Category:Becoming God Within Six Months
Theme Analysis
This category highlights Śrīla Prabhupāda’s uncompromising exposure of the "cheating religion" that became popular in the West during the 1960s and 70s. Specifically, he targets the fraudulent promise made by so-called yogis and swamis that one can Become God Within Six Months simply by paying a fee, receiving a secret mantra, and meditating for a few minutes a day—all while continuing a life of sense gratification. Śrīla Prabhupāda characterizes this transaction as a business deal rather than spirituality, describing it as "looting" the country. He points out that the success of such bluffing relies on the public's desire for "cheap" spirituality. Sincere seekers are deluded by these "magical formulas," while the bona fide spiritual process, which requires discipline and surrender, is often overlooked by those who want to be cheated.
- The Business of Cheating: The transaction is explicit: pay a fee (e.g., thirty-five dollars), get a mantra, and become God. Śrīla Prabhupāda calls this "making business" in the name of holiness.
- Sense Gratification License: The popularity of these bogus paths lies in their permissiveness. Users are told they can continue "whatever nonsense" they like, including illicit sex, and still attain the highest perfection.
- The Absurdity of Time-Bound Divinity: The very idea that the Supreme—who is eternal—can be "manufactured" in six months through gymnastics or meditation is dismissed as a "very foolish conclusion."
- Cheaters and the Cheated: Śrīla Prabhupāda notes that because people want to be cheated (desiring power without purification), cheaters inevitably arrive to exploit them.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Within Six Months You Will Become God - A Cheating Process.
Pages in category "Becoming God Within Six Months"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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- Giving somebody some magical formula whereby they can become God in half of a year. And so many people who are sincere seekers are being deluded, and this is very unfortunate
- Gods are loitering in the street," and "Make this gymnastic and you will become God in six months." These things are going on
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- If somebody comes, "All right, you go on with your sense gratification. You simply meditate for fifteen minutes, and within six months you become God," these things are . . . these bluffs like this will be accepted very easily
- If we give some false hope that, "If you follow this path, then within six months you will become God, and you will be all-powerful, and then . . ." oh, so many people will come
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- So-called yogis encourage the public to enjoy sex life in different varieties and at the same time advertise that if one meditates on a certain manufactured mantra one can become God within six months
- So-called yogis, they go, "Oh, you meditate. You are . . . And as soon as you realize, you are God, within six months." No
- Some cheaters come, Yes, you take this mantra, give me thirty-five dollars, and within six months you'll become God, you'll have four hands
- Suppose we advertise some falsehood - "If you follow this path, within six months you will become God, and you will be all-powerful." Many people would come. This is actually one blind man leading other blind men
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- The so-called yogis, karmis, they are all cheaters. They show some bodily gymnastic and talks all nonsense, becomes God within a week or six months. These things are going on
- They have got money, they want to pay somebody some fees, and if he says that, "I'll give you some mantra and you will, fifteen minutes' meditation, within six months you'll become God," these things they want
- This does not mean, however, that the spiritual master gives a type of mantra through the ears in exchange for some dollars and if the man meditates on that he achieves perfection and becomes God within six months. Such reception through the ears is bogus
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- We are not charging anything that, "You give me fee, I shall give you some secret mantra, and within six months you shall become God." No. It is open for everyone
- We're very shocked and astonished that so many people are coming to the West, to the United States, and posing as holy men and simply making business, charging money, and giving somebody some magical formula whereby they can become God in half of a year
- Within six months you'll become God - very foolish conclusion