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You do not know what is that svami, whether he is a svami or he is rascal. You do not know. But because everyone is going, "Oh, let me become his disciple." This is blind following. Without any knowledge, blind following

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"You do not know what is that svāmī, whether he is a svāmī or he is rascal. You do not know. But because everyone is going, "Oh, let me become his disciple." This is blind following. Without any knowledge, blind following"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Prabhupāda: Blind following and absurd inquiries. These things are condemned in this verse. Blind following means, "Oh, there is a svāmī. So many thousands of people are following. Let me become his disciple." This is called blind following. You do not know what is that svāmī, whether he is a svāmī or he is rascal. You do not know. But because everyone is going, "Oh, let me become his disciple." This is blind following. Without any knowledge, blind following. The svāmī says that "You give me money. I make you immediately God." So this is blind following. And another thing . . . what it says? What? What is that? Blind following? Madhudviṣa: Absurd inquiries.

Prabhupāda: Blind following and absurd inquiries. These things are condemned in this verse. Blind following means, "Oh, there is a svāmī. So many thousands of people are following. Let me become his disciple." This is called blind following. You do not know what is that svāmī, whether he is a svāmī or he is rascal. You do not know. But because everyone is going, "Oh, let me become his disciple." This is blind following. Without any knowledge, blind following. The svāmī says that "You give me money. I make you immediately God." So this is blind following. And another thing . . . what it says? What? What is that? Blind following?

Madhudviṣa: Absurd inquiries.

Prabhupāda: And absurd inquiries. Absurd inquiries . . . just like somebody goes to so-called spiritual master. There are so many stories, that such-and-such person approached his spiritual master, and he asked his spiritual master, "Can you show me God?" And the spiritual master immediately showed him God. You see? This rascaldom is going on.

Suppose if you go to a professor, and if you say: "Oh, if you are a professor, can you make me immediately M.A.?" and if he says: "Yes, why not?" Then are you not a fool? He is also fool. The so-called spiritual master is also rascal, and the man who has gone to him, he is also rascal. God is so cheap thing that immediately you go to a rascal and he shows you God immediately? Is it magic?

But these things are going on.

Page Title:You do not know what is that svami, whether he is a svami or he is rascal. You do not know. But because everyone is going, "Oh, let me become his disciple." This is blind following. Without any knowledge, blind following
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Created:2023-08-02, 13:51:46
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