Gps of Sincerity

Sincerity means appreciation for the truth, [GPS of Sincerity] so otherwise, yes, in a general sense, Guru Mahārāj told, you can have a sincere criminal; he’s very sincere about what he’s doing, and he cares about his boss and their group, he’s loyal, he’s willing to sacrifice for the group. So that’s a relative application of sincerity, but when we speak about it in a more refined sense it will be demonstrated. Otherwise you can have a sincere Nazi who pays their bills on time, who loves children … So really sincerity has to be viewed in terms of relation to the truth, what the truth is. So if someone rightly says, “Well I don’t know”, all right then, that doesn’t mean that nobody knows. Like sometimes, “Well, no one knows.” No, it’s not that no one knows, nobody you know knows, would be more accurate. There maybe someone who knows. Just you, and those you know, do not know. Don’t say that nobody knows. So then as Prabhupād would say in Bhagavad-gītā, that person who realises that material life, material existence, is a source of perplexity at every step, it behooves such a person to approach a Spiritual Master and take guidance. We take guidance for everything. Everybody watching us, or many people watching, they have GPS. They’re not opposed to taking guidance, why? Because they understand the value of this device that will give indicators of how I should proceed. So for, you say a sincere person, a spiritually progressive person, they need spiritual GPS, which comes in the form of what we call Sādhu, Śāstra, Guru, Vaiṣṇava; means spiritual teachers, the spiritual books, spiritual practitioners. You come in connection with them, put yourself under their guidance, and then, that revealed truth expressed by them becomes like a magnetic North, by which you can navigate the world and existence.