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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
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[[Category:Questions On... Caitanya, His Associates]]
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[[Category:Questions On... Devotees - General]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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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">That is a warning to the future fools and rascals that even God does not like to be addressed as God. But we address Him as God on the strength of śāstra. Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣā kṛṣṇaṁ saṅgo-paṅgastra... (SB 11.5.32), yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ. Here is the incarnation of God. That is... Śāstra says. So out of His humbleness, He may say like that, but we should know by following the ācāryas, by śāstra. Sādhu-śāstra-guru vākya. Guru accepts Him God; śāstra accepts Him God; sādhu accepts Him God.
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Acyutānanda: . . . stuff His ears up when anyone would refer to Him as God. He wants to be known as a devotee. But we worship Him as God, in the same line as Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. 

Prabhupāda: Hm.

Acyutānanda: So how do we understand that?

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Acyutānanda: That Lord Caitanya doesn't want to be praised as God, but we worship Him as such.

Prabhupāda: That is a warning to the future fools and rascals that even God does not like to be addressed as God, but we address Him as God on the strength of ''śāstra''. ''Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣā kṛṣṇaṁ saṅgo-paṅgastra . . . yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 11.5.32|SB 11.5.32]]). Here is the incarnation of God. That is . . . ''śāstra'' says. So out of His humbleness, He may say like that, but we should know by following the ''ācāryas'', by ''śāstra. Sādhu-śāstra-guru vākya''. ''Guru'' accepts Him God; ''śāstra'' accepts Him God; ''sādhu'' accepts Him God.

Acyutānanda: The people say that just like Ramakrishna, the disciples presented him as God, but he never said he was God.

Prabhupāda: But then where is the ''śāstra''? 

Acyutānanda: No.

Prabhupāda: Three things: the devotee or saintly person, ''śāstra'' and ''guru''. He has no ''guru''. He has no support from the ''śāstra''. (laughs) So he's a fool, rascal number one, and he is God. He was a illiterate priest. He had no knowledge of ''śāstra''. Besides that, in the ''śāstra'' it is said that, "Those who are worshiping other demigods, their intelligence is lost." So he was worshiping Kālī. So he had no intelligence or spiritual realization, and he became God? So these things can be accepted by other fools and rascals. But those who follow ''śāstra'', they will reject immediately.

Acyutānanda: What if they say Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a devotee, He worshiped the Supreme Lord, ''kīrtana'', but His disciples say He's God?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Acyutānanda: Simply the disciples have said He's God.

Prabhupāda: No. That . . . why do you . . .? I have already said that He's supported by ''śāstra''. He's supported by ''śāstra''. He's supported by learned scholars, but here, in the transcendental scholars. And supported by ''guru''. We follow our ''guru''. So ''guru'' says; ''śāstra'' says; saintly persons say. Therefore we accept.
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