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Some people are allured by the duplicitous bābājīs and consider them guru. How to preach to these kind of people?

Questioner: Kackuly Rāṇī

Date: 2022-08-27

Jayapatākā Swami: You just stick to the Vedas.

Show them what the Bhagavad-gītā says

and then if the bābā has said something different,

we cannot deal with that.

We say we follow the Vedas.

So then, that way some people they want to follow some false avatāras.

In Rajahmundry there was a person and he claimed to be an avatāra of Kalki.

Then they showed how in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Kalki avatāra comes at the end of Kali.

And Kali has only just started.

There are 4,27,000 years to go.

Isn’t it not a little off time?

He said I may not be Kalki, but I am an avatāra!

So there are many people like this they are bogus.

And gradually you have to just stick to the Vedas.

We are basically followers of the Vedas.

If someone preaches something against the Vedas,

what can we do?

We can show them that what they are saying is against the Vedas.

Therefore, the sincere people will follow us.

There was one guru in Bengal, he was a sahajiyā.

He said that the devotee, he or she I forgot, was coming to the Nāmahaṭṭa.

And they learnt that Vaiṣṇavas take kṛṣṇa-prasāda.

So she gave the vegetarian food to the kula-guru.

He said, “What is this? What is this?

I am your guru.

I should be given opulent food.

These vegetables are cheap.

Fish, meat are expensive.

Give me the dāmi food! I don’t want this cheap food.”

Then she realized that this guru was bogus.

So, that way we have to stick to the Vedas and gradually we convince people.

Some people may choose a bābā because they want to eat fish or meat or something.

What can we do?

Then we try to present how eating prasāda is better

and by eating meat we get the bad karma.

And become a cat or

dog

or tiger.