Unless there is faith in Guru and Vaiṣṇavas, it can't function. Because fault is easy to find. Anyone can find fault in the moon, but no poet does that. Means, if someone sits around and criticizes the Moon, what cultured person will take that person seriously?

Until you can go beyond justice, you can't get out of the material world. Because justice means profit and loss, gain and and safety, that's what justice is for. Justice is to maintain the principle of gain and safety. But it's not spiritual, unless it is connected to Kṛṣṇa.

Prahlāda knows, 'He will protect me, no matter what. Even if He doesn't protect me, what does it matter? I will go back to Him, I will always be with Him.'

The neophyte thinks self-centered, because they feel themselves are important. Therefore the Guru's importance is there because the Guru is connected to me. So the neophytes tend to fight over the importance of who is serving their Guru. Because I am serving my Guru, the whole world stops and everybody

When all five - cows, brāhmanas, women, children and old people - are taken together as important, that is called human. If you just take one of them and make an issue out of that, that is a mundane social-political position, that's all.

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Pretentious is that the living entity thinks he is God and separate from Kṛṣṇa. Because if we don’t do devotional service, what is left for us? Illusion, staying in the material world, being God. That is more pretentious.

The Lord does not take seriously an accidental falldown because the devotee is determined to continue his service despite the obstacles placed by his conditioned nature. In the case of an accidental falldown the only prāyaścitta for a devotee is devotional service itself. 

When you are working within the Kali-yuga, you are working within the Ācārya system, where there is a Founder-Ācārya. So that person is the Paramahaṁsa because they know perfectly what to do in this age. And knowing what to do then everybody else follows them. Relevant instruction means, the Ācārya

Whether the person is respected or not, at the end of the day your problems still remain, believe it or not. If another person who is having problems is removed from the scene, still you remain and your problems still remain, it doesn't actually change anything.