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If he is actually belongs to the spiritual understanding, then he must admit that he is servant of God

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"if he is actually belongs to the spiritual understanding, then he must admit that he is servant of God"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: Everyone. You are also servant of Kṛṣṇa. Are you not servant of Kṛṣṇa? Are you master? You are not servant of anyone? Are you? You have come as press representative. You are servant of the press. So you are not master.

Reporter: Uh-huh. But I wanted to ask about other spiritual groups in this country. . .

Prabhupāda: So any spiritual . . . if he is actually belongs to the spiritual understanding, then he must admit that he is servant of God.

Reporter: Servant of God.

Prabhupāda: That is real spiritual understanding.

Prabhupāda: The difficulty has arisen—I am claiming to be Hindu, but I am not following the Vedic rules. You are claiming to be Christian, but you are not following the Christian rules. This is going on all over the world.

Reporter: But if someone was making the Bible a sort of reality in their lives. . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, it is good. What is the wrong there, Bible? It is everything all right. We don't say: "The Bible is bad and Vedas are good." We don't say that.

Reporter: Are you yourself or do your followers regard you as an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa or as the teacher of His teachings?

Prabhupāda: No. We regard ourself as servant of Kṛṣṇa.

Reporter: Servant of Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Reporter: There are a lot of other spiritual groups in the world . . .

Prabhupāda: Everyone is servant of Kṛṣṇa.

Reporter: Are you saying . . .

Prabhupāda: Everyone. You are also servant of Kṛṣṇa. Are you not servant of Kṛṣṇa? Are you master? You are not servant of anyone? Are you? You have come as press representative. You are servant of the press. So you are not master.

Reporter: Uh-huh. But I wanted to ask about other spiritual groups in this country. . .

Prabhupāda: So any spiritual . . . if he is actually belongs to the spiritual understanding, then he must admit that he is servant of God.

Reporter: Servant of God.

Prabhupāda: That is real spiritual understanding.

Reporter: But many different groups give the . . .

Prabhupāda: They are not . . . they have no spiritual understanding. Anyone who says something else beyond this understanding, that every living entity is servant of God, if he says something else, he does not know what is spiritual life.

Reporter: But there seem to be a lot of groups that are saying that, but teaching a different way to . . .

Prabhupāda: Different way . . . there cannot be dif . . . the way is one. God is one, and we all living entities, we are dependent on God's mercy. Therefore we are servant. Everyone is servant. We say that, that God is one, and every one of us, we are all servant of God. So let us engage in our original position as servant of God. This is our teaching.

Reporter: Do you feel that. . . in other groups also there are sort of teachers or masters or whatever they call them. Do you feel that there can be more than . . .

Prabhupāda: They are wasting time simply and cheating others. That's all.

Page Title:If he is actually belongs to the spiritual understanding, then he must admit that he is servant of God
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2023-01-10, 11:51:42
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1