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== Lectures ==

=== Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures ===

<span class="q_heading">'''I do not think myself an authority. I am just to serve the order of my spiritual master. '''</span>

<span class="LEC-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.7-9 -- New York, July 22, 1966|Lecture on BG 4.7-9 -- New York, July 22, 1966]]:''' 

Guest: Swamiji, may I ask you a question?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest: Do you teach self-realization?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Guest: Do you teach self-realization?

Prabhupāda: Yes, this is self-realization.

Guest: Do you initiate?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Guest: Do you initiate?

Prabhupāda: Yes. I initiate also. Well, this is the process of self-realization, to know...

Guest: Then you are an authority on initiation?

Prabhupāda: Yes, and, of course, I do not know whether I am authority, but my spiritual master has authorized me to do this.

Guest: That's, that's all right. That's sufficient. That's sufficient.

Prabhupāda: I, I, I do not think myself an authority. I am just to serve the order of my spiritual master. That's all.

Guest: Yes. Very good. But I suppose you know that in the western countries lots have been initiated and have never had the, the chance to be initiated by the master in order to initiate others. Quite a few, they have been.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Of course the, we, if we...

Guest: That's a responsibility in itself.

Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Yes.</span>