True gurus transmit Krishna's message faithfully; leaders must unite worldly authority with spiritual wisdom.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Lalita Bose — August 21, 1975, Bombay 750821R1-BOMBAY [84:10 Minutes] Conv_750821R1-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: [Bengali] Exactly what Kṛṣṇa has said. Our mission... [Bengali] Yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadeśa [Cc. Madhya 7.128].
Bās. If you speak what Kṛṣṇa has instructed, you become guru. But if you make your own concoction, own invention, then... [Bengali] I don't speak any nonsense; except the instruction given in the Bhagavad-gītā.
That is my credit. That's all. People say that I have done wonderful, but I do not know any magic. The wonderful thing I have done is that I don't speak any nonsense thing.
[Bengali] Lalita Bose: What you say, you act according to that. Prabhupāda: No, what I learn from Kṛṣṇa I say. I don't say independently. That is not my business. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction.
But everyone can teach within his limit—within his family, within his community, within his village, within his town, within his district. As he is capable, he can increase. But everyone can become a guru and deliver the local people. How?
Yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadeśa. Then you are guru. As soon as you manufacture anything nonsense, then it is spoiled. That is going on.
So many gurus are there; they are manufacturing. They are becoming Kṛṣṇa. That is nonsense. That is nonsense.