Seeing Krishna means no more birth and death; this is the highest achievement beyond all material struggle.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.25 — October 5, 1974, Māyāpur 741005SB-MAYAPUR [28:51 Minutes] SB-01.08.25_741005SB-MAYAPUR Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] vipadaḥ santu tāḥ śaśvat tatra tatra jagad-guro bhavato darśanaṁ yat syād apunar bhava-darśanam [SB 1.8.25] [break] [01:05] Translation: "I wish that all those calamities would happen again and again so that we could see You again and again, for seeing You means that we will no longer see repeated births and deaths." Prabhupāda: vipadaḥ santu tāḥ śaśvat tatra tatra jagad-guro bhavato darśanaṁ yat syād apunar bhava-darśanam [SB 1.8.25] So the people do not know this philosophy: apunar bhava-darśanam.
Punar bhava. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg. 8.19]. The rascals, they cannot understand that what is our real difficulty or suffering. Mūḍha.
Therefore the mūḍhas, they do not know it, that what is our actual suffering. We understand from Bhagavad-gītā, na jāyate na mriyate, that "This living entity is never born, never dies." This information we get, very simple information. We are taking information from whom? Kṛṣṇa, jagad-guru, the supreme guru, the original guru. Guru means Kṛṣṇa's representative.
A guru cannot be manufactured. Guru means... Kṛṣṇa is jagad-guru, and one who speaks on behalf of Kṛṣṇa or one who speaks as Kṛṣṇa says, he is guru. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, āmāra ājñāya guru hañā [Cc. Madhya 7.128]: "You just become guru on My order." You cannot become guru automatically, without following the order of jagad-guru. The government servant... Who is government servant? Who is strictly following the government order, that is government servant.
Anyone can say, "I am government servant." No. How you can be? Similarly, guru means who is following the principles given by the jagad-guru. The...
He's guru. So the principle... What is that principle? Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is principle.
"You give up all these nonsense activities. Simply surrender." So one who has surrendered to Kṛṣṇa fully, no other business, he is guru. This is the definition of guru. There is no difficult to understand who is guru.