genuine guru

[Guest guest]

So sometimes people give me very much credit that I have done wonderful

throughout the whole world. But I do not know that I am wonderful man. But I

know one thing, that I am speaking what Krsna has spoken. That’s all. I am

not making any addition, alteration. Therefore I am presenting Bhagavad-gita

as it is. This credit I can take, that I don’t making any nonsense addition

or alteration. And I see practically it has become successful. . . . So

this is the secret, that if you want to become guru honestly... If you want

to cheat, that is another thing. There are so many cheaters. People also

want to be cheated. As soon as we say that “If you want to become my

disciple, you will have to give up four things: no illicit sex, no

intoxication up to drinking tea and smoking cigarette, no meat-eating and no

gambling,” and they criticize me, “Swamiji is very conservative.”

 

(from Srila Prabhupada's arrival address in San Francisco, 7/15/75)