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"I will never hesitate to do it. I will never hear from anyone but my guru. Those who are saying something different from this teaching coming through bona fide parampara, coming from Sriman Mahaprabhu - we will never listen to them. If somebody says something different, then like Bhimasena, with my fist, I will crush it. I will destroy it. I will defeat it. I am so proud. With just one speck of dust from the lotus feet of my guru, crores and crores of people of this world will be delivered. You should understand how powerful one little speck of dust of my guru's lotus feet is. There is no such a scholar as my guru. I will never accept anyone else as a scholar. There are no such teachings as those that my guru has imparted, to be found in any human being, or in any demigod, I know it very well. No one else can give such teachings. There is nothing in this world that is as heavy as a tiny speck of dust from the lotus feet of my guru, SRILA PRABHUPADA. This is the follower of true paramp

Jun 05 Prabhus, there have been those who say that Srila Gour Govinda Swami's and Srila Prabhupada's teachings differ. Little difference in emphasis there may be, but let us examine the case more closely. Let us compare a little about Srila Prabhupada and Gour Govinda Swami:

Gour Govinda Swami came from an Oriya Vaisnava family of famous kirtaniyas and devotees of Gopala. He grew up in a simple rural village. Although a schoolteacher, his exposure to the world was via a smaller community. Gour Govinda Maharajah was a very intelligent but simple and traditional village saint. Srila Prabhupada was also born into a pure Vaisnava family, Bengali, but in the big metropolis of Calcutta. He schooled in the colleges in the capital city. A Gandhi-ite in his youth, he was accustomed to broad and even revolutionary ideas, and impressed by the expanded liberal mercies of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami.


Does anyone expect all devotees to be identical? That is not realistic; they will have