Master consciousness creates material discord; servant consciousness opens the door to Vaikuntha.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — December 3, 1971, Delhi 711203R1-DELHI [12:52 Minutes] Conv_711203R1-DELHI [Mixed Recordings] Prabhupāda: [Hindi] Aiye, aiye. [break] ...puzzle Guest: [Hindi] Devotee: He has been very helpful on [indistinct] program. Viṣala: Your Divine Grace, [indistinct] as long as one is seeking out a bona fide… Unless one is seeking out a bona fide representative of God, is it true that he has no discrimination? Prabhupāda: Yes. [indistinct] Viṣala: He has no discrimination? Devotee: Yes. No discrimination. Prabhupāda: No.
He must find out a bona fide representative of God. He must be. If you go to purchase something in the market, we must use our senses to find out. Why not use our [indistinct]? Viṣala: [indistinct] I was thinking that what it means is if anyone does not have a bona fide representative of God, is it true that he doesn’t have the discrimination, who is unfortunate enough not to have a bona fide representative of God? Prabhupāda: Yes.
If you get bona fide representative, spiritual master, and if you follow instructions by him, your advance is guaranteed. Yasya prasādad bhāgavata [Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka 8]. So bona fide spiritual master means if he is satisfied, then Kṛṣṇa is satisfied. And if Kṛṣṇa is satisfied, then you are successful.
Because after all, we have to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa comes Himself; He leaves His instruction, the Bhagavad-gītā. He sends His representatives; He comes as a devotee. He is trying to take us back to home, back to Godhead, in so many ways. You have to take opportunity.
That is His... [underneath conversation:] Guest: So if Your Holiness has time, I would like to… If Your Holiness [indistinct]. I can come to take Your Holiness, Gurudāsa and others, tomorrow in the morning. Prabhupāda: Tomorrow morning? What time? Guest: Any time that is convenient. [end of underneath conversation] Devotee (2): This tendency, Śrīla Prabhupāda… This tendency of material enviousness, this is also a serious impediment in spiritual life—to become envious of our Godbrothers?
Or spiritual [indistinct]? Prabhupāda: Hmm? Devotee: This enviousness. Prabhupāda: Oh, that is aparādha, greatest offense. That offense may kill your consciousness. That is the first offense, to become envious. The first offense.
We should not be envious of one another [indistinct]; we should cooperate. Prabhupāda: Yes. Cooperate. Therefore we are addressing another devotee as prabhu. Prabhu means "master." So if a devotee, if I think, "You are my prabhu," and if we think, "I am your master," then where is?