1. The spiritual master’s qualification

    Everyone is being misled by blind leaders, but the spiritual master opens the eyes. His qualification is that ee puts things as they are. If you get a bonafide spiritual master, then you get God. Then by his satisfaction, God becomes satisfied immediately. By his dissatisfaction, everything is finished.

    Srila Prabhupada, quoted in a letter from Aravinda to Satsvarupa, 28 Nov 1970