can a guru fall ?
Philosophy · asked by user [] · 2010-07-26 · 2 answers
Sometimes we heard that so and so guru fall, how deal with it? was he a real guru or a guru can fall?
user [149] · 2010-07-27
Aksayananda: I was recently told by one devotee that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee.Prabhupada: What?
Aksayananda: That the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee.
Prabhupada: Who is that rascal?
Aksayananda: Well, he said it. Who said it?
Prabhupada: Who said? Who is that rascal? The acarya does not require to be a pure devotee?
Aksayananda: He said it. Nitai said it. He said it in this context. He said that Lord Brahm is the acarya in the Brahma-sampradaya, but yet he is sometimes afflicted by passion. So therefore he is saying that it appears that the acarya does not have to be a pure devotee. So it
does not seem right.
Prabhupada: So who is that rascal?
December, 1975
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"When one has attained the topmost position of maha-bhagavata, he is to be accepted as a guru and worshipped exactly like Hari, the Personality of Godhead. Only such a person is eligible to occupy the post of a guru." (C.c. Madhya, 24.330, purport)
user [591] · 2010-07-29
yes a guru can fall...sometimes krishna-chaitanya mahaprabhu can direct you like bhaktivinoda takura to accept a guru,even he is even a kanistha guru like viphina bihari goswami ....evidently he was the best available at the time ...he smoked cigarettes before he initiated bhaktivinoda takura and even after wards! Simply krishnas will ...very interesting scenario ...caste brahmana...even gave siddha pranali...