Do we need diksha guru – is shiksha guru enough?
I think do we need to have a Shiksha Guru, Diksha Guru or is Shiksha Guru sufficient? Yes, both of them are required the soul's journey towards Krishna is facilitated, is guided by many different guides the first guide is one who shows the path Shiksha Guru is one who gives instructions and there can be many Shiksha Gurus Diksha Guru is the person who formalizes our connection with Krishna and takes the primary responsibility for guiding us towards Krishna so we should not separate the two as entirely different nor should we think that one makes the other redundant they all play their different roles so if you consider a Sampradaya to be like a university Samyak Rupena Pradayate it is Sampradaya, that which gives us systematic spiritual knowledge is called a Sampradaya now in a Sampradaya there is, like in a university when a student is admitted at that time there is a formal authority, maybe the Dean or the Principal or the Chief Administrative Officer, whoever it may be they formal, it is their sanction which ensures the student gets formally admitted and without that the student is not formally in the university but after the student is admitted the student may have, let's say they are doing PhD, they may have different PhD guides they may have one PhD guide for one field another guide for another field so they may have different guides over there so specifically the learning may happen from different professors but all those professors are part of the same university and within that university the formal admission happens through one particular authority so the formal authorization of our connection with the Sampradaya happens through the spiritual master through the Nikshaguru and that's why Nikshaguru is important but from the practical instruction point of view, the education that we get and the elevation that we have that may happen through many other sources also. That's why Chetan Chaitramurth says that the Shiksha Guru and the Nikshaguru are non-different.
Non-different in what sense? That they are all fulfilling the same one purpose that is of elevating us by giving us knowledge of Krishna so in that sense we need all of them we need to be formally admitted in this university and we also need to be systematically instructed in the university and all of them play their own roles so both of Shiksha and Nikshaguru all are essential. With respect to.