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First of all you answer me, that if you are a student, how you can know who is perfect teacher? (laughter) So you do not know what is your position. If you are teacher . . . if you are a student, then you should go to the teacher submissively, not that strong attitude.
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[[Vanisource:711110 - Lecture BG 04.01 - Delhi|711110 - Lecture BG 04.01 - Delhi]]
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Guest (1): How can I be devotee if I don't . . .

Prabhupāda: That is, that is Kṛṣṇa is teaching, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]), that you have (to) understand. You have to learn Bhagavad-gītā nicely, that's all.

Guest (2): Excuse me. Your Honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?

Prabhupāda: To teach the rascals. (laughter) The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is.

Guest (2): Is not the perfect master, when come to the Earth, prophet, he showed to the God?

Prabhupāda: You were asking what is the duty of the master and teacher.

Guest (2): Yes.

Prabhupāda: The teacher's duty is to make right the rascals, that's all.

Guest (2): When is the perfect mast . . .

Prabhupāda: So, first of all this is the duty of the teacher. So therefore a disciple should consider himself that he's a rascal, and then he goes to a teacher. If he thinks himself that he is quite all right, he does not require a teacher.

Guest (2): But when we are going to the teacher, teacher is showing from the 1, 2, 3, 4, teacher is showing, but not to what you call telling to just you. Teacher is telling, and teacher is showing us. So the perfect master, when the Lord Kṛṣṇa . . .

Prabhupāda: But how do you know the perfect master if you are a student?

Guest (2): When the Lord Kṛṣṇa was on the Earth . . .

Prabhupāda: First of all you answer me, that if you are a student, how you can know who is perfect teacher? (laughter) So you do not know what is your position. If you are teacher . . . if you are a student, then you should go to the teacher submissively, not that strong attitude.

Guest (2): If I am the student, excuse me, Your Honor, sir . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (2): If I am the student, I am going to the class, and I want to know that he's the principal teacher or not . . .?

Prabhupāda: So how you can know the principal teacher or not, if you are student?

Guest (2): Naturally he's giving us lesson from there, I will understand that he is teacher, and he will show us that, "This is A," "This is B," "This is C . . ."

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (2): Anyhow, the books is near to us, and I do not know that this is A or this is B or this is C . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (2): . . . anyhow book is near. But the perfect teacher, or the master, is showing us that, "This is A," "This is B," "This is C," and then we know that "This is A," "This is B," and "This is C." Anyhow, that before when we devote our . . . to bring to class in the school, and the books was very near to us, we do not know this is one, this is two, this is three, this is A, this is B, this is C. Books was near to us, with our eyes we can see, but we do not know what is this A and B, and the teacher is the one showing us that this is A and this is B, and this . . .

Prabhupāda: That's all right. Then what do you want to know? (laughter)

Guest (2): I want to know . . . (laughter and applause)

Prabhupāda: Now, the student goes to learn from the teacher A-B-C-D. The teacher says: "This is A," but the student has to accept that this is A. The student cannot argue, "So why not this way?" That is not a student. When a teacher says that, "This is A," so you have to accept this is A. You cannot argue. That is the relationship between the student and the teacher. A student cannot argue. The teacher says: "This is A", the student has to accept that is A. He cannot argue. If he argues, then he cannot learn. That is the first proposition.
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