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<h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He said that, "My spiritual master found Me a great fool." Caitanya Mahāprabhu is not a fool, but it is the good qualification of a disciple to remain a fool before the spiritual master. Therefore he'll never . . . I mean to say, dare to argue or disobey. That is offense.
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[[Vanisource:681201 - Lecture Initiation and Ten Offenses - Los Angeles|681201 - Lecture Initiation and Ten Offenses - Los Angeles]]
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Prabhupāda: Yes. One should not put the Supreme Personality of Godhead . . . just like the Māyāvādī says: "The demigods and God, they are all the same." Because according to them, God has no form, so any form you accept, imagine, as the form of God, it is as good. But that is not the fact. There are demigods and the Supreme God also. So we should not place . . . just like demigod, Lord Brahmā or Lord Śiva, Indra, Candra, they are demigods. So we should not place . . .

In one sense, there is nothing except God, because everything expansion of God. But that does not mean I am equal to God. I am also expansion of God. That's a fact. Just like father and the son. Son is the expansion of father, still, the son is not the father. Don't mistake that. There is no difference between father and son, because the same body is expanded as son, but still, the son is not the father. Father is father, son is son. This, I mean to say, variety, the Māyāvādī philosophers, they do not understand. Then?

Revatīnandana: ". . . or assuming that there are many Gods."

Prabhupāda: God is one. There cannot be many Gods. If God is not one, there is no meaning of God. God means, according to Vedic definition, asamordhva. Asama means one who has no equal. Nobody is equal to God. And urdhva means nobody is greater than God. God is great. Nobody can be greater than God. Therefore God is one. Nobody is greater, nobody is equal. That means everyone is lower. Then?

Revatīnandana: "Neglecting the orders of the spiritual master."

Prabhupāda: Yes. This is one offense. These are offenses. When we accept spiritual master, it is understood that you cannot deny his order. Just like Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna was talking as friends, but when Arjuna accepted Kṛṣṇa as spiritual master, he was simply hearing, and whenever there was difficulty to understand, he was questioning. Not that he was equally arguing with Kṛṣṇa. Before accepting Him, he was arguing.

So this is the position. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He said that, "My spiritual master found Me a great fool." Caitanya Mahāprabhu is not a fool, but it is the good qualification of a disciple to remain a fool before the spiritual master. Therefore he'll never . . . I mean to say, dare to argue or disobey. That is offense.

Now, go on. That does not mean that when you cannot understand, you cannot question. Question must be there. That is stated in this Bhagavad-gītā, tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). Our relationship is to know from a spiritual master everything, but you should know that with three things. What is that? First of all you should surrender. You must accept the spiritual master as greater than you. Otherwise what is the use of accepting one spiritual master? Praṇipāt.

Praṇipāt means surrendering; and paripraśna, and questioning; and sevā, and service. There must be two sides, service and surrender, and in the middle there must be question. Otherwise there is no question and answer. Two things must be there: service and surrender. Then answer of question is nice. Yes.
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