True spiritual teachers must enlighten householders toward self-realization, not merely subsist as beggars.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — April 13, 1974, Bombay 740413MW-BOMBAY [19:27 Minutes] Walk_740413MW-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: ...all the leaders. piśācī paile yena mati-cchana haya māyār grasta jīvera se dāsa upajaya [Prema-vivarta] [break] ...must have undergone severe austerities and penances and developed his spiritual consciousness. Then he can be priest. Not any man with a sacred thread and ghaṇṭā, belling, become a priest. [break] ...priestly class, all rotten class.
In Christian world also—drunkards, nonsense, woman-hunters, and they are priests. So also in India. Any man with a two-paisa-worth sacred thread, he becomes a brāhmaṇa and priest. How the people will be guided?
The priest... The exact Sanskrit name is puro-hita, who can actually... Indian man (1): Puru-bhāgata.
Prabhupāda: No, not puru-bhāga. Pura, yes; pura-bhāga, for welfare. By his advice... Just like Gargamuni is called for the advice, future of the child.
Prabhupāda: Ah, hita-kārtṛkā[?] [break] ...vacate his chair to receive a brāhmaṇa, a puro-hita. Just like Sudāmā Vipra went to Dvārakā. He was poor man, but he was brāhmaṇa. Immediately Kṛṣṇa left His..., offered His chair.
Yes. And Rukmiṇī began to fan him. So much respect. Where is that respectful person?
[aside:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. Girirāja: "He received Gargamuni with the feeling of one who is worshiping God or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He offered him a nice sitting place, and when he sat down Nanda Mahārāja offered him a warm reception." [break] Prabhupāda: ...presence of a brāhmaṇa, of a sannyāsī in the household, in the house of a householder, means to enlighten. Mahad-vicalanaṁ nṛnām gṛhinām gṛhacet dīna-cetasām [SB 10.8.4].