The Symptom of Love

 The Symptom of Love, by Haripada dasa

Years ago, a devotee named Devarsi prabhu translated some things from the books of conversations into Spanish and gave me those translations, I remember reading there an interview between Sria Prabupada and one of her disciple, Srila Prabhupada said that I will be a Christian and you will be Hare Krishna, Srila Prabhupada told him that we have millions and millions of followers, temples, etc., and you are very few, the devotee said but we have love for God or Krishna and that is the important thing, Srila Prabhupada told him He said that we also have love for God and we go to church and pray to him, the devotee told him that if you had love for God you would obey his orders, Jesus ordered you not to kill and you have the best slaughterhouses, and Srila Prabhupada told him that there It is where I wanted to take you, the symptom that you love God is that you obey his orders, a person who does not know God or love him cannot obey God's orders. Today there are many groups of Christians, and also of Hare Krishnas, so that they do not deceive you you must see if these people are obeying the orders of Jesus and Srila Prabhupada.

One of the points of the philosophy of Krishna consciousness is that we are not interested in the opinions of an ordinary person, ordinary people have four kinds of defects, the first defect is that they tend to make mistakes, another defect is being in illusion , the third defect is the propensity to deceive and finally our senses are imperfect. Any opinion that is not the revealed truth, lacks any value, the revealed truth means, the truth, or scripture that comes from a reliable source, the chain of disciplic succession formed by genuine spiritual teachers is the reliable source; for these people are pure and self-realized souls, and they are free from the four defects mentioned above. You can fool yourself and others, but no one can fool God or Krishna and His pure devotees.

In Srimad Bhagavatam, 5, 26, 15 Srila Prabhupada says that whether we are Hindu, Muslim or Christian, we must all follow the religious principles that correspond to us. However, whoever invents his own religious path, or does not follow any religious principle, will be punished in hell.