Question: How can one tax his mind in performing service for the Guru? Srila Guru Maharaj: How can he attach his mind? Tax his mind? Income tax? Everything that comes in the mind has to be employed. If it is for the service of Guru then we accept. And if it is against the principle of pleasing Guru and Krsna then we reject. I don’t find taxing one’s mind to please the Spiritual Master is not the same as taxing one’s mind in the ordinary sense. That is a burden of love. If one loves someone then he will think very deeply how to please that person? If one appreciates what someone has done for him then he loves him. If one sees the good qualities in someone that appreciation can take the form of love. So the spiritual master, if he gives even one teaching, one syllable, according to the Vedas that means the disciple is eternally, indebted. No amount of repayment can repay that debt. So the disciple, seeing how the spiritual master has taken him from the very dangerous position of suffering in this material world, of being in a fearful position, of being subjected to repeated birth and death and reincarnation, ie, he has given him his eternal happiness, his eternal consciousness, his eternal knowledge, has given him his new lease on his eternal life. So naturally he will think that this person has done so much for me, what can I do for him? It is only fair; it is only an honest expression. When someone is taking care of all of one’s needs, that person is truly grateful. If he is an honest and sincere person, he must be grateful and thinks what can I do in repayment of the great gift my spiritual master has done for me? If someone is not thinking to repay that debt then he is an ingrate and he is little bit foolish. That he is not been able to understand the value of the gift he has received from the Guru. So therefore one should try to understand what is that thing which is given by my Guru? How is that more valuable than anything else? If one can appreciate that valuable gift, naturally he will think that what can I give? What humble offering can I make? So that thinking if you want to call it taxing…you see? That expression of reciprocation of one’s deep intense love, that is the natural expression which one will feel when he is grateful for the great gift he has received from the spiritual master or Guru. (to be continued....) HH Jayapataka Swami Srila Guru Maharaj September 9th 1979, Sunday Feast Lecture, Los Angeles
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