ship without a rudder

Prabhupada: No, we never said that. Just now we explained, ye va mayise krta-sauhrdartha: you keep your intimate relationship with Krsna, it doesn't matter whether you are in family or without family. It doesn't matter. Just like I have given already example. Arjuna, he is a family man, he is not a sannyasi. Not only family man, a military man and politician. But he was prepared to sacrifice everything for Krsna. That is wanted. If you do not become a family man, so what is the gain there? Or if you remain a sannyasi, if you have no Krsna consciousness, just like you said, "So many svamis, they want to become Krsna instead of becoming devotee of Krsna." So this kind of sannyasi is also useless. Similarly, grhastha, if he's simply attached to family, that is also useless. Any condition of life, if you remain fixed-up with Krsna consciousness, that is your perfection of life. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei 'guru' haya [Cc Madhya 8.128]. Anyone who is fully Krsna conscious and fixed-up in devotional service, knowing fully well what is Krsna, he is guru. It doesn't matter whether he is a sannyasi or grhastha or brahmana and sūdra. It doesn't matter.    (More...)