Authentic spiritual knowledge must be received through disciplic succession from a qualified guru, never through personal speculation or self-made spirituality.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the merciful incarnation for all people. How we can question upon this idea? Indian reporter: So you are elaborating on this thing. Prabhupāda: Yes. Ignorance. Stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, mūḍhaḥ nābhijānāti.
You take Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam. Tribhir guṇamayair bhāvaiḥ [Bg 7.13]. [aside:] Oh, that is given to that doctor. [Transl. Actually the knowledge is in India. Nowhere else there is knowledge. There is no knowledge.] But that knowledge is being neglected by Indians, and the whole world is in ignorance. The knowledge has to be given by India because knowledge is in India.
But the Indians, they have become rascals. They are imitating the rascals. This is reply. India should have given knowledge to the whole world.
Instead of, these rascals are imitating their ways of life, and knowledge remains in the darkness throughout the whole world. Indian reporter: What do you find, you know, that when you impart this knowledge to Western disciples and when you talk to someone who are in India, what difference do you find? Prabhupāda: Indian men refuse this culture. India's leader, beginning from Gandhi and all, they do not know what is India's culture. They have forgotten. Indian reporter: Would you like to include Gandhi also in that? Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Otherwise, how you can be?
Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ [SB 7.5.31]. Indian reporter: But he was the one who also preached Gītā and... Prabhupāda: But he did not know Gītā, actually. Recently I have been in his āśrama. They are maintaining the chattai and the lantern in memory. What is that?
If Mahatma Gandhi understood Gītā, he should have introduced that āśrama the Gītā. Where is that? The chattai, food arrangement is there. Indian reporter: So that is done by his disciples and not by him. He never... Prabhupāda: That means he could not make his disciple correctly. Indian reporter: That is true.
That is true. Prabhupāda: Therefore he did not know. Now see how my disciples are working all over the world within ten years. I am sitting here, still going on, my business. So you have to train in such a way.