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Śrī Īśopaniṣad
atmosphere of  Kali-yuga , often problematic. As spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedānta Swāmī Prabhupāda is the last recourse and the ultimate standard of  Kṛṣṇa  Consciousness, and he writes some twenty-five letters a day to leaders and students of his various worldwide centers. He himself resides in no one place but travels from center to center and regularly lectures. The spiritual master is responsible for his devotees; when he accepts a sincere soul as his disciple, he promises to take him back home, back to Godhead. No one should think, “Oh, everyone is taking a spiritual master; let me take one.” The spiritual master as a style or as a pet is useless. Rather, his order is to be taken as one’s life and soul. By taking shelter at the feet of the bona fide  guru  and serving him twenty-four hours a day, the fallen soul can be lifted to the spiritual sky. It is said that if the spiritual master is pleased, then one can make great advances in spiritual life. And one pure convinced devotee can make many pure devotees by his example and teachings. Those serious students with an understanding of the absolute value of the spiritual platform of life therefore honor the spiritual master with the honor due to God because the  guru  is the transparent via medium or representative of God and is distributing unalloyed love of God. The intelligent reader is invited to take to this philosophy with the utmost seriousness.