Meaning of Guru-relationship

f Shree Caitanya-caritämrita Ädi-leelä 1.45

According to the deliberate opinion of all revealed scriptures,
the spiritual master is non-different from Krishna.
Lord Krishna in the form of the spiritual master delivers His devotees.
PURPORT

The relationship of a disciple with his spiritual master is as good as his relationship with the Supreme Lord. A spiritual master always represents himself as the humblest servitor of the Personality of Godhead, but the disciple must look upon him as the manifested representation of Godhead.

How to Actually See GOD

f SB 4.28.51

The appearance of an old friend in the form of a brähmana is very significant. In His Paramätmä feature, Krishna is the old friend of everyone. According to Vedic injunction, Krishna is sitting with the living entity side by side. According to the shruti-mantra (dvä suparnä sayujä sakhäyäh), the Lord is sitting within the heart of every living entity as suhrit, the best friend. The Lord is always eager to have the living entity come home, back to Godhead. Sitting with the living entity as witness, the Lord gives him/her all chances to enjoy him/herself materially, but whenever there is an opportunity, the Lord gives good counsel and advises the living entity to abandon trying to become happy through material adjustment and instead turn his/her face toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead and surrender unto Him.

When one becomes serious to follow the mission of the spiritual master, his resolution is tantamount to seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As explained before, this means meeting the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the instruction of the spiritual master. This is technically called vänee-sevä.

Shreela Vishvanätha Cakravartee Thäkura states in his Bhagavad-geetä commentary on the verse vyavasäyätmikä buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana (Bg. 2.41) that one should serve the words of the spiritual master. The disciple must stick to whatever the spiritual master orders. Simply by following on that line, one sees the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krishna's Powerful Crawling

ƒ SB 10.26.7

Once, His mother tied Him with ropes to a mortar because she had caught Him stealing butter. Then, crawling on His hands, He dragged the mortar between a pair of arjuna trees and pulled them down.

ƒ SB 2.7.27 purport

So at the age of only three months He killed the Shakatäsura, who had remained hidden behind a cart in the house of Yashodämayee. And when He was crawling and was disturbing His mother from doing household affairs, the mother tied Him with a grinding pestle, but the naughty child dragged the pestle up to a pair of very high arjuna trees in the yard of Yashodämayee, and when the pestle was stuck between the pair of trees, they fell down with a horrible sound. When Yashodämayee came to see the happenings, she thought that her child had been saved from the falling trees by the mercy of the Lord, without knowing that the Lord Himself, crawling in her yard, had wreaked the havoc. So that is the way of reciprocation of love affairs between the Lord and His devotees. Yashodämayee wanted to have the Lord as her child, and the Lord played exactly like a child in her lap, but at the same time played the part of the Almighty Lord whenever it was so required. The beauty of such pastimes was that the Lord fulfilled everyone's desire. In the case of felling the gigantic arjuna trees, the Lord's mission was to deliver the two sons of Kuvera, who were condemned to become trees by the curse of Närada, as well as to play like a crawling child in the yard of Yashodä, who took transcendental pleasure in seeing such activities of the Lord in the very yard of her home.