Only direct surrender to Krishna, confirmed by scripture and guru, reveals truth; all reinterpretations that obscure Krishna's personal form are misleading.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — January 18, 1971, Allahabad 710118R1-ALLAHABAD [36:36 Minutes] Conv_710118R1-ALLAHABAD Prabhupāda: ...a bona fide [indistinct] spiritual master. Bona fide spiritual master means who carries out the order of higher authorities. Otherwise he is not spiritual master. Anyone who manufactures his own process of religion, that is rascaldom.
Dharmāṁ tu sakṣād bhagavat-praṇitam [SB 6.3.19]. Just like lawyer, representative of the law, means who carries the order of the supreme executer. He is lawyer. Similarly, a spiritual master means who carries the order of superior authority. We are carrying the order of Caitanya Mahāprabhu or Kṛṣṇa.
Kṛṣṇa taught this Bhagavad-gītā, and He has said that "Anyone who will preach this confidential message of Bhagavad-gītā, he is very dear to Me." Guest (1): [indistinct] ...and believers in Sai Baba and other we believe in an incorporeal God, [indistinct] nirākāra. So if Kṛṣṇa was [indistinct] Rāma or any other deity or devata, one who was definitely a superior ātman, no doubt about it, but Paramātman is all other religions' God, if something is incorporeal is there, without entering into the cycle of... Prabhupāda: Who says "incorporeal"? Who says? Guest (1): [indistinct] It is scripture. Prabhupāda: No, no. Who says "incorporeal"? Guest (1): [indistinct] in the form of śiva-liṅga.
You find it all over India, that, a summary of everything, that incorporeal form, jyotir-rūpa, incorporeal. Jyotir-liṅga, the Hindu svarūpa. Prabhupāda: That's all right. You are bringing something else besides Bhagavad-gītā. Just try to understand.
We are preaching... This International Society for Krishna Consciousness, we are preaching... Guest (1): But you have to understand the relation between the two. Prabhupāda: That's all... That we understand very nicely. It is not that I have to learn from you.
We know it very well. But you should know that we are preaching Bhagavad-gītā. Guest (1): That is true. Prabhupāda: So this jyotir-liṅga, all these theories, they are not in the Bhagavad-gītā. It may be in other literature, but we are particularly interested in preaching Bhagavad-gītā. Because Bhagavad-gītā is wrongly preached all over the world by nonsense commentation, we want to rectify it.
Therefore our Society is specially named "Krishna conscious." Guest (1): What is wrongly preached about Gītā? Prabhupāda: Wrong... Just like yesterday I went that Gītā-Samītī. There is a lamp. Why there is a lamp instead of Kṛṣṇa?