First business is to accept spiritual master. Adau gurv-asrayam. Who will train him? He is already fool, rascal. He must be trained up. So he must be trained up by the representative of Krsna

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"First business is to accept spiritual master. Ādau gurv-āśrayam. Who will train him? He is already fool, rascal. He must be trained up. So he must be trained up by the representative of Kṛṣṇa"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Madhudviṣa: The question was, Prabhupāda, is it possible for a person to return to the spiritual world without taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master? Prabhupāda: No, that is not possible. Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī said, ādau gurv-āśrayam (Brs. 1.1.74). First business is to accept spiritual master. Ādau gurv-āśrayam. Who will train him? He is already fool, rascal. He must be trained up. So he must be trained up by the representative of Kṛṣṇa. Devotee (9): Is second initiation necessary, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Prabhupāda: Second or first initiation. Devotee (9): Śrīla Prabhupāda, what are you saying? You said before there's no necessity for a spiritual master, and now you. . . Paramahaṁsa: He said in the spiritual world there is no necessity.

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Prabhupāda: Then that spiritual master is Kṛṣṇa Himself. There is no need of education. Everyone is free. Everyone is full knowledge. There is no need of spiritual master.

Devotee (8): Śrīla Prabhupāda, many people who live outside the temple have Jagannātha deities and Gaura-Nitāi Deities.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Devotee (8): Many people who live outside the temple have Jagannātha deities and. . .

Prabhupāda: Better Gaura-Nitāi Deities.

Devotee (8): Huh?

Prabhupāda: Better Gaura-Nitāi.

Devotee (8): So they have to do full Deity worship when they have these Deities?

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Devotee (8): So they have to do full Deity worship to have these Deities? Dress the Deities every day?

Prabhupāda: They are supposed to do so, but whether they are able to do so, that is the point. If you can worship properly, that's all right. But whether you are able to worship?

Devotee (7): Prabhupāda, can a person go back to a spiritual planet without initiation?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Devotee (7): Can a person go back to a spiritual planet. . .

Prabhupāda: No, there is no more init. . . Initiation here required when the living entity is in darkness. Just like uneducated person requires to go to school. One who is educated, in his full knowledge, he doesn't go.

Madhudviṣa: The question was, Prabhupāda, is it possible for a person to return to the spiritual world without taking initiation from a bona fide spiritual master?

Prabhupāda: No, that is not possible. Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī said, ādau gurv-āśrayam (Brs. 1.1.74). First business is to accept spiritual master. Ādau gurv-āśrayam. Who will train him? He is already fool, rascal. He must be trained up. So he must be trained up by the representative of Kṛṣṇa.

Devotee (9): Is second initiation necessary, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Second or first initiation.

Devotee (9): Śrīla Prabhupāda, what are you saying? You said before there's no necessity for a spiritual master, and now you. . .

Paramahaṁsa: He said in the spiritual world there is no necessity.

Devotee (9): Oh, in the spiritual world.

Paramahaṁsa: Everyone is in full knowledge. In the material world everyone is in darkness.

Devotees: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda! Jaya Gaura Nitai! (break)