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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.8
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 8
- vettha tvaṁ saumya tat sarvaṁ
- tattvatas tad-anugrahāt
- brūyuḥ snigdhasya śiṣyasya
- guravo guhyam apy uta
vetthayou are well conversant — you are well conversant; tvamYour Honor — Your Honor; saumyaone who is pure and simple — one who is pure and simple; tatthose — those; sarvamall — all; tattvataḥin fact — in fact; tattheir — their; anugrahātby the favor of — by the favor of; brūyuḥwill tell — will tell; snigdhasyaof the one who is submissive — of the one who is submissive; śiṣyasyaof the disciple — of the disciple; guravaḥthe spiritual masters — the spiritual masters; guhyamsecret — secret; apiendowed with utaendowed with — endowed with.
And because you are submissive, your spiritual masters have endowed you with all the favors bestowed upon a gentle disciple. Therefore you can tell us all that you have scientifically learned from them.
The secret of success in spiritual life is in satisfying the spiritual master and thereby getting his sincere blessings. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has sung in his famous eight stanzas on the spiritual master as follows: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master. Only by his satisfaction can one please the Personality of Godhead, and when he is dissatisfied there is only havoc on the path of spiritual realization." It is essential, therefore, that a disciple be very much obedient and submissive to the bona fide spiritual master. Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī fulfilled all these qualifications as a disciple, and therefore he was endowed with all favors by his learned and self-realized spiritual masters such as Śrīla Vyāsadeva and others. The sages of Naimiṣāraṇya were confident that Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī was bona fide. Therefore they were anxious to hear from him.