Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami, also known as Dr. Thoudam Damodara Singh and by the honorific Sripada, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual leader, chemist, writer about religion and science, and poet. In 1971 he received spiritual initiation from A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. A few years later he became one of the religious leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.
In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.
The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.
Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord.