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What is meant with devotees? Answer: Ones who have taken Srila Prabhupada as Guru and NO-ONE-ELSE! They chant the pranam-mantra's from Sri Guru Pranama untill the Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra as stated in the original Vaisnava Acarya Songbook. They can do this with love and attention. Devotees are Bhakti-Sastri's. This means they can explain the basic of Vaisnava philosophy. They talk only in relation with Krishna Consiousness. No mundane topics!

At least the following unmodified original HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Srila Prabhupada books are studied: Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Isopanisad, Nectar of Instruction and Nectar of Devotion. Also, devotees should not be jealous and they should be nice humans. ISKCON was meant to turn the uncivilized western societies and those who fled to these western countries from their own countries from around the world into nice civilized human beings.

These are the qualities of a devotee


What is meant with non-devotees? Answer: Those who call themselves Hindus, those who have someone else as Guru besides Srila Prabhupada. Also those who dress up like Vaisnava's (Hare Krishna's) but cannot (or refuse to) chant the pranam-mantra's. These last ones are also called pseudo-devotees (these are extremely dangerous, because they are in ISKCON for the money for which no taxes have to be paid, nice little scheme he? Also, they are like voltures praying on innocent men, women and children). They are not nice people, they even hit people and abuse them. They talk about mundane topics and they put pictures of demi-gods in ISKCON temples.

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Srimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is, Chapter 9, Vers 12:

moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo

mogha-jñānā vicetasaḥ

rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva

prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ


SYNONYMS

moghāśāḥ—baffled hope; mogha-karmāṇaḥ—baffled in fruitive activities; mogha-jñānāḥ—baffled in knowledge; vicetasaḥ—bewildered; rākṣasīm—demonic; āsurīm—atheistic; ca—and; eva—certainly; prakṛtim—nature; mohinīm—bewildering; śritāḥ—taking shelter of.


TRANSLATION

Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.


PURPORT

There are many devotees who assume themselves to be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service but at heart do not accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, as the Absolute Truth. For them, the fruit of devotional service-going back to Godhead-will never be tasted. Similarly, those who are engaged in fruitive, pious activities and who are ultimately hoping to be liberated from this material entanglement will never be successful either because they deride the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. In other words, persons who mock Kṛṣṇa are to be understood to be demonic or atheistic. As described in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, such demonic miscreants never surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore their mental speculations to arrive at the Absolute Truth bring them to the false conclusion that the ordinary living entity and Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. With such a false conviction, they think that the body of any human being is now simply covered by material nature and that as soon as one is liberated from this material body there is no difference between God and himself. This attempt to become one with Kṛṣṇa will be baffled because of delusion. Such atheistic and demoniac cultivation of spiritual knowledge is always futile. That is the indication of this verse. For such persons, cultivation of the knowledge in the Vedic literature, like the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads, isalways baffled.

It is a great offense, therefore, to consider Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to be an ordinary man. Those who do so are certainly deluded because they cannot understand the eternal form of Kṛṣṇa. In the Bṛhad-vaiṣṇava mantra it is clearly stated that one who considers the body of Kṛṣṇa to be material should be driven out from all rituals and activities of the śruti. And if one by chance sees his face, he should at once take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection. People jeer at Kṛṣṇa because they are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny is certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will remain under delusion, and gradually they will regress to the darkest region of creation.