Some of the most common ideas in the Kali Yuga: I dont need a teacher or my teacher is an astral guide or this teacher must be important, I was moved to tears by their words. This brings to mind the words of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Nowhere in authentic scriptures is it said that whatever you do or whatever you worship you will ultimately reach the same goal. Such foolish theories are offered by self-made masters who have no connections with the Parampara, the bona fide system of disciplic succession. The bona fide spiritual master cannot say that for everyone who has his own mode of worship, it leads to the same goal. For a common man it is very easy to understand that a person starting by train from Bombay can reach the destination for which he has purchased his ticket, and nowhere else. A person who has purchased a ticket for Calcutta can reach Calcutta. But contemporary so-called masters preach that, whatever spiritual ticket you may purchase, it will take you to the Supreme Goal. Such mundane and compromising offers attract many foolish creatures to become puffed up with their manufactured methods of spiritual realization, but the Vedic instruction doesnt uphold them. Unless one has received knowledge from a bona fide spiritual master, one who is in the recognized line of disciplic succession, one cannot have the real thing as it is. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Questioner: While I am sitting here, putting questions to you, I feel at peace. Is this not a landmark, showing progress? Nisargadatta: What are you talking about?? You are talking from the kindergarten level. I am not going to address you as a student of the mumuksha class, I am going to address the class of sadhaka. How long have you been practicing spirituality? Questioner: Since childhood, because my family has been practicing spirituality for generations; therefore, I have a hobby of spirituality. Nisargadatta: Very good. Nevertheless, you are still at the kindergarten level. The only solution is for you to give up your identity with body-mind. Questioner: I know all of this intellectually. But I am not experiencing it, so I came for Satsang. Nisargadatta: What do you mean by Satsang?! This is merely a conventional spiritual jargon. Now you go from here with the firm conviction that I am the Brahaman, without any shape, form, or design, and without any mental inclincations, I am the manifest consciousness. When you realize that you are formless, there is no caste or creed for you, there are no concepts left. The mumukshu is in kindergarten, spiritually inclined but identifying with body-mind. The sadhaka is one who has dis-identified with the body-mind.
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