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WHO HAS NO REFERENCE TO THE SASTRA, IMMEDIATELY TAKE HIM AS A RASCAL NUMBER ONE

“So śāstra-cakṣusā. Everything we have to take from the śāstra. Because we are blind now. Śāstra-cakṣusā. Our, the śāstra-jñāna, because the spiritual master enlightens the disciple with śāstra-jñāna, therefore he is spiritual master. If the spiritual master bluffs the disciple, then he is not spiritual master. Bluffing. No.

om ajñāna-timirāndhasya

jñānāñjana-śalākayā

cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena

tasmai śrī-guruve namaḥ

(Śrī Guru-Praṇāma)

This is guru. Guru means he’ll always enlighten the disciples with the light of śāstra. Not that he will say, ‘There is no need of śāstra. I am incarnation. I, whatever I speak, you take it.’ No. This is rascal. You should immediately, who has no reference to the śāstra, immediately take him as a rascal number one. This is the conclusion.”

(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, London, July 20, 1973)

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