If you are sincere the Spiritual Master, teacher or Guru will find you, God in the heart will send you a Guru and answer your genuine prayers.

Can Krishna and Guru be found within one’s heart? Then sent to find you, no matter where you are?

I remember the amazing story of a boy who went into an old Cathedral in Melbourne Australia on February 18th 1972 to desperately pray to God within his own heart and within the Church for guidance and direction, crying out within -

"Oh my Lord, please show me the way".

He had entered that church in a totally helpless condition, prayed, and begged to God to ‘please’ show him the way. He felt totally useless and lost in this world and believed no one on the planet has any real understanding of Spiritual life. 

He had experienced so many paths from Christianity, TM, Yogananda, Kahlil Gibran, Mehe Baba, Timothy Leary, Dylan to Lennon. But something was missing.

What could he do? Who could he turn too as a ‘personal’ guide? He tried so many paths, realizing he was not enlightened enough to just accept God in the heart as his only Guru and guide, he needed someone to be there for him an embodied Spiritual teacher to be there right in front of him guiding him.

He new so many people were already his guru or teacher who has shown him so many tasks from day to day in different fields, but there was still something missing.

He never had a bonafide initiating Spiritual Master at this stage.

There was something not quite right and something that just Books alone could never give him but only gave him encouragment to pray for a spiritual teacher, a guide who can teach him the essence in those Books he already had, like Bhagavad Gita As It Is with Introduction by Allen Ginsberg and Nectar of Devotion he was given 8 months earlier in Sydney.

In the Cathedral he knew he had to advance to the next stage of Spiritual re-establishment. 

He needed that personal touch to eulogize the teachings of God he was searching for within his own heart.

So here he was, on his hands and knees in this marvellous old Cathedral called St Pauls in the center of Melbourne praying for guidance, for leadership, for association, for a Spiritual Master. 

It was during those prayers he heard this low pitched mumbling sound; he looked up and saw a devotee of Krsna standing there looking at religious artefacts. Something just fell into place for this young boy, call it intuition or whatever, but he knew that God in the heart had answered his prayer for the ‘personal embodied guidance’ that he desperately needed.

What’s more, the power of God in his heart was a truly amazing experience, that seemed unbelievable, or more to the point, no less than a miracle.

The young Krsna devotee had left a magazine on the seat; the boy picked it up, found where the Temple was and left the Cathedral knowing exactly what to do. The date was February 18 1972.

On arriving at the Temple, he found a festive atmosphere; the devotees were celebrating the Appearance day of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu following the date of Lord Caitanya found in the Book "Teachings of Lord Caitanya". 

In actual fact the date for 1972 was February 29th but the devotees followed the date in the Book "Teachings of Lord Caitanya" which was February 18th.

Some will say that was a coincidence he joined on this most special day however, this boy knew from deep within his heart, it was Krsna IN the heart directing him to the most auspicious day of the Vaishnava calendar.

The young boy was shaved up that day by Sanak dasa and moved into the Temple. 

Just over a month later His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrived in Melbourne. With tears in eye, the young boy presented Srila Prabhupada with a beautiful red rose at the Melbourne Airport.

This boy also was previously convinced before entering the Cathedral, that an embodied guru just doesn’t exist. But now he had now realized that Krsna in the heart CAN do anything! Even put an elephant through the eye of a needle! Why not? He is God. 

This means if one looks deep enough within their own heart, believing it necessary to have a instructing Spiritual teacher in person who can guide them and become their initiating Guru above all others, then Krsna, from within the heart, WILL direct a bonafide Guru to you, WITHOUT A DOUBT.

You do not have to find Guru because he will find you.

Remember, the boy never went searching for Krsna, he just prayed to God within his own heart and God sent him Krsna and Guru, twice. 

At the Cathedral where he was directed by a devotee (Sharmananda das) to Lord Caitanya’s Appearance day (where he was asked to play the part of Haridas Thakur in a play) and meeting Srila Prabhupada when he came to Melbourne 45 days later.

The point here is the embodiment of Guru does exist if you want. 

Krsna will sent him if you want. It all depends on us. If we are convinced we do not need an embodied Guru, then Krsna from within the heart will not send one, as you desire.

But even if you’re in the faraway corner of the planet, if you REALLY want the help and association of an embodied Guru, then Krsna from within the heart WILL send you one.

You couldn’t get a place further away from the rest of the world than down under Melbourne Australia. 

This young boy never found Prabhupada, Prabhupada came all the way down there and found him!

Although to be satisfied with the Guru in the form of his books can also be very personal and instructing.

The boy just believed he needed the personal embodied association of a Guru as well in person, simply for the purpose of reciprocating with him in person and following his instructions and guidance. 

This is because we are really not that advanced to do it on our own just with books, we need a Guru to teach us those Books. That’s how the boy felt anyway.

Krsna is in the heart that we must NEVER forget.

The fact is, it is true, God’s representative will come to us in an embodied personal form if we want, if we pray unconditionally, if we learn to have faith in Krsna in the heart. Why not? 

Some today in 2020 want there Guru to only be Prabhupada, but why does it have to be Prabhupada? 

His personal pastimes on this planet finished in November 1977, you don’t think Krsna also has other great pure devotees here waiting for us to attract them by our helplessness? 

Krishna has many pure devotees and many of them Prabhupada personally trained up.

Do we genuinely feel helpless and materially exhausted like that boy did in the Church?

The young boy in the story previously found many ‘gurus’ but none of them found him. He eventually saw through them all and just kept praying and new His Guru (Prabhupada), who eventually found him, was the answers to his helpless prayers back then 48 years ago

It’s a question of what one really wants. 

Some believe they can only accept Prabhupada and to do that they read his books. 

They feel this way because the world is in crisis and struggle, and there is so much suspicion and cheating going on in this age of Kali-yuga, that they do not trust any other so called spiritual teacher or guide.

But remember, Krsna is in our heart and He WILL guide one to a living Guru if one really wants, they DO exist, of course they exist. If one is sincere, Krishna WILL reciprocate. 

The material world is always in crisis but the Guru is ALWAYS one and represents Krishna within our own hearts, and is always somewhere externally here on the planet as well. 

Krsna WILL send His initiating Guru when we are ready, when we need such association and the personal guidance to help us understand, and then initiates us into the guru-shishya parampara (lineage)

NOTE – The young boy was me..**