"There are a great deal of so-called gurus who steal the wealth of their disciples, whereas a guru who has the capacity to purify one's heart and make one affluent with the wealth of krsna-prema is extremely rare in this world. Fortunately..., we somehow attained the opportunity to come to the lotus feet of such an extremely rare guru. By his mercy, we learned that the svarupa laksana of a real guru manifests only in a maha-bhagavata for such a maha-bhagavata is constantly engaged in service to Krsna and has completely conquered the urges of speech, mind, anger, tongue, belly and genitals. He alone is eligible to bestow mantra and the maha mantra for he alone has a completely pure heart, saturated with prema and illuminated with the very nature of mantra and nama. If a person has neither attained mantra-siddhi nor realized the non-difference between the holy name and the possessor of the name, then his efforts to bestow mantras are nothing but hypocrisy." .....from the Editorial to the latest Harmonist...adapted from Gaudiya, year 2, issue 3
