Category:God Is Spiritual Master
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category establishes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original and ultimate spiritual master of everyone. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the Lord is immensely compassionate toward the conditioned souls and actively works to guide them back to the spiritual world. To accomplish this, He manifests His guidance in two ways: from within the heart as the localized Supersoul (caitya-guru) and from without as the bona fide spiritual master, the saintly persons, and the Vedic scriptures. Recognizing God as the supreme instructor and taking shelter of His directions, either directly or through His authorized representatives, is the only way for a living entity to overcome the miseries of material existence.
- The Original Teacher: The Supreme Lord is the spiritual master of all other spiritual masters. He is the original source of all transcendental knowledge, having directly instructed the first created being, Lord Brahmā.
- The Guide Within and Without: The Lord helps the sincere soul internally by giving dictation from the heart as Paramātmā, and externally by sending a bona fide spiritual master to provide direct physical guidance.
- The Internal Caitya-guru: When a devotee is sincere and advanced, the Lord seated within the heart acts as the caitya-guru, providing the exact intelligence and direction needed to return to the kingdom of God.
- Surrendering to the Supreme Guide: Just as Arjuna and Devahūti surrendered to the Lord for guidance, every living entity must accept the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to solve the real problems of life.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God Is Spiritual Master - The Supreme Guide Within and Without.
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Pages in category "God Is Spiritual Master"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- Devahuti has submissively accepted her son as her guru. She wants to understand Krsna perfectly, by the grace of Kapiladeva
- Devahuti is accepting her son, Kapila, as her guru. He consequently tells her how to solve all material problems. Material life is nothing but sex attraction. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam - SB 5.5.8
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- He (the Supreme Godhead) manifests Himself as spiritual master both internally and externally to help the conditioned soul both ways. Therefore He has been mentioned herein (SB 4.21.36) as gurum
- He directly blasphemed Your Lordship, the spiritual master of all living beings, and committed heavily sinful activities directed against me, Your devotee. I wish that he be excused for these sinful activities
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- King Satyavrata shows us the way to accept the SP of Godhead as the real spiritual master. The Supreme Lord has given full directions in Bhagavad-gita about how to deal with everything in this material world and how to return home, back to Godhead
- Krsna is sitting within your heart. Krsna is acting as your spiritual master, caitya-guru. Caitya-guru. Caitya-guru means the guru, or the spiritual master, who is sitting in my heart, citta
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- One should adopt the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is described here (in SB 8.24.48) as guror guruh, the spiritual master of all other spiritual masters
- One should not be misled by so-called gurus who are rascals and fools. Rather, one should directly see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the guru or instructor
- Only out of His immense compassion does the Personality of Godhead reveal Himself as the spiritual master. Therefore in the dealings of an acarya there are no activities but those of transcendental loving service to the Lord
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- Sadhana-Bhakti means, to offer obeisances to the spiritual master and to follow many other rules and regulations which will be discussed here one after another. These practices will help one to become cured of madness
- She (Devahuti) said, - My dear Kapila, You have come as my son, but You are my guru because You can inform me how I can cross the ocean of nescience, which is the material world
- Such gurus (who can manufacture only a small portion of gold) are accepted by those who are blind, not knowing the goal of life. Maharaja Satyavrata, however, knew the goal of life. He knew the SPG, and therefore he accepted the Lord as his guru
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- Tat-prakasan (of CC Adi 1.34) indicates the direct manifestation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nityananda Prabhu, and the initiating spiritual master
- The disciple must be ready to execute the order of the bona fide spiritual master as Lord Brahma executed the instruction of his spiritual master, the Lord Himself
- The Lord Himself appears as the spiritual master to a person who is sincere in heart about serving the Lord
- The Lord Himself as Paramatma, or the spiritual master sitting within one's heart, gives the devotee exact directions by which he can gradually go back to Godhead
- The Lord is the Supersoul, spiritual master and worshipable Deity of all conditioned souls
- The Lord sends the spiritual master to train a devotee, and when the devotee is advanced, the Lord acts as the spiritual master within his heart
- The spiritual master outside and the spiritual master within are both representations of the Lord. Unless one has contact with such bona fide representations, one cannot claim to be a spiritual master
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased to guide a devotee from within and without. From within He guides him as the Supersoul, and from without He guides him as the spiritual master
- There are many instances in the revealed scriptures of the Personality of Godhead's acting as the spiritual master from within. The Personality of Godhead was the spiritual master who instructed Brahma, the original living being in the cosmic creation
- Thus he began offering prayers to the Lord, who is the personification of the holy scriptures (the satvata-samhitas like the Brahma-samhita and the Narada-pancaratra) and who is the spiritual master of all. He offered his prayers as follows
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- We (King Satyavrata) are interested in self-realization. Therefore we accept You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as our spiritual master, for You are able to see in all directions and are omniscient like the sun
- Within the heart of every living being the Lord Himself as the Supersoul (Paramatma) becomes the spiritual master, and from without He becomes the spiritual master in the shape of scriptures, saints and the initiator spiritual master