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Prabhupāda: Yes. This is important. Who becomes Brahmā? A very exalted living being, pure, he is entrusted that "You become …

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Pradyumna: "The post of Brahmā, to officiate in the creation of the universe, is offered to the most pure living …

Devotee: All glories to you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. [devotees offer obeisances] There is kīrtana? No. No? [kīrtana] [end]

Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse]

[SB 2.9.7]

Prabhupāda: Now, chant. Recite.

[devotees chant verse]

Prabhupāda: Yes. Very good. Transliteration is coming to be useful. Yes. Next. [break] The transliteration is there for you. So …

[lady devotee chants] [break]

Prabhupāda: So he could not find any person. Still he took it seriously and began tapasya. Therefore in the beginning …

Externally he heard---somewhere the sound came---and internally He confirmed, "Yes." So Kṛṣṇa is helping us externally by the spiritual master, …

Antar-bahiḥ. Antar-bahiḥ. There are two things = inside and outside. So Kṛṣṇa is... Outside He is helping, spiritual master. Spiritual …

Similarly, Kṛṣṇa deputes some of His confidential devotees to help the people to become Kṛṣṇa conscious = "Please go and …

Therefore Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura..., sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair [Śrī Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka 7] = "All the śāstras, the spiritual master is accepted as …

Not that he has become Prabhu, or God, but he is very dear servitor. Kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya. …

Therefore it is clear. Not like Māyāvādīs, that "Because I have been deputed by Kṛṣṇa to carry some message," not …

Because spiritual master has to be accepted sākṣād-dhari, directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore the so-called spiritual master should …

Devotee: Yes.