Srila Prabhupada exposes bogus nonsense lndian impersonalist cheap Gurus.

Indian man - "Srila Prabhupāda, what is your opinion about Sai Baba?" (laughter)

Srila Prabhupāda - "(Hindi) Jugglery."

Indian man - "No avatāra has declared so far that "I'm avatāra."

Srila Prabhupāda - "He is... What is called avatāra? He has no, nothing on the śāstra basically he is nonsense. And anyone who has no śāstra basics, he's useless. Yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-kārataḥ na sa siddhim avāpnoti (BG 16.23). He can cheat so many fools and rascals, it has no meaning. That is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam about this kind of foolish guru. They have been condemned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. I think you'll find out at the end of the Twenty-fourth Chapter, Eighth Canto. They have been condemned. Now what is the benefit? From rational point of view, suppose he can manufacture gold. That is his jugglery. Eh? He can manufacture some gold? So far I have heard. I've not seen."

Indian man - "lt is all cheating, some kind of cheap trick." (Garden Conversation, Sept 7, 1976, Vrndavana)

Srila Prabhupada - "Sai Baba claims, "I am Bhagavān," therefore he is bogus. How you can say yourself that you are Bhagavān, God? What is your power? What you have shown? This claim is cheap." (Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor and Guests, Feb 12, 1975, Mexico)

Pradyumna dasa - "Swamiji? I was reading a book by Swami Vivekananda, some letters in the back I was looking at..."

Srila Prabhupāda -  "Vivekananda's books we have nothing to do with us they are all nonsense."

Pradyumna - "I was just..."

Srila Prabhupāda - "Is there anything about Kṛṣṇa in Vivekananda's speech?"

Pradyumna - "I wasn't reading his speeches, I wanted to see how he worked things, I know he's a rascal."

Prabhupāda - "Forget him, it is all nonsense." (Room Conversation, July 16, 1968, Montreal)

Srila Prabhupāda -  "Radhakrishnan says, "It's not to the person Kṛṣṇa." Where he gets this nonsense idea from?"

Guest - "That Vivekananda also has said."

Srila Prabhupāda - "They are both nonsense! Therefore I say they are all nonsense who deviates from the original text of the Bhagavad-gītā." (Discussion with Indians, Jan 18, 1971, Allahabad)

Srila Prabhupāda - "These Māyāvādīs claim "I am the Supreme," they are Māyāvādīs. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, "Anyone who hears the philosophy of Māyāvāda, he is doomed. He is gone." (break) ...teaching, "Why you are seeking after God?" Just like Vivekananda taught, "Oh, why you are seeking after God? Don't you see so many gods are on the street? They are hungry. They are lame. They are daridra-nārāyaṇa. Why don't you worship them?" This is Māyāvādī. So if we take Vivekananda's version, and be engaged in the service of the daridra-nārāyaṇa, then I am misled." (Room Conversation, Sept 18, 1973, Bombay)

Mohsin Hassan - "Srila Prabhupāda, what's your opinion on the Ramakrishna Mission? We have a Ramakrishna Mission in Chicago."

Srila Prabhupāda - " Ramakrishna Mission, if I say it frankly, they distorted the Bhagavad-gītā to the greatest extent. Because they presented Ramakrishna as God. Ramakrishna said that "I am the same Kṛṣṇa, I am the same Rāma," and they accepted it. But one thing is, anybody can say that nonsense "I am the same Rāma, I am the same Kṛṣṇa." First of all we have to see the proof. So many, there are many ways of to understand. So Ramakrishna Mission is pushing on this wrong idea. And another thing is that, supposing this Ramakrishna is the same Kṛṣṇa, then the philosophy is different. Ramakrishna's philosophy and Bhagavad-gītā's philosophy is different, because Ramakrishna says that you can accept any method, every method is all right. But Kṛṣṇa says only unto Him, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam (BG 18.66). "Give up everything, simply surrender unto Me." Now Kṛṣṇa says one: "Simply surrender unto Me," and Ramakrishna says that we can accept anywhere. So which one we shall accept? Kṛṣṇa's or Ramakrishna's? What is your opinion? If something is spoken by Kṛṣṇa and something is spoken by Ramakrishna, so which one we shall prefer to accept?"

Mohsin Hassan - "Kṛṣṇa."

Srila Prabhupāda - "That's the answer, therefore this Ramakrishna Mission is misguiding everyone." (Room Conversation, July 18, 1971, Detroit).×^×.