Guru

He must have very strong dedication for bhakti path and Krishna seva. He must have strong realisation for Krishna bhajan. Why he must have strong realisation for Krishna bhajan? If Sri Guru has no realisation, no feeling about bhakti path then how he will spread it to his disciples. When Guru has such pure devotion and realisation of very beautiful Krishna bhajan, Krishna seva then it will spread in the heart of disciples. vettāraṁ veda-śāstāgama-vimala-pathāṁ sammamtaṁ satsu dāntaṁ He must have knowledge of scriptures. Which scripture? Veda, Bhagwata, Smriti; where all the rules & regulation and conclusion is written. He must have such knowledge. Why Gurudev need such kind of knowledge? Because if some disciple has confusion then to whom they will ask? They will ask to their Gurudev. If Sri Gurudev do not have such knowledge about the siddhanta then his disciple will not advance in their bhajan. And what will happen? Maybe if I get some confusion, if I get a question in my heart about bhajan and I ask my Gurudev “O Gurudev I have such confusion, please solve my confusion”. So I ask him. If Gurudev do not have such knowledge then Gurudev will say “Oh, this I don't know. I just followed my gurudev, I am following my Gurudev. My Gurudev also answered in this way only, like I answered you. I follow my gurudev. But I do not know the cause”. And if you do not say anything but just only think your mind that “my Gurudev also do not have clear knowledge”; then what will happen? Your bhajan will stop because of this Guru offence, disrespect of Sri Gurudev. But why it stopped? It was not your fault. You got a confusion about your bhajan and you asked your Gurudev and Gurudev he could not answer, he could not solve your confusion, so you just thought “Oh Gurudev also don't know this”. It was not your fault. But because of your Gurudev’s fault your bhajan will stop. You fall down from your bhajan path . That is why for disciples Gurudev must have very pure knowledge of scriptures with conclusion, siddhanta. Then he can solve the problem of disciple. So he must have the scriptural knowledge.

Effects of Mahamantra

Before initiation, mahamantra will clean your heart, mind, intelligence, subconciousness. And after initiation, initiation mahamantra will help you to develop pure bhakti in your heart.

Bhakti marg

Only by this bhakti path you can get anything, you can get connection, attachment, relation with Svayam Bhagwan, not indirectly but directly. So that is why Sriman Mahprabhu adviced us to follow this bhakti path. But if you follow this path then you have to leave all other path otherwise your mind will be distracted. But Rupa Goswami said very thing in Bhaktirasamrita Sindhu about uttama bhakti, he said that your bhakti should not be covered by gyaan or karma. It must not be covered. But here he didn't say that you have leave gyaan and karma, that means indirectly he said you can accept some part of gyaan and karma, but it should not cover your bhakti path. So some parts of gyaan or yoga like meditation, pranayam you can accept in your practice. But you have to be very careful it should not cover your bhakti. We do not have to completely leave this path, we have to accept some part only to develop our bhakti. So that is why we are following meditation, pranayam. These all are parts of karma and gyaan.

Peace of mind

Devotee: What is peace of mind?

Prabhu: This is very personal. I am giving you an example maybe you like sweet but I like bitter. Sweetness is your peace of mind but bitterness is my peace of mind. Its very personal how mind and heart gets peace, it totally depends on ones personality. This is not same for everyone. For you it is different, for me it is different, for someone else it is different. But the ultimate peace is when you get feelings about Harinaam. This is eternal peace. So when we will get taste for Harinaam, then this eternal peace will appear in your heart, in your mind. When you will feel attachment with Krishna then this eternal peace will manifest in your heart.

Shiksha and Diksha Parampara

Devotee: In some organization diksha parampara is broken, in that case they claim shiksha parampara not diksha parampara.

Prabhu: If there is broken parampara then you will not find any siddha mahatma, because there is no mantra power. Mantra will not work. Just check in the group you are telling that there will be no siddha mahatma. In Radhakund, Vrindavan; you can find so many siddha mahatma but those who do not have no diksha parampara among them, there will be no siddha mahatma.

Knowledge and bhajan

We need knowledge for our bhajan otherwise it will not support us.... so many different conclusions will come - just as a stick can help to support in parikrma knowledge can help your bhajan

Krishna.... Gurudev

“Krishna is in front of you, you have to worship him”. “But how?”. “That is why I advice you to chant
mahamantra, harinaam. When you start to chant mahamantra carefully then you will get to know what it will
do for you. First it will clean your heart, then it will clean your subconscious mind, then it will open your
eyes then you can see Krishna. Then you will realize why I said to you that your duty is to serve Krishna, your life here is for Krishna not to get the pleasure from this material world, so you have to offer your life”. “I never asked for harinaam but when Sri Gurudev found that I am very fallen soul, I have no knowledge
about myself, I have no knowledge about my goodness he came to me”.