Eternal spiritual knowledge transmitted through authorized succession cannot be altered by votes, resolutions, or personal whims.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[Mike Darby was a long-time admirer of Prabhupāda and was well-informed about Kṛṣṇa consciousness] Mike Darby: ...don't need education, then, to... Prabhupāda: Yes. We are coming from Detroit? Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Detroit, Toronto. Prabhupāda: There are so many factories for four-wheel vehicles, and there is no factory to educate man to the right path. Perhaps... This is our little attempt, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, how to educate to the right path.
We are not getting any help, either from the authority... In our own way, as far as possible, we are doing. When people will be educated they will be able to understand who is guru, who is not guru. We can say, but who is going to accept?
We say always that they are all rascals, but who will accept our statement? And the state, there had been a department to see what is the qualification of guru, then immediately they would have taken steps. Just like in Kṛṣṇa's time one man falsely presented himself as God, immediately his head was cut off. Pauṇḍraka.
So the state must be very strong to punish the miscreant. But there is no such state. Mike Darby: This man, Sun Myung Moon, claims to be the Messiah, the Jesus Christ revived. Prabhupāda: So it is the duty of the Christians. But they are also...
What can I say? They are passing resolution according to the time, changing the instruction of Bible. How they can be fixed-up? Our standard is Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.
We accept guru as representative of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If he speaks what Kṛṣṇa has spoken, then he is guru. Similarly in Christianity, if they actually take care that whether one is speaking according to the Ten Commandments, if he is living according to the rules and regulations of the Ten Commandments, then he is guru. Now why people accept them?
Because they are in ignorance; they do not know who is real and who is fake. But the standard is there. Take for example in the Bible, it is said, "Thou shall not kill." But everyone is killing. Killing is the business of the Christians.