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So when one understands Krsna perfectly, he becomes mahatma. Just try to understand. Not a politician. Not by changing dress, saffron-color cloth. No, that is not mahatma. One who understands Krsna perfectly well, he is mahatma. Therefore here it is said, munibhir mahatmabhiḥ. The instruction was received from person, munibhiḥ, great philosophers. Not only philosopher, but mahatma. Because one who has understood Krsna perfectly... This is the qualification of guru. So that qualification, to attain, is not very difficult. But because we are rascals, we do not try to take the qualification. That qualification is very simple. One... Who can understand Krsna? Krsna is not so cheap thing. He has said already that yatatam api siddhanam kascin vetti mam tattvataḥ [Bg 7.3]. (More...)

So you don't want to..., if you don't want to become a rascal-if you want to become a mahatma-then you accept what Krsna says and preach that. Krsna says, mattaḥ parataram nanyat [Bg 7.7]: "There is no more superior authority than Me." You say that. You say, vasudevaḥ sarvam iti. "Here is... Krsna is the cause." You understand or don't understand, if you simply pick up the words of Krsna and talk like that, then you become mahatma. There is no difficulty to become mahatma. But these duratmas, the rascals, they talk differently from Krsna. Therefore they are not mahatmas; they are all duratma. Therefore the process is that if you want to make progress in Krsna consciousness, then you have to find out a guru who is mahatma. Adau gurvasrayam. That is the first business. Adau, in the beginning, gurvasrayam, to take shelter of a bona fide mahatma guru. That is the Vedic instruction. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum eva abhigacchet [Munḍaka Upanisad ]. (More...)

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