BOGUS GURU:

In recent days due to much more awareness & easy accessibility of media we are coming-across Bogus Guru's scandals more often. This is also one of the global crisis like environmental, economical, political crisis......to stay away or escape from bogus guru. It is heartbreaking for people who they are committed for many years turn out to be one of the Bogus Guru.

In age of Kaliyuga ( mode of darkness ) it is not easy for people to find Genuine Guru.  You can follow anyone but before committing to either Theist or Atheist Guru do your homework & think 100 times....Mentally be prepared that anyone & everyone is fallible in this world...except Genuine Guru & GOD. ( so you won't be disappointed in case if it happens in your life ).

WHO is GENUINE SPIRITUAL GURU?

Six chief criteria mentioned in the authoritative Vedic scriptures determine the authority of a guru. 

1. First, the guru’s teachings must be fully spiritual: he must not cheat his disciples by promising them material benefits; rather, he must teach them how to become free from material life to progress toward Self realization and obtain liberation from birth-death cycle.

2. Second, the guru must have attained the highest realization of the Absolute Truth–the Personality of Godhead–which is beyond the incomplete impersonal conception. In this way the Guru will be competent to distinguish the infinite Supreme Spirit (God) and the infinitesimal ( minute ) spirit souls. Fully aware of this distinction between God and the individual soul, he should engage himself as a devotee of the Supreme Lord and teach devotional service to his disciples or followers.

3. The third criterion is that the guru must have received his knowledge from a bona fide spiritual master through the authorized process of disciplic succession, as explained in the Vedic literature...Following footsteps of Lord Vedavyasa.

4. The fourth is that the guru’s character must be pure: he must rigidly follow all the religious principles governing saintly behavior. “‘A SOBER PERSON WHO CAN TOLERATE THE URGE TO SPEAK, THE MIND’S DEMANDS, THE ACTIONS OF ANGER, AND THE URGES OF THE TONGUE, BELLY, AND GENITALS IS QUALIFIED TO MAKE DISCIPLES ALL OVER THE WORLD.’ 

5. Fifth, he must engage himself and others in the glorification of the Lord as the ultimate activity for human society, and he should not divert his energies to material welfare work. 

6. And sixth, a guru of the highest order must spread the message of God as spoken & described in Scriptures ( not his own message ) throughout the world.

The Vedic literature ( like Srimad Gita & Bhagavatam, Vedabase.com ) is a complete library for understanding life, the purpose of the creation, how the cosmos manifested, spiritual identity of the individual as an eternal soul, Supreme Being ( God ), the relationship between them, and the pathways for directly realizing and perceiving these.

Bg 4.2 — This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. 

Bg 14.26 — One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all circumstances, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman or Guru.

Bg 18.42 — Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness – these are the natural qualities by which the brāhmaṇas ( Guru ) work. ( Vedabase.com ).

SB 11.3.21 — One who is inquisitive to understand the highest goal and benefit of life must approach a bona fide spiritual master. 

See the link for depth...

https://krishna.org/who-is-a-real-guru/

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I am inspire to hear & read Vedic Scriptures & other philosophy by regularly listening Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale known as Dadaji ( speak on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

FYI: Good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com (Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures). Hearing & reading SB daily is purifying to our senses, nourishing & satisfying to our heart ( Soul ) and transcendental to our consciousness.

I also hear and read discourses & articles on Vedic thoughts & other philosophy from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

I am posting some article based on Vedic scriptures and literature. Of course I use Google search to collect some data. Thanks to Facebook for providing platform.

It is always good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE.

Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by grace of Guru & God ( Krishna , Absolute Truth).