Guest (6): You must be knowing that Vidyananda, Swami Vidyananda . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: Oh, he's a great nonsense.
Guest (6): Oh, no.
Prabhupāda: I know.
Guest (6): He has constructed that from Gujarat. He's a Gujārati.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest (6): He constructed a temple there.
Prabhupāda: I have seen in Ahmedabad his temple. He established one deity, a woman shape, and there is no Kṛṣṇa. "Gītā." "Gītā" means a woman. So I don't think he has full understanding of Gītā. He has money; he has spent. That's all. But he does not understand Gītā. Gītā means unless one takes Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead he does not understand anything of Gītā. That is the test.
He may advertise himself as scholar or this or that, but our only test is whether he accepts Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). That is the test. Is that person accepting Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead? He himself accepts that, "I am God." Is it not? Therefore he's a foolish. He is squandering money, public money. That's all. That is his business. He might have some qualification to collect money, but he does not know what is Kṛṣṇa.
Guest (6): He's all . . . (indistinct)
Prabhupāda: But I think he is dead.
Guest (6): He is dead now or he . . . Sadhanananda is dead, Swami Sadhananda.
Prabhupāda: I know. So that is the test. That is the test. Therefore it is a revolutionary movement. Even so-called followers of Gītā, they will be caught up by this movement as rascals. Because the real purpose of Gītā they do not know. Real purpose of Gītā is to know Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That you will find in the Bhagavad-gītā: sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi madhava (BG 10.14). And Arjuna says that "Whatever You have said, they're all right, and I accept them in toto, without any revision."
So Kṛṣṇa says that, "I am the Supreme Personality of Godhead." One who does not understand Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Person, what he has read Gītā? He is useless. Śrama eva hi kevalam (SB 1.2.8). Simply has labored. That's all. That is the test. Don't you agree to this point? So anyone who does not accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he has no knowledge of Gītā. He immediately becomes foolish. That is our test. So Muktānanda, what do you think?
Muktānanda: Yes, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is the test, whether he has understood. In the Seventh Chapter:
- mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha
- yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ
- asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ
- yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu
- (BG 7.1)
"Anyone . . . how one simply by concentrating his mind upon Me," mayy āsakta, "with āsakti . . ." Āsakti means attachment, love. Mayy āsakta-manāḥ: mind attached to Kṛṣṇa in love. Yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ: and performing the bhakti-yoga, mad-āśrayaḥ, under the disciplinary action by a bona fide spiritual master, mad-āśrayaḥ. Asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ: "Then he can understand without any doubt and fully what I am."
That means one who has not understood Bhagavad-gītā . . . Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he has not found the yoga properly. And why? That is mad-āśrayaḥ: he does not follow the disciplic succession.