28 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

tad-vijfianarthar sa gurum evabhigacchet
samit-panih Srotriyarn brahma-nistham

A guru must come in a disciplic succession, and he must
have heard thoroughly about the Vedas from his spiritual
master. Generally a guru’s symptom is that he is a perfect
devotee, that’s all. And he serves Krsna by preaching His
message.
BOB: Lord Caitanya—He was a different type of guru than
you are?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: No, no. Gumus cannot be of different
types. All gurus are of one type.
BOB: But He was—was He also an incarnation at the same
time?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes, He is Krsna Himself, but He is
representing the guru.
BOB:I .. . Isee.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes.
BOB: Andthen .. .
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Because Krsna was God, He
demanded:

sarva-dharman parityajya

mam ekam Saranam vraja

“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto
Me.” But people misunderstood Him. Therefore Krsna
again came as a guru and taught people how to surrender to
Krsna.

SYAMASUNDARA: Doesn’t He say in Bhagavad-gita, “I am
the spiritual master’’?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes, He is the original spiritual
master because He was accepted as spiritual master by
Arjuna. So what is the difficulty? Sisyas te *ham sadhi mam
