Every field of knowledge requires a guru, yet people arrogantly believe they can understand God independently.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Indian man: …stayed with the devotees in the temple...
Prabhupāda: Hmm? Indian man: ...and reached the peace of mind which I was not able to get, whole of my life, I was able to achieve by staying in your temple myself. You know for example I am in my own... [break]
Prabhupāda: As soon as you speak plain truth they will go away. [laughter] If you go on flattering, then they will stay. What is that? If you make Transcendental Meditation you will increase your sex power and..
Prabhupāda: Eh? Indian: Rajneesh said that.
Devotee: He said last night, less blood-pressure, from meditation.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Less blood-pressure. The difficulty is that we want to be cheated, and there are so many cheaters. There are cheaters; if they find, "Here is a man he can be easily cheated," he takes advantage.
But mostly they want to be cheated. As soon as you say that "You surrender to Kṛṣṇa," he will not take it very nice. "Why shall I surrender?" Is it not? What do you think?