Seek a true Saint like Kripaluji Maharaj
Kripalu ji
Maharaj explains that every soul of the world
desires only eternal Divine Bliss. Since eternity, each
soul has been trying every moment to attain this Bliss.
Even after so much effort in uncountable births, we
haven’t been able to attain even a trace of that . Why
were we unsuccessful? We directly prayed to God. In
other words, due to our pride, we never accepted and
surrendered to a true Saint.
According to the Ved, the first step in attaining absolute
supreme God Krishn is to surrender to a true Saint. Your
goal can’t be achieved from a Saint who has left the
material world and gone to the Divine abode. Krishn said
very clearly to Arjun in the Gita, “O Arjun! Surrender to a
true Saint.” Krishn strongly emphasized complete surrender
to a Spiritual Master while having no material desires in
one’s heart. With sincere, you must acquire Divine
knowledge by asking devotional questions of your Spiritual
Master. Many innocent people think there is no need for
knowing spiritual theory and that we should just chant,
‘Radhey Radhey’. But spiritual theory is very important.
God is omnipresent. God resides in everyone’s heart. God
has established Himself in His name, form, qualities,
leelas, and abode. Still the souls aren’t benefitting. Why
not? This is due to spiritual transgressions. A person
might shed tears for his Spiritual Master and God, but at
the same time he may think negatively about Them. He
applies his intellect, which is material and thus unable to
understand the divine. One has to surrender his intellect
to God. When a person applies his intellect his surrender
ends, and, on top of this, he commits spiritual
transgressions by being critical against his Spiritual
Master and against God. transgressions arethe greatest sin.
The Ved describes procedures for the atonement for all
kinds of sins, but there is no atonement for spiritual
transgressions. Only the Saint who has been offended can
forgive a soul. Even God can’t forgive a spiritual
transgression. If we do not acquire the knowledge as to
what is God, soul, maya, mind, intellect, surrender, and
detachment, and if we don’t sincerely understand these
subjects in detail, we will apply our intellect to God, His
names, forms, qualities, leelas, abodes, and Saints, and we
will commit transgressions.
For this reason, Krishn says in the Gita that just asking
your Guru devotional questions will not work. You must also
serve the Spiritual Master. Your aim is to attain Divine
happiness. So only by serving Krishn and Guru one can
attain the highest kind of happiness. The final goal of a
soul is to attain selfless Divine service. As our desire to
do increases, purification of our mind and heart takes
place with the same speed. We will progress towards God at
a faster rate.