Question and answer 1

Devotee: When the devotees want to serve the dieties, worship Dieties

but not want to accept a Guru, then what is their future? How will this

infleunce them in future?

Prabhu: There is no future. If Guru will not hold your hand then who will

help you to advance. When we are travelling at a new place, we don’t

know anything about that place so we have to accept one guide from

there. If you have no guide, maybe you can travel by yourself but you

will miss the important places to see. So Sri Gurudev will work as guide, he will work as your helper, he will support you by knowledge. So if you

are not accepting Sri Gurudev then maybe for a long time you can do

this... What happened with Dhruv Maharaja, he did very strong sadhana

and Svayam Bhagwan was very pleased by his austerities, he said this to

Devarishi Narad “O Devarishi, by seeing his tapasya, his sadhana I am

very happy, I want to bless him, I want to give him darshan”. Devarishi

Narad said “Ok, who can stop you. Bhagwan will go to his devotees who

can stop Bhagwan. You are the most powerful”. Then Bhagwan said “No, I cannot”. Devarishi Narad said “why not?”. “Till now he has not got

Guru blessing. First he will have accept Gurudev”. You just go to him and

give him intiation”. Then Devarishi Narad went to Dhruv maharaja and

gave him mantra. Dhruv Maharaja accepted him as Sri Gurudev. Then

when he started to chant these mantras, Svayam Bhagwan appeared in

front of him. Everything was prepared then also... Maybe you fix this

light bulb, prepare everything but if there is no power supply then it will

not blow up. Guru blessing is like power supply. Even if everything is

prepared but the power supply is not there then nothing will happen. This bulb will not blow up. So that is why we need Guru blessing in our

life.

In Narad Pancaratra very nice thing is there, same question is there. It

was some question like maybe I chant the mantras from my heart, I can

get all these mantras from books; Gopal mantra and all other mantras; I

can find these in granthas. I can read mantras from there. Maybe

Gurudev will advice me to just chant certain rounds. So, I will not accept

Gurudev but everyday I will chant hundred thousand times. So what will

happen with him?

Very nice answer was given. The best activity for our life, most

important activity is diksha, initiation. Whenever we will get this desire 

“Oh, I have to take diksha. I will take the shelter on the lotus feet of Sri

Gurudev”. So whenever we take this sankalp, vow; then all the siddhis

will stand in front of us. After intiation you just follow the intructions, then all siddhis will come to you. But if you did not accept Guru blessing,

if you did not take the shelter on the lotus feet, then what will happen?

Not only hundred thousand but ten hundred thousand times you can

chant, you can chant in this way life after life but you will not get one

single drop of siddhi. All the activities will work only after Guru blessing.

If you will do 10% you will get result at that moment only, not only 10%

you will get extra 50% result. By doing 10% activity you will get 60%

result. And sometime maybe 100% only by doing only 10%. And without

Guru blessing, maybe you do 100% you will get not even 1% of result. Because that is not real bhakti, pure bhakti, real attachment. That mood

will not appear, that’s why we need Guru blessing.