Bhakti-Tirtha Swami: Trust Seminar and Forgiveness.
August 25, 2001. Croatia.
The spiritual master must be careful to encourage student also that it does not interfere with their marriage. Sometimes one is not careful enough and is instructing and therefore women are falling in love is not healthy for his guru and is not being properly secured with her husband. There is a karmic reaction when instructed so that someone put them in such difficulties, they minimize and miss what is the real devotional service. Therefore it is often better than when we instructed the woman to instruct the husband, the husband and wife together. Or try to gather them both to the understanding that they can work together and share their devotional service.
However, there are many different hazards that we must be careful, unhealthy dependency. We want to depend on just how we want to remember Krsna, we are ready for instruction. So healthy dependence is when we are ready to receive instructions from reliable authority who is ready to give authoritative instructions. Not that we check, not that we want to own, not that we want to try to enjoy, not that we want to try to experiment.
Sometimes we try to get the guru. We want to be around and we get their energy. The question is, are you ready to receive instruction? If you're not ready to receive instruction then that is not healthy. So we see in ourselves what is happening in our consciousness.
translation by Devi Dasi, disciple of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami
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