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Sandy Nixon: How does one know a bona fide spiritual master, then, that can lead them?
Prabhupada: Who teaches these things--how to know God and how to love Him--he is spiritual master. Otherwise bogus, rascal bogus. Sometimes they mislead that "I am God." Poor people, they do not know what is God, and a rascal proposes, "I am God," and they accept it. Just like in your country they elected Nixon president and again drag him. That means they did not know who is really bona fide president, elected somebody, and again they had to business of dragging out. Similarly, people are foolish. Any rascal comes. He says, "I am God." They accept. And again they accept another. This is going on. So one must be serious student to understand what is God and how to love Him. That is religion. Otherwise, it is simply waste of time. That we are teaching. That is the difference between others and our... We are presenting Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the science, how to know Him. The Bhagavad-gita is there, Bhagavata is there. Not bogus. Authorized. Therefore this is the only institution which can teach how to know God and how to love Him. Two business. There is no third business. It is not our business to ask God to give us our necessities. We know God gives necessities to everyone, even one who has no religion. Just like cats and dogs. They have no religion. They do not know what is religion. But still, the cats and dogs are supplied with necessities of life. So why we should bother Krsna, asking Him, "Give us our daily bread"? He is supplying already. Our business is how to love Him. That is religion. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavah atra paramo nirmatsaranam satam vastavam vastu vedyam atra. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmah yato bhaktir adhoksaje: "That is first-class religion which teaches how to love God." And that love--not for any material motive: "God, You give me this. Then I will love." No. Ahaituki. Love means without any personal profit. If I love God for some profit that is business. That is not love. Ahaituky apratihata. And such love of God cannot be checked by any material cause. In any condition, one can learn how to love God. It is not conditional, that "I am poor man. How shall I love God? I have got so many things to do." No, it is not like that. Poor, rich or young or old, black or white, there is no impediment. If one wants to love God, he can love God.
Sandy Nixon: Are there different paths that one can learn to love God?
Prabhupada: No. There is no different.
Sandy Nixon: I mean, are there other spiritual paths... Do all spiritual paths lead to the same end?
Prabhupada: Spiritual paths are divided into four. Not spiritual. Real spiritual, mixed spiritual. Just like this, "God, give us our daily bread." It is mixed spiritual. One has approached God, God is spiritual, but one is asking for material profit. So this is mixture, matter and spirit. So there are four classes generally known as karmi, fruitive actors, they work for getting some material profit. They are called karmi. Just like all men, you will see, they are working so hard day and night, driving their cars, (makes noise of cars) this way and that way. The purpose is how to get some money. This is called karmi. And then jnani. Jnani means he knows that "I am working so hard. Why? The birds, beasts, the elephants, big, big..., eight million different types of..., they are not. They have no business. They have no profession. How they are eating? So why unnecessarily I work so much? Let me know what is the problem of life." So they understand the problem of life is birth, death, old age and disease. And they want to solve it, how to become immortal. So they have conclusion that "If I merge into God's existence, then I become immortal or immune from birth, death, old age and disease." This is called jnani. And some of them are yogis. They try to acquire some spiritual power to make a show how he can play wonder. A yogi can become very small. If you put him in a room, he will come out. You lock it. He will come out. If there is little space, he will come out. That is called anima. He can fly in the sky, float in the sky. That is called laghima. In this way, if somebody can show this magic, then immediately he is accepted as very wonderful man. So yogis, they... The modern yogis, they simply show some gymnastic, but they have no power. So I am not speaking of these third-class yogis. Real yogi means he has got some power. That is material power. So yogis also want this power. And jnanis also want salvation from the unnecessary working like ass, the karmi. And karmis want material profit. So they want, everyone. But the bhaktas, devotees, they don't want anything. They want to serve God out of love.
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Room Conversation, with writer, Sandy Nixon, July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]
dear mukunda pbh...dandavat pranam....really thanks for posting these videos..this also helps to spread KC movement...very nice seva u are doing....u'rs servent
samsungtej 1 year ago 2
@samsungtej Thank you so much. Hare Krishna. Jaya Prabhupada. All the best to you.
mukunda108 1 year ago
As soon as I saw all that low talk. I stopped the video and btw if you are talking about religion the only thing that is going is Christainity and some of the stuff about evolution. These other religions (excluding Islam which for some reason grows) arent really talked about at all. Now I dont know what you talk about in this video (didnt watch it) but thats just what i think.
Jaysnipes 4 years ago
So then you are talking nonsense. Why post comments on something you can't be bother to watch due to your dogmatic bias
mukunda108 4 years ago 3