Genuine chanting demands complete faith, strict morality, and undivided attention upon Krishna alone.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Ten Offenses Lecture — February 22, 1970, Los Angeles 700222IN-LOS ANGELES [17:20 Minutes] Lecture on Ten Offenses_700222IN-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: The first offense is blaspheming the Lord’s devotee. Anyone... It does not matter that your spiritual master is devotee and nobody is devotee. No.
The devotee..., the life of devotee is already explained, that he is fixed up in God. He has no other business than to think of God, talk of God, preaching of God, he’s a devotee. It does not matter whether he is born this country or that country or that province or this province or this planet or that planet. Anyone whose life is simply absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and thoughts of God, he's a devotee. So we should not blaspheme, that "Our process is better.
Your process is…" That is due to ignorance. So this is offense: blaspheme the devotee. And then considering the Lord and the demigods on the same level. Or assuming that there are many Gods. God is one.
It is nonsense to think that there are many Gods. If there are many Gods, then there is no meaning of "God." ekam eva advitīyam. The Vedas say God is one, without any second, without any competitor. If God has competitor, then He’s not God.
The definition of God is that supreme. So if there are many, then how God can be Supreme? God is great. "God is great" means nobody is greater than Him, nobody is equal to Him. Everybody is under Him.
You may have very high qualifications, but you cannot be equal to God. God is one. Therefore the Māyāvādīs' philosophy that "You can accept, by imagination, any form of God and that is all right," no. You should have the actually the form of God. Just like Kṛṣṇa says, mam ekam.
Ekam means only one, "Unto Me." Of course, there are many other forms of God, but in order to concentrate your mind perfectly, you should only think of Kṛṣṇa. Mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. So we do not accept this nonsense philosophy that any name we chant, it becomes God. No.