He is a Living Tīrtha


Like a real ācārya, Śrīla Gurudev walked barefoot throughout the dhām-parikramā in any condition, whether it be flooding, mud, or dust. He would say that by the association of devotees, devotion will come. He spoke of himself as ordinary. He walked from village to village and sat down in poor people's huts and would take prasādam there; he would not even use a chair.  He did not go to preach or make devotees; he went everywhere so that he may become a devotee. With that thought, he went.

Gurudeva is a pilgrimage place, the dhām himself.
 
bhavad-vidhā bhāgavatās
tīrtha-bhūtāḥ svayaṁ vibho
tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni
svāntaḥ-sthena gadābhṛtā

(Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1.3.10)

[My Lord, devotees like your good self are verily holy places personified. Because you carry the Personality of Godhead within your heart, you turn all places into places of pilgrimage.]

Tīrthī-kurvanti tīrthāni— he is an embodiment of tīrtha. All pilgrimage places are in his heart and he converts all the places he visits into tīrthas

—Kṛṣṇa Śaraṇa Das, Hyderabad





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