Devotee: Śrīla Prabhupāda, if we think about our spiritual master, is that as good as thinking about Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Devotee(2): If we think about our spiritual master, is that as good as thinking of Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Yes, because it is said, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ: "If you can please your guru, then you please Kṛṣṇa." So if you make always this plan, "How to please my guru," then you'll please Kṛṣṇa. What is that?
Devotee(3): Śrīla Prabhupāda, it is said in the Bhagavad-gītā that if one thinks at the time of death, if he thinks of Kṛṣṇa, he goes to Kṛṣṇa. What if one thinks of his spiritual master?
Prabhupāda: He will go to Kṛṣṇa, because spiritual master is also going to Kṛṣṇa.
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Nairobi, October 28, 1975)
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