One cannot deny the order of a spiritual master. Therefore one has to select a spiritual master whose order, carrying, you'll not commit a mistake. You see? Now, suppose if you accept a wrong person as spiritual master, and if you, if he guides you wrongly, then YOUR WHOLE LIFE IS SPOILED. So one has to accept a spiritual master whose guidance will make his life perfect. That is the relation between spiritual master and disciple. It is not a formality. It is a great responsibility both for the disciple and for the spiritual master. - Bhagavad-Gita Lecture 2.7-11--New York, March 2, 1966
The ignorant pseudo religionists and the manufacturers of so-called incarnations who directly violate the Vedic injunctions ARE LIABLE TO ENTER INTO THE DARKEST REGION OF THE UNIVERSE because they mislead those who follow them. - Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 12, Purport
By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities. In this way they pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. Such violators of religious principles have no respect for the authoritative acharyas, the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession......to mislead the people in general they themselves become so-called acharyas, but they do not even follow the principles of the acharyas.
These rogues are the most dangerous elements in human society. Because there is no religious government, they escape punishment by the law of the state. They cannot, however, escape the law of the Supreme, who has clearly declared in the Bhagavad-Gita that envious demons in the garb of religious propagandists SHALL BE THROWN INTO THE DARKEST REGIONS OF HELL(Bg. 16.19-20). Sri Isopanisad confirms that these pseudo religionists are HEADING TOWARD THE MOST OBNOXIOUS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE after the completion of their spiritual master business, which they conduct simply for sense gratification. - Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 12, Purport
There are many renegades from the Brahma-sampradäya whose only business is to make men more forgetful of the Lord and thus entangle them more and more in material existence. Such persons are never dear to the Lord, and the Lord sends them deeper into the darkest region of matter so that such envious demons may not be able to know the Supreme Lord. - SB 2.9.19, Purport
These foolish creatures do not know that they are nothing but play dolls in the hands of material nature and that at any moment material nature's pitiless intrigues can crush to dust all their plans for godless activities. - Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi 3.98, Purport
"As for your next question: 'Can only a few pure devotees deliver others?' Anyone, if he is pure devotee he can deliver others, he can become spiritual master. But unless he is on that platform he should not attempt it. THEN THEY WILL BOTH GO TO HELL, like blind men leading the blind." - Letter to Tusta Krishna, 12/14/72
...because of the instructions of a foolish guru one remains perpetually in material existence and suffers its tribulations. - Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.24.51, Purport
Mundane manufactured sound has no potency, and as such, seemingly transcendental sound received from an unauthorized person also has no potency. (SB 2.9.8, Purport)
Thus mental absorbtion in social, political, pseudoreligious, national, and communal consciousness is cause for bondage. (SB 4.28.20, Purport)
Those are, therefore, greatly mistaken who are disposed to look forward to the amelioration of the worldly state--in any worldly sense--from the worldly success of any really spiritual movement. It is these worldly expectants who become the patrons of the mischievous race of the pseudo-teachers of religion, the Putanas, whose congenial function is to stifle the theistic disposition at the very moment of its suspected appearance. But the real theistic disposition can never be stifled by the efforts of those Putanas. The Putanas have power only over the atheist. It is a thankless, but salutary, task which they perform for the benefit of their unwilling victims.- ORGANIZED RELIGION- His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja Prabhupada
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