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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Sai Baba, he also says, "I am Bhagavān." Therefore he's bogus. How you can say yourself that you are Bhagavān, God? What is your power? What you have shown? And this is cheap.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12, 1975, Mexico|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, other Guests and Disciples -- February 12, 1975, Mexico]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): Do you have any opinions about some of the other Indian masters who have been...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That I have already said, that unless one is bona fide servant of God, he cannot become master.</p>
<p>Guest (2): I mean specific people like Guru Maharaji.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So Guru Maharaji says that he is God himself. Then he's a bogus. How he can be God? God is so cheap? So only the foolish person will accept him. Those who have no knowledge.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Maharshi Mahesh?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I think he doesn't speak anything about God.</p>
<p>Guest (3): No. He's teaching the transcendental meditation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He speaks something of material prosperity. So He has nothing to do with God.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): It's just a kind of training of mind.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's it. Just like gymnastic. You exercise; you become bodily strong. That's all.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Sai Baba?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sai Baba, he also says, "I am Bhagavān." Therefore he's bogus. How you can say yourself that you are Bhagavān, God? What is your power? What you have shown? And this is cheap. Now, supposing Sai Baba is God. So people accept him God, why? Because he shows some jugglery. He creates little gold. Is it not? So if, by creating gold, he is God, then there is bigger God who has created gold mine. Why shall I go to this tiny god? I must go to the big God who has created gold mine. This is common sense. But foolish people, they have no common sense even. Therefore it is called mūḍhā. Mūḍhā nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam. Tribhir guṇamayair bhāvair mohita, mūḍhā nābhijānāti. Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gītā. Just like mostly people take: "The nature is all in all." The scientist, they take nature. But nature is matter. So where is our experience—the matter is working automatically? Where is our experience? Hm? Matter... Does matter work automatically? What is your opinion?</p>
<p>Hanumān: It's a chain of reaction.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Reaction. First of all there must be beginning of action, then reaction.</p>
<p>Hanumān: In the beginning there's Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is... I think Newton or some scientist also said that "Original motion is given by somebody; then other motions are given." Just like this, what is called? Railway wagons? So one engine pushes it. Then the wagon, another wagon, (makes sound) "cutcutcutcutcut," like that. Wherefrom the original?</p>
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