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Chanting must be pure. Your guru is writing books. If you think, "There is no necessity of reading books," that is guror avajna

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

That chanting must be pure. Your guru is writing books. If you think, "There is no necessity of reading books," that is guror avajñā. Do you mean to say I am writing these books whole night for selling and making money? Why do you think like that?.

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Sudāmā: She wants to know actually that should they just have the chanting without reading your books or without instruction or following the program.

Prabhupāda: But that chanting must be pure. Your guru is writing books. If you think, "There is no necessity of reading books," that is guror avajñā. Do you mean to say I am writing these books whole night for selling and making money? Why do you think like that?

Woman devotee: So there should just be chanting and reading of the books.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Woman devotee: But how much comment?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Sudāmā: She says that how much comment should there be for reading the books. In other . . . actually, the situation is that to be proper śikṣā, means that one must give instruction as the spiritual master. He has to follow your program, rising early . . .

Prabhupāda: That we have already sung: āra nā kariha mane āśā. Guru-mukha-padma. What is that? Read.

Bhadra-vardhana: Āra nā kariha mane āśā.

Prabhupāda: Ah. But I do not think otherwise. Whatever guru has said, accept it, final. Āra nā kariha mane āśā. Don't divert from this. This is infection. How you can divert from the instruction of guru?

Woman devotee: So just read it, not comment.

Page Title:Chanting must be pure. Your guru is writing books. If you think, "There is no necessity of reading books," that is guror avajna
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-12-12, 16:44:57
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1