# Our Disciplic Line

*“The path of spiritual realisation is undoubtedly difficult. The Lord therefore advises us to approach a bona fide spiritual master in the line of disciplic succession from the Lord Himself. No one can be a bona fide spiritual master without following this principle of disciplic succession. The Lord is the original spiritual master, and a person in the disciplic succession can convey the message of the Lord as it is to his disciple. No one can be spiritually realised by manufacturing his own process, as is the fashion of the foolish pretenders.”* ([BG 4.34](https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/4/34/))

Through disciplic succession, knowledge of the Lord is perfectly transmitted, just as a ripe fruit is delicately passed down to those on the ground from the top of a tree. If it’s mishandled or dropped, the juicy fruit is spoiled. Thus, each link in the chain of disciplic succession has a grave responsibility to preserve the essence.

All the great saints and sages in our line of disciplic succession, the Brahma- Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya, beginning with Sri Krishna and including Brahma, Narada, Vyasa, Lord Chaitanya, Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, and A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, have personally realised and taught Krishna consciousness. If the result of a process is good, then the process itself must be good. These great saints and *acaryas* are unmatched in spiritual realisation so the process of God realisation first spoken by Krishna and passed on through the disciplic succession is also matchless.

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