This whole confused world is just like a blazing forest fire. In a forest fire all the animals are confused. They do not know where to go to save their lives. In the blazing fire of the material world, everyone is confused. How can that blazing forest fire be extinguished? It is not possible to utilize your man-made fire brigade, nor is it possible to simply pour buckets of water. The solution comes when rain from the clouds falls on the forest fire. Only then can the fire be extinguished. That ability is not in your hands, but is in the mercy of God. So, human society is in a confused state, and it cannot find a solution. The spiritual master is one who has received the mercy of God, and he can deliver the solution to the confused man. One who has received the mercy of God can become a spiritual master and deliver that mercy to others.
This repetition of birth, death, old age and disease, this is just like a fire in the forest. Nobody wants it but it is forced up on us. Just like nobody wants to set fire in the forest, but it takes place naturally. Similarly, if you remain in this material world then you have to be, I mean to say, put into these tribulations of materialistic way of life. There is no escape. Saṁsāra-dāvānala **. It is just like dāvānala.
Saṁsāra dāvānala-līḍha-loka-trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam **. Now, this dāvānala… Just like in the forest, you cannot send your fire brigade. That is not possible. Neither you can go there to help the animals for extinguishing the fire by bucketful of waters. That is also not possible. Helpless. Similarly, this saṁsāra dāvānala, you cannot extinguish it. So how it will be extinguished? Saṁsāra dāvānala-līḍha-loka-trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam **. You have to beg for the mercy of Kṛṣṇa; then this blazing fire can be extinguished, not by your arrangement. That is not possible. Trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam. That cloud is mercy cloud, not this ordinary cloud. Because dāvānala, the example, personal experience that on the hill of Nainital, some thousand feet high, how this fire will be extinguished? The extinguished it will be when there is cloud on the sky and there is rainfall. Otherwise it is not possible. Similarly, the mercy cloud, kāruṇya, kāruṇa, ghanāghanatvam… So just like ordinary cloud is made possible by evaporating water from the sea, similarly, Kṛṣṇa has the sea of mercy, kāruṇayamaya, kāruṇa-sāgara. Kṛṣṇa’s another name is Kāruṇa-sāgara. So as the air evaporate or the heat evaporate from the sea, and the cloud is formed in the sky, similarly, one who has connection or the power to evaporate the mercy sea of Kṛṣṇa, he can extinguish the saṁsāra dāvānala. And that is guru. Guru is the cloud or he is the agent of drying water from the ocean of mercy of Kṛṣṇa and turn it into a mercy cloud and pour water on the saṁsāra dāvānala, and then it is extinguished. Saṁsāra dāvānala-līḍha-loka-trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam, prāptasya kalyāṇa **.
Therefore guru must be authorized person, not that bhūmi-phala-guru(?). No. “I am guru,” no. You cannot become guru unless you are agent to draw out the mercy water from the ocean of mercy of Kṛṣṇa. That is guru. And therefore a guru is not an ordinary person. He is the representative, bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung, kṛṣṇa se tomāra, kṛṣṇa dite pāra: “Vaiṣṇava Ṭhākura, Kṛṣṇa is your property. If you like, you can give.” Vedeṣu durlabhaṁ adurlabhaṁ ātma-bhaktau [Bs. 5.33]. You cannot get Kṛṣṇa by studying Vedas. That is not possible. There is Kṛṣṇa in the Vedas, but you cannot pick up. It is not possible. But if you go to the Kṛṣṇa’s favorite person… Kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya. Kṛṣṇa’s very dear servant, confidential servant, is guru. Nobody can become guru unless he is in confidence of Kṛṣṇa. Na ca tasmād manuṣyeṣu kaścid me priya-kṛttamaḥ. These things are there. Not that by magic one can become guru. No. He must be qualified. (Lectures : Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.6.8 — Vrndavana, November 30, 1976 : 761130SB.VRN)
pamho agtACBSP, SRILA PRABHUPADA explain in HIS wonderful classes that there are 81 different gunas in this forest fire of the material world,they are coming in from the combination of the three main gunas which get multiple by three for three it become nine and nine multiple for nine become 81,many stupid people can’t realize that all the material bodies are just a insignificant combination of all these 81 gunas which were already existing,they think they are something new therefore important,is not easy to find a learned living entity who is conscious that all the saguna forms are just a insignificant combination of gunas destined to disappear again,some of this guna are ugra gunas and karma but still they can’t realize it,the demigods can take any form in saguna elements like yogis like subhari muni they can also transform a old body in young again as subhari muni did by getting married with the 50 daughters of a king due to the curse of SRI GARUDA DEVA,a learned soul know it’s just a combination of insignificant gunas destined to disappear again I mean nobody can keep a saguna form forever this is the scienze of god is not for dull and tiny brains like all the stink guru hoaxers who are chew the chewed repeatly punas punah carvana carvananam for example many vikarmi yavana meleccha candela pulinda etc… they don’t know that they are just travelling toilets feeded by stools therefore they mating with others stink toilets by creating more unwanting toilets in super varna sankara in this way the material world is not better then a huge toilet,the barbarian race which is the last uncivilized race in this polluted kali yuga will take birth with bodily deformations but still they want to enjoy their shit they are all cannibals their spain of life get reduce at 30 years the few devotees remaining hide themselves in the mountain to save their soft body meat from the barbarian race they just waiting for KALKI AVATARA to come to deliver them by killing all these disgusted uncivilized citizens by announcing a new satya yuga age,SRILA PRABHUPADA say is better to do our spiritual business properly by going back home before this bad time reach us this is the forest in fire of the material world agtSP ys haribol