Kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya. Krsna’s very dear servant, confidential servant, is guru. Nobody can become guru unless he is in confidence of Krsna. Na ca tasmad manusyesu kascid me priya-krttamah. These things are there. Not that by magic one can become guru. No. He must be…Samsara davanala-lidha-loka-tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam, praptasya kalyana. Everything is there in the sastra. We have to see whether a person is actually bona fide agent of Krsna. Then we accept him as guru. Otherwise useless waste of time. Gurur apy avaliptasya karyakaryam ajanatah. Guru is very confidential serv… Saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih . Guru is saksad hari; there is no distinction between guru and Krsna. Just like if you have got some business with a very big man, when his representative comes, you treat him as the same person because he is authorized agent. That is natural. Just like in India during British days, the governor general, viceroy—his name was viceroy—so people treated him exactly like the king, viceroy, in place of the king. Although he was a servant, but still, the honor was given to him just like the king. His dress was like king. He was given honor like king. Wherever he would go, he was received like the king. But he is not king. He does not say that “I am king,” but his honor is like the king. Saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair, uktah .
Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.6.8
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Vrndavana, November 30, 1976
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