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Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?

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"Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Yes. Those who are not pretending, simple, ignorant, they are not unfortunate. But those who are pretending, they're most unfortunate.
Lecture on SB 1.2.7 -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972:

Devotee: ...keep a compromising spiritual master like a dog. Are these people considered to be more unfortunate than the people who have no desire for spiritual life, because they are making just some artificial show?

Prabhupāda: According to Īśopaniṣad, they are most unfortunate. Because they are keeping the show of spiritual master, but within they have got a different, ulterior purpose. So they are more unfortunate.

Devotee: Because they are pretending?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Those who are not pretending, simple, ignorant, they are not unfortunate. But those who are pretending, they're most unfortunate.

Devotee: Where is that śloka, what, what's Kṛṣṇa say? It starts: brahma-bhūtaḥ...

Prabhupāda: It is Bhagavad-gītā.

Devotee: Bhagavad-gītā.

Prabhupāda: So begin... (end)