True spirituality requires genuine gurus; false ascetics mislead the innocent by confusing intoxication with enlightenment.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — February 20, 1974, Bombay 740220MW-BOMBAY [22:42 Minutes] Walk_740220MW-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: ...and happiness also. That is my experience. I always said that "You are so much graced by God in so many ways." Dr. Patel: [Hindi] Mr.
Sar: What karma? Dr. Patel: No, no. They, they [Hindi] ...servant.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Mr. Sar: Yad yad vibhūtimat sattvam.
Prabhupāda: At least, preliminary condition for being in touch with God is there. Because Kṛṣṇa says, catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ sukṛtino 'rjuna [Bg. 7.16]. So they are taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That means they are pious.
Prabhupāda: Sukṛti. Mr. Sar: Otherwise you cannot be bhakta.
Prabhupāda: And, and the result of sukṛti, piety, is janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrī [SB 1.8.26]. Janma, to take birth, to take birth in nice family. And aiśvarya, riches. And...
Janmaiśvarya-śruta, education, and śrī, beauty. All these four things are in America. There every boy, every girl is nicely educated, qualified, artist. Dr.