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Bogus Gurus Lack True Philosophy, Keep Mantra Potent Through Pure Chanting

📅 April 27, 1976 📍 Auckland ⏱ 18 min
Keep the mantra potent through pure chanting; don't spoil the movement with whimsical ideas or impure living.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Devotee (1): Yeah, he's floating around somewhere doing nonsense. Now he's eating meat. [Prabhupāda chuckles] And this one boy in Fiji wrote me a letter. His friend worked at the hotel, Guru Mahārāj-jī came and stayed there, and he was a waiter.

For dinner, Guru Mahārāj-jī had shrimp curry and then beer. Drinking, eating meat and having illicit sex. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's his līlā. Devotee (1): Complete nonsense.

Prabhupāda: Their followers are like that? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Like guru, like celā. Tuṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: It's a very cheap thing. Very much they're moving on the group spirit.

Prabhupāda: Hmm? Tuṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: It's just a personality cult, with no philosophy. Devotee (1): Social club. Gurukṛpa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, for the abhiṣeka, do we require cow urine and cow dung and tail of cow?

Prabhupāda: If available. Not? Devotee (1): Yes, we can get it. Gurukṛpa: It's available.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They're feeling threatened by our kīrtana parties.

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