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During his adolescence Srila Guru Maharaja could understand that the so called "love" in this world is not true, and that beyond the physical exchange there must exist a sublime reality of purity and of true sentiment, where there is neither cheating nor exploitation. Therefore at the age of 17 he made the vow of celibacy for life. In this personal compromise Srila Guru Maharaja decides to not participate in the colossal cheating of false love in this world and to devote to the higher aspects of existence.
His constant searching for something higher made him interested in the "mysticism" of the hippies and the idea to understand better the world by expanding the conscience. He longed for to liberate himself from the contamination represented by false ego, materialism and vanity, and he aspired to reach the true happiness.
During this stage of his life, Srila Guru Maharaja came in contact with the literature of the great yogis from India, and so he experienced a great attraction for mysticism. Soon he was persuaded by the errors of the hippies when they reclaimed that to obtain a higher realization it was necessary to take refuge in hallucinogens. In this way Srila Guru Maharaja had accepted spontaneously the regulating principles and he understood that he needed a spiritual guide. It was like this that he took a great deal of trouble to try to travel to India, but he did not manage because he was still a minor and did not get permission from his father.
Later, and by considerateness from his father, Srila Guru Maharaja studied commercial business where he best learned capitalism and its characteristics, something that did not give him any satisfaction, quite contrary. The call for finding something higher, manifested with stronger intensity than ever in his heart, and due to this he definitely left his studies without any consideration to the expectations from his family and from society.
He departed from home and left his parents in spite of they being cultivated and pious people. His mother, according to the words of Srila Guru Maharaja, is an angel who is very understanding and inclined to spirituality, and his father is a person who in his youth was a Christian preacher, but later became disappointed with the religious institutions.
Srila Guru Maharaja, unlike any other youngster of his age, longed for something more in his life. He wished to dedicate to a higher ideal, to an ideal distinguished by service to humanity and based on the principle of the divine love. Since forever his vocation had been to help others. In the beginning he did it by printing a paper, which was greatly accepted. This epoch was a preparation for the coming mission of his life: to become an instrument of the Absolute Good, a spiritual guide for thousands of persons in the world, to whom he has delivered the divine light of the teachings that were given by his venerable spiritual master, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Translation from Spanish: Manah Siksa Devi Dasi
e-mail: manahsiksa@vrinda.info
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