Choosing a Spiritual Master
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and  obeys the commands of his guru at the  guru-kula  [school of the  spiritual  master]. Now schools and colleges are teaching sex from the  very  beginning, and twelve- or thirteen-year-old boys and girls are having sex. How can they have a spiritual life? Spiritual life means voluntarily accepting some austerities for the sake of God realization. That is  why  we insist on no illicit sex, meat eating, gambling, or intoxication for  our  initiated students. Without these restrictions, any “yoga meditation” or so-called spiritual discipline cannot be genuine. It is simply a business  deal  between the cheaters and the cheated.
Reporter:  Thank you very much.
Śrīla Prabhupāda:  Hare Kṛṣṇa.