QUALIFICATION OF

DISCIPLE
1)Humble surrender to spiritual master
2)Submissive inquiry about the long term goal of
life
3)Open mindedness
4)Service attitude
5)Devotion to the supreme lord
6)Faith in the spiritual master
7)Avowed truthfulness
 Humble surrender
● One should consider oneself fool in front of the
guru and should put aside all preconceived
notions learnt earlier from unreliable sources
➔ Story of boy approaching a mridanga teacher
charged more
 Submissive inquiry
● A disciple should be inquisitive about the
ultimate goal of life.
● Tasmat gurum prapadyeta jijnasu sreyah
uttamam.(SB11.3.21)
● Example of a boy given chocolate and hundred
rupee note.
 Open mindedness
● A disciple should approach spiritual master with
open mind not with our preconceived notion
● Example of young man interrupting his guru by
saying he knows this whatever his guru was try
to explain.
 Service attiude
● A disciple should render menial service to the
guru.
● Instructive story from the life of sripad
ramamnujacharya and his disciple dashrathi.
 Devotion to the supreme lord .
● The disciple should be devotee of lord .
● Two classes of people
>Devotee
>Demon
CONCLUSION