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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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You read it or not read it, but you have to realize. Suppose one is illiterate, he cannot read, but he can follow. Anyone can follow the instruction of guru. Even he does not read because one is not educated. But, still if he follows the instruction of guru then he is going nicely. Āra nā kariha mane āśā, that is instruction. Do not need anything else. Stick to the principle of instruction of guru. Then you become perfect.
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[[Vanisource:740703 - Lecture BG 17.1-3 - Honolulu|740703 - Lecture BG 17.1-3 - Honolulu]]
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Woman devotee: Can we just have the chanting without instructions?

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Sudāmā: She wants to know actually that should they just have the chanting without reading your books or without instruction or following the program.

Prabhupāda: But that chanting must be pure. Your guru is writing books. If you think, "There is no necessity of reading books," that is guror avajñā. Do you mean to say I am writing these books whole night for selling and making money? Why do you think like that?

Woman devotee: So there should just be chanting and reading of the books.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Woman devotee: But how much comment?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Sudāmā: She says that how much comment should there be for reading the books. In other . . . actually, the situation is that to be proper śikṣā, means that one must give instruction as the spiritual master. He has to follow your program, rising early . . .

Prabhupāda: That we have already sung: āra nā kariha mane āśā. Guru-mukha-padma. What is that? Read.

Bhadra-vardhana: Āra nā kariha mane āśā.

Prabhupāda: Ah. But I do not think otherwise. Whatever guru has said, accept it, final. Āra nā kariha mane āśā. Don't divert from this. This is infection. How you can divert from the instruction of guru?

Woman devotee: So just read it, not comment.

Prabhupāda: Yes. You read it or not read it, but you have to realize. Suppose one is illiterate, he cannot read, but he can follow. Anyone can follow the instruction of guru. Even he does not read because one is not educated. But, still if he follows the instruction of guru then he is going nicely. Āra nā kariha mane āśā, that is instruction. Do not need anything else. Stick to the principle of instruction of guru. Then you become perfect.
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