Money and pride blind people to God's authority; only Krishna consciousness transcends materialistic illusion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
AaTMaSaM>aaivTaa" STaBDaa DaNaMaaNaMadaiNvTaa" ) YaJaNTae NaaMaYajESTae dM>aeNaaiviDaPaUvRk-Ma( )) 17 )) Prabhupāda: So read something. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Chapter Sixteen, text number seventeen. ātma-sambhāvitāḥ stabdhā dhana-māna-madānvitāḥ yajante nāma-yajñais te dambhenāvidhi-pūrvakam [Bg 16.17] Translation: "Self-complacent and always impudent, deluded by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes perform sacrifices in name only, without following any rules or regulations." Prabhupāda: Modern yogic society. "Transcendental Meditation." Whatever nonsense they like, they do. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that yogīs should sit down in a secluded, sacred place, and they are seeking after America's big, big cities. Hmm?
They find out yogic class in America's big, big cities, hotels. This is their program. The prescription is that one should sit down in a solitary, sacred place, alone, and these rascals are holding class. All smokers, drunkard, woman-hunters, [laughs] they are yogīs.
Hmm? What do you think? Is it all right? This is going on.
And they are accepting, "Yogī this," "Yogī that." This is going on. In India they cannot find out because people are not so fool as yet that in big, big cities, in a big, big hotel, "yoga practice." India, although so fallen, they will not accept. They will at once detect, "Here is a rascal." But here, their dhabha-māna, their qualification... They have got money.
So whatever they accept, that is all right, because they have got money. No other qualification required. They have money; they can pay. That's all.
You read that, dhabha-māna... Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Ātma-sambhāvitāḥ stabdhā dhana-māna-madānvitāḥ. Prabhupāda: What are the word meanings? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Ātma-sambhāvitāḥ—self-complacent. Prabhupāda: Whatever they are thinking, it is all right. That's all. They are not going to hear any authority. Whatever they think, that is final.
That's all. Why? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Stabdhāḥ—impudent. Prabhupāda: No obedience to authority. Impudent. And? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Dhana-māna. Prabhupāda: Dhana-māna.