Only A Bonafide Guru Can

 

Extinguish This Fire

Sri la Prabhupada, one of the greatest Gurus of all times

 

To be caught up, as we are at the present moment, in the cycle of birth and death, is to be trapped in the blazing forest fire of material existence. When a forest fire becomes massive what can a tiny fire brigade do to extinguish it? Nothing.

But when the Lord sends a merciful downpour of rain extracted from the ocean that inextinguishable forest fire immediately becomes extinguished. Similarly, it is only by the mercy of Lord Sri Krishna that we can be saved from this hellish material existence.

The spiritual master is compared to the cloud which carries that merciful water from the ocean of Krishna to relieve us from our suffering in this material world. Therefore if we want to be delivered from the forest fire of birth and death, we must get the mercy of the bona fide spiritual master.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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