My Guru Maharaja, my spiritual master, used to say that you must select a spiritual master not by seeing but by your ear, but by hearing. And you don’t select a spiritual master who has got a very good hair or beard or some very beautiful feature,

‘Oh, he is very good, nice looking.’ No. You must hear.

tad viddhi pranipatena^[1].

Sruti. The whole process is sruti. The Vedas are called sruti. The ear has to aural reception.”^[2]

[1] Bhagavad-gita 4.34

[2] Srila Prabhupada Lecture, New York, August 12, 1966

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