He saved me, He pulled me out of material life

Satsvarupa Dasa: One way to quickly evoke gratitude toward the spiritual master, is to think of how he saved you. Srila Prabhupada used to think of his Guru Maharaja in this way. On several occasions Prabhupada was overcome with emotion as he said, "He saved me," and "He pulled me out of material life." While narrating the early life of Narada Muni, Prabhupada informs us that all bona fide acaryas work to rescue fallen souls. The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false, sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to reestablish the lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead. By such endeavor, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization.