Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Guru maharaja,
We watched this video on the ISKCON Ministry of Education YouTube channel about Guru tattva from HH Bhani Swami
https://youtu.be/J5gtm15q3nY?si=q7M_mJ4KcR9Tdbp_
Would you please take a look at it and let us know your thoughts. I found it interesting and would like to hear from you about it.
Your servant,
Nanda-braja das
Ps. here is a video of the presentation, I haven't watched it yet, just the q&a.
https://youtu.be/kSFXTV7TV7A?si=-eZHGp02CfpcrcrJ
HpS/ASA - We, agtSP, looked at it.
It is, a very interesting istagosthi.
of course, we have commented that we feel like we were Chinese, Mexican monks in our last lifetime, and we are technically natives of the Oriental pacific island Guam.
so it seems natural that we have so much affection when we hear from Bhanu maharaja, who is from oriental tradition.
we feel we have a very common perspective with him in so many ways.
one point about uttama Adhikari being a sadhaka. in waves of devotion dhanurdara swami explains a text from BRS that talks about the uttama Adhikari being a saddhaka and he explains that there are two senses for the word. one is someone who is following the rules and regulations as service and the other is someone who is acting in terms of the mellows of devotional service but is still not completely beyond the boundaries of the material structure.
so many statements from SP about guru, no?
it is like easy to make practical decision.
any special thoughts you have in terms of the istagosthi?
Nanda. - One specific question: what do you expect, ask and desire of your disciples who may take on the a role of a siksa guru?
HpS - That is included above, no? Jayananda Das would start casual conversations with people wherever he would go, and then he might comment by saying that his old grand daddy said... and then gives some statement from srila prabhupada.
so we act as Siksa guru differently as the situation demands.
I think Maharaja comments that there are no rituals for accepting someone as a Siksa guru.