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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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People are affectionate to father and mother, and they hesitate how to give up... Especially boys, give up the company of family, father and mother, take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But here in the śāstra it is said, "If the father is demon or a mother is demon or a friend is demon or a family member is demon, they should not be accepted as relative."
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[[Vanisource:760221 - Lecture SB 07.09.14 - Mayapur|760221 - Lecture SB 07.09.14 - Mayapur]]
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So Prahlāda Mahārāja is requesting Nṛsiṁha-deva, "Now the business is finished. My father, the great demon, Hiraṇyakaśipu . . ." He said, ''asuraś ca hatas ''. . . He . . . Such a great Vaiṣṇava, he is not calling Hiraṇyakaśipu his father. And in other place also he addressed his father, ''na sādhu manye asura-varya ''([[vanisource:SB 7.5.5|SB 7.5.5]]). He never said "my father." He said "the greatest of the ''asuras''." He was so bold. The father was such a great demon, and he was not addressing him as father, and the father was becoming more and more angry upon him. This indicates that a person who is a demon, not devotee, he's not worth calling a father. That sort of father should be avoided. ''Pitā na sa syāt''. People are affectionate to father and mother, and they hesitate how to give up . . . Especially boys, give up the company of family, father and mother, take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But here in the ''śāstra ''it is said, "If the father is demon or a mother is demon or a friend is demon or a family member is demon, they should not be accepted as relative." ''Pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syād gurur na sa syāt ''([[vanisource:SB 5.5.18|SB 5.5.18]]). Even ''guru''. If you have accepted somebody as ''guru ''but he's a demon, he should be rejected immediately. Immediately. Just like in India there is a system of ''jāta-guru'', the ''guru ''by caste. By familywise, they become ''guru''. One family is attached to another ''guru ''family by hereditary rules, the sons, after sons accepting ''guru'', the other party, and there is regular business. So such kind of ''guru ''is not wanted.
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