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My Guru Maharaja used to say, "Don't make a guru just like you keep a dog, as a fashion."

Expressions researched:
"Don't make a guru just like you keep a dog, as a fashion" |"Their guru is keeping a pet dog"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

One should go to a guru for spiritual advancement of life, not as a fashion. People go to a guru as a fashion. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "Don't make a guru just like you keep a dog, as a fashion."
Lecture on SB 1.7.38-39 -- Vrndavana, September 30, 1976:

You cannot utilize hari-nāma for any material purposes. Material purpose is... Just like generally, people go to a guru for benefit of some material purpose. "Sir, I have got some cholic pain within my abdomen. Kindly give me your blessing." The materialistic persons, they are after blessing for some material benefit. They are not after Kṛṣṇa. That is another offense. Therefore to go to guru or to accept a guru, there should not be any material purpose. Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet (MU 1.2.12). One should go to a guru for spiritual advancement of life, not as a fashion. People go to a guru as a fashion. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "Don't make a guru just like you keep a dog, as a fashion." Nowadays it has become a fashion to keep a dog. In the European, American countries it is a compulsory fashion to have a dog. Everyone keeps a dog. And they love dog very much, more than anything. (laughter)

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "They keep a pet dog. Their guru is keeping a pet dog."
Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda M.P. 'Nationalism and Cheating' -- April 15, 1977, Bombay:

Girirāja: Actually, except for Your Divine Grace, no other leader has any real disciple because all of their followers, they have their own ideas, which they consider more than their master. Like Mr. Bajaj...

Prabhupāda: Charismatic? What is the...? Tell.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Charismatic.

Prabhupāda: Our Dr. Stillson... "Charismatics..."

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Who? Dr. Stillson Judah?

Girirāja: Yeah, he said that.

Prabhupāda: "Whatever he says, everyone believes."

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's a fact. But Girirāja's point is well taken, that these other gurus, they may say that they have disciples, but their disciples are all independent.

Prabhupāda: Not disciples. They are masters.

Girirāja: Right. that's right.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Guru is a pet, you always say.

Prabhupāda: Yes. My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "They keep a pet dog. Their guru is keeping a pet dog."

Page Title:My Guru Maharaja used to say, "Don't make a guru just like you keep a dog, as a fashion."
Compiler:Labangalatika
Created:23 of Nov, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:2