Authentic gurus preach with genuine spirit; quality disciples matter infinitely more than quantity of followers.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: That is the difficulty. Everyone sees that "Some way or other, I become guru. Then so many persons will offer me respect. Somehow or other, create some situation.
Then I become guru." This is going on. Not bona fide guru. Bona fide guru is indicated by Caitanya Mahāprabhu, āmāra ājñāya guru hañā: "Become guru." Why ambition? Actually become guru.
But how to become guru? Yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa-upadeśa' [Cc Madhya 7.128]. That's it; otherwise goru. So they will not take this simple method. They will drink, they will hunt after woman and have some attractive singing or dancing and become guru.
What is meaning of guru, they do not know. Somehow or other become popular and become guru. This is going on. So with māyā you can attract these foolish rascals very easily, if you can manufacture.
You cannot, but if you can show some jugglery, then you become guru. People are after all these things, material things. They are not after Kṛṣṇa. They are after money and women.
So if you give some mantra, then gold will be manufactured, and all women will be attracted, very first class. Gurukṛpā: You know, Śrīla Prabhupāda, they say that if anyone has power to induce anybody to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, therefore they must have some special power. Therefore that's their qualification. Prabhupāda: That special power, that is said in the śāstras. But people do not want that. Gurukṛpā: Just like, for example, in Bengal before, there was that Charan dāsa Bābājī. He induced them to chant the wrong mantra, but where is...
He's not specifically paramparā. Prabhupāda: No. He chanted for some time and, of course, there was chanting of nitāi-gaura. He introduced new system of chanting: nitāi-gaura rādhe-śyāma. So the nitāi-gaura chanting will have some effect, Kali-yuga.