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The Forest of Enjoyment
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He then loses all intelligence in their association. This is exactly like jumping in a shallow river. As a result one simply breaks his head. He is not able to mitigate his sufferings from the heat, and in both ways he suffers. The misguided conditioned soul also approaches so-called  sādhus  and  svāmīs  who preach against the principles of the Vedas. He does not receive benefit from them, either in the present or in the future.
PURPORT
Cheaters are always there to manufacture their own way of spiritual realization. To get some material benefit, the conditioned soul approaches these pseudo  sannyāsīs  and  yogīs  for cheap blessings, but he does not receive any benefit from them, either spiritual or material. In this age there are many cheaters who show some jugglery and magic. They even create gold to amaze their followers, and their followers accept them as God. This type of cheating is very prominent in Kali-yuga. Viśvanātha Cakravatī Thākura describes the real  guru  in this way.
saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka- trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam
One should approach a  guru  who can extinguish the blazing fire of this material world, the struggle for existence. People want to be cheated, and therefore they go to  yogīs  and  svāmīs  who play tricks, but tricks do not mitigate the miseries of material life. If being able to manufacture gold is a criterion for becoming God, then why not accept Kṛṣṇa, the proprietor of the entire universe, wherein there are countless tons of gold? As mentioned before, the color of gold is compared to the will-o'-the-wisp or yellow stool; therefore one should not be allured by gold-manufacturing  gurus  but should sincerely approach a devotee like Jaḍa Bharata. Jaḍa Bharata instructed Rahūgaṇa Mahārāja so well that the King was relieved from the bodily conception. One cannot become happy by accepting a false  guru . A  guru  should be accepted as advised in  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (11.3.21).  Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥ śreya uttamam:  One should approach a bona fide  guru  to inquire about the highest benefit of life. Such a  guru  is described as follows:  śābde pare ca niṣṇātam . Such a