Satsvarupa das gosvami biography

Title: He lives forever. The course of lectures read after the departure of his divine mercy A. Good important instructions are contained in the fourth song by Srimad Bhagavatam, where Srila Prabhupada explains that the student should cry after the departure of the spiritual teacher. He also describes how to receive a student to be comforted from the superchi, accept the instructions of a spiritual teacher and how to become a conscious Krishna.

Separation from Krishna or devoted is so important that this is the greatest part of our philosophy. Starting your spiritual life, you learned: “I am not this body,” then this thought continued in various ideas. In the end, you will begin to understand the highest relations between the devoted and God. And the highest level of spiritual realization is the awareness of marital love for God and a sense of separation.

Although this is the highest level of spiritual understanding, the same principles are applicable to our current situation. We need to understand the Vaishnavian philosophy of separation. In accordance with today's verse, the worst of all misfortunes is the separation from the devoted. You can understand this by the example of an unfortunate person who, by his own stupidity, separated himself from the devotees: not only from the spiritual teacher, but also from his brothers in God, fellow practitioners.

Such a person puts himself in a very unenviable position. He thinks that he will become happy, leaving communication with the devotees, but if he is really devoted, then, even trying not to remain alone, he will be very unhappy without communication with the devotees. The best devotee is the spiritual teacher, a pure devotee, and his departure is the greatest grief, but it comforts that now, more than before, we communicate with other devotees.

Now our spiritual teacher, the leader of all devotees, has left. Do we now look like an army that has lost its commander in chief? Does the spiritual teacher look like the head of the Kshatriyas, with the death of which the whole army is considered defeated? Sometimes, if the leader of the animals is defeated, the whole pack feels defeated and runs away.

Does something like this happen to us? No, of course not. In the spiritual life, Guru teaches his students so much that after his departure they should not even feel that they had lost their leader. But if there are no devotees in the world, then Ramananda Ryia says: "These are the most unhappy conditions." If for some reason you are separated from the devotees may be, by your own stupidity, or because of karma, you will experience the greatest despair.

We cannot reduce the importance of communication with others. We have lost the physical presence of the greatest devotee, and now we should be appreciated even before, even before, even the so -called younger devotees. Someone might think: "I wanted to communicate with Prabhupada, but now there are no such great devotees." Yes, but the students of Prabhupada are devoted!

If you think that these devotees are not suitable for you, and want to work without any communication, you will experience the worst misfortune. You need to communicate with the devotees. Any person who is not worshiping Krishna, as well as tied to his family who does not adhere to devoted ministry, not communicating with devotees and not offering to the Almighty - the most unhappy.