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March 28. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations. March 28. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: \u201cBut If the Disciple is In Ignorance \u2026\u201d
\nPrabhupada is speaking on the qualifications of a spiritual master and a disciple:
\nSuppose you accept the wrong person as a spiritual master and he guides you wrongly. Then your whole life is spoiled. So one has to accept a spiritual master whose guidance will make one\u2019s life perfect. That is the relationship between spiritual master and disciple. It is not a formality. It is a great responsibility, both for the disciple and the spiritual master. \u2026 Yes?
\nStudent: But if the disciple is in ignorance before \u2026
\nPrabhupada: Yes. (Prabhupada acknowledges a serious question. It is for answering questions like this \u2013 from \u201cdisciples in ignorance\u201d \u2013 that he has left retirement in India and come to America.)
\nStudent: \u2026 how does he know which master to choose? \u2013 Because he doesn\u2019t have the knowledge to make a wise decision.
\nPrabhupada: Yes. So, the first thing is that one should be searching after a spiritual master, just as you search after some school, you must at least have some preliminary knowledge of what a school is. You can\u2019t search for a school and go to a cloth shop. If you are so ignorant that you do not know what is a school and what is a cloth shop, then it is very difficult for you. You must know, at least, what a school is. So that knowledge is like this:
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\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: “But If the Disciple is In Ignorance …”
\nPrabhupada is speaking on the qualifications of a spiritual master and a disciple:
\nSuppose you accept the wrong person as a spiritual master and he guides you wrongly. Then your whole life is spoiled. So one has to accept a spiritual master whose guidance will make one’s life perfect. That is the relationship between spiritual master and disciple. It is not a formality. It is a great responsibility, both for the disciple and the spiritual master. … Yes?
\nStudent: But if the disciple is in ignorance before …
\nPrabhupada: Yes. (Prabhupada acknowledges a serious question. It is for answering questions like this – from “disciples in ignorance” – that he has left retirement in India and come to America.)
\nStudent: … how does he know which master to choose? – Because he doesn’t have the knowledge to make a wise decision.
\nPrabhupada: Yes. So, the first thing is that one should be searching after a spiritual master, just as you search after some school, you must at least have some preliminary knowledge of what a school is. You can’t search for a school and go to a cloth shop. If you are so ignorant that you do not know what is a school and what is a cloth shop, then it is very difficult for you. You must know, at least, what a school is. So that knowledge is like this:
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