opinions about some of the other Indian masters

[Guest guest]

Guest (2): Do you have any opinions about some of the other Indian masters

who have been...

Prabhupada: That I have already said, that unless one is bona fide servant

of God, he cannot become master.

Guest (2): I mean specific people like Guru Maharaji.

Prabhupada: So Guru Maharaji says that he is God himself. Then he's a bogus.

How he can be God? God is so cheap? So only the foolish person will accept

him. Those who have no knowledge.

Guest (2): Maharshi Mahesh?

Prabhupada: I think he doesn't speak anything about God.

Guest (3): No. He's teaching the transcendental meditation.

Prabhupada: He speaks something of material prosperity. So He has nothing to

do with God.

Devotee (1): It's just a kind of training of mind.

Prabhupada: That's it. Just like gymnastic. You exercise; you become bodily

strong. That's all.

Guest (2): Sai Baba?

Prabhupada: Sai Baba, he also says, "I am Bhagavan." Therefore he's bogus.

How you can say yourself that you are Bhagavan, God? What is your power?

What you have shown? And this is cheap. Now, supposing Sai Baba is God. So

people accept him God, why? Because he shows some jugglery. He creates

little gold. Is it not? So if, by creating gold, he is God, then there is

bigger God who has created gold mine. Why shall I go to this tiny god? I

must go to the big God who has created gold mine. This is common sense. But

foolish people, they have no common sense even. Therefore it is called

mudha. Mudha nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam. Tribhir gunamayair

bhavair mohita, mudha nabhijanati.

 

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