It is explained that Brahmä is the father of all Vidhis and he is the embodiment of all transcendental knowledge and Vedavyas, worshipping, respecting and offering veneration to his guru on an equal level to that of Brahmäji and because Vedavyas was approaching in this spirit, and this is very important to understand, he wasn’t approaching Närada because Närada was Närada, he was approaching Närada with such respect and submissiveness because Närada was the representative of Brahmä and Kåñëa and this is the difference between a personality cult and a proper religion based on truth. However wonderful a person may speak, however handsome a person may move his body, however empowered one may be with siddhis or charismatic, if we actually want to learn the truth, we do not respect and venerate that person because of what he is. We respect and venerate that person because of what that person represents and we have seen too often, how often times disciples or followers, they lose that perception and they think that this is my guru and whatever he says doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter any guru, it doesn’t matter any sadhu or any Shashtra, to me, he is God, God is speaking through him. In this way, we are in the wrong consciousness; we do not understand how to approach a spiritual master. Vedavyasa is teaching us, because he is representing Brahmä, therefore I will hear from him and I will offer him all respect and veneration, I will surrender to his lotus feet. Similarly, in this movement, we should respect and adore someone because they are representing Prabhupada and Bhatkisiddhanta, Gaurakishora, Bhaktivinoda, Jagganatha Das babaji, Narottama Das Thakur, Çrénivasa Acharaya, Kåñëadas Kaviraja Goswami, Raghunatha Das Goswami, Rupa and Sanatana, Swarop Damodar Goswami, Nityanada Prabhu, Çré Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Ishwara Puri, Madhavendra Puri, Lakshmipati, Madhaväcärya, Vyasa, Närada and Kåñëa; and Kåñëa is the disciple of Radharani. Caitanya Caritamrita states this, Kåñëa says, ‘that Radharani, her Bhakti, her love is so much, so deep, so great, that, that love is my guru. I am controlled by it, I am the servant of it, I dance according to her love.’ So, Radha and Kåñëa, their loving affairs is the supreme guru and we must know that this mercy, this grace, this knowledge must come down through proper disciplic succession. And we must honour and venerate those persons, not necessarily just one person, but those persons who are properly representing that truth.
