Who is authority?
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Sudāmā: There also is the position of or some question is raised as to how to actually follow the authority. What is the authority between...?
Prabhupāda: Authority is your spiritual master. You do not know who is authority? Why this question is there? If one is initiated, then he accepted the authority. And if he does not follow the instruction of spiritual master, he is a rascal. He is defying the authority. That's all.
Sudāmā: The question also is there: the authority is the spiritual master, but the via media to the spiritual master... The difference between, like we were discussing in the automobile of śikṣā and dīkṣā-guru.
Prabhupāda: Then so śikṣā and dīkṣā-guru... A śikṣā-guru who instructs against the instruction of spiritual, he is not a śikṣā guru. He is a demon. Śikṣā-guru, dīkṣā-guru means... Sometimes a dīkṣā-guru is not present always. Therefore one can take learning, instruction, from an advanced devotee. That is called the śikṣā-guru. Śikṣā-guru does not mean he is speaking something against the teachings of the dīkṣā-guru. He is not a śikṣā-guru. He is a rascal.General Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Revatīnandana: His argument was "Well there's no point in talking about this matter. All of us accept this." He's saying: all big authorities, they accept this point of view, that this was recently written literature.
Prabhupāda: No, they don't know who are authorities.
Revatīnandana: That's right.
Prabhupāda: You manufacture your own authorities. You do not know. That is your misfortune. You do not know who is authority.
Devotee (2): They all smoke cigarettes and they think they're authorities. They're nonsense.
Revatīnandana: I met another old authority on Sanskrit and he is sitting behind his desk and his whole body is shaking: "No, I'm not interested in the spiritual side of these Vedas. I'm just interested in the Sanskrit." He's dying you know, and still he's like that. That's their authority. You can't save them but...
Prabhupāda: Adhyaki, adhyaki(?), therefore adhyaki(?).1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Page Title: | Who is authority? |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Serene |
Created: | 05 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=5, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 7 |