“Guru does not deviate from the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead”

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Srila Prabhupada, Vrindavana, November 2, 1976: Bhakti-yoga is not sentiment, it is a science. Therefore we have to take it from authorized Vedic instruction. Srila Rupa Gosvami has advised that science means you have to take it from the Vedic knowledge. Vedic knowledge means there is no mistake, there is no cheating, there is no imperfect senses.

Everything is perfect. So science means, which is perfect knowledge. Not perhaps, it may be, that is not science, theory. Theory is not science. Science, the most important items of science is observation and experiment. First of all to study the situation by observation, and then practically, when you are able to make an experiment, then it is science. Otherwise, theoretical knowledge has no meaning.

So in order to know that science, one has to approach a perfect teacher. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet [MU 1.2.12]. Here also it is said, gurau hamsa. Hamse gurau mayi. The mayi is also significant. That means, paramahamsa guru means, he’s as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Because he does not deviate from the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the symptom of guru. Guru does not deviate from the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He does not manufacture something new, novel.

No, the same thing. Just like Krishna says in the Fourth Chapter, although He is the speaker, millions of years ago He instructed the science to the Sun god, and again when He was instructed to Arjuna, He said that, “I am instructing the same thing.” Sa evayam puratanah. Not that on account of change of time, the instruction has been changed, no.

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