Therefore the beginning of spiritual education is to
understand one’s self. That is called self-realization. How to realize the
self? We have to take knowledge from others. We have to learn from a teacher.
Krishna is accepted as the supreme teacher by great sages like Vyasadeva,
Narada, Devala, Asita, and all other great sages, and in the modern age by our
acharyas, spiritual preceptors: Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Vishnusvami,
Nimbarka, Shankaracharya. We have to follow the acharyas. All these acharyas accept
Krishna as the Supreme Lord. And five hundred years ago Sri Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu also accepted Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Srimad-Bhagavatam says, krishnas tu bhagavan svayam:
“Krishna is the Supreme Lord.” Similarly, Lord Brahma says:
ishvarah paramah krishnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
anadir adir govindah sarva-karana-karanam
“Govinda, Krishna, is
the cause of all causes. He is the primal cause, and He is the very form of
eternity, knowledge, and bliss.”
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