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chanting, so your anarthas cannot be destroyed. Even if you chant lakhs of offensive names, you cannot make any advancement at all. Many are chanting, but what are they getting? By chanting alone can one go to Vaikuëöha? No. Gurudeva has come here to teach you that you should enter into guru-saàsära, which means Kåñëa’s saàsära. You are a servant, you should render service, and enter into the guru-gåha, and then you will achieve perfection. Otherwise you cannot have perfection.
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What do you expect to receive upon entering into the saàsära of guru? Do you only want to take, and not give anything? You have received so much from guru, haven’t you? You have received a lot, but, unless you are a servant, unless you serve in the house of the guru, what is the benefit? There will be no benefit. Therefore, guru says, “Come and join. Enter into my saàsära, it is Kåñëa’s saàsära. Join here! Join here! Then all your anarthas will be destroyed.” Dedicate your body, mind and speech, your soul, everything to the service of çré-guru.
You have come to the house of guru. He has opened a factory, so you should be an employee in that factory. Who can give you that kind of employment? Will the government give it to you? No. Gurudeva will give you employment in the factory he has opened. That employment is service to Kåñëa, kåñëa-sevä-yajïa. To offer service to Kåñëa, is yajïa, sacrifice, sevä-yajïa. Unless you join in that sevä-yajïa, unless you render service in guru-gåha, you cannot get the real benefit of this process at all.
Gaurasundara Mahäprabhu speaks and teaches through çré-guru. So, giving everything you have to serve çré-guru, with käya-mana-väkya – body, mind and speech – then perfection is guaranteed, definitely, whatever your impediments or obstacles are. There are so many impediments! This material world means that there is danger at every step. There are drawbacks and very large stumbling blocks at every step, but if you completely surrender through your body, mind and speech, then all impediments, obstacles and stumbling blocks will be destroyed within a moment. In this very life you will achieve perfection; there is no doubt about it. Without the mercy of guru, without service to guru, no one can understand Kåñëa, no one can approach Kåñëa, and no one can get Kåñëa, the ultimate goal of human life. Therefore we offer this prayer every day, and offer worship to çré-guru,
çré-guru-caraëa-padma, kevala-bhakati-sadma, vando mui sävadhäna mate
“The lotus feet of our spiritual master are the only way by which we can attain pure devotional service. I bow to his lotus feet with great awe and reverence.”
Śrī-guru-caraṇa-padma The Lotus Feet of Śrī Guru
“As the lotus grows in water, similarly the lotus feet of Śrī Guru are like a lotus that grows in the ocean of bhakti-rasa. These lotus feet are aprākṛta, transcendental, not material. They are the abode of transcendental bhakti-rasa, filled with mādhurī, all sweetness and beauty, and very relishable. Just as the lotus looks very beautiful to the eye, nayana-abhirāma, and attractive to the heart, citta-ākarṣaka, because it is shining attractively, similarly, in the eye of the disciple the lotus feet of guru also glisten with affection. ”
