Srila Rupa Gosvami: Without being svami or master of the senses, to become a spiritual master is bogus

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Srila Prabhupada, Los Angeles, February 18, 1969: […] So gosvami is not a hereditary title. It is a qualification. Under the direction of spiritual master. One who attains perfection in controlling the senses, he is called svami or gosvami. So one has to become svami, gosvami. Then he can become spiritual master. Without being svami or master of the senses, to become a spiritual master is bogus. That is also defined by Rupa Gosvami. He says,

vaco vegam manasah krodha-vegam jihva-vegam udaropastha-vegam etan vegan yo visaheta dhirah sarvam apimam prthivim sa sisyat

He says there are six impetus, pushing, vegam. Pushing. Vegam, you can understand, just like you are called by nature, you have to go to the toilet room. You cannot check. You have to answer. That is called vegam, pushing.

So there are six vegam, pushing. What is that? Vaco vegam. Vegam, pushing of talking. Unnecessarily talking. That is called pushing of the talks. Krodha-vegam. There is sometimes pushing of the anger. If I am very much angry I cannot check myself. I do something which I ought not to do. Sometimes in anger kills his own men. This is called vegam, pushing. So pushing of the talking, pushing of the anger.

Similarly pushing of the mind. Mind dictates, “You must go at once there.” Immediately. Pushing of the talking, pushing of the mind, pushing of the anger. Then jihva-vegam. Jihva-vegam means tongue. I want to taste such nice things.

Some sweetballs or something else which I like very much. So one has to control this. One has to control his talking unnecessarily. One has to control his mind, dictation of mind. The yoga practice only on the mind. But our Krsna conscious practice … except mind there are so many other things.

Just like anger, tongue. then jihva-vegam. Then udara-vegam. From tongue come little down. Udara means belly. The belly is already filled up, still I want to fill it more. That is called vegam, pushing of the belly.

And when there is so much pushing of the tongue and pushing of the belly, the next underneath the genital, there is force of the genital. Then I require some sex. If I eat more, if I use my tongue unnecessarily, if I allow my mind to do anything and everything, then I cannot check my genital also. There will be sex urge which I cannot check. In this way there are so many pushing.

Rupa Gosvami says one who has control over all this pushing machine, he can become spiritual master. Not that spiritual master is manufactured. One has to learn this. How to check the pushing of these things. Etan vegan yo visaheta dhirah. One who can control over these pushing and remain dhirah, steady, prthivim sa sisyat: He can make disciples all over the world. Open. Yes.

So everything depends on training. That is yoga system. Yoga means the whole yoga system means training. Full Lecture