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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Reporter (2): What exactly is guru's role in your system?

Prabhupāda: To teach how to get rid of this disease of birth, death and old age. That is guru's business. That is also father's business, that is also guru's business, or the caretaker's business, the government's business. Because this human life is meant for getting out of these clutches of māyā, constantly, repeatedly changing body. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13), bhūtvā pralīyate (BG 8.19). This business should be stopped. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyuṁ gurur na sa syāt (SB 5.5.18). Śāstra says, "One should not be guru if he cannot deliver the disciple from the chain of birth, death, old age and disease.".
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[[Vanisource:740418 - Interview - Hyderabad|740418 - Interview - Hyderabad]]
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Reporter (3): No, besides that, any other type of concentration you do?

Prabhupāda: What do you mean by concentration?

Reporter (4): Meditation.

Reporter (3): Meditation.

Prabhupāda: Yes. When you think . . . dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 12.13.1|SB 12.13.1]]). The yogīs, in dhyāna, in meditation, they always see the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu within the heart. So that is meditation. Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ. The jñānīs, they see by cultivation of knowledge, and the bhaktas, they see the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So Supreme Lord, the Absolute Truth, is understood from different angles of vision. Brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.11|SB 1.2.11]]). That is Absolute Truth. Yaj jñānam advayam. There is no difference between Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. The same thing in different angle of vision. The jñānīs, they realize as impersonal Brahman. The yogīs, they realize as Paramātmā situated in everyone's heart. And the bhaktas, they realize as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But the thing is the same. It is the different angle of vision only.

Reporter (2): What exactly is guru's role in your system?

Prabhupāda: To teach how to get rid of this disease of birth, death and old age. That is guru's business. That is also father's business, that is also guru's business, or the caretaker's business, the government's business. Because this human life is meant for getting out of these clutches of māyā, constantly, repeatedly changing body. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]), bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]). This business should be stopped. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyuṁ gurur na sa syāt ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.18|SB 5.5.18]]). Śāstra says, "One should not be guru if he cannot deliver the disciple from the chain of birth, death, old age and disease."
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