Srila Prabhupada, Sri Vyasa-puja -- Hyderabad, August 19, 1976
So this is the guru�s qualification. Guru does not show any magic or produce some wonderful things then he becomes guru. So practically I have done this. People are giving me credit that I have done miracles, but my miracle is that I carried the message of Caitanya Mahaprabhu: yare dekha tare kaha �krsna�-upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. So this is the secrecy. So anyone of you, you can become guru. It is not that I am an extraordinary man, an extraordinary god coming from some mysterious place. It is not that�it is very simple thing. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that yare dekha tare kaha krsna�-upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. So I request you follow the Caitanya Mahaprabhu�s instruction that you also, you become a guru at your home. It is not that you have to make a gigantic show of becoming guru. The father has to become guru, the mother has to become guru. Actually, in the sastra it is said one should not become father, one should not become mother if he does not become a guru to his children. Na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum. If a person is unable to save his child from the clutches of birth and death, he should not become a father.