In Hare Krishna movement, one learns to get out of all those materialistic agreements, kick all that and to just go for such training as ‘sarva dharman parityaja mamekam saranam vraja,’ (Bhagavad Gita, 18.66: Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me) by which, we are trained to agree with the Lord, Radha Madhava sammatah. This is authorized by Him. This is Hare Krishna mission, learning to agree with the Lord, and disagree with maya.
Lord is ‘Bhavagrahi Janardan’. Even your ‘bhava’ counts, you get credit for that.
We should take shelter of Srila Prabhupada. Taking shelter of his instructions, his purports, and his books is very important. He has poured his heart into his books and his books are nondifferent from Prabhupada so as we open a book, listen, read, Srila Prabhupada is right there, we get to meet Srila Prabhupada, we get to know Srila Prabhupada.
A guru gains maximum pleasure in serving the divine couple, Radha and Krishna.
A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna.
Speaking about the glories of Srila Prabhupada is equal to speaking about the glories of Bhagvatam.
A guru can also be a friend and a philosopher.
