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Brahmananda: He's asking when did you become the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness?    (More...)

Prabhupada: Try to understand. Don't go very speedily. A guru can become guru when he's ordered by his guru. That's all. Otherwise nobody can become guru.    (More...)

Prabhupada: What is the business, when did he tell me? And why shall I disclose to you? It is so very insignificant thing that I have to explain to you?    (More...)

Indian man (1): No, I am just curious to know when.    (More...)

Prabhupada: You should be curious within your limit. You should know that one can become guru when he is ordered by his guru. This much.    (More...)

Indian [woman?]: [Hindi monolog]    (More...)

Krsna-upadesa. "You become a spiritual master under My order." Under His order. Don't manufacture yourself. Under the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That is called parampara system: one who is following in disciplic succession the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. And what is the order of Caitanya Mahaprabhu? Yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa. Don't advising your rascaldom. Krsna-upadesa, what Krsna has said, you just tell him; you become spiritual master. That's all. It does not become..., very difficult to become spiritual master. The rascals, they fail, because they do not say anything which Krsna says. He manufactures something. He wants to take the place of Krsna. This rascaldom will never make you happy. You have to follow as Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa [Cc Madhya 7.128]. Then you become guru. To become guru is not at all difficult, provided you follow the right instruction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Then everyone can become-expand, expand. You have learned something about Krsna consciousness, now you rightly distribute them, then you will increase your group. But if you want to manufacture something of your own concoction, that will not act. That will not... That will be gramophone. No. [break]    (More...)

We have several times explained this, who is bona fide spiritual master, confirmed by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that amara ajnaya guru hana, "You become a guru on My instruction." So those who are affiliated with Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction, he is guru. Not anyone else. Amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa [Cc Madhya 7.128]. Then one may argue that if Caitanya Mahaprabhu is ordering, then anyone can order? No, Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not ordering something new. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that "Under My instruction you become guru." But the instruction is Krsna's, the same instruction, yare dekha tare kaha krsna-upadesa [Cc Madhya 7.128]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu also does not deviate from krsna-upadesa, what to speak of others. And those rascals who are deviating from the instruction of Krsna, how he can become guru? They are interpreting in a different way, how they can become guru? That is not guru. We should simply remember this fact: whether this person is speaking the same thing as Krsna says, as Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, as Ramanujacarya says, even Saṅkaracarya.    (More...)