Guru

What is the things I can do in my life today that not only benefits just me as a person, but that can also benefit society? So without further ado, please join us for today's conversation.

So you helped us understand the necessity of the Guru, right? Because while we might understand a little bit about the scriptures, the in-depth philosophy and knowledge and what that refers to in one shlok might reference something else.

So Guru is integral in our whole spiritual faith-based journey.

But you also said you had to find a trustworthy guru too or someone that deserves your trust.

What do I do in the interim? What if I am in that search and I don't still have a guru yet? Am I just now waiting and then just being just, okay, I'll wait until I find that person? Or is there something else in between?

And hopefully the experience of that teacher of many years of art that that teacher has gone through will come to you directly without having to go through all the long-term sadhana, the efforts.

And that's the same way in spirituality, that if you have that guru, then it'll speed up the process multiple times.

But to your point, even prior to the Guru, you could still have that faith.

When you're in quicksand, the more you struggle, the more you sink.

So actually there's a trick also in quicksand that you need to be in a certain way to reduce that amount of sinking and then you need to pray that someone's going to come and therefore Every single soul in this world is drowning, drowning, drowning, drowning Bhagyavan, but if they become very fortunate, Guru Krishna Prasad, by the joint mercy of Guru and Krishna, they get the opportunity, Bhakti Lata Beach.

So you cannot avoid the sinking by your own effort.

You can't do it by yourself, by your own intelligence.

But it seems it is only 10% of what I consume.

Is there a need for physical Guru mentioned in every Shastras? What Bhagavan said about Satguru? If we find them, how can we recognize whether they are real or not?

What Bhagavan, what we know Bhagavan said about Guru, he in Nana, he wrote very explicitly, God and Guru are in truth, not other.

That doesn't mean that every Tom, Dick and Harry who claims to be a guru or is proclaimed to be a guru is God.

That is not what is meant.

So that implies there's no guru other than God.

Sometimes it is necessary for God to appear outwardly in human form or in some other form.

as part of the role of Guru.

Hello.

Guruji, hi.

In me, in this, I feel such a strong longing for God since I was born, I think.

Yes.

We are good? Very good.

Thank you.

Thank you, Guruji.

Thank you.

Vishwapāyaṁ śruta-deviṁ namāi hari tuye Vāñchā-kalpata-rohya-ścāṁ krupāṣa-dhyāya-vaśnāṁ patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo hṛśna-vṛhyora-mora-mahā Shri Krishna Chetanya Om Nitya Dhanda Shri Adreta Gagadala Shri Vasudeva Bhaktarenda O Krishna, O Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Hare Rama Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya om namo bhagavate

vasudevaya Once there was a rich businessman and he came to his guru and he said I need to understand the essence of all spiritual knowledge you teach me.

So the Guru said, Veda Mata.

The Vedas are the mother.

So it's simple.

Everything is there.

The businessman said, no, no, too busy.

make it easier for me so the Guru said okay all the Vedas they are like a cow but there is milk which is coming from that cow the milker is Krishna and the milk is the Gita so if you want the shortcut just read the Gita because there you go you want to learn all spiritual knowledge read the Gita too busy no time He said, make it easier.

And yet we

could not go... all the way and meet Guruji inside the Golden Temple.

It was heartbreaking.

It was.

This is hukam.

It made me value being able to actually go in later when we went later on the trip.

It made me value it 10,000 times more because I truly felt like if Guruji does not want you to go...

You will not go.

They cannot create anything.

They can be good co-creators by, like your Guru said, preparing.

actualizing themselves to be the most aligned, clean, clear body-mind.

So that's all you can do.