Eternally Perfect Gurus and the Challenges With Zonal Ācāryas
Unless there is faith in Guru and Vaiṣṇavas, it can’t function. Fault is easy to find. Anyone can find fault in the moon, but what cultured person will take that person seriously?
Unless there is faith in Guru and Vaiṣṇavas, it can’t function. Fault is easy to find. Anyone can find fault in the moon, but what cultured person will take that person seriously?
Until you can go beyond justice, you can’t get out of the material world. Because justice means profit and loss, gain and and safety, that’s what justice is for. Justice is to maintain the principle of gain and safety. But it’s not spiritual, unless it is connected to Kṛṣṇa.
When all five – cows, brāhmanas, women, children and old people – are taken together as important, that is called human. If you just take one of them and make an issue out of that, that is a mundane social-political position, that’s all.
The neophyte thinks self-centered, because they feel themselves are important. Therefore the Guru’s importance is there because the Guru is connected to me. So the neophytes tend to fight over the importance of who is serving their Guru. Because I am serving my Guru, the whole world stops and everybody should understand that.
Kṛṣṇa never deals roughly with any of His women. He is a man. Women deal roughly with other women. So if you deal emotionally roughly with women, that’s called a woman, not a man.
God made it, and this is the way God likes it. God likes to come home and have His women behave like this. That’s why He made it like that. That’s why He made the śāstras like that, that’s why He made the culture like that. Because this is what a man is looking for. And this is what gives the full expression to all the woman’s feelings.
Transcription of lecture on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.11.32, given as temple class in Śrī Māyāpura Candrodaya Mandira
Seminar on the Science of Relationships, Part 1, given in ISKCON Rīga, Latvia
Transcription of lecture on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.43-44, given as temple class in ISKCON Rīga, Latvia