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<h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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You cannot change. You cannot improve. That is rascaldom. A spiritual master also does not change the words of Kṛṣṇa and makes any improvement upon it. Improvement . . . there is no question of improvement.
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[[Vanisource:750603 - Lecture Initiation - Honolulu|750603 - Lecture Initiation - Honolulu]]
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Prabhupāda: Everyone can become spiritual master if he presents the instruction as it is. Not that "I am now advanced. I can change the process what I received from spiritual master." That is rascaldom. No. You cannot change. You cannot improve. That is rascaldom. A spiritual master also does not change the words of Kṛṣṇa and makes any improvement upon it. Improvement . . . there is no question of improvement. But sometimes, according to time, circumstances, country, candidate, there is some trick or some ways just to . . . real business is one must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is real business. So sometimes we have to adopt some means which will help us to distribute the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. That is different thing. But on principle we cannot change the words. Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says in his commentary on Bhagavad-gītā upon the verse,

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:vyavasāyātmikā buddhir
:ekeha kuru-nandana
:bahu-śākhā hy anantāś ca
:buddhayo 'vyavasāyinām 
:([[Vanisource:BG 2.41 (1972)|BG 2.41]])
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In that connection he explains that "Whatever I have heard from my guru, from my spiritual master, to execute, that is my life and soul. I do not mind even if I am not liberated; still, I shall go on executing the will of my spiritual master." We also sing every day. I do not know whether you understand it. What is that? Guru-mukha-padma-vākya (Śrī Guru-vandanā 2). Huh?

Devotee: Cittete kariyā aikya.

Prabhupāda: Āra nā kariha mane āśā. This is our process. Whatever we have heard from our spiritual master . . . spiritual master gives specific order to some specific disciple, and the disciple also will take it as seriously as life and soul. Then it is perfect.
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