Who Will Give Us the Right To Serve Rādhānātha? R
ädhäräëé and Her expansions, sakhémaïjarés, are all guru-vastu; they are all gurus. Nikuïja-yüno rati-keli-siddhyai, that is gurutattva, that is gurudeva. Abhinna-tattva1 is gurudeva. Gurudeva gives you the right to serve Kåñëa, and without his mercy, without guru, who will give you this right? Only one who is abhinna-tattva to Värñabhänavé Rädhäräëé will give that right; that is guru-tattva.
covered over by the dense darkness of ignorance. He is groping in the dark.
Vede tri-tattva kaya – the Vedas mention three tattvas: sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana. Sambandha-tattva is the tattva based on relationship, abhidheya is bhakti, and prayojana is prema. So when we consider this prayojana-tattva then kåñëa-prema comes up. Without the mercy of such a premibhakta, who is very dear to Rädhäräëé, how can you get that kåñëa-prema? Without that mercy how can one understand that prayojana-tattva? How can the sädhaka, who cannot understand this guru-tattva and who cannot see the real svarüpa of guru (svarüpa-tattva), get direction on his bhajana-patha? Who will give him direction on this path of devotional service? He cannot understand sädhya-tattva, kåñëa-prema, the goal. Sädhana and sädhya are the means as well as the end; that is prema-tattva. The means is bhakti and the goal is prema, love. Kåñëa can only be bound with the rope of love; He is the object of love, prétiviñaya. One who does not understand this, how can he do bhajana? He does not know whose bhajana he will do. He cannot do bhajana. He is completely
Guru-Sevā Is also Śrīmatī-Sevā
So in the question of guru-tattva, where there is the relationship with Rädhä, the goal, sädhya-tattva is Rädhänätha. So one who has not established his relationship with Rädhäräëé, or with any of Her expansions, cannot serve Rädhänätha. Who will give him that right?
Gurudeva is very dear to Rädhäräëé. He is rädhä-préya-sakhé, a very dear girl companion of Rädhäräëé. So guru-sevä is also çrématé-sevä. Thus to serve guru means to serve Rädhäräëé, because he is very dear to Rädhäräëé. Service to Rädhäräëé means service to guru and service to guru means service to Rädhäräëé. To become the servitor of guru means to become the servitor of Rädhäräëé and thus to become the servitor of Kåñëa. This is the tattva. Only those who know this tattva and are fixed in this tattva, can render loving service to Kåñëa. Unless one knows all these tattvas one cannot tread this path of devotional service, or bhajana-patha. But one who knows this guru-tattva perfectly well, knows that the guru is a dear devotee of Rädhäräëé, priya-jana and non-different from Rädhäräëé and Her expansions. He knows that tattva. And that gurudeva is very dear and intimate to Çrématé Rädhäräëé.
1. Abhinna-tattva: non-different, identical.
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