Krishna Dasi asked, “How to follow Guru Purnima?” Everything depends on your respect (faith/trust). If there is respect (faith) and love for your guru then everything is beautiful otherwise if there is no respect (faith) or love, then whatever you do will be useless.
Do guru puja. Do abhiśek. Total abhiśek? No. Wash his feet with water, pure water, not holy water. Do not wash the feet of Sri Gurudev with Ganga water or Radha Kund water or any holy water but pure water. Mix some fragrance like gulab jal (rose water), kewara jal (pandan leaf water) with that water, then just dry the lotus feet of Sri Gurudev with a towel. Then, offer flowers, flower petals, not tulasi, not bilva patra (bael leaves). Offer flowers, then offer him a garland and make sure that the garland is a prasadi garland. You must first offer that garland to Sri Govinda, Sri Krishna, your Deity, only then to Sri Gurudev. Then offer arati, and finally offer naivedya (foodstuffs). This is enough, but everything you offer must be offered with love and great respect (faith).
Krishna Dasi also asks, “In some places it says not to reveal who your Gurudev is, but in Narottam Das Thakur’s prayer it is said that Sri Guru is worshipable in the three worlds. Should the disciple hide his Guru or glorify his Gurudev? Can you kindly clarify these two contradictory statements?”
A: “Yes, you must glorify your Gurudev, not hide him, not hide whom you got your initiation from, no. Guru is your garbha (spiritual birth), guru is your abhiman, your pride; so his glories must be shown to everyone in the three worlds, śastra says.”
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