Unflinching Faith in the Spiritual Master    If one wants to be properly situated in Krishna consciousness and make steady advancement on the path of bhakti, he must have complete faith in the guru, who helps the disciple make progress in spiritual life. As soon as the disciple thinks independently, not caring for the instructions of the spiritual master, his spiritual life is doomed. This is confirmed as follows in the Śvetāśvatara Upanisad 6.23: yasya deve parā bhaktir yathā-deve tathā gurau tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāsante mahātmanaḥ “Only unto those great souls who have unflinching, implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed.” Therefore it should be clearly understood that one who is unflinchingly devoted to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, and similarly devoted to the spiritual master, with no ulterior motive, becomes a perfect knower of the Absolute Truth as revealed in the Vedic wisdom. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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