. Whatever he says, the brahmacārī should take it, “It is my life and soul.” That is the explanation given by Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur to the verse vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana . He has taught very, very nicely about guru. He has written in Gurvaṣṭaka — yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ — “By the mercy of guru one gets the mercy of Krishna.” Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur is the practical example of guru-bhakti in the manner that he accepted his guru, Narottam Das Thakur. He said, “I am not interested in my salvation, in going back to Godhead.” Interested means it may come or it may not come. “I don’t mind. I am interested only in the order of my guru.” Vishwanath Chakravarti said. “That is my life. Whether I am successful or not successful, it doesn’t matter. I must take the words of my Guru Maharaja as my life and soul.” That is the secret of success, to accept the words of guru very, very faithfully. (Lecture in Bombay, 17 April 1976.) I was born in one family, and my Guru Maharaja was born in a different family. Who knew that I would come to his protection? Who knew that I would come to America? Who knew that you American boys would come to me? These are all Krishna’s arrangements. We cannot understand how things are taking place. Today is the ninth of December, 1968. Thirty-two years ago in Bombay I was doing business. Sometime between the 9 th or 10 th of December my Guru Maharaja was a little indisposed, and he was staying at Jagannath Puri, on the seashore. So I wrote him a letter, “My dear master, your other disciples, brahmacārīs and sannyāsīs , are rendering direct service to you. I am a householder. I cannot live with you, I cannot serve you nicely. How can
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