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"one of my teachers discovered I had a crush on a certain girl. He gave me a little lecture, telling me: “Don’t get involved with girls. They’ll only bring you trouble.” Whether he was right or wrong, that particular instruction was out my other ear in record time. I wanted nothing more than exactly that kind of trouble."

Swamiji finally tires of my consulting him about Bhagavad-gita verses.“Just copy the verses from some other translation,” he tells me, discarding the whole matter with a wave of his hand. “The verses aren’t important. There are so many translations, more or less accurate, and the Sanskrit is always there. It’s my purports that are important. Concentrate on the purports."