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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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God is so cheap thing that immediately you go to a rascal and he shows you God immediately? Is it magic? But these things are going on. "Oh, such-and-such Swāmījī had a spiritual master who immediately showed him God." Huh? Dhruva Mahārāja went to the forest, and he had practiced so much penance and austerities. Then he saw God. And I can see God immediately without being trained, without undergoing training? No. It is not possible. These are absurd thing.
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[[Vanisource:690112 - Lecture BG 04.34-39 - Los Angeles|690112 - Lecture BG 04.34-39 - Los Angeles]]
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Suppose if you go to a professor, and if you say: "Oh, if you are a professor, can you make me immediately M.A.?" and if he says: "Yes, why not?" Then are you not a fool? He is also fool. The so-called spiritual master is also rascal, and the man who has gone to him, he is also rascal. God is so cheap thing that immediately you go to a rascal and he shows you God immediately? Is it magic?

But these things are going on. "Oh, such-and-such Swāmījī had a spiritual master who immediately showed him God." Huh? Dhruva Mahārāja went to the forest, and he had practiced so much penance and austerities. Then he saw God. And I can see God immediately without being trained, without undergoing training? No. It is not possible. These are absurd thing.

Suppose if you are not qualified, how you can see things? Suppose if you have never seen what is ten dollar note, then if you ask somebody, "Can you give me ten dollar note?" and if he gives you one piece of paper, "Yes, it is ten dollar note," then are you not cheated? You must know what is ten dollar note. Otherwise you'll be satisfied with a paper, piece of paper. That's all. If you do not know God, then how you can see God? You have to check it.

You go to a market place. You buy something. Suppose you buy, purchase, one knife. You know what is knife. It must be a sharpened instrument. You see how it is cutting. You test it. So suppose if you go on to somebody to see God, how you'll test it if you do not know what is God? Then he will give you, supply you, deliver you one dog, and you'll understand, "This is God." So what is your testing power? At least, you must have some theoretical knowledge what is God. So these things are going on, absurd things. You must know what is God.
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