or can't make anyone a pure devotee

Yasodanandana: Before you came, many gurus came, but they did not make any pure devotee of Krsna.    (More...)

Prabhupada: How they can? He is not pure devotee of Krsna, how he can do? Krsna-sakti vina nahe nama pracara: "Without being empowered by Krsna nobody can turn a person to become devotee of Krsna." It is not... Artificially, you cannot make. He may make show of gold manufacturing, but he cannot make a devotee of Krsna. That is not possible.    (More...)