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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Disciple should be always ready to be chastised. He should not think that he has become perfect. That is perfection. So long he thinks that he is not perfect—he's to be chastised—then he's perfect. And as soon as he thinks that he has become perfect, he's nonsense immediately, nonsense number one.
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Devotee (1): Prabhupāda, when Śrīla Vyāsadeva was lamenting after compiling so many Vedic literatures before compiling ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', he said to his spiritual master, Nārada Muni, that "You please enter within me and find out my deficiency. You are as good as the all-pervading Supersoul."

Prabhupāda: That is always the position of disciple (spiritual master), to find out the deficiency in the character of disciple.

Devotee (1): He said that "You are as good as the all-pervading Supersoul."

Prabhupāda: Yes. He . . . He pointed out the deficiency, that "You have not described so elaborately about the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You have touched only the social, religious, political point of views." That was his deficiency. So a disciple is always in deficiency before his spiritual master. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, ''guru'' ''more murkha dekhi karila śāśana'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.71|CC Adi 7.71]]): "My spiritual master saw Me a fool number one. Therefore he has chastised Me." So disciple should be always ready to be chastised. He should not think that he has become perfect. That is perfection. So long he thinks that he is not perfect—he's to be chastised—then he's perfect. And as soon as he thinks that he has become perfect, he's nonsense immediately, nonsense number one. (break) . . . always to be chastised by the spiritual master for perfection. And if he thinks that now he has become perfect, then he's a foolish. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, ''guru'' ''more murkha dekhi'': "My spiritual master saw Me a fool number one." Was He fool number one? He's God Himself. But that is the position. He should remain always a fool number one, ready to be chastised. Then he's perfect. In the moral instruction, Cāṇakya Paṇḍita gives this instruction, that ''lālane bahavo doṣas tadane bahavo guṇaḥ'': "If you chastise your, the son or disciple, he'll improve, and if you say, 'Oh, you are all right,' then he'll degrade." ''Tasmāt putraṁ ca śiṣyaṁ ca tāḍayet na tu lalayet'': "Therefore you always chastise your son and disciple. Never flat . . ." What is called?

Jayādvaita: Flatter.

Prabhupāda: Yes. No.

Satsvarūpa: Prabhupāda, in one purport in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything.

Prabhupāda: Yes, if he follows the spiritual master.

Satsvarūpa: But how could he know . . .? What does that mean, "everything"?

Prabhupāda: "Everything" means whatever his ''guru'' knows, he should know, that much. Not like God, everything. Within his limit, that's all. If he tries to understand whatever his ''guru'' has said, that much is "everything." Otherwise, "everything" does not mean that we know everything like God, like Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. If he regularly chants and follow the regulative principles, follow the orders of ''guru'', then he knows everything. That's all. Not very much. 
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