Sincere hearing from a spiritual master, not intellectual scholarship, is the gateway to true Krishna consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — October 8, 1972, Berkeley 721008MW-BERKELEY [38:39 Minutes] C-032 Walk_721008MW-BERKELEY Svarūpa Dāmodara: Morning walk, October 8! Berkeley. [break] Devotee (1): Love of God is first class.
Prabhupāda: But where is the love of God you can teach the same thing—one pound of sugar in the ocean. Where is the love of God? Devotee (1): But simply because thousands and thousands of so-called Christians are fallen that doesn’t mean that Christ’s teachings are un-bonafide.
Prabhupāda: Why not. Christ does not teach bona… unbona-fide. But the principles are not so strong. Why Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya [Bg 18.66].
In that way in every religion you’ll find something little good but where is the accept? Accept and this, phalena paricīyate if the result is nice, the result is not[?] nice. You cannot judge by one or two cases you have to take the version, version complete. Devotee (1): At the time of Śrīla Bhaktivinode Ṭhākura similarly there were very few who were following Lord Caitanya’s teachings so in all intents that was also.
Prabhupāda. So therefore it was known as bogus. Devotee (1): But it was in essence that.
Prabhupāda: In essence that may be but at the present moment. Devotee (1): At the present moment.
Prabhupāda: Yes. People used to say this Vaiṣṇava religion is bogus. Vivekananda remarked that it is a religion of sex. Devotee (1): Yes. Prabhupāda: So phalena paricīyate. You have to consider the case, suppose a man was very good now he has stolen something still he is a good man?