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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Guru is there. Guru is there, but unless you are actually serious, you cannot get real guru. If you want to be cheated or if you are a cheater, then you'll get a cheater guru. (aside as someone leaves:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Give prasāda. Bring prasāda. Now we go to guru for some medical help. We go to guru for some economic development. (laughter) So you'll get cheater. That's all.
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[[Vanisource:770108 - Conversation B - Bombay|770108 - Conversation B - Bombay]]
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Prabhupāda: Not guru finds you. You have to find out guru. Guru is there. Guru is there. But if you want to be cheated, then you find out.

Indian man (2): Exactly.

Prabhupāda: And if you want to be cheated, the cheaters will . . . Guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya. If you are actually serious to serve Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, then Kṛṣṇa will give you: "Here is guru."

Indian man (2): That's a fact.

Prabhupāda: Guru is there. Guru is there, but unless you are actually serious, you cannot get real guru. If you want to be cheated or if you are a cheater, then you'll get a cheater guru. (aside as someone leaves:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Give prasāda. Bring prasāda. Now we go to guru for some medical help. We go to guru for some economic development. (laughter) So you'll get cheater. That's all.

Indian man (1): But how to engage these people who are desirous of serving Kṛṣṇa in Bombay? If you are talking about a farm and other things . . .

Prabhupāda: Then why we have constructed this?

Indian man (1): No, here people will not come because the people are not going business or anything, but people him, people like him, people like this, how they can engage . . .

Prabhupāda: They can come at least weekend and learn. There are so many books.

Indian man (2): We have our own . . . We have to find out.

Indian man (4): We have to find our own ways to come here.

Prabhupāda: Guru is there—Kṛṣṇa. Why don't you find? Why you are blind? Kṛṣṇa says, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata ([[Vanisource:BG 4.7 (1972)|BG 4.7]]). Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.8 (1972)|BG 4.8]]). He has come. Why don't you take Him? Why do you go to a cheater? Because you want to be cheated. Guru is there. Śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7 (1972)|BG 2.7]]), Arjuna said. Why don't you surrender to Kṛṣṇa? That means I don't want guru; I want somebody, my order-supplier. So how you can be? Because you want to be cheated, you'll get cheater. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmi ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]]). Why don't you accept Kṛṣṇa as guru? What is the difficulty? Is there anybody greater than Kṛṣṇa? Do you think like that? What is your idea?

Indian man (2): He is the ultimate. There's nothing more.
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