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The guru must be well versed in the Vedic literature and know its conclusions. And not only must he be well versed in the scripture, but in his life he must have adopted the path of He must be finished with all hankerings for wealth, women, and prestige, and he must be fully situated One should try to find such a personality and accept him as one’s spiritual master.

When Sanātana Gosvāmī approached Lord Caitanya to become His disciple, Sanātana surrendered himself and said, “My dear Lord, when I was a minister, people used to address me as a learned man, and so I accepted that I was learned and intelligent. This is the result of my learning: I know everything except what I am and how to get out of this miserable

On the other side there are my cousins, my brothers, my uncles, my nephews, and my brothers-in-law. If I kill them, their wives will become widows and be polluted, and there will be unwanted children.” I am a kṣatriya, and it is my duty to fight, but I am deviating from this duty because I am bewildered and cannot reason clearly.

The Yamadūtas replied, “That which is prescribed in the Vedas constitutes dharma, and the opposite of The Vedas are directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, and are self-born.

“I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku.”

Svāyambhuva Manu; Prahlāda Mahārāja; Bhīṣmadeva; Janaka Mahārāja; Śukadeva Gosvāmī; Bali Mahārāja; and These authorities know exactly who God is, and they can direct us to Him.

graduates, who think, “I am a Ph.D., a very learned man,” but if we ask that Ph.D. to explain what he is and He can only state his identification with the body, which he is not, and therefore he is fool number

When it comes to determining what is religion and what is irreligion, there is no such thing as “This

And there are three principles to observe in taking shelter of a guru: tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena We must surrender to the spiritual master, we must inquire from him, and we must render service to him

Therefore real religion means to abide by the words of the Supreme Lord and His representatives. The path of dharma is strictly followed by the mahājanas, and so we have to follow them.

That kind of guru is useless, and that kind of disciple is useless also.

Yamarāja is one of the twelve mahājanas, great personalities who are authorities in both spiritual and