Guru Ashtakam | Tatah Kim - What is the use? | SRILA PRABHUPADA | HKM Mumbai

Guru Ashtakam an offering to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada Srila Prabhupada in a lecture, "What is a Guru?", Aug. 22, 1973, London:- Whatever position we have in this material world must be given up. We may have a good position or a bad position; in any case, we cannot remain here. We may earn millions of dollars and think, “Now I am in a good position,” but little dysentery or cholera will finish our position. If the bank fails, our position is gone. So actually there is no good position in this material world. It is a farce. Those who try to attain a better position in the material world are ultimately defeated because there is no better position. Bhagavad-gita (14.26) says what the better position is: “One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.” Is there any science that gives us the knowledge by which we may become immortal? Yes, we may become immortal, but not in the material sense. We cannot receive this knowledge in so-called universities. However, there is knowledge contained in the Vedic scriptures by which we may become immortal. That immortality is our better position. No more birth, no more death, no more old age, no more disease. Thus the guru takes on a very great responsibility. He must guide his disciple and enable him to become an eligible candidate for the perfect position, immortality. The guru must be competent to lead his disciple back home, back to Godhead. Like our official page on Facebook:   / lifehkm   Follow us on our official page on Instagram:   / _hkmlife   Visit us: www.hkmlife.com #HareKrishna #prabhupada125 #Prabhupada #HKMMUMBAI #ISKCONBANGLORE #srilaprabhupada125thvyasapuja #srilaprabhupadamovie #theempoweredacharya #125thvyasapuja #iskconfounderacharya #hkmlife #srilaprabhupada #founderacharya #iskcon #MessiahOfMilliennium #Prabhupadachanting #amitasanadas